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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 6th Nov 2003 05:32 UTC
The Linux phenomenon gets bigger by the day and more developers are drawn into developing for it. The heart of this very phenonmenon is its kernel and as time goes by it becomes more mature but also bigger and more complex.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 28th Oct 2007 03:48 UTC
"I recently read this article about how the Linux device driver project needs more work to do. I pondered this for awhile, and came to a realization.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 01:23 UTC
Insiders at Taiwanese phone maker BenQ say that Apple procurement executives have been talking to various Taiwanese phone makers during the past few months in an effort to cut a manufacturing deal on an iPod Phone.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 1st May 2006 03:03 UTC
Kurt Hudson explains tricks to optimize applications on multiprocessor computers, even if those applications were developed without such systems in mind.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Nov 2007 15:46 UTC
This is the sixth article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [ part I part II part III part IV part V ]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, ...
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Online public services excel
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has made a big hop in the world’s e-government rankings due to increased website usage and telecom infrastructure upgrades.
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Compatibility is a concern when e-mailing Word files
Qhave Windows Vista home edition. I have a couple of documents I have created in Word 2007 (a cover letter that I customize and a résumé) that I send for consideration of employment.
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Recent Original Stories
"There is a lot of confusing information about the GNU/Linux operating system, open source and free software, and related issues in the press today.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 17:03 UTC, submitted by Carondelet
An observing poster at the Ubuntu forums unearthed what he says are screenshots of the upcoming Novell Linux Desktop 10. "I was snooping around for details about Novell Linux Desktop 10 and stumbled upon an internal Novell Desktop Design wiki.
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Rumors are swirling around a FAQ page for Google Secure Access Beta (of course) software that appears to be a VPN client. "If you choose to use Google Secure Access, your internet traffic will be encrypted and sent through Google's servers to the Internet.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 18th May 2007 06:25 UTC
Tired of waiting for Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'? Make the wait easier with tools that add power, pizazz and some Leopard-like features to OS X 10.4 'Tiger' in this 4-page article at ComputerWorld.
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News Roundup: Obama is back, so is fire in California
Good morning, it's Sunday. Here's what is going on... Bombings in India, a hole found in a Qantas airliner, California's latest serious wildfire and Barack Obama's return from Europe lead most sites, including CNN, Fox News, Google New, Yahoo News...
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Chandigarh government school toppers get laptops
In a one-of-its-kind morale booster for government school students, Chandigarh's education department has awarded laptops to two Class 12 toppers - one a student in a city government school and the other a rural school student.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 20:56 UTC
Microsoft said the weaker earnings came as it invests money in its services push and also as it tries to ramp up production of the Xbox 360 games console.
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"Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and Windows Vista are two state-of-the-art desktop operating systems. I got this Bi-OS laptop (with Feisty and Vista Business) recently as my desktop replacement. I compare some features of Vista vs. Feisty. Both operating systems have made great progress.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Oct 2005 14:53 UTC
Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia late last week that the file format developed by standards body OASIS has the potential to transform the world as much as the World Wide Web did.
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Deshmukh, Mukesh Ambani figure in terror e-mail
In its 14-page email, the militant outfit, believed to be a shadow amalgam of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India and Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Tayiba, warned Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and his deputy R R Patil of dire consequences over the alleged targeting of minority communities in that state.
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Lack of Computer Security Hits 4 Million People in Germany
The internet is now part of everyday life for 80 percent of Germans. But a recent survey by Forsa, an opinion research institute, showed that 4 million Germans have fallen victim to computer crime.
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Army conducts flag marches, death toll touches 45
Army today staged flag marches in communally-sensitive Ahmedabad where the death toll in synchronised bomb blasts rose to 45 as several states went into high alert in the wake of terror strikes in the city and IT hub Bangalore.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 22nd Sep 2005 22:35 UTC
This article gives you a good understanding of the fundamental principles of Ajax and a nuts-and-bolts knowledge of the client and server side components that participate in an Ajax interaction. These are the building blocks of a Java-based Ajax Web application.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 27th Jun 2006 17:27 UTC
Alex Graveley introduced the Gimmie user interface and panel for GNOME a few days ago. In it, Alex is grouping the most used parts of a modern UI, e.g. Documents, Applications, People, and Computer (network connections go under it too).
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"The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a short story on the top five mistakes made by new Mac users
. It includes closing an application window and thinking it has quit, downloading software and then running it from the disk image (runs slowly, can't eject disk image), and Windows .exe files littered around the desktop after they've tried to download software and install it.
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Reading in digital age stirs debate
BEREA, Ohio -- Books are not Nadia Konyk's thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest.Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer in this suburb southwest of Cleveland.
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Recycling locations
The Ross County League of Women Voters continues to be concerned about and involved in educating the public about changes in the recycling program. For those who still want to recycle as much as possible and are willing to spend the extra time and effort, the following locations will accept your recyclables:
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 12th Sep 2007 04:14 UTC
Here is an interview with Richard Stallman about a range of free software topics including GPLv3 and comment on the Microsoft patent issue. Stallman has a go at Linus Torvalds even suggesting that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds.
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