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Lightspark Open Flash Now Works On Windows

There's a new release of the open-source Lightspark software for handling Adobe SWF/Flash support on the Linux desktop. New to Lightspark 0.5.3 among other changes is a working Microsoft Windows port...

Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 Precise Pangolin Screenshots

  • TCS (Posted by lqsh on Dec 3, 2011 10:41 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
We are pleased to bring you the first set of developer images that capture the current fleeting reality of our Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04 alpha 1) as it starts to emerge. Alpha 1 includes the 3.2.0-2.5 Ubuntu kernel which is based on the latest mainline 3.2-rc3 Linux kernel. This is an update from the 3.0 kernel in Oneiric. Another noticeable change is the consolidation of the amd64 server flavor into the generic flavor. This will help minimize the maintenance burden over the life of this LTS release. The alpha 1 kernel also adds support for additional ALPS touchpads, contains an updated seccomp patch set, and numerous configuration changes. Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 Precise Pangolin Screenshots

USA Has Become A Dangerous Place For Software Development: Ricahrd M Stallman

  • Muktware; By Swapnil Bhartiya (Posted by muktware on Dec 3, 2011 9:44 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNU
With software patents the US has become a dangerous place for software development, including innovative software development, because when a program is innovative, that means it has some new ideas in it. But it also has lots of well-known ideas in it. A large program combines thousands of ideas. So if you have some new ideas and you want to use them, in order to use them you have to combine them with a lot of other ideas that are well-known. And if you are not allowed to do that because those other ideas are patented, you can't use your new idea.

Fanless automation computer has PC/104+ expansion option

Advantech announced a fanless automation computer that offers an optional PC/104+ expansion slot. The UNO-1170A/AE is equipped with an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM and 512KB of battery-backed static RAM, CompactFlash and hard disk storage, and external and internal USB ports, the company says.

Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign

  • TorrentFreak; By Ernesto (Posted by theBeez on Dec 3, 2011 7:48 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Anti-piracy group BREIN is caught up in a huge copyright scandal in the Netherlands. A musician who composed a track for use at a local film festival later found it being used without permission in an anti-piracy campaign. He is now claiming at least a million euros for the unauthorized distribution of his work on DVDs. To make matters even worse, a board member of a royalty collection agency offered to to help the composer to recoup the money, but only if he received 33% of the loot.

NoSQL hopeful cozies up to Hadoop data-muncher

  • The Register; By Gavin Clarke (Posted by tracyanne on Dec 3, 2011 6:52 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
NoSQL data store CouchDB has become Hadoop’s latest convert with delivery of a connector tying together the two big-data architectures. CouchDB user Couchbase has announced a certified Couchbase Hadoop Connector, developed with Hadoop shop Cloudera. The connector potentially simplifies movement of data between the Couchbase Server, which Couchbase says is "powered" by CouchDB, and the Cloudera Distribution including Hadoop (CDH). Couchbase uses capabilities of CouchDB such as mobile and sync. Both CouchDB and Hadoop, meanwhile, are Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects.

Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7

You need Windows for a program you use for work, your favorite game runs only on Windows or you are a developer that works on some cross-platform project. And of course, you can't even think about giving up your favorite OS. Whatever the reason, you need Windows and a virtual machine won't cut it so all you're left with, if you don't have a spare machine, is dual-boot. I usually recommend against multiple-boot machines, but I can't argue with the fact that here are situations when the idea is very useful. So this is what this article is about: making sure you need a dual-boot system, acknowledging the requirements, making backups if need be and proceed.

UNetBootin - A tool for creating Live USB drives

UNetbootin is a tool that is used for creating Live USB drive. It mounts ISO image of any Linux distribution on your USB flash drive or your memory card so you can install your favourite Linux distribution on your desktop or laptop.

Linux Mint 12 MATE Review

A full review of the Linux Mint 12 MATE desktop (a fork of GNOME2), including a gallery of images.

5 Online Backup Solutions for Ubuntu Linux

Online cloud backups can be a great part of your overall backup plan, but it's important that your data is secure, encrypted, and backed up automatically. Here are a few online backup tools that aim to make cloud backups easy users.

Let's Play: StarTopia

I really like this game. It was 2001 when Mucky Foot Productions (not existing anymore) released this game. I played it a lot of times, and i never got tired of it. Beautiful music, funny characters, great landscapes. Ladies and gentlemen, a strategic game called... StarTopia!

Linus Torvalds Starts Liking Gnome 3

  • Muktware; By Swapnil Bhartiya (Posted by muktware on Dec 3, 2011 1:30 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME, GNU, Linux
Yesterday Gnome project announced a site called Gnome Extensions which makes it easier to find and install extensions. There extensions already exist, but not much was known about it. It seems Linus Torvalds has tried the extensions and is now liking it. He posts on his Google + page, "Hey, with gnome-tweak-tool and the dock extension, gnome-3.2 is starting to look almost usable."

Apache: Old, out of touch, but worth it...

The Apache Software Foundation has come under withering attacks lately, with accusations of its politics and bureaucracy getting in the way of its ability to foster open-source software. The common rallying cry of the Apache attackers is GitHub, a source-control system that has almost blossomed overnight into the industry's top open-source code repository. But while GitHub clearly does offer a superior code-hosting alternative to Apache and other foundations in many respects, it is deficient in one of the most important ways: branding.

Running Contao 2.10.2 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Contao 2.10.2 web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

Chrome outshines Firefox, worldwide, last November!

Just as we predicted (even with our not-so-precise mathematical procedure) ‘Google Chrome will beat Mozilla Firefox after October 2011’;Google Chrome has, finally, surpassed Mozilla Firefox Globally for the time period November 2009 – November 2011 on a monthly basis

Active Directory Integration with Centrify DirectControl Express on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)

  • ubuntugeek.com (Posted by gg234 on Dec 2, 2011 10:21 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux, Ubuntu
Centrify Express is a comprehensive suite of free Active Directory-based integration solutions for authentication, single sign-on, remote access, file-sharing, monitoring The #1 Choice for Active Directory Integration and cloud security for cross-platform systems. It is the quickest and most proven solution for integrating UNIX, Linux and Mac systems with Windows, and delivers more functionality and more to upgrade to when compared to other free offerings.

Squid and Basic Authentication

This is perhaps the easiest authentication helper to configure in Squid, but also the most insecure. The biggest problem with Basic is it transmits username and password in clear text, hence very susceptible to network sniffing or man in the middle type attacks. The only reason I'm writing about it is it's a valid authentication mechanism in some limited circumstances. Secondly I want to show you how authentication has evolved over the years.

5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 12/2/11

This week we look at a French company's plan to scrap email, 7 stupid security tricks you need to check and why playing games can help executives understand the value of Agile programming.

openSUSE 11.3 Will Die on January 16th, 2012

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Dec 2, 2011 7:59 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: SUSE
With regrets, the openSUSE developers, through Marcus Meissner, announced on November 30th that there will be no more updates coming for the openSUSE 11.3 Linux distribution, starting with January 16th, 2012.

Top 5 Gnome 3 Shell Extensions You Can't Live Without

  • Muktware; By Swapnil Bhartiya (Posted by muktware on Dec 2, 2011 7:11 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Here are the top 5 extensions that I think every Gnome 3 user will need. Warning: You should be running Firefox to use the web-based installation.

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