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Conventional wisdom says when you go to the cloud, you lose IT jobs, but when I looked at some job posting data on Indeed.com, I found there were no simple answers to this supposition. As with any other technological shift, it gives and takes.

Yet another change for the Linux 3.7 kernel is that the JFS file-system now supports the SSD TRIM command. The JFS file-system now supports TRIM for informing solid-state disks about blocks of data that are no longer in use and can be wiped internally. There's already been Linux support for the TRIM command on SSDs with EXT4, Btrfs, FAT, XFS, and other file-systems, but now it's come to the aging JFS file-system.

Executing [a patent pool] in the real world, however, is likely to be a different story. The modern mobile space is turning out to be uniquely litigious. Even if the Via patent pool is successful in getting many licensees, companies that have paid up will still be susceptible to lawsuits on "feature" patents, like the ones asserted by Apple against Samsung. Joining a patent pool made up of big operating companies also won't stop patent trolls from coming out and filing suit, although such suits are unlikely to get injunctions that knock a product off the market.

This is a cheatsheet for ed. It includes basic opening, saving, editing, moving around and regex for ed. ed is a line editor for the Unix operating system. It was one of the first end-user programs hosted on the system and has been standard in Unix-based systems ever since. ed was originally written in PDP-11/20 assembler by Ken Thompson in 1971.

Open source is about choice, they say. So here is one more choice, use IntelliJ IDE for development of android apps.

The Calligra Suite is an unusual compilation of office tools with much potential -- but it has a good deal of maturing to do before it can advance beyond its mediocre performance following a debut almost three years ago. Calligra is a fork of KDE's KOffice that grew out of unresolved disputes among KOffice developers. The project team recently announced the second stable release.

In Ubuntu 12.10, Compiz (and Unity) are using Gsettings instead of Gconf and because of this, the "unity --reset" command used to reset Unity in previous Ubuntu versions doesn't work anymore. In case some settings are messed up and you want to reset Unity and Compiz to their default settings, here's a new way of doing this that works with Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal.

Jolla says it will launch its "Sailfish" smartphone design, which uses the MeeGo operating system abandoned by Nokia, next month, with its own patented user interface

The new point release for the stable branch of Debian has been released, includes security fixes and package updates

SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) is an simple web-based configuration application allow you to configure and manage the samba configuration file (smb.conf) via web browser. this is a GUI utility for configuring Samba, and it can be very helpful for new Ubuntu administrators who need to get Samba up and running quickly.

Hopefully you didn't buy multiple Thunderbolt displays in hopes of daisy chaining them and then using an open-source graphics driver...

Everyone is talking about maps lately. Google maps are no longer on the iPhone. Apple maps have some serious bugs. Luckily, open source maps are making a move.

Red Hat want to separate the JBoss AS project from the JBoss EAP product and are looking for a new name for the former. In other news, the company is now working to bring Hibernate to MongoDB with the help of 10Gen

You may or may not know that gog.com is doing an event on the 18th of October with what could be some exciting news.

The course of open-source software does not always run smoothly, especially when the development of software becomes entangled with broader corporate strategies.

All searches performed through the Dash are sent to Amazon and Canonical: "This by itself is a problem because nobody intends to search Amazon for sensitive personal information. For instance, someone might search for a file with a Social Security number or with a specific text string that is in no way intended to be read by anyone else. They're ostensibly searching through their own local file system, after all, and the thought that by default that search string will be sent out to not one, but two, third parties is extremely disturbing."

While the main DRM pull request for the Linux 3.7 kernel has yet to be submitted to Linus Torvalds, the Radeon DRM pull for the Linux 3.7 was just sent into David Airlie as the DRM sub-system maintainer. The Linux 3.7 kernel offers the following highlights as explained by Alex Deucher in this email..

Today Microsoft announced TypeScript a typed superset of Javascript. This means that existing Javascript code can be gradually modified to add typing information to improve the development experience: both by providing better errors at compile time and by providing code-completion during development. As a language fan, I like the effort, just like I pretty much like most new language efforts aimed at improving developer productivity: from C#, to Rust, to Go, to Dart and to CoffeeScript.

The spectre of a new MeeGo phone is beginning to take solid form: a startup resurrecting the OS has received €200 million ($258 million) in funding and its flagship phone is set to be unveiled next month, according to the Wall Street Journal. Companies funding the venture include at least one telecom and a chipset manufacturer, as well as other parties concerned about "recent developments in the smartphone industry" such as the ongoing patent wars.

Dot Categories: Community and EventsKDE has again taken part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as its biggest participating organization. Fifty-nine out of mind-boggling sixty projects have been completed successfully. Lots of new things have been learned, lots of code has been written and there's been plenty of fun. GSoC is over but the code has not gone away and the work is not finished. Over the next months, many of the students will continue to be part of KDE, integrate the code for future releases, improve it, maintain it, become more part of KDE. For now, however, pencils are down and we can congratulate the students. It was a great summer and we enjoyed having you around!