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Intel Still MeeGos, Apple Loses Again, Yahoo Presents 'The Charlie Sheen Show'

What a wacky week for tech news this has been! I couldn’t make much of this stuff up if I tried – and if I did, you wouldn’t believe it. That’s one of the nice things about the Internet, I can provide you with links so you can see for yourself that these stories really happened… Apple Loses Another iPhone Prototype in Bar. Less than a year and a half after an Apple employee lost a top secret prototype of an iPhone 4 in a bar, it’s happened again. This time the prototype of an iPhone 5 was lost at Cava 22, a bar located in San Francisco’s mission district. Although every tech site on the planet is covering this story, I think it’s only fitting to turn to Gizmodo for a quote, given their connection with the first lost prototype:

Google brings out new programming language

  • The Register; By Gavin Clarke (Posted by tracyanne on Sep 9, 2011 11:52 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Google has built a brand-new programming language for "structured web programming", one that appears to be suited to browser-based apps. Two of the search giant's engineers will discuss Dart, Google's new language, at the Goto international software development conference next month.

4PSA's Cloud Instance to Take Center Stage at ITEXPO

  • 4PSA; By 4PSA (Posted by elen on Sep 9, 2011 10:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Press Release
4PSA, a technology leader in Cloud Communication Software will be presenting the latest enhancements to their VoipNow Unified Communications Platform at ITEXPO West 2011, held at the Austin Convention Center, September 12th-15th.

Best New Feature of Ubuntu Oneric - GNOME Shell

  • Tech Drive-in; By Manuel Jose (Posted by kiterunner on Sep 9, 2011 9:58 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Ubuntu
I know many of you cringe at the mere mention of GNOME Shell or Unity. I don't have any reservations like that. As a matter of fact, I really like Unity a lot. But what about GNOME foundation's official GNOME Shell? I have never really used it except for once when I reviewed an early release of GNOME Shell in Fedora 15. But not with Ubuntu yet, not until now.

Cardinal Quest release for Linux!

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Sep 9, 2011 9:01 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Tametick has release Cardinal Quest an arcade style dungeon crawler for Linux on Gameolith!

Intelligent systems outweigh PCs, servers, and phones combined, IDC says

Intelligent systems -- embedded devices featuring connectivity, high-performance CPUs, and high-level operating systems -- already outnumber PCs, servers, and mobile phones combined, IDC says. Moreover, the market for these products will double in units and revenue by 2015, the research firm adds....

LibreOffice Draw -- my new favorite application

I had to generate a report today, one that included a bunch of PDF documents, and I finally figured out how to import PDFs into LibreOffice (with the help of LO's PDF Import extension, which still appears to have Oracle's fingerprints all over it, by the way).

GandhiCon 4.x

Searches for the word "linux" have been trending downward since early 2004, according to Google. Searches in mid-2011 are about a quarter of what they were in early 2004. On the other hand, searches for "android" more than doubled those for "linux" by mid-2011. So, what should we make of that?

Sacrificing gratis for libre

Gratis and libre can both be interpreted as free. However, there is a difference. Gratis is free as in beer and libre is free as in freedom, to quote the common explanation. Usually a piece of open source software fits both words, but should it?

5 Links for Developers and IT Pros

This week, we explore why WEP2 rules for WiFi security, how to control software licensing costs and why Google is in trouble again in its patent-infringement battle with Oracle.

Official NASA Futuristic Space MMO May Come to Linux

  • Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh (Posted by Dart on Sep 9, 2011 4:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Official NASA MMO, Astronaut: Moon, Mars & Beyond may come to Linux. The project which has garnered huge response from people all over the world has already crossed its kickstarter funding goal of $25,000 34 days ahead of final deadline.

KDE releases September updates

  • It runs on Linux.com (Posted by DaMan on Sep 9, 2011 3:21 PM EDT)
  • Groups: KDE
The KDE team has released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform.

Apache2: How To Redirect Users To Mobile Or Normal Web Site Based On Device Using mod_rewrite

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Sep 9, 2011 2:23 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Since the massive rise of smartphones and tablets like the iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, BlackBerries, etc. you might have considered creating a mobile version of your web site. This tutorial explains how to configure Apache to serve the mobile version of your web site if the visitor uses a mobile device, and the normal version if the visitor uses a normal desktop PC. This can be achieved with Apache's rewrite module.

XLP II SoC promises up to 20 quad-threaded 2.5GHz cores

NetLogic Microsystems announced a second-generation, 28-nanometer member of its Linux-ready XLP multicore processor family, claimed to be five to seven times faster. The XLP II integrates up to 80 NXCPUs (threads) via up to 20 2.5GHz MIPS64 cores, boasts 100Gbps network processing performance per processor,supports coherent clustering of up to eight processors, and achieves up to 800Gbps throughput, claims the company....

Proposed: A Monthly Ubuntu Release Cycle

There's been a proposal written today for a new Ubuntu release process. Under this proposed process, Ubuntu would abandon its traditional six-month release cycles in favor of monthly releases. Yep, once a month. The benefit of this proposal is that new Ubuntu features wouldn't be forced to land every six months but would land when the given feature is actually mature and ready. This is quite different from Ubuntu's current release process, but this proposal comes from Scott James Remnant, the former Canonical employee and Ubuntu Developer Manager.

Enlightening your Dell Duo with Linux

I recently set out to get a new tablet/netbook combo. After reading many reviews about different models I settled on a Dell Inspiron Duo. One thing you will find most all of the Inspiron reviews have in common is that they mention the touch software layer running on Windows 7 is slow. If I said this surprised me it would be a lie...

A Simpler Explanation of Why Software is Mathematics

This is a follow-up article on a previous document in the same line of argument. This new article aims to provide a simpler explanation on why software can be considered as a branch of mathematics and it is written in language that can be understood by those who are not programmers, including journalists and lawyers. It is presented in two parts with Part I providing the logical argument and Part II providing the evidence. In the summary of Part I the author explains why current case law on software is factually erroneous and implies that correction of the situation will reflect on software patents.

Try Bodhi Linux for Beauty and Customizability

Scarcely a day goes by without an update being released for one Linux distribution or another, but today saw the launch of one I think is worth some attention.

Ten Tweetable Scripts

  • nat.org; By Nat Friedman (Posted by linuxaria on Sep 9, 2011 4:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
Yesterday morning I proposed a contest to create the best one-line program that would fit inside Twitter’s 140-character buffer. To kick things off, I wrote this 105-character script which displays a small animation..

Phoronix Test Suite 3.4-Lillesand Officially Released

Phoronix Test Suite 3.4-Lillesand has been officially released this morning, which is a major update to our open-source benchmarking software and framework...

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