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Samsung response to Apple patent claims cites "2001: A Space Odyssey" and British TV series "The Tomorrow People" for prior art. The response uses youtube for clips and also cites articles from sites like engadget and ZDnet.

Are there also recent patents on HAL and sonic screwdrivers?

This is an utility to clean junk to free disk space and to maintain privacy deleting in a secure way files and directory.

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, OpenOffice, Safari,and more

Salix OS is Linux distribution based on Slackware and intended to be "simple, fast and easy to use". It is released in 4 options: KDE, XFCE, LXDE and Fluxbox. I am great fan of KDE, but because I am currently interested in replacement for Linux Mint XFCE, my choice this time was for XFCE edition.

The first alpha of Fedora 16 was released yesterday (August 23, 2011). As you might expect, this is buggy, really buggy. While bug hunting is in progress, here are a few screenshots from the KDE and GNOME editions.

The concept of better is a subjective idea. What is better to me is possibly, even probably, not better to someone else. In my case, and in the case of some of my clients, Linux hardware support is “better”.

Apple Inc.'s ailing chief executive Steve Jobs is officially stepping down from the helm of the company, an historic shift that hands the reins to chief operating officer Tim Cook.

In 2005, after just two weeks, Linus Torvalds completed the first version of Git, an open-source version control system. Unlike typical centralized systems, Git is based on a distributed model. It is extremely flexible and guarantees data integrity while being powerful, fast and efficient. With widespread and growing rates of adoption, and the increasing popularity of services like GitHub, many consider Git to be the best version control tool ever created.

The first Beta of the Ubuntu 11.10 operating system is knocking on our doors, as it will be released next Thursday, and we though this will be a good moment to list some of the most important features that will be added in the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) release.

Poseidon Linux is designed for the international scientific community, bundling a big batch of science-oriented software into a single live DVD, plus a batch of desktop productivity and multimedia applications. Poseidon 4.0 was just released with significant changes, so let's take it for a test drive.

Ubuntu’s next release will add a host of new features to further improve its new interface. It’s still a couple of months to go to the next release of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system but many of the changes that users can look forward to are now becoming apparent. The most exciting of these are the changes planned for Ubuntu’s new user interface and includes features such as Scopes and Lenses.

The thought that a server update itself (and maybe even execute a reboot) is not actually something that makes me feel so confident, but it is certainly better than not applying patches to serious security bugs that could expose services to large risks.

Acquia announced a series of tools this week to help monitor, manage and maintain Drupal websites -- proving that monitoring is going mainstream.

Microsoft has signed a “legal covenant agreement” with Linux operating system provider China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C), and will be jointly developing, marketing and selling solutions for the Chinese cloud-computing market with that company, the pair announced on August 22.

Google published a preview version of an add-on to the Android SDK (software development kit), allowing developers to build Android applications for the Google TV 2.0 platform.

So we all complained about fglrx not working with gnome-shell and it was evil AMD closed source drivers ignoring Gnome users, at least that is what you would think. The opposite is true here it seems. As we can read in this bugzilla report. A bugzilla that is not owned by AMD.

Ereviewguide.com’s cloud computing guide steps potential users through the advantages and disadvantages to cloud computing.

scponly is an alternate shell that restricts users to SCP and SFTP logins, but disallows SSH logins. It is a wrapper to the OpenSSH suite of applications. With the help of scponly, you can allow your users to use clients such as WinSCP or FileZilla to upload/download files, but you refuse SSH logins (e.g. with PuTTY) so that your users cannot execute files/programs. This tutorial shows how to install and use scponly on Debian Squeeze.

Easy to remember but difficult to guess isn’t just a catchy phrase for choosing passwords, it’s the law of the Net. Learn how to check your password using a tool network intruders use every day: John the Ripper.

There are many great reasons to switch to GNU/Linux. We would love to hear your story as to why you made the switch.

In this article I describe how to setup the postfix Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with spampd as a before-queue content filter on Debian Squeeze