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A perfect internet would deliver data to clients in the format of their choice, whether it's CSV, XML, JSON, etc. The real internet teases at times by making data available, but usually in HTML or PDF documents—formats designed for data display rather than data interchange. Accordingly, the screen scraping of yesteryear—extracting displayed data and converting it to the requested format—is still relevant today.

Ubuntu founder and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth recently talked to me about his plans for his company, operating system, clouds, and containers.

The Codelobster free web language editor has been available for quite some time and has attracted many fans. It allows you to edit PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript files, and it highlights the syntax and provides hints for tags, functions and their parameters. This editor deals with files that contain mixed content easily as well.

In recent months, many popular online security and VPN vendors have come under fire after unaddressed vulnerabilities in their products left users open to serious threats. read more

Plans integration, not alteration, and promises no ‘swamp’ of ads GitHub’s future CEO Nat Friedman has conducted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session and outlined a little of what Microsoft plans to do with the collaborative code locker once the acquisition is formalised and admitted that “if Microsoft screws this up, we will lose the trust of developers for a generation.”…

According to a study by the Pew Research Center, some members of older generations have a hard time learning computers because they were born at the wrong time to learn about computers in school or the workplace. It's a purely demographic phenomenon that tends to mostly affect older people. However, I firmly believe that these people can stay connected and can learn about the benefits of modern technology.

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is the free open-source office suite distributed under GNU AGPL v.3.0. It comprises editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations working offline. This tutorial will show you three different ways to install ONLYOFFICE on Ubuntu.

Version 4.17 of the Linux kernel was officially released earlier this week. Meanwhile, the Fedora kernel team is completing the final integration for this new kernel into Fedora. To check and test this integration work, the Fedora Kernel and QA teams have organized a test day for Tuesday, June 12.

As a Linux command line user, you should be aware of utilities that help you with user-account management. Once such tool is passwd, which lets you change your account password. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command using some easy to understand examples.

As of now, there are two main universal package systems: Snap and Flatpak. Both function in similar fashion, but one is found by default on Ubuntu-based systems (Snap) and one on Fedora-based systems (Flatpak). I will walk you through the process of installing and using Flatpak on Ubuntu 18.04. If your platform of choice is Fedora (or a Fedora derivative), you can skip the installation process.

News briefs for June 8, 2018.

E-con’s “e-CAM120_TRICUTX2” is a camera system powered by a Linux-driven Jetson TX1 or TX2 module that features three 13-megapixel, 4K@30 cameras via 4-lane MIPI-CSI-2 interfaces. Last September, E-con Systems launched an e-CAM30_HEXCUTX2 system with six 3.4-megapixel, HD cameras.

This tutorial explains in detail how to install a Fedora 27 workstation for a corporate environment and how to join a Fedora Workstation on a Domain Controller who can be Samba 4 or Microsoft Active Directory, set up the authentication process for domain users and domain admins on a workstation, local or remotely through ssh.

Java was introduced in the mid-1990s. Issues inherent to the technology and the governance of the technology have been numerous through the years. Many of the issues raised have been valid and significant. Others, not so much. The legal kerfuffle between Oracle and Google being notable and having spanned a number of years certainly opened the door for both legitimate and exaggerated FUD.

Magnolia is a free and open source Java-based CMS that delivers smartphone simplicity on an enterprise-scale. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Magnolia in Ubuntu 18.04.

Final 'droid P APIs, latest system images.....With Google freezing the Android P APIs yesterday, both major mobile platforms have shown their hand for 2018. The freeze comes as Google released "Beta 2", which is really the third Developer Preview release of Android P issued so far.…

Laravel is a free and open source PHP framework that implements the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern. In this tutorial, I will guide you step-by-step on how to install Laravel version 5.6 with Nginx as the web server, PHP-FPM 7.2, and MariaDB.

News briefs for June 7, 2018.

From startups to the Fortune 500, Cloud Foundry is used by enterprises around the globe to automate, scale and manage cloud apps throughout their lifecycle. Cloud Foundry Summit Europe is the premier event for end users to learn the platform from those who build and use it every day. Join hundreds of developers in Basel to learn how to run apps at scale – using a platform or containers on multiple clouds.

Nvidia announced an “Isaac” software developer platform for robots and other autonomous machines that runs on its Linux-friendly octa-core, ARM64 “Jetson Xavier” module with integrated high-end Volta GPU. A $1,300 dev kit is due in August. In 2016, Nvidia unveiled its AI-focused Nvidia Xavier computer-on-module, a more powerful follow-on to its Tegra-based Jetson modules.