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As much as I love the 3D Compiz/Cgwd, there is one thing I can do without: Wobbly menus. When you pull down or pop-up a wobbly menu, hitting the right menu selection is like target practice. It's even worse if you have to drill down to a sub-sub-sub menu selection because each sub-menu wobbles, too. Here's how to turn off this behavior in the most recent installation of Compiz.

Major open source projects like GNOME, KDE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Apache all have something in common -- they all have Planet feed reader sites set up to aggregate developer blog feeds. The Planet software was developed to power Planet GNOME and Planet Debian, but now it's being used by dozens of open source projects. With just a few simple steps, you can set up a Planet aggregator to watch your favorite blogs or to help publicize your favorite project.

If you look at the font of all wisdom - no, I don't mean Wikipedia, but Amazon - you will find stacks of books with titles likeThe Corporate Blogging Book,Blogging for Business,Blog Marketing and the rest.  Whatever the title, the basic message is the same: if you're in business, you've got to be blogging.  Because if you aren't, you're not"having the conversation" with your customers, which means, in turn, that you're not getting your message out or valuable comments back. In many ways, an open source project is just like a business. 

Win Enterprises is sampling an inexpensive Linux-based hardware appliance aimed at IP PBXs (Internet protocol private branch exchanges), VoIP (voice-over-IP) routers, and other "converged" applications. The Converged Application Platform (CAP) is based on an Intel reference design that Win Enterprises helped develop, it says.

To getXgl working well, it is essential to harness the 3-D rendering capabilities of your graphics card and setup the plug-ins with the composite window manager,compiz This excerpt is from Chapter 3: Using SUSE Linux on Your Desktop, from the bookSUSE Linux By Chris Brown PhD, published by O'Reilly Media. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.

Tonight in the two-weekly People Behind KDE series we are featuring Allan Sandfeld Jensen. He is a KDE core developer, mostly active for KHTML and KDE multimedia. After reading the interview you will know what his personal "carewolf" looks like, together with all other personal things you have to know about this developer.

Flash Player 9 for Linux made its public debut (finally) at a controlled demonstration during a conference. Meanwhile, a number of people have suggested ways that Ubuntu Christian Edition will work for its users.

In this episode: a very special guest host, Pat Davila of The Linux Link Tech Show, explains how to import, edit, and export digital video to and from Kino. Additional articles of interest are here and here.

“Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing or distributing any implementation,” the company stated in the “Open Specification Promise” published on its web site.

[I'll believe it when I see it..MS not suing that is. - Scott]

China is hoping the participation of Baidu -- a big player in the domestic Internet search market -- will help upgrade the nation's overall OSS application level. Under the contract, Baidu and CSIP will jointly push OSS application of Baidu's products. Baidu, in turn, will choose appropriate products for sharing in the CSIP's OSS community.

Rutgers used to use WebCT, a similar piece of course-management software, until a new version of WebCT was developed. The university considered this too expensive, however, hence the switch to Sakai, said University Director for the Office of Instructional and Research Technology Charles Hedrick.

Linux and open source software users in the Buckeye State who want to network with several hundred of their colleagues will get the chance when Ohio LinuxFest 2006 gets underway later this month. The one-day conference, to be held on Saturday, September 30, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, features presentations, exhibits, an after-conference party, and a special appearance by some live penguins.

I finally began learning python. I wrote my last program in the 80s in Apple Basic, and here I am again starting to learn a new language. I can already guess what my biggest problem will be. I am incredibly impatient. How can I learn to program when I refuse to read the documentation all the way through?

The QS20 blades, each with two 3.2GHz Cell Broadband Engine processors, are good for high-performance computing tasks such as seismic research, encryption, digital image rendering and military surveillance.

Around the world Software Freedom Day is celebrated by free and open source enthusiasts with demonstrations, parties and conferences, many of which attract hundreds or even thousands of fans. For some, however, free software is still new and unknown and getting just a handful of people to come together to join in the celebrations is considered a success. In Burundi, in the heart of Africa, a handful of activists is doing just this.

Goodwill Industries provides employment services for the homeless, disabled, and disadvantaged. In 2005, the 80,000 employees of this international charity helped more than 720,000 people work their way to a better life. Goodwill CIO Steve Bergman knew that with the help of some updated technology, his company could do an even better job of reaching people. After looking at the options, Bergman decided that open source software was the best solution.

In a perfect world everyone would write in standard English and all publications would use a universal style guide. In the real world, however, you have to deal with different versions of English (British, American, Australian, etc.), and every publication has its own set of writing guidelines. If you write for several markets, things can get pretty complicated. But instead of wasting time on language idiosyncrasies, you can let an OOoBasic macro do the donkey work.

Commoditization of Web mapping tools compels Autodesk to release the source codes of its once-proprietary MapGuide software.

Sun has made efforts in the last year or two to open source more of its products. In June 2005, Sun launched its Glassfish project, providing access to portions of Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9 code under the Java Research Licence.

Choice and Breadth of Hosting Operating Systems Meets Demand for Outsourcing the Management of Complex Enterprise IT Environments