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On Saturday, Nov. 7, approximately 600 top LAMP developers from around the U.S. will converge on Nashville suburb Franklin, TN, to learn from innovative companies that will share their on-the-ground reports about the latest developments in LAMP offerings and implementation. Note: Nashville, TN is home to some 150+ healthcare companies (many of which can trace their roots back to HCA. This is the FIRST broad open source integration event in this area (there was a Red Hat Summit in recent years). You'll note, as of now, there is no open source healthcare representation. Let's change that!

Trademark law, like copyright and patent law, is often abused and misused, and can have effects and consequences that are inconsistent with the best objectives and principles of free and open source software. But, just as free software licensing in the form of the GPL relies upon the existence of copyright law to make it effective, so the companies that distribute free software rely upon branding and trademark law to give the services they provide a unique identity, and to protect themselves from misuse of their names and brands.

Pioneering portable media company Archos has introduced the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, a handheld device with a touchscreen offering Internet access, video viewing, and music playing. The Tablet is one of the few non-phone devices to run on Google's Android operating system.

Scribus is the leading open source solution for desktop publishing (DTP); it supports professional features like press-ready color separations and PDF output, as well as every media file type under the sun.

Shell Scripts are very useful but not all that fun to look at. They have simple user input and output text. But, there is a way to spice up your scripts and make them a bit more eye catching with a simple program called "Figlet". read more

In this article, we learn about templates with Cacti 0.8. You learn to create or edit a graph template and host template. Also, we learned to how to import and export Cacti templates.

[For those of you who didn't hear of Cacti - like me - it's a "frontend to RRDTool" - hkwint]

There have been proposed quite a few themes for Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 and if you want to install them all in Ubuntu Jaunty for instance, you can just do: sudo apt-get install community-themes But not all the themes will be installed because the community-themes package in Ubuntu Jaunty repositories is currently version 0.14 I believe, while the Karmic version from Launchpad is already 0.17. But you can install the Ubuntu Karmic community-themes package (currently version 0.17) in Jaunty without any issues (in fact, it might work on Gutsy, Intrepid, etc, but I cannot test it). Obviously, if you use Ubuntu Karmic Koala, this will also work for you. Read on!

This article is intended to all programing enthusiasts on all levels who do wish to understand pointers in C++ language. All code presented here is not a compiler specific and all examples will be written in plain ANSI C++. Debate about pointers can stretch for miles, and you would need to go really far to master it all. If you really want to run that far, this article gives you a clear understanding of fundamental concepts about pointers and prepares you for that journey.

This three-part series is your starting point for tuning your system for power efficiency. In Part 1, get up to speed on the components and concepts you need to fine-tune a Linux-based System x server for power efficiency. Learn how to enable the Linux CPUfreq subsystem, get instruction on C and P states, and determine which of the five in-kernel governors you need to boost power efficiency on your system.

Intel will work with Google on the development of its Linux-based Chrome operating system for netbooks, the chipmaker's open-source technology chief has said. Imad Sousou, who is in charge of the Moblin mobile Linux project, told ZDNet Asia's sister site, ZDNet UK on Wednesday that Intel did not view Moblin as a competitor to other versions of Linux. The company will work with Google in the same way it is working with other Linux distributors such as Novell and Canonical, he said.

After a one-year hiatus, Novell plans to host major BrainShare conferences in North America and EMEA in 2010. For SUSE Linux partners and customers, Novell's BrainShare events offer an important counter-balance to Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Here's why.

The Free Software Foundation has started the nomination phase of the Free Software Awards 2009. Interested parties can nominate, by email, projects that have addressed important social issues and propose people who have brought honour to free software this year for an award. Previous winners may not be nominated and nominations close at the end of October.

Now that University classes have started I see a lot of students with new Apple laptops. It seems that half of the student population own a Mac. Few years back you would never see so many Apple computers as you do today on campus.

Going all control-freak on a Samba share and trying to finely slice-and-dice file permissions is the path to madness. Charlie Schluting has some sensible ideas on managing file permissions on your fileserver.

Security while surfing on the net is important, with firefox you can get more security by using security and privacy addons, here is a list of 10 security and privacy addons.

First of all, I don't run Compiz because I see it as no more than a resource-wasting annoyance. Sure, it looks cool, but it doesn't help me with productivity in any way. Secondly, I keep multiple windows open at all times, so I rarely see my desktop and it was good to see that GNOME shell includes a window switcher which can be accessed with the traditional Alt+Tab hotkeys. Finally, my system isn't a high-end system. I build my computers because it allows me to pick and choose hardware that I already know works with GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux, if you know what you're doing, doesn't need the latest and greatest hardware.

I previously reviewed the 2nd edition of this book, so I was interested in what was changed and/or added in its current incarnation. Of course, the release of Firefox 3 and IE 8 are enough to warrant an updating of "tips and tricks" relative to CSS and web design, but was there more? The back cover blurb didn't indicate such, but I looked further.

Ubuntu Artwork team finally starts delivering.Though a number of high quality third party themes are available for Ubuntu like the bisigi-project, one thing where Ubuntu really lacked was the absence of good quality themes by default. That is all going to change now.

Google is unlocking its data door by launching a new initiative called Data Liberation, an approach to engineering that allows users to move their data - be it pictures, mail or documents - from Google’s servers to any other location.

Running a Web-based task manager on your own server makes a lot of sense, but what application should you choose? If you are looking for a lightweight, user-friendly task management tool, you might want to give myTinyTodo a try.