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In the previous part of the article, we learned how to create a basic dialog, work with dialog's properties and callbacks, and add buttons to the dialog.

In this final part of the article we will learn how to enable animations for the dialog and how to control the dialog programmatically.

Students and teachers in select German schools can access personalized virtual desktops from home or school, using Kreisbildstelle Stade's currently piloting "Desque" system. The desktops run in a Hamburg datacenter, on quad-core Xeon servers, and are delivered over "standard" broadband using open source NX compression.

In reading through "Top 10 Responses to Why I Should Use Linux? A Linux Evangelists' Reference," I couldn't help but think that Linux needs better evangelists for its desktop crusade.

Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev, the head of the ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. On February 5, 2009 Igor Schegolev, the head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation, met with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat vice president for EMEA at the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation, and other industry leaders.

Access China and NEC Electronics are developing a "price sensitive" smartphone reference design incorporating the "new" Mini version of the Access Linux Platform (ALP) mobile stack. The touch- and 3G-enabled design will use NEC's ARM9-based MP201 system-on-chip (SoC), and a future design may use NEC's new ARM11-based Emma Mobile 1.

In case you haven't guessed by now, I like desktop Linux. I admit though that Linux is stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to dealing with proprietary media formats. These formats are designed to lock users into a particular video or audio player and those programs seldom come in a Linux version. There are answers though to this problem and that's one of the reasons why I like the Linux Mint distribution. It makes listening to proprietary audio and viewing restricted video as easy as it's ever going to get on Linux.

OpenBI, an open source solutions provider, has deployed Pentaho's business intelligence software in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for a manufacturing customer. It's a sign of big things to come for open source and SaaS.

SCALE, the Southern California Linux Expo, is returning to Los Angeles February 20th through 22nd. I have had the opportunity to attend the first event and a few more including SCALE 6x. I will once again attend this year and will finally be able to attend the Friday sessions.

Just when you thought it was safe to stow your stuff and go... Today's post is the third volume in our series on covert file storage. If you're interested in reading up on the 57th installment of this series, please feel free to click the link that's way behind the anchor text right here ;) Today, we're going to be looking at the tip discussed in volume 57, but with respect, specifically, to the ZFS filesystem. The meaning of those initials is included in the hyperlink, again, preceding the sentence that should land you at your anchor text.

There are two schools of thought about netbooks. The first is that they are simply another kind of notebook - smaller, a bit cheaper, but otherwise nothing really new. The second is that they are a completely new market sector - a view that I have been propounding for almost as long as they've existed

Archos, the French manufacturer of multimedia tablets, has announcedPDF plans for a portable media device that will run Googles open source Android operating system. The Archos Internet Media Tablet (IMT) is to be a multimedia player with Smartphone capabilities.

The next few months should see three supported and modular versions of Red Hat's JBoss application server rolled out, scaling from web to full enterprise-class scenarios. Red Hat's vice president of middleware Craig Muzilla told The Reg three profiles of the JBoss Application Server 5.0 would be delivered in the "next few quarters."

EMMA Facilitates Interaction Through Keyboard, Mouse, Voice, Speech, Touch, Gesture

As part of ensuring the Web is available to all people on any device, W3C published a new standard today to enable interactions beyond the familiar keyboard and mouse. EMMA, the Extensible MultiModal Annotation specification, promotes the development of rich Web applications that can be adapted to more input modes (such as handwriting, natural language, and gestures) and output modes (such as synthesized speech) at lower cost.

Apple and Psystar have been locked in a legal battle for some time now, but it appears that, if Psystar wins, the consequences could be quite large and broad.

LXer Feature: 11-Feb-2009

This weekend, the 9th Free & Open Source Developers' Europe Meeting (FOSDEM) took place at the Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels. Your editors Sander Marechal and Hans Kwint attended this meeting to find out for you what's hot, new in the area of the Linux environment and might be coming to you in the near future.

Here is the blow-by-blow of the first day with talks about Mozilla's future, the role of Debian, two OSI talks, Reverse engineering and much, much more.

Inspired by Roku's awesome Netflix video download box and impressed with Boxee's free A/V media center platform, it was merely a matter of time before I'd create the BoxeeBox, an Ubuntu-powered HTPC that I call my "one box to rule them all." Here's how it's done.

Do you know what’s happening in middleware? Budget crunch keeping you from attending industry gatherings? Bring the conference to your desktop. Take a minute (or a few hours) and attend the JBoss Virtual Experience.

Audacity is a free opensource audio editing and recording software. Audacity can run on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. Audacity can manipulate digital audio wave forms. In addition to recording sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, MP, and Ogg Vorbis.

Screen is great for letting you start a terminal session, walk away from it, and then come back later. Maybe you need to start a long running process such as a complicated data conversion or a multi-hour build. You can use screen to start the ball rolling, go home, and resume the already-in-progress and uninterrupted activity that you started at work. Jeremy M. Jones shows us how.

Some skeptics say you can't make money from open source. But Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has offered up two key financial metrics to prove growth and profitability are a reality for well-run open source companies. Here's the scoop.