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Keeping Opera bookmarks in sync with oSync

If you use the Opera browser on multiple machines, you'll inevitably run into the problem of keeping your bookmarks in sync. While you can store your bookmarks using services like del.icio.us, you might want to opt for oSync -- a synchronization utility that has a couple of clever features besides the ability to keep bookmarks and notes in sync.

Kochizz, the free Apache configuration editor, is released !

After several months of development, the SS2L OpenDev publishes a first version of the free project Kochizz. This graphic tool aims at facilitating the configuration of the Apache Web servers.

CPU Frequency Scaling In Ubuntu

  • HowtoForge; By Chris Rowson (Posted by falko on Aug 27, 2007 2:08 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
So, you have an irritatingly loud CPU fan which is making you consider whether or not launching your laptop through the nearest window is a good idea. Well, before you do that, why not give CPU frequency scaling a go.

The Big Failure of the Free Software Foundation

Explaining what freedom in computing is about, is also talk about the FSF and/or the GNU project; they’re nothing less than the flagship of the free software movement and they’ve made huge steps toward freedom in computing, but they have missed a key point: If the average computer user is not on our side, we’ll get nowhere.

Give time to develop artificial brain

A distributed computing project named "Artificial Intelligence - Reverse engineering the brain" has been launched on Linux. The goal is to use the power of distributed computing to build a large scale artificial intelligence system.

Linux Documentation: Often Ignored For Poor Community Advice

  • MadPenguin.org; By Matt Hartley (Posted by gsh on Aug 27, 2007 11:40 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
It has long since been my own personal experience that Linux documentation is largely ignored by Linux beginners in exchange for the interactivity of Linux forums. The reasons why will be further explored in this piece; however, today I have located a solid exception to the rule.

Discontent with LiveContent

Perhaps Creative Commons' LiveContent 1.0 CD would work better if more clearly defined. Its Web page enthuses that the project is"an umbrella idea which aims to connect and expand Creative Commons and open source communities," adding that it"works to identify creators and content providers working to share their creations more easily" and"works to support developers and others who build build better technology to distribute these works." In other words, LiveContent is a sampler of free content and free software, but this purpose seems lost in a cloud of rhetoric, even to project members. The CD suffers from lackluster presentation, a mediocre assortment of samplers, and a lack of explanation.

LPI tops 150 000 exams worldwide

Linux's global uptake and acceptance into the mainstream marked a milestone when the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) announced that their exam totals have topped the 150 000 mark and that their rollout is gaining momentum.<br /> <br />

PC-BSD Meets Software Piracy?

  • OSWeekly.com; By Matt Hartley (Posted by gsh on Aug 27, 2007 8:49 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
I have been a fan of PC-BSD for sometime now; however, it was after discovering this page that had me disturbed. Using PC-BSD's awesome packaging methods, the webmaster of this site has apparently packaged some applications that might cause some licensing concerns.

KDE Commit-Digest for 26th August 2007

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: "Pencils down" marks the end of the Summer of Code for 2007. Python highlighting support, with work on a new, handwritten lexer in KDevelop. A data engine and associated Plasma applet for KGet. Start of the Plasma-based Wikipedia and Service Info applets for Amarok 2. Wikipedia integration, and other improvements in the Step physics simulation package. A console added to KAlgebra. New graphical themes for KGoldRunner. XMP metadata support in Digikam. More progress in the unobtrusive search dialog for Kate. Usability work across many applications. No mixer functionality in Phonon for KDE 4.0. The start of development on KChart 2.

OpenBSD: Software Freedom

OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt highlighted a recent commit to the NetBSD source tree saying, "if anyone had any doubt that our insistence on freedom was important, just read this." The referenced commit message describes an effort to work around issues with a binary blob included with NetBSD, something strongly avoided by the OpenBSD project.

What's So Precious About Bad Software?

  • Enterprise Networking Planet; By Carla Schroder (Posted by Sander_Marechal on Aug 27, 2007 5:57 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups:
What's the real reason for closed, proprietary code? Embarrassment. Sure, we are drowned in tides of twaddle about precious IP, Trade Sekkrits, Sooper Original Algorithms that must not be exposed to eyes of mere mortals, and all manner of silly excuses. But that's all a smokescreen to cover up the real reason: to hide code of such poor quality that even PHBs know to be embarrassed. Exhibit A: Windows itself. Which proves it takes more than throwing billions of dollars and thousands of programmers at a software project to build something that is actually good.

Microsoft Set for Lock-in-backed Hijack (and Novell Helps It)

Time after time we warned that with the arrival of Windows Vista comes an novel lock-in strategy. This strategy of lock-in stretches well beyond file formats. It also creates lethal and viral (as in “transferable”) integration of the server side and the desktop side. As mentioned many times before, all of this is happening quietly. It’s happening quietly for a reason. You never yell when approaching a rabbit.

Ubuntu-Users Social Network BETA

Over the next week I will be starting on a new Ubuntu community project. The plan is to create a Social Network for Ubuntu users, giving users free blog space and email addresses on the ubuntu-users.org domain. Think of Facebook for Ubuntu Users by Ubuntu Users but as a non profit entity as opposed to a big business venture.

Promise SATA300 TX4 SATA 2.0

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by phoronix on Aug 27, 2007 3:09 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews
We don't review many disk controllers or hard drives at Phoronix but we decided to take a quick look at the Promise Technology SATA300 TX4 PCI controller card, which promises to be a cost-effective 4-port Serial ATA 2.0 controller. Two of the features include Native Command Queuing and Tagged Command Queuing support, but how does its performance compare to solutions integrated on the motherboard? In this review of the Promise SATA300 TX4 we tested it with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn using an nForce 430 chipset.

Create custom portable Ubuntu package repositories with APTonCD

I recently discovered APTonCD, a utility that makes it easy to store Ubuntu packages on a CD or DVD so that they can be installed again later without having to download the packages again. You can download the packages you want once and then install them all on as many computers as you want. It's also a pretty useful way to get packages onto computers with slow or unreliable Internet connections.

Preview of the 1-CD openSUSE-10.3-Beta2-KDE-i386

  • Linuxseekers.com; By Michael Shee Choon Beng (Posted by linuxseekers on Aug 27, 2007 1:15 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: SUSE
openSUSE 10.3 has reached its Beta 2 stage of development cycle. It was released on the 23rd of August 2007, 2 weeks after the release of the Beta 1 iso images. According to the openSUSE 10.3 release roadmap, the stable/distribution release of openSUSE 10.3 is scheduled for 4th of October 2007. The openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2 is offered in a 1-CD GNOME, a 1-CD KDE, and a 1-DVD iso images, covering the i386, x86_64, and PPC architectures.

A critique of Open Source

Yochai Benkler describes Open Source as a methodology of commons based peer production. This means work made collaboratively and shared publicly by a community of equals. For Eric Raymond the virtue of Open Source is its efficiency. Open Source can create better products faster than the old closed source model. The name Open Source was deliberately chosen for its meaninglessness and ideological vacuity. This was intended to make the results of a very strong ideology more palatable to large corporations by disguising its origins. That ideology is Free Software.

DistroWatch Weekly: How popular is a distribution, articles on zypper, overlays and initng

  • DistroWatch.com; By Ladislav Bodnar (Posted by dave on Aug 26, 2007 11:35 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Newsletter
Welcome to this year's 35th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! There is little doubt about it - Ubuntu is the most popular desktop Linux distribution on the market. But the great variety of available statistics, usage surveys and web long analyses means that it's often impossible to estimate the true usage figures and switching habits of individual users. Does it all really matter? Read our editorial on the subject and comment in the forums. In the news section, we link to a handful of interesting articles covering the openSUSE package management, Gentoo overlays, and Debian boot process with initng. Finally, the KDE development team has revealed that its official KDE 4 release party will only take place some four months after the release of version 4.0. The reason? Read on to find out.

High Tech: Highest Resolution Computer Screen Ever, 220 Million Pixels

Engineers at the UC San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world - with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels. UCSD's Linux-based OptIPortal consists of 55 Dell displays driven by 18 Dell XPS personal computers. The system at UCSD uses the San Diego Supercomputer Center's new 64-bit version of grid-computing middleware known as ROCKS released in early August and Calit2's Cluster GL for heterogeneous systems (CGLX) framework.

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