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his introductory article explores what it means to be a mashup, the different classes of popular mashups constructed today, and the enabling technologies that mashup developers leverage to create their applications. Additionally, you'll see many of the emerging technical and social challenges you face when you deep-dive into mashup development.

The second beta version of developer platform Mono 1.2, based on the open-source framework .NET, is out! The Mono project has two goals: it both makes running .NET-based applications on a Linux platform possible and provides developer tools with which developers using Linux workstations also become able to write .NET applications.

Your daughter has just been in a car crash. She falls unconscious on her way to the hospital, but not before she is able to tell the paramedics the name of her doctor. This is vitally important because the emergency room won’t know that she’s an insulin-dependent diabetic with a penicillin allergy, but her doctor will be able to give them her relevant medical history. Or, at least he would be if he’d renewed the tech support contract on his medical records software. He didn’t, though, and now his information—and your daughter’s—is locked away in a proprietary database he can’t access.

In addition, the core services in Leopard Server, including Apache 2, MySQL 5, Postfix, Cyrus, iChat Server and QuickTime Streaming Server, are now 64-bit.

There are more than a handful of education-focused Linux distributions available for parents eager to get their kids up to speed with computing, but there aren't that many applications focused on younger children. One of the best though is GCompris.

FROM zero to 200 million downloads. That's the record that the Firefox browser has achieved since Version 1 was introduced in November 2004.

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Last February, I listed a couple of useful extensions, including Fasterfox, which speeds up the retrieval of Web pages. Here are a few other favorites that I've added since then:

Red Hat Fedora release engineer Jesse Keating announced the release Aug. 7 of the second test version of Fedora Core 6, which is based on a 2.6.17 kernel and utilizes the GNOME desktop.

While Steve Jobs shows off the new Apple product lineup and Leopard OS at the developer conference this week, the company also quietly extends its open source arm by releasing a number of its products into the open source community including kernel sources for Intel-based Macs and the launch of Mac OS Forge.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in ext3 when handling an invalid inode number. This can be exploited by sending a specially crafted NFS request with a V2 procedure (e.g. V2_LOOKUP) that specifies an invalid inode number.

SOLUTION: Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

Okay, maybe not the beach - if you're spending a couple of weeks sunning yourself abroad you might want a break from technology, even in paper form. But if you're on the lookout for some more weighty reading matter on where all this technology is leading (or just want to make your own robot), we've picked out 10 recent books worth checking out. No, not including the Long Tail one - that's got quite enough recommendations online already.

The developerWorks online trials program lets you try out Rational Application Developer features without downloading and installing it on your own system. Developers can quickly design, develop, analyze, test, profile and deploy high-quality Web, service-oriented architecture (SOA), Java, J2EE, and UML portal applications.

The easiest way to sound like a professional when you talk about photography these days is to grumble about the deficiencies of RAW file converters. The ability to save pictures in RAW format rather than JPEG or TIFF is what distinguishes a "pro level" camera from a consumer device. But rather than mentioning your camera's specs outright, the shrewd move is the heavy sigh followed by lamentations about your tireless search for the perfect software to properly manipulate your beautiful work. Let's take a look at how to do it using Linux and open source.

We liked this version of Ubuntu, with its very fast, new graphical installer based on the Live CD Faster system startup and login, simplified menu organization, graphical shutdown process, easy access to power management settings with GNOME Power Manager It also now includes GNOME 2.14.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.2, X.org 7.0 and a plethora of included application choices, but there's still no VPN wizard, and playing DVDs should be simpler.

[The author describes the act of installing: "After clicking on the Install icon, I followed the prompts until the installation was complete." Sounds like a real nightmare, doesn't it? Seriously, the author presents a very good review, complete with screenshots and "warts". One of the "warts" the author points out, DVD playing, is a problem in the U.S. due to the lobbying of the movie cartel. -- grouch]

As announced at the end of last year, Adrian Bunk has now taken over support of Linux kernel 2.6.16.x. Thus, a stable kernel series based on kernel 2.6 should be available for the long term. Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the two administrators of the stable kernel series, officially handed over administration to Bunk a few days ago.

DistroWatch reports - The Fedora Project announces the second release of the Fedora Core 6 development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and ppc/ppc64 architectures, including Intel based Macintosh computers. Among the notable features are the ability to install packages from additional yum repositories during system install, functional Java applet plugin for Firefox, new default font (DejaVu), and many package updates. OSDir has some great shots of this fresh Fedora Core 6 Test release in the Fedora Core 6 Test 2 Screenshot Tour.

As Linux servers continue to pervade data centers at increasing rates, one of the biggest challenges to strike IT managers is getting those servers to work well with their existing Windows systems.

As a result, technologies like Samba have made a market out of getting the two operating systems to play nice. However, Samba can be a bit complex for the everyday administrator, so companies like Centeris Corp., a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup, have spring up with products to minimize the confusion. Centeris and others produce software tools specifically designed to make interoperability as painless as possible.

Recently, Centeris CEO Barry Crist sat down with SearchOpenSource.com to talk about why the landscape for cross-platform server management is improving with the integration of Windows and Linux servers and how virtualization is already emerging as the next big technology in the space.

In the present state of 64-bit architecture, the lack of 64-bit plugins can cause difficulties while browsing the internet. A new initiative makes the use of the existing 32-bit plugins possible in 64-bit Mozilla browsers.

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Overview: This sample chapter, taken from MySQL Crash Course, discusses what joins are and how you can use them to create SELECT statements.

In the past weeks more than 90% of the first batch of bug reports filed by Pierre Habouzit for the Python transition are currently solved. These reports were filed mainly for packages providing public python modules.