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The YouTube "dancing baby" takedown case, made Internet-famous by lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation back in 2007, looks like it will actually go to a jury about six years after it was filed.

US District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled today [PDF] that neither Universal Music Group, which asked for this video of a dancing toddler to be taken off YouTube, nor EFF, which represented the child's mother, will win their case on summary judgment. Today's order, which responds to issues raised at an October hearing, means the case will have to proceed to a jury trial if there's no settlement.

FTP is a service known to almost anyone who works with Internet on daily basis. This guide will describe in detail how to setup an FTP server on Ubuntu Linux in simple to follow steps. We will show how to setup an FTP server in normal and stand-alone mode. We will also provide some security tips for your new FTP setup. This guide will use lightweight and efficient FTP server vsFTPd, which is designed to withstand on servers with high load.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris accused two foreign apparel makers in lawsuits of gaining an unfair competitive advantage over American companies by using pirated software in clothing production. Harris, in a state court complaint filed yesterday in Los Angeles, said Pratibha Syntex Ltd. of India and Ningbo Beyond Home Textile Co. Ltd. of China violated California’s unfair competition law by failing to pay licensing fees for software manufactured by companies including Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc. and Symantec Corp. The unpaid fees gave Pratibha Syntex and Ningbo Beyond Home Textile a “significant cost advantage in the low-margin business of apparel manufacturing,” Harris said in an e-mailed statement. The suits target companies whose “unlawful actions are eroding California’s garment industry and placing California companies who legally pay for computer software at a disadvantage.”

Apple unlikely to get cross over this compiler The free RoboVM, timidly launched as version 0.0.1, claims to bridge Java code into Objective C - including the native iOS Cocoa Touch APIs - providing greater portability to mobile apps.…

Devs don't like Oracle's direction, prefer more open MariaDB The developers of Fedora Linux are pondering a slap in the face for Oracle by picking MariaDB as the database for the forthcoming Fedora 19.…

In 1997, at the height of his PC-fueled bravado, Dell CEO Michael Dell said publicly that Apple, then in decline, should be dissolved. "I'd shut it down and give the money back to shareholders." Now Apple sits near the pinnacle of the industry, and Dell is looking at giving his company's stockholders their money back—and taking the company private. And it looks like Microsoft is going to give him a hand with that.

Ok, I'll admit it: there's certainly hyperbole in this entry's title. What I'm doing with the text-mode browser lynx isn't really scraping--it's just something that bears some conceptual (in my view) similarities. It might appear similar because what I've done is to come up with a way of invoking lynx (or any other text-mode browser for that matter), with search terms already entered, from the command line. The end product is just the text results google finds relative to your query--sans all the bells and whistles google's search portal has been foisting on us in recent years. Why is this a significant accomplishment? Well, consider the following.

A new Fedora 19 feature proposal has surfaced, which is rather interesting but sure to spark controversy: replace the default GNOME Shell desktop with Cinnamon...

Inspired by Forbidden Island, [d0x3d!] is a board game designed for informal security education and released under an open source license. This is an incredibly fun game and invaluable teaching tool that proactively teaches network integrity and the security of information. It requires only a small number of people, and packs a powerful lesson—internet security. People tend to learn better when shown by example, and it’s proven that a real hands on approach can have a more lasting impression.

Earlier this week I wrote about Arch BSD: a new operating system that is based upon Arch Linux but in place of the Linux kernel is FreeBSD's kernel. To talk about today is Starch Linux, a distribution also derived from Arch but its approach is the opposite. Starch Linux still runs off Arch's Linux kernel but it has an OpenBSD user-space...

Oracle, the company that’s owned Java since purchasing Sun Microsystems in 2010, seems to be clueless. Back in October the company pushed out a patch to fix some security holes that were already being exploited. There were complaints at the time that they were being secretive, saying little to nothing publicly about the problem, acting as if they were sweeping dust under a rug. Indeed, two months earlier, in August, the founder and CEO of the Polish security firm Security Explorations, Adam Gowdiak, told PCWorld that Oracle had known about the security problem for months:

IBM Systems Director is a platform management solution that is used to manage physical and virtual systems in a multisystem environment. It supports various virtualization technologies and multiple operating systems across IBM and non-IBM platforms. IBM Systems Director VMControl is an advanced manager of IBM Systems Director, a free-to-own set of platform management tools. This tutorial is part of a series on VMControl resource lifecycle management. This tutorial explains the virtual appliance lifecycle using the VMControl Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs).

Valve has originally ported their original Half-Life title to Linux...

Half Life 1 has popped up on the Steam CDR and several people have already tested it and got it to work! Pretty big news since it still is such a huge game and Valve's first game!

(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 24, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced upcoming changes to their LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 certification programs. New objectives for these certifications are presently under development. New exams will be available in English on October 1, 2013 with local translations and pricing TBA.

Normally, I shy away from reviewing elementary-stage distros. Alpha releases are often too nonfunctional to offer any real work usability. They are simply proof-of-concept versions. This is not the case with the openArtist distro, however. After hearing a few colleagues rave about openArtist, I threw caution to the wind and checked it out.

Upcoming openSUSE Con 2013 in Greece has also had its theme and ticket availability announced

Samsung's recent Android 4.1.2 upgrade for the Galaxy Note 10.1 adds power and flexibility to the company's unique offering of Android multiwindowing features. With this update, the Galaxy Note 10.1 can run up to 16 multiwindow-enabled Android apps at once, Windows/Mac-like, on a single screen. Apps endowed with Samsung's multiwindow technology are usable in three viewing modes: full screen, dual view, and cascade view, as shown below.

It is not fair to say certain desktop environment is faster than others only based on fgl_glxgears’s output. There are many more factors than, just having some FPS gain in an opengl tool to consider a desktop environment over others. One more fact to consider, a distro which has say e.g. twm as default window manager might have more benefits (ease of use, performance) than running on Ubuntu.

The openSUSE community has announced that the openSUSE Conference 2013 will take place from 18 to 22 July at the Olympic Museum in Thessaloniki in Greece. The conference, themed with the slogan "Power to the Geeko", aims to spotlight the grass-roots nature of the open source project. The fifth annual event of its kind, this year's incarnation of the conference is the first time that the organisation lies entirely in the hand of volunteers, with SUSE employees supporting the event mostly in their free time.