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Mozilla, Nesta and Nominet Trust announce new digital literacy partnership in the UK ? Today, on the eve of the Mozilla Festival in London, Mozilla is proud to announce a new partnership aimed at spreading digital literacy in the UK. … Continue reading

SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. It is Google's alternative to the HTTP protocol and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several speed-related features such as stream multiplexing and header compression. To use SPDY, you need a web server and a browser (like Google Chrome and upcoming versions of Firefox) that both support SPDY. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module that adds support for the SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This tutorial explains how to use mod_spdy with Apache2 on Ubuntu 12.10.

"Razer makes gaming devices. Expensive gaming devices. The problem is, when you buy a number of Razer gaming mice, you are required to have an online connection in order to "configure" the mouse. Those configurations are stored in "the cloud", so ideally, you have your pre-sets available to you regardless of where you game or where you go.

The problem is, you cannot use the mouse without "registration". It's not just simple registration. It's the information Razer wants in order to register. But nowhere on the box does it say that it requires an online connection to get the mouse to work. That's only one of the pleasant surprises that await you after the unboxing."

This week, the link between Hooters and a cutting edge eDiscovery ruling, and why developers would do well to follow designers and step away from their computers before they write a single line of code.

Festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted - thanks Eric! Analysis Does one of the biggest-ever revolutions in software, open source, contain the seeds of its own decay and destruction?…

Let's get ready to Humbleeeeeeee.... It's time for a new Humble Indie Bundle, and this time it's again a bundle for Android!

This guide is an introduction to Tahoe-LAFS, a distributed, redundant, and encrypted storage system - some may call it 'cloud storage'. Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to function correctly, including preservation of your privacy and security. This guide will help you with installing and configuring your own distributed, redundant, and encrypted storage system!

I downloaded Luninux a couple of weeks ago. When I booted Luninux for the first time I noticed that this operating system is using the Gnome 3.4.1 shell which basically makes it look like Gnome 2 as well.

The next version of Ubuntu is ready for testing on 32 and 64-bit x86 systems, as well as PowerPC hardware

The openSUSE Project, through Will Stephenson, announced a few hours ago, November 8, the immediate availability for download and testing of the first Milestone release of the upcoming openSUSE 12.3 operating system.

Digia has announced the contribution of the Necessitas project's code to a Qt Project effort to bring Qt 5 for Android to developers in 2013, which should enable Qt to reach one of the most popular mobile platforms currently available

Since SpaceFM is entering the GTK3 realm (SpaceFM can now be built on anything from GTK 2.18 “I won’t give up my lenny!” thru GTK 3.6.x), I’m starting to hear more feedback about GTK3 and experiencing a few things for myself. While SpaceFM’s GTK3 port has been running very well with the few non-broken themes I could find, there are some intrinsic problems with any GTK3 app due to GTK’s poor maintenance, as well as a growing culture of enforced conformity from GNOME devs. Some of the things you’re about to read should make your hair curl and your blood boil.

The fact is that whilst Unity is a cumbersome beast, Ubuntu itself is really good. The Ubuntu repositories provide an endless list of applications and the hardware support is brilliant. Therefore Xubuntu with the XFCE desktop is a great base for creating the ultimate operating system.

The delivery date is December 1st. We need to clean up the code and also prepare the first alpha release of Baryon for anyone who contributed at that level.

Version 2.6.0 of the cross-platform IDE replaces Targets with Kits, allowing users to easily bundle various settings. It also adds experimental support for Android and drops support for Symbian

If you buy a Windows 8-powered HP consumer PC, or from any other PC vendor, you'll get no help from them if you decide you'd rather have Windows 7. And Linux? Forget about it!

The traffic anonymisation tool TOR can leave confidential data like passwords in the system memory due to usage of a function that is not always used by all compilers

Free software has a history of creating and supporting cults of personality. Since it is a widespread human phenomenon, it is easy to understand how this happens. It is, however, unhelpful and destructive and we really ought to actively discourage it, starting by putting aside the current cults.

The most recent, though certainly not the only example, of this retrograde behavior was seen when Linus Torvalds started posting on Google+ about his recent sampling of various Free software desktop options.

At LinuxCon in Barcelona, Mike Blumenkrantz announced that the first beta release of E17 should arrive by December 1, and the final stable-release of E17 will shortly follow, on December 21. The upcoming version of Enlightenment, E17 (stable), has been in production for more than 10 years now, and rightfully so. It’s a complete rewrite of the E16 desktop shell.

THE Australian federal government has abandoned its long-standing commitment to introduce a national internet filter and will instead ban websites related only to child abuse. This whole plan was hatched by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy however it has been widely derided from the start. The chief executive of the Internet Industry Association, Peter Lee, welcomed the decision as ''a positive step''