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Federal authorities were evidently waiting for SOPA to pass before making their move against him and his site. On the same night that public opinion forced SOPA to fail, however, the feds decided to act anyway. They took down his website and had Dotcom taken into custody by the New Zealand authorities. They seized most of his assets, without proving anything in court, and are now attempting to have him extradited to the United States.

SilverStripe is award winning free content management system, published under MIT licence. The latest and greatest version is v3.0.0. Below are instructions how to install SilverStripe CMS on your own environment.

Full article: http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/silverstripe-3-installatio...

One year and a half ago, an important part of FFmpeg developers decided to change the way the project was managed. This led to some kind of takeover, mainly to get rid of the old maintainer dictatorship, but also to change development methods, redefine objectives, etc. Then, for various reasons I will quickly explain, these people made a new project called Libav.

I will try first to summarize the most objectively as I can what was the situation, why it led to the current one, and basically how things are linked together. In a second time though, I will try to explain why, as a FFmpeg/Libav war child, I finally chose one side, and what it means daily.

TheeMahn proudly announced this past weekend that the Ultimate Edition 3.4 LTS operating system is now available for download on mirrors worldwide.

Redmond boffins burn up CPUs so you don't have to Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death is the curse of Windows. Not just its appearance, mid way through some serious game play or spreadsheeting, but the messages themselves - digital monologues on the existence of a problem, its possible causes and how you can fix it.…

The World Wide Web Consortium has released a final draft of the Selectors API Level 1 specification and presented a working draft of Level 2 at the same time. The interface simplifies the process of searching for elements in HTML documents

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Multiple new features for a non-editable view of animations in Calligra; contour data is created and removed using image analysis from UI and a ClipCommand, a page/slide navigator control for the statusbar is used in Stage and Flow; Kexi gets an option for setting default length limit of text values and Kexi forms get Date Picker widget read more

In my spare time, I work on a a simple photo roll publishing application called Pygmyfoto.

LXer Feature: 02-Jul-2012

The latest installment of the LXWR of the weeks big stories for your reading pleasure. Sorry its a day late. Enjoy!

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 12.04 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

While most haven't yet heard of the Unvanquished game, it's a promising but yet-to-be-released open-source multi-player game...

These days, it often feels like an operating system is only as cool as its “apps” — which are separate from applications, mind you. And so it’s not surprising to see Canonical pushing hard to deliver more apps to Ubuntu users, an effort highlighted most recently by the upcoming AppsSprint. Yet is Canonical, promoter of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, catering to real demand among users, or simply following hype? Here are some thoughts.

Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, June 30th, that the fifth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.5 kernel is now available for download and testing.

Indie Royale has a few Linux games in their offer this time. Unfortunately it's only three out of the nine games in the bundle. Harvest: Massive Encounter looks the most interesting.

A simple command to convert a video to slow motion

This is a task / todo list written in PHP. It requires no SQL database whatsover, all the data is saved in a JSON text file. The visual side is made with the excellent HTML5 Kickstart framework. Features include adding, editing and deleting of tasks, and marking them as finished. MIT/X11 license, download and demo available.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 26 of 2012. It features fedora ranting and small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes Libreoffice, Bryan Lunduke, Microsoft blocking the Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Cyanogenmod, Codeweavers Crossover, Wine, TomaHawk, the kernel and more...

PhpSysInfo is a fabulous PHP script that easily to displays system and other monitoring information for Linux-based computer system.

With my new laptop, I've installed Debian Testing on it, and so I finally had a chance to experience GNOME 3.4 personally. Wow, it really is as unusable as everyone has said; painfully so. So, next stop: xfce, as I had planned. Which means I ran into more problems.

Following up the interest that was generated about the Skeltrack library, we arranged a quick interview with the currently only developer of the project Joaquim Rocha, in an attempt to learn more about this amazing and very promising project.