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Lanner announced a mid-range digital signage player with remote power activation support and a dual-core, 1.8GHz Intel Atom D525 featuring remote p. The fanless LEC-7105 supports up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, features dual display via VGA and DVI outputs, offers an eSATA port as well as internal SATA and CompactFlash storage, and provides gigabit Ethernet, USB, and serial connections.

Back in 2006, I wrote a piece for LXer called "A Brief History of Microsoft FUD". This ran through successive attempts by Microsoft to dismiss GNU/Linux in various ways. One of the better-known was a series of "Total Cost of Ownership" (TCO) studies. By an amazing coincidence, these all showed that Microsoft Windows was cheaper than that supposedly cheap GNU/Linux. Fortunately, people soon cottoned on to the fact that these studies, paid for by Microsoft, were pretty worthless (here, for example, is a great debunking of the kind of FUD that was being put out in 2005.) However, one knock-on consequence of that episode is that TCO studies rather fell from favour. So it's interesting to see this new report prepared for the Cabinet Office with the title "Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source Software", which has been released under the liberal Open Government Licence for public sector information.

Microsoft's Xmas gift to sysadmins: 14 security updates Microsoft plans to deliver a festive hamper of 14 security updates next week, three of which are designed to tackle critical remote code execution flaws.…

Some Android anti-virus firms have begun releasing Carrier IQ detection apps, but only after the controversial software became a talking point on Capitol Hill ... and a month after a security researcher first discovered it. BitDefender released Carrier IQ Finder, an app that identifies the presence of the controversial mobile diagnostic tool, following Lookout's earlier release of a similar tool called Carrier IQ Detector. Both applications let mobile phone users know if they have Carrier IQ running on their Android phone without actually removing it. Each has been available at no charge via the official Android Market since last Saturday (3 December).

Will Facebook be required to allow info transfer to *gasps* Google+? Draft proposals on the European Commission's "general data protection regulation" have been leaked online.…

Here is a how to setup your Thunderbird installation with Exchange server 2003/2007

Will AWS eat all the competition? Open ... and Shut Is there a cloud market, or is there an Amazon market?…

Eight out of 10 tested apps riddled with flaws Eight in 10 applications failed to pass stricter security testing standards in test by application security assessment firm Veracode.…

Wuala is a cloud storage service offered by LaCie, a computer storage and display outfit. Wuala is supported on all major operating system platforms, and there is even an app for iPhone and iPad. Like all cloud storage services, Wuala makes it easy for you to backup, sync, share and retrieve your data from any location. Yesterday’s article about Wuala was mostly about its terms of service. This article gives the steps required to create an account and start using the service in Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux Mint 12.

Plank dock is a lightweight applications launcher, Plank dock is developed by Docky Core team. It could be a great alternative to many dock applications if you are looking for simple dock application do the basic function of launching applications and arranging applications on the dock. Also, it’s a lightweight dock does not require big a mount of memory at all.

This guide explains how to install Maia Mailguard, a spam and virus management system, on a Debian Squeeze mailserver. Maia Mailguard is a web-based interface and management system based on the popular amavisd-new email scanner and SpamAssassin. Written in Perl and PHP, Maia Mailguard gives end-users control over how their mail is processed by virus scanners and spam filters, while giving mail administrators the power to configure site-wide defaults and limits.

While I have covered Ensign 1 a couple of times, I decided to hold off on further updates until we had something fun to show, Brandon the main guy behind Only Human Studios who also made a highly underrated 2D+3D platformer Helena The 3rd (along with our very own editor Rusty!) has showed off a new video giving us a peak at some new fun features for the game engine.

The Ubuntu Torrents Lens will provide search filters that will allow users to narrow their Pirate Bay searches using type filters (audio, video, adult, games, applications, other and all) and size filters (1 MB, 10 MB, 100 MB, 1 GB, 10 GB, 100 GB).

Never shy with his ambitions, Mark Shuttleworth still has his sights set on world domination.

Stuart Metcalfe proudly announced a few hours ago, December 8th, on the Canonical blog that the popular PayPal payment method will be available in Ubuntu Software Center by Christmas.

10 years have passed since Via announced the Mini-ITX form factor. Their latest offering, the VE-900, is sold for an affordable $89 and promises better performance over Intel's Atom Platform.

HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community.

Today we share with you an interview with René Grothmann, the developer of the Euler Math Toolbox, a software environment for interactive numerical computations. Euler is similar to FreeMat or MatLab, but it has its own take on how to do things. One interesting feature is that it creates 3D stereograms that require 3D glasses. I found this project way back in the 90?s and I am happy to see it is still going strong.

The final release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment, in January 2012, will contain features such as Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces, an updated device notifier widget written in QML, a QML-based KWin window switcher, improved file view of Dolphin including a more attractive visual appearance, as well as lots of general performance improvements and assorted bugfixes.

Last week I placed online a few screenshot images of VectorLinux 7.0. Today I decided to show everone VectorLinux in action! VectorLinux 7.0 Standard Gold comes in either an installation CD or a LiveCD. Today I decided to make a short Web Video of VectorLinux in action. This Linux Distribution has a great user interface and I hope you enjoy it.