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Java is entering a renaissance following a period of darkness under Sun Microsystems, according to Oracle and computing giant IBM. Mark Reinhold, chief architect of Oracle's Java platform group and one of Sun's former principal engineers, reckons that with Oracle's acquisition of the slowly fading Sun, things are looking brighter and "we" can finally make some progress.

There are a few repetitions here and there, but that’s a minor issue. With one exception, everything that readers starting as email administrators with “Linux E-Mail” will need is in this book...

Most Linux distributions, unlike OpenSuSE, OS X and Windows, do not have a DNS Cache service installed by default. Your computer will need to lookup a website’s IP address every time you visit it. The lookup request is passed on to the DNS server(s) specified in the /etc/resolv.conf file. It will take the server a few ms (milliseconds) at best to respond. It can take a ‘long’ time if your using a slow Internet connection (or a wireless LAN).

Google Desktop is a local version of Google’s powerful indexing and search system. And, unlike other such solutions, this one won’t slow down your computer. Why?

Gmail has become for many the favorite e-mail account, being very comfortable, with plenty of space available and a web interface that can be used through various devices: smartphone, laptop or desktop. But I guess that all of you know already all the advantages of using these email accounts so that they are becoming very important for us … but have you ever thought about making a backup of these mails?

Foremay is shipping a NAND solid state drive (SSD) claimed to be the world's smallest SSD & disk-on-chip.& Its OC177 DOC chip measures only 0.87 x 0.87 x 0.07 inches (22 x 22 x 1.8mm), supports standard IDE or SATA host interfaces, and is available in 32GB capacities, with a read/write speed of up to 70/40MB/sec, says the company....

Introversion brings two of their classic titles to the Ubuntu Software Centre. Introversion Software, indie developer of hits Darwinia and Uplink, have now launched the aforementioned titles on the Ubuntu Software Centre. The titles are currently selling for US$10 each.

Community contributed wallpapers collection for Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" is finally released. The collection include 17 brand new wallpapers and this latest set of community contributed wallpapers for Ubuntu is definitely the best so far in my opinion. We will feature a few of the wallpapers below which we think are the best of the lot. Download links for the full set of 17 wallpapers can be found at the bottom of this post.

The open source survives and thrives by the sheer number of distros available. Proprietary software is just a small pond compared to the enormous number of distros available for open source. Again, distros are qualitatively superior and robust give developers the powerful tools that inspire their creativity, which they crave

The find command can be used to execute a command based on the data that is located with the initial find command. This provides a powerful alternative for manipulating the data you retrieve.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: March 24, 2011) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at the Flourish Conference, April 1-3 - Chicago, Illinois (http://www.flourishconf.com/) and the Southeast LinuxFest, June 10-12 - Spartanburg, South Carolina (http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org).

When Nokia decided to turn Symbian into an open source project, the move was hailed as a possible model for how others could embrace the open source movement. OK, didn't happen. Symbian imploded. A model it wasn't. Here's an interesting insider viewpoint on what went wrong by Stephen Walli (of OutCurve, formerly known as the CodePlex Foundation), who was one of the consultants that originally helped Symbian go open source. Hint: never saddle your new open source foundation with 200 employees from the getgo.

This magazine has voiced several concerns over the almost de-facto state of vendor lock-in in the mobile market and with good reason. What is the point of free software if the hardware locks your access to it? This premise was one of the driving forces behind v3 of the GPL and as far as I can tell the OpenPC project and other open hardware projects. But most of these hardware projects relate to the desktop PC model. Where is the equivalent commodity hardware for the mobile market, the tablet “market” or even the laptop one?

On Sunday, March 20th, I submitted a patch to the Linux Kernel Mailing List, to fix a compile problem that began when the "binutils" package, that handles programs written in assembly, was updated such that something that was never a problem before became a problem.

Geolocation is not a new feature, but in digiKam 2.0 it has been thoroughly reworked to streamline the process of geotagging photos. The new Geolocation interface (Image » Geo-location) aggregates all geotagging tools in one place.

Be there or be square-- your favorite author, which hopefully is me, appears Thursday 24 live on the Computer America Radio Show. 8pm Pacific, 11pm Eastern. Turn on and tune in! You can even drop out if you want. Real radio and Internet!

Three Rings Design, known for developing innovative online games like Puzzle Pirates, is coming up with a new multi-player online RPG, Spiral Knights on April 4th. The game can more suitably fall into Action-RPG category as the game involves hack 'n' slash mechanics and feels very much like popular Legend of Zelda series. The graphics are quite nice and remind me of Torchlight in some way.

Chrome 11 beta is loading with a handful of amazing features. In this post we will review them briefly!. Chrome has introduced support for the HTML 5 speech input API. What does that mean

Free registration for ABLEconf has opened. Attend the free-admission, one-day business-oriented conference to get insight on leveraging FLOSS tools to reduce IT costs while increasing flexibility.

Canonical introduced this morning the new wallpapers that will be part of the final release of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system.