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Back in May, we provided a step-by-step guide to sorting out and shoring up a digital audio library. As several readers noted, audio collections aren't the only media stores that can get out of control. Your digital photos may also be an unsorted mess, split up over several directories (or even machines), with inconsistent file names, duplicates, and a host of other problems. This weekend, why not sift through the clutter and get the whole collection in top shape before the camera comes home with a full memory card from the next big cookout?

Hewlett-Packard has completed the Palm acquisition. And if you read between the lines it sounds like HP will leverage Palm’s technology for more than smart phones and tablet computers. Indeed, HP seems poised to deploy webOS on netbooks. Here are the details.

Staying focused on one simple principle clears away any confusion: creative artists have a right to be paid. If we enjoy a piece of recorded music, a book, drawing, photo, movie, and the condition of owning a copy of that work is paying for it, then not paying for it is stealing. Legally it is copyright infringement, but I call it stealing, just like shoplifting or any petty theft.

It was patch day for the test environment, the group of servers dedicated to testing locally developed code before it is pushed into QA, and then into production. Patches for RedHat Enterprise Linux are applied using "yum update" in our setup, keeping it simple. Things were going well, no conflicts, no problems with our applications after the patches were applied. Then, one of the server's yum processes died with an error--a very familiar error. Yum was trying to install a patch that depended on a certain library being at a certain level. Our library in question was higher than the level required. That library had been updated prior to patch day, so rolling it back would break whatever package installed it. I was immediately flashed back ten years...dependency hell.

The OpenOffice.org Project developers have announced that future Linux and Unix versions of their open source office suite will use the popular GStreamer multimedia framework for audio and video content playback. The developers initially created a multimedia solution for OpenOffice using Sun's 'Java Media Framework' (JMF) for a backend. However, OpenOffice Graphics Project Lead Kai Ahrens notes that, "Time has shown that JMF seems to be a bit outdated today and that support for appropriate decoders is still not as good as expected."

I am a webkit fan and Chromium and Google Chrome are among my most favorite browsers. But since they both are actually the same in more ways than one, I decided to give a shot at a 'different' webkit based browser called Midori.

The London Stock Exchange has delayed a move to the Linux-based Millenium Exchange trading platform by two months, in order to give clients and IT suppliers more time for development and testing. The Turquoise dark pool venue will go live on 4 October, instead of an original planned launch in August or September. The LSE UK cash equity market will move off the Microsoft .Net-based TradElect platform to Millennium Exchange on 1 November, instead of the September original plans.

Who knew that evil could be this much fun? It has been ages since I delved into the nightmarish and barbaric world of Ubuntu Satanic Edition. Much has changed since I first dared to install it back when I worked for ExtremeTech. Is Ubuntu Satanic Edition still as evil as it used to be? Find out in this review as I take you on a journey into the dark side of Ubuntu Linux. Together we’ll explore…the distro of the beast!

I talk a lot about software in this blog but most of the discussion is at the personal level: I tried this, I experimented with that. I hardly ever talk about what I use for doing my IBM business and more rarely still do I talk about IBM’s internal policies about software use. This entry is different, and gives you a bit of a view inside the company. Like many individuals and members of organizations, IBMers use their browsers a lot for conducting business. Our desktop and laptop software environments have some common applications but also software specific to do our various jobs. And these jobs are varied, as there are about 400,000 IBM employees around the world.

Everyone in the Wine community is driving to release Wine 1.2 the newest and best version of Wine. Its been two years since Wine 1.0, and weve really made huge strides. This version will include the beginnings of genuine 64-bit support, along with major Direct3D improvements, and improvements in a huge number of other areas.

I am describing here a method to install Linux without using a DVD ROM or CD Drive; I have checked it myself. There are many ways to do so. You can install Linux by 1) booting from the network; 2) having an ISO image on your hard disk; 3) booting from USB; 4) installing a linux system from scratch by building your own.

Linux vendor Red Hat is out this week with the second major milestone for the next generation of its enterprise Linux release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL), as the Linux player ramps up development for its flagship operating system. The development of RHEL 6 has been closely watched as Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) seeks to grow its already sizable share of the enterprise Linux market, though the company remains cagey over an exact release date. When it ships, RHEL 6 will provide new performance, virtualization and hardware enablement for Red Hat's enterprise users.

According to recent reports the Android operating system has an impressive 19.9% share of the US mobile web market. That's still some way behind Apple iOS on 58.8% but the iPhone has been around for a lot longer. It should come as no surprise, then, that Yahoo! wants to get a piece of that Android action. Which is why it has now announced the continuing expansion of its reach with the immediate availability of the long awaited Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android.

Tech sites are abuzz with rumors that Android 3.0, Google's follow-up to the recently released Android 2.2, could see a release as soon as October. Additional rumors suggest a minimum processor requirement of 1 GHz and a minimum RAM requirement of 512MB. These specs would make Android 3.0 a natural fit for high-end smartphones and tablet PCs.

The Ubuntu development team have announced that the next Ubuntu Developer Week will take place from the 12th to the 16th of July. Several online workshops will take place during the week, run by a variety of Ubuntu contributors and community members.

http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2010/07/migrating-fr... CyanogenMod is an independent 3rd party effort by a group of volunteers to produce an enhanced Android ROM that mirrors the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) relatively faithfully. This is just my record of how I migrated from a stock rooted installation of Android Froyo FRF85B on my Nexus One to CyanogenMod 6 Alpha 1 which was just released to the wild.

Rember "letters to the editor"? They're so 20th century. These days we talk back to the media using multimedia pieces created with screencasting and other programs. I used Camtasia Studio, on Windows, to create this multimedia. Today, I'd use OpenShot and Inkscape (or GIMP.)

Several companies apparently have bid to acquire Novell. Some pundits think VMware is among the bidders. Why’s that? The short answer involves a mutual enemy called, um, Red Hat (assuming you believe the rumor).

Once again, Microsoft has a product that failed miserably. The Microsoft phone "KIN" has already been pulled from the US market, and will not be making its European launch as had been planned. The reality here is that Microsoft's only money maker is Office. Windows sells well only because of its being pre-installed on most PCs. Linux would likely do just as well were MS Office available for it. Likewise, if people did some research and found out that iWork and MS Office were available on Macintosh machines, I am willing to bet that Mac sales would escalate even higher. This isn't the first Microsoft product to fall flat on its face (the KIN sold, by some reports, only 500 devices).

Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" will be a high-end format supporting 1280 × 760 resolution and requiring a 1GHz processor, essentially splitting the operating system into two platforms, says UnwiredView. Meanwhile, HTC and Sprint are readying an Android smartphone with a 2GHz processor and 1080p video recording, says OzcarGuide, while TmoNews says HTC is prepping an Android phone for T-Mobile with dual 800MHz processors.