Showing headlines posted by grouch
« Previous ( 1 ... 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ... 61 ) Next »A scanner for wireless interlopers
Wireless security firm Network Chemistry recently released a cross-platform, free software security tool called RogueScanner in conjunction with its wireless network protection package RFprotect. RogueScanner, licensed under the GPL and the latest of three free software security modules available from Network Chemistry, allows you to monitor your network for rogue wireless devices. Release 1.0 comes in both Windows and Linux versions.
2X releases new version of free PXES Linux thin client: 2X ...
New generation PXES converts PCs to thin clients, centrally manages connection settings and runs Windows applications seamlessly
Extending the documentation toolkit
I noticed this piece from Johan Andersson on Writing NDBAPI programs—connecting to MySQL Cluster last week, which shows you how to use the NDBAPI—the programming interface to the MySQL Cluster system.
SCO fails to mention IBM ruling to Red Hat Judge
Anti Linux bad boy SCO seems to be a bit embarrassed about having most of its case against IBM chucked out.
Each 90 days the outfit has to pen a letter to the Judge in charge of a similar case against Red Hat and the latest edition almost fails to mention the fact.
[References and links to Groklaw for the letter itself. -- grouch]
This week at LWN: The eSpeak Speech Synthesizer
Your author has been interested in computer speech synthesis since the late 1970s, when he interfaced a Votrax SC-01A speech synthesizer chip to his Imsai 8080 computer with some wire-wrap wire. News of the recently created eSpeak project naturally piqued his long-time interest in speech synthesis.
eSpeak is a compact phoneme-based speech synthesis system that is available under version 2 of the Gnu General Public license.
Sizing up Oracle's open source tactics
Oracle's recent maneuvers in the open source software market are all about the upsell, according to one IT industry analyst.
Netcore bets on Linux
Netcore plans to widen its client base through partnerships and by creating awareness about its Linux-based products.
[...]
Netcore’s reasons for using Linux-based solutions are its open, secure, reliable and stable standards-based nature.
[...]
Netcore’s reasons for using Linux-based solutions are its open, secure, reliable and stable standards-based nature.
Installing Ubuntu (Linux.com training videos)
In our first set of Linux.com training videos we showed you how to download Ubuntu GNU/Linux and run it from a CD without installing it. Today, in two short videos, we install Ubuntu on our hard drive.
About the videos: They're in AVI format, encoded with the free XviD codec, compatible with media players available for almost all popular desktop PC operating systems. If -- and this is unlikely -- your computer does not have the XviD codec installed, you can get it here or through your favorite free operating system's software repository. Windows and Mac users can find easy-to-install XviD binaries here.
A great operating system is about details
A couple of weeks ago I found time to install Dapper Drake, the latest Ubuntu Linux release. In the same week my wife bought a brand new MacBook. The inevitable comparison got me thinking about what makes an otherwise good operating system great.
CEO Interview: Havaard Nord, co-CEO of Trolltech
This interview with Trolltech Co-CEO Haavard Nord took place the day after Trolltech's IPO on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Nord candidly describes Trolltech's products, markets, and plans, which include broading its phone software platform through one or more acquisitions. Enjoy . . . !
MS: OK. OK, we'll set up an "OS" project to build an ODF killer. Er, we mean translator.
Now that others have built a translator for ODF/Open XML interoperability after the Commonwealth of Massachusetts put out a call for one, Microsoft announces it would like to sponsor an "Open Source" project to build one of its own. What need is this filling? I'd say Microsoft's need to stay in the game. Can there be any other reason to duplicate work that has already been done?
Perl Coders Get New GTK+ Release
Programmers on Perl and other languages can take advantage of the latest stable release of the GTK+ toolkit to facilitate rapid application development.
Real Software Ships REALbasic 2006 Release 3 for Linux; Gives ...
n addition to the over 100 features and fixes that have been added, REALbasic 2006 Release 3 for Linux has been specifically tested and optimized for use with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell.
The End User: Firefox users decide fate
For a software company that is rapidly cutting into Microsoft's share of the Web browser market, Mozilla Corp. has a particularly unimpressive European headquarters.
New version of Skype for Linux arrives
Many Linux users had given up on ever seeing a new version of Skype, the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) client, for Linux. They were wrong. Late in June, Skype released a beta version 1.3.
Staking the Vampire: SCO's case comes to an end?
Since day one of The SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM on the grounds that the corporate giant had stolen its Unix intellectual property for the betterment of Linux, SCO's opponents have shouted that there was nothing to the company's accusations.
Now, more than three years since the fight began, lawyers think that the court's recent decision to dismiss many of SCO's claims has shown that SCO's enemies were right all along.
Is Updike Obsolete?
In a recent New York Times Book Review screed, the proverbial old-white-male author John Updike offers a Reader's Digest version of the argument against online publishing. For those of us who are genuinely puzzled by the animosity directed against efforts to digitize books (like Google Print or the Internet Archive's Open Library Project), Updike's short essay is quite instructive.
Mr Firefox looks to the future
The only thing worth taking away is Ross's final statement: "My philosophy is very simple: serving users is the only reason I work in the software industry. I don't care about competitors unless they impede my ability to do that."
[Same title as a previous Seattle PI story, which it references, but this has additional info. -- grouch]
Xbox Linux distro achieves v5.0 release
The UK-based project team developing Gentoox, a Gentoo-based Linux operating system for the Xbox featuring Linux kernel 2.4.32 and the KDE desktop, announced its latest release on July 5, Gentoox Home v5.0. It is the team's first new release since v4.0 in June 2005.
Is Open Source Wikipedia as Reliable as Britannica?
Brittanica says it's not infallible but is nonetheless a reliable source, given its "strong scholarship," judgment and editorial oversight. It demanded a retraction. Nature's response: No way. It's "confident" the research resulting in Wikipedia's favorable comparison to Brittanica was fair, it says.
« Previous ( 1 ... 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ... 61 ) Next »