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Dress 'em in pink, build them cute little doll houses and do their hair in pretty little pony tails and braids. Even after your best attempts to "socialize" them into their roles, many of them will disappoint you. They don't want to play with Barbie's little motorized car. They want to take it apart. And for that reason, we've set up the HeliOS Mentoring Program for Girls. Starting in January, The HeliOS Project will choose one girl per calendar quarter, between the ages of 8 and 12, and mentor them in all things computer. From the hardware to the software that controls it, we will teach them as far as they want to be taught.

rosettacode is not only useful to compare languages, but also to learn new ones. you can see how a problem solved in a language that you know, looks like in the language you are learning. or you can try to implement it in that new language, using the existing implementations as a reference.

LXer Feature: 27-Oct-2011

After seeing two great people leave us, I thought this month could not get any worse. but it did. Many of us mourn the loss of John McCarthy and Dennis Ritchie. but what are we losing really? their legacy lives on. Much greater is the loss of a person who has left our community not because of death but because she has been made to feel unwelcome!

With Java SE 7 and JDK 7 out of the door, and with OpenJDK as the official Java SE 7 reference implementation, and OpenJDK serving as the basis for future Oracle JDK 7 update releases through the now up and running JDK 7 Updates Project it's finally time to retire the "Operating System Distributor License for Java" (DLJ). That non-open-source license was introduced by Sun Microsystems back in 2006, when the open-sourcing of Sun's Java SE implementation was announced at JavaOne, as a stop-gap measure until OpenJDK matured. It was a way to enable Linux distributions to take Sun's JDK 5.0 and provide their own 'native packages' based on Sun's non-open-source bits.

The endless rebuilding of data mappers, logging code, object resolution mechanisms, messaging systems and web frameworks adds up to a massive waste of time, effort and potential. I’m not talking about public collaborative efforts, I’m talking about in house “Not invented here” syndrome. This is what happens when you have a community cut off from the world. A community that doesn’t talk to each other and work together. This is what the .net community is.

Shuttle today announced that the newly launched $199 KPC will feature the Foresight Linux operating system. With an intuitive interface and user focused design, Foresight does away with the need for users to be familiar with Linux.

This month's issue features an update on the Foresight Linux 2.0 development and release dates, upcoming speaking engagements by members of the Foresight Linux team, and an introduction and overview to PackageKit.

This edition announces the latest Foresight release 1.3.2 as well as the GNOME 2.18.3 Live Media, introduces a new Foresight logo, shows how to add packages not in the Foresight repo in the tips and tricks section, introduces the Foresight community in social networking, and features the Avant Window Navigator as Package of the Month.

This month we bring you a special edition newsletter with a look at Foresight Linux invading BarCamp Chicago (your Editor included), Foresight's founder and lead developer in the news, a look ahead to Foresight Linux 2, as well as a recap of bug fixes, security updates, and contributing to Foresight Linux. Don't worry, next month will see the return of Tips & Tricks and the Package of the Month.

Michael Tiemann responds to the many people who have asked "When is the OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly abusing the term 'open source'?" The answer is: starting today.

Topics in the third edition of the Foresight Newsletter -- News: Foresight Linux 1.3 released * GNOME 2.18.2 Live Media * Foresight Linux 2.0 development -- Tips & Tricks: Package and software requests * Conary's rollback feature -- Package of the month: F-Spot Photo Manager -- Contributing to Foresight: Testing Cameras and Scanners -- and much more...

This is an underdog team... the kind of team that sports fans love to root for. A small, local team celebrating the 10th anniversary of it's first Indianapolis 500. A team with a unique, and very special sponsor... a community of people promoting something that they built... that they love.

helios is always worth a read. this entry is a bit long, so if you don't have the patience to read all of it, here are the highlights (search for the strings in quotes): * how linux is ready for the desktop, and what microsoft has to do with it. (first part) * what keeps linux from being popular on the desktop? ("Truth Happens") * "where is the corporate support for advertising?" (a tale of helios encounter with his boss, my favorite part)

Last night I finally retired from the PHP Security Response Team, that was initially my idea a few years ago. The reasons for this are many, but the most important one is that I have realised that any attempt to improve the security of PHP from the inside is futile.

The Beryl project, a fork of the Compiz compositing window manager, announced its initial development release, version 0.1.0. The developers hope the new project, born of the community-maintained compiz-quinnstorm branch after months of diverging development, will allow greater community involvement and produce more flexible code.

sysjail, an OpenBSD and NetBSD "jail" implementation, has reached freeze before its 1.0 release. This release will feature full (limited by "what's possible") jail compatibility, plus some extra niceties

a new programming language has been sighted, it goes by the affectionate name "nessie" and it claims to be the loch ness monster of programming languages.

This years largest Pike event will be the Pike Camp in Essen, Germany from October 13th through the 19th. Users and developers of the Pike Language will be arriving in Essen from all over the world, including Sweden, USA, Latvia, Hungary, Austria, France and Germany for a week of talks, technical workshops and tutorials. Included in the week's events are the 3rd annual Pike Conference, 2nd annual Caudium conference, sTeam developer day and PSYC MODIv: the 5th PSYC modification event.