Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI?
Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps is joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board effective April 1st. Let’s hope Phipps can shake the organization up a bit.
Open Source Search Player Lucid Imagination Locks Up Another $10 Million In Funding
Lucid Imagination, the Massachussetts-based startup focused on support and services for open source search technologies Apache Lucene and Solr, has announced that it has secured $10 million of Series …
itelligence walczy o ISO 27001, ISO 20000 i BS 25999
Firma itelligence rozpoczyna proces certyfikacji w zakresie zarz?dzania bezpiecze?stwem informacji, us?ugami informatycznymi i ci?g?o?ci? dzia?ania. itelligence chce by? jedyn? firm? w Polsce certyfikowan? norm? ISO 20000 w pe?nym zakresie swojej dzia?alno?ci.
12ICN Polfa Rzeszów z w?asn? instalacj? SAP
Firma ICN Polfa Rzeszów przy wsparciu ze strony konsultantów BCC wydzieli?a w?asn? platform? SAP z centralnej instalacji systemu dzia?aj?cej w ameryka?skiej centrali korporacji Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
12Warto?? rynku serwerów w Polsce w 2009 r. spad?a drugi rok z rz?du
Polski rynek serwerów zmniejszy? si? o 34% w 2009 r., trac?c na warto?ci a? 108 mln USD! W ubieg?ym roku sprzedano 43 tys. serwerów o warto?ci 212 mln USD, poda?o IDC Polska.
12Open Source Search Player Lucid Imagination Locks Up Another $10 Million In Funding [OStatic]
Lucid Imagination, the Massachussetts-based startup focused on support and services for open source search technologies Apache Lucene and Solr, has announced that it has secured $10 million of Series …
FLOSS Weekly 112: Amahi
Hosts: Randal Schwartz, Jono Bacon, and Leo Laporte
Amahi, the home web server that lets you efficiently manage and backup of all the computers, game consoles and other devices in your network.
Carlos Puchol for Amahi.
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Here’s what’s coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at [...]Links en uitleg bij de presentatie
Zoals ik gisteren tijdens de presentatie op de IPON al beloofde vandaag de links naar de verschillende tools die ik heb laten zien.
Helaas verliep die presentatie iets anders dan ik gehoopt had: De internetverbinding bleek het niet te doen waardoor ik de interactie via Twitter niet kon demonstreren en tot overmaat van ramp bleek een [...]A Bright Future for Drizzle
It seems like there’s been little but bad news and resignations coming from Oracle since it finally managed to close the deal on Sun.
Gummi
A simple, lightweight LaTeX editor for Linux written in Python and GTK.
2Nautilus
The file manager for the GNOME desktop.
2Przeno?ne mini biuro w telefonie – link sponsorowany
Samsung Omnia II to du?o wi?cej, ni? zwyk?y telefon komórkowy. Omnia II pozwala na wygodne przegl?danie poczty, stron WWW oraz obs?ug? dokumentów w MS Office. Telefon posiada niezwykle wytrzyma?? bateri? oraz aparat fotograficzny 5Mpix z flashem LED.
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Niezwykle solidny i wytrzyma?y partner w biznesie – link sponsorowany
Nokia E72 to elegancki i prosty w obs?udze telefon, który umo?liwi Ci odbieranie poczty elektronicznej, zarówno korporacyjnej jak i prywatnej. Nokia E72 posiada aparat 3.2Mpix z lamp? b?yskow?, GPS oraz niezwykle wytrzyma?? bateri?.
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The Newbie’s Guide to Hacking the Linux Kernel | TuxRadar Linux
Greg Kroah-Hartman, a prominent kernel developer, outlines what it takes to for newbies to patch the Linux kernel. (2010)
2Bill Gates nie jest ju? najbogatszy
Wspó?za?o?yciel Microsoftu ponownie utraci? status najbogatszego cz?owieka ?wiata. Na szczycie tegorocznej listy Forbes znalaz? si? Carlos Slim Helu, potentat bran?y telekomunikacyjnej z Ameryki Po?udniowej. W pierwszej setce rankingu znalaz?o si? te? kilka innych nazwisk z bran?y IT. Bill Gates zaj?? drug? pozycj?.
12ITMTouchBridge
ITMTouchBridge is a touch screen driver for the Macintosh. ITMTouchBridge doesn’t require an installer: just copy it inside your applications folder and run it.
Choose “ITMTouchBridge Help” from the help menu for more details. ITMTouchBridge is compiled as an Universal Binary and has been successfully tested with the Flatron L1730SF LG monitor running on OS X [...]Bib records as perpetual betas
Christine Schwartz pointed me to a post Dodie Gaudet titled Perpetual Beta & Bibliographic Records. Dodie makes some interesting points about how we should think of our bibliographic records, but I think she’s missing one step. First, let’s look at what Dodie says:
So rather than thinking in terms of one person completing the perfect [...]K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 5.8.0 (Full) (Freeware)
Der K-Lite Mega Codec Pack enthält eine Fülle verschiedener Codecs zum De- und Encodieren von Video- und Audio-Dateien.
10K-Lite Codec Pack (64-Bit) 3.3.0 Full (Freeware)
Der K-Lite Codec Pack enthält eine Fülle verschiedener Codecs zum De- und Encodieren von Video- und Audio-Dateien.
10Foxit PDF Reader 3.2 (Freeware)
Der Foxit PDF Reader ist eine kostenlose Software zum Betrachten von PDF-Dokumenten.
10DVDINFOpro 6.135 (Freeware)
Mit DVDINFOpro bohren Sie Ihren DVD-Brenner und DVD-Rohlinge auf.
10Chrome 4.1.249.1030 (Freeware)
Googles wieselflinker Browser Chrome bietet sich mit seinem neuem Prozessmodell, stark beschleunigtem JavaScript und einer extrem reduzierten Oberfläche als kompetenter Begleiter durchs Netz an.
10Chrome 4.1.249.1030 (Open Source)
Googles wieselflinker Browser Chrome bietet sich mit seinem neuem Prozessmodell, stark beschleunigtem JavaScript und einer extrem reduzierten Oberfläche als kompetenter Begleiter durchs Netz an.
10Urz?d Wojewódzki w Lublinie b?dzie u?ywa? systemu Xpertis
Rozpocz??o si? wdro?enie zintegrowanego systemu wspieraj?cego zarz?dzanie w Lubelskim Urz?dzie Wojewódzkim. Projekt wdro?eniowy zak?ada wprowadzenie nowych standardów w zakresie realizacji bud?etów zadaniowych oraz procedur zwi?zanych z Ustaw? o s?u?bie cywilnej.
12XMMS2
An audio player for Linux. It has a modular framework and plugin architecture for audio processing, visualisation, and output. It also has support for many audio formats. XMMS2 ia a redesign of the XMMS music player, which has been discontinued. It is currently (2010) under active and heavy developement.
2Google deklasuje, Bing z taktyk? ma?ych kroczków
Dystans jaki dzieli Google od innych wyszukiwarek jest olbrzymi i wci?? si? zwi?ksza. Bing ma?ymi kroczkami obejmuje skrawki rynku wyszukiwarek.
12Peter Hessler – Chinese Car Culture
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Peter Hessler, to discuss the new car culture that has emerged in China, as 90 million new drivers take to the streets each day.
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Creative Commons licenses on Flickr: many more images, slightly more freedom
Slightly less than a year ago the count of CC-licensed images at Flickr surpassed 100 million. Over 35 million have been added since then. Now is a good time to look at changes over the last four years (for which we have data), in particular changes in the distribution of licenses used. We’ve heard many [...]
My NAS Research (D-link, Netgear and Synology)
Last week I decided to buy a NAS. Every time I buy some new geek stuff, I spend many hours on research to select the optimal model. I usually start out with a price comparison site like pricerunner or prisjakt (in Swedish only). Of course I set up some requirements as well. My initial requirements [...]
Oracle and Sun: What Are My Next Server Options?
Directional guidance from Oracle and Sun executives raised the confidence of some users, but others in our client discussions continue to voice doubts. Here’s what you need to do.
24Quintana Capital Group Invests in Web Presence With Solution From IBM and Ixion
The equity fund group needed a tool to build a Web site with an extranet portal for ongoing communication with investors. The solution, designed and implemented by Ixion, uses the IBM WebSphere Portal Express platform, IBM System i and the Linux operating system. With an updated communication infrastructure in place, the fund is able to [...]
BIDS Trading Cuts Latency and Costs With IBM System x
BIDS Trading, L.P. is a registered broker-dealer and the operator of the BIDS Alternative Trading System (ATS), designed to bring counterparties together to anonymously trade large blocks of shares. To handle a projected quadrupling of business volumes, BIDS Trading needed to move to a more scalable and manageable infrastructure. The aim was to shrink the [...]
Why Linux Data Centers Choose Emulex
Linux users look to Emulex, a leading provider of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), for high performance, scalable, reliable connectivity solutions. With converged networking, Linux users now have a greater choice when deploying a Storage Area Network (SAN) with iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols. The Emulex OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter [...]
David Siegel – The Semantic Web
Author David Siegel discusses his book Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business, in which he reviews the concepts for a future version of the web. He defines the idea of the semantic web and how Pull is a model for it. Siegel reviews how businesses in the future can take [...]
HTML5 Performance Tested Against Flash
ReadWriteWeb distills some results from a Streaming Media post about performance between Flash Player 10 and 10.1 and HTML5.
In analyzing the results of the tests, Ozer determined that the key to better Flash performance was dependent upon whether or not it could access hardware acceleration. This feature, launched in Flash 10.1, allows the plugin to [...]
Action 3
Action 3 is a nice Photoshop action that allows you to easily give a fresh look to your pictures by quickly adjusting the color settings.
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SIW – System Information for Windows 2010 Build 0310 (Freeware)
SIW – System Information for Windows ist ein Analyse-Tool für den PC. Es zeigt alle inneren Werte Ihres Systems an, vom Mainboard über geschützte Dateien bis zu geöffneten Ports.
10? Last Day At Sun
Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean).
Wear Your Linux Pride on Your Sleeve, Linux.com Launches New Store
If you’ve been longing to wrap your baby, significant other, or even your coffee in Linux-y goodness, now you can — while supporting a valuable FOSS community resource at the same time. Linux.
Happiness is a Warm Cloud
Although a few folks knew about where I and many of the Sun Drizzle team had ended up, we’ve waited until today to “officially” tell folks what’s up.
reMail E-mail Search Tool Is Going Open Source
Popular iPhone email search app reMail was recently purchased by Google. As a result of the purchase, reMail has no longer been available in the App Store.
Flash and Windows Phone 7
From Mike Chambers:
There has been a lot of buzz in the mobile space lately, and I suspect there will be even more around Windows Phone 7 at next week’s Microsoft Mix conference. One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost in some of the other news is that Adobe and Microsoft [...]
Flash and Standards Cold War
Very good perspective on Flash and standards.
Both the standards community and the Flash community are extremely good at sharing knowledge and supporting the people within their respective groups. The relationship across communities, however, isn’t nearly as cordial. Two things are happening: either the people within each camp stay to themselves, or one ignorantly hurls insults [...]
Apocalypso, descubre una ciudad invadida por robots
Sencillo pero con una gran jugabilidad, esas palabras son suficientes para definir a un juego como Apocalypso. Sin pretender deslumbrarnos con jugueteos visuales, alucinantes gráficos o efectos 3D, Apocalypso es un juego que todo jugón que gusta del estilo retro debe animarse a probar.
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Allan Holmes – .Gov Websites That Work
The Government is no longer a secluded center of power that rules the citizenry. Government agencies now try to actively connect with the public and interact with them. Allan Holmes, Executive Editor at Government Executive, talks about how some of the well-made government websites are not only successful at what they set out to do, [...]
intranet-extranet > Information Builders / WebFOCUS Rstat 1.2 : les réseaux neuronaux au service de la BI
Information Builders a lancé la nouvelle version de sa plate-forme de data mining et d’analyse statistique WebFOCUS Rstat 1….
10The Smurfs
The Smurfs is a Leopard ready and high quality glossy themed icon collection for all Mac users with a sweet tooth for icon customization.
The Smurfs collection contains icons featuring some of main characters in The Smurfs cartoon series: the really clumsy guy Gargamel, trying to catch Papa Smurf and his entire village.
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CC BY-SA by Film Annex
Last October, Film Annex, “an online film distribution platform and Web Television Network,” launched CC license support, enabling filmmakers to release their films under one of our licenses.
Since then, the number of CC-licensed films on the site has grown, with each license having its own Web TV channel (CC BY [...]Avast! Home Edition 5.0.462 (Freeware)
Avast! Home Edition ist ein kostenfreier Virenscanner für Heimanwender.
Das Antivirus-Programm deckt alle Gefahren ab, die Ihnen durch Internet-Surfen und E-Mail-Lesen auflauern können.
10Backuplist+
backuplist+ is a simple Applescript studio application for creating a list of your important files for backup.
Can add files by “open dialog” or drag and drop. It will create a folder on any mounted disk, your home folder, or any other location and copy files there that have been modified since the last backup.
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