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Four short links: 4 February 2010 - Personal Ad Preferences, Android Kernel, EC2 Deconstructed, Symbian Opened
Google Ad Preferences -- my defaults look reasonable and tailored to my interest. Creepy but kinda cool: I guess that if I have to have ads, they should be ones I'm not going to hate. This and more in today's Four Short Links.
Nat Torkington
2010-02-04T11:58:50-08:10
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What's New in O'Reilly Answers - Screencasting, XSLT Macros, Exploding Tarballs, Twitter for Android, Should you buy an iPad, and much more.
Best screencasting softwareWhich Twitter client is best for Android phones?Should I buy an iPad?How to clean up after a tarball or zipball explodesMacros in XSLTShare knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.
O'Reilly Media
2010-02-01T11:58:27-08:11
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Trademarks, trust, and software quality - Trademark law hasn't caught up to free and open source software
A recent article discusses trademark issues in open source software, published in the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review. One thing that interested me is how the fuzzy areas in current law are comparable to fuzzy areas in software distribution; that's what I'll discuss in this blog. The main issue driving the article by Harvey Anderson and Tiki Dare is that trademark law was designed for fixed products and services left under the control of the vendor. Let's turn now to free software. People modify and redistribute it all the time, but to be honest about it, they shouldn't do so under the name chosen by the original developers.
Andy Oram
2010-02-01T11:58:27-08:12
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Four short links: 15 January 2010 - Best Science Blogging, Nat Friedman, State of the World, MTA Data
The Open Laboratory -- collection of the best science writing on blogs from the last year. For more, see an interview with the author. Part of a growing trend where online comes first and feeds offline. (via sciblogs) Nat Friedman Leaving Novell -- one of the original Ximian founders, with interests in many directions and the coding chops to...
Nat Torkington
2010-01-14T16:29:27-08:13
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Linux Is Regaining Netbook Market Share Quickly
ABI Research published some new data last month and the results may surprise you. They place the 2009 market share for Linux on netbooks at 32% with 11 million units preloaded with Linux shipping this year.
Caitlyn Martin
2009-12-05T15:26:28-08:14
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Updated Flex Builder for Linux Available on Adobe Labs
The alpha 5 updated build of Flex Builder for Linux is now available on Adobe Labs.
Andrew Trice
2009-11-25T16:27:33-08:15
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The Problem With The Linux Community
While I'm very positive about the openSUSE team I must say that I am a lot less sanguine about some in their community. Some fans (or really fanatics) came out in force ready to attack the reviewer (me), to question my skills and even my sanity, to attack Ladislav Bodnar for posting the review, to blame the hardware, anything at all but the distro code which is, according to some, "the best release ever".
Caitlyn Martin
2009-11-20T16:27:57-08:16
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Four short links: 6 November 2009 - Barcode Scanning, Downloadable Community Book, Gov Hack Day, Android Kludges
Red Laser -- "impossibly accurate barcode scanning". Uses Google Product Search to identify products that you scan using the camera on the phone. I remember Rael and I talking to Jeff Bezos about this years ago, before camphones had the resolution to decode barcodes. The future is here and it's $1.99 on the App Store ... (via Ed Corkery...
Nat Torkington
2009-11-06T04:00:41-08:17
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Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.
We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.
Allen Noren
2009-11-04T21:27:12-08:18
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Four short links: 29 October 2009 - Learning Programming, Functional Javascript, Controlling Firefox, Kicking Ass (with SSDs)
Anatomy of SSDs -- A teeth-rattlingly technical Linux Magazine article explaining the different types of SSDs (Solid State Disks--imagine a hard drive made of rapid-access Flash memory). Artur Bergman told me that installing an SSD drive in his MacBook Pro gave the greatest performance increase of any computer upgrade he'd performed since he went from no computer to one. This and more in today's Four Short Links.
Nat Torkington
2009-10-29T20:56:14-08:19
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VMware Cookbook
A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use
Matthew Helmke, Ryan Troy
2009-10-23T23:50:58-08:20
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Linux Netbooks: They're Still Out There
I found a wide variety of systems with Linux available from mainstream outlets and factory direct, at least here in the United States where I live. While I don't have updated market share figures it's clear, despite claims by Microsoft and their supporters, that Linux remains entrenched in the netbook market and is spreading out from there.
Caitlyn Martin
2009-10-22T23:49:12-08:21
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Four short links: 8 October 2009 - DIY Baby Rocker, Unix Systems Glory, Encrypting Ephemera, and Explaining Creative Joy
Linux Baby Rocker -- Check out this inventive use of a CD drive and the eject command, combined to create an automatic baby rocker. (via Hacker News) This and more in today's Four Short Links.
Nat Torkington
2009-10-08T12:58:56-08:22
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The Day The Netbook Died
On that Friday, with no warning, the little netbook failed to boot up. I couldn't even get to the BIOS. For the third time a Sylvania netbook I owned had suffered a premature hardware failure.
Caitlyn Martin
2009-10-06T23:57:53-08:23
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Linux in a Nutshell
Everything you need to know about Linux is right in this book. The latest edition of this popular reference offers a tighter focus on Linux system essentials, as well as more coverage of new capabilities such as wireless network management, DVD recording, and revision control with git. Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition thoroughly covers programming and administration tools, editors, and the shell, and highlights the most important options for using the vast number of Linux commands.
Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins, Ellen Siever
2009-09-23T12:53:02-08:24
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Four short links: 14 September 2009 - NoSQL, Gov 2.0 Videos, Linux Conf, Geodata Grump
WTF Is A Supercolumn? -- Cassandra is a NoSQL database, a triplestore that scales superwell. Because it's not the usual relational thing we're accustomed to, the language can be a barrier to learning: ColumnFamily, SuperColumns, and more. This post explains what's what, with examples. (via joshua on Delicious) Gov 2.0 Summit Videos -- When I grow up, I want...
Nat Torkington
2009-09-14T05:26:44-08:25
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flex & bison
Text Processing Tools
John Levine
2009-08-14T23:49:51-08:26
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Upcoming Webcasts: Git in One Hour - Meet Experts Online
In this webcast, Git evangelist Scott Chacon covers the basics of the Git source control system. He'll introduce the audience to Git basics: staging and committing snapshots, viewing the commit log, pushing to and pulling from servers, and creating, switching between, and merging branches. Finally, he'll quickly cover a few more advanced features - code annotation, advanced log options and possibly more, time permitting.
Attendance is limited for this August 13th event, so register now!
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Nuclear Energy: Future Directions
Check out our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events!
Mary Rotman
2009-08-14T16:31:12-08:27
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The Future of CentOS and Criteria For Choosing a Business Distribution
The whole time the dispute between the CentOS developers was in the news development moved forward and patches were released. CentOS was never a one man show. It was perhaps in danger of forking or a name change but it never really was anywhere near point of death.
Caitlyn Martin
2009-08-06T01:56:07-08:28
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Is Oracle Getting Ready To Kill Unbreakable Linux?
Will Unbreakable Linux be pushed to the sidelines by another open source operating system?
Chris Josephes
2009-07-14T17:29:08-08:29
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Theserverside
Seamframework
- (In Relation To - Site - Tag 'Seam News') Improving Community - The power of good, centralized documentation.
- (In Relation To - Site - Tag 'Seam News') JSF 2.0 Roadmap for RichFaces
- (In Relation To - Site - Tag 'Seam News') Andy Schwartz introduces JSF 2 client behaviors
- (In Relation To - Site - Tag 'Seam News') Weld 1.0.1 and CDI TCK 1.0.1 published
- (In Relation To - Site - Tag 'Seam News') Welcome Lincoln Baxter III!
Webservices.xml.com
- Four short links: 4 February 2010 - Personal Ad Preferences, Android Kernel, EC2 Deconstructed, Symbian Opened
- What's New in O'Reilly Answers - Screencasting, XSLT Macros, Exploding Tarballs, Twitter for Android, Should you buy an iPad, and much more.
- Trademarks, trust, and software quality - Trademark law hasn't caught up to free and open source software
- Four short links: 15 January 2010 - Best Science Blogging, Nat Friedman, State of the World, MTA Data
- Linux Is Regaining Netbook Market Share Quickly
Drupal Planet
- Nick, Social, Geek: Setup Drupal 6 with Apache Solr on Tomcat 6 and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
- Lullabot: Job Post: Lullabot Seeks Experienced Project Manager
- Mobile Drupal: Siruna Rocks
- Lullabot: Drupal Voices 77: Doug Green on Lessons from Big Multilingual Drupal sites
- Midwestern Mac, LLC: Allowing Organic Groups Administrators the Ability to Unpublish/Publish and Schedule Content
PHPDeveloper.org
- Alvaro Videla's Blog: Erlang as a Fast Key Value Store for PHP
- Template Monster Blog: It's coming! WordPress 3.0 - Pros and Cons
- Matt Butche's Blog: MongoDB: 5 Things Every PHP Developer Should Know About MongoDB
- Zend Developer Zone: Do you queue? Introduction to the Zend Server Job Queue
- Brian Swan's Blog: Best PHP Projects on Codeplex?