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GSoC project : Internationalization for Haiku

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday April 21, 2009

the idea was born because we were talking about "which os is better" on the ENSSAT mailing list, between linux, mac os X and windows (the kind of endless discussion student have all the day long ;)). I sent a link to Haiku homepage to point the fact that there was other alternatives, and someone replied "hey, it doesn't even speaks french!". This fact is quite annoying for an operating system targeted to regular users, and not powerful computer geeks.

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Technology > Development

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haiku internationalization

NetBSD 5.0_RC4 binaries available for download

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday April 21, 2009

On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, Soren Jacobs announced that the fourth release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for download from ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5-0-RC4/.

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Operating Systems > NetBSD

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download netbsd new-release unix

Can Linux win netbooks back?

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 20, 2009

In a world that's seemingly filled with doom and gloom, and stories of failing revenues, pink slips and ever-tightening budgets, the computing industry has found itself something of a salvation.

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Operating Systems > Linux

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desktop linux netbook

Dell targets Sun customers for re-education

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 20, 2009

With Sun setting itself up for sale, a number of companies have started gazing towards its direction. While some of them are fixing their sights on the company itself as a whole, others are locking in on smaller, tastier prey - Sun's customers. Dell is one such predator.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Dell

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business dell sun

Has Microsoft lost its war on open source?

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 20, 2009

Is Microsoft a friend or foe of open source? Going by the company's actions, Microsoft can't seem to decide whether to make love or war. But if it's war, Microsoft appears to lack the legal weaponry to defeat or even disturb its adversaries.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Microsoft

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business microsoft opensource

Oracle to Buy Sun for $7.4 Billion

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 20, 2009

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Oracle

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business java oracle sun

First look at PC-BSD 7.1

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 20, 2009

It's fair to say that while I'm a free software guy, I'm not a BSD guy. Like many, I've done the odd install here or there, used a BSD-based appliance for one task or another, but it's never been on my mind when it comes to the desktop.

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Operating Systems > FreeBSD

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desktop freebsd opensource pc-bsd unix

Application Binary Interface

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 20, 2009

Following my earlier post about libtool archives, Jorge asked me how they relate to the numbers that come at the end of shared objects; mostly, they don't, with the exception that the libtool archive keeps a list of all the symlinks with different suffix components for a given library.

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Technology > Development

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application development libtool linux

Presentation: Advances in Browser Security

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday April 17, 2009

As an elected member of the Oasis IDTrust Steering Committee, I had an opportunity to participate at the NIST IDTrust 2009 symposium held at NIST.

I moderated a special session on "Browser Security" where the speakers included Prof.Chadwick from University of Kent.

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Technology > Security

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browser nist presentation security

What features you want in JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse?

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday April 17, 2009

We want to hear from you, the community what features would you like to see in Exadel JavaFX Studio -- plug-in for Eclipse? The plug-in is still work in progress (sneak peek: http://mkblog.exadel.com/?p=263 ) and we can't promise to include every feature but we want to hear from you.

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Technology > Development

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development eclipse Exadel javafx plugin

Programming for Android with Scala

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday April 16, 2009

Since I recently ordered a HTC G1 smartphone that runs Android, I wanted to be able to code for it as well. But since I'm a bit allergic to Java, I decided to figure out how to use the nice language Scala on it.

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Cellular/Mobile Phones > Android

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android development java scala

The hype around OSGi

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday April 16, 2009

OSGi makes a nice kernel if you want to build really modular applications, but how many real world systems really need this? I'd dare to say maybe 10% of them and certainly less than 20%.

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Application Servers > JBOSS

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jboss kernel modular osgi

Dell, Google make things tougher for Sun

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday April 16, 2009

With an acquisition by IBM now out of the question, former Silicon Valley icon Sun Microsystems faces one challenge after another from competitors looking to eat into the Santa Clara company's market share.

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Technology > Business

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business dell google ibm sun

OpenOffice.org: Writer`s Tools

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday April 15, 2009

Writer's Tools is a set of utilities designed to help OpenOffice.org users perform a wide range of tasks. Using Writer's Tools, you can back up documents, look up and translate words and phrases, manage text snippets, and keep tabs on document statistics.

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Technology > Software

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openoffice software tools writers-tools

Migrating databases with DBUnit

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday April 15, 2009

In the last few weeks I had to migrate a MySQL database and it turned out to be more difficult than I thought. In the past I've used the tools that ship with MySQL, such as mysqldump and its various options. For the recent migrations that was surprisingly... impossible.

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Technology > Data

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data-migration database dbunit mysql

Google losing money on YouTube

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday April 15, 2009

Google is spending more than $2 million a day on YouTube -- and it is nowhere near seeing a return on that investment. Indeed, it may be losing up to $1.65 million daily on the video site.

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IT Vendors/Companies > Google

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RichFaces Support for NetBeans IDE

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday April 14, 2009

Wouter & I have completed a big update of the RichFaces support we created for NetBeans IDE last year. Now the 3.3.0 GA release of RichFaces is supported, while there are also many more components in the Palette than before.

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Technology > Development

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ide netbeans richfaces

Seven big tech acquisitions to watch for in 2009

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday April 14, 2009

In this economy, cash is king. Since in the end of 2008, big tech companies have been stuffing cash under their mattresses in case the current recession goes longer and deeper than expected.

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Technology > Business

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acquisition business technology

The Beginner`s Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 13, 2009

Virtual machines can seem juuuuust a bit too geeky for most otherwise computer-friendly people. That's sad, because it's an easy, free way to try or use a separate OS without messing with your hard drive.

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Virtualization > VirtualBox

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tutorial virtual-machine virtualbox

Linux desktop Virtualbox and Ubuntu running under Mandriva

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 13, 2009

Linux desktop Virtualbox and Ubuntu running under Mandriva

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Virtualization > VirtualBox

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linux mandriva ubuntu virtualbox

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