Posted on February 14th, 2010 by Administration
In the video, Tridge demonstrates provisioning an Active Directory domain on a Samba server, running a development version of Samba from shortly before Samba 4 alpha 11. Once the Samba server is running, he then starts a copy of Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 Standard as a guest under VirtualBox, and runs the Windows “dcpromo” [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2010 by Administration
There has been an effort underway within the Debian development community to pull the FreeBSD kernel within this distribution to provide an alternative to using the Linux kernel. In essence with this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project you have the standard Debian package set providing a GNU user-land with a GNU C library, but the FreeBSD kernel [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Administration
Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we’re met with stares of disbelief — why would anyone use OpenGL? DirectX is the future. When we tell graphics card representatives that we use OpenGL, the temperature of the room drops by ten degrees.
This baffles us. It’s [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Administration
For those living under a rock, GIMP is an awesome open source image editor but one of the things that people found really annoying about GIMP in the past was that it doesn’t come in a single window. It has 2 or 3 separate windows which makes it hard for people to move it around [...]
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Posted on December 24th, 2009 by Administration
Google’s Jonathan Rosenberg wrote a paean to ‘open,’ in which his company’s commitment to ‘open’ is pitched at great length. The most remarkable paragraph, however, is the one dealing with things that Google keeps closed:
While we are committed to opening the code for our developer tools, not all Google products are open source. Our goal [...]
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Posted on September 13th, 2009 by Administration
Wikipedia can explain it.
Britain and the British Empire (including the eastern part of what is now the United States) adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 by which time it was necessary to correct by 11 days. Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752 to account for 29 February 1700 (Julian). Claims [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by Administration
Microsoft tried to auction off some patents that they claim relate to Linux. Patent trolls could have bought them. Instead Open Invention Network (OIN) got them. Why would Microsoft wish to get rid of 22 patents that it presumably could sue Linux over? Let’s try to imagine what might have happened.
Let’s pretend you are [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Administration
The File menu has been around since the dawn of user interfaces. But do you know what? It has overstayed its welcome. The File menu has been abused in far too many applications.
A File menu should deal with files. That’s it. Open a file, save a file, print a file, quit editing the file. Some, [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2009 by Administration
The question is, do any modern printers support that format? Seriously. I think that it would be cool to print some novelty toilet paper.
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Posted on August 19th, 2009 by Administration
Make very sure you update to a recent version, there is an extremely dangerous security issue in <2.5.9.
First off, some statistics for this release:
99 bullet points in the ChangeLog.
221 tickets closed for the release (that is, 221 tickets that we believe are fixed or are patches that we accepted).
2 major new features
More other new features [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2009 by Administration
Beginning this summer, Information Systems and Technology has begun transitioning portions of the MIT e-mail system to Microsoft Exchange, as well as changing the way spam is handled.
Changes to mail access & storage
Microsoft Exchange replaces the portion of the mail system that stores messages waiting to be read, which is currently implemented using several servers [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2009 by Administration
Nine months after having launched the Chrome web browser, Google just now announced the Google Chrome Operating System, “an attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” Google plans to offer the OS for use on a wide array of devices in about a year.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Administration
A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft’s patents on the FAT filesystem. The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft.
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Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Administration
The day Firefox 3.0 was to be released I went to the Mozilla website and changed the version numbers in the URL and was able to download the official release version of 3.0 well before it was officially released. As most of you know FF 3.5 is releasing today (apparently) and I did the same [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Administration
GAP is a collection of GIMP plugins that make it possible to create animations as sequences of single frames. The result can be saved as animated.
GIF, AVI or MPEG file (external libraries are used for this).
Now GAP 2.6.0 has been released. The new version is optimized for GIMP 2.6 and offers some new functionality.
To download [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Administration
Dailymotion is working converting their video library to open video formats: Ogg Theora. Currently they are working with Firefox to get it working correctly on Firefox 3.5 Beta(they include a link with some demos) and soon on other browsers that support HTML 5. This is one of the biggest video sites to begin to offer [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Administration
“There are some games you need windows to run. For everything else, there’s linux.”
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Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Administration
After a long legal wrangle, some defendant-side attorneys have audited the source-code of Alcotest, the breathalyzer used in New Jersey DUI stops. Turns out it was programmed by muppets who don’t know how to calculate an average and who throw out error messages by the dozen.
Like voting-machine vendors, breathlyzer vendors go crazy when defendants ask [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2009 by Administration
Planning ahead to multi-boot Windows and Linux distributions is the way to do it, but what if you end up erasing your boot menu and losing access to Linux? The FOSSwire blog has you covered.
The open-source fans at FOSSwire detail the use of an Ubuntu live CD to get onto a system that Windows or [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2009 by Administration
Wow… this “apology” just upset me off even more. No sincerity at all; still blaming the other party.
I screwed up. Big time.
Not just with Adblock Plus users but with the Mozilla community at large.
I did something extremely wrong, which I will regret forever.
I abused the power and wasted the enormous trust capital gained by the [...]
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