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PS3 homebrew jailbreak released into the wilds

September 1, 2010

Engadget / Thomas Ricker

Poor, poor Sony. First PSJailbreak splayed wide the PS3's security model, now PSGroove has arrived calling itself the "open source PSjailbreak.

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Ksplice Now Free for Fedora Users

August 31, 2010

CrunchGear / Scott Merrill

Ksplice, the technology that allows Linux kernel updates without a reboot, is now free for users of the Fedora distribution.

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Tutorial: Best Practices with sudo on Linux

September 1, 2010

LinuxPlanet

Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo.

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Blog: Open source PSJailbreak released

September 1, 2010

Eurogamer

"Ethical" hack loses piracy bits. An open source alternative to the PSJailbreak hack called PSGroove has been released to PlayStation 3 owners this morning.

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about my very old pc

September 2, 2010

LinuxQuestions.org / seloharo

hi i've got really old pc it's using win 98 but i want to install linux to my pc.but i know nothing about it's hardware so which version of linux will be suitable for my pc

Open Video Conference, New York City, Oct. 1-2

September 2, 2010

Technology Liberation Front / Jim Harper

I’ll be there, speaking on a privacy-focused panel entitled: “We Know What You Watch.

Adopting Enterprise Open Source Software

September 2, 2010

OStatic Blogs / Jon Buys

Nagios sent me a reminder yesterday, which I finally got around to reading today, to update to the latest version of Nagios Core, 3.2.2. We were running 3.2.

OilRush Coming to PC, Linux, Looks Stunning

September 2, 2010

Tom's Hardware

Unigine Corp's upcoming OilRush game combines strategy and tower defense. Tower defense - Personal computer - Linux - OilRush - Games

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Solved: Strange sun.awt.X11.XToolkit exception with Mach-II/Railo/Tomcat/Ubuntu

September 1, 2010

fullasagoog.com FlashMX blend

I am running a BER version of Railo to experiment with the Hibernate ORM functionality for a new project. I set up a Mach-II app from the 1.8 skeleton using Mach-II 1.8.

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BlogVault For WordPress: A Cheaper Better Backup Solution?

August 31, 2010

The Blog Herald / Darnell Clayton

After reviewing VaultPress by Automattic (the creators of WordPress), there has been a lot of spirited debate online (and off) over how much one should pay to backup their WordPress blog.

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A new WordPress Stack Exchange

August 31, 2010

Joel on Software / Joel Spolsky

We’ve been opening new Stack Exchanges left and right on a variety of topics. In almost every case, the Stack Exchange appears to duplicate the content of an existing community.

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TUAW's Daily App: Plex

August 31, 2010

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) / Mike Schramm

Plex's big tease last week turned out to not be an Apple acquisition, but instead a big release, of both a rewritten Mac client to keep all of your media together in one place, and also a brand new ...

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Ubuntu 10.04 fix for USB Drive not mounting on pc with Floppy Drive

August 31, 2010

mypapit gnu/linux blog / mypapit

Here’s a quick fix for an Ubuntu 10.04 bug that prevents USB Drive from mounting on a PC with Floppy drive (wow, these things still exist?

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Their Best Role: Jerry O'Connell

September 2, 2010

Cinematical / Perri Nemiroff

Jerry O'Connell has a habit of portraying the most obnoxious characters the film industry has to offer.

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This was the year of desktop Linux

September 1, 2010

Open Source / Dana Blankenhorn

It’s the compatibility between Chromium and Android, based on Linux, which I think gives the old mouse-and-keyboard upright posture desktop Linux yet-another chance.

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Open source phone service for off-grid areas

September 1, 2010

Springwise: Promising new business ideas for entrepreneurial minds / Springwise

Mobile phones are increasingly viewed as a critical means of improving life for those in the developing world, whether through employment, healthcare or social connections.

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Contributing to ZendFramework - ThinkPHP /dev/blog - PHP

September 1, 2010

Planet PHP

... on contribution Who hasn't ever started writing his own Framework/CMS?

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Matthias Wessendorf: Example on accessing Apache HBase with JPA

August 31, 2010

Planet Apache

A few month ago I started to play with Apache HBase, Apache’s Bigtable implementation. Since the Bigtable impl.

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Time for IBM to become an open source hero

August 31, 2010

Open Source / Dana Blankenhorn

No one else does a better job of giving the lie to the idea that open source is a money loser than IBM. IBM has become the Stan Musial of open source.

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Grand Trianon: A Chandelier Made Out of Post-Consumer Tyvek

September 2, 2010

INHABITAT / Yuka Yoneda

We’ve seen a lot of cool applications for Tyvek, but never one that drew its inspiration from the Rococo period – until now! Named after the palace of King Louis XIV, the Grand Trianon is ...

Valve Linux Port Plans?

September 2, 2010

Blue's News / Blue

A job listing on the Valve Website for a Senior Software Engineer has an interesting item listed among the responsibilities for the position suggesting Valve is looking to support Linux gaming, even...

Weekly Technology Mixdowns by Brent Norris

September 2, 2010

Brent.fm - a technology mixdown / Brent

Teaching our first class on Oahu this month. Oahu – September 15th (Wed) – Rainwater Harvesting Basics (RWB101) -… http://fb.me/tMAapKRp # Worldchanging: Bright Green http://ow.

Linux: A Double Edged Sword for Open Source

September 2, 2010

tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle? / srlinuxx

networkworld.com: Quick, name the most successful open source project of all time. You probably didn't hesitate a second did you?

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