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Samsung Opens The Door To 1080p On Smartphones

3 hours 16 min ago

Conceivably Tech: "Following Qualcomm, Samsung is also close to be launching a new smartphone processor with two cores. Based on ARM architecture, the new processor promises five times the graphics performance of current chips and enable 1080p video recording and playback."

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The Alexandria Project: Prologue

3 hours 46 min ago

Standards Blog: "I've been re-working The Alexandria Project in preparation for approaching a literary agent. One thing I'm toying with is whether the book needs to get to a quicker, edgier start than the original first chapter provides - such as what follows below. What's your opinion?"

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OrangeHRM clamors to join million-dollar club

4 hours 16 min ago

ZDNet Asia: "OrangeHRM, the open source human resource management (HRM) software company, wants to join the million-dollar revenue club by 2011."

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A Look at KDE Desktop Effects

Wed, 2010-09-08 21:33

MakeTechEasier: "With the coming of KDE 4, the number of effects has multiplied, and KWin (KDE's window manager) is now on par with Compiz (a window manager with numerous desktop effects). Moreover, KWin's primary advantage over Compiz is that it is part of KDE and integrates perfectly with the rest of the desktop."

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Qmail OpenLdap On Ubuntu

Wed, 2010-09-08 21:17

Qmail OpenLdap On Ubuntu
This guide will help you easily set up a email server On Ubuntu
using Qmail as MTA, OpenLDAP as a back-end for users, and Courier IMAP
for IMAP server.

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Experiment: I've Got My Editor Using Linux

Wed, 2010-09-08 21:03

Digital Versus: "What is using Linux like in 2010? Can anybody pick it it? What about giving it a trial run first? Well, we're going to find out."

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OS Turf Wars Move to Mobile

Wed, 2010-09-08 20:33

Serverwatch: "Love Microsoft or hate it, there are two things about the Redmond enterprise OS maker you can't deny: It's very, very big, and it likes to get its fingers into every pie around."

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Zorin 3 - A great distro for newbies

Wed, 2010-09-08 20:03

Dedoimedo: "Several readers contacted me, urging me to review Zorin. My interest piqued, I set about the lanes of Google, searching for more information. The initial findings were quite positive. Zorin was praised in the reviews I read. The official website looked posh, sending a subliminal message that it was a kind of a freebie Mac OSX. "

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Firefox 4 Set to Improve Security

Wed, 2010-09-08 19:33

Datamation: "The race to accelerate browser features continues as Mozilla developers race towards the finish line to get the finished version of the Firefox 4 Web browser out the door."

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The Effect of Snake Oil Security

Wed, 2010-09-08 19:03

Threat Post: "Bad security isn't just bad because it allows you to be exploited. It's also a long term cost center. But more interestingly, even the most worthless security tools can be proven to “work” if you look at the numbers. Here's how."

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Firefox and SeaMonkey updates released

Wed, 2010-09-08 18:47

The Mozilla project has released firefox 3.6.9
and 3.5.12
and SeaMonkey 2.0.7. These
updates fix a relatively long list
of scary security problems
; the firefox 3.6.9 update also add support
for X-Frame-Options,
which can be used by web sites to prevent their content from being trapped
inside another site's frames.

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Wednesday's security updates

Wed, 2010-09-08 18:38

Debian has updated typo3-src (fix
regression from previous update),
freetype (multiple vulnerabilities), and
xulrunner (multiple vulnerabilities).

Gentoo has updated sarg (buffer
overflows - vulnerability from 2008),
acroread (multiple vulnerabilities),
and clamav (multiple vulnerabilities).

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Less than 2 weeks remain to nominate your favorite open source project

Wed, 2010-09-08 18:33

Packt: "The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects."

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GNU/Linux powers state-of-the-art hearing aid research

Wed, 2010-09-08 18:03

LWN.net: "The next generation of digital hearing aids is being developed and
tested on real-time GNU/Linux systems from 64 Studio Ltd, using
dedicated multi-channel audio interfaces and standard Lenovo notebooks."

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Assessing the Tux Strength: Part 2 - Into the Kernel

Wed, 2010-09-08 17:33

MWR Labs: "The previous article in this series on Linux security described different userspace protection mechanisms that can be applied to protect binaries on a Linux system. Unsurprisingly, without additional kernel settings and protections most of the previously described mechanisms cannot be utilised to their full extent."

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Assessing the Tux Strength: Part 1 - Userspace Memory Protection

Wed, 2010-09-08 17:03

MWR Labs: "Probably every attack mitigation technique that has been developed over time to mitigate memory corruption exploits can be implemented and used in one form or another in a Linux operating system."

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The Desktop Linux Reviews Forum

Wed, 2010-09-08 16:33

Desktop Linux Reviews: The Desktop Linux Reviews blog now has a brand new discussion forum.

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Prying Loose the Grip of Broadband Giants

Wed, 2010-09-08 16:03

The Tyee: "Injecting greater competition into that market lies at the heart of last week's CRTC decision to require incumbent telecom companies -- such as Bell, Bell Aliant, and Telus -- to provide independent ISPs with speed-matched open access to their network..."

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Inside Ubuntu's Engineering Organization

Wed, 2010-09-08 15:33

Linux Planet: "Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman gives an inside look at how he works with Ubuntu's engineering teams and the upstream community."

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Start of feature cull for Firefox 4

Wed, 2010-09-08 15:03

The H Open: "Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browse"

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