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Intellectual Property and Open Source

August 21, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 48 minutes ago

A book on (gulp) law? Why would I want to read this? Well, if you're a developer (open source or not) and you are at all interested in protecting the fruits of your labors, you will want to know this the same way you want to know about locking your house when you leave for work each morning. The next question is, "Will I understand anything the author is saying?". Depends. If you're an attorney, the answer is "yes". If you're a software engineer, the answer is..."yes". What? How can that be? Turns out the author is both a software engineer and a practicing attorney (at least, according to the blurb on the back cover of the book). Is it possible he can speak to both audiences? Let's find out.

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Using Prototype Property in JavaScript

August 21, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

In this article by Stoyan Stefanov, you'll learn about the prototype property of the function objects. Understanding how the prototype works is an important part of learning the JavaScript language. After all, JavaScript is classified as having a prototype-based object model. There's nothing particularly difficult about the prototype, but it is a new concept and as such may sometimes take some time to sink in. It's one of these things in JavaScript (closures are another) which, once you "get" them, they seem so obvious and make perfect sense. As with the rest of the article, you're strongly encouraged to type in and play around with the examples; this makes it much easier to learn and remember the concepts.

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Netbooks Continue to Proliferate--Who's Winning?

August 21, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 1 hour, 48 minutes ago

As netbooks proliferate--based on both Linux and Windows--reviews are flowing in for many of the hottest models. Lenovo's IdeaPad S10, which, questionably, runs Windows and not Linux at this point, has been taken through its paces at Laptop Magazine (see the video). As a long-time user of ThinkPad notebooks, I'm not surprised to hear that they love the keyboard. Meanwhile, reviews are lukewarm for Sylvania's G Netbook Meso, featuring the Ubuntu Netbook Remix operating system. How do these compare to the Asus and Acer netbooks?

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OpenClip: Universal Copy and Paste for the iPhone

August 21, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

One of the chief complaints among iPhone and iPod Touch owners has been the lack of a system-wide way to copy and paste content. Apple's SDK forbids application developers to create plug-ins for direct collaboration between applications, and aggressively polices how developers can make use of system resources running in the background. There is a workaround application created for this problem, MagicPad, but it has has the major limitation of only allowing copy and paste within the application itself. Now, as VentureBeat discusses, there is an open source application, OpenClip, that can enable system-wide copy and paste--if it gets community support.

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8 Free, Open Source Tools for Video Playback and Encoding

August 21, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 2 hours, 48 minutes ago

It wasn't that long ago that it was impossible to find good, free open source tools for working with and viewing video. Now that video runs rampant on the web, though, there are a whole lot of applications worth getting, even if you're currently happy with your video and encoding tools. Here are eight good applications to try.

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Android Revs SDK, Promises Source Code

August 21, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 3 hours, 18 minutes ago

When last we looked at Google's Android mobile phone OS project, there were some rumblings of discontent in the developer community. This week, though, developers have a lot less to complain about (though, perfectionists that most of us are, we can still find a few issues). That's because Google has pushed out an 0.9 beta version of the SDK, making its vision for the first Android release much clearer.

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Mozilla Plans to Nudge Firefox 2.0 Users to Upgrade

August 21, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 3 hours, 48 minutes ago

If you've been on the fence about upgrading to Firefox 3.0, Mozilla is planning to give you a little nudge. Sometime within the next week, people using Firefox 2.0.0.16 will see a request to upgrade and though you'll have the option to decline, it's likely Firefox will ask again anyway.

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Blue Screen of Death in Linux Cause Corruption: “Unmountable Boot Volume”

August 21, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 4 hours, 18 minutes ago

This error was followed by lots of help instructions. I did whatever was the instruction but was not getting rid from this problem. With Linux, you don’t get big scary message. Instead it’ll take you through a reboot, drop you into a minimal shell, and then it tells you the commands to make everything better. Even the OEM Windows machines.

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FCC blesses Android phone

August 21, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 4 hours, 48 minutes ago

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a phone from HTC that could be the first phone to ship with the Linux-based Google Android stack. The 5 x 3-inch HTC Dream sports a slide-or-swivel QWERTY keypad, touchscreen with haptic feedback, WiFi, and Bluetooth.

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SMILE - Slideshow video creator for Linux in openSUSE 11.0

August 21, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 5 hours, 18 minutes ago

SMILE, Slideshow Maker In Linux Environnement is a free opensource slideshow creating tool for GNU/Linux, although it also works on Mac OS/X. SMILE helps to create video slideshows from images, that can be played on almost all medias. The numerous features and the simplicity of use make it possible to create dynamic and rich slideshows in just a few clicks, without having to worry about technical issues or complicated settings.

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Microsoft is profitting from Linux

August 21, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 5 hours, 48 minutes ago

Microsoft isn't just buying Linux subscriptions from Novell to give away...it's buying them so they can sell them. So that means for the past 18 months, Microsoft has been selling Linux. How much Microsoft is actually making by selling Linux is difficult to determine but it could be as much a $99 million.

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OpenClip: Open Source Copy and Paste for the iPhone

August 21, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 6 hours, 18 minutes ago

One of the chief complaints among iPhone and iPod Touch owners has been the lack of a system-wide way to copy and paste content. Apple's SDK forbids application developers to create plug-ins for direct collaboration between applications, and aggressively polices how developers can make use of system resources running in the background. There is a workaround application created for this problem.

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AMD OverDrive On Linux

August 21, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 6 hours, 48 minutes ago

When it comes to ATI hardware, one of the features we have been after for the longest time on Linux has been any overclocking support. Windows users have ATI's OverDrive at their disposal along with an arsenal of third-party utilities such as ATI Tool. NVIDIA also has various utilities for overclocking their graphics cards on Windows, but they also provide support for overclocking on Linux. Today though with the release of the Catalyst 8.8 Linux driver there is finally ATI OverDrive 5 support on Linux.

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ATI Radeon CrossFire On Linux

August 21, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 7 hours, 18 minutes ago

Back in June we had exclusively shared that CrossFire would be coming to Linux as part of their Radeon HD 4800 series strategy. CrossFire (or CrossFire X as it's now known) allows the graphics rendering workload to be split between multiple Radeon GPUs to deliver faster performance. Meanwhile, NVIDIA's multi-GPU technology known as SLI (Scalable Link Interface) has been supported on Linux since 2005. While AMD is still working to address some issues with their ATI Linux driver, they have been working hard on new features like CrossFire. How does this feature work though on Linux and does it deliver similar performance gains to their Windows driver? Today we have a full rundown on ATI CrossFire for Linux along with benchmarks from the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870.

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Intel announces high-speed SSDs

August 21, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 7 hours, 48 minutes ago

At today's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, the chipmaker announced new SSDs (solid-state drives). The 1.8-inch X-18M and 2.5-inch X-25M target laptops and desktops, while the 2.5-inch X25E, which boasts faster write speeds, targets servers.

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Dell embeds Linux in enterprise laptops

August 21, 2008 (2:30:00 PM) - 8 hours, 18 minutes ago

Dell will equip a new crop of enterprise notebooks with little embedded Linux systems. Running on a still-unannounced embedded architecture, the "Latitude ON" subsystems will provide near-instant access to email, and days rather than hours of battery life, the vendor has

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Linux popularity across the globe

August 21, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 8 hours, 48 minutes ago

The Linux landscape is constantly changing and has a strong community of both developers and users. But where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distributions the most popular?

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Mobile dev board sports Atom Z530

August 21, 2008 (12:00:00 PM) - 10 hours, 48 minutes ago

InHand Electronics announced an Intel Atom-based board targeting developers of UMPCs (ultra mobile PCs) and MIDs (mobile Internet devices). The FireFly offers a Z530 processor, gigabit Ethernet and PATA, three USB ports, daughtercard connector, plus microSD and ExpressCard expansion, says InHand.

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Linux netbook uses Chinese chip

August 21, 2008 (10:00:00 AM) - 12 hours, 48 minutes ago

A new netbook for European schools runs Linux on a Chinese-designed processor. With a generous 10-inch, 1024x600 display, the 2.4-pound Emtec Gdium boots Mandriva Linux from removable USB flash keys, running it in 512MB of DDR2 RAM on a 900MHz Loongson-2F processor made by STMicroelectronics (ST).

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