The Barrel

Nokia Wades Deeper Into Open Source With Trolltech Buy

 
Nokia said it has tabled a $2.93-per-share bid to buy Trolltech, a Norway-based software provider, to help it bolster its fast-expanding Internet services business. Trolltech’s board has recommended the offer, and shareholders holding two-thirds of Trolltech stock already have said they will sell up, Nokia said. The bid values the company at around $154 [...]

Posted in News, Software

20 MOST Popular Linux Games

 
I spent some time compiling this list and seeing how many nice games are available for Linux I couldnt help but wonder: why are we still using Vista? There are so many Windows advocates who bring as anti Linux argument an “absence” of games for Linux. Well, they are wrong! There are enough games from [...]

Posted in General

Nokia to acquire KDE originator Trolltech

 
Trolltech, the originator of Qt, which forms the basis of the Linux KDE desktop environment, is being acquired by Nokia, the world?s number-one mobile phone vendor. Nokia expects its acquisition of Trolltech to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to enhance its Internet services business.
Now this is good [...]

Posted in General

Black Duck Offers Developers a New Tool to Manage Code

 
Black Duck Software announced today the availability of Black Duck Code Center software to help manufacturers accelerate software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Code Center manages software component selection, project approval and license tracking designed to maximize benefits to organizations from their reuse of open source and other [...]

Posted in Programming

Amazon says will begin int’l roll-out of its MP3 store

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Sunday it will begin an international roll-out this year of its digital music store that offers songs without copy-protection technology known as digital rights management.
Amazon said it is the only retailer to offer DRM-free MP3s from all four major music labels as well as thousands [...]

Posted in Multimedia, News

The Arch Battle

Well we won the battle and finally got sound after fighting it for 2 days, listen up if you are planning to install Arch and run into the same silly problem, I had to add a Sound Group to make the sound work, I was told that all I had to do was make sure [...]

Posted in Arch, Linux

Dead spy satellite falling from orbit - could hit Earth in late February or March

 
You’d hope contingency plans were in place. Wouldn’t you.
And heck I was worried about dying from old age, First a plane parts fall from the skies and kill some poor customer in a car dealership and now spy satellites are falling when will all the falling stop. Maybe Chicken Little was right after all. [...]

Posted in General

Commentary: ISO should kick OOXML off the standards bus

 
ECMA, the international IT standards association, recently published its responses to comments of the ISO National Bodies in response to Microsoft’s Office Open XML application for ISO standardization (the actual 2,293-page response is closed to the public). The ECMA proposals will be discussed at a Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva after which the National [...]

Posted in Billyware, News

Firefox and the Enterprise: An Uneasy Fit

 
With a new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft’s still-dominant Internet Explorer software. However, the open source vendor continues to expend little energy on wooing IT managers to formally adopt Firefox for deployment [...]

Posted in News

You Sucjk at Photoshop

Hilarious! …and educational, though I wish it was gimp. LOL
There’s four of them, this is #1

YouTube Link

Posted in Humor