Archive for February, 2008

26th February Comments

Kflickr

Posted on February 26th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

Okay it was just a couple of weeks ago and I was telling you about a file uploader for Flickr using linux. Well spanky I found another one and this has even more options and if you are using a debian based distro you will have it already. As you can guess from the header [...]

26th February Comments

Should Linux Cost More?

Posted on February 26th, 2008 at 5:41 am

 
If Microsoft didn’t figure prominently in the Linux blogs over the course of any given week, it would be as if the crew of the Enterprise temporarily forgot to pay attention to the Klingons — it just doesn’t happen. What was unusual this week, however, was that much of the discussion in the blogosphere [...]

22nd February Comments

Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 at 7:13 am

The immense popularity of sites like YouTube has unexpectedly turned Flash Video (FLV) into one of the de facto standards for Internet video. The proliferation of sites using FLV has been a boon for remix culture, as creators made their own versions of posted videos. And thus far there has been no widespread DRM standard [...]

22nd February Comments

AMD Joins Open Source With Framewave

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 am

“Chip vendor AMD wants to help developers produce applications that are faster than ever before. To do that AMD has open sourced its AMD Performance Library (APL) as the Framewave open source project.
“AMD claims that it has been working on APL (now Framewave) for almost three years and [...]

22nd February Comments

Microsoft promises not to sue over open source, pledges engagement, transparency

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 at 7:08 am

In what is seen as a dramatic turnaround, Microsoft, said it is implementing new interoperability principles and actions across its business products to foster more open engagement with customers and the industry, including open-source communities. This should mean the end of Microsoft’s patent threats against Linux.

uh huh, I’ll believe that when I see it….
Source: IT [...]

22nd February Comments

16 young Que. hackers arrested in worldwide ring

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 at 6:51 am

MONTREAL — Police say they have arrested 16 young Quebec hackers who allegedly targeted nearly one million computers worldwide.
Quebec provincial police say computer owners in more than 100 countries could have become victims. The 16 people arrested are aged between 17 and 26 and are accused of using software and hacking methods to disable computers [...]

22nd February Comments

Tutorial: Webcams in Linux, Part 1

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 at 5:47 am

 
Webcams are everywhere these days: they’re standard on a lot of laptops, LCD monitors are starting to incorporate them, and decent standalone USB webcams can be had for less than $40. In this two-part series we’ll set up a Webcam on Linux, and then use it to perform a number of amazing and fun tasks. [...]

21st February Comments

Vector Linux 5.9: Light, fast Slackware-based distro

Posted on February 21st, 2008 at 7:33 am

Introduction
Vector Linux 5.9, released in late December of last year, is a Slackware 12.0-based distribution that uses Xfce 4.4.2 as its default user interface (”UI”). Generally speaking, Xfce requires less horsepower than other UIs, like GNOME and KDE, and so Vector Linux (”VL” for short) bills itself as an excellent operating system to install on [...]

21st February Comments

Firefox 3 Beta: Good Enough Now and Getting Better

Posted on February 21st, 2008 at 6:23 am

 
Don’t look now, but the third volley in the second browser war is about to be fired, and it’s packing an impressive payload. Mozilla, the folks developing the Firefox Web browser, last week released a new test version. It’s the third beta of Firefox 3.0, and it’s solid enough that it could become your [...]

20th February Comments

KDE Utils: Falling in love all over again

Posted on February 20th, 2008 at 6:50 am

Today we’re going to look at the little tools in KDE4, or at least some of them. There are far too many to be able to cover in one blog entry, and so I’ve decided to cover a few of the ones that I personally use and which have had visible improvements over their KDE3 [...]