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Firefox's New "JaegerMonkey" JavaScript Engine is Revving Up, About 20% Faster
Tech Drive-in: "Firefox 4.0 is probably going to be one among the most important release Mozilla team has ever made. Competition is breathing down its neck like never before. Even IE, in its latest avatar(read IE9) is fast becoming a better piece of software."
Packt launches fifth annual Open Source Awards
Packt: "The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects."
KDE Releases 4.5.1
KDE.news: "Today, KDE updated the Applications, Platform and Plasma Workspaces to 4.5.1, new releases bringing a number of important bugfixes on top of 4.5.0."
Movin' On...
Blog of Helios: "LT Autocare is going use the space we currently inhabit within their shop to put in an alignment rack. That being the case, we need to get our stuff together and prepare to move to another facility."
The Cloud Server for Linux Training
Spidertools: "I wreck servers on a regular basis. Yep, I build and wreck multiple servers every day. As a Linux trainer I am always demonstrating how to build Linux servers in class and then blowing them away."
Hold The Celebrations; H.264 Is Not The Sort Of Free That Matters
Computerworld UK: "While the "free for web use" claims for H.264 by MPEG-LA sound great and have deceived many commentators, they are nothing new and contain no good news for open source software."
ViewSonic ViewPad 7 Android Tablet announced
Linux User and Developer: "ViewSonic have today announced the ViewPad 7, the world's first 7″ Android tablet with phone capability."
Monitoring Android Events
Linux Magazine: "What if some of those buttons are only supposed to be available under specific device conditions? Examples include providing a button only when a connection to a remote Bluetooth peripheral has been established or some other specific device condition"
The Last Temptation of the Linux Application Developer
IT World: "Cloud rocks. Apps on devices rock. Where does that leave deskop applications?"
NVIDIA 256.52 Linux Driver Brings Fixes
Phoronix: "This new Linux driver release isn't overly exciting, but it does carry some prominent fixes that will please some NVIDIA customers."
Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop
Debian: "The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Frans Pop (fjp) died on August 20th."
Set up your LDAP server on Ubuntu 10.04
Ghacks: "...the slapd.conf configuration file has been deprecated and now, trying to figure out how to configure slapd is like finding the proverbial needle in the proverbial haystack. Fortunately, in my desperate scouring to work out an easy method of doing this, I have found some tools to make the job easier."
Are these Developer and IT Salaries Believable?
Datamation: "Would you believe a list of developer and IT salaries posted on the Internet, anonymously?"
Review: The Official Ubuntu Book
LinuxSecurity: "If you haven't used Linux before, are new to Ubuntu, or would like a quick update on the latest in open source advancements for the desktop, then The Official Ubuntu Book is a great place to start."
Corporate America's Cruel Linux Hoax
Linux Insider: "I propose companies take a closer look at the Linux desktop and consider its potential return juxtaposed with the return they see from Linux servers in the back room. If they can save money and make money from Linux servers, surely they can see potential returns by using Linux desktop."
OpenOffice saves a company budget
TechRepublic: "This past week I was troubleshooting an issue a client had. This issue had been haunting the client for some time and no one could figure out what was going on. Here's the scenario."
Link fixed --ed.
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The Gnashing of teeth
Linux Pro Magazine: "With the rise of the HTML 5 video and formats like Google's WebM, Flash may be on the way out. But for now, it remains the dominant format for viewing videos on the web. Consequently, from a desktop user's perspective, few free software projects are as important as a free-license Flash player."
Kurztipp: Videos mit Text unterlegen mittels Screenkey
Mit dem kleinen Werkzeug screenkey kann man Videos nachträglich mit Text unterlegen.
Novell Disappoints as Ownership Concerns Continue
Datamation: "Enterprise software vendor Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) fell short of its guidance for the third fiscal quarter of 2010, missing its financial projections with both revenues and income declining."
Customizable Linux tablet features 10.1-inch multitouch display
Linux Devices: "Japanese reseller Redstar has begun taking pre-orders for an ARM11-based 10.1-inch tablet computer from RealEase that runs the new Shogo Linux distro."
