In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the most popular cloud projects of 2014, how open source aids the Okavanga wildlife project, Walmart's investment in open source, and more!...
One of the developers of a ”next-gen” first-person mystery game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter tweeted out that they are looking into Linux as one of the platforms to release for....
Since the beginning of the Web era, the simple image tag has defined the use of nearly all static images. Google's new Chrome 38 beta browser will change that with the introduction of a new element known as "picture," which could usher in a new era of responsive design....
Earlier this year, we wrote about Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, maker of the infamous Keurig single cup coffee makers, and its plan to DRM its next generation coffee pods. The original pods were going off patent, and competition was rising. So, of course, the solution is to come up with something new... and lock it down to make it less useful for consumers......
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The majority of patent lawsuits today are brought by "patent trolls" that do nothing but sue—but suits between actual competitors do still happen.Case in point: AT&T has sued Cox Communications, saying that Cox has infringed seven AT&T patents covering everything from DVRs to methods for hiding "packet loss or frame erasure" over a network....
The third part in my articles on giving some limelight to open source games, this time I have a completely different set to show you!...
UberWriter is described by its developer as a simple markdown editor, but it's so much more than that. It has only a handful of features and some people might be disturbed by its simplicity, but in the end everyone will love it....
Good news everyone! The Patent Office has granted a patent on a cure for cancer......
Suhosin is an advanced protection system for scripts and the PHP core itself. It is an open source PHP patch used for protecting the users and servers against numerous vulnerabilities and security flaws in the PHP basaed applications including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc…...
Another day, another story of stupid software patents getting stomped out of existence thanks to the Supreme Court's Alice v. CLS Bank ruling. As we've been noting, this ruling is looking like it's going to invalidate a ton of software patents (and that's a good thing). The latest one dumped was an attempt to patent bingo online. Yes, bingo. ...
Dropbox just dropped a bomb in the cloud-storage race, upping the amount of space for customers with its $99/year “Pro” account from the not-nearly enough 100 GB to a very-comfortable 1 GB. That’s 1000 GB, for those counting along at home. It makes Dropbox that much more compelling. And it had to happen....
This tutorial explains few practical and useful scenarios in using the tshark command. You’ll understand how to auto-save captures to multiple files, auto-save captures based on time limits, specify your own buffer size for capture, extract specific fields from the capture, and display statistics for a specific protocol from a capture. 1. Auto-save Captures to […] Read More: How to Use...
Molly Van Houweling interviews herself for the launch of a new non-profit she has co-founded: Authors Alliance will work to promote authorship for the public good....
I've used hundreds of Linux desktops over the years, and Mint 17 with Cinnamon is my favorite one to date....
Two boxes , each one having 2 NICs (p37p1,p4p1) for (Controller NeutronServer) && Compute Nodes have been setup. Setup configuration- Controller node: Nova, Keystone, Cinder, Glance, Neutron (using Open vSwitch plugin && VLAN ), Nova (nova-compute) and Compute node: Nova (nova-compute), Neutron (openvswitch-agent)...
With the departure of Jono Bacon as the community leader at Ubuntu, names for his replacement are flying like shuttlecocks over a badminton net. Who will it be? While Larry the Free Software Guy places his bet on California LoCo leader Nathan Haines, he really thinks the next Jono will be Canonical engineering chief Alan Pope....
[url=http://lxer.com/team.php][img]http://lxer.com/content/Scott_Ruecker.jpg[/img][/url] [b]LXer Feature: 25-May-2014[/b]In the news this week, the Gmail app crosses one billion downloads, never leave an unused Java file laying around, China bans Windows 8 in retaliation of Microsoft stopping XP support, Red Hat's new model, Linus Torvalds and the cult of personality in technology, the growing role...
Extra-governmental agencies, beyond democratic accountability, want to censor and control our free and open internet…...
While Scratch may seem like a very simplistic programming language that’s just for kids, you’d be wrong to overlook it as an excellent first step into coding for all age levels. One aspect of learning to code is understanding the underlying logic that makes up all programs; comparing two systems, learning to work with loops and general decision-making within the code....