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  • May
  • 10
  • 2008

Yugma

Yugma is a free web conferencing service that enables people to instantly connect over the Internet and to collaborate using any application or software, using both Windows and Mac. Online collaboration is great solution for businesses that need to share information with their employees and clients, regardless where they are located..

Tap into brainpower across the globe in real-time with Yugma's interactive brainstorming tools

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  • May
  • 09
  • 2008

OMG Game/Linux Fans, Valve to port Source engine to Linux!!!

There have been rumors since last year that Valve may be serious about porting Source games to Linux after Valve Software began seeking a senior software engineer with the responsibility of porting Windows-based games to the Linux platform.

Valve Software's other major component that they use for their own games and over time has been opened up to its licensees is Steam. Steam is Valve's digital distribution platform. The Steam client — which right now is only…

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  • May
  • 08
  • 2008

Hackers Bombarded Epilepsy Forum With Images to Hurt Users

Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims. But hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation’s Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images.

“I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline ' they don't realize how cruel it is,” said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus…

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2008

35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

An overview of 35 established or rather unknown ' but useful source code-editors; youll probably find usual suspects, but youll also find some rather unknown alternatives which are definitely worth considering when choosing an optimal source code editor.

Vim (all)Vim (Vi IMproved), first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer, is a legend. It is a highly configurable console text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi…

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2008

What Would I Do Without Programming?

One of my friends lost his job this week. He worked in the chem department of a pharmaceutical company, doing something that went completely over my head while he was explaining it to me. Ive been in a similar situation? its not uncommon for companies to just run out of funding or to have massive sweeping layoffs.

My friend was a chem PhD looking for very specific niche working with protein synthesis. I love programming. But I don’t love Java. I don’t love the publishing industry. And I don’t love the OS I’m working…

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2008

People Behind KDE: Jeremy Paul Whiting

In a new series of People Behind KDE interviews, we visit the United States of America to meet a KDE developer with an affinity for education, accessibility, and Asian culture, a person who works on getting you Hot New Stuff - tonight’s star of People Behind KDE is Jeremy Paul Whiting.

I work on KDE because I like C++/Qt, the KDE libraries, and the community. I think the current state of the desktop “wars” is over (hopefully), although there are still some stubborn developers on both sides, but I think…

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2008

New 3G iPhone

Following up on a semi-believable rumor of the 3G iPhone are new semi-believable photos. Glossy plastic? Additional sensors? recessed volume controls?

The final two images show the current metal case replaced with glossy plastic, unless it's an altered image of an iPhone case, of course. Note what appears to be a recessed headphone jack—which is supposed to be flush, according…

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2008

MySQL Server is now completely Open Source, even Backup extensions

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As M?rten mentioned yesterday in the CommunityOne panel, expect Sun/MySQL to continue experimenting with the business model, and with what’s offered for the community and what’s offered commercial-only. We won’t…

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  • May
  • 06
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Top 5 Open Source tools for web developers

Top 5 Open Source tools including Kompozer, Piwik, OpenX and Quanta. Article includes descriptions and information on these, including links to several others.

I'm always surprised by how few people doing advertising-driven things on the web don't know about OpenX, a free, open source ad server that serves more than 30,000 customers. OpenX recently secured $15.5 million in second round…

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2008

Mrs Red Devil Installs Ubuntu 8.04

If Ubuntu 8.04 presents so few problems for Mrs RD, it must be doing pretty much everything right, mustn’t it?

MRS Red Devil is, without being unkind, not the most computer literate person on the planet.She is a wonderful wife and mother, a faithful friend, kind and generous with her time and energy – and very cute, to boot.But when it comes to…

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2008

Why Brazil Loves Linux

Brazil often makes Linux-related headlines, the latest being the adoption of KDE in Brazilian public schools. Its clear that Brazil is enamored with Linux, but why? This is an important question for Microsoft since emerging markets are key to sales growth.

Before Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft’s strategy was to ignore the pirates: sell to the corporations, let everyone else copy it. Now regular people are growing third arms and paying for Windows licenses. Fair enough:…

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  • May
  • 04
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Microsoft Discloses Government Backdoor on Windows Operating Systems

Microsoft may have inadvertently disclosed a potential Microsoft backdoor for law enforcement earlier this week. … Although Microsoft is reluctant to give out details on its botnet buster ' the company said that even revealing its name could give cyber criminals a clue on how to thwart it? … People need to read between the lines.

We detect at the IP level based on a number of static and logic characteristics. We can analyze around 200 million spam messages a month from 80,000 partner domains and roll an average 25 million entry DNS zone. Once we release our zombie firewall…

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2008

The “Hello World” Program, in 366 Programming Languages!

“Hello World” is the traditional first program you write when learning a new language, first appearing in K&R’s “The C Programming Language” book in 1978. Since then it has been implemented in almost every programming language on the planet. This collection has it in 366 coding languages (even LOLCode!) and 58 human ones! Is your favourite here?

Hello World in BIT. No comments possible. LINENUMBERZEROCODEPRINTZEROGOTOONELINENUMBERONECODEPRINTONEGOTOONEZEROLINENUMBE RONEZEROCODEPRINTZEROGOTOONEONELINENUMBERONEONECODEPRINTZEROGOTOONEZEROZEROLINE…

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  • May
  • 04
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Make Windows Genuine by a simple trick - Nokiasoftware.net

I was skeptical at first but this simple registry hack really works! It turns a previously non-genuine Windows XP installation into a genuine installation with all the ensuing benefits.

This is a discussion on Make Windows Genuine by a simple trick within the Pc Applications forums, part of the Applications/Softwares category; BEFORE Right click your desktop and select new text document. Open that document and paste the following…