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China shelves plan for astronauts on moon
CNN.com reports: China plans to build its own manned space station by around 2020 but has shelved plans to put a man on the moon for financial reasons, state media quoted the chief designer of the nation's space program as saying....Read More
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Linus and Linux: The big lie versus the small truth
NewsForge: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," or so Wendell Phillips reminds us. Similarly, the cost of purchasing a lie may be measured in dollars, but vigilance is part of the price to protect truth. Today we find that those who wish to attack software freedom now wish to do so by attacking truth...Read More
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The system, man
Jono Bacon writes: Come with me, close your eyes, and imagine a world filled with excitable programmers and software users who love free software. One such user, we will call her Bertha, loves to write software, and has always dreamed of writing the one true weather reporting panel applet. Bertha sits back, stretches her fingers, shaking with excitement, ready to jump into the world of free software, and, and...registers a Sourceforge account.... Read More
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A Tip of The Brim With New Fedora Core
internetnews.com: In one of the most highly anticipated Linux Distribution releases in years, Red Hat's Fedora Project launched its Fedora Core 2 (FC2), the company said...Read More
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MySQL Adds High-end Enterprise Features to Database
LinuxInsider.com: IDC Canada, meanwhile, conducted a survey during the first quarter about the adoption of open source databases. Its findings show that 18 percent of IT respondents across multiple industries said they've deployed an open source database, and 10 percent may deploy one over the next year....Read More
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Cultured Perl: Three essential Perl books
IBM: In this installment, Ted reviews three Perl coding books, bringing you summaries of the key information contained in the books and how the new versions have been updated....Read More
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Build yourself a Linux-based Internet gateway
NewsForge: My Windows Internet gateway was running slower than a snail going uphill, even on a pretty speedy machine (a 1.3GHz Athlon), but when it started crashing regularly, I knew I had to do something. I downloaded and burnt Mandrake 10.0 Community, opened up a very old computer (with a CPU clock in the low three figures), and took care of the problem once and for all....Read More
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Commentary: If only Cisco code had been open source
NewsForge Eric S. Raymond wirtes: The 15 May 2004 theft and publishing of the source code for Cisco's IOS router firmware could mean a wave of exploits against the critical router infrastructure of the Internet will be on its way. If that happens, it will be because Cisco ignored one of the iron rules of network security -- and experts the world over will be muttering "if only IOS had been open source."...Read More
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Novell's Linux Desktop Zeros In on Integration
eWeek reports: Novell Inc., which last year bought SuSE Linux and Ximian, is working on a single desktop product to ship before the end of this year. That product will combine the best features from both the Ximian desktop and the SuSE Linux desktop, both of which shipped last year, in a single Novell desktop that will have Novell support, training, channel, partners and global reach....Read More
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Suse: Pronounced Soosee, es-uze, suss, soo-sah...?
osRadio: Soosee, es-uze, suss, soo sah, Soos-a are among the many bastardizations of the name that always rear their ugly head when pronounced in public. So, to put the issue to rest, osRadio.com contacted the company to get absolute clarification in a way that only broadcast audio can...Listen
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An Interview with Herr Holger Dyroff of SUSE Linux, Novell
Orangecrate.com: OrangeCrate is pleased to present an interview with Herr Holger Dyroff, VP Product Management and Marketing, SUSE LINUX for Novell. Herr Dyroff was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions about SUSE LINUX, the recent release of SUSE LINUX 9.1 and the future directions for SUSE. What follows is an email interview, as conducted across the pond...Read More
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Blogging Technology Going Open Source
eWeek.com: The technology at the heart of one of the most popular Web-logging tools is about to go open source. On Monday, the founder of UserLand Software Inc. said an open-source release of the Frontier platform, which serves as ...Read More
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Red Hat adds legal firepower
News.com: Linux seller Red Hat, tangled in a legal wrestling match with the SCO Group, has hired a new top lawyer from IBM...Read More
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Transmeta to add antivirus feature to chips
cnet: Chipmaker Transmeta is working to make its microprocessors capable of protecting computers from virus and worm attacks, the company said Monday....Read More
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Googol may sue Google
The Inquirer:Now that Google's IPO is running, the company is on the verge of being sued by the family of a man who invented the word 'Googol' to describe a very big number....Read More
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Why doesn't MSN work with Opera?
Microsoft and MSN have a history of trying to stop people from using the Opera browser. When trying to access MSN.com using the Opera browser, there are two visible problems. First, for the user it looks like Opera has a serious flaw so that many lines are partially hidden. Second, the page shows less content than users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (MSIE) see...Read More
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Venus Returns for Its Shining Hour
From nytimes.com: On June 8, people in the right places on Earth will be able to see Venus move across the face of the Sun in a kind of minieclipse that is visible twice every century or so. The last such occurrence, called a transit of Venus, was in 1882...Read More
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Migration in-depth, part 1: Why Health First is dumping MS Office
searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com reports: In part 1 of this in-depth migration story, Wall and Bray explain why Health First is backing away from Microsoft Office and choosing OpenOffice. Next, they describe the OpenOffice implementation process. Then, in part three, Wall tells us how Health First is bringing in and will be using Novell's new Linux services...Read More
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Group-Office 2.2 Pro Review
OSNews.com: The world has changed due to the humble (and sometimes not so humble) creations in the past. It can be argued that NCSA Mosaic changed the world. Some would argue that it was actually Netscape, but whatever the actual case may be, the web browser has in some way changed the way we look at electronic information....Read More
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Rocket Carrying Ham Radio Payload Reaches Space!
ARRLWeb: An amateur rocket carrying a ham radio avionics package reached the edge of space May 17. Launched from Nevada's Black Rock Desert, the 21-foot Civilian Space Xploration Team (CSXT) GoFast rocket quickly attained the 100 km altitude to make Amateur Radio and amateur rocketry history. Two earlier CSXT attempts to reach space--the last almost two years ago--were unsuccessful....Read More
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Roll your own Linux distribution
tectonic: "There was a time when the idea of building your own custom Linux OS was unthinkable for all but the most dedicated, foolhardy or skilled. Today, however, that has changed and it is not completely inconceivable for almost anyone to build their own version of Linux. Thanks primarily to the excellent work of the Knoppix and Morphix projects an a host of othe that are making the concept of Linux on a CD a reality"...Read More
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Mozilla 1.7 RC 2
If you prefer mozilla to firefox the latest offering from mozilla can be had here
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Apple Layoffs No April Fool's Joke
macnewsworld.com: Ron Paley, president of Toronto-based reseller, Carbon Computing, said he and his counterparts are grappling to understand why Apple has chosen to go in this direction. "I'm baffled why they took this move but I have my own business to run. Maybe they have a brilliant thing that's coming down the pipe."...Read More
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Fedora Core 2 Brims With New Features
LinuxPlanet.com: What's new in the latest beta (1.92, Test 3) of Fedora Core 2? Plenty, and I'm not talking about new versions of this or that package (they're there), a slicker installer (it is), or a prettier desktop (it isn't). Nosireebob, the changes in Fedora Core represent what might amount to the biggest set of changes in the Linux distribution world since...Read More
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Q&A: Microsoft's Windows Server chief on Linux, 64-bit computing
ComputerWorld.com: How is Microsoft differentiating itself from the Linux competition? I don't really think that Linux itself is our competitor. I think Linux is a set of technologies, and open-source technologies in general are a set of technologies that competitors like Red Hat or Novell and IBM pull together to provide alternative competitive solutions for customers....Read More
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Cisco Investigates Source Code Leak
PCWorld.com reports: Cisco Systems is investigating the possible theft of proprietary source code that drives its networking hardware, a company representative has confirmed....Read More
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Why Windows is a Security Nightmare
TechUser.net: Security in all mainstream operating systems is non-existent; however, things are especially bad for Windows. Windows happens to be the favorite target of worm and virus writers. Conventional wisdom suggests that the huge installed base of Windows helps spread the worms and viruses, and also makes it a highly attractive target for worm/virus writers. The installed base of Windows certainly has an undeniable effect on the prevalence of malware on Windows, but this is not all there is to it....Read More
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Spam fighters infiltrate spam clubs
The Register reports: Spam fighters are gaining vital clues in the battle to keep in-boxes clean of junk mail by infiltrating spammer clubs.... Read More
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