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Update Ruby now before it goes off the Rails

Posted January 11, 2013 - 5:20 pm

Do you use Ruby on Rails? If so, it's time to update. Now.
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The Android lag fix that really wasn't

Posted January 11, 2013 - 4:21 pm

One app that claimed to fix "90 percent of lag" in Android phones started a small fire in the open-source phone community. Take a look at some of the wreckage.
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Dell, Intel investment in Mirantis represents a vote for open OpenStack

Posted January 10, 2013 - 8:00 pm

Dell, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital are investing $10 million in OpenStack systems integrator Mirantis
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Red Hat takes the wraps off RHEL 5.9

Posted January 10, 2013 - 11:03 am

Red Hat on Tuesday announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9, a new update to the company's popular open source enterprise platform.
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Vert.x app framework properties siezed by VMware

Posted January 9, 2013 - 10:08 pm

Project leader Tim Fox left VMware for Red Hat and was told to hand over administrative rights associated with the technology; the companies are discussing a solution to the impasse.
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Mozilla lights JavaScript fire under Firefox 18

Posted January 9, 2013 - 3:53 pm

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped its newest browser, Firefox 18, which sports a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution Retina displays.
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RSVP required: The code that drives the Mars Curiosity rover

Posted January 8, 2013 - 12:40 pm

NASA engineers not only drive the the Curiosity rover, they also write the code used to tell it where to go and what to do each day
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Calling all GNOME 2 fans: Meet Fuduntu Linux 2013.1

Posted January 8, 2013 - 11:40 am

It's no secret that mobile-style interfaces such as Unity, GNOME 3, and even Windows 8's Modern UI have met with only a lukewarm reception among many desktop PC users.
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Open source cloud battles: OpenStack leveling off as CloudStack interest gains

Posted January 7, 2013 - 5:46 pm

OpenStack is the largest and most active open source cloud computing project, but interest in the platform has leveled off in the last quarter as momentum for competing project CloudStack continues to build.
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Lenovo's new line of Android phones will make you want to move to Russia

Posted January 7, 2013 - 11:09 am

Lenovo might not the first company you think of when it comes to smartphones, but the company's new line of Android handsets drew the biggest crowd at Sunday night's CES Unveiled.
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The CuBox Pro: for $160, a tiny, open PC with 2GB of RAM

Posted January 7, 2013 - 10:28 am

One of the most striking tech trends of 2012 was the invasion of the tiny, inexpensive Linux PCs including the Raspberry Pi, the Cotton Candy, and increasingly innumerable others.
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Linux tip: Using the read command

Posted January 7, 2013 - 9:21 am

If you write shell scripts, this is one cool builtin Linux command you should know.
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Google: Fewer than half of Android phones now use Gingerbread (finally)

Posted January 7, 2013 - 9:05 am

Google's Android developer statistics indicate that the proportion of Android users running the outdated Gingerbread version of the operating system has finally fallen below 50%, as the device ecosystem slowly begins to shift toward more modern variants.
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Netflix open sources Janitor Monkey to help tidy up unused Amazon cloud resources

Posted January 7, 2013 - 9:03 am

Online video streaming company -- and heavy Amazon cloud user -- Netflix has open sourced Janitor Monkey, a tool that finds unused cloud resources and deletes them, leading to potentially valuable cost savings for customers.
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Linux Live USB Creator makes it easier to install Linux

Posted January 6, 2013 - 10:09 pm

There used to be a time when Microsoft Windows ruled the operating system world. But in recent years, the free and open source Linux operating system has taken a big bite out of Windows' dominance. But Linux has always had an image problem of seeming too difficult and unwieldy to install and learn, with a steep learning curve attached.
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Open-source mobile platforms are tricky, Ch. 23: The Android SDK Blow-Up

Posted January 4, 2013 - 4:35 pm

Some Android supporters think it's Gone Corporate and should just go ahead and move to a McMansion in the suburbs. Explaining why the change was made doesn’t do much good, either.
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The Weekly Hash - January 4, 2013

Posted January 4, 2013 - 11:47 am

A tongue-in-cheek review of tech stories from this first week of 2013, today featuring Mark Zuckerberg getting back to his roots, Google and the FTC making nice and the reason YouTube’s return in Pakistan was so brief
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It's make-or-break time for OpenStack

Posted January 4, 2013 - 10:00 am

Rackspace's CTO says there are loads of implementations that we don't know about but will become public in 2013.
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OpenX Ad Server Exploits - How to remove one and protect yourself

Posted January 4, 2013 - 9:00 am

Unfortunately OpenX has taken some poorly thought out and executed measures to attempt to monetize their open source version of the software which has introduced some major security flaws.
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Samsung: Tizen Linux phones will arrive in 2013

Posted January 3, 2013 - 9:06 pm

Hard on the heels of Wednesday's unveiling of Ubuntu Linux for phones, Samsung has now reportedly confirmed that it plans to ship new Linux-based mobile devices of its own later this year.
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Ubuntu for phones: A Q&A explainer

Posted January 3, 2013 - 7:30 pm

Ubuntu for phones raises a lot of questions about what, exactly, the Linux distribution is trying to do. Let's answer some of them.
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Email upgrade: Replacing Axigen mail with MailScanner

Posted January 3, 2013 - 5:46 pm

I'm tired of moving spam mail to spam folders from which the system never learns. So it's time for me to try a new approach.
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Making coding look cool

Posted January 3, 2013 - 2:27 pm

A quick overview of some creative open-source coding projects.
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Dell to wait for OpenStack to mature, will launch public cloud late next year

Posted January 3, 2013 - 10:00 am

A Dell executive said that OpenStack isn't quite there yet and so the company expects to launch its public cloud based on the platform late next year.
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Canonical prepares Ubuntu for smartphones

Posted January 2, 2013 - 3:57 pm

Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones.
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