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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Trinity Audio shows off Linux based, self-contained DAW |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 5:01 pm |
| Tags: Audio Device, Audio Workstation, Audiodevice, Audioworkstation, Daw, Linux, Open Source, Opensource, Trinity, Trinity Audio Group, Trinityaudiogroup |
| Filed under: Portable Audio We mentioned this workstation back in 2006 when it was only in prototype form, but the Trinity appears to be heading into production (see pic) with some minor changes in specs. The portable DAW sports an 8-inch LCD monitor and runs a custom build of Linux called Transmission, which is loaded with a handful of audio |
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| Solaris Cluster Express 7/07 available |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 5:49 pm |
| Tags: Open Source |
| our first Solaris Cluster source-code release last month. My colleague, Thorsten, wrote a great summary of the reasons that this is a particularly exciting release. You can also browse the installation instructions. Please check it out and give us your |
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| Bug Labs DIY gadgets to turn consumer electronics on its ear? |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 4:33 pm |
| Tags: Bug Labs, Buglabs, Diy, Open Source, Opensource |
| Bug platform. Will a DIY open source hardware hacker's kit ever be enough to enable Joe Blow to develop the next RAZR or iPod? Probably not to start; effective portable electronics requires a very vertical design process, but if CE development is ever going to be democratized the way software development was over 30 years ago, then clear and |
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| Gadgets: Bug Labs Plans Open Source DIY Gadget Hardware |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 5:11 pm |
| Tags: Bug Labs, Diy, Gadgets, Open Source |
| Ryan at Engadget has a great post about Bug Labs, a company planning to release DIY gadget hardware in the form of modular screens, QWERTY, GPS, Wifi/Bluetooth radios (sorry, no cellular radios). This could be the beginning of a gadget world that could be as open, and sometimes messy, as the PC one. [Bug Labs via Engadget] |
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| Bon Voyage with Sun's Identity Management Suite |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 6:46 pm |
| Tags: Software, Java Open Source News |
| Air France-KLM turned to Sun's Java(TM) Identity Management Suite to improve authorization controls for its 100,000 employees, contractors and partners accessing the company's internal and external networks. Sun's identity suite goes beyond basic network access, improving authorization on everything from physical |
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| New White Paper: Solaris and Payment Card Security |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 1:45 pm |
| Tags: Software, Java Open Source News |
| A new white paper is now available presenting security features of the Solaris 10 OS and related Sun technologies, describing how they can be used by organizations to comply with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). The whitepaper, Using Solaris(TM) Operating System Security to Address Payment Card Industry (PCI) DSS |
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| Sun's new radio star: Barton George |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 4:18 am |
| Tags: Open Source |
| Sun has a new radio star: Barton George! Check out his cool interviews from Ubuntu Live! Day 1 is covered here, and the Day 2 interviews can be found here. |
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| Score one half point for Mozilla Thunderbird |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 10:28 am |
| Tags: Open Source |
| be too hasty to criticize open source stuff as not being |
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| Barton's Japanese |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 11:16 am |
| Tags: Open Source |
| Check out the Barton George interviews from Ubuntu Live. It's great to here him talking Japanese in interview #3 with Sadanori Horiguchi of Hitachi America. You sound great, Barton! Very impressive! |
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| Linux-equipped PS3 to be used in DARPA Urban Challenge |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:11 pm |
| Tags: Autonomous, Axion Racing, Axionracing, Darpa, Linux, Open Source, Playstation 3, Playstation3, Ps3, Sony, Urban Challenge, Urbanchallenge, Yellow Dog Linux, Yellowdoglinux |
| Filed under: Gaming, TransportationWhile we're sure a number of you have a Yellow Dog Linux-equipped PS3 around for leisure's sake, Axion Racing is using a similar setup to "manage one of seven autonomous vehicle cameras." The San Diego-based team is reportedly eager to show onlookers "things [other than gaming and Blu-ray playing] that can be |
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| Microsoft Cuts Vista Price in Half |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:41 pm |
| Tags: Open Source, Companies |
| But only in China. The price cut is the company’s latest effort to tackle the rampant software piracy in China, according to The Wall Street Journal. The theory is that if legitimate software costs less, people will be less likely to turn to pirated versions. Or it could be an effort to thwart the rise of Linux in China. China |
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| IT Jungle Q&A w/ Ian & Marc |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:29 pm |
| Tags: Software, Java Open Source News |
| Earlier this year, we had some changes to our Solaris team. Sun hired Ian Murdock, one of the co-creators of Debian as chief operating platforms officer, and Marc Hamilton, moved over from our Systems group to be vice president of Solaris marketing. Here's an interesting Q&A that Timothy Prickett Morgan published on IT Jungle this |
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| Porn and the developing world |
| Published: July 21, 2007, 4:12 pm |
| Tags: Open Source, Technology, Funny |
| Hilarious (via Yahoo News and /.):ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday. NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children's laptops. |
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| Sun contributes more Storage Storage to Open Solaris: pNFS |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 1:51 pm |
| Tags: Software, Java Open Source News |
| contributed the pNFS code to Open Solaris - very exciting for lots of reasons like Unlimited Horizontal Scale, the use of an industry standard protocol and more. And...we are making this available via open source, in order to continue to propagate the standard to ensure customers get high quality, interoperable, next gen solutions for |
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| Open-Source iClip SVN established on Google Code |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 1:00 pm |
| Tags: Clippy The Paper Clip, Clippythepaperclip, Closed Systems, Closedsystems, Microsoft, Open Source, Opensource, Paper Clips, Paperclips, Proprietary |
| and ends, Internet Tools, Open Source, Mods, The Woz, iPhone Today hackers have responded to InsanelyGreatTee's post about the official Apple iPhone paperclip. We have created an open source (and free) alternative to Apple's proprietary and closed paperclip architecture hosted at Google Code. All developers are welcome to contribute and to |
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