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Daily links for 02/04/2013
Manage the sentiment of your city “In this article, we explain in detail how city leaders can configure automated sentiment analysis for social media sites for the topics of interest to them by using the recently released Sentiment Analysis dashboard, … Continue reading
Daily links for 08/13/2011
Linux Top 10 Things Linux Users Don’t Understand « FOSS Force “So, here it is, just to prove that we don’t always pick on Windows, ten things that Linux users don’t understand.” tags: linux users Mobile Mobile Sites vs. Mobile … Continue reading
New book about 100 years of IBM
As some of you know, I’ve been working for IBM for 28 years, though I was but a child when I started. Evidently it existed before I got here, and the full 100 year history is discussed in a new … Continue reading
May 18: Open Virtualization Alliance news roundup
Here are some of the stories around the Open Virtualization Alliance that was announced yesterday. Open Virtualization Alliance launched – The H Open Source: News and Features “The KVM virtualisation technology uses the Linux kernel as part of the hypervisor; … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/17/2011
Linux job portal launched: LinuxCareer.com “As a demand for Linux-related jobs has jumped unexpectedly high in the last couple of years. LinuxCareer.com as a new Linux related job portal attempts to compensate for this sudden surge in demand for Linux … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/16/2011
Groklaw 2.0 Interview: PJ on the beginning, ending, and future of Groklaw | opensource.com “Last month PJ announced that because SCO as we knew it is no more,” she would stop publishing new articles today, May 16, Groklaw’s anniversary. Now … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/12/2011
Five Reasons why Google’s Linux Chromebook is a Windows killer | ZDNet “Should Microsoft worry? Yeah, I think so. They’ve got Apple making in-roads on the business desktop front with tablets and smartphones, may other companies, like HP, are also … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/11/2011
Canonical switches to OpenStack for Ubuntu Linux cloud | ZDNet “OK, it’s not too surprising that Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, has switched to OpenStack for its Ubuntu cloud foundation technology. After all, Canonical started flirting with OpenStack back in … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/06/2011
Apple dumping Intel for ARM? Pros, cons and a lot of questions | ZDNet “The rumor of the day is that Apple is dumping Intel and its x86 architecture for ARM—at least on laptops.” tags: apple intel arm Back to … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/03/2011
Attachmate lays off Mono employees – InternetNews:The Blog – Sean Michael Kerner “Attachmate is moving swiftly to re-organize the Novell business it acquired for $2.2 billion. Today Attachmate laid off an unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working … Continue reading
Daily links for 04/28/2011
Review: The best Linux book available | TechRepublic “A thick, heavy book with the equally weighty title A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming may be the single most important Linux book you ever buy.” tags: linux … Continue reading
Daily links for 04/27/2011
Groklaw – Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents to Further an Anticompetive Scheme Against Android “Microsoft has a scheme, Barnes & Noble asserts, to dominate Android and make it undesirable to device manufacturers and customers by demanding “exorbitant … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/16/2011
Five Reasons not to “Upgrade” to Windows’ Internet Explorer 9 | ZDNet “After a couple of weeks on tinkering with the newly released Internet Explorer (IE) 9, and a host of other Web browsers, I have to say that while … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/14/2011
Amazon grabs Angry Birds Rio for Android exclusive | ZDNet “Rovio is planning an update to its wildly successful game called Angry Birds Rio, but this game will only be available to Android users via the Amazon Appstore, and will not be … Continue reading
Land mines for open source in mobile
In a couple of weeks I’ll be giving a talk at POSSCON with a title similar to that of this blog entry. It won’t be a long talk, only twenty five minutes, but I’ll try to touch on several factors … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/08/2011
Open Source and Mobile Devices OpenLogic Scan Shows Open Source License Violations for iPhone and Android “OpenLogic, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise open source software support, scanning and governance solutions, today announced the results of a scan and license … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/03/2011
Things You Can Buy for 99 Cents Get Used to 99-Cent iPhone Apps, Says Angry Birds Maker | GameLife | Wired.com “99 cents is the inevitable price for best-selling iPhone apps, says the creator of Angry Birds. “If you look at … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/01/2011
GPL and the Apple App Store [vlc-devel] FSF position on GPLv2 & current App Store terms “There have been changes to the terms since our original blog post on the topic. I confirmed that the changes did not affect the … Continue reading
Daily links for 02/22/2011
Navisurfer II brings Ubuntu to your car | Expert Reviews “Based on a Celeron M low-power processor running at 1.3GHz and with 250GB of storage for movies and music, the Navisurfer is an impressive device in its own right – … Continue reading
Daily links for 02/21/2011
Novell: BrainShare 2011 scheduled for October – The H Open Source: News and Features “The ongoing acquisition of Novell by Attachmate, will apparently not affect Novell’s plans to hold a BrainShare event this year – this will now take place … Continue reading
Daily links for 02/16/2011
IBM and Jeopardy Watson on Jeopardy! Day Two: The Confusion over an Airport Clue | A Smarter Planet Blog “How could the machine have been so wrong? David Ferrucci, the manager of the Watson project at IBM Research, explained during … Continue reading
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Daily links for 02/15/2011
Linux Linux PR: Linux Professional Institute develops Academic Program in Malaysia “The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced a new initiative to promote Linux training within colleges and universities in Malaysia. This initiative by … Continue reading
Daily links for 02/13/2011
Open Source WhiteHouse.gov Releases Second Set of Open Source Code | The White House “Friday morning at the Tech@State event at the State Department, the White House’s New Media Director Macon Phillips announced the White House’s second code release to the open source … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/19/2011
How to Get the Most Out of Your Laptop with Linux | Linux.com “With just a little preparation, a bit of research, and work you can have Linux on your laptop working like a well-oiled machine. And once you have … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/16/2011
Ten smart Linux office apps to try out | Desktop Apps | ZDNet UK “Linux users enjoy a rich choice of applications in every area, but particularly for office tasks. That choice is so extensive that finding apps that meet … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/14/2011
Red Hat News | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Now Available “In November 2010, Red Hat released a new major version of its operating platform with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Though Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is available for customers … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/13/2011
IBM’s Watson wins Jeopardy practice round: Can humans hang? | ZDNet “IBM’s Watson supercomputer won a practice round against Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and raised a lot of questions about the capabilities of artificial intelligence.” tags: IBM … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/05/2011
Google Wins One Against Microsoft – WSJ.com “Google Inc. has won a key ruling in its lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department, two months after the Web giant accused the agency of improperly favoring rival Microsoft Corp. in a contract … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/02/2011
Predictive Analytics | Claude Penland – Webmaster & Actuary “22 Predictive Analytics Applications That Were Proven Very Effective in 2010″ tags: analytics predictive SIGs/Games/GamesLive – FedoraProject “Fedora Games spin is a custom variant of Fedora targeted at Linux gamers. Fedora … Continue reading
Daily links for 12/29/2010
What Was and What Maybe Will Be The Top 7 Java Stories of 2010 – Application Development – News & Reviews – eWeek.com “eWEEK takes a look at seven of the biggest stories to impact or raise the interest of … Continue reading
Mostly obvious predictions for open source in 2011, or are they?
I’ve been reading many of the lists of predictions for free and open source software in 2011. Most of them are pretty obvious: many of the things that were significant in 2010 will continue to be so in 2011. The … Continue reading
Daily links for 12/28/2010
5 More of the Best Free Linux Twitter Clients – Linux Links – The Linux Portal Site “So, let’s explore the 5 Twitter clients at hand. For each application we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with … Continue reading
Daily links for 12/14/2010
Time Warner Takes a Shot at Netflix – NYTimes.com “Mr. Bewkes explained that in the late 1990s the media industry embraced Netflix as a new distribution outlet for renting DVDs — without foreseeing that the company would eventually accelerate the … Continue reading
Daily links for 12/10/2010
OStatic’s Superguide to Free, Open Source Tools “On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational toolkits are a big part of the learning mission we … Continue reading
Daily links for 12/02/2010
How To Sell WordPress To Clients | Video User Manuals “Tammy Hart is an Automattic consultant who recently gave a talk at WordCamp Atlanta about “WordPress & Working with Clients”. She had such a positive response to her talk that … Continue reading
Daily links for 11/17/2010
The Linux desktop may soon be a lot faster – Computerworld Blogs “Now there’s a Linux kernel patch that may give you a faster, much faster, desktop experience. The patch by Linux kernel developer Mike Galbraith adds a mere 233 lines … Continue reading
Daily links for 11/16/2010
SugarCRM Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee SugarCRM and Open Invention Network (OIN) today announced the signing of SugarCRM as an OIN licensee. OIN’s mission is to enable and protect Linux. By becoming a licensee, SugarCRM, a leading provider of open source … Continue reading
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Daily links for 11/11/2010 – RHEL 6 Edition
Red Hat Sets a New Standard for the Next Generation of Operating Systems – MarketWatch “Red Hat and IBM have collaborated for over a decade to optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM platforms for the needs of our joint … Continue reading
Daily links for 11/05/2010
lingtech : Remove your PDF metadata “At least in Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard), there’s a pretty quick fix. Here’s how to create a little droplet application that you can dump your PDF on to strip the metadata out. If … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/31/2010
Thorn “Thorn is a dynamically-typed concurrent language in which lightweight isolated processes communicate by message passing. Thorn includes powerful aggregate data types, a class-based object system, first-class functions, an expressive module system, and a variety of features supporting the gradual … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/29/2010
China has the top supercomputer in the world but it still runs Linux – Computerworld Blogs “The bottom line, when speed and reliability is what you have to have, Linux is the operating system you have to use.” tags: linux … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/21/2010
Alfresco drops LGPL’d Hibernate for iBatis – The H Open Source: News and Features “At the Alfresco Developer Conference, currently being held in Paris, The H took the opportunity to ask John Newton, CTO of Alfresco, why the change had … Continue reading
Installing (and reinstalling) Linux on your desktop
Yesterday I set up a laptop with a Linux distribution, including everything I needed for work. Today, I’m doing it again. My reason for repeating the process had nothing to do with Linux. I decided to do something to the … Continue reading
Life with Linux: Notes on installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS
Last night and this morning I installed the latest Ubuntu Linux desktop, version 10.4 LTS Lucid Lynx. LTS stands for “long term support,” though I usually update to new versions when they come out every six months. This was on … Continue reading
Appliances and Linux
A couple of days ago I posted a link to a video I made with Novell‘s Tom Crabb about appliances and the role of Linux in them. Here are a few additional comments. In your kitchen you have special appliances … Continue reading
My latest video: Novell, appliances, SUSE, microwaves, Linux
While I was at Novell‘s BrainShare conference last month in Salt Lake City, I sat down with Tom Crabb, Novell’s Enablement Manager and recorded a video. The topic was IT appliances, specifically virtual software appliances. You can see it here … Continue reading
Interview with IBM’s head Linux honcho Dan Frye at Linux.com
Ahead of the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit, Linux.com’s Jennifer Cloer has posted an interview with Dan Frye, IBM’s vice president of Open Systems Development. Here’s a snapshot: You will be talking about 10+ years of Linux at IBM. What has … Continue reading
What’s a geeko? Build your own
Ok, this one is just for fun. I was looking for a green Novell gecko earlier today and came across their “Geeko Builder” website. Here’s what I came up with in about two minutes:
“Linux as a Catalyst for a Smarter Planet” at Novell BrainShare
On Tuesday morning, March 23, at 10:30 in Salt Lake City, Jean Staten Healy and I will be presenting a talk called “Linux as a Catalyst for a Smarter Planet” at Novell’s BrainShare conference. The talk is coded as SPR201 … Continue reading
Webcast: “Cloud Computing Made Easy with IBM and Linux”
Judith Hurwitz, Adam Jollans, and I are hosting a webcast on Wednesday, March 17, at 12 noon ET called “Cloud Computing Made Easy with IBM and Linux.” From the description: If you are implementing cloud computing, or considering clouds but … Continue reading
Virtual Life with Linux: Free textures
As a complement to my Life with Linux blog series, I’m introducing another series which explores what I can do in virtual worlds and immersive Internet environments on Linux. In the previous installment in this series, I discussed setting up … Continue reading
Virtual Life with Linux: Standalone OpenSim on Ubuntu 9.10
As a complement to my Life with Linux blog series, I’m introducing another series which explores what I can do in virtual worlds and immersive Internet environments on Linux. Last night I decided to play with OpenSim, aka OpenSimulator, which … Continue reading
Life with Linux: Adding a Mac-like dock
One of the nice things about using a Mac is the dock, the area on the bottom of the screen that contains the Finder (file and directory lister) and other applications you use. It’s very customizable and you can add … Continue reading
Linux Foundation Announces 2010 “We’re Linux” Video Contest
After the great success of last year’s video contest, the Linux Foundation has announced this year’s competition: SAN FRANCISCO, February 5, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the … Continue reading
Life with Linux: Connecting two machines with a USB KVM switch
This weekend I put together a new machine for my home office to complement the iMac on my desktop. Since I didn’t want to fill up the desk with another mouse and keyboard, I decided to get a USB KVM … Continue reading
Open source game engines for Linux
My recent post about Linux and video games has gotten quite a few hits, so while I was on a three hour flight today I thought it would useful to later put together a list of free and open source … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, January 20, 2010 – Linux Games Edition
Linux More Free Games for LinuxLinux Journal / Mike Diehl Back in 2007, I wrote an article on free games for Linux and thought it was time to write a bit more on the subject. Actually, I had a lot … Continue reading
Will video games make desktop Linux into a killer consumer platform?
I had an interesting email exchange over the weekend with a reader of this blog who was wondering if video game producers targeted desktop Linux as platform then would this significantly increase adoption of Linux over Windows? Alternatively, those same … Continue reading
Press Release: “Canonical Offers Dedicated Support Program for Lotus Symphony …”
Canonical announced the following today via a press release: Canonical Offers Dedicated Support Program for Lotus Symphony, the Core Component of IBM Client for Smart Work on Ubuntu Canonical today announced a dedicated support program for Lotus Symphony, the no-charge … Continue reading
Life with Linux: Another week of work
I use my Lenovo T400 Thinkpad as a work laptop but also as an experimental machine on which I put and delete various Linux distributions and software. At various times I’ve had Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE on the computer, though … Continue reading
