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Novell Ponders "Open-Source Apps Store" 183

Posted by timothy from the return-of-click-n-run dept.
Barence writes "Novell plans to bring the wealth of open-source software to everyday users through an 'open-source apps store.' 'I would compare what's happening on netbooks with what's happening to the smartphone,' Holger Dyroff, vice president of business development at Novell told PC Pro. 'There's a core experience, but then the ability to customise that experience. On the user end, all they'll see is an open-source applications store with one-click downloads of new software. Unlike the other stores though, they won't have to pay for any of those applications, which will be very attractive.'"
Books

Submission + - 6LoWPAN Book Announcement (zachshelby.org)

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Zach Shelby
Zach Shelby writes: "The world's first book all about 6LoWPAN, the new IPv6 over low-power wireless standard, is currently being completed by Zach Shelby from Sensinode and Carsten Bormann, co-chair of the 6lowpan working group. Technology for embedded IP is currently extremely hot right now, with the strong support from the IP Smart Object Alliance. Recently the ZigBee Alliance announced that it is moving to integrate IP starndards in future versions of its specifications. 6LoWPAN is a standard from the IETF to allow the use of IPv6 over very low-power wireless networks, also used as the core of the recent ISA100 wireless industrial automation standard. A sneak preview of the book is available here."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Sabotaging Firefox With Sneaky Add-Ons 4

Submitted by Slashdot
Slashdot writes: The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, unleashed in February, forces an undisclosed Firefox extension on Windows users, which not only injects a serious security vulnerability into Firefox (also present in Internet Explorer), but it disables the uninstall button, meaning the only way to get rid of it, is to edit the Windows registry.

**you may wish to remove this extension with all due haste**

http://startupearth.com/2009/05/31/microsoft-sabotaging-firefox-with-sneaky-net-updates/
Handhelds

Submission + - Linux Ported to Dingoo A320

Submitted by Busshy
Busshy writes: Linux has arrived on the Dingoo, a console that was recently released in Asia (Bundled with emulators for 16bit consoles)and looks like the bottom half of a DS Lite and has an XMB that closely resembles those that PSP and PS3 owners are used to. Homebrew Coders have already ported ScummVM, PRBoom (Doom Engine) to Dingoo Linux.
Windows

Submission + - The elusive, royalty-free patent licence for Mono (itwire.com)

Submitted by what about
what about writes: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25215/1090/1/0/ ItWires writes: How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono?
Judging by the frequency with which references are made to such licences by those who back Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza's bid to create an open source clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment, it's surprising that no-one has ever ventured to test this claim.
Linux Business

Submission + - Aussie prisoners escape lock-in with Ubuntu 2

Submitted by Ambush
Ambush writes: Shameless self-plug... A prison in Canberra Australia is deploying another 30 transparent desktops running Ubuntu Linux for use by their inmates. This will supplement stage-1 of a network comprising of Ubuntu servers and desktops which my company recently deployed. Prisoners have extremely limited access to email and web browsing, as well streaming media, educational applications, etc. More info here.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - West Point Maxes Security by Minning Windows.

Submitted by
twitter
twitter writes: "Line up, maggots! Uncle Sam is going to keep you away from Windows and honor code violations.

Colonel Joe Adams from the United States Military Academy at West Point has a solution [to your security problems] ... he said recruits at the New York academy line up in the corridors outside their rooms in their barracks every Saturday morning for a notebook inspection or "IT SAMI".

The college teaches Ada ("because you can't cheat at Ada"), C++, Python and Java, he said. And it standardised on FreeBSD: "We love it, it's the key to our success". Col Adams said the college uses Windows "as little as possible".

Did I hear you say Vista?! Drop and give me 20! #@$%!"

GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - RMS on Alex Jones

Submitted by
antisocialbutterfly
antisocialbutterfly writes: "Stallman discusses Net Neutrality & Internet 2 with Alex Jones... video description:

"Richard Stallman is the founder of the Gnu Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. He is the principal or initial author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger GDB and parts of other packages. He is also president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZWKXNo_vA0"
Microsoft

Submission + - 'Bridge to Microsoft' Gets Federal Stimulus Funds 2

Submitted by
theodp
theodp writes: "Among the first to benefit from the investment in roads and bridges through Obama's stimulus plan is Microsoft, which has $20B in the bank. Local planners have allotted $11M to help pay for a highway overpass to connect one part of Microsoft's wooded campus with another. Microsoft will contribute almost half of the $36.5M cost; other federal and local money will pay the rest. 'Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates could finance this out of pocket change,' griped Steve Ellis of the Taxpayers for Common Sense. 'Subsidizing an overpass to one of the richest companies in the country certainly isn't going to be the best use of our precious dollars.' Ellis called the project 'a bridge to Microsoft,' alluding to Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere'."
Math

Submission + - Data Mining Moves to Human Resources

Submitted by
theodp
theodp writes: "Just when you thought annual reviews couldn't get worse, BusinessWeek reports that HR departments at companies like Microsoft and IBM are starting to use mathematical analysis to determine the value of each employee. At an undisclosed Internet company, analysis of (non-verbal) communications was used to produce a circle to represent each employee — those determined to generate or pass along valuable info were portrayed as large and dark-colored circles ("thought leaders" and "networked curators"), while those with small and pale circles were written off as not adding a hell of a lot. "You have to bring the same rigor you bring to operations and finance to the analysis of people," explains Microsoft's Rupert Bader. Hey, who could argue with what Quants did for finance?"
Windows

Submission + - Dvorak Ditches Windows. (slashdot.org) 1

Submitted by
twitter
twitter writes: "The man who once said, "there is no way that Vista will be a flop" and then hated Vista so much he promissed to switch to Linux if M$ did not scuttle Vista, has become a GNU user of Ubuntu. He's full of praises for hardware recognition, performance, applications and many other practical issues. Welcome to freedom John, I know you will be a happy user. If you think Ubuntu's live CD is cool, you should see Knoppix or Ubuntu."

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