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Submission + - ConTEXT programmers editor open sourced? (context.cx)

Submitted by cpk on Thursday October 11, 2007 @07:50PM

cpk writes: The widely popular freeware programmers editor ConTEXT is being auctioned off by the the author who no longer has time to update the application and thought an auction would be a last ditch attempt to make some money off it. The ConTEXT forum community on learning of the authors plan have organized a fund to bid for the program for the purpose of open sourcing it. The programs website is http://www.context.cx/ the announcement is on the main page. This forum thread is the communities reaction. http://forum.context.cx/index.php?topic=2305.0 This forum thread is the communities bid fund. http://forum.context.cx/index.php?topic=2326.0

Submission + - IBM to team with Second Life in 3d grid (virtualworldsnews.com)

Submitted by

rtgarden

on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @10:07PM

rtgarden writes: "IBM and Second Life have announced a plan to explore the interoperability of open source software projects occurring on the Open Source "Grid" architecture of Second Life's 3D Virtual world platforms and technologies.

Virtual Worlds News announces:

IBM and Linden Labs today announced they will work with a broad community of partners to drive open standards and interoperability to enable avatars — the online persona of visitors to these online worlds — to move from one virtual world to another with ease, much like you can move from one website to another on the Internet today. The companies see many applications of virtual world technology for business and society in commerce, collaboration, education, training and more.'"

Microsoft Releases IIS FastCGI Module 269

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @07:55AM from the smells-like-coexistence dept.

Marcy writes "Microsoft has just announced the final release of the IIS FastCGI module for IIS 5.1 (XP), 6 (2003), and 7 (2008). This FastCGI module was built with collaboration from Zend, the creators of PHP, and is intended to solve the CGI on Windows problem." It's free as in beer.

Submission + - Google documents crashed!

Submitted by Jesse Barksdale on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @05:47AM

Jesse Barksdale writes: I was working on Google documents at about 5:35 EST and all of the sudden, the entire website crashed! I couldn't save my documents, and once I left a document, couldn't open any of them either. A minute later, I was getting a 404 error just trying to access the Google documents site. A few minutes later the site was back up. At first documents were read-only, while I suppose they fixed whatever error had crashed the site. I thought this could be news worthy because 100 percent of the time I support Google and what I think is a great push towards storing documents in a centralized location, to be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. But, in a moment like that, it reminds me of the fear of not having complete control over documents that are pretty vital to my life. Sure, personal computers crash and hard drives fry, but at least it's sitting in my room where I can be the one to destroy it.

Submission + - Thunderbird Developers Leave Mozilla (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @09:20AM

eldavojohn writes: "The only two paid developers announced their last days would be Friday. Although they both still plan to volunteer even as a module owner. The blogs are short and do not indicate what the reason for these moves are although it is suspicious that they both quit at once."

Submission + - Facebook launches library to ease PHP embedding bl (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by

Christiangrays

on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @06:02AM

Christiangrays writes: "Facebook engineers have made it easier for developers to embed PHP by developing a PHPEmbed library.

"The library is just a more accessible and simplified application programming interface (API) built on top of the PHP Server API (SAPI). The library is so useful, we decided to share it with the world," writes Facebook engineer Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth.

Bosworth said that the PHP programming language has solidified itself as the language of choice for many top Internet properties, including Facebook, as it is easy to use and integrates well with Apache, Memcache, and MySQL.
"

Submission + - PostgreSQL 8.3 Beta1 Released! (postgresql.org)

Submitted by

poet

on Monday October 08, 2007 @09:48PM

poet writes: "The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today released the long-awaited first beta of version 8.3. Thanks to an unprecedented number of new patches, this version introduces more new and improved features than any previous release. Of course, more new features means that 8.3 needs more user testing than any previous version, so we're counting on you to download it and test it with development versions of your applications.

Among the features in the new version are, greatly improved performance consistency, through HOT, Load Distributed Checkpoint, JIT bgwriter, Asynchronous Commit, integrated TSearch2 full text search, SQL:XML syntax, logging to database-loadable CSV files, automated rebuilding of cached plans, ENUMs, UUIDs, arrays of complex types , GSSAPI and SSPI authentication support. Read more about this exciting new release from the folks over at PostgreSQL.Org."

Submission + - X-Wing Rocket Launches, Disintegrates Mid-Air (gizmodo.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07, 2007 @10:22AM

An anonymous reader writes: Remember the 21-foot X-Wing with four rocket engines? It launched yesterday from Plaster City and here's the video showing what many thought inevitable: total destruction in mid-air. From the post: "I can only say two things. The first is: absolutely amazing. And the second: poor Porkins." Apparently Gizmodo is going to publish an exclusive feature with full video and interviews with the Rebel engineers soon.

Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail 131

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 07, 2007 @10:11AM from the because-you-can dept.

Fudgie writes "My boss claimed it was pretty much impossible to create an entertaining way to visualize server traffic and events in a short time frame, so of course I had to prove him wrong. A weekend of neglecting my family produced a small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apaches access log and Ruby on Rails production log, and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface (tested under Linux and Mac OS/X). It's a bit hard to explain over text, so please have a look at fudgie.org for an example movie, and more information."

Submission + - Windows XP SP3 Build 3205 Released w/ New Features (neosmart.net)

Submitted by jBubba on Sunday October 07, 2007 @09:53AM

jBubba writes: Windows XP SP3 build 3205 is the first official & authorized release of the next Windows XP service pack; and has been made available to testers as a part of the Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP1 beta program. NeoSmart Technologies has the run-down on the included 1,073 patches/hotfixes including security updates. Contrary to popular belief, Windows XP SP3 does ship with new features/components, most of which have been backported from Windows Vista.

Submission + - Why the Unbundling Windows Sceptics are Wrong (cybersource.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07, 2007 @07:00AM

An anonymous reader writes: Various pro-competition organisations have now called to have Windows unbundled from PCs. This posting reviews the key arguments against such a move, along with an explanation as to why these arguments are invalid.

Submission + - Amiga clone OS now 64-bit (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

downix

on Saturday October 06, 2007 @09:50PM

downix writes: "The AROS Project, an attempt to create an open-source API-compatible clone of the Amiga's operating system has migrated to new, uncharted territory today, becoming officially the first Amiga-derived operating system to run at a full 64-bits. After seeing the almost laughable progress of the actual OS, witnessing the progress under a peer-reviewed and open-sourced from-scratch reimplimentation is a breath of fresh air. While still incomplete, AROS has had remarkable progress, and shows promise for the future."

Submission + - MySQL Releases a 5.1 RC, but is it really ready?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04, 2007 @05:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Peter Zaitsev writes on the state of MySQL development, while MySQL at the same time releases a release candidate of their 5.1 server. With 528 bugs listed for 5.1, will 5.1 be a repeat of the problems Peter mentions with 5.0? What does "release candidate" mean for open source companies compared to projects?

Submission + - Russian public agencies choose Mandriva

Submitted by dsinc on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @01:09PM

dsinc writes: Mandriva announced today that the Federal Service on Technical and Export Control (FSTEC) in Russia has agreed to authorise the certification of the Mandriva Linux OS for all safe and legal use in organizations dealing with confidential information. The certification process will be finished in 3 to 6 months. This decision was released during a conference on "Information security: regional aspects". Let the "In Soviet Russia" jokes begin... http://www.mandriva.com/en/company/press/pr/russian_public_agencies_choose_mandriva

Submission + - Microsoft Releasing Source for .Net Libraries

Submitted by xfmr_expert on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @12:47PM

xfmr_expert writes: Microsoft is releasing the source code for the .Net Framework Libraries under their Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL). The move is aimed at easing debugging and interoperability. They plan to add integrated debugger support for the released code to Visual Studio 2008.

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