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Random Hacks of Kindness 69

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 24, 2010 @11:54PM from the changing-the-world-requires-the-source-code dept.

Elizabeth Sabet writes "Google, Microsoft, NASA, The World Bank, and Yahoo! are unlikely partners, but they are bringing together the best and brightest in disaster relief management and the ever-growing hacker community in a progressive initiative called Random Hacks of Kindness. Its mission is to mobilize a world-wide community of technologists to solve real-world problems through technology. RHoK is gearing up for its first world-wide 'hackathon for humanity' on June 4-6, 2010. Following last year's inaugural event in Mountain View, California, which produced software solutions that were used on the ground during the devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, the partners have decided to take the effort global. RHoK engages volunteer software engineers, independent hackers, and students from around the world in a marathon weekend of hacking events and coding competitions to develop software solutions for problems posed by subject-matter experts. This first global Hackathon will feature sponsored events in Washington, DC, Sydney, Nairobi, Jakarta, and Sao Paulo." Here's where to go for more details or to register for the DC event.

Submission + - How to make an Open Source Business (ustream.tv)

Submitted by mjhuot on Monday February 22, 2010 @08:42PM

mjhuot writes: Many of us love working in open source software, but few of us have figured out how to do it full time or to make a career out of it. At this weekend's Southern California Linux Expo, keynote speaker Tarus Balog presented an inspiring talk on how he has been able to create a successful services company supporting the open source network management application platform OpenNMS. If you were unable to make the conference, the talk is available online and is worth checking out.

Submission + - SCALE 8x Extends Call For Papers (socallinuxexpo.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @05:32AM

An anonymous reader writes: The SCALE Call for Papers has been extended to Dec. 24 to allow more time for submittals. Additionally, the Calls for Paper for the Women in Open Source and OSS in Education sub-conferences are now open as well. If you've been considering submitting a presentation proposal to SCALE, don't wait any longer — send it in today! SCALE 8X is February 19-21, 2010 at the Westin LAX Hotel in Los Angeles. Some of the already confirmed speakers for this year's event include Bradley Kuhn (SFLC), Pete Kronowitt (Intel/Moblin), and Tarus Balog (OpenNMS).

Submission + - SCALE 8X Call For Papers Drawing to a close

Submitted by irabinovitch on Sunday November 29, 2009 @03:09PM

irabinovitch writes: SCALE's call for papers will be drawing to a close in two weeks on December 15th. We would like to invite the open-source community to submit presentation proposals for this year's event. Presentations need not be limited to Linux, all open-source related sessions are welcome. This year's event will include 3 general tracks, a developer track, a beginner track, and a hands on tutorial lab. For more information on the call for papers please see the CFP website. SCALE will be held February 19-21, 2010 at the LAX Westin in Los Angeles, CA.

Submission + - Network security while traveling? 2

Submitted by truesaer on Sunday November 29, 2009 @01:53PM

truesaer writes: I'll be spending all of next year backpacking through South America. In the past I've used internet cafes while away, but this time I plan to bring a netbook and rely primarily on wifi hotspots. I'll be facing the same issues and risks that business travelers in hotels and airports face, as well as those that millions of other backpackers, gap-year travelers, and students encounter. Since my trip is so long I'll have no choice but to access my banking, credit card, and investment accounts on public networks. Other than an effective firewall, a patched system, and the use of SSL what else should I do to protect my information? Keep in mind that many places have very poor bandwidth and latency, and that I will not have a system at home to connect through.

Submission + - CRU 'Climategate' Code Analysis - Part 1 (blogspot.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 29, 2009 @01:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: An introductory analysis of the code posted online from the CRU 'Climategate' scandal. 'grep' and 'find' are used to find fraudulent pieces of code, and combined show how the hockey stick curve was constructed by CRU researchers.

Submission + - China Mobile could hijack Android? (wiseandroid.com) 1

Submitted by xchg on Sunday November 29, 2009 @12:25PM

xchg writes: China Mobile is China's largest mobile telecommunications company, with more subscribers than the US has citizens. With its upcoming 'OPhone' platform, which is based on Google's Android mobile system, China Mobile could well effectively hijack Android and turn it into a closed system which locks out Google web apps and stops Google getting any advertising revenue from it.

Submission + - ChromeShell gives windows the functionality of Chr (inthebinaryrefinery.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 29, 2009 @10:51AM

An anonymous reader writes: An effort to turn a normal windows installation into a chrome OS like operating system has come to fruition in it's first release. The complete shell replacement stops the default desktop loading at boot time and instead replaces it with Google's Chrome browser (allowing the user to load the normal desktop later). Standby to browser times of 3 seconds have been reported.

Submission + - SCALE Announces 2010 Dates and Call For Papers

Submitted by irabinovitch on Monday October 12, 2009 @10:46PM

irabinovitch writes: The SCALE team has announced the dates and call for participation for their 8th annual event. SCALE is a community run Linux, Open Source and Free Software conference which is held annually in Los Angeles. SCALE 8x will be held on Feb 19-21, 2010 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. If you are working on an interesting open-source / Linux related project, or would like address the community, SCALE welcomes you to submit a presentation proposal.

Submission + - Celebrate 40 years of Unix at Ohio Linuxfest! (ohiolinux.org) 4

Submitted by

murph

on Sunday September 13, 2009 @08:12PM

murph writes: "Join us at the seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest on September 25-27, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio.
The Ohio LinuxFest is a conference for the Free and Open Source software communities. Featuring talks by authoritative speakers, a large expo, tutorials, and more, the Ohio LinuxFest welcomes Free and Open Source Source professionals and enthusiasts of all ages and from all places to join us as we celebrate 40 years of unix."

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released 386

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 15, 2009 @06:28AM from the waiting's-over dept.

Alexander "Tolimar" Reichle-Schmehl writes "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) after 22 months of constant development. With 12 supported computer architectures, more than 23,000 packages built from over 12,000 source packages and 63 languages for the new graphical installer, this release sets new records, once again. Software available in 5.0 includes Linux 2.6.26, KDE 3.5.10, Gnome 2.22.2, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6, Apache 2.2.9, Xen 3.2.1 and GCC 4.3.2. Other notable features are X autoconfiguring itself, full read-write support for NTFS, Java programs in the main repository and a single Blu-Ray disc installation media. You can get the ISOs via bittorrent. The Debian Project also wishes to announce that this release is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer who died on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident. As a valuable member of the Debian Project, he will be sorely missed."

Submission + - Ontario Court, No search warrant for IP to name (nationalpost.com)

Submitted by AHuxley on Sunday February 15, 2009 @01:07AM

AHuxley writes: An Ontario Superior Court, Canada could allow police to use Internet protocol addresses
to find names of users without a search warrant.
Justice Lynne Leitch found that there is "no reasonable expectation of privacy"
in subscriber details logged by an Internet service provider.
"One's name and address or the name and address of your spouse are not biographical
information one expects would be kept private from the state," Judge Leitch said.

Submission + - SCALE 6X Announces Registration and Speakers (socallinuxexpo.org)

Submitted by

irabinovitch

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @04:16AM

irabinovitch writes: "Registration for SCALE 6X, the 2008 Southern California Linux Expo, opened on Monday night. The community run linux and open-source conference will hold its 6th annual event on Feb 8 — 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to registration, the first set of speakers and exhibitors was announced. Exhibits will include demos from groups such as IBM, Novell, Plain Black, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Gentoo, and others. Those interested in speaking still have time to submit an abstract to the call for papers which will close on November 30th. With a strong speaker and exhibitor line up as well as an expanded selection of mini-conferences, SCALE 6X should be the best year yet!"

Submission + - SOCAN goes after p2pnet

Submitted by

newtley

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:16PM

newtley writes: "SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) is after me for using a parody pic based on its logo in my p2pnet story headlined SOCAN goes after hair dressers. "Your unauthorised use of the mark unavoidably infringes our rights in the SOCAN trade-mark," it says in a threatening letter. — Jon"

Submission + - Do Not Call Registry gets wake-up call (networkworld.com) 2

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:58PM

coondoggie writes: "If you signed up for the federal or your state's Do Not Call Registry a few years ago, you might want to thing about refreshing it. Pennsylvanians this week got a wake up call, so to speak from the state's Attorney General Tom Corbett who kicked off a public awareness campaign designed to remind people what many have forgotten or never knew — that the 2002 law set registrations to expire after five years. That is of course unless you want to start hearing from those telemarketers as you sit down to dinner. Corbett said about 2 million people signed up in the immediate aftermath of the law taking effect and those who do not act by Sept. 15 will have their numbers dropped from the registry on Nov. 1. The Pennsylvania action is a reminder that the National Do Not Call Registry has a five year life span as well. The Federal Trade Commission is set to being a nation campaign in Spring 2008 to remind all US citizens to refresh their federal Do Not Call Registry standing. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18066"

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