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Comment Re:Red Hat offers hands-on training (Score 0) 84

by exklusve on Thursday May 24, 2007 @11:24AM (#19254077) Attached to: Where Do You Go For Linux Training?

Man pages. Why use training for a proprietary version of Linux that will only teach you how to use their GUI tools?

Open Source Network Management Beats IBM and HP 100

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 05, 2007 @03:29PM from the slow-and-steady-going-for-the-win dept.

mjhuot writes "Last week SearchNetworking.com announced their Product Leadership Awards for 2007. It was a pleasant surprise to see an open source project, OpenNMS, win the Gold in their Network and IT Management Platforms category. OpenNMS beat out the established players of Hewlett-Packard's OpenView and IBM's Tivoli. This was based on a user survey of all IT solutions, not just open source; it demonstrates that open source software is indeed making inroads into the enterprise."

Submission + - How the Open Source Movement Is Changing Education

Submitted by

ftblguy

on Monday March 05, 2007 @03:10PM

ftblguy writes: "MIT's Open CourseWare program provides a great example of how the open source movement is rapidly changing education. The Online Education Database also lists Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, Linux, Firefox, and Google as some of the other open source in education success stories. Open source and open access resources have changed how colleges, organizations, instructors, and prospective students use software, operating systems and online documents for educational purposes. And, in most cases, each success story also has served as a springboard to create more open source projects."

Journal Journal: Open-source image denoising and interpolation filter 205

Journal by dtschump on Monday March 05, 2007 @03:00PM

GREYCstoration is an open-source tool able to denoise, inpaint or resize 2D color images. This is a command-line program developed by the IMAGE team of the GREYC Lab in France and is available for Unix, Mac and Windows systems (distributed under the CeCILL license). The algorithm is based on anisot

Submission + - Carmakers Adding High-Tech Perks

Submitted by Good on Monday March 05, 2007 @02:48PM

Good writes: When friends check out Aaron Priest's new Acura TL sedan, the oohs and aahs start on the inside. Forget the powerful 3.5-liter, 286-horsepower engine; they're more enthralled with the car's rearview video camera and the in-dash voice-command system. "The technology is what gets people the most," said Priest, a 23-year-old lab technician at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. "They don't really care anymore about what's under the hood. It's all about what's in the car now."

Submission + - Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple

Submitted by Overly Critical Guy on Monday March 05, 2007 @01:53PM

Overly Critical Guy writes: More documents in the Iowa antitrust case have come out. This time, it's revealed that Microsoft considers Mac users its "guinea pigs" for new Office features, and they once considered dropping Mac Office entirely, "as doing so will do a great deal of harm to Apple immediately." This case has become a treasure trove of internal memos describing Microsoft's internal business practices of the last ten years.

Journal Journal: RIAA kills internet radio

Journal by Reavantos on Monday March 05, 2007 @01:50PM

I am A internet radio DJ for DNDRadio.com (ddo.mmoradio.com) and i want to bring to your attention that the RIAA is at it again. this time, they are killing internet radio! "direct qoute from our website" The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet Radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters (an MMORadio) and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA).

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