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Something’s Happening Here 2007-05-01 17:29:00 It's a relaxed entry this time, an update on some recent happenings in the Linux audio world. Without further preamble, let's take a look at some of the good things going on there. Read more:Happening
Mommy and Daddy gonna flip for Flip Video 2007-05-01 17:01:35
Here it comes….Pure Digital, which makes those disposable cameras sold in almost every drugstore, is unveiling its latest product, a new pocket-sized camcorder called Flip Video. Flip Video, which syncs easliy with YouTube, will be available starting tomorrow at Target, Beast Buy, Costco, and on Amazon.com. It also comes with a USB arm to connect to a personal computer or Mac. There will be two versions of Flip Video, one that can hold 30 minutes of video and another that holds 60 minutes. Expected retail price for the 30-minute version will be about $119 while the 60-minute version will sell for about $149. Both run on standard AA batteries. Analysts expect Flip Video to be a huge hit with parents looking for an easy way to record their kids and easily post the videos online - YouTube, Grouper, etc…And what better way to attract all the Mommies and Daddies than by selling the product in Target and Costco! I bet you my wife comes home with one during her next trip Read more:Mommy
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Court rules in favor of Microsoft in case involving AT&T patent 2007-05-01 16:43:00 The Supreme Court
sided with Microsoft
Corp. on Monday in a case that restricts the reach of U.S. patents overseas. In a 7-1 decision, the court found that Microsoft is not liable in a patent dispute with AT&T. The decision could impact other lawsuits against Microsoft and save the company billions because of the global scope of its operations. (footnote: although perhaps not directly affecting Linux/FOSS now, subject could impact other pending FOSS-related issues in the future) Read more:favor
Josh Berkus: KDE Aids The PostgreSQL Team 2007-05-01 15:56:00 During FISL 8.0 I caught up with PostgreSQL contributor Josh Berkus who was there to present on PostgreSQL and meet up with the local PostgreSQL community. Josh is a member of the PostgreSQL core team and works at Sun Microsystems as part of their open source database team. Over lunch, Josh shared how KDE plays an important role in the release coordination process which Josh oversees.
Support Freedom - The HD-DVD Signature 2007-05-01 15:50:04 Everyone has already basically seen the popular story about the HD-DVD processing key, Help spread this number faster by using the "SupportFreedom
" Signature
image. It will get the message across very easily, You support freedom of everything, and you are not afraid to show it. Link to Article: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Spread_This_Number_Again
eBay Launches “ToGo” Widgets For Any Listing 2007-05-01 15:50:03 "eBay is now letting users embed information about any listing or group of listings directly into a website. Their hope is to encourage bloggers and social network users who discuss famous listings to embed the information right into the page. The service will be available at togo.ebay.com this morning."
Condemned To Google Hell 2007-05-01 15:24:17 A story of what could happen when you piss off the search God. "Google
Hell is the worst fear of the untold numbers of companies that depend on search results to keep their business visible online. Getting stuck there means most users will never see the site, or at least many of the site's pages, when they enter certain keywords."
re2c 0.12.0 (Default branch) 2007-05-01 15:19:45 re2c is a tool for writing fast and flexible lexers. Unlike other
such tools, it concentrates solely on generating efficient code for
matching regular expressions. This make it suitable for a wide variety
of applications. The generated scanners approach hand-crafted ones in
terms of size and speed.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
This version fixes one bug that was present in
0.11.3. That bug resulted in wrong code generation
for high characters in 8-bit mode. Characters with
the highest bit set were interpreted incorrectly
and could result in wrong output or even re2c
failure.
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Businesses Scramble To Stay Out of Google Hell 2007-05-01 15:19:00 whoever57 writes "Forbes has up an article on the consequences of being dumped into a claimed 'supplemental index', also known as 'Google
Hell'. It uses the example of Skyfacet, a site selling diamonds rings and other jewelery, which has dropped in Google's rankings and saw a $500,000 drop in revenue in only three months after the site owner paid a marketing consultant to improve the sites. The article claims that sites in the supposed 'supplemental index' may be visited by Google's spiders as infrequently as once per year. The problem? Google's cache shows that Google's spiders visited the site ss recently as late April. 'Google Hell is the worst fear of the untold numbers of companies that depend on search results to keep their business visible online. Getting stuck there means most users will never see the site, or at least many of the site's pages, when they enter certain keywords. And getting out can be next to impossible--because site operators often don't know what
PHP music player controller 0.4 (Default branch) 2007-05-01 15:16:30 PHP music playercontroller
(PMPC) is a script
that allows navigation through your music
directory, and the adding of albums or single
songs into a playlist. It also allows you to play,
stop, pause, and go back and forth through the
playlist.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Huge improvements were made. The appearance of the
player interface was improved. Amarok is now
supported. Directories with hyphens in their names
should play correctly now.
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Snd 9.0 (Default branch) 2007-05-01 15:12:29 Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after
Emacs. It can accommodate any number of sounds,
each with any number of channels. It can be
customized and extended using Guile, Ruby, or
Forth.
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State by state, Microsoft responds to creeping threat 2007-05-01 15:09:00 State-by-state skirmishes over open-source document formats represent the latest showdown in a long-running, and so far unsuccessful, campaign to topple Microsoft
's sheer dominance of the desktop software application market. Outside of Florida, four other states since January have seen language similar to Homan's included in proposed bills. Read more:threat
Ardour 2.0 (Default branch) 2007-05-01 15:07:24
Ardour is a professional multitrack/multichannel audio recorder and DAW for Linux, using ALSA-supported audio interfaces. It supports up to 32 bit samples, 24+ channels at up to 96kHz, full MMC control, a non-destructive, non-linear editor, and LADSPA plugins.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A new GTK2 user interface was implemented, featuring more accessible menus, improved overall GUI design, and instant accelerator key rebinding directly from the menus. Destructive recording ("dubbing") capabilities (as used by the new Harrison Xdubber) were added. Undo and redo are supported across program startup and shutdown. Support for VST was redesigned and is more stable. 24 bit integer native files are supported in addition to 32 bit float as in 0.99. Modular support was added for hardware control surfaces, including the Frontier Designs Tranzport and Mackie Control Protocol devices.
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GoblinX 2.0 (Default branch) 2007-05-01 15:06:48
GoblinX is a bootable live CD distribution based
on Slackware Linux. The primary goal for GoblinX
is to create a more pleasant and functional
desktop, standardizing all icons and themes to
make it easy for novice users to learn about
available applications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
AuFS was added and UnionFS was removed. Linux
live, the kernel (2.6.18), and several
applications were upgraded. Several GUI interfaces
were added and others were upgraded. Software
Master was added. All packages were recreated to
work with dependencies when upgrading.
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Asbru Web Content Editor 7.0.3 (Default branch) 2007-05-01 15:01:23
Asbru Web ContentEditor
is a cross-browser and
cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML Web content
editor component for Web designers and
programmers. It can be integrated into Web
applications to give non-technical users access to
create and update Web content. It can be used as a
replacement for a simple TEXTAREA input field in
contact forms, message boards, Web email systems,
and Web content management systems. Features
include CSS style sheet support, drag and drop
editing, and advanced hyperlink and media managers.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
Changes:
This release adds an improved Mambo/Joomla mambot.
There are also improvements to the way font names,
text selections, and "Enter" are handled.
Read more:Default
nwbintools 0.1.1 (Default branch) 2007-05-01 15:01:09 nwbintools is a machine code tool-chain containing
an assembler and various related development
tools. It will thus be similar to GNU's binutils,
but no attempts are made to duplicate its
functionality, organization, or interfaces. The
assembler works on x86 ELF-based Linux and FreeBSD
systems.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release extends the assembler with support
for most instructions from x87, MMX, SSE, SSE2,
and SSE3. However, support for various
system-level and post-486 instructions is still
missing. Various critical bugs related to labels,
relocations, and wrong section sizes were fixed.
Performance has been doubled.
Read more:Default
U.S. Puts 12 Nations On Watch For Piracy 2007-05-01 14:39:00 ColinPL writes with a link to an AP article about a public scolding the US has given China, Russia, and several other nations. Failure to 'sufficiently protect' American copyrights is the cause of the Bush administration's ire, and has resulted in these countries showing up on a 'priority watch list' that could eventually lead to economic sanctions. "In addition to Russia and China, the 10 countries placed on the priority watch list were Argentina, Chile, Egypt, India, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela. In elevating Thailand to the priority watch list, the administration said it was concerned by a range of issues including a 'deteriorating protection for patents and copyrights.' Thailand is currently in a dispute with international drug companies including Abbott Laboratories of the United States over the cost of drugs to fight AIDS and other diseases. The Thai government in January issued compulsory licenses allowing the use of much cheaper generic versio Read more:Nations
Desktop Linux: Can Your Users Even Handle Windows? 2007-05-01 14:21:00 The trouble with most comparisons between desktop Linux
distros and Windows
is that they are written from the perspective of someone who is comfortable enough with a PC that they can undertake a feature-for-feature comparison in the first place. Read more:Desktop
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Italian Phone Taps Spur Encryption Use 2007-05-01 13:49:00 manekineko2 writes "This article in the NYTimes discusses how a recent rash of high-profile mobile phone taps in Italy is spurring a rush toward software-encrypted phone conversations. Private conversations have been tapped and subsequently leaked to the media and have resulted in disclosures of sensitive takeover discussions, revelations regarding game-fixing in soccer, and the arrest of a prince on charges of providing prostitutes and illegal slot machines. An Italian
investigative reporter stated that no one would ever discuss sensitive information on the phone now. As a result, encryption software for mobile phones has moved from the government and military worlds into the mainstream. Are GSM phones in the US ripe for a similar explosion in the use of freely available wiretapping technology, and could this finally be the impetus to for widespread use of software-encrypted communications?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Read more:Encryption
HANNSpree hits new low with HANNSMilano handbag TV 2008-03-10 13:42:33 Filed under: Displays
HANNSpree’s never been one to shy away from unconventional designs for its TVs, but the company has really outdone itself with its new “HANNSMilano” model, which it says is “inspired by today’s modern woman.” That inspiration apparently resulted in a genuine leather exterior with “intricate detailing,” which surrounds a wholly unremarkable 9.6-inch LCD [...]
HANNSpree hits new low with HANNSMilano handbag TV 2008-03-10 13:42:33 Filed under: Displays
HANNSpree’s never been one to shy away from unconventional designs for its TVs, but the company has really outdone itself with its new “HANNSMilano” model, which it says is “inspired by today’s modern woman.” That inspiration apparently resulted in a genuine leather exterior with “intricate detailing,” which surrounds a wholly unremarkable 9.6-inch LCD [...]
Inkel IDS-1500 WiFi phone dock keeps the iPod in awkward company 2008-03-10 13:42:32 Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio
You know how Apple products get when they’re around their “lesser” consumer electronics counterparts at parties. It starts with a lack of eye contact and some foot scuffing, and ends badly with a scene in close proximity to the punch bowl. That said, Inkel’s giving it a shot with this [...] Read more:WiFi
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Ericsson exec sees WiFi hotspots becoming the new telephone booths 2008-03-10 13:42:32 Filed under: Wireless
While it hardly comes as much of a surprise, Ericsson
Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl is now predicting nothing short of the demise of WiFi
hotspots, and he’s saying that that they’ll be replaced by — you guessed it — mobile broadband. Speaking at a conference in Stockholm, Bergendahl said that “hot spots [...] Read more:telephone
Inkel IDS-1500 WiFi phone dock keeps the iPod in awkward company 2008-03-10 13:42:32 Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio
You know how Apple products get when they’re around their “lesser” consumer electronics counterparts at parties. It starts with a lack of eye contact and some foot scuffing, and ends badly with a scene in close proximity to the punch bowl. That said, Inkel’s giving it a shot with this [...] Read more:WiFi
, phone
, keeps
, iPod
, company
HANNSpree hits new low with HANNSMilano handbag TV 2008-03-10 13:42:32 Filed under: Displays
HANNSpree’s never been one to shy away from unconventional designs for its TVs, but the company has really outdone itself with its new “HANNSMilano” model, which it says is “inspired by today’s modern woman.” That inspiration apparently resulted in a genuine leather exterior with “intricate detailing,” which surrounds a wholly unremarkable 9.6-inch LCD [...]
Inkel IDS-1500 WiFi phone dock keeps the iPod in awkward company 2008-03-10 13:42:31 Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio
You know how Apple products get when they’re around their “lesser” consumer electronics counterparts at parties. It starts with a lack of eye contact and some foot scuffing, and ends badly with a scene in close proximity to the punch bowl. That said, Inkel’s giving it a shot with this [...] Read more:WiFi
, phone
, keeps
, iPod
, company
Sony’s 13.3-inch VAIO VGN-SZ791N gets reviewed 2008-03-13 11:02:00 Filed under: Laptops
Just glancing at the specifications sheet, you can tell Sony
’s 13.3-inch VAIO VGN-SZ791N packs quite the punch for its size. After all, who wouldn’t be pleased with a 2.5GHz T9300 CPU, discrete GeForce 8400M graphics, 4GB of RAM, a built-in optical drive and two whole USB ports? Still, what looks good on paper [...]
TEC develops 3D Tobidasu table menu, makes your mouth water 2008-03-13 11:01:59 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Shortly after Teraoka’s Deli Touch pen gave a reason to (almost) ignore the wait staff entirely, along comes the 3D Tobidasu table menu to make you order way more food than you likely would otherwise. Developed by TEC, the pop-up menu is designed to be integrated into restaurant tables, and reportedly, it [...] Read more:makes
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