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by sciurus 16y ago
This isn't google-specific; any company using the linux kernel is vulnerable to being sued over infringing this patent. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
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by sciurus 16y ago
Is the source code for the server running at showoff.io available? One thing I like about pagekite is that both the client and server are open source. If you have a team of people who regularly need to to allow access to local servers, sett
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HeliOS helps schoolkids and challenges developers(lwn.net)
1 points by sciurus 16y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 16y ago
Thanks for catching that! It looks like they launched a new design for http://www.gnome.org/ in conjunction with the release. That must have altered the URL for the press release they had published earlier in the day.
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by sciurus 16y ago
The press release is at http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2011-04-gnome-3.0-releas...
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GNOME 3 Released(gnome3.org)
178 points by sciurus 16y ago|98 comments
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by sciurus 16y ago
X11 is snappy when both computers are on the local network, but as soon as the traffic has to travel over the internet X11 is unusably slow. VNC feels sluggish in that situation but it's still usable. xpra or nx can make X11 usable over the
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Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend update(blogs.gnome.org)
6 points by sciurus 16y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 16y ago
A compatible (H.323 and SIP) alternative to Ekiga for OS X is XMeeting. http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/
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by sciurus 16y ago
Unity is a plugin for the compiz window manager. https://lwn.net/Articles/430686/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity?action=AttachFile&do=get&#...
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Analysis of the conflict among Canonical, GNOME, and KDE(blogs.gnome.org)
69 points by sciurus 16y ago|32 comments
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by sciurus 16y ago
Really? There are some decent Android options in the $300 range, e.g. http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/24/archos-70-and-101-interne...
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by sciurus 16y ago
Network interfaces aren't files, so you can't create symlinks to them. I don't think linux has a facility for referring to a network interface by more than one name. My hope is that consumer distributions will stop presenting the device nam
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by sciurus 16y ago
No, you can still rename interfaces using udev just like you can now. This is largely about ensuring that devices get predictable name at install time. As is pointed out in the LWN comment thread, for anyone who has to provision large numb
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by sciurus 16y ago
"netem provides Network Emulation functionality for testing protocols by emulating the properties of wide area networks. The current version emulates variable delay, loss, duplication and re-ordering." http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collab
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by sciurus 16y ago
Can anyone speak to how close these books come to this? Or recommend other books? Building Scalable Web Sites http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102357 The Art of Capacity Planning http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518585 Web Operations
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by sciurus 16y ago
http://www.metafilter.com already exists; I'm not sure why Hacker News should try to become it.
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by sciurus 16y ago
You may find these reports on gender in open source interesting. http://flosspols.org/deliverables/D16HTML/FLOSSPOLS-D16-Gend... http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/lin3_gender.pdf The findings include that women aren't disinterested; inst
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by sciurus 16y ago
I think when they use the words project and program to describe their work, they don't mean software. Their focus seems to be on "helping women get careers in open technology through recruitment and training programs for women, education fo
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by sciurus 16y ago
If you learned something from this, be sure to read http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/08/27/ssh-tricks-the-usual-and-...
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by sciurus 16y ago
One interesting thing about the Gnome Shell design process is that it has been very open and responsive. Although there was a heavy focus on creating design principles up front, the actual design has evolved a lot over the few years that th
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by sciurus 16y ago
I think the clipping might be fixed. I don't see any in the dash (GNOME's term for the dock) or the application picker in the screenshot at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design?action=AttachFile&#3...