Samba 3.5 release includes experimental SMB2
March 3, 2010
The Samba project has released version 3.5 of its open source SMB protocol implementation. Major changes include implementation of SMB2 (used in Windows Vista and Windows 7) and support for Windows' 100 ns resolution timestamps, where supported by the kernel and system libraries. The 100ns resolution timestamps will therefore work with Linux kernels later than 2.6.22 using glibc 2.6 or later.
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Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari
February 23, 2010
While digging through the Chromium forums back in November looking for clues about the then-unreleased Chrome for Mac beta, we stumbled on an interesting bit of information: Google was moving away from supporting Gears going forward. While this move was obvious for some given Google’s heavy investment in HTML5, Google hadn’t talked much about what would happen to their plug-in that allowed for things such as offline access to Gmail. They’re talking now.
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Facebook Open-Sources HipHop
February 5, 2010
Facebook officially made their new PHP “compiler,” called HipHop, available as open source software. In the blog post by Haiping Zhao, HipHop for PHP is described as a “source code transformer” which has allowed Facebook to nearly double their PHP operating speeds, at the cost of minor omissions such rarely used functions in the PHP language. For a site which serves nearly 400 billion PHP-based page views every month, that is an incredible performance boost. According to the article, Facebook is now serving over 90% of their traffic using HipHop.
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Python 2.5.5 released
February 3, 2010
Python.org announced the release of Python 2.5.5, a security fix release of Python 2.5. This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.6 (which is 2.6.4 at this point). This releases fixes issues with the logging, tarfile and expat modules, and with thread-local variables.
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Chrome 4.0 brings Greasemonkey scripts
February 2, 2010
One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions launch is a feature that is near and dear to my heart: Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension I wrote in 2004 that allows developers to customize web pages using simple JavaScript and it was the inspiration for some important parts of our extension system.
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Oracle in MySQL, OpenOffice autonomy vow
January 28, 2010
The employees of MySQL are a truly blessed people. As with Sun Microsystems before it, Oracle has vowed to leave its sales and development team independent and intact. Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, said Wednesday that Sun's MySQL independent sales force and development teams will be retained inside the database giant.
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GCC to merge Go support
January 28, 2010
The GCC Steering Committee has accepted the contribution of the gccgo front-end and gcc-specific runtime for the Go language with Ian Taylor appointed maintainer. The GCC Release Managers will decide the details about the timing of the merge and inclusion in GCC 4.5 or later.
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MariaDB replacement for MySQL
January 22, 2010
MariaDB, a drop-in replacement for MySQL with enhanced features and patches. Built by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB also actively works with the larger community of outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. MariaDB is a community developed branch of MySQL. It's a branch of MySQL (ie, we are keeping our code in sync) and additionally contains the Maria storage engine, updated versions of other storage engines, and a wide variety of useful extensions.
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Python 2.5.5 RC 1
January 21, 2010
The release candidate 1 of Python 2.5.5, a security fix release of Python 2.5, is released. his is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.6 (which is 2.6.4 at this point). This releases fixes issues with the logging and tarfile modules, and with thread-local variables. See the detailed release notes for more details.
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Google Chrome Extension Internationalization
January 19, 2010
tarting with Google Chrome developer channel release 4.0.288.1 and beta channel release 4.0.249.64 for Windows, an internationalization (i18n) framework for Google Chrome Extensions is available and enabled by default. This framework lets extension developers translate user-visible parts of the extension manifest — such as the name and description, and localize messages using simple JavaScript calls to the chrome.i18n.getMessage() method. We've implemented this feature as described in the design docs for Chromium.
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Apache mulls end of 1.3, 2.0 releases
January 14, 2010
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) may stop releasing new versions of the older 1.3 and 2.0 series of its flagship Web server product with most development now focused on the 2.2 series. The Apache HTTP server project is one of the most successful and popular (the most popular Web server on the Internet since 1996, say its makers) open source projects and has become an integral part of the technology stack for thousands of Web and SaaS applications.
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Mono .NET Moonlight Running as Material in Ogre3D
January 13, 2010
This is pretty impressive. This is Moonlight for mono (a silverlight clone in mono.net for multiplatform) running inside of Ogre3D (a 3d renderer) as a material. Argiris Kirtzidi (one of the developers behind Managed OGRE) modified Moonlight to run inside the Ogre3D engine. You can render Moonlight applications or XAML files inside Ogre3D.
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Free Pascal 2.4.0 released
January 5, 2010
Free Pascal version 2.4.0 has been released. Free Pascal is a Pascal compiler that is semantically compatible with Borland Turbo Pascal and Borland Delphi.
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Novell Releases Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2
December 21, 2009
The Mono framework compatible with Microsoft's C# .NET is available in version 2.6. Developers also upgraded its associated MonoDevelop environment to version 2.2. Mono project leader Miguel De Icaza applies two keywords to the changes: cross-platform and debugger. MonoDevelop 2.2 also runs on Windows and Mac OS X. A feature matrix shows what works on Linux, Mac and Windows.
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MySQL 5.5 milestone 2 released
December 17, 2009
MySQL has released its second milestone of the new series, inaugurated this year with MySQL 5.4. The new installment, MySQL 5.5-m2, has several new features, of which the most notables ones are semi-synchronous replication, exception handling through in stored routines through SIGNAL and RESIGNAL, and partitioning enhancements.
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Upload pictures to Flickr with Python
December 17, 2009
Python is a great way to make apps quickly, and what better source of data is there than the world wide web? www.tuxradar.com have already shown you how to control Digg with Python and how to create a Twitter bot in Python, and now we turn our beady eyes towards Flickr, the home of more cat photos than I Can Haz Cheezburger knows what to do with. If you want to try your hand at uploading photos to Flickr, while learning just a smidge of PyGTK along the way, this project is for you.
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Samsung's mobile OS SDK ships
December 16, 2009
Samsung Electronics announced the availability of an SDK for its "Bada" mobile operating system. The kernel-configurable Bada platform can be based on a Linux kernel or another real-time OS (RTOS), and it incorporates an Eclipse-based IDE, a GNU tool-chain, and a service-centric UI framework based on Samsung's TouchWiz UI.
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New version of JavaScript approved
December 14, 2009
After 3 comes 5: The European Ecma industry association, the organisation responsible for standardising the JavaScript web language as well as JScript (Microsoft) and ActionScript (Adobe), has now approved ECMAScript version 5 . It has been long in the making; the most recent draft was proposed last spring. Ecma now intends to submit the standard to the ISO.
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Python 2.7 alpha 1 released
December 11, 2009
The last major edition of the Python 2.x series before it moves into a five year "bugfix only" state, Python 2.7, has been made available as an alpha/preview version. The focus on Python 2.7 is the back-porting of features which were included in Python 3.1. These include a rewritten io library, now implemented in C for higher performance, and an ordered dictionary type.
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Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu
December 7, 2009
Torrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. There are a couple of webinterfaces for it but they are not truly need. SSH access combined with the "screen" program provide you all the tools you need. Recently a large bittorrent tracker announced, that they will in future only support magnet link. Magnet links are special URLs that contain a hash link that identifies the according .torrent file.
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