OSNews

* Cloud Computing: The Invisible Revolution * Sony Steps up Fight Against PS3 Jailbreaking HP Files Suit Against Former Chief Internet Explorer 9 UI Video Leaked Bricscad V10 for Linux Released * How New Art Can End the Copyright Wars * * How to Secure Windows * After the Patent Troll, Enter the Copyright Troll How to Use KDE Plasma Activities * Game Review: Mafia 2 *

Gentoo Packages

app-shells/bash-4.1_p7: The standard GNU Bourne again shell www-client/icecat-3.6.8: GNU project's edition of Mozilla Firefox www-client/firefox-bin-3.6.9: Firefox Web Browser net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.9: Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications www-client/firefox-3.6.9: Firefox Web Browser www-client/chromium-6.0.472.55: Open-source version of Google Chrome web browser sys-kernel/git-sources-2.6.36_rc3-r1: The very latest -git version of the Linux kernel mail-client/thunderbird-bin-3.1.3: Thunderbird Mail Client mail-client/thunderbird-3.1.3: Thunderbird Mail Client media-libs/libvpx-0.9.2: WebM VP8 Codec SDK

Gentoo Universe

Matti Bickel: Fixing /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/make.defaults Hanno Böck: Trying to buy an ebook Markos Chandras: The road to Manchester Diego E. Pettenò: About the new Quagga ebuild Christian Faulhammer: More test requests: CUPS 1.4 Rafael Goncalves Martins: LinuxCon Brazil 2010 Diego E. Pettenò: Maintaining backports with GIT Diego E. Pettenò: Slow readers, fast readers Zack Medico: portage-2.1.9 released Richard Freeman: An Appeal to Devs – Please Use News

TechCrunch

50 Days Of Logos? All We Can Take Is 1 Day Of Logos. Firefox 4 Beta, Now With Faster Graphics And Visual Sound Yahoo!’s User Interface Library Learns To Love Being Touched, Gestured At Still Think The iTunes 10 Icon Sucks? Our Ten Reader Alternatives The New iPod Order: Click Wheel Dethroned, Touch Screen Crowned Chris Sacca’s Lowercase Capital Adds $20 Million To Its Coffers Exclusive: Digg’s Lunch Menu And A Terrible Hot Dog Scaling Solution Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Rips “Vindictive” HP Lawsuit Get used to “3D” TVs – They’re Here To Stay Mozilla Labs Vaguely Announces Web-Based Gaming Initiative

Planet GNOME

Lennart Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part II Andy Wingo: abusing the c compiler Stormy Peters: Nexus One’s are (at least some what) waterproof Yuvaraj Pandian: Blogging From Under The Table During Class Michael Meeks: 2010-09-07: Tuesday. Dave Richards: Project Updates Richard Hughes: Linux and application installing Carlos Garcia Campos: Cairo 1.10 Seif Lotfy: My sexy desktop II Thomas Vander Stichele: Tripping

High Scalability

Sponsored Post: deviantART, Okta, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7 Hilarious Video: Relational Database vs NoSQL Fanbois Hot Scalability Links For Sep 3, 2010 Six guiding principles to Consolidate your IT Distributed Hashing Algorithms by Example: Consistent Hashing Scale-out vs Scale-up Paper: The Case for Determinism in Database Systems Pomegranate - Storing Billions and Billions of Tiny Little Files OpenStack - The Answer to: How do We Compete with Amazon? 21 Quality Screencasts on Scaling Rails

Linux Journal: The Original Magazine of the Linux Community

Old Generals Never Die - They just Wear a Red Hat Alien - Use Any Package On Any Distribution Clonezilla Live No Steam for Linux - Right Now Qt and Layouts As Predicted, OpenSolaris Board Disbands Dual Boot openSUSE USB Stick Installer New Wine: Running Windows Music & Sound Applications Under Wine 1.2 Google Adds Phone Calls to Linux Gmail Use Linux Journal Insider - October 2010

Slashdot

Mozilla Labs To Promote Open Web Gaming The State of Mapping APIs, 5 Years On Smallest Manned Electric Plane Flies They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access Tech Sector Slow To Hire HP Sues Hurd For Joining Oracle Stanford's Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack Sony Releases PS3 Firmware Update To Fight Jailbreaks

Yahoo! News: Technology News

Google milks animated doodle mystery on Twitter (AP) Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger (AP) Craigslist urged to drop adult services worldwide (AP) Able to unplug from work while you’re on vacation? (Ben Patterson) Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says (Ben Patterson) Apple releases Safari updates (Macworld.com) HP sues ex-CEO Hurd over new job at rival Oracle (AP) Android vs. IPhone Is No Easy Call (PC World) Vodafone sells China Mobile stake (AFP) Former State Department official to head 'Google Ideas' (AFP)

Linux Today

Linuxables: Compiz window switcher Alien - Use Any Package On Any Distribution NVIDIA Puts Out A Major Beta Linux Driver Update The Value of Clear Code is Clear Google Chrome 6.0.472.53 Python4Kids New Tutorial: Trivial Lists Android/Linux kernel fight continues Ubuntu 10.10 beta review Bricscad V10 for Linux released HeliOS Store Opens to Fund The HeliOS Project

FootNotes: GNOME Desktop News

Google Summer of Code 2010 Call for Ideas Debian/GNOME Bug Weekend Approaches GNOME 2.30 Beta (2.29.90) is Available GNOME Journal 18 Released Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts dropline GNOME seeks devs. GNOME SlackBuild 2.26.3 GNOME Desktop for Slackware and Slackware64 13.0 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Opens GNOME Foundation Elections GNOME foundation needs your vote for Board elections 2009

Netcraft

Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in July 2010 August 2010 Web Server Survey July 2010 Web Server Survey Firefox security test add-on was backdoored Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in June 2010 June 2010 Web Server Survey iPad: New incentive for phishing site reporters Twitter still affected by networking error Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in May 2010 Busiest Sites Hosting Provider Switching Analysis

Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Pressure rises on pastor who wants to burn Quran (AP) Grim outlook for Democrats puts House up for grabs (AP) Authorities: 92 structures destroyed in Colo. fire (AP) Floods leave tens of thousands homeless in Mexico (AP) UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo (AP) WTC steel column installed at ground zero (AP) Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic (AP) Sect leader Jeffs fights extradition to Texas (AP) Iraq displays hundreds of recovered artifacts (AP) Orioles deny CC Sabathia his 20th victory (AP)

PostgreSQL News

PostgreSQL 9.1alpha1 Now Available PostgreSQL 9.0 Release Candidate 1 RazorSQL 5.2 Database Query Tool Released PostgreSQL 9.0 Beta4 Released ChronicDB v3.0 offers easy-to-use replication for PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 9.0 Beta 3 Now Available

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Python News

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programming

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