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The biggest science story to hit the mainstream media in the last year was of course the big switch on at CERN. What made it such a great story for me was not just the sheer and audacious enormity of the enterprise or the humbling nobility of the colossal experiment but the story behind the story.

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The object of this post is to make you think about ways we could improve each one. I’ll try to link to bugs where there are bugs, but a lot of these are quite new design decisions only present in 10.04 and hence don’t have bugs filed.

In developed countries, healthcare workers represent a significant proportion of the working population. For example, in the United Kingdom, more than 1 million people work for the National Health Service, a publicly funded healthcare system. Medical software therefore has a huge market to tap.

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Amazon's 1-Click has come under a lot of fire over the years from critics who question whether such a broad technology should be patented at all. It refers to the process by which online shoppers make purchases with a single click, having previously entered their payment and shipping information.

Windows shows that it not only brings security problems to Apache but also to battery chargers

Version 1.1 brings with it a buffet of new features, speed improvements and general all round greatness that we've come to expect from the fast-paced development of the OpenShot team.

Instructions to compile and run the U-Boot bootloader inside a QEMU emulation of an ARM platform.

The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started and is causing heated discussions on the LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9 for security fixes and found almost twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes proprietary files from the kernel, and new graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer numerous improvements

Combining freedoms and copyleft in the Gnu GPL license (invented by Richard Stallman) was the cornerstone of free software. This is now questioned due to the proliferation of incompatible copyleft licenses.

IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database.

GNUSim8085 is a graphical simulator, assembler, debugger for Intel 8085 microprocessor.It is very helpful for Engineering and Polytechnic students with Microprocessor as a subject.

"The Fedora 13 'Goddard' alpha release is Now available. Now it supports automatic Printer Installation, You can Plug and Play your USB Printers in Fedora 13

Victoria’s Electoral Commission has flagged plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux software in the next state election in November this year.

The Nexenta Project developers have released the first beta for version 3.0 of their Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) [--] the sixth development release in the NCP cycle

Fedora 13 Alpha was released yesterday with a plethora of new features and updated packages for this Red Hat Linux distribution. Each Fedora release always pulls in the very latest Linux graphics code.

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Psi is a free, open source instant messaging application designed for the Jabber IM network (including Google Talk) compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

If you're tired with the Jabber functionality of Empathy or Pidgin, both lacking lots of important features for this protocol, you should give Psi a try.

Listem Music Player 0.6.5 was released yesterday and it comes with many changes and fixes:

* Playlists order are keeped
* Fixed some encoding problem when downloading podcast
* Write a new API to display html
* New preference window layout

The bankruptcy court dealing with the SCO Group has approved a loan from a group of investors. This means that the company now has sufficient funds for the pending jury trial against Novell.

Gnome Do is to get all kickass. Yesterday evening the jolly folk behind launcher-and-then-some GNOME Do held a meeting to set out some goals for the future of the project.

Ex-Novell CTO, Jeff Jaffe, is now CEO of the web standards organisation