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| Weekend Project: Serve Up Your Own OpenID with Open Source Tools | ||
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| Description: | <p> Last weekend, we looked at how to <a href="http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/355442-weekend-project-accept-openid-logins">enable your Web site</a> to accept <a href="http://openid.net/">OpenID</a> logins. But <em>accepting</em> OpenID authentication is only half of the issue — if you care about online privacy and identity, the chances are that you will want to control your own OpenID. Fortunately, setting up your site to serve as an OpenID provider is not that difficult — and makes a great weekend project.</p> |
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| GPU vs. CPU is a Win-Win | ||
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| Description: | <p> Peter Varhol has a nice piece on GPU vs. CPU computing in Desktop Engineering this week. Not surprisingly, he concludes that you need both when time is on the line: An ideal configuration is one with one or more CPUs and a set of GPUs that use CUDA or similar parallel computation architecture. All...</p> |
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| openSUSE Connect Beta | ||
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| Description: | <p> As a result of the openSUSE Boosters’ ‘HackMeck‘ two weeks ago at FrOSCoN we are proud to present you with a new beta of openSUSE Connect. Connect is supposed to become the central user database for the openSUSE project. Sounds bland, don”t it? But you know the Boosters, everything we do comes with a grain of spice and Connect is no different. The spice here are a lot of nifty social network features like user profiles, friending, groups, an event calendar and possibly more. Thats possible because on top of the user database we use a Free Software social network framework called Elgg. Elgg will help us to go a step further in one of the most important areas of the openSUSE project: Connecting our community. We do a very good job connecting code at the moment but there is no central place for openSUSE users to mingle, form relationships and...</p> |
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| Toshiba debuts Android-powered Folio 100 tablet | ||
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| Description: | <p> The tablet will cost 399 to 499 euros in Europe when it goes on sale later this year. Here's a hands-on look at it and Toshiba's AC100 Android Netbook.</p> |
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| Open health in Guatemala | ||
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| Description: | <p> The FreeMED Software Foundation has been involved with a medical clinic and teaching project in Guatemala for some time. The project, hosted by Pop-Wuj, a non-profit Spanish language school in Xela (Quetzeltenango), Guatemala, hosts a medical clinic for the poor in the city and surrounding pueblos. </p> |
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| Strong early sales of $140 Android tablet surprise retailer | ||
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| Description: | <p> Beijing-based international online reseller LightInTheBox.com announced it has had two months of surprisingly strong sales of a seven-inch, $140 Android tablet. The aPad Android Tablet runs Android 1.6 -- with Android Market support -- on Samsung's ARM11-based 667MHz S3C6410, and offers 1GB of flash, an SD slot, Wi-Fi, and an...</p> |
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| HP Emerges Victor in 3PAR Bidding War | ||
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| Description: | <p> Dell drops out after HP offers a whopping $2.4 billion for the enterprise and cloud storage technology player.</p> |
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| Packages Available for KDE Platform, Plasma and Applications 4.5.1 | ||
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| Description: | <p> Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 are available. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of 10.04 LTS can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. To update, use the Software Repository Guide to add the...</p> |
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| VMworld: In the Cloud, It's Storage's Time to Shine | ||
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| Description: | <p> Your infrastructure might be going into the cloud... but it'll still need to be stored somewhere. A storage-centric look of VMworld's happenings.</p> |
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| Nuxeo present FISE, a RESTful semantic engine | ||
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| Description: | <p> Nuxeo have announced that, as part of the IKS european project, they are working with partners in the project to develop an open source semantic engine with a RESTful interface, dubbed fise...</p> |
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