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  Ubuntu, Macintosh and Windows XP
  LXer has an interesting look at the big three operating systems with some surprising results. From the article: "If you think that a Linux advocate cannot make an objective analysis of desktop operating systems, then you need to read this report. You may find yourself surprised with some brutal hon...
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  Zelda On The DS, Sega on the Revolution
  At the Nintendo Keynote today, Company President Iwata reiterated the same 'think differently' ideas that he espoused at last year's GDC. This time he had concrete data to back up his industry disruption message, detailing the millions in sales their 'Brain Training' line of games have racked up. Al...
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  Beyond Java
  Anml4ixoye writes "I recently got sent a copy of Bruce Tate's newest book Beyond Java - A Glimpse at the Future of Programming Languages. Having read Bruce's Bitter Java and Better, Faster, Lighter Java, I was intrigued to see what he would have to say about moving beyond Java. In short: If you're a...
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  Open Source AJAX toolkits. Varios analizados: Google, MS, Prototype, Rico, etc...
  twofish writes "InfoWorld columnist Peter Wayner recently reviewed six of the most popular "open source" Ajax toolkits. The article sets out to see if they are enterprise ready in comparison to commercial products such Backbase, JackBe, and Tibco's General Interface. The six open sou...
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  42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta
  Venusian Treen writes "In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. The gist is that energy levels in the nucleus of heavy atoms can tell us about the distribution of zeros in Riemann's zeta function - and hence where to ...
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  Unusual Open Source
  Dumitru Erhan writes "The Economist has a special report on open-source. It analyzes the way open-source projects succeed and finds that a rigid, business-like organizational structure is of vital importance to the quality of the final product. It cites Firefox, MySQL and (more recently) Wikipedia a...
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  Advanced Requests and Responses in Ajax
  An anonymous reader writes "The Web is no longer a place where simple applications are tolerated; 'users have become more advanced, customers expect robustness and advanced error reporting, and managers are fired because an application goes down 1 percent of the time. It's your job then, to go beyon...
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  Tracking the IT Job Market with a Bot
  atlantageek writes "Is theIT job market improving? Is the growth in Unix or Windows? Should Istudy Data Warehousing or E-Commerce? Identify the recent trends withCJ Miner, a small tool I've written that has been monitoring the Computer Jobs website for thelast year."...
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  Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus
  lessthan0 writes "The Nautilus program in GNOME is not only the default file manager, it creates and manages the desktop. While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell. The latest version of Nautilus is 2.14.0, which is included in Fedora Core 5. article cover...
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  Should You Pre-Compile Binaries or Roll Your Own?
  Jane Walker writes "The completion of pre-compiled packages and maximizing machine performance are two powerful incentives for Windows admins to use Linux and compile an OSS package." TechTarget has an article taking a look at some of the "why" behind rolling your own. What preferences have other ...
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  Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader
  Slippy Douglas writes "Apparently, Apple has made good on one of the 30th anniversary product rumours. Apple today announced the Boot Camp Public Beta, which allows Intel Macs to easily and legally multi-boot. Boot Camp will be a standard feature in Mac OS X 10.5."...
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  Microsoft Goes Head-to-Head With IBM
  conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on Microsoft's latest announcements that it is going after large-business computing, a realm that IBM currently has a stronghold on." From the article: "In both cases, the company has fashioned 'enterprise' versions of the products with additional security and c...
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  Locking Up Linux, Creating a Cryptobook
  Tom's Hardware has a nice overview about some of the latest ways to secure your data looking specifically at open source solutions that wont lock down your credit card. Since many people presented performance issues for why they don't implement encryption there was also special attention given to h...
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  Update on Xara's OS Vector Graphics Project
  An anonymous reader writes "We first heard from Xara when they announced their plan to releasetheir crown jewels, the XaraX source code under GPL.Now, 5 scant months since going Open Source, Xara has released XaraXtreme Linux 0.7, a very functional, robust illustrationprogram. Whatthis means f...
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  Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling.
  bagsc writes "Kevin Poulsen of Wired.com strikes fear into another ATM manufacturer. This time, Triton ATMs had their super-secret master codes revealed by simple Google searches. Tranax was the most recent company with this problem, but probably not the last."...
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  Practical Ajax Projects with Java Technology
  Simon P. Chappell writes "Is there anyone left in our industry that hasn't heard of Ajax, the ultimate client-side technology for web developers? Like many, I've read several books on it and now I'm even brushing up on JavaScript so that I can try it out. There is, however, an aspect of Ajax that of...
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  The Best Mac OS X Software Tools Herramientas populares para Mac, Quicksilver está por ahí también.
  An anonymous reader writes "Mac advocate John C. Welch weighs in with his list of the top 20 Mac OS X products (except Welch manages to list 22). The collection of software tools ranges from the obvious, such as Boot Camp, to the obscure but perhaps more useful — little-known apps like Peter B...
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  How Do You Job-Hunt If You Work Overtime?
  Lord_Dweomer asks: "As a recent college grad, I took a job to pay the bills, but soon realized that it would end up sucking the life out of me. I work a lot of overtime in a high-stress, tight deadline job. Once you get into that kind of downward spiral, how do you find another job?"
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  Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills
  mosel-saar-ruwer writes "A recent conference, hosted by UC-Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, sought to 'examin[e] the need and role for drawing today in the design professions and fine arts'. In this Reuters summary, via C-NET, the participants seem to agree that the emergence of sophistic...
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  Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade
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