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VMware Tries to Expand Throughout the Data Center PC World - 36 minutes ago VMware, facing increased pressure from rivals Microsoft and Citrix Systems, will announce new products this week intended to let customers extend their use of virtualization beyond servers and into all corners of the data center, including storage and … VMware, virtualization rivals step into the ring at VMworld Computerworld Sun expanding its virtualization portfolio with xVM Server InfoWorld Enterprise IT Planet - Computerworld all 8 news articles

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Google's Chrome: Don't bet your enterprise on it Computerworld - 51 minutes ago Chrome may look like a consumer-level browser, but Preston Gralla says Google has its eye on the enterprise. By Preston Gralla September 15, 2008 (Computerworld) Think that Google's much-ballyhooed new Web browser, Chrome, is aimed at helping people … The Cloud’s Chrome Lining Newsweek Chrome (beta) ZDNet Washington Post - Atlantic Online - InformationWeek - eFluxMedia all 460 news articles

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Digital Content Wherever You Want It BusinessWeek - 1 hour ago by Cliff Edwards How do you make digital entertainment more entertaining? A sprawling consortium of Hollywood content providers, consumer electronics companies, and Internet players said on Sept. DECE - Media industry's best and last hope for DRM? Afterdawn.com Should Apple join new video ecosystem? CNET News Spacelab - Reuters - Washington Post - RedOrbit all 61 news articles

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SlashGear Week in Review - Week 37 2008 SlashGear - 1 hour ago Two significant events on the tech calendar this week, with both CTIA Wireless and Apple’s fall iPod launch hitting sunny San Francisco. Will 2.1 be what 2.0 was supposed to be? CNET News PwnageTool now supports latest iPhone firmware Afterdawn.com Computerworld - Register - IntoMobile - Ars Technica all 248 news articles

CWmike writes “Microsoft has defended the IE8 tool that suggests sites based on URLs typed into its address bar, saying that the browser ‘phones home’ only a limited amount of information to Microsoft and that the company discards all user IP addresses almost immediately. Company managers also contrasted IE8 Beta 2’s ‘Suggested Sites’ feature with the ‘Suggest’ feature used by Google Chrome, saying that Microsoft’s requires the user’s explicit permission before it’s used. They did acknowledge a bug that prevents the request from reappearing when users reinstall the browser. Cyra Richardson, a Microsoft principal program manager on the IE team, said: ‘Suggested Sites is connected to the browser’s history, and it’s not looking at each of the keystrokes. IE only captures the URL as it is navigated [to], when that URL goes into your history.’ Nor does Suggested Sites log and transmit cookies to Microsoft’s servers, as does Google Suggest, Richardson said. ‘The data we log is actually pretty innocuous.’”

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Aejaks is a windowing toolkit for rapid
development of AJAX-enabled Web applications. It
combines the powerful simplicity of the Tcl
language with the Java-based Echo2
browser-independent windowing system. Aejaks
applications are written in a single scripting
language, without need to write any HTML,
Javascript, or CSS. It borrows from the Tk
windowing system, but is not directly compatible
with Tk. It runs on top of any Java Web server,
and can make use of any existing Java library.

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License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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This release has a MrPersister database access library. The H2 Database engine is included for quick-start database application development. Also included are the Apache Log4J logging system, a RichTextArea widget, standard library dialogs for messages, input, color selection, date selection, and file uploads, and a Hyde package for easy Tcl-to-Java integration. New sample applications: TclTutor, Aejaks Rolodex, and WarMachine.

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YouTube blocks terrorism training, drug abuse Afterdawn.com - 2 hours ago The video-sharing site YouTube has added new stipulations to its community guidelines, this time banning terrorist training and 'drug abuse' videos. Lieberman Saves YouTube From Terrorists Washington Post YouTube bans terrorism training videos The Associated Press Los Angeles Times - Register - Conde Nast Portfolio - Slashdot all 113 news articles

Poster beware: More bosses watch applicant's social spaces Ars Technica - 2 hours ago By Joel Hruska | Published: September 14, 2008 - 09:42PM CT The last few years have seen an increasing number of events where a person's online actions (or those of other people) impacted their offline lives, almost always in a negative way. Employers Admit Checking Facebook Before Hiring PC World One In Five Employers Uses Social Network Sites When Hiring People eFluxMedia Computerworld - Globe and Mail - Silicon Alley Insider - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette all 62 news articles

Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is a network protocol analyzer, or “packet sniffer”, that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet analyzer on any platform.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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A start page and display filter autocompletion have been added.

PHPulse is a highly scalable MVC framework for PHP. It is extremely lightweight and fast, with a modular development environment that allows functionality to be added quickly and easily with a built in templating engine.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Fixes to XUL functionality. Minor bugfixes and updates.

Asunder is a graphical audio CD ripper and encoder for Linux. You can use it to save tracks from an audio CD as WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, and WavPack. It has CDDB support and can create M3U playlists. It’s independent of any desktop environment. It can rip and encode at the same time. It aims to make CD ripping as quick and easy as possible.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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This release adds a Portuguese translation, updates the Italian translation, and fixes a bug that would cause a crash on a repeated CDDB lookup.

The xterm program is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102/VT220 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can’t use the window system directly. If the underlying operating system supports terminal resizing capabilities (for example, the SIGWINCH signal in systems derived from 4.3bsd), xterm will use the facilities to notify programs running in the window whenever it is resized.

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License: MIT/X Consortium License

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This release provides an option for underline-cursor. It improves font switching via keypad shortcut for TrueType fonts. There are minor fixes/improvements.

DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instant
scalable full-text search on any relational
database, for both beginners and experts. It
features a built-in database crawler following
user-defined SQL, incremental indexing,
user-controllable result ranking, the ability to
return results with highlights (like Google), and
categorized result counts (like Amazon). It can
easily integrate with other languages with
XML/JSON/HTML. There is a UI for all operations,
so no Java coding is necessary. Deleted or updated
records in database can be synchronized also.

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License: Free for non-commercial use

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This release fixes Lucene memory leaking when refreshing the index in memory-only mode. It adds configurable max field length. It can process an empty query by matching all documents in multi-index search mode. It handles SqlServer special empty or all zero date time format.

Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript implements the printing of many barcode formats entirely within level 2 PostScript, so that the process of converting the input string into the printed output is performed by the printer itself. This avoids the need to re-implement the barcode generation process whenever your language needs change. The project supports most major barcode formats including EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, ISBN, Code 128 (A, B, and C), Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, Postnet, Code 2 of 5, and Codabar.

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License: MIT/X Consortium License

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Support for hiding the asterisks in the human readable text of Code 39 symbols was added.

Address Book Server is a shared server to the
Address Book application. Address Book Client
(included) provides bi-directional synchronization
between the server and the participating clients.
There is support for synchronizing over the local
network as well as the Internet. It has the
potential to support most mainstream databases.

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License: Shareware

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This release updates the Web application and the client with several critical bugfixes. Support for the native iPhone client (ABCMobile) available from the App Store has also been added. The standard edition has been replaced by the enterprise edition of the server.

An anonymous reader writes “Popsci.com has a writeup on 3M’s new pocket projector, the 3M MPro 110, set to launch on September 30. ‘In a dark room, it could project a big enough image to be the ultimate cheap-o home theater. The projector will sell for a mere $359. It doesn’t have a speaker, so you’ll have to get that separately. But really, how good could a microscopic speaker jammed into this thing sound, anyway?’”

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Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)
City Folk lives no more.

Ghouls’n Ghosts Remix is a remake of Ghouls’n
Ghosts, a platform action game from Capcom 1988
with some differences from the original game. It’s
a mix of Ghosts’n Goblins, Ghouls’n Ghosts, and
Super Ghouls’n Ghosts.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Some particle effects were added (smoke in level
2). A magician and other various enemies were
added. Some graphic elements and some minor bugs
were fixed.

gedit-plugins-extra is a huge, unofficial set of third-party plugins for gedit (2.13+) and some styles for GTKSourceView (2.0+). Plugins include advanced bookmarks, advanced editing, align, auto tab, browser preview, classbrowser, currentline, deletion, doc prop, edit shortcut, find in documents, latex, line spacing, python outline, reopen tabs, scratch tab, snap open, splitview2, todo, trailsave, and wordcompletion. Styles include aurora-borealis, babymate, blue-dream, chela, darkmate, dazzl, dessert, emacs, emacsdark, fluffy, textmate, tinge, and turbo.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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The LaTeX plugin is correctly installed. A .pc
file was added.

SMILE (Slideshow Maker In Linux Environment) is a
rewrite of Manslide. Its function is to create 3D
slideshows.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Small bugs were fixed. New effects were added. A
Polish translation was added.

Useful Java Application Components (UJAC) is a collection of components
that may be useful for your project. It provides a powerful expression
interpreter, an iText-based document processing engine that generates
PDF documents based on XML templates, a charting library supporting JSP
custom tags, and much more.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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This release fixes all known issues from the
release candidates. The main features are
improvements of 2D-Barcode output and floating
layout of form fields in PDF documents.

sakura is a vte-based terminal emulator. It aims
to provide a terminal emulator that only depends
on GTK and VTE. It uses a notebook to allow
multiple tabs in the same window.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
A bug in scrollbar configuration was fixed. The
French translation was updated. The tab name is
set when window the title changes and the new hold
command line option was added.

Simple Groupware is a complete enterprise application offering email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization with cell phones and Outlook, full-text search, and much more. Simple Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP, and SyncML under one platform. Unlike other groupware software, Simple Groupware contains the programming language sgsML to enable the quick customization and creation of powerful Web applications.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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New events were added for slow pages in the CMS
module. The Smarty library was updated to the
latest version. A fix was applied to the
PostgreSQL (8.1.x) setup.

FreedroidRPG is an isometric RPG game inspired by
Diablo and Fallout. There is a war, and we are
losing it. No one really knows why the bots
started killing us. Most don’t even want to know.
The human race is reduced to little more than a
few isolated groups of people trying to survive.
Somewhere in a place known as Temple Wood, a hero
is about to wake up from a long sleep…

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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This first version in the 0.11 series brings a lot
of improvements in all areas. There is more
content (items, levels, music tracks), a faster
and more reliable game engine, improved gameplay
balance, and a more intuitive level editor.

Surfraw (Shell Users’ Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web) provides a Unix command line interface to a variety of popular Web search engines and sites, including Google, Altavista, Wikipedia, Babelfish, Ebay, Wayback, Research Index, Yahoo!, Slashdot, freshmeat, CPAN, dictionaries, weather, currency conversion, and many others.

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License: Public Domain

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Changes:
Surfraw now defaults to graphical mode. The
surfraw(1) man page explains how to change the
default back. Default browsers are now detected
during build. To override this, use the
–with-text-browser=BROWSER
–with-graphical-browser=BROWSER options of the
./configure script. New search tools were added:
piratebay and genportage. Various small fixes were
made.

AgileWiki is meant to create software systems
which are fluid, easily configured and can be
reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database,
the Rolonics programming paradigm, and semantic
inferencing.

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License: Common Public License

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A basic Swing capability is now complete. The
latest additions include dynamically configured
dialogs for commands with multiple arguments,
property editors for well known and child names,
and a goWellKnown command. The command and swing
packages have been reorganized as well.

Webalizer Xtended is a fork of Webalizer and contains a great number of feature improvements, such as monthly statistics for all “HTTP 404 Not Found” errors (including the number of these errors and the corresponding URLs), IPv6 support, and additional configuration file keywords. Furthermore, all colors of the statistics can be defined by the user. Webalizer Xtended also fixes several (security-related) bugs in the original Webalizer code and contains the “Geolizer” and “Apache mod_logio” patches to generate faster and more reliable geographic traffic statistics.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Several bugs (e.g. compiler warnings) and
typographical errors were fixed. The country code
list was updated and new configuration directives
were added. The default values for several
configuration keywords were modified.

GLB is a TCP load balancer similar to Pen. It
lacks most of advanced Pen features, as the aim
was to make a user-space TCP proxy which is as
fast as possible. It can utilize multiple CPU
cores. A list of destinations can be configured at
runtime. Destination “draining” is supported. It
features weight-based connection balancing (which
becomes round-robin if weights are equal).

UrJTAG aims to create an enhanced, modern tool for
communicating over JTAG with flash chips, CPUs,
and many more. It takes on the well proven
openwince jtag tools code. Future plans include
conversion of the code base into a library that
can be used with other applications. A flexible
remote communication protocol that can be used
over almost any type of serial link (including
TCP/IP) is currently being defined.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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The BSDL parser has been rewritten with added
support for IEEE 1532 extensions. Internally, many
global variables were removed, which is a major
improvement for everyone who wants to use UrJTAG
as a library. The low level communication with USB
cables has been properly separated from that with
parport cables into new “usbconn” and “parport”
link drivers, making it easier to support new USB
cables with their custom protocols natively. Many
annoyances and bugs have been fixed.

Tuatara is a complete address book system with
command-line and Web-based interfaces. It is
deployed under the J2EE framework.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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This release is actually a rewrite. Tools used in
this release are as follows: JPA for persistence,
JSF for the views, OpenEJB for testing, MySQL as
the default database, Maven as a build tool, and
GlassFish as the default application server. This
is the first milestone. It does not cover all the
same functionality as the previous release, but
it’s a starting point for a project using EJB,
Maven, and JSF.