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This video by Dr. Ariel Shamir shows off presentation on content-aware image sizing. It demonstrates a software application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently.

http://digg.com/tech_news/Content_Aware_Image_Sizing

U.S. engineers have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world -- with a screen resolution up to 200 million pixels.
gy.k.:14142x14142 pixel

Highest resolution computer display

According to DesktopLinux.com's just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in the past year, and Ubuntu remains their Linux distribution of
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html

http://www.suissacomputers.com/shadow.htm
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/maple_pillbox_h.php

nem apropenz: 7-900$

A startup founded by an MIT professor claims to have "solved the fundamental challenges associated with multicore scalability." Tilera's first products include a 64-core Tile64 SoC (system-on-chip), PCIe Express add-in board for networking and video-processing applications, multicore-optimized Linux libraries, and an Eclipse-based multicore development environment toolset.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8981295285.html

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Sometimesh_Linux_confuses_me_PIC

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There`s a text editor out there called sex. and an image viewer called 'pornview'
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joe@UnityLinux-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get sex
Password:
E: Invalid operation sex
joe@UnityLinux-desktop:~$
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man sex
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My favorite bit of humor is from Cinerella, a video editing program that runs on Linux.

The icon for the tool "Sharpen" is a thumbnail headshot of Albert Einstein

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Bill_Gates_Using_Linux

bar lehet hogy már nem:
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX0302…

An anonymous reader notes an initiative by the New Zealand Open Source Society to weigh in on the question of standardizing Microsoft's OOXML. The organization has authored a white paper (available in several formats, HTML here) laying out the ways in which the OOXML spec falls short of what a standard should be. From the article: "'If OOXML goes through as an ISO standard, the IT industry, government and business will [be] encumbered with a 6,000-page specification peppered with potential patent liabilities' said New Zealand OSS President Don Christie. 'Alarm bells are going off in many parts of the world over OOXML. Normally ISO draft standards would be drawn up by a number of stakeholder organizations, involving an often slow process of consensus building and knowledge sharing. Since many aspects of the office document format remain proprietary, OOXML has not taken this development track.'"
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/2348230&from=rss

Something I often hear from people that talk about Linux on the desktop is this: people want to be able to go to the store, buy hardware, and be confident that it will Just Work.

I would like to point out that things are rarely this simple on Windows. And, in fact, things are often simpler on Linux these days.

Here's the example that prompted this post.
http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Linux_Hardware_Support_Better_Than_Win…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Hardware_Support_Better_Than_Windows

http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/cars.html

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Escape_Attempt_PIC

http://wilk4.com/humor/humorm223.htm

I have never think about doing a comparison between Windows and Linux but, This post inspired me to write this comparison, side by side, specially
where it says, that windows users says that "Linux is hard to install", so I wanted to test it.
http://www.go2linux.org/why-linux-is-easier-than-windows

IBM may acquire embedded software powerhouse Wind River, according to rumors originating in the blogosphere, and a statement issued by Wind River competitor Enea. Wind River stock yesterday rose about a dollar per share, or 10 percent, in advance of the rumor hitting. Wind River has denied the rumor, however.
[...]
Wind River has an engineering support staff of about 300, Bruggeman told LinuxDevices earlier this month. IBM's global staff numbers 350,000, including engineering teams in 170 countries, it says.

Both IBM and Wind River have been integrally involved with Eclipse, a cross-platform framework for cross-vendor tools integration. IBM originally donated Eclipse to the open source community, as part of a billion dollar investment in open source. More recently, Wind River has driven the Device Software Development Project, one of a handful of top-level Eclipse projects.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2766418755.html

http://www.funzu.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1566&Ite…

M. Shuttleworth: "There are very encouraging signs that the world ’s standards bodies will vote in favor of a single unified ISO document format standard.(...) It’s very important that we build on those brave decisions and call on all of our national standards committees, to support the idea of a single common standard for these critical documents."
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/132
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Things_you_can_do_to_support_single_unified_…

http://digg.com/linux_unix/I_am_gonna_ing_do_it_don_t_belive_me_huh_PIC

http://www.edu.lahti.fi/~aaspinen/

We have just heard that the SCO fiasco is finally going to end for Linux. But Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at DesktopLinux.com points out that the favorable result for Linux may cause unpleasant consequences for rival open-source operating system OpenSolaris: 'At one time, Sun was an SCO supporter ... Sun's Jonathan Schwartz — then Sun VP of software and today Sun's president and CEO — said in 2003 that Sun had bought "rights equivalent to ownership" to Unix. SCO agreed. In 2005, SCO CEO Darl McBride said that SCO had no problem with Sun open-sourcing Unix code in what would become OpenSolaris. "We have seen what Sun plans to do with OpenSolaris and we have no problem with it," McBride said. "What they're doing protects our Unix intellectual property rights." Sun now has a little problem, which might become a giant one: SCO never had any Unix IP to sell. Therefore, it seems likely that Solaris and OpenSolaris contains Novell's Unix IP.'"
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/08/11/1741256.shtml

Peugeot is planning to give Linux desktops to a wide variety of computer users, including sales force workers and workers on the manufacturing floor.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=2014000…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Peugeot_Converts_20_000_Desktops_To_Linux

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Windows_Extinguisher_PIC

Hot off the presses: Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell. Here is what matters most: [T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/SCO_is_Toast_Court_Rules_Novell_owns_the_UNI…
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810165237718

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Free_Software_Sticker_Book

mirror: http://raro.oreto.inf-cr.uclm.es/apps/stickers/
eredeti, de most epp nem megy: http://pikao.org/stickers/

A Minnesota man accused of drunk driving has sued to see the source code of the Intoxilyzer 5000EN machine that busted him, and the state Supreme Court is allowing the request to go forward.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press is reporting that Dale Lee Underdahl has challenged the effectiveness of the breath analyzer used by police to arrest him for drunk driving, and he's demanding to see the source code in order to make sure the machine works as advertised.

His attorney told the paper, "The problem is, the manufacturer of the thing thinks they can hold it back and not tell anybody how it works. For all we know, it's a random number generator."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070809-im-not-drunk-officer-you-…
http://digg.com/security/Can_I_have_your_badge_number_and_the_source_co…

Mellanox Technologies has introduced Linux NFS-RDMA (network file system over remote direct memory access) support for its Infiniband adapters. The company claims its NFS-RDMA support delivers Infiniband read and write throughputs of 1.3GB/sec and 600MB/sec, respectively, over a single InfiniBand link, "a ten-fold improvement over existing NFS over Gigabit Ethernet."
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3268629399.html

volt mar, de nagyon kiraly:)
http://www.100mb.nl/