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Roll Your Own YouTube/Flickr with MediaGoblin
Everyone has wasted an afternoon on YouTube clicking through videos of talking cats, screaming goats and bad-lip-reading renditions of popular movies. Heck, there are plenty of YouTube videos of me doing odd and silly things as well. (Does anyone remember 'Buntu Family Theater?) For important family videos, however, I much prefer to control my own data. more>>
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Can We Stop Playing Card Games with Business?
A friend who works in one of the big banks recently told me that any new-fangled approach to identity and payments is going to have a hard time getting traction while credit cards continue to work as well as they do. "Using credit cards is too easy, too normal, too entrenched in Business As Usual", he said. They used to say the same thing about Windows. more>>
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3.16: mainline
Version:3.16 (mainline)
Released:2014-08-03
Source:linux-3.16.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-3.16.tar.sign
Patch:patch-3.16.xz
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August 2014 Issue of Linux Journal: Programming
Chocolate in My Peanut Butter
Programming always has been that "thing" people did that I never understood. more>>
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3.12.26: longterm
Version:3.12.26 (longterm)
Released:2014-08-01
Source:linux-3.12.26.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-3.12.26.tar.sign
Patch:patch-3.12.26.xz (Incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-3.12.26
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Open-Source Space
As I write this, NASA has just passed another milestone in releasing its work to the Open Source community. A press release came out announcing the release on April 10, 2014, of a new catalog of NASA software that is available as open source. This new catalog includes both older software that was previously available, along with new software being released for the first time. more>>
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3.4.101: longterm
Version:3.4.101 (longterm)
Released:2014-07-31
Source:linux-3.4.101.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-3.4.101.tar.sign
Patch:patch-3.4.101.xz (Incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-3.4.101
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3.10.51: longterm
Version:3.10.51 (longterm)
Released:2014-07-31
Source:linux-3.10.51.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-3.10.51.tar.sign
Patch:patch-3.10.51.xz (Incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-3.10.51
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3.14.15: longterm
Version:3.14.15 (longterm)
Released:2014-07-31
Source:linux-3.14.15.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-3.14.15.tar.sign
Patch:patch-3.14.15.xz (Incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-3.14.15
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3.15.8: stable
Version:3.15.8 (stable)
Released:2014-07-31
Source:linux-3.15.8.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-3.15.8.tar.sign
Patch:patch-3.15.8.xz (Incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-3.15.8
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Silicon Mechanics Gives Back
Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announced this week that Wayne State University (WSU) is the recipient of the company’s 3rd Annual Research Cluster Grant. This includes donation of a complete high-performance compute cluster from Silicon Mechanics and several of its partners. more>>
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Reglue: Opening Up the World to Deserving Kids, One Linux Computer at a Time
They say you never forget your first computer. For some of us, it was a Commodore 64 or an Apple IIe. For others, it was a Pentium 233 running Windows 95. Regardless of the hardware, the fond memories of wonder and excitement are universal. For me, I'll never forget the night my father brought home our first computer, a Tandy 1000. more>>
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3.15.7: stable
Version:3.15.7 (stable)
Released:2014-07-28
Source:linux-3.15.7.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-3.15.7.tar.sign
Patch:patch-3.15.7.xz (Incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-3.15.7
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