TimburyDotOrg is owned and operated by Timbury Computer Services. For over ten years, Timbury Computer Services has shown home, small business and corporate clients how to use Linux and Open Source software to maximize efficiency and lower costs.Tech Czar: “I interviewed with Google last year and I noticed they were heavy on Python and this definitely came to light during the on-site interview. During the interview process I started to look into it and I liked it, a lot.”
Computerworld: “And there are plenty of remarkable open-source applications on the way this year. Quite a few projects are quietly (or not so quietly) working on major releases or significant upgrades that they aim to make available sometime during 2009. I’ve rounded up 25 of the most notable here.”
EeePC: “The popular Linux distribution Ubuntu has it latest Beta version released, version 9.04. This Beta is running fine on several Netbooks”
WiFi Planet: “The number of mobile application users is set to quadruple in five years, according to new research from In-Stat. And while Apple’s iPhone is leading the charge, In-Stat says worldwide sales of open source-based smartphones are expected to be double that of devices based on Apple’s software over the same time period.”
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: “In the screenshots below, we’ll walk through some basic examples of simple usage, assuming the script’s built in parameters. Any process consuming more than 10 percent of the CPU gets added to the blacklist and any process that shows up in the blacklist, 10 times consecutively, will get killed (No screwin’ around here 
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TuxArena: “Not so long ago I put up a tutorial which included three useful tips for Konqueror 3.5.9 (KDE3), and one of them was how to create an Open as Root service menu for directories. In this how-to I will show how to accomplish the same thing in KDE4 this time, for both Dolphin and Konqueror.”
When you save a document in your word processor, your work is encoded in a particular file format. You often have a choice of formats that you can use, with names like DOC, DOCX, RTF, WPD or ODT. Your choice of format will influence whether others can easily read your document today, whether you yourself will be able to read your document ten years from now, and whether you will be able to migrate painlessly to another word processor or operating system if and when you choose to do so.
Last week marked the release of the Ubuntu 9.04 Beta and this week there is the planned release of the Fedora 11 Beta. Both distributions are similar in the respect they will be upgrading several common packages like GNOME 2.26, but in Fedora 11 are more upstream (and experimental) bits like kernel mode-setting, the EXT4 file-system by default, and various other features. Being the Linux benchmarking fanatics that we are, we set out to run a few performance tests comparing the Ubuntu 9.04 Beta to the latest Rawhide packages that will make up today’s Fedora 11 Beta release.
Open Enterprise: “What this overlooks is that open source has reshaped the underlying economics of the software industry: it has taken out the huge financial padding that exists in the world of commercial software — aka excess profits — and which have provided fabulous returns for companies like Microsoft over the last few decades.”
Datamation: “Microsoft and TomTom have settled their patent lawsuit in a way that leaves Microsoft’s FAT patents active as a threat to other companies.”
