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.In my last article I wrote about accessing a PostgreSQL database in C/C++. In this article, I’m going to discuss performing the same functions in C against an SQLite database. Unlike Postgresql and the supporting libraries, SQLite creates completely self-contained databases that aren’t dependant upon a client-server architecture.
The Slackware team released version 13 of its venerable Linux distribution, now supporting 64-bit computers. Slackware 13 provides “completely reworked” X packages, upgrades to KDE 4.2.4 and Xfce 4.6.1 desktops, a new .txz package format, and support for Ext4 and the GRUB bootloader, says the project.
Back on Friday we published Mac OS X 10.6 benchmarks and found it to offer some terrific performance improvements, but at the same time, there were a few notable regressions. Apple engineers have been working hard at pushing technologies like Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), OpenCL, full 64-bit support, and other changes to their OS X stack to bolster its performance capabilities and reduce the overall footprint.
Steve Jobs is a genius of design and marketing, but his track record on calling the right balance between utilizing proprietary arts and public resources (like open source and open standards) is more questionable.
As we all know, OSCON provides a multitude of opportunities for those in the Open Source world to learn not just the ins and outs of what’s new, but how to improve their projects on fronts ranging from code to documentation to community members. One such opportunity at this year’s convention came in the form of a panel presentation on press relations, a subject that can be both touchy and treacherous where PR pros are scarce. As that’s the business we’re in, and our readership includes many in target audience, we thought it would be beneficial to pass on.
The threat to Linux is its users, advocates, and fanboys not the megacorps of the IT industry.
Wayan and I and others have wrangled over the last two years over what OLPC programs would cost, and whether countries can afford it.
Tightening of the belt has seemingly paid off for Novell. The enterprise earned 38 million USD in the last quarter with Linux products. Novell’s turnover for the third quarter this year is lower than that of the third quarter last year, but the figures are still in the black. Novell closed out 2009’s third quarter with a profit of 17 million USD.
Whether you call it Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SAAS), Cloud Computing, or some other trendy buzzword, it still means ceding control of your data and applications to someone else. Bruce Byfield examines some exciting possibilities in KDE4 for incorporating networked functions into the desktop in a different way, one that keeps control in the user’s hands.
Ruben Unteregger discloses how he created a Skype trojan under contract from the German government while working for a Swiss company. Linux users may not be exempt. He has now released the trojan source code under GPL.
