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An anonymous reader writes “I’m moving very soon for work, and will be several hundred miles away from my young family for six to nine months. Obviously I’ll travel back as often as possible, and there’s always Skype and XBLA video, but the whole ‘now it’s time to talk to dad’ thing seems … a little weak.

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Persistent Home Videoconferencing Solution?

An anonymous reader writes “Google is already experimenting with GPU acceleration in its latest Chrome developer builds. Chrome 7 can separate different layers of a webpage into CPU and GPU processes and combine those layers using the GPU as long as the browser is now launched with certain switches. Chromium 7 has also a new Labs feature that reveals that Google is thinking about moving tabs from the top of the browser to the left side

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Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration

If you have not yet noticed, I am a nerd. Not just your garden variety, everyday, commonplace nerd, but a big nerd. With that cleared up, I could not help but purchase an ARTiGO.

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Hands On With The VIA ARTiGO A1100

alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World about an experiment gone wrong which affected a big chunk of internet traffic yesterday morning: “It was kicked off when RIPE NCC (Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre) and Duke ran an experiment that involved the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) — used by routers to know where to send their traffic on the Internet. RIPE started announcing BGP routes that were configured a little differently from normal because they used an experimental data format.

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Duke Research Experiment Disrupts Internet Traffic

John3 writes “Searching Google Maps for the Lincoln Memorial is returning the location of the FDR Memorial instead.

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Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow?

Even before the first Oracle-driven JavaOne conference has seen the light of day, an alternative Java conference is being planned for those not thrilled with Oracle. Media company Software & Support Media (S&S) plans to offer a U.S.-based version of its JAX (Java Apache XML) conference, which the company has been conducting in Germany for several years. “A lot of the Java community has been a little upset about how the JavaOne conference is being [run] by Oracle,” said a source familiar with S&S plans.

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JavaOne conference may get a rival

snydeq writes “Citing concerns about Oracle’s lawsuit against it, Google has backed out of the upcoming JavaOne conference. ‘Oracle’s recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally,’ Google’s Joshua Bloch said in a blog post. The move may signal eventually fragmentation for Java, with Google conceivably splintering off the Java-like language it uses for Android.” Read more of this story at Slashdot

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Google Backs Out of JavaOne

This morning, I came across two Phoronix articles (here and here) generating some sort of hype with regards to a ZFS port for the Linux kernel, with article headlines as Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month. My response to this, …

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dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/blog » ZFS as a Linux kernel module …

OpenID is a critical piece of "Open Web" infrastructure. The ability to authenticate users without relying on a single gatekeeper entity puts every site on an equal playing field. As a result, community-driven, decentralized networks can enjoy all the same advantages as closed-source, proprietary players, and end users retain more of their autonomy and privacy.

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Weekend Project: Accept OpenID Logins

  Since at least 2008, the Btrfs Linux filesystem has been talked about as a next-generation technology one day potentially rivalling or supplanting the current dominant Linux filesystems.

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Report: Next Generation of Btrfs Linux Filesystem Nears Prime Time

Running multiple operating systems side-by-side gives you the chance to test applications, run platform-specific software, and tons more without ever rebooting. It’s also extremely cool. Here’s how to run Windows, Mac, and Linux …

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How to Run Windows, Mac, and Linux Side by Side and Pain-Free with …

An early, pre-alpha version of Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser has been around for months, but the Firefox developer has today released an official full alpha for download. And it's not just Android that's benefitting—the mobile browser has also been released for Nokia's N900 smartphone. 

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Fennec Alpha Released For Android And Nokia N900

One of the challenges of being a Linux desktop user is the difficulty in finding systems that ship with Linux pre-installed. Major OEMs often offer a handful of Linux offerings, but to get a wider range of hardware and choices of Linux distributions you have to look to smaller vendors that are really interested in promoting Linux — like ZaReason .

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Review: ZaReason Verix Laptop

RossR writes “There was a hydrogen fire and explosion at a renewable fuel station used by government vehicles near Rochester’s airport.

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Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport

New tab feature, formally released as Firefox Panorama, will enable users to organize and synchronize their Web activities in novel ways on the popular open source browser.

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Mozilla Rolls Out ‘Tab Candy’ for Firefox 4

The next best thing to being there is being able to log into your systems remotely. One of the great things about Linux is the variety of tools you can use to remotely administer your Linux desktop and server systems.

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Remote Administration with Linux

Dreamwidth Studios ' co-founder Denise Paolucci remembers growing up in a family-owned corner deli, some of whose customers had been eating there daily for decades.

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Dreamwidth Studios: Bringing the Corner Store to Open Source Publishing

Welcome back to Linuxables, where Linux.com makes you very "able" to use Linux! We resume our series with my favorite text editor Nano. Nano is an ncurses-based editor (which means it must be run from a terminal window) that focuses on simplicity

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Linuxables: Introduction to the Nano Text Editor

Oracle has announced that the opening keynote at JavaOne will be presented by Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison and Executive Vice President Thomas Kurian. The theme will be the company's plans for Java and the strategic future of the Java programming language..

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JavaOne: Larry Ellison to chart Java future

Good news for netbook users – netbooks just got faster and battery life just got better. Intel has released its first dual-core mobile Atom processor

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N550 – First mobile, dual-core Atom processor released