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Archive for March 21st, 2007

Terra Soft’s Yellow Dog Linux: Taking a Power Position

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

 
Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 by Terra Soft Solutions may not yet have the name recognition of Red Hat Linux, Novell Suse Linux or relative newcomer Ubuntu Linux by Canonical, but it is already well-established as an OS provider to some of the biggest names in the Power Architecture computing industry. Terra Soft Solutions showcased [...]

Microsoft probes possible Xbox Live fraud

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

The investigation comes after gamers reported having their Xbox Live accounts hijacked and their credit cards used to buy “Microsoft Points,” the virtual currency on Xbox Live, which has more than 6 million users.
“Recently, there have been reports of fraudulent activity and account theft taking place on the Xbox Live network,” a Microsoft representative [...]

Novell Pulls Out All the Stops at BrainShare

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

 
Novell, maker of infrastructure software for the Open Enterprise, opened its BrainShare 2007 conference in Salt Lake City on Monday with a wide assortment of announcements trumpeting improvements and other software solutions to its line of Linux open source applications. From the upcoming release of the Linux Enterprise Thin Client to enhancements built into [...]

Two spiffy dictionary tools for Linux desktop users

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

 
Whether you’re learning a foreign language or just need to look up an unknown word or phrase, a good dictionary application can come in handy. JaLingo and StarDict are two such tools. Each sports a polished GUI and a set of features that puts it…

 
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Skype to offer money-transfer system via PayPal

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Web telephone calling service Skype will shortly begin allowing users to send money to other Skype users via the PayPal online payments system, Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom said on Tuesday.

Speaking at a technology conference in Silicon Valley, Skype Chief Executive Zennstrom said the company is working with PayPal, but declined [...]

How to create video titles and graphics with Kino

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

 
Kino is one of the better free software video editors for Linux, but it isn’t always intuitive. Consider such common tasks as adding titles and graphics to a clip. The best approach isn’t obvious. After a little exploring, I figured out good ways to…

 
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Sabayon Linux 3.3

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

March 19th, 2007 by james @ triedit.org
Hot on the heels of my PCLinuxOS review I decided to take a look at another distribution that aims to be simple to use yet powerful. Sabayon Linux aims to give users all the bleeding edge software of SimplyMEPIS and PCLinuxOS but is based on Gentoo and uses Portage [...]

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