Okay it was just a couple of weeks ago and I was telling you about a file uploader for Flickr using linux. Well spanky I found another one and this has even more options and if you are using a debian based distro you will have it already. As you can guess from the header the name of the tool is Kflickr and yes it works and works darn well, giving you even more options as to the tagging of photos and adding them to sets that you have created. If you upload a lot of photos then this is another tool that you want to add to your arsenal of posting tools. to check out its features stop in at their Website and see what you think.

If Microsoft didn’t figure prominently in the Linux blogs over the course of any given week, it would be as if the crew of the Enterprise temporarily forgot to pay attention to the Klingons — it just doesn’t happen. What was unusual this week, however, was that much of the discussion in the blogosphere was triggered by an overture of sorts by the Redmond giant to the open source community. For those who missed it, Microsoft announced Thursday that it would make Windows and other products work better with non-Microsoft software.

 

Should Linux Cost More?

The immense popularity of sites like YouTube has unexpectedly turned Flash Video (FLV) into one of the de facto standards for Internet video. The proliferation of sites using FLV has been a boon for remix culture, as creators made their own versions of posted videos. And thus far there has been no widespread DRM standard for Flash or Flash Video formats; indeed, most sites that use these formats simply serve standalone, unencrypted files via ordinary web servers.

Ah jeesh! Is there no end to this DRM stupidity!?

Source: EFF

Technorati Tags: Adobe, DRM, Flash

“Chip vendor AMD wants to help developers produce applications that are faster than ever before. To do that AMD has open sourced its AMD Performance Library (APL) as the Framewave open source project.

“AMD claims that it has been working on APL (now Framewave) for almost three years and that over 3200 performance routine optimizations are now part of the library. The AMD effort is intended to be open and not exclude other chip vendors like Intel, though Intel has its own open source effort for driving optimizations…”

Source: Linux Today

Technorati Tags: AMD, Open Source, Framewave

In what is seen as a dramatic turnaround, Microsoft, said it is implementing new interoperability principles and actions across its business products to foster more open engagement with customers and the industry, including open-source communities. This should mean the end of Microsoft’s patent threats against Linux.

uh huh, I’ll believe that when I see it….

Source: IT Business

Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Open Source

MONTREAL — Police say they have arrested 16 young Quebec hackers who allegedly targeted nearly one million computers worldwide.

Quebec provincial police say computer owners in more than 100 countries could have become victims. The 16 people arrested are aged between 17 and 26 and are accused of using software and hacking methods to disable computers so they could get remote access and steal information

Source: CTV.ca

If you need to set up a secure, easily configurable Web server in as short a time as possible, then Abyss Web Server might just be the product for you. In development since 2002, its current version (2.5) runs on Linux, BSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. Its simple installation and setup (no obscure text configuration files) allows you to code your site with PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, and even ASP.Net, if you’re using the Windows version.

Abyss: a small, sweet Web server

Webcams are everywhere these days: they’re standard on a lot of laptops, LCD monitors are starting to incorporate them, and decent standalone USB webcams can be had for less than $40. In this two-part series we’ll set up a Webcam on Linux, and then use it to perform a number of amazing and fun tasks.

 

Tutorial: Webcams in Linux, Part 1

Introduction

Vector Linux 5.9, released in late December of last year, is a Slackware 12.0-based distribution that uses Xfce 4.4.2 as its default user interface (“UI”). Generally speaking, Xfce requires less horsepower than other UIs, like GNOME and KDE, and so Vector Linux (“VL” for short) bills itself as an excellent operating system to install on older, lower-powered computers. I’ve been using it for the past two weeks, and like what I see.

VL comes in several free (i.e. “download the ISO and burn it yourself”) and non-free flavors. If you want to try VL before installing it, there’s also a live CD available. VL also produces a KDE-based “SOHO” edition, currently at version 5.8; and they’re working on a 64-bit version of VL 5.9 Standard, which is in beta as of this writing. Both the Standard and SOHO versions come in for-purchase “Deluxe” versions, which include extra software and email support. They’re available at the VL CD store.

While I am not a fan of slackware I do like Vector and have installed it a couple of times, well done distro, Baldy

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Don’t look now, but the third volley in the second browser war is about to be fired, and it’s packing an impressive payload. Mozilla, the folks developing the Firefox Web browser, last week released a new test version. It’s the third beta of Firefox 3.0, and it’s solid enough that it could become your main browser right now, even before it’s formally finished. Regular readers know I usually warn mainstream users away from beta software, but Firefox 3.0 beta 3 is different. Not only does it seem to be very stable, but it fixes several problems that bothered Firefox 2.0 users.

Firefox 3 Beta: Good Enough Now and Getting Better