<b>LinuxPlanet:</b> "Paul Ferrill introduces us to the Shutter screen grab for Linux application. Shutter offers a simple interface and a whole lot of functionality. including cursor capture, whole Web page capture, and annotations."
Database management systems (DBMSs) have simultaneously simplified and complicated the lives of many IT workers. Error codes passed from the database back to the application can take on more than 1000 values. What level of error checking should developers include in applications?
Three Spanish hackers believed to be responsible for using a botnet to steal log-in credentials and customer banking data were arrested following a multinational investigation.
<b>Aaron Bockover:</b> "After lots of intense work and collaboration, the Netbook profile for MeeGo 1.0 has been released today. As such, I am particularly pleased to announce in conjunction that Banshee is the default and integrated media player for MeeGo."
Networking and security firm offers commercial support for Quaresso, a startup offering a new spin on the armored browser with remote support to shore up the last mile.
Web-based applications are fantastic, except for that whole "running in the browser" thing. Looking to free your browser-based apps from your Web browsing? Take a look at Mozilla Prism.
<b>Linux.com:</b> "Today we are announcing the 2010 Linux.com Linux Gurus and want to thank them and the rest of the Linux.com community for their important contributions to the site."
Study finds that 76 percent of C-level executives now say that securing their business-critical apps is the most important aspect of their data protection program.
States are passing more and more data security laws, the US Senate and the House have bills meandering through Congress, securing personal information and encrypting that data is no longer optional.
This white paper tells the story of how three Intel employees optimized DreamWorks Animation’s rendering, animation, and special effects applications without recompiling or relinking.
Seeking to pry market share from rivals Microsoft and Oracle, IBM Thursday launched a new version of its database software that bundles more of the autonomic capabilities the Armonk, N.Y. firm has been touting as a differentiator from the competition.
<b>The Register:</b> "But why does Microsoft make money from Google's software? Android is based on open source software - and Microsoft has long raised fears that aspects of Linux may infringe on its patents."
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "Andy Ritger, NVIDIA manager responsible for the Linux graphics cards, as announced on the X.org mailing list that the graphics chip company will no longer develop the open source 2D video drivers for its chips. He recommends using the VESA X driver instead."
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "A straightforward but very useful idea, Corntab is a dynamic visual crontab generator for Unix and Linux servers produced by David Knell."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "Linux vendor Red Hat today released the first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6), giving observers a look at what's to come in the next version of its flagship operating system platform."
Learn a technique to fetch column data for MySQL crosstabs by emulating views. By replacing tables with a subquery subset, the resulting view will contain a limited dataset that has been filtered for that column field.