Elastic Tabstops – the Solution to the ‘Tabs vs. Spaces’ Issue

  Submitted by anonymous General Development 46 Comments
When developping in a large team, you have to make convention about the use of tab in source code. This article suggests a better solution: rather than saying that a tab character (a 'hard tab') will move the cursor until the cursor's position is a multiple of N characters, we should say that a tab character is a delimiter between table cells. This has a nice side effect, since proportional fonts can now be used.
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Microsoft Wins Antitrust Suit, Faces EU Fines

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Good as well as bad news for Microsoft on the legal front. Their good news is that a judge has rejected Go Computing's claim that Microsoft used dirty tricks to keep it out of the operating system market. However, their bad news is that an EU committee ruled on Monday that Microsoft failed to comply with a landmark antitrust decision, paving the way for fines of up to 2 million euros a day, a source familiar with the situation said.
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Qt 4.2 Technical Preview Released

  Submitted by an Anonymous Reader Qt 24 Comments
Last week Trolltech announced the release of a technology preview of Qt 4.2, the upcoming version of the cross-platform toolkit scheduled for the 4th quarter of 2006. This release features a new framework for handling canvas items (Graphics View) and improved support for desktop integration, including dbus bindings, Glib eventloop support, switchable button order and a Clearlooks-like style.
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Stable Cairo on BeOS; Haiku Gets NE2000 Driver

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A few days ago we reported on the release of Cairo 1.2.0-- as it turns out, this also happens to be the first stable Cairo release with support for BeOS. Haiku's app_server uses a different 2D graphics library, Anti-Grain Geometry. Also, Haiku now has a driver for NE2000 compatible network cards. This means developers can now test the networking stack with QEMU, which emulates an NE2000 compatible card.
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Dropping GNU/Linux Helps Restore Corel Profitability

  Submitted by lmh8 Linux 36 Comments
After six years of financial difficulties and reorganizations, Corel finally seems on track with promising first and second quarters in 2006 and a return to public trading. One of the first steps in this turnabout, according to Graham Brown, executive vice president of software development at Corel, was the jettisoning of the company's products for Linux, WordPerfect for Linux and Corel Linux.
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Review: Nokia 770 Internet Tablet OS 2006

  Submitted by Bill Beebe Wireless 1 Comment
BlogBeebe, who has reviewed the Nokia 770 before, now reviews the 2006 version of the 770 OS. "I was not happy to find out I'd paid my USD 360 to become a captive beta tester. I find there's still a lot that needs to be cleaned up, enhanced, or just plain deleted. I suppose, over time, it will continue to advance and improve, and I'll upgrade (more carefully, after the Beta 2006 fiasco) as the enhancements emerge. But for personal as well as professional use I'm going to think long and hard before recommending Nokia."
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A Real Year of the Linux Desktop – What’s Needed

  Submitted by jchalifour Linux 54 Comments
"They said it at LinuxWorld in Toronto a few months ago. They've buzzed it at analysts, and now the press is saying it to the public. Novell says this is the year of the Linux desktop, and I'm familiar with evidence showing gains in popularity for Linux. Yet, I disagree that this is the year. Nothing is happening this year to make it, specifically, the year of the Linux desktop and I'm going to hypothesize what could change that."
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Java Static Analysis and Custom Bug Detectors

  Submitted by anonymous Java 1 Comment
Jave static analysis and custom bug detectors can be a very cost-effective way to improve software quality. By creating a detector for a known bug pattern, we can search for that bug pattern not only in the current code base for a specific project, but in any project, current or future. This article looks at how static analysis tools can change the way you manage software quality.
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Gtk+ 2.10 Released

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Gtk+ 2.10 has been released. Check the release notes. This release offers better printing support, improved drag and drop support, and much more. For the record: "GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites."
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FreeDOS Is Not Dead

  Submitted by Anonymous Coward OS News 16 Comments
Smile, you're on candid camera! Apparantly, FreeDOS is anything but dead. "FreeDOS is definitely still very much alive! Moving forward, I'm trying to put the focus on our '1.0' release. What's done is done. Right now, I want to get a '1.0' out there by end of July. We're already pretty stable, so what we have by month end will be '1.0'. I think we can do it." We got owned.
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WinFS, Project Orange To Be Reborn in iView’s Media Pro?

  Submitted by Gzzy Microsoft 19 Comments
"It's no secret that WinFS was a great idea without a killer application. Microsoft had to go to great lengths in their demos and evangelism to get people to picture what would be capable with a WinFS application. Microsoft also had problems recruiting for their 'killer app' because those job openings posted on the WinFS blog were actually first posted on the Microsoft website in February and still unfilled in May. iView's Media Pro application is the perfect killer app for WinFS/SQL Server codename 'Katmai'. It relies heavily on a database for it's features."
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Third Issue of Quarterly OS2eCS eZine Released

  Submitted by Jeramie Samphere OS/2 7 Comments
The third issue of the quarterly OS2eCS eZine has been released. In this issue: covering the updated JFS/LVM and Lucide; writing NetRexx programs using Java Swing; using the AMD Geode CPU to run OS/2 and eComStation; using a D-Link DFE-690TXD Fast Ethernet cardbus card with eComStation; and more.
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Damn Small Linux 3.0 Review

  Submitted by Mark Linux 13 Comments
As its name suggests, Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a damn small distribution! The ISO is just 50MB and it fits on a business card CD so you can carry it with you wherever you go. It also acts as a Live CD so you can run the system without installing it on the machine. The idea is to access your Linux environment from any computer, thanks to a tiny CD that would fit in your wallet.
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