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Gambas 0.94 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 General Development 37 Comments

Gambas is a Visual Basic-like programming framework for Unix and Linux. It compiles to byte-code, and executes programs with an interpreter. Currently, Gambas GUI programs rely on the Qt toolkit, but GTK+ 2.x bindings are in the works, as seen in this Gnomefiles page.

Red Hat unveils storage software

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 Red Hat 13 Comments

Red Hat has begun selling new software for creating a communal storage system that spans many devices in a network--part of its effort to expand beyond its core operating system business.

Web site virus attack blunted

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 Privacy, Security 22 Comments

Web surfers are no longer playing Russian roulette each time they visit a Web site, security researchers say, now that a far-reaching Internet attack has been disarmed.

Windows Server 2003 vs. Mac G5 Xserve

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 Rumors 32 Comments

"As someone who uses a Mac to do my daily work, I was pleasantly surprised by how far Windows has come when I sat down to compare the latest server OS software from Apple and Microsoft. My comparison focused on several common tasks, including adding users, managing services, and setting up Web and e-mail accounts and configurations. I used the latest server hardware from Apple, a very sexy-looking G5 Xserve rackmounted server, and compared it with an HP desktop running Microsoft's Windows Server 2003." Read the rest of the report here. Editor's Note: On second examination, this isn't a very good article, so don't bother unless you're bored.

Visual Studio 2005 Beta Ready to Roll

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 .NET 43 Comments

Microsoft is including Visual Studio Team System technology in the first beta of Visual Studio 2005, to be released at TechEd Europe. More info about it here and here.

AMD64 SMP Support Ready for Testing

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 OpenBSD 9 Comments

OpenBSD now has SMP support for amd64. Learn more about it here.

21 Rules of Thumb – How Microsoft develops its Software

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 Microsoft 21 Comments

"As someone who has been involved with software development for over two decades, the whole area of how you actually bring together a team and get them to successfully deliver a project on time, is one worthy of a lot of attention, if only because it is so hard to do", says David Gristwood.

Using Mono for .NET Linux Development

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 Mono 12 Comments

Learn how to get the Mono beta up and running for deploying .NET apps to Linux and other platforms.

Python applied to the Natural Language

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 General Development 1 Comment

This installment introduces you to the Natural Language Toolkit, a Python library for applying academic linguistic techniques to collections of textual data. Programming that goes by the name "text processing" is a start; other capabilities for syntactic and even semantic analysis are further specialized to studying natural languages.

Corporate Web servers infecting visitors’ PCs

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 Privacy, Security 49 Comments

Security researchers warned Web surfers to be on their guard after uncovering evidence that widespread Web server compromises have turned corporate home pages into points of digital infection.

Eclipse Goes Native

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-25 General Development 45 Comments

Red Hat's Eclipse Engineering team has freed the popular integrated development environment from its ties to a proprietary Java Virtual Machine.

The Dawn of the Apple Supercomputer

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-24 Apple 24 Comments

Illuminata senior analyst Gordon Haff thinks Apple's recently announced deal with COLSA gives Apple the credibility to make further inroads in "sci-tech" at lower levels as well. "They are seeing wins in biotech with smaller deals, and this deal legitimizes the PowerPC architecture they are using in their products," Haff told MacNewsWorld.

Martin Michlmayr, the leader of Debian Project for PCTechTalk.com

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-24 Debian 27 Comments

"Debian is not easy enough to use to give to everyone... we are working on making it more usable, but it will still take us a while to get there", states Martin Michlmayr, The Debian Project Leader in an exclusive interview for PCTechTalk.com.

Novell: Fighting Microsoft’s FUD machine

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-24 Novell and Ximian 30 Comments

Novell's acquisition of open-source start-up Ximian almost a year ago marked a turning point for the networking giant. Losing out to Microsoft in the struggle for domination of the network operating-system market precipitated a downward slide that saw the company pushed to the peripheries of directory and security software. Read the interview at ZDNet.

Mac OS X Security Myth Exposed — According to Stats

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-24 Privacy, Security 54 Comments

"Windows is more secure than you think, and Mac OS X is worse than you ever imagined". That is according to statistics published for the first time this week by Danish security firm Secunia. The stats, based on a database of security advisories for more than 3,500 products during 2003 and 2004 sheds light on the real security of enterprise applications and operating systems, according to the firm.

Microsoft Open to Open Source

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-24 Microsoft 25 Comments

Microsoft Corp. says it is looking to turn over more of its programs to open-source software developers, playing a greater role in a process that the Redmond company has criticized strongly at times in the past. Money-makers like the company's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite aren't on the table -- or anywhere near it.