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Open Question: Alcohol and being a musician? (May 08 2008 04:53 GMT) - I mean technical practice like sight reading or counting rhythms-and learning theroy. I find it impossible if i have a few beers or tied one on the previous night. Sometime hangovers can be inspirational...but real practice....forget about it! |
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the Oh! OOo dept.: The most immediately visible change to OpenOffice.org 3.0 is the new "Start Centre", new fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control in the status bar. |
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Google Starts OS Security Group (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the Help from Above dept.: Google is spearheading a volunteer workforce it hopes will become the centralized authority for responding to security issues in open source software. oCERT, short for the open source computer emergency response team, will aim to remediate security vulnerabilities and exploits in a wide range of open source programs by coordinating communication among publishers. According to Google's security blog, the group "will strive to contact software authors with all security reports and aid in debugging and patching, especially in cases where the author, or the reporter, doesn't have a background in security." |
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MySQL Server Staying Open Source, even Backup extensions (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the Reversing a Dumb Idea dept.: As reported yesterday from CommunityOne: * MySQL Server is and will always remain fully functional and open source, * so will the MySQL Connectors, and * so will the main storage engines we ship. In addition: * MySQL 6. |
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Sun ships OpenSolaris (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the New Toy! dept.: A mere three years after starting the OpenSolaris project, Sun Microsystems today releases the first official OpenSolaris version. OpenSolaris includes the all-important Project Indiana, a project from Debian founder Ian Murdock to make OpenSolaris’ package management system more like that of Linux. OpenSolaris is based on the original Solaris kernel but includes features such as the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) which offers a range of tools including instant rollback and checks to prevent data corruption. |
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Java SE 6 For Mac OS X (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the 6 dept.: After a long delay, Apple has finally released a version of Java 6 for OS X. 64-bit Intel Macs are starting to see this pushed out via Software Update... |
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Microsoft Uses Open Source Project To Extend Management To Linux (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the Interesting Headline dept.: Management software is one category where Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has never quite measured up to competitors. Redmond hopes to change that with an unlikely weapon: using code from the OpenPegasus project to extend its System Center suite to Linux and Unix environments. |
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Sun Microsystems 3Q loss stuns Wall Street (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the Ouch dept.: Wall Street expected Sun Microsystems Inc.'s global sales base to help it weather the U.S. economic slowdown and turn a profit in the first three months of the year. |
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Unix Group Takes UK Standards Body To Court Over OOXML (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the Like Fighting City Hall dept.: "Halfway through the two-month window of opportunity during which OOXML's ISO standardization can be derailed by a formal objection from a national standards body, the UK Unix Users Group is trying to force the British Standards Institution to do just that. According to the Unix Users Group, the BSI used a flawed decision-making process when they chose to approve OOXML in the ISO vote. |
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Sun CEO: "Sun Continues to Lead the Open Source Innovation Revolution" (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the Inside the Sun dept.: 'The world is moving to open source innovation, and Sun continues to lead that revolution,' said Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, as Sun reported its Q3 fiscal 2008 results. 'We continue to invest in the future created by open alternatives to proprietary technologies, best exemplified by the acquisition of MySQL,' Schwartz added. "The U.S. |
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Darl McBride Takes the Stand In Novell v. SCO (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - From the Still Going... dept.: "Reading the account, it seems that the SCO folks are currently trying to delicately separate Unixware and SVRx. However Novell's lawyers are quickly pointing out in the past where SCO made no distinction between SVRx and Unixware in their literature or press releases. In day 1's account, SCO's tree picture shows Unix as SCO IP (Unix). |
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The WIMBA experience: Technology in the Rio Grande Valley (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - Trying to orient undergraduate students into the teaching profession is difficult under any circumstances. After modifying instruction and adding a technology component over a three week period, students appeared more effectively engaged with the course content. The researcher concluded that instructional systems like the one used in this study are assisting instructors in improving student learning, adding another dimension to the classroom experience, and delivering effective instruction. A short overview of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and the area’s mostly Latino population introduces this study.Read the Full Article |
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UMassOnline logs second record year (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - UMassOnline, the online learning division of the University of Massachusetts, today announced a second consecutive fiscal year of record-breaking enrollment and revenue results. Matching last year's results, which were the best in three years, fiscal year 2008 at UMassOnline saw a 26.2% increase in enrollments, to 33,900 over 26,855 in fiscal year 2007, and a 31.9% increase in revenue to $36,977,854 over fiscal year 2007 revenues of $28,030,985.Read the Full Article |
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Traditional and Non-traditional Students in the Same Classroom? Additional Challenges of the Distance Education Environment (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - The new reality of higher education contains a fundamental shift in student demographics. More non-traditional students are seeking educational opportunities and traditional students are seeking out and expecting alternative modes of curriculum delivery. Students, especially older, non-traditional ones seek course delivery through distance education formats such as online or videoconferencing that meet the needs of their lifestyle that includes career, family and other responsibilities. As a result, Universities are moving to meet the needs of this growing contingency of new atypical student populations.Read the Full Article |
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Making Wikis Work for Scholars (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - Even if they won’t admit it, students are using Wikipedia to kick off their research and fill the gaps in their class notes ... right now. It might not show up in the bibliography, but the free, open source online resource has long since become the starting point for settling factual disputes, brainstorming paper ideas and even offering suggestions for further reading.Read the Full Article |
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7 Things You Should Know About Ning (May 08 2008 04:52 GMT) - Ning is an online service that allows users to create their own social networks and join and participate in other networks. No technical skill is required to set up a social network, and there are no limits to the number of networks a user can join. Users of Ning social networks have access to functionality similar to that of more well-known social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace. Various features allow users to read news or learn about related events, join groups, read and comment on blog entries, view photos and videos, and other activities as set up by the network creator. RSS feeds let users subscribe to updates from specific parts of the social network. |
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