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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF Defends Right to Read Public Web Pages Without Getting SuedThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a public notice regarding the right to read public web pages. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a brief this week in support of one of its previous court opponents, DirecTV, arguing that a federal appeals court should throw out a lawsuit against the company for accessing a public website. DirecTV is being sued by Michael Snow, the publisher of an anti-DirecTV website that contained warnings to DirecTV employees that they were not authorized to enter."
EFF: Delaware Supreme Court Protects Anonymous BloggerThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a press release regarding the protection of a Blogger's identity. "Wilmington, Delaware - The Delaware Supreme Court has protected the identity of a blogger in the case of Doe v. Cahill, finding that the plaintiffs failed to meet the strict standards required by the First Amendment to unmask an anonymous critic. It dismissed the case Wednesday. This is the first state supreme court to rule on a "John Doe" subpoena or to address bloggers' rights. "Bloggers have a strong First Amendment right to speak anonymously," said Kurt Opsahl, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)."
EFF: Broadcast flag updateThe EFF has posted an update on efforts to legislate a broadcast flag in the U.S.; this one looks at the push in the House of Representatives. "Fortunately for us, the fact that 20 out of 57 committee members support the Flag sends a message the MPAA doesn't want anyone to hear: the Broadcast Flag is controversial. If it wasn't, no one would be writing open letters to anyone else. And that means this committee has a duty to engage in serious, careful, comprehensive discussion and debate before the Flag legislation goes anywhere."
Rising Stars Sign With GNOME Foundation (GnomeDesktop)The GNOME Foundation has announced the joining of three new corporate members to its advisory board. "OpenedHand Ltd., Imendio AB and Fluendo S.L. These young growing companies are eager to support the GNOME Desktop project and become more deeply involved by joining GNOME's advisory board."
FreeMED in Japanese (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews reports on efforts to translate the FreeMED practice management system to Japanese. "A group of physicians in Kuyshu, Japan have set about translating FreeMED into Japanese. One of the difficulties they recognized early in the translation process was difficulty assigning words to some English phrases, keeping the intent or the meaning."
Commercial announcements ControlTower Console Manager Now Available for LinuxCarlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions has released a Linux version of their ControlTower Console Management System, a remote management console for serial communications devices. "ControlTower 3.L provides a reliable time and cost saving solution for monitoring and controlling multiple devices through an RJ-45 or DB-25 interface from a central location or by remote access. It enables a single Linux-based system to function as a common console (monitor and keyboard) for managed devices. ControlTower 3.L is integrated into the distributions of Mandriva, RedHat, and SuSE."
The IBM/Novell blade subscription dealIBM and Novell have sent out a press release (click below for the full text) on their hot new offer: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscribers can now pay a single price covering all blade servers in a single chassis, rather than having to subscribe each blade individually. Doubtless this deal will appeal to some customers, but it highlights the sort of licensing hassles that drove many of us to free software in the first place. Even if the fees are not an issue, the administrative effort involved in keeping everything straight takes a lot of time away from getting real work done.
InterMapper 4.4b2 availableVersion 4.4b2 of InterMapper, a commercial Network Monitoring and Alerting application with a free trial version, is out with several new features.
Merak Mail Server Now Available in Linux FlavorIceWarp has introduced a Linux version of its Merak Mail Server. "IceWarp Software Ltd., makers of the popular and globally deployed Merak E-mail Server Suite for Windows(r), today announced the availability of its award-winning e-mail server for Linux-based networks in SMB, enterprise and ISP environments."
Novell Launches the Better Desktop Initiative for the Open Source CommunityNovell, Inc. has announced the launch of the Better Desktop initiative, a new component of the openSUSE project that provides open source developers with usability testing data and resources they can use to improve the quality of the Linux desktop.
Red Hat Names Brian Stevens CTORed Hat, Inc. has announced the appointment of Brian Stevens to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President of Engineering.
SugarCRM Announces Open Source Developer ContestSugarCRM Inc. has announced the 100th extension to its Sugar Suite open source customer relationship management (CRM) platform and the launching of a developer contest with $2,500 in cash prizes at SugarForge.org.
Xara announces Xtreme Open SourceXara has announced the release of their Xtreme image processing software under an open-source license. ""Few companies can take the announcement that Microsoft intend to get into their market, lying down." says CEO Charles Moir. Xara, developer of popular Windows graphics software, is making a move to defend themselves against Microsoft moving into their market, and at the same time is attempting to change the graphics landscape."
New Books Beyond Java - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Beyond Java by Bruce Tate.
How to Cheat at IT Project Management--latest release from SyngressSyngress has published the book How to Cheat at IT Project Management by Susan Snedaker.
Prefactoring - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Prefactoring by Ken Pugh.
Pragmatic publishes Rapid GUI Development with QtRubyPragmatic Programmers has published the book Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby by Caleb Tennis.
Prentice Hall Publishes "Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination"Prentice Hall has published the book Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination by Mark Wilding and Dan Behman.
Resources Dr. Dobb's Journal Launches its 'Google Summer of Code' SeriesCMP Media LLC has announced the coverage of the Google Summer of Code in the December, 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal. "Google awarded $4,500 to each student who completed the project. Dr. Dobb's Summer of Code editorial series will profile student participants, including their bios, schools and technical overviews of their projects."
FSF Europe NewsletterThe October 9, 2005 edition of the FSF Europe Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news.
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly NewsThe October 5, 2005 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is available, take a look for the latest new documentation releases.
The First Chapter of the CUPS BookThe CUPS project has published the first chapter of the CUPS Book, titled: The History of Printing in UNIX. "The same driver supported all MacOS applications, and for a short time the Macintosh ruled the desktop publishing market. Microsoft's first Windows operating environment duplicated this paradigm, and to this day printing and displaying information is handled almost identically in Windows and MacOS. Applications for these operating systems and others like NeXT and BeOS are able to produce professional-quality output with a generic printing interface, yet until recently UNIX has only had its print file spooling system."
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (howtoForge)howtoForge has published version 1.0 of the document Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL. "This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses."
Contests and Awards The Code Project, Mainsoft Announce Winners of 'Race to Linux'The Code Project and Mainsoft Corporation have announced the winners of the "Race to Linux". "The Race to Linux challenged developers to port three of Microsoft's(R) open-source ASP.NET starter kits from Windows to Linux using their cross-platform tool of choice (e.g. Mono, Grasshopper from Mainsoft, PHP or Macromedia). More than 200 developers registered for the competition."
Upcoming Events Speakers from Red Hat and Open ePolicy Group Join GOSCONThe Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) is taking place October 13 - 14, 2005, in Portland, Oregon. "The upcoming conference has attracted increasing national interest in recent weeks, and the speakers added to its agenda include Oregon Congressman David Wu; Jeffrey Kaplan, founder and director of the Open ePolicy Group based at Harvard University; and Tom Rabon, executive vice president of corporate affairs for Red Hat, Inc."
Free and Open Source Meetings/Presentations at Fall AMIA 2005 (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the AMIA 2005 conference. "The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall conference will be held October 22nd-26th in Washington D.C. Hilton Towers. This is the most complete information that is available so far for the goings-on, exact meeting rooms to be announced: The Open Source Working Group Business meeting will be held in the Hilton Washington - State, Terrace Level 10/24/2005 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM."
Linux Installfest workshops in Davis - Saturday, October 15thThe Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold another Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, California on October 15, 2005.
linux.conf.au 2006: Registrations are openThe 2006 edition of linux.conf.au (lca) is coming up in January. Registrations are open and the early bird discount is available until November 18, 2005. The 2006 edition of lca will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, at The University of Otago.
CodeCon 2006 Call For PapersA Call For Papers has gone out for CodeCon 2006. The event takes place in San Francisco, CA on February 10-12, 2006. Submissions are due by December 15, 2005.
Events: October 13 - December 8, 2005
Web sites KDETalk, a KDE Jabber server (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the new kdetalk.net site. "For KDE users and contributors who aren't Jabber addicts yet, a new public Jabber server is available at kdetalk.net. For those which don't know Jabber yet, it's an open Instant Messaging protocol. It has some advantage such as being decentralized, more secure, extensible, and last but not least in our free software world, open and developed by an open community."
Audio and Video programs Beta Broadcast 003: Good and Evil (O'ReillyNet)O'ReillyNet has announced its third audio magazine program. "This week, O'Reilly's audio magazine program Distributing the Future takes a look at good and evil. Tim O'Reilly examines the good coming up in Web 2.0; David Smith and Peter Saint-Andrew work on helping you tell who's good and who's evil on the web; Ian Langworth and chromatic help to make Perl development better for everyone by pushing testing; Danny O'Brien shares what he's done to stop evil and encourage good; and Max Goff brings his law of medians."
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