Aberystwyth, October 16th, 2013 – Following the creation of a new terrestrial habitat map of Anguilla in 2012 Environment Systems has embarked on Phase 2, which extends the project to the marine environment. Detailed baseline maps of habitat, vegetation, endemic species distribution, developed and vulnerable habitats are crucial to the understanding of both terrestrial and…
Month: October 2013
Music for All with Open Source Software
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I am embarrassed to admit that I have never in my life considered the struggle of blind musicians to find Braille music scores. Source: Tech
The Next Server Operating System You Buy Will be a Virtual Machine
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The next major operating system incarnations will be available as ISOs and as virtual machines (VMs). Yes, this is a prediction on my part but it’s a very good one. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
SecureDrop Project Will Pay To Install Media Outlets' WikiLeaks-Style Submission Systems
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In an age of pervasive surveillance that makes no exception for the media, the idea of a WikiLeaks-style secure submission system for anonymous whistleblowers may be more important than ever. Source: Tech
Black Duck Fully Integrates Open Source Consulting Capabilities
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Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of strategy, products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, today announced the full integration of the Olliance Group – now known as Black Duck Consulting – into the company. Source: Tech
Use EMC and VMware to Virtualize Oracle Environments
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Read why customers choose EMC and VMware to dramatically increase performance and improve Oracle licensing ROI. Read how DBAs are getting up to 3X more performance and 80% faster tuning, deploying new Oracle servers and storage in minutes, and more. read more Source: Open Source
Pysa 0.3b2
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Pysa is a configuration reverse engineering software, which is aimed to help anyone who wants to replicate an existing computer configuration – and not simply clone the entire machine. Source: Tech
Valve demos Steam Controller
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Valve’s Steam Controller proves its chops in a demonstration video, as developers begin to mull Linux ports of triple-A titles. Source: Tech
Red Hat vs Debian : Administrative Point of View
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There are hundreds of Linux distributions available, for free (in the other sense). Every Linux Enthusiast has a special taste for certain distribution, at some point of time. The taste for specific distribution largely depends upon the intended area of application. Some the famous Linux… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website…
Migrating to MariaDB from MySQL
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Ever since Oracle bought MySQL a fair number of MySQL users started looking for an alternative, due mainly to doubts that Oracle would be a good steward of a key software project. Let’s go back in time a little bit to understand what’s at stake, and look at the reasons to move away from, or…