By Sharon Machlis Facebook has open-sourced its Prophet forecasting tool, designed “to make it easier for experts and non-experts to make high-quality forecasts,” according to a blog post by Sean J. …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: February 2017
IDG Contributor Network: Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu 16.04 or 16.10
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By Jim Lynch Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu 16.04 or 16.10 Simple Screen Recorder makes it possible for you to record everything on your screen in Linux. You can record the entire …read more Source:: OpenSource
Olympic Committee appeals Telstra Federal Court decision
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The Australian Olympic Committee has appealed the Federal Court’s dismissal that Telstra contravened the Olympic Insignia Protection Act through its Rio advertising campaign, saying the decision ‘diminishes the value of …read more Source:: Legal
Chrome extension brings encryption to Gmail
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By Fahmida Y. Rashid The security and privacy community was abuzz over the weekend after Google said it was open-sourcing E2Email, a Chrome plugin designed to ease the implementation and use of encrypted email. …read more Source:: OpenSource
Start with Scratch: Learn Linux by rolling your own distro
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By Serdar Yegulalp If you want to learn learn Linux from top to bottom, what better way to learn than by rolling your own mini-distribution? Linux From Scratch, a combination software project …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Install HandBrake 1.03 in Ubuntu or Linux Mint
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By Jim Lynch Install HandBrake 1.03 in Ubuntu or Linux Mint HandBrake is a terrific tool for transcoding video. The app is free and open source, and you can now get version 1.03. …read more Source:: OpenSource
The top 8 new open source projects
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By Black Duck Software Open Source Rookies of the YearImage by Black Duck For nine years, the Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year awards have recognized the most innovative and influential open source …read more Source:: OpenSource
Don’t panic about SHA-1—fix it
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By Serdar Yegulalp Last week, Google unveiled proof that it had successfully created a collision attack against the SHA-1 hash algorithm, a security weakness long suspected to be exploitable with modern computing …read more Source:: OpenSource
3 little things in Linux 4.10 that will make a big difference
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By Serdar Yegulalp Linux never sleeps. Linus Torvalds is already hard at work pulling together changes for the next version of the kernel (4.11). But with 4.10 now out, there are three groups …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux: Install LibreOffice 5.3 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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By Jim Lynch Install LibreOffice 5.3 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS LibreOffice is one of the best office suites available, and now you can install LibreOffice 5.3 as a Snap app in Ubuntu …read more Source:: OpenSource