Stories about: NU

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    New supercomputer to boost Aussie research (updated) 16/11/2009 10:30:00

    Australia's newest and most powerful supercomputer, set to rocket into the world's top 40, will be launched in Canberra today.
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    Windows 7 endless reboot answer evades Microsoft 28/10/2009 07:05:00

    Users remained stymied today by endless reboots after trying to upgrade their PCs to Windows 7, according to messages posted on Microsoft's support forum.
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    Richard Stallman joins call for Oracle to divest MySQL 21/10/2009 06:23:00

    Oracle must be stopped from taking over MySQL, according to Richard Stallman, a developer and prominent activist for free software.
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    The best free open source software for Mac OS X 14/10/2009 21:04:00

    Most Mac lovers love the Mac for the carefully wrought user interfaces and the crisp design, and never pay attention to the open source at the heart of the operating system. But underneath this beautiful facade is a heart built upon the rich - if often chaotic - world of open source software.
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    The greatest open source software of all time 17/08/2009 20:11:00

    Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners -- the best open source software for business -- and every year we have shamefully neglected the very cream of the open source crop. While we've awarded the Dojos, Xens, and SugarCRMs, we've ignored Linux, GNU, and the *BSDs -- because, well, don't their excellence and importance go without saying? In other cases, where open source giants did receive our award (Snort and Wireshark come to mind), a "mere" Bossie almost seems like faint praise.
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    The best free open source software for Windows 05/08/2009 20:14:00

    To many, free open source software and Microsoft Windows seem to be mutually exclusive. After all, the open source development model is most closely associated with the Linux OS and, to a lesser degree, various Unix derivatives. So when you mention the two together, you often get some rather strange looks. This is a shame because there exists a growing landscape of compelling free and open source solutions just waiting for the intrepid Windows user.
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    Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of the OS 28/07/2009 01:27:00

    Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.
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    Engineer: Microsoft violated GPL before Linux code release 24/07/2009 08:51:00

    Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) was in violation of that license before Microsoft made it available, according to an open-source network engineer.
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    Red Hat lauds, criticizes Microsoft's Linux efforts 23/07/2009 07:10:00

    While applauding Microsoft's contribution of code to the Linux community this week, Red Hat nonetheless urged its rival to pledge that it will never use its patents against Linux.
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    How to create a high-key photo 14/07/2009 05:00:00

    Ever wonder how photographers get the amazing results you see in professional portraits and glamour shots? Well, to be blunt, they cheat. No one ever said that photography had to accurately reflect reality; photographers commonly tweak lighting, color, saturation, and other factors to get the look they're after.
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    Ubuntu Server 11/06/2009 17:15:00

    Ubuntu Server is a fast, free, no-frills Linux distribution that fills a niche between utilitarian Debian and the GUI-driven and, some would argue, over-featured Novell SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
 
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