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Governments urged to lay foundation for SaaS

The best guardians of the underlying architecture are governments, a Salesforce.com executive said. Read more »

Ubuntu gets user interface team

Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, this week said it would hire a team to help make open source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use. Read more »

Ubuntu debuts Jaunty Jackalope

The Ubuntu project has detailed plans for the April 2009 version of its Linux distribution, continuing its habit of naming its software after animals by dubbing Ubuntu 9.04 "The Jaunty Jackalope". Read more »

Google quietly updates Chrome

Search giant Google has quietly begun releasing a hastily prepared update to its Chrome browser to fix some security problems. Read more »

Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »

VMware apologises for licensing bug

VMware's chief executive has apologised for the disruption caused by a licensing issue which resulted in the company's latest hypervisors, ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2, not powering on after being turned off. Read more »

VMware bug causes worldwide chaos

A flaw in the VMware licensing code is responsible for problems with the software that are affecting users worldwide. Read more »

Interview: Red Hat's new CEO

Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News. Read more »

Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank

Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet. Read more »

Facebook to 'punish' bad apps

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed a change in the social networking company's approach to its application platform when he took the stage at the F8 conference in the US today. Read more »

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Communication is the key to controlling project chaos

This article suggests steps to take during a chaotic project to calm the waters. He also offers advice on how to prevent a future project from spinning out of control. Read more »

Developing real-time applications with Java RTS 2.0

Java Real-Time System (RTS) 2.0 is Sun's fully compliant implementation of the industry standard set of extensions for the Java platform. It helps you set process priorities according to importance (this is typically not supported in Java software applications). Read more »

Manipulate process priority with nice

Modern operating systems are multi-user and multi-tasking, which means that multiple users and multiple tasks can be using the computer at any given time. Each process has a niceness value associated with it, which is what the kernel uses to determine which processes require more processor time than others. Read more »

What's new in SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2008 will be released in 2nd quarter of 2008. SQL Server 2008 will also be part of a joint launch with Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on February 27, 2008. Read more »

10 ways to effectively estimate and control project costs

Estimating what a project will cost is only half the battle; controlling those costs during the project and after delivery is equally critical. Take a look at these methods for predicting and managing costs. Read more »

Troubleshoot Apache with these tips

The Apache Web server is well-proven, but can still offer an administrator headaches from time to time when things go wrong. Read more »

Mine /proc for system information

The /proc virtual filesystem is one of the most interesting virtual filesystems available on Linux. Here you can see more information about your running system than you would know what to do with, including system information, memory information, CPU information, and much more. Read more »

Capture network packets in Java with Jpcap

If you want to capture network packets in your Java program, you'll need a little help because no parts of the core Java API give access to low-level network data. However, Jpcap is a Java API that provides you with this access on Windows or Unix systems. Read more »

Top 10 reasons why the office loathes the IT department

Ever wondered what the rest of the office really think of you and your peers in the IT department? Read more »

Huffman coding in Python

We'll show you how to implement Huffman encoding, which is useful when dealing with small sets of items, such as character strings, in Python. Read more »

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Everyone wants to be agile

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- During a recent trip to China and Australia I observed that everyone wants to be agile. In a round table meeting with CIO’s, I usually ask what people are particularly interested in right now. Five years ago a common answer was we are trying to adopt the Unified Process. Now, the same question returns the answer we are trying to move to agile. Thus you would assume that people know what agile is. Read more »

Web continues to stagnate

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If you are in the Internet Explorer development team, you are faced with a conundrum -- the choice is either break the Web or give standards compatibility a lower priority. Read more »

Mixed Emotions

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »

64 bit me

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- If these 64-bit systems are going to use wrappers and other tricks to maintain compatibility with vendors unwilling to support the platform, is there any point to having it? Read more »

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  • Staff XP stays on life support for longer

    This week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Chris Duckett The good and truly awful celluloid depictions of computers

    Ever wonder why your lawyer uncle leaves the room whenever you turn over to Boston Legal? Or why your forensic science cousin can't stand crime drama? You know the answer: it’s the horrid trivialisation and dumbing down of an occupation to make it appear entertaining. Sometimes it is so unbelievable that it actually hurts and yelling at the screen is the only outlet. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Brendon Chase Apple's iPhone engineers to tour Sydney, Melbourne

    Aussie developers will be able to get up close and personal with some of the iPhone engineers in November to learn how to build applications for the platform. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

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