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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide 1.0

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide 1.0

...She's given talks at conferences around the world, including OSCON, LinuxCon, FOSDEM, and Latinoware. Mike Dirolf, also a software engineer at 10gen, is the... Read more

15 October, 2010

The ups and downs of life with Linus

...last weekend at the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting, FOSDEM, on the challenges of maintaining a stable Linux kernel, Cox revealed that... Read more

1 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Wikipedia needs help to keep growing

...bots that are damaging its content. In the opening talk at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels on Saturday, Wikipedia Foundation president Jimmy Wales urged the... Read more

1 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Minerva at FOSDEM

...details, there's a video of my presentation online at: http://video.fosdem.org/2008/lightningtalks/FOSDEM2008-minerva.ogg VLC recommended as a media player... Read more

10 March, 2008

Firefox sneaks into the enterprise

...Mozilla Europe, speaking at the Free and Open source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels on Sunday, said that he knows "a few companies" that... Read more

1 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Google keeping the wolf from Firefox' door

...Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe, who was also speaking at FOSDEM, said that although his group is struggling to survive on its current... Read more

28 February, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

The open source techie who means business

...stability on a Sunday afternoon — as he did at last year's FOSDEM conference in Brussels. Cox wrote much of the original networking subsystem in... Read more

31 January, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Open source projects: Why it pays to keep quiet

...speaking about migrations to Firefox, Mozilla's open source browser, at the FOSDEM open source software conference earlier this year. "Guys are really shy — it... Read more

25 November, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Oracle quietly works with Mozilla

...a partnership with the Mozilla Foundation? The Mozilla Foundation revealed at the FOSDEM conference in February that the database giant had hired three people to... Read more

13 May, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Wikipedia planning a DVD version

...problem facing Wikipedia at the moment is lack of development resource. At FOSDEM last month Wales urged the assembled audience of open source developers to... Read more

7 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Cox shows value in open discussions

...surrounds the Finnish open source guru didn't stop there. Speaking at FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting, in Brussels, Cox... Read more

2 March, 2005 by Leader

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

2 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

3 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

5 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

6 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

7 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

23 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
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I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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