Electronic Arts has announced that a variety of well known artists will be contributing songs for the upcoming console version of The Sims 3, with all the tracks sung in the well known but little understood special language of the series.For the first time in its history a Sims title is arriving on the Xbox 360 from Microsof...

Doctor Richard Marks, who is a senior researcher working for the Research and Development department for Sony Computer Entertainment, has stated that he believes the PlayStation Move motion tracking controller, which uses a wand with buttons, is more flexible than the Kinect from Microsoft, which is based around recognizing body motion patterns and ...

Netrecon 1.78 has been released. New in this version is experimental passive scanning, arpsniff and now a integrated front end to all of netrecons programs. A lot of the syntax has been changed up. This should be the last of the major changes as 1.80 (the hopefully gold) release is approached. I also dropped the second n on the name. Lets see how long it takes before the lawyers call....

Organizations in Asia are not as ready to go open source for key business applications, experts in the region say. Over in the United Kingdom and United States, it is a different story with inclination growing, a survey has shown. An Accenture study of 300 large public- and private-sector organizations in Ireland, the U.K. and U.S. found that over one-third of respondents plan to migrate mission-critical software to open source within a year. The findings, released last month, also indicated that cost is no longer viewed as the key benefit of open source deployment. Instead, quality, reliability and better bug fixing are top drivers.

In the beginning, there were a few different distributions. From a handful came hundreds. We are currently living with several hundreds. Many say that this is a bad thing. Many claim that the myriad offerings confuse people. Many claim that these distributions are often redundant. What's the deal? I have often talked about the lack of innovation in many distributions. The fact that people respin someone else's stuff and call it their own is somewhat unavoidable. It's going to happen. That aside, plurality is good.

Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another. It can get you out of a fix when you can't find a package for your distribution, and it is also useful for package maintainers who want to distribute packages for distributions that they don't run. It can work with Slackware, Debian and RPM packages as input and output types.

Both Linux and FreeBSD are built on strong networking stacks, and both make first-rate firewalls and routers. Many commercial products are based on these. Eric Geier rounds up four firewall/router projects for our perusal.

Back in February we reported on the first signs of open-source support for Intel's Sandybridge, a.k.a. their sixth-generation Intel graphics processor integrated on their upcoming CPUs that succeed the Clarkdale/Arrandale CPUs. The Sandybridge hardware still has not launched nor will it until late this year or early next year, but the open-source support has been underway for months and from time to time we see new Linux code patches related to Sandybridge.

In this article we will take the realism of our scenes to a higher level using textures. With textures, the "magic" really happens! There are basically two types of textures, which are procedural and non-procedural textures. For us, the bitmap textures will be used most often, to allow us to create scenes with more realism.

Making Linux and Windows play nice together isn't easy, but it's essential to the continued growth of Linux in the enterprise, according to Likewise engineer Michael Szymczak. He will discuss that topic at this year's Ohio LinuxFest 2010 September 10-12, 2010 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Michael Szymczak will talk at Noon on September 11 in the FOSS in Other Worlds track.

Many Linux users use the ‘find’ utility when searching for files using the command line on their system. There are times though where I’m just looking for something and I don’t want to have to wait for the command to scan the entire directory tree in order to track it down. That’s where locate comes in with quick and simple results.

Since the introduction of the “3.0 (quilt)” source format, it is now possible to integrate multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages. This article will show you how to do the same with your own package shall you need it. More here

I’m on Facebook. And I don’t want to be. But let’s face it. Anything Facebook does, another web service somewhere does better. But that’s not the point – the point is that Facebook is the default. Everyone is on Facebook because everyone is on Facebook. It’s a business model based on tautology.

An 80-year-old Minnesota man is facing felony charges after a marijuana raid, with police claiming he is the leader of a what they called a "large-scale grow operation." Welcome to the world of American drug enforcement, where an old man tending a few plants -- at least some of which he had apparently given names -- passes through the Drug War looking glass and becomes magically transformed into a major grow-op.

From 'oldies' many have come to love, to brand new shows we're getting amped up for...this guide helps us flick through the channels purposefully this upcoming season.

You may not know this, but the main character in Machete first appeared in the Spy Kids movies. It's true! Okay, so technically, it wasn't exactly the same character, but Danny Trejo played another guy named "Machete" who was the uncle to the titular child agents, and also a spy and inventor himself.

We all complain about them, but remakes are just as much a part of filmmaking as original ideas. And sometimes they even turn out better.

Facebook simplified its byzantine privacy policies, making it easier for users to hide most of their info from strangers, including status updates. In light of all that, creditors began to wonder how they could regain access to all your personal information. The answer? By friending you, of course.

Depending on your skillset, degree and what you want from a job, some of the best jobs in the country may be on your career path.

The Pirate Bay is down this morning after reports of raids across Europe.

Sometimes, a care package is perfect: a bottle of Skyy vodka. Other times, it is strange: a stack of AARP magazines and a box full of Sensodyne toothpaste tubes.

A buzz preceded actor Casey Affleck's directorial debut, 'I'm Still Here': Was the movie about brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix's seemingly downward spiral?...

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Several media have reported that BP will increase its target for asset sales to as high as $40 billion. This almost certainly mean disposing of its aging oil field holdings in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, which may be worth as much as $20 billion. Continue reading BP May Be Preparing More Asset Sales BP May Be Preparing More Asset Sales originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:30:00. Filed Under: Energy, Company News, Investing, BP, Stocks in the News Permalink | Tweet this! | Comments

A report on Yahoo Sports says the ex-USC running back will become the first Heisman Trophy winner to lose the award in the trophys 75-year history. The Heisman Trophy Trust has been investigating improper benefits Bush, now a member of the NFLs New Orleans Saints, allegedly received during his Heisman-Trophy season in 2005. Sources tell [...]

This chart is that's wrong with the world, children shouldn't have to know about them . Sadly, at 26 years old, I'm bucking the trend - the downside of being a professional dinosaur hater. ViewImage

Packed with beautiful images and behind-the-scenes details, this rich tribute to the classic '60s sci-fi show is a must-have for any Trekker. Get a first look at the book and enter to win a copy.

Tumblr, a social media network made up of millions of personal and business blogs, is seeing massive traffic growth, but is undergoing equally big growing pains. Activity on the network of Tumblr blogs skyrocketed over the first half of the year and reached about 1.7 billion page views in the month of August.

If you are looking for these tools, then look no further. Here you will find best list of free online website testing tools. Read about each of the seven entries and determine yourself which one is most useful for you and bookmark-worthy.

Firefox, Chrome, and other browsers do an acceptable job of downloading a single file of reasonable size. But I don't like to trust a browser to grab ISO images and other files that are hundreds of megabytes, or larger. For that I prefer to turn to wget. You'll find that using wget provides some significant advantages over grabbing files with your browser.

The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and incredible new audio capabilities to the Web. Firefox 4 Beta now leverages hardware acceleration to improve graphics performance for Windows users and allows, for the first time, visualization of audio data within the browser. Users will also notice that the add-on manager is [...]

phoronix.com: Back in February we reported on the first signs of open-source support for Intel's Sandybridge, a.k.a. their sixth-generation Intel graphics processor integrated on their upcoming CPUs.

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h-online.com: The OpenSolaris distribution Schillix has released a version of its operating system which is based on the OpenSolaris fork Illumos.

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linuxjournal.com: The Red Hat board of directors announced a new chairman Monday, August 30, to replace outgoing Matthew Szulik. Henry Hugh Shelton, retired Special Forces general, has been serving on the board since 2003 after leaving the elite Army division.

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blogs.computerworld: You could argue that Google's Android, so popular on smartphones now, is the most popular Linux of all right now. There's only one little problem with that: Android has continued to be apart from the Linux mainstream.

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chineselinuxuniversity.net: This is a first of a series of articles describing different security mechanisms and exploitation mitigation techniques available in Linux environments and their use across various Linux distributions. This article focuses solely on userspace protections.

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ostatic.com/blog: We love feel-good stories about how open source software helps improve living conditions in third-world countries or comes to the rescue in times of crisis, but this one really takes the cake.

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ghacks.net: As of this minute, the Mozilla servers are being filled with new Firefox 4.0 Beta 5 releases. The distribution has not been completed yet, and it is likely that it will take at least a few hours before the official announcement is being made over at the Mozilla website.

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Finally Bricsys has released the official version of Bricscad V10 for Linux. Linux users now have very capable desktop CAD software able to handle the DWG file format. From Bricscad website: "Bricsys is the first to release a .dwg based CAD software for Linux users. Bricsys NV, the developer of Bricscad, announced today that Bricscad V10 for Linux is now available. Bricscad V10 is the first .dwg based CAD platform available for the Linux Operating System. Bricscad V10, the leading alternative CAD platform for the .dwg file format, continues to offer freedom of choice to the CAD and Engineering community."

We already know quite a few details about Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft's upcoming attempt to retain - or grow - its market share in the browser world. Standards and speed are the main focus of IE9, and if a video of the upcoming beta release is anything to go by, they're doing pretty well. Just... Did they just manage to make the interface even less appealing?

"It took Hewlett-Packard less than a day to file a lawsuit against its former chief executive, Mark V. Hurd, over his decision to join its rival and partner Oracle as a co-president. H.P. filed its lawsuit on Tuesday in the Superior Court of California in Santa Clara, claiming that Mr. Hurd had breached his contract with the company. The lawsuit said that Mr. Hurd could use his intimate knowledge of H.P. and its trade secrets to aid Oracle and harm H.P. The two companies compete in the market for computer servers, storage systems and business software."

For a variety of reasons, Android is taking its own time in coming back into the Linux mainstream. But, to quote Ted Ts'o, "Can we please cut out this whole forking nonsense?"

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Your editor had the good fortune to be able to attend the first LinuxCon Brazil event, held in São Paulo. There were a number of interesting talks to be seen, presented by speakers from Brazil and far beyond. This article will cover three in particular (by Jane Silber, Vinod Kutty, and Jon 'Maddog' Hall) which were interesting as a result of the very different views they gave on how Linux users work with their systems.

Debian has updated quagga (denial of service).

Gentoo has updated maildrop (privilege escalation) and sudo (privilege escalation).

openSUSE has updated xorg-x11-server (privilege escalation).

Red Hat has updated sudo (privilege escalation), kernel (RHEL 4, RHEL 4.7: privilege escalation), and rpm (RHEL 4, RHEL 5: privilege escalation).

Ubuntu has updated sudo (privilege escalation).

Watching Ubuntu and Fedora development is something like watching episodes of Iron Chef: Given roughly the same ingredients and the same amount of time, the two projects produce vastly different dishes. The Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10 release cycle is particularly pronounced in this regard, with Ubuntu's focus largely on refining improvements from 10.04 and Fedora introducing major changes to the infrastructure. Subscribers can click below for the full story from this week's Distributions page.

Mozilla has released Thunderbird 3.1.3 and Thunderbird 3.0.7 with security and stability updates. See the release notes for details (3.1.3 and 3.0.7).

Many Linux users use the ‘find’ utility when searching for files using the command line on their system. They’ll do a simple: find / -name 'pattern' Really though, the power of find isn’t just in finding names of files but rather specific details about those files. For example, if you wanted to find files which [...] Related posts:

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Back in May we reported that Epic Games finally admitted that UT3 for Linux would likely never materialize. This first person shooter was released back in 2007 and was supposed to have a Linux client that was to be ported by Ryan "Icculus" Gordon. He was working on this Linux client as recent as last year, but it never was released and no other information was provided by Epic Games, Ryan, or other sources. In May we heard from Epic's Steve Polge that the Linux client would likely never materialize. Today we have been passed along a note from Mark Rein, the VP of Epic Games and creator of the Unreal Engine...

It was just one week ago that NVIDIA released a stable Linux driver update, but today for those wishing to live on the bleeding edge of NVIDIA's proprietary Linux driver development, the first beta release in the 260.xx series is now available for testing. The NVIDIA 260.19.04 Linux driver brings a lot to the table...

Martin's Blog: "KDE is currently blamed for errors in external components: the graphic drivers. I am lately reading quite some crap (e.g. on it news today) that we KWin devs knew about problems in the drivers and shipped 4.5 nevertheless with changes enabled which trigger the driver bugs. That is of course not true."