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Ecma could publish final Office Open XML draft Monday, 10/05/06
Standards body Ecma International expects to publish the final draft of the Office Open XML file formats specification proposed by Microsoft Corp. as early as Monday, ahead of a formal vote to adopt the specification as a standard in December.
Google launches source code search, 10/05/06
In a new offering for software developers, the search giant now indexes code within compressed archives, and code checked into revision control systems.
Attack of the Pod Penguins 3: Sampling, quality, and bitrates, 10/02/06
This month, we’ll take a deeper look into Audacity, familiarizing you a bit more with the interface and some of the more esoteric but useful features of the application.
Open source router tempts company to bid Cisco firewall farewell, 10/02/06
As open source router start-up Vyatta formally launches its first appliance this week, one early adopter is using the Linux-based gear to replace Cisco technologies.
Overcoming hurdles to open source adoption, 09/29/06
PHOENIX – As open source applications become increasingly stable, companies must learn to view the software as just another piece in a comprehensive application architecture that will include open source as well as closed source components.
Infrequently Asked Questions: Mixing Ubuntus, batch image resizing, rsync backups, 10/06/06
The LinuxQuestions.org team takes on your Linux questions, and comes up with answers that include one big data saver and one big time saver.
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Can a wiki be a better content management system than a content management system? A new one called ikiwiki gives users the ability to build lists of pages by status, tag pages, and generate RSS to notify people of status changes. Ikiwiki is already its own bug tracking system, for example. and we’re trying it out as a tool for our contributors. See the editor blog on ikiwiki and workflow.
