The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
They recommend Audacity for recording and Ourmedia.org for file storage. Sounds like they could really use Classcaster: record over the phone and post directly to the blog.
LibriVox
“LibriVox is an open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of the many to record and disseminate, in podcast form, books from the public domain. It works like this: a book is chosen, then *you*, the volunteers, read and record one or more chapters.“
Slashdot | BitTorrent for Content Providers
“ibiblio.org has entered the fray, launching an enhanced BitTorrent site. Among the torrent offerings (all legal) are Linux kernels, distros, Project Gutenberg texts, and the ibiblio Speaker Series, which includes videos of talks by Larry Lessig, Robin Miller, and Dan Gillmor. ibiblio developed and open sourced the Osprey and Permaseed software to make BitTorrent seeding reliable, persistent, and suitable for large-scale content providers. Yes, you can find these torrents later.“
This article by Mark Sigal disucsses 2 compelling applications that have RSS at their heart and demonstrate how RSS could/should be at the center of the new web.
Envisioning RSS as a Web 2.0 platform
“RSS began its life as a really simple way for content providers to syndicate their content and for content consumers to subscribe to their favorite providers. When the blogosphere emerged, RSS really took off. Now, just as its “simple” technology cousin, HTML, provided the underpinnings of the Web 1.0 technology platform, RSS is emerging as a platform for delivering the broadband and mobile ready applications of a Web 2.0 enabled world.”
BetaNews | Microsoft Patches Six Vulnerabilities
“Microsoft released six security patches Tuesday as part of its monthly initiative to fix vulnerabilities within the Windows operating system. Three of the vulnerabilities have been marked “critical,” one “important,” and two as “moderate” in severity.“
Novell to Resell MySQL
“MySQL has been picked up by Novell, its second huge reseller deal in so many days, the companies announced on Tuesday at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.The companies are calling this the only accord of its kind between a Linux vendor and MySQL AB, purveyor of the popular open-source database MySQL. In the reseller and joint-support agreement, Novell Inc. will offer subscriptions to the MySQL Network, a subscription offering that includes MySQL software; updates and upgrades; alerts and advisors; MySQL’s online knowledgebase; and full, production-level technical support.”
This is in addition to support for Redhat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Dell Ups Wattage of LAMP
“On Monday, Dell announced that it is moving forward with enterprise-level support, not just for Linux, but also for two more key elements of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl) stack: MySQL and JBoss.“
BetaNews | Macromedia Updates Suite of Products
“Macromedia on Monday announced an updated version of its suite of multimedia creation tools — dubbed Studio 8 — heralding the first overhaul of its product line in two years. The suite includes its Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, as well as the Contribute and FlashPaper products.“
Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
“Bart’s PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800×600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!“
IBM joins podcast craze with audio think-pieces – Yahoo! News
“The world’s largest computer company said on Friday it plans to introduce a series of occasional podcasts on its investor relations site as part of a broader effort to communicate directly to its investors and the wider public about hot topics.
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Sources: Novell Plans to Open SuSE Linux Pro to Community
“Novell will be launching a community-based Linux distribution, OpenSuSE, at next week’s LinuxWorld in San Francisco, according to sources close to the company.”