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*Story happens in imaginary universe, but I'm using current time "relativation".* vmWare Player type of application (but for free). I consider adding it to Open Source because everybody is saying how great it is and how fast bugs can be fixed. There's couple stories to be told: **Side of Manager** …

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/one-small-certificate-web-one-giant-certificate-authority-web-encryption Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, open-source certificate authority (CA). The goal is to revolutionize encryption on websites, making HTTPS implementation a seamless, no-cost option for anyone with a domain. Sounds interesting, what are your thoughts?

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Recently I've stumbled on a nice tool that I really quite like, so I thought I'd share it: Personally, I love the power behind PHP. I find it a very simple to use yet possesses the techniques seen in the more complex desktop applications such as Perl/Python/C/C++/C# etc. PHP has …

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Yesterday, September 10, 2009, the announcement came that [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]Microsoft[/URL] launched and is funding a new open source organization named [URL="http://www.codeplex.org"]CodePlex Foundation[/URL]. The [URL="http://www.codeplex.org/board-of-directors.aspx"]major players[/URL] in the new organization are from Microsoft, [URL="http://www.novell.com"]Novell[/URL] and [URL="http://www.dotnetnuke.com"]DotNetNuke[/URL]. Does this mean that a brave new Microsoft is beating its proprietary, closed-source swords into open …

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As a beginner java learner, I would be grateful if some people could point out a few open source projects with a high quality code base. Not necceserily aimed at a beginner, I would rather see a professional quality example, and preferabbly the project would use some common tools for …

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Hi everyone, I am looking for a free/open-source application similar to RescueTime. The features that I am looking for are automatic app tracking and optionally website tracking. Also, I would like to have the posibility to install the application on multiple computers and centralize all the statistics on a central …

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Hello. I have a source code written in c++. With this source code i should compile it and make with him a pdf viwer that will be embeeded into a webpage. Can anyone help me what program should i use? how can i compile it and embeed the result into …

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Hello. I have compiled a c++ program and i want it to be run into a webpage. I have tried the proc_open() command but it doesnt work. any help or suggestion?

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Hi Everyone, I've been looking for good javascript projects to join. Are there any projects you can advice? I've researched a lot. (with the help of Google. :D) But would also love to get advices from people who have/had worked at an opensource project here. I would also love to …

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Hello, Can anyone recommend an [U]light weight[/U] IDE for C development? Preferably open source, but definitely free. (for Windows) It doesn't need to have its own version control - I'm using subversion - a plugin to subversion would be nice but it okay if it doesn't. Currently my colleague is …

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Hi all the Ruby Folks! Use your skills for the sake of the OpenSource community, and try out the Ruby OpenSource Challenge. Fix a bug, write a new needed feature or just update the lagging documentation of a pointed Ruby Open Source project, and have a chance of winning some …

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Could someone direct me to an open-source, 2D sidescrolling game developed in C++? (I'd prefer a Mario-style sidescroller, but almost any would do.) I'd like to look at the source code to see some examples of a working sidescroller collision detection system, and a jump algorithm. Thank you for your …

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A new version (9.0) of [URL="http://www.postgresql.org"]PostgreSQL[/URL] is in beta and ready for public testing. If version 9.0 lives up to its proposed [URL="http://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix"]feature list[/URL], then it is serious competition for MySQL. PostgreSQL proponents have long suggested that PostgreSQL has always enjoyed superiority over MySQL. I beg to differ but that …

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[ATTACH=left]12481[/ATTACH]The New York Times [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/06/technology/tech-us-france-apple-louvre.html"]reported today[/URL] that Apple has opened its first Apple Store in Paris, underneath the Louvre no less, and just two weeks after Microsoft opened up a [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsofts-windows-cafe-opens-its-doors-in-paris/"]Windows 7 cafe[/URL] in Paris in another location. The idea of these two companies competing in a retail environment, and …

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Hi guys I am conducting a survey about the operating systems you use in programming. Can you please answer my survey? I need IT professionals to answer my survey as well. It will only take a minute. Here's the link: [URL="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dGNESDZ6NVVFdTM0SVU1blJzbFVyUHc6MQ"]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dGNESDZ6NVVFdTM0SVU1blJzbFVyUHc6MQ[/URL] thank you very much!

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]19350[/ATTACH]In the past, the word "JavaScript" usually triggered notions of buttons changing when you float your mouse over them, and images flashing, and silly animations happening in the web browser. Today, however, most programmers recognize that JavaScript is actually much more than that; it's a powerful language that runs in …

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Hi, I have been trying to compile open source projects since past few months with no success. I just don't know how to go about the entire thing. Readings over the internet have not helped much. Some come with [COLOR="red"]./Configure[/COLOR] and a [COLOR="red"]Makefile[/COLOR] while others with only a [COLOR="Green"]Makefile[/COLOR]. How …

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Does anybody know of an auto completing search box project? Like google has on their search box - if you type in the letters "ama" it fills in the rest of the word that has in its database that matches those letters, "amazon"? I was just wondering if their are …

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Hi guys. I'm trying to find a good open source project written in C (any kind: email, browser, chat program, communications program, music player) to download for the Mac os X preferably for Xcode. I would like to examine these open source programs' source and understand what they do (pick …

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I saw this article yesterday titled, "[URL="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090220/tc_pcworld/studyfederalgovtcansavebillionsinitspending"]Study: Federal Gov't. Can Save Billions in IT Spending[/URL]," and feel compelled to comment. The gist of the article is that by switching to open source software, like Linux and OpenOffice.org, the federal government would save billions of dollars in IT costs. This is …

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With the Android developer community buzzing about how easy it is to pirate apps, one outfit took it upon itself to try and track down the pirates. The results are truly shocking. [attach]16959[/attach]The provocatively named Android Police site last week claimed that [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/626374/android-app-flaw-allows-easy-piracy"]most Android apps can be simply patched and …

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Hi all, I got a idea! if you have open source project ideas please share them on this thread. There are many tons of open source projects out there in the internet. what here expected is fresher level complex code-bases. :TODO: requests are welcome. so the final year students who …

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Hi mates, Firstly I'd like to apologize if the forum is wrong but I can't find the forum for my topic. I'm a software engineering student from Turkey and I'm trying to lead my career as best I could. A software engineer should have knowledge of any technology, C, C++, …

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I've read lots of definitions of it, but I don't quite understand it. Let's say that I create new software that uses my own code and modified code from open source code that is licensed under the MIT License. When I sell my software, do I need to provide all …

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I am using VB.net 2008 express edition I have figured out how to use some of the code snippets for the open xml sdk to create a drop down list of all the sheets in an excel file. I can also use the code snippet to get the value of …

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In a recent [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/05/clay-shirky-internet-television-newspapers"]interview[/URL] with The Guardian, [I][URL="http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Surplus-Creativity-Generosity-Connected/dp/1594202532"]Cognitive Surplus[/URL][/I] author, professor and thinker [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky"]Clay Shirky[/URL] talked about the transformative power of social media to put the power to produce content in the hands of every individual. While he acknowledged that sometimes this power produced what is essentially trash, that didn't …

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There's big news in the software patent front from none other than The U.S. Supreme Court. In the case of [URL="http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=167db2c8-5a72-4f52-8c22-6ae54ff16062"]Bilski vs. Kappos[/URL], handed down yesterday, is a major blow to the anti-patent movement, specifically the [I]no software patent[/I] groups. [INDENT]Florian Mueller, founder of the anti-software patents movement (NoSoftwarePatents) in …

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This Memorial Day weekend reminds us all of those who sacrificed their lives for freedom and to protect a way of life that is based on freedom. While considering the brave men and women who stood up for what is right over the past 250 years, it made me realize …

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I read a [URL="http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/open-source-innovation-the-cutting-edge-582"]story[/URL] this morning over at [URL="http://www.infoworld.com"]Infoworld.com[/URL] that shocked me a bit. Neil McAllister discusses how proprietary software companies, like [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]Microsoft[/URL], criticize open source projects by saying that, "They don't innovate, they copy." Is that really the consensus for an entire software realm that brought us the [URL="http://www.w3.org"]world …

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It looks like [URL="http://www.yahoo.com"]Yahoo[/URL] has reinstated the [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/technology"]Linux/Open Source[/URL] link on their Tech News page. Perhaps it was just a fat-fingered mistake or an accident of some sort that the link was removed from the main link bar but it certainly raised my hackles. And, frankly, my hackles don't need …

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