Fear is stalking the corridors of corporate power, as executives sweat over the legal exposure caused by developers using open source software. And the suits are resorting to play-it-safe legal advice and draconian management techniques in a vain attempt to stop open source crossing their...
Gears of War 'Best Game' at GDC Awards
Wow, GOW sure wrapped up pretty much every award under the sun. This should hopefully quiet the Xbox 360 doubters. MS and Nintendo took top honors.
And more yet:
Best Game Award
Gears of War
Technology Award
Gears of War
Visual Arts Award
Gears...
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Another reason for Windows developers/programmers to move/try Open SOurce Platform-GNU/Linux
Snort, the open-source intrusion-detection software, is vulnerable to hackers, its developers said this week.
Snort's popularity has grown as many businesses have been tempted away from expensive proprietary intrusion-detection systems. Advocates of Snort argue that it is more secure than...
"Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told a House of Lords hearing that neither open- nor closed-source developers should be liable for the security of the code they write.
..both open- and closed-source software developers, including Microsoft, have an ethical duty to...
minimum: 2.8GHz, 512mb Ram,Geforce6
or high details: 3-4GHz, 1Gb Ram, Nvidia 6800GT/ultra or 7800GT/GTX SLI
Dual-core Processor use: Multi-Threading is supported and should provide much better performance.
64 Bit version available with better textures
Renderers: Shader-3.0, Fallback-Mode for...
The GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) draft process took a hit today when a number of prominent kernel developers released a position statement deriding the "dangers and problems" with the GPLv3.
Ten developers have signed their names to the position paper: James Bottomley, Mauro...
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 includes advancements in security and browsing experience for end users, functionality and compatibility for developers, and manageability for corporate network administrators. Beta 3 is intended to enable developers, web developers, and IT professionals to begin to...
X11R7.1 is the first roll-up release of the modularized X Window System source tree. It builds on the X11R7.0 release, which was the first completely modularized and autotooled release. What modularization means for developers is that they can work on individual components with less...
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 includes advancements in security and browsing experience for end users, functionality and compatibility for developers, and manageability for corporate network administrators. Beta 2 is intended to enable developers, web developers and IT pros to begin to test the new...
Free Software magazine Tectonic published a preview of KDE 4. Written by AJ Venter of South African distribution OpenLab the article describes how the KDE developers are going to "rewrite the desktop rules with KDE 4" with technologies such as Plasma, Solid and of course Qt 4. The article...
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - Official
The first stage of the beta process for Internet Explorer 7 has begun—developer testing! The latest version of the world’s most popular Web browser has been released for technical evaluation, feedback, and testing by software and Web site...
XNA is Microsoft's game development platform. Its mission is to enable developers to help contain costs while allowing developers to create better games, faster and across consumer platforms. By integrating the best innovations from across Microsoft with the best innovations in game development...
IE7 Released for MSDN Subscribers.
Date Posted: 7/28/2005 12:22:00 AM
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The first stage of the beta process for Internet Explorer 7 has begun—developer testing! The latest version of the world’s most popular Web browser has been released for technical...
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