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• 07.23.08
  Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent Culture | (0)

  Written by Ernesto TV shows are by far the most wanted files via BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s fast becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading? The data is collected by TorrentFreak from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only. At the end of the year we will publish a list of most downloaded TV-shows for the entire year, like we did last December. TV-shows such as “Lost” and “Heroes” can get up to 10 million downloads per episode, in only a week. Top Downloads June 13 - July 20 Ranking (last week) TV-show 1 (1) Top Gear 2 (2) Weeds 3 (3) Stargate ...
• 07.23.08
  Ubuntu is everywhere at OSCON Culture | (0)

  The Ubuntu community hit the ground running at OSCON this week. Scarcely a couple of days into the event, there's already a new version of the distro to peruse and updates to the code hosting platform Launchpad to talk about. In the meantime, the project's founder, Mark Shuttleworth, still found time to deliver a presentation at the event and meet with a local tech group to talk about his vision for the future of Linux. Let's start with Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a complete distribution designed to run on Atom-based Netbook PCs. The main difference that sets it apart from it's ...
• 07.23.08
  Want Your Project to Succeed? Build a Strong Community Culture | (0)

  There are three parts to a successful open-source project: First, there has to be software. The software doesn't need to be great, but it needs to show some promise, solving a real problem that people have. Secondly, it needs to have an open-source license that encourages participation. There are several dozen sanctioned open-source licenses today, but the GNU General Public License and Berkeley license are two of the most common, because they are well understood and easy to understand. A third critical component -- ...
• 07.23.08
  Katrina revisited? Culture | (0)

  Attn: Poor, elderly, and disabled Chicagoans...In the event of an emergency, you are all effed.
• 07.22.08
  The Early Graffiti, Stencils, and Drawings of Banksy [PICS] Culture | (0)

  Banksy is an artist who has risen to a strangely anonymous brand of fame with his graffiti, most of which involves stenciling. But there are many sides to this elusive artist, and his drawings, which are seen by far fewer people, are just as provocative as his large outdoor pieces.
• 07.22.08
  TechCrunch Wants a Tablet Culture | (0)

  A recent blog entry by Michael Arrington has stirred up some discussion around the web. Basically, it's a plea that someone design and build a $200 open-source web tablet: minimal specs, Linux, booting right into Firefox, that you can just pick up and use to browse the web with. The idea isn't precisely new; I proposed something similar in Web Worker Daily a few months ago (though, personally, I'm no fan of touchscreens). And you can already buy similar devices like the Nokia 800 internet tablet. But somehow Arrington's idea has sparked more interest that most attempts in this area. Why? I ...
• 07.22.08
  EnterpriseDB’s Survey Results: Interesting, But I Have to Wonder…. Culture | (0)

  Today at the OSCON conference in Oregon, open source database company EnterpriseDB announced the results of its 2008 Open Source Database Survey. It collected the opinions of 500 corporate IT leaders on enterprise adoption of open source databases. There is an executive summary of the findings available as a free PDF download.  EnterpriseDB focuses as a company on PostgreSQL, so it is calling out many of the findings from the survey related to that product, but there are other points of interest. In a few cases, I had to question the results. For example, only nine percent of respondents said ...
• 07.22.08
  Open Source Support: Important but Lagging Culture | (0)

  Is the availability and usefulness of open source support lagging behind its desirability? That's one of the messages that it's possible to get from a new survey conducted by OpenLogic, a company that specializes in selling enterprise-level open source software support. (We've looked at some other information from their open source experts in the past.) The OpenLogic folks surveyed 123 enterprises using open source software, half of which were reasonably large (over 1,000 employees). Among their findings: 50% of the respondents in mid-size and large companies (and 39% of all respondents) see vendor support as an important thing. Despite this, over 50% ...
• 07.22.08
  NTT America Gives Open Sourcers a Transit Boost Culture | (0)

  Who says contributions to open source have to be software-based? As Datamation notes,  "NTT America, a Tier 1 carrier and a division of Japan-based NTT Communications, is now helping open source by donating IPv6 transit to the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)." There is also a release out about the arrangement. Mozilla, FreeBSD and many other open sourcers are positioned to benefit from the donation. The IPv6 transit provided by NTT America to ISC is being used to support F-root name server operations, and country-code top level domains that are ISC DNS hosting guests and participants in ISC's Hosted@ISC efforts. These participants ...
• 07.22.08
  Firebug Matures, Gets Developers and Hosting from Mozilla Culture | (0)

  If you're a Web developer, it's a pretty good bet that one of your most important tools is Firebug, an open-source debugger for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax that works inside of the open-source Firefox Web browser. Since it was first unveiled several years ago, Firebug has taken the Web-development world by storm, revolutionizing developers' ability to modify, test, and debug Web applications. What is perhaps most amazing is that for much of its life, Firebug was developed by Joe Hewitt, a ...

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