Nokia buy Symbian, will release OS as Open Source

  • June 24, 2008
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    Peter
    Upfold

SymKia

TechCrunch IT are reporting that Nokia has bought Symbian Ltd, the software development company famous for creating the proprietary operating system for mobile devices, Symbian OS.

The important part of this story is that Nokia plan to release the Symbian OS under the open source Eclipse Public Licence. This is obvious a great move from an open source point of view, and will truly open up the Symbian …

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Write fast 3D software without a PhD

  • June 24, 2008
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    Jacob
    Peddicord

There are two kinds of fast in programming: Fast to code and fast to run. 3D applications and games are known to be speedy. But the time it takes to write and understand the code behind it? Not so much. On the flipside, many abstraction layers designed to make coding easier usually aren't very efficient. So where's the median?

Meet Pyglet for Python. Pyglet, as described by their website is …

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KDE Tip - Switching NumLock On at the KDE Login Screen

  • June 22, 2008
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    Peter
    Upfold

Back last month I covered a quick KDE tip on how to set the Num Lock key on when you log in to KDE.

While that generally works, it doesn't cover the KDE login screen (or KDM).

You might wonder why this is an issue, but I have found that on my Kubuntu Hardy system, if you don't have Num Lock on at the KDM screen, the keyboard Num Lock …

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Set Up a Custom Worksheet with KSysGuard

  • June 21, 2008
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    Peter
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The KDE System Guard at first glance just looks like a simple system monitor application which lets you take a look at the System Load and Processes running on your machine.

It is actually capable of a lot more monitoring than that, and if you delve deeper into it, you can customise the way it works to show you information about your system that you are interested in.

So, let's …

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