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Sounds of Crashing Hard Drives

Linux Today  Mon, 11/24/2008 - 11:33

O'Reilly Digital Media: "That's all it is. Links to recordings of hard drives crashing."


 

O'Reilly Webcast: Everything You Wanted to Know About Drupal but...

Linux Today  Thu, 11/20/2008 - 05:33

O'Reilly Media: "Join us for this free live webcast:
Everything you wanted to know about Drupal but were afraid to ask; Presented by Jeff Eaton and James Walker, authors of "Using Drupal"


 

Is a Political Endorsement Appropriate for a Technical Site?

Linux Today  Tue, 11/04/2008 - 11:34

O'Reilly Radar: "A number of people have responded to my endorsement of Barack Obama with complaints that it is inappropriate for a tech publisher to publish on political issues.

While most of the people responding to the post have either been supportive, or thoughtfully countered one or more of my arguments, a number of people have threatened to stop buying from O'Reilly as a result of my endorsement."


 

Audiocast: How Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS, Ev...

Linux Today  Sun, 11/02/2008 - 00:02

Broadcast.Oreilly.com: "Kroah-Hartman is a longtime developer of the Linux kernel, known for his work maintaining USB drivers as well as for packaging the SUSE kernel at Novell.

O'Reilly Media recently interviewed Greg about his claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has, as well as why binary-only drivers are illegal, and how the kernel development process works."


 

Announcing "Relax with CouchDB" by O'Reilly - Jan Lehnardt

Planet PHP  Mon, 10/27/2008 - 08:48

I am happy to announce that Noah Slater, J.

Chris Anderson
and I are writing “Relax with CouchDB” for O’Reilly.

The book is designed to guide you gently through using CouchDB with clear but practical scenarios.

We progressively showcase key features, starting with simple document CRUD, working through to advanced MapReduce, and culminate with deployment tuning for performance and reliability.


 

Powerline, HomePlugs and gaming: eight things you should know

guardian.co.uk Technology  Wed, 10/22/2008 - 08:10

The ins and outs of this increasingly popular alternative to wireless home networking...

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Tech Weekly podcast: Web 2.0 wizard Tim O'Reilly

guardian.co.uk Technology  Wed, 10/22/2008 - 07:07

Meme peddler and Web 2.0 wizard Tim O'Reilly discusses the culture of Silicon Valley. Plus, the controversy over Little Big Planet.

And why technology is bad for your pet hamster

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Does Hacking Closed Hardware Hinder Open Hardware?

Linux Today  Fri, 10/10/2008 - 11:17

O'Reilly: "Though open drivers exist for video cards produced by companies who produce binary-only drivers, I realized a fundamental point about my purchasing habits.

I'm profoundly uncomfortable purchasing devices which, by default, do not provide the freedoms I desire."


 

Vector Linux SOHO Is Free Again

Linux Today  Wed, 10/01/2008 - 08:35

O'Reilly: "We are confident that after trying the free version you will want to come back and purchase the DELUXE version."


 

Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source

Linux Today  Tue, 09/30/2008 - 09:31

LWN: "Regardless of one's own feelings in the matter, the fact remains that the legal system exists, it affects our lives, and that we can only be better off if we understand it.

To that end, O'Reilly has published Intellectual Property and Open Source by Van Lindberg."