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Illegal file-sharers should be fined, rather than have their internet connection cut off, says the boss of BT.
Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years but it could cause problems for Windows XP users.
A plan to create a .xxx net domain for adult content will be revisited three years after it was rejected by internet regulators.
A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers.
The merging of social networks and games is set to dominate this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Electronics giant Sony says its new 3D television will be on sale in Japan from June, with a cost of £2,600 for a 46-inch screen model.
Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces.
The home secretary says internet safety lessons must be learned after a convicted sex offender contacts and kills a teenager.
The US eases sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of internet services and support opposition groups.
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 Times Online | HP Slate Supports Flash Unlike Apple's iPad ITProPortal Computer giant Hewlett-Packard has released a video of its slate like device, which takes a swipe at Apple's iPad tablet device, by demonstrating Adobe Flash player on the tablet, which will runs on Microsoft's Windows 7 OS. The video was released to ... HP takes dig at iPad with slate Flash support HP Slate videos mock iPad's 'watered down' Web capabilities No iPad to iPhone tethering says Steve Jobs |
 InTheNews.co.uk | Vodafone announces UK job cuts Techwatch Vodafone is planning to cut 375 jobs in the UK as part of efforts to save £1 billion. The cuts will affect back office roles while 170 new customer-facing roles will be created. The move, which is designed to improve and simplify ... Vodafone culls 375 'mainly back-office' jobs Vodafone cuts more staff Mobile giant Vodafone to shed hundreds of jobs |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Bing Filters Out Offensive Words In Arab Countries ITProPortal A research conducted by the Open Net Initiative, an entity which monitors the net filtering and surveillance done by nations, has revealed that Microsoft's Bing search engine filters search results related to sexually explicit material such as gay, ... Bing on iPhone: Ballmer compliment points to deal Microsoft 'takes on Goliath' with Bing TV ads mocking Google Microsoft begins rolling out redesigned MSN homepage |
 Reuters | Cuts in science funding Battling the axe-man Economist BRITAIN'S tradition of adversarial politics does not often produce agreement between members of its warring parties. It was unusual, then, when on March 9th, Lords Sainsbury and Waldegrave, two former science ministers (Labour and Conservative ... Former science ministers make joint investment call Royal Society says research funding cuts will lead to economic decline Britain faces dropping down science league |
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 ISPReview UK | Watchdog urges government to refocus broadband strategy Techwatch A consumer watchdog's latest round of research has indicated that many poorer UK citizens who aren't connected to the Internet view the web as irrelevant to them. These findings come from Consumer Focus, and are aimed at the government ... Use eBay and online television to bring the poor to the internet, says watchdog People on low income 'least likely to use the internet' Music companies failing to educate people about legal music sites |
 NEWS.com.au | Prince of Wales could lose out on Commonwealth leadership Telegraph.co.uk The Prince of Wales could be denied the role of Head of the Commonwealth when he becomes king after a key report into the organisation's future recommended a radical shake-up. By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter The Prince does not have an automatic right ... Queen calls for web for all Brightly-dressed Queen lights up Westminster Abbey on Commonwealth Day Queen warns broadband is “unaffordable” for many |
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I've ported my iPhone game, Brain Party, to Linux. It's now stable enough that I'm looking for a handful of testers able to give it a whirl and help find bugs. So, if you a) know what SDL/OpenGL are, b) are happy compiling stuff from source, and c) have 30 minutes to spare, please drop me a line at paul.hudson@futurenet.com and I'll set you up.
If you've been trying to find a copy of Paul Hudson's Coding Academy for sale in your local store, here's what you need to know:
- WHSmith in the UK still have 600 copies nationwide. If your local store doesn't carry a copy, ask someone to order it in from you - they can try to transfer a copy from another store.
- Tesco still have 900 copies for sale nationwide. Again, try your local large Tesco, and, if they have sold out, ask to order one in.
- We also provided copies to various other shops, supermarkets and newsagents in the UK; try Asda; try Sainsbury's.
Copies are also on sale around the world, although they are selling out very quickly. Again, ask at your local book store and see if they can get one in.
Here at LXF Towers we don't just pull out all the stops to give you the world's finest Linux publication. We send the stops to an industrial furnace and bury the ashes under the sea bed. As proof of our commitment to the world of free software, here's Art Editor Effy doing...
Wait, what is he doing? If you can figure out what's going on here with Mexico's finest export, or you have a cracking caption to go with the pic, post below. All will be revealed (probably) in Linux Format 130.
Subscribers should already have started to receive LXF129, and the rest of you will be able to pick up your copy from this Thursday. Inside you'll find a four-page tutorial on how everyone - even someone with only a few weeks of coding experience - can submit patches to the Linux kernel. It might sound crazy, particularly as many people consider the Linux kernel to be Really Hard or out of reach of mere mortals. But I hope that when you've finished the tutorial, you'll feel confident enough to give it a try.
If you've received your copy of LXF128, you should by now have spotted that our new special edition magazine, Paul Hudson's Coding Academy, is now on sale - you can read more about it at www.linuxformat.com/codingacademy.
The problem is, it's selling a bit better than we had expected - we had 200 copies ready for sale online alongside the thousands destined for newsstands around the world, but all the online copies have already sold out. We're trying to get more for online sale by pulling copies back from newsstands, but it's not easy.
So, there are some things you need to know:
I've just spent the last few hours putting up a beginners Emacs tutorial on TuxRadar. Long-time LXF readers will recognise it from way back in the dark mists of LXF - from the early 60s to the mid-70s to be precise - and I figured it was time to set the content free for everyone to enjoy. It's hardly as if Emacs has changed all that much, after all, and even the most hardened of LXF subscribers are unlikely to dig that deep into our subscriber-only area to find the PDFs. If you find yourself bored over the holiday break and you're interested in trying something different, give it a read.
So, I'm done now. I'm free to enjoy my last Christmas without kids, which means tomorrow morning I'll sleep in, then hopefully have a very relaxed day indeed. We're all out of the office now until January 4th, so I wish you all a very merry Christmas and an awesome 2010!
Subscribers will be receiving LXF127 right now, and you'll notice a) we provided a double-sided DVD with Ubuntu LXF remix, OpenSUSE 11.2 and Mandriva 2010 for you to enjoy, plus b) it should come with a free wallchart: helpful commands on one side, and a super-size reproduction of the LXF120 cover on the other (NB: you can download a variety of cover art as desktop wallpapers from our collection of free Linux wallpapers)
It's Christmas, so we hope you enjoy the little extra - do let us know if we're wasting our time popping extras into an issue, or whether it's the kind of thing you'd like to see more of!
(PS: the issue goes on general sale tomorrow morning, and, yes, all newsstand copies also come with the wallchart + 8GB DVD, but we expect them to disappear pretty quickly!)
Do you long for the days of 8-bit BASIC? When GOTO wasn't considered evil, REM wasn't just an American alternative rock band, and PEEKing and POKEing didn't get you into trouble with the police? Well, those days are back with the release of MikeOS 4.0.
Many moons ago I blogged about a game idea Graham had called Brain Party. That was some time ago, and since then I ported the code both to Windows Mobile devices and Xbox 360, and managed to sell quite a few copies of it.
But here's what's new: you probably know by now that I'm obsessed with coding, so I took it on myself to port Brain Party from C# to plain old C++, and as of today Brain Party is available for iPhone/iPod Touch users. Now, it's a long way from the old SDL game I made a few years ago - it has 30+ minigames, it's OpenGL-accelerated (shinier graphics - oooh!), and it's actually finished as opposed to kind of hanging around waiting for something to happen - but the core concept is the same: family-friendly brain games that everyone can enjoy.
Got a problem with Linux? Looking for a quick fix? On our sister site TuxRadar we've created a searchable database of over 700 Linux problems and solutions. These have been taken from the Answers section of Linux Format magazine, and stretch back over five years - so some of the information may be a bit dated. Nonetheless, there's lots of valuable information inside, so we hope it comes in useful!
Many thanks to LXF readers Towy and Guy for their help in converting LXF Answers to XML. Oh, and if you're looking for a complete list of the questions (it's a big page!), click here.
