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The French national police force has slashed its IT costs by 70 per cent by cutting Microsoft out of the equation.
There are many arguments for or against switching from Windows to Linux. Many times these arguments are based more in fanaticism than fact.

In a recent report, the French national police force, Gendarmerie Nationale, has provided some great facts supporting the switch from Windows to Linux.

In 2002, the Gendarmerie Nationale adopted a strictly open-standards IT policy in order to improve inter-organisation communications.

Until 2004, a large part of the IT budget was spent on software licences — between 12,000 and 15,000 licenses each year. In 2004, an accountant in the Gendarmerie Nationale tried OpenOffice and, after finding it a surprisingly competent replacement for its paid counterpart, started pushing for it to be adopted within the organization instead of Microsoft Office. read more..

LG GC900 is a 8-megapixel touchscreen phone featuring DivX video playback, 3G, stereo bluetooth, and microSDHC memory slot. LG has now announced the GC900, which we knew better as the Viewty II, and will be called the LG Smart hereon.

The new LG Viewty Smart packs a 3-inch capacitive touch-display with WVGA resolution, an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash and D1 video recording, accelerometer, 3G support, Wi-Fi and GPS. It runs on the new S-Class 3D user interface and most probably will have the multi-touch functions. Dolby Mobile technology along with the DivX/XviD support is also on board.

The program module camera is equipped with the function geo-TEG : using technology A -GPs, The telephone can identify the photographed objects and places. LG also confirmed information relative to the presence of WLAN and HSDPA support. Among the interesting special features, we should note the presence of volumetric user interface, divX and Xvid support , the possibility of expanding the memory up to 32 GB.

We pretty much knew all its ins and outs but in case you missed some, here are its major features all crammed into a thickness of 12.4 mm.

• HSDPA network support
• WiFi
• 3-inch TFT touchscreen display
• 8-megapixel camera with video capture at 720×480 resolution
• aGPS with Geotagging
• S-Class 3D UI
• Weight: 90g

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The JavaScript cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing methods and functions of JavaScript. It includes reference material for regular expressions in JavaScript, as well as a short guide to the XMLHttpRequest object. A description of what is on the cheat sheet follows, or if you are impatient, you can go straight to the full size JavaScript cheat sheet.

• PNG, 96KB
• PDF, 453KB

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Google App Engine was released yesterday for Java. It provides the ability to deploy Java based web applications onto the App Engine, and provides a data store service (with JPA and JDO on top of it), memcached, and others. So, what I decided to do is try and get Compass integrated with Google App Engine to allow for easy full text search of Google App Engine apps (yea, the irony). Basically, it took me a couple of hours, and we have something ready to use.

What are the steps needed?

• Make your domain model searchable.
• Create a Compass instance. Configure it to store the index using GAE data store (there is also support for native Lucene applications). Configure it not to use threads.
• Create a Compass Gps, have it automatically mirror changes done using the JDO/JPA API to the search engine. Call index operation to completely reindex your application.

Thats it. Pretty simple no? Especially since these are the steps you use to enable any Java application with full text search using Compass .

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Linux is an outstanding operating system for serving up applications. And there are a ton of possibilities. From content management systems to Web portal creation tools, Linux has just about everything you need. Among those thousands of tools, a select few stand out as the best of the best. Listed below you will find my top 10 must-haves for Linux server/Web/cloud-based tools.

1: Drupal

Drupal is one of the finest content management systems available. It’s open source, based on PHP, and can serve up anything from individual sites to large corporate sites. Drupal is also modular, which means it defaults to a core installation but has a number of outstanding modules you can add. Installation of Drupal requires a database (MySQL is preferred), PHP, and a server (such as Apache). It was originally written as a bulletin board system.

Drupal is simple to install, easy to manage, reliable, scalable, and themeable. Some of the biggest sites powered by Drupal are Warner Brothers Recording, MTV UK, Harvard Science and Engineering, FedEX, NASA, and Ubuntu.

One of Drupal’s best features (especially for the enterprise level) is the efficiency of bug fixing and patching. A large number of developers are working with Drupal, and shortly after a bug or security hole is discovered, a fix is released. Newer releases of Drupal take advantage of an automatic update notifier. As soon as an update of any installed module (including the core) is released, the administrator is informed. If you need a tool to help you quickly roll out quality sites, Drupal is what you are looking for.

2: Webmin

If you need remotely manage a server or a desktop, Webmin is one of the best tools available. Webmin allows you to remotely configure disk quotas, modify applications, configure services (such as Apache, FTP, and MySQL), control multiple machines from a single interface, and much more. The Webmin interface is strictly Web-based and is incredibly user-friendly. Like Drupal, Webmin is modular, which allows you to install modules for nearly any application/task and to write modules of your own. Webmin is one of those tools that every Linux (and now Windows) administrator should deploy to make their administrative tasks far easier. Webmin is released under the BSD license.

3: Nolapro

Although not open source, Nolapro is one of the best Linux-based accounting and POS solutions I have used. Nolapro is another modular system, and it includes order management, general ledger, shopping cart, inventory tracking, accounts payable, payroll, B-to-B, accounts receivable, and POS. Nolapro is simple to install but not quite as simple to use. Of course, any system of this nature is going to have a somewhat steeper learning curve. Tthe software itself is free, but I highly recommend you purchase the printed manuals.

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