You can install any modern Windows or Linux version, desktop or server, using Hyper-V in Windows 8.1. But you’ll need to bring your own license and software for the base OS. Here’s how to get that OS cheap or even free. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Looking to Pull in Developer Interest? Build a Community
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As software consumers, we’ve become spoiled with the number of choices there are when it comes to open source and freeware. There are so many technologies and vendors out there shouting for attention that you don’t often have to look long to find a usable solution. When you’re on the other side of the relationship,…
Internet of Things (#IoT) Silicon Valley Faculty and Sessions @ThingsExpo
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The Internet of Things promises to transform businesses (and lives), but navigating the business and technical path to success can be difficult to understand. This presentation will show you how to approach creating broadly successful connected customer solutions using real world business transformation studies including New England BioLabs and more. read more Source: Open Source
Smartphones, PC Refresh Drive Worldwide IT Market
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The U.S. IT market will increase by 4 percent this year, and Western Europe will maintain a 2 percent growth rate overall, according to IDC. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
Core Security Effort Aims to Improve Firms' Handling of Software Flaws
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Companies too often focus on fixing the wrong software vulnerabilities, leaving themselves open to attack, a security expert says. Core Security is releasing at Black Hat a model to help companies properly patch flaws. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
Rumor: Windows Threshold may have virtual desktops
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We already know that the next major Windows release, code-named Windows Threshold, will bring back the Start menu. Source: Tech
Eight ways to increase security for your WordPress site
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In today’s open source roundup: Eight things you can do to help protect your WordPress site. Source: Tech
Reduce Measurement System Cost with the New, Rugged CompactDAQ Controller
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NIWeek : NI , the provider of solutions that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, today announced the CompactDAQ 4-slot controller . Source: Tech
Facebook’s Parse Releases PHP SDK, Its First for a Server-Side Language and Its First to Be Open Source
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Parse today released the Parse PHP SDK, which you can download yourself from GitHub. The Facebook-owned company says the release is its first SDK for a server-side language as well as the first to be “truly open-source.” Until today, accessing Parse from PHP could only be done from the REST API. While a few Parse API wrapper libraries have…