How to Protect Yourself From Big Brother
Stop the government from spying on your internet connection by using open source software and strong encryption. Everyone encrypt their internet connections and stop the NSA in their tracks! You are being watched. Regardless of the government you live under, your actions on the internet are being tracked. Your every search recorded and kept in […]
Stellarium
Sourceforge project of the month for May 2006. Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars, or a telescope. It’s designed to be fun to use, even for those who don’t much about astronomy. I usually […]
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and […]
TheOpenCD project
TheOpenCD project aims to introduce users of MS-Windows to the benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a broad audience. We provide a description and screen-shots of each program, so you can get an […]
OpenSSL gets NIST certifications
Agencies setting up sensitive virtual private networks now have an open-source alternative. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified OpenSSL, an open-source library of encryption algorithms, as meeting Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Level 1 standards, according to the Open Source Software Institute of Hattiesburg, Miss. ?This validation will save us hundreds of […]
2006 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards
The to the first annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. Voting closed on March 23. Winners were announced at the Slashdot Lounge at LinuxWorld Expo, Boston, April 5. SourceForge.net is the world’s largest Open Source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, […]
Open source vs. proprietary management tools
Open source software is a concept that I believe in and support. I have written more about it here. In deciding between open source and proprietary management tools, an organization may have to decide whether it’s willing to forgo some niche features in exchange for a less costly tool that does 80% of what its […]
