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Wikinews -
23 hours and 53 minutes ago
Thursday, March 18, 2010
United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet
Napolitano has announced that the US Government has ended funding for a controversial "virtual
fence" along the US-Mexico border.
The program, called SBInet, will have $50 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009 that was allocated to it withdrawn in favor of investment in other, immediately
available technology for the purposes of security along the border. The program will also have
all further funding immediately frozen; as a result, all work will halt on the project beyond two
small test projects in Arizona. Officially, the move is in light of a pending reassessment of the
program, though it is likely that it signals the end of the five-year project, which has come
under mounting criticism based on cost and the time taken to complete the project.
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GNOME-Look.org Content -
1 days and 8 hours ago
iRaveH20 2 (Clean/Modern Gnome Theme ) v2.5 (New)
(GTK 2.x Theme/Style)
NEW! Released March 17 2010! v2.5 (BayBay!)
New Window Borders, and Panel no more vista resemblance just pain awesomeness!
Created By iRaveFuzion an Open Source Theme and Useablity team! (USA Based)
(see Website)
http://iravefuzion.blogspot.com (Now Open! Check are Project Out!)
iRaveH20 (Gnome/XFCE) is an original Linux Theme (meaning work is original and not based on
copyrighted themes) that aims to be unique, shiny and NOT dull like Murrine and other
themes/engines. (no offence) It brings a unique beautiful/glossy desktop to rival Windows(TM) and
Macosx(TM) in appearance and style. But in it's own way! It goes a different direction from most
themes aiming for eye candy but minimal resource consumption.
Why?: Because we don't feel ubuntu's "new" pretty purple theme cuts it for us! sorry Canonical
:(
(!) If you like this theme, Pass it on!
v2.5 (BayBay!) Adds Alot of new Enhancements and fixes! Plus New Window Bars and Panel!
It's a unique theme of it's own, Just for Linux! Not a 7 or OSX wannabe...
it's also not flat or boring. If you like flat and boring, Then we suggest some Stock Gnome Theme.
(no offence, to each is own)
This Theme Provides Windows Borders and a Unique Widget Theme (GTK2 + Metacity Theme)
Grab the iRaveH20 Icon Theme! (seen in the image)
Here: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=119776
We are an Open Source Theme and Useablity team!
(see Website)
http://iravefuzion.blogspot.com (Now Open! Check are Project Out!)
changelog:
(INSTALL)
You can Install this theme on any open source desktop with the Gnome or XFCE Desktop. (or any GTK
for that Matter)
EZ (Howto Install)
1.) Right Click on Desktop
2.) Click Change Background
3.) Click on the themes tab
4.)click on the install button and browse for the package you just downloaded!
Enjoy, You Deserve it!
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GNOME-Look.org Content -
1 days and 8 hours ago
Homosapien Metacity Customizer 0.4.5
(Metacity Theme)
This is a Metacity theme based on the Homosapien mockup done by 0rAX0.
This theme now has a online customization tool (called Customizer - link below) that allows you to
tweak the theme to *your* liking which you then download and install.
A special thanks to 0rAX0's for his amazing mockup, without it I wouldn't have been able to do
this.
See 0rAX0's original mockup at http://0rax0.deviantart.com/art/Homosapien-mockup-152444481
P.S. Made for use with the Human theme.
changelog:
********** Latest **********
v0.4.5
- Customizer theming
* New option to supply a prefix for the theme name. This allows you to have multiple customized
themes installed.
v0.4
- Customizer theming
* New option that changes the titlebar style. Includes styles for Homosapien, Blend, Dust, New Wave
and the new Ubuntu Ambiance and Radiance themes.
* New option to remove menu icon
v0.3
- Customizer theming
New option to control the position of the text on the titlebar
New option to specify the color of the close button
Added a grey icon as an menu icon option
v0.2
- Customizer website
Updated layout
Added commenting system
- Customizer theming
New option to support buttons on left (like osx)
New option to allow colored borders (like Homosapien2 mockups)
Can view how unfocused windows look (more options to follow)
* Note that the new options above are only available via the "(*NEW* Homosapien customizer)" link
and not the "(Homosapien latest)" link.
v0.1
Created Customizer
The Customizer is an online customization tool that allows you to tweak the base Homosapien theme
to *your* liking which you then download and install.
Want a smaller titlebar or how about a bigger one... no problem.
Want the menu icon to be that orange dot again or maybe just stick with the application icon... no
problem.
Want to define the theme color independent of your system/gtk color or maybe just stick to matching
your system/gtk color... no problem.
Hate those rounded bottom corners... no problem just turn them off.
If there is enough interest I'll look at adding more options like:
- buttons on the left like osx
- switch between different sets of buttons
- add a colored border (like the Homosapien 2 mockups)
- your suggestions
Please let me know what you think by adding a comment below.
********** Previous **********
v0.9
Titlebar now matches your "Selected items background" color
Mashed up some of the new buttons with old ones
Moved buttons more to the right
v0.8
Updated buttons (normal, hover and pressed)
Added unmaximize button to maximized windows
Show rounded corners to maximize button when just paired with close (ie max and close) - support
for rounded corners on the close button (when only the close button is showing) only works when
using metacity (not compiz)
Added title bar variations small, medium or large (all included in download)
v0.7.7
Fixed bug introduced in 0.7.6 that made the top border hard to use for resizing
v0.7.6
Reduced titlebar height (by 2px)
v0.7.5
Extended top tilebar outline to left and right borders
v0.7
Centered buttons on maximized windows
Removed left and right titlebar outlines
Replaced top titlebar outline with something more subtle
v0.6
Added pressed effects for buttons
Updated hover effects for inactive windows
Removed titlebar top outline for maximized windows
Display a different close button on windows that only show a close button (this doesnt work in
compiz but works in metacity)
v0.5
Decreased titlebar height
Changed menu icon to show the application icon
Added a slight gradient to the titlebar
Improved hover effects for buttons
Made left and right borders same width as the bottom (the positioning of the resize handle now
looks better)
v0.4
Rounded bottom corners (had to increase bottom border)
Improved rounded corners on inactive windows
v0.3
Improved titlebar to work better with all sizes of fonts
More consistent cropping of titlebar text on narrow windows
Improved position of the menu button
v0.2
Improved rounded corners
Increased window border width (1px to 3px)
Improved titlebar text contrast
Improved titlebar to work better with larger fonts
Changed titlebar background on inactive windows
Made menu button smaller
Added basic hover effects to buttons
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Global Voices Online -
1 days and 9 hours ago
Jordanian bloggers marked the third Blog About Jordan day on March 12th. As was the case
in previous years, the cyber event was organized by U.S.-based Jordanian blogger Qwaider:
It's that time of year again. March is is the month of Blog for Jordan day. March 12th to be
exact. This year it's going to be even more spectacular than the last two years.
The event, while primarily focusing on blog posts about Jordan, went live on Twitter as well
under #B4JO where new posts and tweets about it
were publicized. Clearly a testimony to the rising importance of Twitter as a social networking
tool, tweets also opened up the event to non-bloggers.
Qwaider not only organized the event but also published an excellent roundup of what
transpired during March 12th, linking up to the blogs that took part in the event. Since his
roundup is so stellar and in order to avoid online redundancy, here are a few of the things
bloggers have actually said on the third BAJD:
Nido on bringing up
her children to love Jordan:
We're bringing my kids soon to visit you Jordan,
We'll make sure we take them downtown,
We'll make sure they BOTH eat mansaf, shawerma, knafeh and falafel,
We'll make sure we visit a lot of houses, for friends and family,
We'll make sure they bathe under your sun and they watch your sunset from the main balcony in my
parents' house.
MommaBean on the
Jordan of her heart:
Changeable weather that is summer today and winter tomorrow
Traffic that is never ceasing and never predictable
Opportunities to befriend the rich and the poor alike and enjoy both equally
An intoxicating blend of home-comforts and exotic strangeness
A country that takes in those without other places to go… that opens its arms and its
heart - often at detriment to itself.
Miss Khasawneh on borders:
I know now that we might not be the largest of countries, but as cliché-like as this
might sound, Jordan is large in its cities, each with its own history, its ability to hold within
it so much diversity, its people, who prove themselves to be more creative, more successful and
more worthy of admiration with each passing day.
Nadine Toukan on freedom of expression in the
country:
Media today, be it legacy, traditional, new, or social, is a conversation. And no one can
shut you up. Censorship does not stop anything, never has. […] Go ahead, blog about Jordan
- share what you love, what works for you, and what else you want…with no holds. Speak
your mind about the Internet environment you want, teach your readers and viewers something we
don't know, demonstrate why open matters.

Image courtesy of Ola Oeliwat
Ola Oeliwat on why it's
easy to be creative in Jordan:
A lot of material to work with,Just look around you! Wherever you look it’s a blend of
interesting people, phenomena and landscape. […] There’s actually a lot of support
for those who choose to tap into their own potential. […] There’s always something
to look forward to. A photo exhibition, a book signing, a movie showing, you name it! There are
actually newcomers who are becoming well-known for their work all around Jordan, some sore of
local celebrities, and I think this creates an energetic vibe and could be encouraging to other
aspiring young people, or old for that matter!
Ranging from critique of
pedestrian life in the capital to analysis of the educational system
and a vocal
protest against web censorship, Jordanian bloggers tackled current hot topics in marking
March 12th, the third Blog About Jordan day.

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Standblog - Commentaires -
1 days and 14 hours ago
Personnellement je trouve que c'est plutôt bon dans l'ensemble, d'autant plus que le
développement n'est pas terminé, on peut donc s'attendre à un support plus
important des standards.
Le gros point noir dans tout ça c'est le choix du H.264 pour la <video>...
Au niveau du support de CSS 3, à part border-radius et les sélecteurs, ça
donne quoi ?
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InformationWeek RSS Feed -
1 days and 15 hours ago
The Department of Homeland Security plans to spend $50 million on mobile radios, cameras, laptops,
and other security technologies.

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Blog Alsacréations : XHTML, CSS et Standards web -
2 days and 11 hours ago
On s'en doutait depuis plusieurs jours, c'est désormais officiel : Internet
Explorer 9 est bien avancé du côté de Microsoft et plein de bonnes
intentions, avec un lot de nouveautés qui ne nous laisseront pas indifférents. Lors
de la conférence MIX 2010, la Platform Preview a été
dévoilée, téléchargeable et accompagnée de
démonstrations technologiques sur un mini-site dédié pour l'occasion :
IE9 Platform Demos.
Cette présentation suit 3 axes :
- La vitesse d'exécution (JavaScript)
- Le support HTML5, CSS3 et DOM
- L'accélération graphique et le début de support de SVG
Ainsi IE se rapproche de plus en plus des standards. On retrouve le support des
sélecteurs CSS3, avec les composantes Namespaces, Color, Values, Backgrounds, Borders et
Polices.
On notera donc plus prosaïquement la fameuse présence de border-radius, des couleurs
RGBA, d'opacity ainsi que des pseudo-classes :target, :enabled, :disabled, :checked, et :not().
Le test Acid3 affiche un score de 55/100 avec des promesses d'améliorations d'ici la
sortie finale, bien que ce test ne soit pas toujours significatif ni une mesure exacte de ce que
l'on peut attendre des technologies à supporter.
Le support HTML5 est engagé, bien que la spécification soit encore
à l'état de brouillon et puisse évoluer. Il en va de même pour
SVG de niveau Basic, langage XML de dessin vectoriel déjà supporté par les
autres navigateurs modernes. Le DOM n'est pas oublié et bénéficie de
perfectionnements significatifs en Level 2 (Range, Views, Core, Style, HTML) et Level 3 (Events).
Les performances du navigateur, qui dans le cas d'IE ont longtemps
été à la traîne, n'ont pas été négligées.
Microsoft annonce vouloir mettre à contribution le matériel et notamment
l'accélération graphique (du GPU) via Direct2D pour tirer un
meilleur parti des futures applications web HTML5. Ces accélérations
matérielles (et c'est une nouveauté) sont aussi exploitées pour SVG.
Un nouveau moteur de script nommé Chakra fait son apparition. Ce
dernier compile le code JavaScript en tâche de fond, et va jusqu'à
exploiter les processeurs à plusieurs cÅ“urs pour répartir la charge en
parallèle de l'exécution principale d'IE, dans un autre thread. D'après les
résultats du benchmark Sunspider fournis par Microsoft, le navigateur joue
désormais dans la même cour que Safari, Chrome et Opera, en parvenant même
à faire mieux que Firefox 3.6 :
Vous pouvez télécharger IE9
Platform Preview (Windows Vista SP2 est requis au minimum). Celui-ci sera mis à jour
toutes les 8 semaines environ jusqu'à la version finale car Microsoft espère une
collaboration plus rapprochée des développeurs. C'est un changement dans le
processus de développement et une ouverture que nous ne pouvons que saluer.
Plusieurs modes de rendu du document sont embarqués dans cette preview, respectivement
IE5, IE7, IE8, et le petit dernier IE9, accessibles depuis le menu Debug, Document
Mode et toujours manipulables avec l'instruction <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"
content="IE=9">.
Un nouvel outil fait son apparition, en plus des Outils pour développeurs
déjà accessibles via F12. Il s'agit d'un outil de monitoring réseau / HTTP
permettant de capturer le trafic et de détailler son contenu avec précision.
On peut donc en conclure d'après cette annonce que Microsoft a saisi l'enjeu du support
des standards, et de l'amélioration des performances. IEBlog fait mention à
plusieurs reprises d'une volonté de conformité rigoureuse aux standards et d'une
prise en compte plus importante des retours des développeurs web. Il ne faut pas oublier
que ces critères se sont imposés à Microsoft, après une longue
période de léthargie qui a permis aux navigateurs alternatifs la conquête
progressive et victorieuse d'une grande part du marché. L'accent est mis sur le support
des accélérations matérielles via le système d'exploitation
(Windows), qui sera probablement un nouveau terrain de bataille pour Firefox, Opera, Safari et
Chrome qui doivent quant à eux supporter des OS différents.
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Download Squad -
2 days and 13 hours ago

IE9 will make great leaps in standards compliance -- but not simply by following the standards
executed by W3C. Instead, they have analyzed real-world use to see which API calls to implement, to
reduce the amount of code developers have to write.
In the keynote, they are
now showing how Firefox, Chrome and IE9 all display rounded corners (CSS3) and
execute addEventListener correctly. The same for opacity rendering, borders and radius, and so
on.
As I mentioned in the previous post, you can play with all of these things on the IE9 'Test Drive' site.
And now our man is slandering Acid3 -- but they are quite intent to only implement features that
are necessary, not just to get 100/100 in Acid3. Again, this is about developers and end-users, not
just about pleasing the ever-critical pundits. Microsoft are working a lot with the community and
the standards bodies, submitting standards tests to W3C to ensure HTML5 is a success (vested
interest with IE9!)
Now they're on to GPU-powered HTML5...!
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report -
2 days and 17 hours ago

Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just the flames?
In An Early
Look At IE9 for Developers, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, reports
on performance progress, web standards progress (border-radius, bits of CSS3, Acid 3
performance), and “bringing the power of PC hardware and Windows to web developers in the
browser” (e.g. improved type rendering via Direct2D, a Windows sub-pixel rendering
technology that replaces Cleartype).
The reported web standards improvements are encouraging, and better type rendering in IE is a
consummation much to be desired. These positive notes notwithstanding, what is most interesting
about the post is the political tightrope Microsoft team leaders are still forced to walk.
The world has moved to web standards, and Microsoft knows it must at least try to catch up. Its
brilliant browser engineers have been working hard to do so. This web standards support is not
optional: having just been spanked hard in Europe for anticompetitive practices, Microsoft knows
it is no longer invincible, and cannot continue to use claims of innovation to stifle the overall
market or drag its feet on advanced standards compliance.
At the same time, Microsoft’s marketing department wants the public to believe that IE and
Windows are profoundly innovative. Thus efforts to catch up to the typographic legibility and
beauty of Mac OS X and Webkit browsers are presented, in Dean Hachamovitch’s blog post, as
leading-edge innovations. Don’t get me wrong: these improvements are desirable,
and Direct2D may be great. I’m not challenging the quality of the hardware and software
improvements; I’m pointing out the enforced bragging, which is mandated from on high, and
which flies in the face of the humble stance other high-level divisions in Microsoft would like
to enforce in the wake of the company’s European drubbing and the dents Apple and Google
have made on its monopoly and invulnerability.
In short, the tone of these announcements has not changed, even though the times have.
Hachamovitch does an admirable job of sticking to the facts and pointing out genuine areas of
interest. But he is stuck in a corporate box. A slightly more personal, down-to-earth tone would
have come across as the beginnings of transparency—Web 1.1, if not Web
2.0—and a more transparent tone might have slightly reduced the percentage of
flamebait in the post’s comments. (It could only have slightly reduced that
percentage, because, on the internet, there is no such thing as a calm discussion of improvements
to a Microsoft browser, but still.)
Although I disagree with the tone of many of the comments—rudeness to
engineers is not admirable, kind, or helpful—I agree with the leading thoughts
they express, which are:
- Getting IE fully up to speed on web standards is much more important than introducing any
proprietary innovations. (Naturally I agree with this, as it is, in a nutshell, what The Web
Standards Project told browser companies back in 1998—and it is still true.)
- Switching to Webkit might be a better use of engineering resources than patching IE.
On the other hand, Microsoft’s refusal to switch to Webkit gives Apple and Google a
competitive advantage, and that is good because a web in which one browser has a monopoly stifles
standards and innovation alike. By torturing the IE rendering engine every couple of years
instead of putting it out of its misery, Microsoft contributes to the withering away of its own
monopoly. That might not be good for the shareholders, but it is great for everyone else.


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