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The Zero Install Injector makes it possible for users to install software easily
and without the need for root privileges. It takes the URL of a program's interface description and
chooses suitable versions of the program and all of its dependencies (also identified by URLs)
according to the user's policy settings (eg. "stable", "testing", "minimal network use", etc). The
chosen versions are downloaded and cached and the program is run, using environment variables to
let it find the components. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Downloading should now be less CPU-intensive. A distribution is no longer assumed to be RPM-based
just because /var/lib/rpm exists. When considering Debian distribution packages, the architecture
is now considered: for example, a 64-bit Debian library cannot be used with a 32-bit main
executable. Some progress has been made towards supporting Windows.
The Zero Install Injector makes it possible for users to install software easily
and without the need for root privileges. It takes the URL of a program's interface description and
chooses suitable versions of the program and all of its dependencies (also identified by URLs)
according to the user's policy settings (eg. "stable", "testing", "minimal network use", etc). The
chosen versions are downloaded and cached and the program is run, using environment variables to
let it find the components. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Downloading should now be less CPU-intensive. A distribution is no longer assumed to be RPM-based
just because /var/lib/rpm exists. When considering Debian distribution packages, the architecture
is now considered: for example, a 64-bit Debian library cannot be used with a 32-bit main
executable. Some progress has been made towards supporting Windows.
Michael Moore’s latest documentary film, Slacker Uprising, is set to be available
for free on the Internet. Does this signal a change in the movie industry or just Moore’s
desire to see Obama in the White House?
When Radiohead released their latest album, In Rainbows, for free over the Internet last
year, it was seen as a forward-thinking step which could revolutionise the way music is
distributed.
Changing The Status Quo?
The album did well, but most people still ended up downloading it via less legal means. And the
experiment didn’t really do anything to end the monopoly that the big record companies
enjoy.
Could film-maker Michael Moore do any better in persuading the movie industry that there is an
alternative to releasing movies in to cinemas?
Available For Free Online
Michael Moore, known for his hard-hitting documentaries attacking the status quo, is releasing
Slacker Uprising for free on the Internet
before it gets released on DVD.
The 97-minute-long film will be available to watch on BlipTV
for three weeks starting from September 23rd. It will then be released on DVD on October 7th
through Amazon and Netflix.
Slacker Uprising Trailer
Get Bush Out!
Slacker Uprising is a film following Michael Moore’s 62-city tour around the US
swing states in the build-up to the 2004 US Presidential Election. Moore wanted Bush out and
democrat John Kerry in.
While Moore’s hope wasn’t fulfilled, the documentary is now being released for free
over the Internet in order to reach as many people as possible before this year’s US
Presidential Election between
Barack Obama and John McCain.
Moore Speaks
Moore released a statement explaining the move:
“This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans. The only return any of us are hoping
for is the largest turnout of young voters ever at the polls in November. I think Slacker Uprising
will inspire (millions) to get off the couch and give voting a chance.”
The film cost an estimated $2 million to make, and Moore thinks that this method of release will
end up costing him $1 million. But neither Moore or the distributor, Brave New Films, plan to
profit from the release.
Conclusions
This is an intriguing development, especially as Moore could have guaranteed a pay day by
releasing this film in cinemas. He has instead decided to give his fans a present in the hope of
inspiring more people to vote.
This comes just a week after No End In Sight was announced as being the first
widely-released feature film to be
screened in its entirety on YouTube.
Will this revolutionise the movie industry? Not a chance. But it does at least show the Web is
becoming a more accepted form of distribution for long-form content.
Weblog is a blog publisher. It takes structured text files as input and outputs
static HTML and RSS files. It aims to be simple and robust. License: BSD License
(revised) Changes:
style.rst is now part of the distribution. The blog title now links to the base URL. A bug with
renderstring when None or an empty string was passed was fixed. Jinja 2 is used instead of Jinja 1
if both versions are present.
Weblog is a blog publisher. It takes structured text files as input and outputs
static HTML and RSS files. It aims to be simple and robust. License: BSD License
(revised) Changes:
style.rst is now part of the distribution. The blog title now links to the base URL. A bug with
renderstring when None or an empty string was passed was fixed. Jinja 2 is used instead of Jinja 1
if both versions are present.
Linux.com: "Eight years ago, computer stores stocked a choice of GNU/Linux
distributions -- established ones like Caldera, Red Hat, and SUSE, and newcomers like Corel,
Progeny, and Stormix. Now, only Ubuntu and openSUSE offer box sets, and both face challenges that
other distributions found unsolvable..."
Filed under: e-Distribution Games We honestly can't remember if this mini-game called Qore Wars has ever been in
the previous issues of Qore, but
we're still putting this out and letting you know that it exists. Like Death Orb, another
mini-game found in Qore (which has been around since the first issue), Qore Wars can be
accessed by hitting the shoulder triggers while on the main menu of the September issue. Tapping L2
brings you to Qore Wars -- an alien shooter; tapping R2 brings you to Death Orb
-- a Pong-like game. Both games are short, five minute diversions that are fun for the
weekend.
A Sidi Bouzid, M. Khelil Lajimi, ministre du Tourisme, a présidé, hier, au
siège du Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique (RCD) une cérémonie
de solidarité au cours de laquelle il a donné le coup d'envoi à des caravanes
d'aides présidentielles à
Revolution Radio writes "BetaNews has a short description of what we might expect from Governor
Palin regarding technology issues. She demonstrated her familiarity with the internet by initiating
an online education program for state workers, using the web for government transparency, and a
supporting the general concept of 'long-distance distribution of services' (similar to net
neutrality?)." We've previously discussed Senator Joe Biden's tech voting record and compared the
technology platforms of Obama and McCain. In addition to the above story about Palin, Betanews also
has analyses of Obama, McCain, and Biden regarding tech policy. Read more of this story at Slashdot. </img>
Jason Biggs, qui se rendit célèbre en tenant le rôle de la trilogie des
American Pie, serait sur le point de s'engager pour rejoindre la distribution d'une nouvelle
comédie, actuellement sans titre, produite par Mitchell Hurwitz, le créateur
dÂ’Arrested Development, également producteur de la série animée
Sit Down, Shut Up, une des...
Le marché suisse de l'électricité vient à peine de s'ouvrir à la
concurrence qu'une augmentation des tarifs de 25% est déjà annoncée. La
polémique enfle. Sur le banc des accusés: Swissgrid, l'exploitant du réseau de
distribution.
Les magasins Carrefour d'Arlon et de Marche-en-Famenne, bloqués samedi matin par des
agriculteurs, ont rouvert leurs portes dans l'après-midi, a annoncé la direction de
la chaîne de distribution. "Ils sont à nouveau ouverts", a indiqué un
porte-parole à l'agence BELGA. Samedi matin, des centaines de tracteurs avaient
bloqué l'accès aux parkings des magasins Carrefour, Lidl et Aldi sur l'ensemble de la
province de Luxembourg. Ils protestaient contre les difficultés financières
rencontrées par le secteur.
Les magasins Carrefour d'Arlon et de Marche-en-Famenne, bloqués samedi matin par des
agriculteurs, ont rouvert leurs portes dans l'après-midi, a annoncé la direction de
la chaîne de distribution. "Ils sont à nouveau ouverts", a indiqué un
porte-parole à l'agence BELGA. Samedi matin, des centaines de tracteurs avaient
bloqué l'accès aux parkings des magasins Carrefour, Lidl et Aldi sur l'ensemble de la
province de Luxembourg. Ils protestaient contre les difficultés financières
rencontrées par le secteur.
Le ministre wallon de l’Agriculture et de la Ruralité, Benoît Lutgen, a
affirmé samedi à des agriculteurs que la grande distribution était seule
responsable du blocage actuel dans la crise du lait, dont les producteurs jugent les prix trop bas.
M. Lutgen (cdH) a rencontré une délégation d’agriculteurs pour discuter
de la crise du lait en marge de l’inauguration de la foire agricole de Herve-Battice. Il a
qualifié cette réunion de « constructive ». Le ministre a
toutefois stigmatisé l’attitude prise par la grande distribution dans ce dossier.
« Les agriculteurs, les laiteries jouent le jeu. On possède des données
chiffrées », a expliqué le ministre à l’agence BELGA.
Le ministre wallon de l’Agriculture et de la Ruralité, Benoît Lutgen, a
affirmé samedi à des agriculteurs que la grande distribution était seule
responsable du blocage actuel dans la crise du lait, dont les producteurs jugent les prix trop bas.
M. Lutgen (cdH) a rencontré une délégation d’agriculteurs pour discuter
de la crise du lait en marge de l’inauguration de la foire agricole de Herve-Battice. Il a
qualifié cette réunion de « constructive ». Le ministre a
toutefois stigmatisé l’attitude prise par la grande distribution dans ce dossier.
« Les agriculteurs, les laiteries jouent le jeu. On possède des données
chiffrées », a expliqué le ministre à l’agence BELGA.
Revolution Radio writes "BetaNews has a short description of what we might expect from Governor
Palin regarding technology issues. She demonstrated her familiarity with the internet by initiating
an online education program for state workers, using the web for government transparency, and a
supporting the general concept of 'long-distance distribution of services' (similar to net
neutrality?)." We've previously discussed Senator Joe Biden's tech voting record and compared the
technology platforms of Obama and McCain. In addition to the above story about Palin, Betanews also
has analyses of Obama, McCain, and Biden regarding tech policy.
Freetorrent (http://www.freetorrent.fr) est un projet
basé sur le partage et la promotion des logiciels libres et des contenus libres sous licence
libre ET sous Licence Libre de Diffusion (LLD) (pour tout système : Microsoft
Windowsâ„¢, Gnu/Linux, Mac OS, xBSD, ...).
Freetorrent propose de rassembler et de rendre ces médias disponibles par
l'intermédiaire du réseau Peer to peer en utilisant le protocole Bittorrent et
souhaite ainsi créer une dynamique communautaire culturelle libre, pour tous, par tous.
Les nouveautés de septembre :
Debian GNU/Linux - Cahier de l'admin (2ème édition - 2005) (Licence : CC
by-nc-nd)
Debian GNU/Linux, distribution Linux non commerciale extrêmement populaire, est
réputée pour sa fiabilité et sa richesse. Soutenue par un impressionnant
réseau de développeurs dans le monde, elle a pour mots d'ordre l'engagement
vis-à-vis de ses utilisateurs et la qualité.
Cette 2eme édition du cahier de l'Admin Debian détaille la version Debian Sarge 3.1.
Elle traite des outils et méthodes qu'un administrateur Linux doit maîtriser, depuis
l'installation et la mise à jour du système jusqu'à la création de
paquetages, en passant par la supervision, la sauvegarde, et les migrations. Elle aborde
également de nouveaux thèmes tels que la compilation d'un noyau Linux avec les outils
Debian, et fournit un glossaire des principaux termes Debian GNU/Linux.
A l'occasion du lancement de la plateforme Izibook d'Eyrolles, Roland Mas et Raphaël Hertzog
ont obtenu d'Eyrolles qu'ils publient la deuxième édition du Cahier de l'Admin sous
licence Creative Commons. Ils ont retenu la licence CC BY-NC-ND (donc la plus restrictive) mais
elle permet aux auteurs de proposer au public de télécharger gratuitement le PDF du
livre ! ...
[jeux] OpenArena (Licence : Gnu GPL)
OpenArena est un jeu de tir subjectif (FPS) disponible pour GNU/Linux et Windows sous licence GPL.
Il reprend le moteur graphique de Id Tech 3 du jeu Quake III développé par le projet
ioquake3 et remplace tous les médias par des équivalents libres. À l'origine,
ce jeu se voulait un clone de Quake III pour des machines modestes, mais les choix récents
de sa conceptrice lui ont donné d'autres objectifs (plus aucun rapport avec Quake III et des
options graphiques poussées qui limitent son utilisation sur des machines modestes).
[photos/images] Photos libres : fonds d'écran (Licence : Gnu GPL)
24 images libres de droits. Au menu : Couchers de soleil, papillons, fleurs...
[Musique] Les compiles à Marcel (1, 2, 3) (Licence : CC by-nc-nd))
Grâce à Internet, la musique en libre diffusion est en plein essor. Dans la
foulée des plate-formes historiques, tels que Dogmazic ou Boxson, les sites se multiplient
où l'on peut mettre en ligne ses morceaux, et ainsi les rendre accessibles aisément
à tout un chacun.
[Littérature] Claude Ecken - L'ecriture de la science fiction (Licence : CC by-nc-nd)
Texte non dénué d'humour d'une conférence de Claude Ecken au sujet des
spécificités de l'écriture de la science fiction.
[Littérature] Roland C. Wagner - Le Serpent Déchiré (Licence : Gnu GPL)
Deux romans faisant suite aux Derniers jours de mai, également disponible sur FreeTorrent
:
Dans Le Serpent D'angoisse, publié en 1987, les États-Unis s'effondrent en l'espace
d'une nuit de folie où réalité et fantasmes se confondent. Ce roman a obtenu
le prix Rosny aîné 1988.
Le Paysage déchiré, paru en 1989, conte l'errance d'un amnésique traqué
par un mystérieux "chasseur" dans un avenir cauchemardesque, quelques années
après la chute des États-Unis.
Deux romans de science-fiction bien noire et très psychédélique.
[Linux] bubuntu-fr-8.04b-dvd-desktop-i386.iso (Licence : Gnu GPL)
Bubuntu (prononcer « boubountou ») est une distribution basée sur Ubuntu.
Celle-ci a pour objectif de permettre aux utilisateurs du système d'exploitation le plus
vendu aujourd'hui de passer en douceur vers le monde merveilleux du logiciel libre.
[Cinéma] Route 66 : an american bad dream (Licence : CC by-nc-sa)
Route 66 est un documentaire de 104 minutes qui retrace un "road trip" à travers les
Etats-Unis à bord d'une cadillac.
Micahel Moore nous montre comment les U.S. pourraient être vus "de l'intérieur".
En compagnie de 3 allemands qui découvrent la *censored*ture américaine à
travers de "road trip" un peu spécial, ce groupe "d'étrangers" se confronte à
l'"American way of life" avec plus ou moins de réussite ...
[Linux] Xbuntu - BOINC - AF V0.3 (Licence : Gnu GPL)
Version 0.3 du live CD Xubuntu hardy héron destiné aux processeurs 64bits pour aider
la science.
[Linux] Nutyx full (version DVD) (Licence : Gnu GPL)
NuTyX est une distribution GNU-Linux légère, performante et complète pour les
francophones.
Ce qui fait la force de NuTyX c'est certainement son gestionnaire de paquets clair, simple et
transparent pour l'utilisateur.
L'utilisateur peut en effet facilement intégrer ses propres paquets.
Une distribution pour les francophones, la documentation est en français
NuTyX est une des rares distributions qui n'est pas basée sur une autre distribution.
[Littérature] 6 aventures de Sherlock Holmes (Licence : Art Libre (LAL))
Ce livre contient 6 aventures de Sherlock Holmes, le célèbre détective
d'Arthur Conan Doyle, traduites en Français.
Liste des nouvelles :
# L'Escarboucle bleue
# Aventure de la bande mouchetée
# Le Pouce de l'ingénieur
# L'Aristocratique Célibataire
# Le Diadème de béryls
# Les Hêtres pourpres
The New
York Post ran a little piece yesterday about hearing a rumor that Mark Cuban's Magnolia
pictures has signed to distribute
Steven Soderbergh's Che, which James and I saw at Cannes and very much enjoyed. I
emailed Cuban earlier to ask whether the rumor is true, and got back from him "working on it,"
which to me sounds very promising. Cuban's a smart guy and he's not afraid to take risks; now
he'll just have to figure out how to package and market the damn thing.
Many of us who loved the film at Cannes pondered over drinks after that screeing who would be
brave enough to pick it up for distribution, and whether if it did get picked up it would show in
one part in its entirety with an intermission, as we saw it at there, or two separate films, or
perhaps one greatly edited shorter film. I'm glad to hear that someone's going to pick it up, and
I'm curious now to see which way Cuban will play the release of the film. Any thoughts from those
who've seen it as to which you'd prefer?
L’association GULL 02, le Groupe
d’Utilisateurs GNU/Linux de l’Aisne, organise le samedi 6 septembre une Install-Party. De 15h à 18h, venez vous
faire installer GNU/Linux, essayer diverses distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva,
etc… ) et rencontrer d’autres Linuxiens.
L'install-party aura lieu au magasin Ekobox, 19 rue du Général Leclerc à
Chauny (02300).
Ronaldo Lemos says that Sony offers 13 new CDs a year to all of Brazil. But there is tremendous
activity online. But sites like TramaVirtual only works for people with computers. His group
researched Nigeria, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. E.g., in the Brazilian province of
Parà “tehcnobrega” (cheesy techno) is popular. There every year they produce
400 cds and 100 dvds. They’re not available in store. The producers have a deal with the
people who sell pirated cds on the street. The cds are sold at the “raves.” The
economic system is entirely different from the traditional music industry’s. The artists
also sell higher-end versions at their concerts. This is a multi-million dollar market. The
number 1 well-known artist in the country, Calypso, is completely outside the media-record
industry complex. Baile funk is another
example.
Brazil produces 51 films a year. Us: 611. India: 934. Nigeria: 1200. In Nigeria, they skip the
usual distribution channels. They sell them directly on the street. Movies provide the #2 source
of employment in Nigeria, for a million people.
Henri Langlois in 1969 said that cinema will only reach its destiny until people have
appropriated the means of production, Ronaldo says.
He says people say that this music and these movies are in bad taste. But, he says, the samba in
the 1930s was also perceived as in bad taste.
This is a global phenomenon: Grind, dubstep, hip hop, kuduro, champeta, etc.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I don’t like Comcast. Using their service, my
Internet connectivity is slow, my cable is constantly on the fritz, and the interactive program
guide is the definition of clunky. But Comcast — I say this through very gritted teeth,
indeed — has some very promising plans for Fancast,
its broadband video portal.
Because now Comcast wants
to turn Fancast into the link from the Internet back into its cable programming service. If
Comcast is even remotely successful with this web-to-TV convergence, then Fancast could very well
represent a model for linking together new and old distribution methods.
Fancast this week added an online
store through which users can rent and/or own more than 3,000 television shows and movies,
and that store is supposedly the start of the broad new Fancast strategy.
Keep in mind, I’m not suggesting that Fancast is a better online store than others. I am a
huge iTunes advocate and think it provides the greatest ease of use among online stores. Rather,
the Comcast strategy with Fancast is worth watching because the operator appears to be taking
steps to become more than just a dumb pipe. After all, cable’s role as the middle man in
delivering content is under siege as
consumers turn to the web to watch video programming. A broader Fancast is more of a retention
play than a revenue driver. Customers who contemplate jettisoning cable programming in favor of
becoming Internet-only video viewers might think twice if Comcast can strengthen the ties between
its web and TV services.
Later this year, Comcast will begin testing the capability of synching Fancast to your Comcast
DVR, which means you could program your home DVR
from the Fancast site using your work computer. As a Comcast spokesperson noted, “The
end user should feel like they can find and manage and get all their entertainment that they want
no matter where it is.”
The next step will be to loop in video-on-demand functionality into Fancast. That could mean
programming a VOD playlist directly from Fanc
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and reject those that you are not interested in
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The Zero Install Injector makes it possible for users to install software easily
and without the need for root privileges. It takes the URL of a program's interface description and
chooses suitable versions of the program and all of its dependencies (also identified by URLs)
according to the user's policy settings (eg. "stable", "testing", "minimal network use", etc). The
chosen versions are downloaded and cached and the program is run, using environment variables to
let it find the components. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Weblog is a blog publisher. It takes structured text files as input and outputs
static HTML and RSS files. It aims to be simple and robust. License: BSD License
(revised) Changes:
We honestly can't remember if this mini-game called Qore Wars has ever been in
the previous issues of 
The New
York Post ran a little piece yesterday about hearing a rumor that Mark Cuban's Magnolia
pictures has 
