Open Source Pixels

Why spend more than you should on a cheap PC that you buy retail? In less than 30 minutes, you can build an ultra-low-budget Linux PC that can handle a multitude of everyday tasks. The reality is that a computer capable of handling everyday tasks like Web surfing, e-mailing, burning CDs, editing images, word processing, and preparing presentations doesn’t require cutting-edge (read: expensive) technology—and will satisfy the requirements of most average PC users. If tasks like these are what you do most, we’ll show you how you can quickly and easily build a stable, stylish, inexpensive PC for under $250.

project, flashjs

==== NOTE! For users of Flash 8 and above, what you really might want to be looking at is the ExternalInterface API ====

Summary

The Flash JavaScript Integration Kit allows developers to get the best of the Flash and HTML worlds by enabling JavaScript to invoke ActionScript functions, and vice versa. All major data types can be passed between the two environments (you can view a complete list here).

Combining the best parts of Mac OS X and Ubuntu, gOS is truly a worthy competitor in the OS wars. It has simplicity, a well designed interface, a rock solid linux core and web apps. But is it good enough? Is it ‘a Linux for the rest of us!’ ? Let’s jump in and take a peek at the latest gOS, version 3.

All kinds of exciting things are happening in the Pandora universe, and now one enterprising individual has succeeded in getting Ubuntu 7.04 up and running on his development model. Things move pretty slowly, and no luck yet with Firefox, but the thrilling video does catch him playing with GIMP and the Xfce desktop environment.

[Pandora is the succesor to GP2X, a FOSS gaming handheld - Sander]

As of Tuesday morning, Acquia Drupal–the commercially supported version–and Acquia Network–which offers subscription-based access to technical support and remote network services–are going live. Acquia has also announced that entry-level subscriptions to the Acquia Network will be free of charge through the end of the year, so that people can try the services. Here are details, and some comments we got from Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia…

The WiKID Strong Authentication System is a highly
scalable, secure two-factor authentication system.
It is simple to implement and maintain, allows
users to be validated automatically, requires no
hardware tokens, has a simple API for application
support (via Ruby, PHP, Java, COM, Python, etc.),
supports multiple domains, and supports
replication for fault tolerance and scalability.
It also supports mutual /host and transaction
authentication.

Laconica (pronounced “luh-KAWN-ih-kuh”) is a
microblogging platform. It helps people in a
community, company, or group to exchange short
(140 character) messages over the Web. Users can
choose which people to “follow” and receive only
their friends’ or colleagues’ status messages. It
provides a similar service to sites like Twitter,
Jaiku, Pownce, and Plurk.

mxGraph is a JavaScript library that uses built-in
browser capabilities to provide an interactive
drawing and diagramming solution. Target
applications are Web based applications that
require workflow/BPM, diagram, network, or general
graph editing to be available in-place on a Web
page.

K.E.T.T.L.E (Kettle ETTL Environment) is a meta-
data driven ETL (Extraction, Transformation,
Transportation, and Loading) tool. This means that
no code has to be written to perform complex data
transformations. It is possible to create plugins
to do custom transformations or access proprietary
data sources. Kettle supports most databases on
the market, and has native support for slowly
changing dimensions on most database platforms.

BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, network distributed framebuffer support, and image and signal-processing tools.