Red Hat’s Carlos O’Donell provided an update this week on the GNU C Library along with some recent and upcoming features for glibc…
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The State & Future Of The GNU C Library (GLIBC)
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NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Stream Library
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Open Thread: Evolving the library for the 21st century
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Chances are good that you’ve been to a library and used its resources. Kids check out colorful, educational books; adults seek out entertainment and information; and academics of all ages use libraries as a place to work, meet, and discover resources.
Today, there is a national discussion around the role of libraries in public and academic sectors.
Getting started with Koha, an open source library system
March 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
When I think back, I can’t remember my first involvement in the Koha community. I remember talking to Chris Cormack on Instant Messenger nearly everyday before ever really communicating with the community has a whole. I remember trying to find a job working with Koha when it was time for me to move on from my first job, but I still don’t remember really being involved in the community. I read a great post by Siobhan Mckeown about participating in the WordPress community and I highly recommend reading it, but I thought maybe I should do a Koha variation for those who want to get involved.
My own personal story started with a mentor, Chris, and lead to becoming Documentation Manager and a Koha trainer. But we all have different paths and different stories, so I asked the community to answer a few questions to help me produce a well rounded post for you (following Siobhan’s model).
Google Open-Sources C++ B-Tree Containers Library
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DRM Library Gets Improved Documentation
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JPEG Library Update Raises Compatibility Concerns
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This week brought the release of IJG’s libjpeg v9 library, which brought noticeable lossless JPEG compression improvements so that it can even surpass PNG images on the compress lossless image size. While the improvements are nice, backwards incompatible changes with this JPEG library are causing concern for some users and developers…
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DRM Library Gets Improved Documentation
January 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
For those developers wishing to dive into the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) world on Linux, committed to the libdrm tree are improved man pages that cover various areas of this key component to the open-source Linux graphics stack…
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Amazon’s Kindle daily book deals are a great way to build your library
December 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If you got a Kindle device this year for the holidays, don't forget about the Kindle Store Daily Deals. There are always plenty of books for just $ 1.99, and they change daily. It's a great way to build your library on the cheap.
You need a Kindle or Kindle Fire to buy them, but once purchased they are in your Amazon account and can be read on any device with a Kindle app. With WhisperSync taking care of your bookmarks, you'll be hard pressed to find a better reading solution anywhere. To find them, just open the Kindle store from your tablet and look for the Daily Deals link on the right.
You'll always find deals and specials in the music and video store as well, but the Kindle deals are a solid perk for having one of Amazon's tablets. Take advantage of it if you like to read and have a Kindle device. I just picked up William Alexander's The $ 64 Tomato, and plan on spending the evening enjoying the warm indoors with it.
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The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK: Building Applications with the Android SDK (Developer’s Library) Reviews
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The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK: Building Applications with the Android SDK (Developer’s Library)
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Linux Administration A Beginners Guide 6/E (Network Pro Library) Reviews
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Linux Administration A Beginners Guide 6/E (Network Pro Library)
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Beets Music Tagger: Command Line Tool To Fix Metadata And Organize Your Music Library
January 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
beets is a cross-platform command line music tagger and organizer which you can use to “get your music collection right once and for all“.
It can improve your music collection metadata by using MusicBrainz, download cover art for all your albums, reorganize your music files, fix filenames and more.
Further more, beets is extensible through plugins which add extra functionality like embedding or extracting album art from files, fetch lyrics for all your songs, clean up tags and and there’s even a HTML5 web player (though it’s very basic and can’t do too much for now).
