Novell is announcing the first real-time collaboration platform for the enterprise, called Novell Pulse. In addition, Novell and Google are jointly announcing that they are working together to enable Novell Pulse users and Google Wave users to seamlessly work together across both systems. Novell is the first collaboration provider to integrate Google Wave.

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Heads up: it's time for you to start submitting your session proposals for BrainShare 2010.

In computing there are two terms which are often confused: encoding and enciphering. One of them, with 'cipher' in its name, usually best refers to something that is cryptographically enciphered which means it was mathematically mangled in a fashion that the result, regardless of the input, is fairly random, patternless nonsense to the un-key-assisted eye. The other term refers to simply changing data from one form to another at is basic level. One type of encoding is 'base64' encoding, which is used through many areas of computing and can be explained much more-simply than most cryptographic cipher functions (in my opinion). This article is to show how, on many levels, Linux Just Does That.

For a while now I have taken for granted the marvelous functionality commonly referred-to as "workspaces" in the X window system. Anybody using a graphical interface with X already probably has this functionality present by default and in many distributions the feature of multiple workspaces is even enabled by default The idea behind this article is to show how efficiency in the GUI can be improved using this feature and the ease of adopting the technology to suit your needs out of the box, because Linux Just Does That.

SLES 11 XEN optimization of virtual network bridges of SLES 10 SP2 Virtual Servers running OES2.

Domnic shares with us his favorite top 5 jQuery Plugins. Explore the power of jQuery plugins.

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