According to the ruling, the patents granted for business practices would have to undergo specific and stringent testing procedures to check the worthiness of granting a patent to it. Essentially, they are aiming to mandate a passing of “machine-or-transformation test” as a pre-requisite for granting a patent.

Packt’s annual Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award reached its climax today with the announcement that Drupal has won the Overall category, collecting a first prize of $5,000. Three months after it was launched and a staggering 20,000 votes later, Drupal finished ahead of Joomla! and DotNetNuke to retain the Award it won in 2007.

The computer manufacturer Dell has announced a further recall of potentially dangerous notebook batteries. The recall of the Sony built batteries began in 2006.

ImpressCMS is a content management system that
allows you to easily build and maintain a dynamic
Web site. It is a fork of XOOPS and is fully
compatible with XOOPS modules and themes, but has
many improvements. These include native
multilingual support, a completely redesigned
admin interface, management of unlimited block
positions on the user side, easy cloning of
existing blocks with a single click, a redesigned
installation wizard with inline help at every
step, many security improvements including the
introduction of the Trust Path concept, which
allows the storing of sensitive data outside the
Web root, an automatic version checker, and a
customizable privacy policy feature.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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This release fixes issues with content menu in RTL, issues with registration not completed with passwordmeter, and issues with too easy CAPTCHA configs. When saving a block, if $options was a multi-level array, StopXSS was failing to save the array. StopXSS is now recursive and will save all levels of the $text parameter if it’s an array. Leading space in cache/index.html has been fixed. Issues with multiple time stamps are fixed. A security issue in snoopy.php has been fixed. An issue with the pagination links of the image manager tinyMCE plugin has been fixed.

Personal Finance Manager is a finance and expense tracking tool for those with limited or no accounting experience. You can use it to manage expenses and track account balances, generate reports, create and save complex filters to search the transaction history, create charts and graphs for assets, liabilities, and daily net worth tracking, view stock prices/quotes, store contacts, email, and phone numbers, and import OFX data for banks and credit cards. It supports the latest Quicken format, and also supports downloading current statement for bank and credit card accounts.

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License: The Apache License 2.0

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Changes:
This release has an earnings report function.

Highlight is a universal converter from source
code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, LaTeX, SVG, and
XML. (X)HTML and SVG output are formatted by Cascading
Style Sheets. It supports more than 120 programming
languages, and includes 40 highlighting color
themes. It’s possible to easily enhance the
parsing database. The converter includes some
features to provide a consistent layout of the
output code.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
HTML output may include metainformation from ctags files. Output formatting command line options have been harmonized with GNU source-highlight. ADA95, C#, Eiffel, Fortran, TCL, and Bash definitions have been fixed. Support for Vala was added.

The Ubuntu Linux project has just released a major update to its highly popular Linux OS. Ubuntu Version 8.10 boasts a 2.6.27 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.24 desktop environment, and X.Org 7.4. Although I’ve been a staunch KDE advocate over the years, this slick new release is strongly tempting me to convert to Ubuntu!

The answer is Yes, it does, though with some qualifications. The short answer: it’s all in the implementation.

LinuxPlanet Classics: “No,” the technician explained, “Linux is probably causing this problem and it needs to come off the machine.” Michael Hall’s classic battle with Dell tech support was first published in July 2001. Has anything really changed?

About 30 years ago, we Earthlings sent a probe to check out Mercury, the tiny planet closest to the sun, and concluded that it was just a big hot rock. But after poking around on the moon and Mars for a few decades, we decided to take another look at Mercury.