Shell unifies to address past failings
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Royal Dutch/Shell is merging its Dutch and British holding companies as it seeks to address failings that led to a shock downgrade in proven oil reserves.
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell  Group RD.AS plans to move to a unified corporate  structure, ditching a century-old dual-ownership system blamed  for contributing to a reserves overbooking scandal.
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Open Solutions Alliance hopes to make open-source software programs work better together.
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Running 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same system is a step closer to reality.
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Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell Group said it was merging its Dutch and British holding companies as it seeks to address failings that led to a shock downgrade in proven oil reserves.
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This might be a big geeky but my favorite UNIX directory is /etc.  Whats yours? /proc? /usr/local is pretty good?  There always good stuff in /var!  What about /tmp?
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Following the release Tuesday of a new interoperable version of Linux, analysts said the standard should go along way towards preventing a serious roadblock to widespread acceptance of Linux
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Four Linux vendors have joined together to develop technology that would potentially make it easier for software makers to build products for multiple distributions of the open-source operating system.
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Microsoft says the scripting platform, called Shell, is not final.
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On tap for the new database management system: improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, manageability and what Oracle dubs "diagnosability."
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The former plans to team up its intrusion prevention technology with the latter's vulnerability management software.
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2007 is shaping up to be a year for settling unfinished business in the open-source community.
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OS security fix is being rolled out to users who have enabled Automatic Updates.
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The other day I was thinking about all the edge-cases within Linux and how there are hundreds of little commands and tricks.  I these know now but only after using UNIX for more than 15 years now (has it been that long!).  I wish I would have known all these tricks when I was just getting started.  This is similar to Danny O'Briens Life Hacks  but since so many of us spend our life tied to our shell these are essentially "Shell Hacks".  NetCat is one example.  Very powerful tool with a simple syntax.  Just run 'nc' and you can connect to a host/port and interact with it manually.  You could even write an HTTP client with bash if you really wanted to.  The zsh  shell looks like it might becom ...
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Feature Consolidation runs and runs
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The warning came during its earnings report and on a day when Shell said it would merge the two entities that make up the company, unifying the boards and management.
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Grumbles over reduced pay-off deal for IT workers Royal Dutch Shell faces legal action from trade union Unite over the terms of its redundancy package, a week after telling staff that more than 3,000 IT jobs were to be outsourced at the firm.â¦