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The table must have Hash key named `path` and Range key named `name` 3. Define environment variables for AWS key - `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` and `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`. At the moment only the configuration by environment variables is supported.

In just a few weeks, on June 7, IBM's DB2 will mark the 30th anniversary of its launch - which cemented the relational database's role as a cornerstone of the enterprise for many.

If you've ever dreamed of working directly with Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Ted T'so or any of the other Linux luminaries, you could work your way up through the ranks of kernel developers submitting patches and fixing bugs.

Although Google is offering a limited set of developer tools for Glass - and more are on the way - the company doesn't want to stop hackers from tinkering even further.

In an interesting new Outercurve Foundation blog post from Penn State professor Clark Asay, he discusses "the tactic of patenting open source software to guard against patent trolls and the weaponization of corporate patent portfolios...gaining momentum in the FOSS community." Depending on who you talk to, the practice of patenting open source ... (more)

Highlights : New API : * inserttext, objtimeout, guitimeout, getcellsize, getcellvalue, getobjectnameatcoords, getcombovalue, getaccesskey in Python client * doubleClick, doubleClickRow, onWindowCreate, getCellSize, getComboValue, appUnderTest, getAccessKey in Java client * getcellsize, getcellvalue in Ruby client * GetCellSize, GetComboValue, ... (more)

TYPO3's default search extension called "Indexed Search" is fine for small web sites, but if your web site is bigger , it is getting very slow.

SSH offers a highly secure channel for remote administration of servers. However, if you face an audit for regulatory or business requirements, such as Visa/Mastercard PCI, you need to be aware of some potential authentication related short-comings that may cause headaches in an audit.

LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc.

Many free software fans, if they were like me, breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Android operating system hit the market.

One thing's for sure, just about everyone, animals included, loves to take self-portraits for Facebook or other social networks.

That seemed to turn around this week when Canadian Web Hosting announced that it plans to launch a public cloud using OpenStack this summer .

Canadian Web Hosting has joined the OpenStack Foundation in which it will help support the development of open source software OpenStack.

Also, the current master version of this repository is being developed under django 1.5. And we consider the driver stable.

The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards - how they are created, how they affect you - and who's doing what to whom.

On April 19th the United States Patent and Trademark Office finally rejected an application for the trademark open source hardware .

Why does Privacy matter? Installing Software outside of Software Repositories and PGP for Web Mail - are we there yet? All that and more, this time on Hak5! Ubuntu is based on Debian - .deb format for software packages / Fedora and others are .rpm packages.

Many users would upgrade only when a major OS or hardware change forced them to do so, leading Adobe starting with Creative Suite 6 to only allow upgrading from one version back instead of three or four, and multiplying the cost for many.

The vast majority of these newfangled hybrid tablets run some form of Windows, but Italy's Ekoore has decided to buck that trend.

IBM opens a new Power Systems Linux Center in Beijing, the first such center Big Blue has opened in the world.