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  • How to self publish your own book

    6 Nov 2009 | 11:01 pm
    If you have decided to write a book, then you must be wondering about the different publishing options at your disposal. In most cases, you typically approach a publishing house with your idea of the book. However, there is an interesting alternative, which is to self-publish your book. Self-publishing is the publishing of books and other media by the authors of those works, rather than by established, third-party publishers. The key distinguishing characteristic of self-publishing is the absence of a traditional publisher. Instead, the creator or creators fulfill this role, taking editorial…

  • Free Online Book : Google Wave - Learn How to Use it.

    3 Nov 2009 | 6:30 pm
    The Complete Guide to Google Wave is book authored by Gina Trapani (Lifehacker fame) and Adam Pash. This book is freely available for reading online. The book is divided into 8 comprehensive chapters and 2 appendices. A very good book on Google Wave indeed. Bookmark the link for future reference and read the free online book to get to know Google Wave inside-out. "The Complete Guide to Google Wave" book will be available in PDF and print sometime next year. Now if only someone will send me a Google Wave invite.....For more news, tips, and reviews on all things Linux, Open source and Free…

  • Free Open Source Screencasts for Linux System Administrators and Newbies alike

    3 Nov 2009 | 4:06 am
    There has always been a dearth in quality training material in Linux System Administration. And if there are resources on the Net, they are hard to find. Now here is a new venture by John Yerhot who endevours to provide very well made videos which explain how to use different commands in Linux, useful to people who administer Linux servers. FOSSCasts are short, free screencasts covering Linux, Unix, and Open Source software in general. Each episode is under 10 minutes and covers a different piece of Open Source software or a set of tips and tricks novice and seasoned veterans will both find…

  • Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 Released

    29 Oct 2009 | 10:40 am
    Ubuntu today released its latest offering namely Ubuntu Karmic Koala version 9.10. Ubuntu Karmic Koala comes with lots of new features. New Features in Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10  Upstart - an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.   Software Center - a graphical utility for package management in Ubuntu. It replaces the Add/Remove programs tool.  GNOME version 2.28 Quickly - An easy way to develop applications for Ubuntu and…

  • Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

    28 Oct 2009 | 9:35 am
    A collaboration service allows multiple people spread across the world to remotely get  together and edit a single document simultaneously. AbiCollab is one such service. What is interesting about AbiCollab is that it is based around the popular open source wordprocessor Abiword. Once you create an account in AbiCollab.net, you can create Abiword documents, open existing Abiword documents for collaboration with others, even view the documents right within the web browser. If you have created any documents in Abiword on your computer, you can also upload your Abiword documents to your online…
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  • Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only?

    7 Nov 2009 | 12:04 am
    InternetNews: "That's no typo: A Linux vendor is requiring its users to run one of its key new products on the rival, closed source Windows operating system."

  • Creating Ebooks with Sigil

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:04 pm
    Linux Pro Magazine: "There are plenty of places on the Web where you can find ebooks in the EPUB format, but what if you need to create an ebook yourself? Sigil can help you with that."

  • Editor's Note: Making Multi-Channel Firewire Music With Linux

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:15 pm
    This column is a bit premature because I haven't had time to set things up and test them yet. But I'm excited about getting started, so here are some preliminary notes on multi-track recording in Linux using a Firewire device.

  • Amaya: A Simple, Yet Useful Alternative to Dreamweaver

    6 Nov 2009 | 3:32 pm
    MakeTechEasier: "While on a project, where money was scarce, we were scrambling around looking for a free or open source HTML editor that can provide us the same functionality as Adobe Dreamweaver. During my analysis of the different HTML editor out there, I came across Amaya."

  • Windows 7 Sales Up, But is it Really a Hit?

    6 Nov 2009 | 3:02 pm
    PC World: "But Apple isn't the only competition Microsoft has to worry about. Ubuntu, one of the world's more popular Linux distributions, recently launched its latest version, Ubuntu 9.10, and impressions about the new OS are largely positive."
 
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  • Gain Space By Removing The Maximized Windows Titlebar [With Compiz or Maximus]

    7 Nov 2009 | 3:32 am
    If you ever used Google Chrome - and you must have -, then you might have noticed how much vertical space you can gain by removing the window title bar. Yes Google Chrome has a titlebar, but as an extent of the tabs, so that's not conventional titlebar. This can be very useful for a laptop, netbook and so on as you will gain a lot more usable space, but believe me, you will also notice the extra space on a normal desktop monitor.

  • ABI's Jeffrey Orr on rising Linux netbook sales

    Eric Brown
    7 Nov 2009 | 2:35 am
    After ABI Research projected that Linux will take a 32 percent share of netbooks in 2009 and wo;; overtake Windows in 2013, we spoke with ABI analyst Jeffrey Orr on the findings. Orr notes the rise of international consumers and ARM Cortex-A8-based netbooks, and discusses Ubuntu, Moblin, Android, and Chrome OS.

  • Google Provides Closure: Releases Open Source JavaScript Optimizer

    Joe Brockmeier
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:17 am
    JavaScript programmers, rejoice! It's been a good week for open source from big companies. Earlier this week Yahoo! released its Traffic Server it acquired from Inktomi, and now Google has unleashed Closure Tools. These are part of the toolset that Google uses to create JavaScript-heavy applications like Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Maps.

  • Build Your Own Custom Ubuntu Live CD

    Kurt Edelbrock
    7 Nov 2009 | 12:24 am
    You turn on your trusty old Linux box, and things are going well as you pass through the boot loader, until the disk check reveals that your hard drive partition table is corrupt, and you are unable to access your machine. You need a good rescue disk — and the best way to get one is to create your own.

  • ULTILEX - The Ultimate Linux Experience Version 5.0.0 is released

    Ivan Davidov
    6 Nov 2009 | 11:26 pm
    Release 5.0.0 is available for download. "Slax" is updated to version 6.1.2 (customized for better user experience), "System Rescue CD" is updated to version 1.3.1, "Puppy Linux" is updated to version 4.3.1, "Parted Magic" is updated to version 4.5 and "Tiny Core" is updated to version 2.4.1. New feature has been added: "boot.kernel.org" (BKO) is available as boot option. This allows you to boot your PC from remote location (internet). Visit http://boot.kernel.org for more information.
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  • Meta-Microblogging

    So I don't tweet because I'm not ready to hand my data and autonomy over to Twitter. Luckily -- or unluckily perhaps -- that hasn't kept me off the microblogging wagon. I "dent" semi-regularly over at freedom-friendly identi.ca. I've found that microblogging is a great public outlet where one can talk about all those otherwise little meaningless things that we all do in our daily lives. High on my list of meaningless little actions, however, is microblogging itself! But can you microblog about your microblogging -- i.e. can you "metamicroblog" (or "metadent", or…

  • Updating the Ubuntu Code of Conduct

    The Ubuntu Code of Conduct is one of the most surprisingly successful projects I've ever had the privilege of working on. On my first day working for the company that would become Canonical, I talked with Mark Shuttleworth about some ideas for community governance. Partially in reaction to some harsh behavior in other free software projects we'd worked on, Mark and I agreed that some sort of explicit standard for behavior in Ubuntu would be a good thing. Over lunch of what was my literally first day working on Ubuntu, I wrote a draft of code of conduct that was essentially the version that…

  • Interview by Joe Barker

    Joe Barker has been publishing a series interviews with folks from the Ubuntu Forums and the larger Ubuntu community. I'm thrilled to have joined the ranks of his interviewees. You can read the interview on his blog.

  • The Computer in My Pocket

    If we've kept up with projections, by the end of this year, the world will be home to 3 billion mobile phones. That's nearly one phone for every other living human being. Although these phones open up a world of important new opportunities in communication, creativity, and cooperation --- and it's important not to understate this fact --- they also represent a step toward a sort of technological dystopia not unlike Stallman's Right To Read. Phones represent one of the most locked-down, proprietary, and generally unfree technologies in wide distribution. The implications for software freedom…

  • Order Without Law

    Order Without Law is a fantastic book by Robert Ellickson published in 1991. In a way, the book is an in-depth case study of the irrelevance of law. Subtitled, "how neighbors settle disputes," Ellickson shows how people solve complicated problems in an archetypal area of liability law without knowledge of the law. Ellickson shows that even when people know exactly what the law says, they often ignore it in favor of community norms and, in his examples, models of "neighborliness." Specifically, the book is about how neighbors in northern California settle disputes related…
 
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  • ABI's Jeffrey Orr on rising Linux netbook sales

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:51 am
    After ABI Research projected that Linux represents a 32 percent share of netbooks in 2009 and will overtake Windows in 2013, we spoke with ABI analyst Jeffrey Orr. Orr notes the rise of international consumers and ARM-based netbooks, and discusses Ubuntu, Moblin, Android, and Chrome OS.

  • Moblin v2.1 goes beta, adds 3G support

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:47 am
    The Moblin project released the first beta of Moblin 2.1, fixing numerous bugs while adding support for a 3G modem. Other touted improvements to the netbook-focused Moblin 2.1 include a faster browser with plugin support, Bluetooth discovery support, higher screen resolution support, and an enhanced ConnMan.

  • Linux owns 32 percent of netbook market, says study

    5 Nov 2009 | 12:58 am
    ABI Research is projecting that in 2009 Linux will represent 32 percent of netbook sales, far higher than the seven percent figure claimed by Microsoft, says a report. ABI estimates that Linux will overtake Windows on netbooks by 2013, largely due to sales in less-developed countries.

  • Skype working on open source VoIP UI

    4 Nov 2009 | 10:45 am
    Skype announced that it is working on an open source UI layer for its Linux VoIP client. Although apparently not fully open source, the upcoming version of the Skype client for Linux could enable more open development of client front ends, including mobile devices.

  • Ubuntu 9.10 final ships as IBM spins Ubuntu-based cloud distro

    29 Oct 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Canonical's Ubuntu project released the final Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition, featuring faster boot times, improved audio and 3G connectivity, an enhanced Netbook Remix, and more robust cloud support, among other features. The release follows IBM's announcement that it is launching an Ubuntu-based cloud computing distribution for
 
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  • Ohio LinuxFest is ready for 40 Years

    Ohio LinuxFest is definitely one of my favorite Linux and open-source conferences. If you’ve never been to a Linux conference, now is a great time to begin. If you have, it’s also a great time to experience this conference. The main reason you should go? It’s free. OLF is funded by sponsors, so you aren’t required to pay to get in (though you certainly can upgrade your conference pass if you choose). The only thing you have to do is register. Registration closes on September 19th, so be sure you’re not left out! From Ohio LinuxFest: Back to the Future of Linux!:…

  • The File Menu

    This. The File menu has been around since the dawn of user interfaces. But do you know what? It has overstayed its welcome. The File menu has been abused in far too many applications. A File menu should deal with files. That’s it. Open a file, save a file, print a file, quit editing the file. Some, no.. most applications have been using the File menu to do everything from opening new windows to changing preferences. They don’t belong there: opening a new window should go in a Window menu, and changing preferences should be under Edit or Tools. Here are some specific instances…

  • OpenShot — Video Editing Made Simple

    Desktop Linux isn’t necessarily the first platform you’d think of going to for video editing. Despite that, there are several great projects that offer video editing functionality; things like PiTiVi, Cinelerra and Kino to name just a few. Jonathan Thomas wasn’t satisfied with the existing video editing solutions on Linux, however. They weren’t easy enough to use, powerful or stable enough. Enter OpenShot, Jonathan’s solution. Let me say right up front — the project is in a relatively early stage of development. There are plenty of things not yet completed…

  • Hosting Mercurial Repositories with Nginx

    Introduction Mercurial Mercurial is a great distributed version control system written in Python. It is a "fast, lightweight source control management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects".[HTML_REMOVED]1[HTML_REMOVED] It is used by such projects as Aptitude, Mozilla, OpenJDK, OpenSolaris, Python, and Xen, among many others.[HTML_REMOVED]2[HTML_REMOVED] However, I have always found that hosting Mercurial repositories is painful. There are many options, including CGI/FastCGI and SSH based approaches. But none easily provided what I was looking for:…

  • Dim the screen at dark

    Are there times of the night that you find yourself adjusting your screen brightness lower, either to help your eyes or not bother someone else? It can be annoying have to tweak brightness settings all of the time. We'll show you how to set your brightness automatically during the night. Read on. To start, you need to have a laptop or a display that supports software brightness configuration. You'll also need to make sure that your GNOME brightness settings are working. (KDE fan? Submit a relevant article.) Also, take note that if your system is not on when brightness settings change, they…
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  • Gentoo KDE3 Deprecation Notice

    Matthew Summers
    Please turn your KDE radio on, and make sure to increase the volume to its maximum level for this important message. After multiple setbacks we have finally managed to stabilise KDE4 on both major desktop architectures (amd64 and x86), with other teams to follow. For this and other reasons as discussed , those of you who still use KDE3 should be seriously considering an upgrade in the near future. The KDE3 support is being deprecated with immediate effect. This means that ebuilds are dropping KDE3 support where they were broken, or clashing with KDE4. If you wish to still use KDE3, and you…

  • Gentoo Ten Live DVD 10.1 Release

    Matthew Summers
    Attention Gentoo Community, After numerous bug fixes and enhancements the Ten Team would like to encourage everyone to try out the 10.1 release. A FAQ is available to assist you. We have also started a thread in our Forum. Please post any BUGS you encounter. Please download the latest testing release for your architecture Gentoo Ten Live DVD 10.1 x86 | Gentoo Ten Live DVD 10.1 amd64. Thanks for your continued support, The Gentoo-Ten Project David Abbott contributed to the draft for this announcement.

  • 2009 Gentoo 10 Screenshot Winners

    David Abbott
    Woot! Happy Birthday Gentoo. As part of the Birthday party today we announce the winning screenshots. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest. There were 54 entries using 5 different window managers / desktop environments. The WinnersQuick23t Compiz Fusionashtophet Fvwm 2.5.27Integer Fluxbox For all the specifications and cool details please visit the winners page.discuss this!

  • Gentoo Linux - Ten Years Compiling: 1999 - 2009

    Matthew Summers
    Happy Tenth Birthday, Gentoo! Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the immediate availability of a new, special edition LiveDVD to celebrate this monumental occasion. The LiveDVD features a superb list of packages, some of which are listed below. System packages include: Linux Kernel 2.6.30 (with gentoo patches), Accessibility Support with Speakup 3.1.3, BASH 4.0, GLIBC 2.9, GCC 4.3.2. Binutils 2.18, Python 2.6.2, Perl 5.8.8, and more. Desktop Environments and window managers include: KDE 4.3.1, GNOME 2.26.3, Xfce 4.6.1, Enlightenment 0.16.8.15, Openbox 3.4.7.2, Fluxbox 1.1.1, TWM 1.0.4, and…

  • An interview with Patryk Rządziński, head of IT at OSTC Poland.

    Matthew Summers
    Global Financial Derivatives trading company, OSTC Poland, uses Gentoo Linux in significant sectors of its IT infrastructure. We spoke with long time Gentoo user and head of OSTC Poland's IT department, Patryk Rządziński, to learn more about how and where Gentoo is used. We discovered, as you will read in the full interview, that Gentoo, and more generally open source software, serves well in the commercial world.
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  • How To Execute Ping Command Only For N number of Packets

    Ramesh Natarajan
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:03 pm
    Question: When I execute ping command from the command line, it keeps sending the packets until I hit CTRL-C to terminate the ping command output. How can I execute ping command only for N number of packets and terminate the output automatically? Answer: Use ping option -c to specify the number of packets. After sending [...] Read More: How To Execute Ping Command Only For N number of PacketsCopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook. Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password: linux-is-wonderful

  • Ubuntu Tips: Graphical Monitoring for Processes, Memory, Load Average, and Disk Usage

    Ramesh Natarajan
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:02 pm
    Similar to Windows Task Manager, Ubuntu offers a system monitoring utility that will display running processes, memory usage, file system usage.  Apart from monitoring, you can also take several actions from the system monitor user interface — such as killing a running process. In this article, let us review how to put the basic monitoring options [...] Read More: Ubuntu Tips: Graphical Monitoring for Processes, Memory, Load Average, and Disk UsageCopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook. Linux…

  • 5 Methods to Get Quick Help on Linux Commands

    Ramesh Natarajan
    1 Nov 2009 | 10:01 pm
    Before heading to Google to get help on a particular Unix command, try the following methods, which will give you a comprehensive help on Unix commands. 1. Using apropos to search man pages Use apropos to search man pages for available Unix commands on a specific functionality. $ apropos -r REGEXofUNIXCOMMAND or Description. About apropos command from the man [...] Read More: 5 Methods to Get Quick Help on Linux CommandsCopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook. Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password:…

  • Step-By-Step Guide To Upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 With Screenshots – Jaunty Jackalope To Karmic Koala

    SathiyaMoorthy
    31 Oct 2009 | 11:23 pm
    This guide will help you to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope to 9.10 Karmic Koala. This tutorial has total of 13 steps with appropriate screen shots. Step 1. Check the Ubuntu Version before Upgrade How to check the current version of Ubuntu? You have the following three options: Option 1: Check the /etc/issue file for Ubuntu version. $ [...] Read More: Step-By-Step Guide To Upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 With Screenshots – Jaunty Jackalope To Karmic KoalaCopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook.

  • Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Released – Download Now or Get Free CD

    Ramesh Natarajan
    29 Oct 2009 | 10:03 am
    Ubuntu is the best Linux desktop distribution, which took the number one spot in our Top 5 Best Linux OS Distributions. Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala stable version is released. You can download it online or order a free CD as explained below. What is new in Ubuntu 9.10? Includes Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Add/Remove in the Application menu is replaced [...] Read More: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Released – Download Now or Get Free CDCopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook. Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password:…
 
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  • Dead PowerBook G4

    30 Oct 2009 | 1:07 pm
    A few weeks ago I was trying to get GRUB2 for PowerPC back to work on my PowerBook G4 15", and had some problems getting OF doing the right thing. Not being an OF expert at all, I found myself making things a bit worse, ending up with an unbootable laptop and, what a classic, unable to boot my old rescue CD to get yaboot back in its place. So I googled a bit and ended up deciding that, given the boot parametres and some other stuff like the system's clock were doing strange stuff, reset-nvram would help getting things in a better shape that would at least permit CD booting. So there,…

  • Flags and outrages

    7 Sep 2009 | 10:04 am
    A bit more than two years ago, two young Spaniards on vacation in Latvia maybe went a bit too far during one of their night parties and decided to remove some Latvian flags that hanged from a post in the streets of Riga. They spent 1 month in prison, with charges for outraging the Latvian flag. The Spanish media talked about the disproportionate charges, the ridiculous and “medieval” laws in Latvia and so on. Today, we learn that Jaume d'Urgell will go to prison due to the “outraging” crime of substituting the current Spanish flag with the Republican flag of 1931 on the facade of a…

  • Operation PANTS

    20 Aug 2009 | 2:15 am
    Debian has shown, once again, how a strong community of friends and workmates it is. Here's a success story, not related to our common duties as Debian Developers. This has nothing to do with packages, mailing lists, PO files or britney runs. This is all about pants, and the ties that bind them. Let's introduce this story a little. Four years ago, if memory serves right, I had the pleasure to host Clint in my flat when he visited València for a few days. When he eventually left to go back to NYC, I was at work so I couldn't help him check he had packed everything in his bag. It took me weeks…

  • Unread email

    14 Aug 2009 | 11:15 am
    I've just come back from my hiking trip in Andorra, just after DebConf. This year's summer vacation has been a mix of a fun geeky week at Cáceres where I met many old friends, immediately followed by a lovely trip around the Andorran GRP, a hiking route around the borders of the Pyrenean tiny country. The last few days were spent in several Catalan towns like Bellver de Cerdanya, Figueres, Cadaqués and Girona, before getting back to València to sadly go back to work. I'll try to write about DebConf and Andorra in length in the following days. The downside of all of this is when you find…

  • DebConf 9

    23 Jul 2009 | 12:13 am
    It's taken me way too long to scribble these few lines, but I'm happy to say that in about one hour, I'll be driving to Cáceres with Sergio. After seven hours or so, we should appear somewhere in Extremadura. My priorities for this week are 1) having lots of fun with people I haven't seen in ages, 2) catching up with all the Debian work I have neglected lately, be it packaging or l10n, 3) enjoying Cáceres and Extremadura's culture, as it's the first time I go past Madrid, and this is pretty much uncharted territory for me, and 4) doing some kind of exercise, which means letting bubulle kick…
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  • GNOME Miro Video Page

    J5
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:10 am
    Will over at the Miro project, that super cool Open Source media player, sent me a link today of their Miro Community site. It is a video aggregation site that allows for communities to collect all of their video in one place even if they were originally posted elsewhere.  To that effect he has also set up a GNOME Miro Community site.  I know we have a bunch of great videos talking about GNOME and showing off its features.  This is a shout out to people who have great GNOME related video content to go ahead and start aggregating those videos so others can find them.  Let’s start…

  • Litl’s little netbook

    J5
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    I popped down to Boston today to see Litl’s internet computer and catch up with friends who now work for Litl. Unfortunately I did not see Havoc there (probably release partying too much or more likely coding) but a number of GNOME folk and others who I worked with at OLPC did show up. (I’m not going to name names because I will inevitably leave someone out). In any case the Litl webbook looks promising. Finally someone has looked at what a target group of consumers wanted and designed a simplified interface around services instead of just dropping a Linux distribution in and…

  • Quick video using Jokosher, PiTiVi and my Canon digital camera

    J5
    2 Nov 2009 | 9:51 am
    You will need “Firefox 3.5 to view this video or another browser that support the HTML 5 video tag and ogg theora video format. I also wish planet would not filter out video tags!!! Rome.ogv This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License Above is a song I was writing for my sister’s wedding. Unfortunately I never finished it and logistics got in the way of me bringing a guitar to Italy (namely I didn’t want to lug a guitar all around Italy). I thought I would record it using my Cannon PowerShot camera…

  • Another Boston Summit in the History Books

    J5
    13 Oct 2009 | 9:32 am
    I managed to make it to the Beer Summit and the last day of the Boston Summit before succumbing to the inevitable jet lag. From what I heard the summit was again a success and I would like to thank Jon Mccann, Colin Walters and Ajax for pitching in and running the various aspects of the Summit and everyone else who came to make GNOME rock. As always we thank Henry Holtzman for being the MIT faculty backer of the conference and Walter Bender of SugarLabs for doing some leg work for us. The delegation worked so well I think I will save some of my stress levels next year by finding others who…

  • Off to Italy for two weeks

    J5
    29 Sep 2009 | 4:14 am
    Sean’s wedding is down in the books and now it is time for my twin sister’s wedding. For that I am flying out to Rome today and will be running around Italy for the next two weeks. Four days in Rome, three in Venice, three in Lake Como and one in Milan. I won’t be bringing a computer so I will only be checking my public e-mail accounts infrequently at internet cafe’s. The best way to reach me will be by phone. [read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]
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  • The Intersection Of Quality And Expectations

    jono
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:16 pm
    There has been a little bit o’chatter on the tubes recently regarding quality and our recent release, Ubuntu 9.10. There we were on Thursday, champagne in hand, kicking a new release out the door and while I have seen countless reports of happy users with effortless upgrades and hardware and software working better than ever before, there are of course some reports of things going less-well, some broken upgrades and unexpected quirks. Those of us involved in the Ubuntu project, like anyone involved in any kind of endeavour, are emotionally invested in our work. When we hear of problems,…

  • Not Tolerating The Intolerant

    jono
    5 Nov 2009 | 2:55 pm
    Thanks to my friends over at ZDNet for allowing me to post another guest article on their Between The Lines column. This time I have written an article discussing the importance of a productive, pleasant and pleasurable community that rewards great work and celebrates the exchange of both agreeable and challenging opinions, ideas and views, and how intolerance can risk and undermine that community. Go and read Not Tolerating The Intolerant.

  • The Art of Community #1 Culture Book on Amazon.com

    jono
    5 Nov 2009 | 11:25 am
    It may have changed by the time you read this, but The Art of Community has now hit the #1 slot for the Business and Culture category Amazon.com: You can see it on this page and you can check out the Art of Community Amazon page here. Go and buy a copy and support the project, folks! Today I also did a webinar about the book and you see it here. Thanks to Intro Networks for the opportunity!

  • Art of Community Webinar Soon

    jono
    5 Nov 2009 | 7:34 am
    Just a quick note: I am doing a webinar on my book The Art of Community at 9am Pacific today. You can join us here.

  • Canonical Matching Creative Commons Donations

    jono
    4 Nov 2009 | 5:06 pm
    Here at Canonical we are all big fans of the Creative Commons. For those of you unfamiliar with them, they have created a set of Free Culture licenses that make it simple for people to release open content. They also run a variety of resources to make finding and remixing content simple and empowering. In the Ubuntu community we have celebrated these freedoms with the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase: a competition in which we select free culture content that is included with each Ubuntu release. In addition to this, I am personally a huge fan of the Creative Commons: I have released two albums…
 
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  • Microsoft Linux: Ex-Microsoftie says it should happen

    4 Nov 2009 | 10:40 pm
    A former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't stop Linux from market domination. But he goes further. He thinks Microsoft and its customers would be better off if the company ditched Windows and instead built its own version of the Linux operating system.

  • Apache Software Foundation: 10 years an open-source leader

    4 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm
    It's been 10 years since the Apache Software Foundation was founded, creating what has become a series of communities filled with focused project entrepreneurs working on a laundry list of innovative efforts, one of which landed in the White House just a few weeks ago. ASF is celebrating the milestone this week at ApacheCon in Oakland.

  • Skype will be Open Source

    2 Nov 2009 | 5:20 am
    Skype (the famous Voice-Over-IP communication program) will be release under an open source license. The story started when Olivier FAURAX sent an email requesting Mandriva version of Skype. After a little chat with customer support , he got this replay " We understand that many users complain that there is no Mandriva version at present

  • Why is Linux Chrome so fast?

    1 Nov 2009 | 7:00 pm
    Chromium developers discussing why the Linux version of Chromefeels ridiculously faster than Windows and Mac.

  • Firefox 4.0 Interface For Linux Mocked-up

    31 Oct 2009 | 2:20 am
    Version 4 will see a raft of major new features and improvements – not least of which is the refined interface above. Another major addition will be Browser Sync via Mozilla Weave, allowing for cloud syncing of bookmarks, passwords and favourites.
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  • LG's Android phone unleashed in Canada

    6 Nov 2009 | 2:57 pm
    LG has launched its first Android phone, a QWERTY slider called the & Eve,& on Rogers Wireless' network in Canada. In other Android news, LG is prepping a second Android phone, this time with a Snapdragon processor, for Korea, and Philips has launched a V808 oPhone handset in China....

  • OLPC switching to ARM, plans paper thin netbook

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:45 pm
    One Laptop per Child chairman Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that OLPC is prepping an ARM-based version 1.75 of its XO netbook while planning to release a & paper-thin& version 3.0 in 2012. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is providing OLPC users with 1.6 million e-books, says the nonprofit organization....

  • Moblin v2.1 goes beta, adds 3G support

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:44 am
    The Moblin project released the first beta version of Moblin 2.1, fixing numerous bugs while adding support for a 3G modem. Other touted improvements to the netbook-focused Linux distro include a faster browser with plugin support, Bluetooth discovery support, higher screen resolution support, and an enhanced connection manager, says the project....

  • 10.4-inch HMI PC runs Linux on Atoms

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:46 am
    Kontron has added a compact Intel Atom-powered device to its range of thin-client HMI (human machine interface) subsystems. The fanless Nano Client 10.4 has a touchscreen display, features a sealed stainless steel housing, uses CompactFlash storage, and runs Linux, the company says....

  • ABI's Jeffrey Orr on rising Linux netbook sales

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:10 pm
    After ABI Research projected that Linux will take a 32 percent share of netbooks in 2009 and wo;; overtake Windows in 2013, we spoke with ABI analyst Jeffrey Orr on the findings. Orr notes the rise of international consumers and ARM Cortex-A8-based netbooks, and discusses Ubuntu, Moblin, Android, and Chrome OS....
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  • Play Almost Any Music File With Jaangle

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    I've got spurs that jingle, Jaangle, jingle... And my boots smell a lot like Teen Spirit. Okay, if you didn't follow that, Teen Spirit--a free music organizer, player, and tag editor--is now known as Jaangle. Let's hear it for snappy names...and for programming that won't jangle your nerves in the least. Jaangle has found a home on my system simply because of its wide format support which includes MP3, AAC, WMA, 16-, 24-, 32-bit wave files at all resolutions, OGG, Flac, and even Apple Lossless--a rarity outside of iTunes.

  • Windows 7 Sales Up, But is it Really a Hit?

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    The numbers are in and Windows 7 sales are strong, but with lagging PC sales and increased competition from other operating systems, is Windows in trouble? Apple recently reported one of its best quarters ever, and interest is high in current and future products coming out of Cupertino. Then there's the recent release of the latest Linux distribution, Ubuntu 9.10, and let's not forget pressure from Google Chrome OS,

  • Google strives to balance commercial, community with Android

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Onlookers say that Google is in charge of Android development, despite pitching the software as a community project. But experts say that could be the only way Google can ensure that the software is actually released.

  • Upgrade path to Android 2.0 uncertain

    4 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    With this week's release of Verizon Wireless' Droid phone comes the first real test of the potential for fragmentation with Android.

  • Apache readies Tomcat Java servlet container upgrade

    4 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Scalability and security to be enhanced in Tomcat 7; Apache also is set to take over the Subversion software configuration management project
 
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  • Package Management With Zypper

    Mitch Frazier
    5 Nov 2009 | 7:05 am
    As I've mentioned before I'm an openSUSE user, and as long as they don't make the "U" lower case again, I'll probably stick with it. When it comes to package management, OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprice (and SuSE before them) are usually associated with YaST (and yes, I'm still waiting for them to upper case the "a"). YaST works well but it's a bit verbose for installing a single package, and of course that's just more fodder for the apt-getters with all their apt-get install this and their apt-get install thats. And you can't argue with them, but there are other options…

  • Court Gets A Torrent-full About Linux

    Justin Ryan
    4 Nov 2009 | 6:28 pm
    BitTorrent is one of the most contentious technologies available. At least, that is, to the Old Order, those lovely suit-clad corporate types bent on holding technology forever in the days of the — manual — typewriter. The technology, and the suits' dreams of a world free of it, are on trial in Australia, where Linux made an appearance today — at the defense table. read more

  • Forget Rasterbator, Posterazor!

    Shawn Powers
    4 Nov 2009 | 11:53 am
    Download in .ogv format read more

  • Who Needs Time Machine with "Back in Time"

    Shawn Powers
    3 Nov 2009 | 2:29 pm
    Download in .ogv format read more

  • Tech Tip: Restore Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in Ubuntu

    Mallik Arjun
    3 Nov 2009 | 8:58 am
    In the last release of Ubuntu (9.04) the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key sequence normally used to kill the X server was disabled by default. Apparently many people like to kill their X server this way so a workaround "dontzap" package was used to enable it. With the latest Ubuntu release (9.10, aka Karmic) it's even simpler to enable it. read more
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  • More on Poulsbo (GMA500), Intel, and the Community

    Shawn Powers
    28 Oct 2009 | 9:09 am
    I've never done a follow up post on a topic before, but I think this is a topic worth further discussion. Yesterday I posted a rather pointed article focused on Intel and what I consider to be a very poor business decision regarding the GMA500 GPU. read more

  • Finally! SecDef signs Clarifying Guidance Regarding Open Source Software

    David Lane
    27 Oct 2009 | 1:27 pm
    It is official! As of the 16th of October 2009, the United States Department of Defense recognizes Open Source software at Commodity, Off the Shelf (COTS) software, eligible for purchase, read implementation, under the purchasing rules of the Department. read more

  • A Bit of Licence

    Glyn Moody
    26 Oct 2009 | 8:49 am
    One of the striking aspects of the free software community is its obsession with licences. It's as if within every hacker there's a lawyer struggling to get out. But maybe it's not so surprising; as Larry Lessig reminded us, “code is law”, and the reverse is also true in the sense that the licence adopted has a big impact on how the software is produced. That explains, in part, why recent discussions of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun – and hence MySQL – have once more put free software licences under the microscope. read more

  • Cloud Computing: Good or Bad for Open Source?

    Glyn Moody
    22 Oct 2009 | 3:10 am
    Cloud computing: you may have heard of it. It seems to be everywhere these days, and if you believe the hype, there's a near-unanimous consensus that it's the future. Actually, a few of us have our doubts, but leaving that aside, I think it's important to ask where does open source stand if the cloud computing vision *does* come to fruition? Would that be a good or bad thing for free software? read more

  • Is there a best distro?

    David Lane
    19 Oct 2009 | 6:53 am
    Yesterday, I had a good friend ask me What is the best Linux distribution to familiarize myself with Linux? This was not someone who is unfamiliar with technology, or UNIX for that matter, but someone who is one of us, which made the question difficult to answer. read more
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  • SimplyMEPIS 8.0.12 Maintenance Release

    7 Nov 2009 | 12:54 am
    MEPIS LLC has released SimplyMEPIS 8.0.12, an update to the community edition of MEPIS 8.0. The ISO files for 32 and 64 bit processors are SimplyMEPIS-CD_8.0.12-rel_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_8.0.12-rel_64.iso. SimplyMEPIS 8.0 utilizes a Debian Lenny stable foundation enhanced with a Long Term Support kernel, key package upgrades, and the MEPIS ...

  • An important Linux fix

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:38 pm
    November 6, 2009, 02:43 PM - Most of the time you can go for months, years, without patching your Linux distribution and not be in any real danger.

  • Bug in latest Linux gives untrusted users root access

    6 Nov 2009 | 9:22 am
    A software developer has uncovered a bug in most versions of Linux that could allow untrusted users to gain complete control over the open-source operating system.

  • 1 Apple Hits the Windows Wall

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:50 am
    The latest desktop operating system market figures , which show Windows 7 commanding an almost 4 percent market share, must have Apple banging its head in frustration.

  • Red Hat boosts enterprise virtualisation portfolio

    5 Nov 2009 | 10:31 pm
    Red Hat has released new components in its enterprise virtualisation portfolio, including a standalone hypervisor and management platform for servers.
 
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  • Organize your documents and Research papers with Mendeley

    Ambuj
    19 Oct 2009 | 11:48 am
    Mendeley Desktop is a free desktop application(and web service ?) aimed at helping you organize and manage your collection of documents and research papers, primarily aimed at researchers Mendeley allows one to create a bibliography database of the research papers and documents.Mendeley is strongly integrated with the web and through a service named Mendeley Web allows you to upload 500MB(for a

  • Wbar - Attractive lightweight application launcher for Desktop Linux

    Ambuj
    21 Sep 2009 | 11:57 am
    Its been some time since I have posted anything on my blog, which has to do a lot with my hectic study schedule. In case you still enjoy reading posts on my blog , mail me @ blogambuj( at {no spam} ) gmail.com with :) as subject line. This , should be encouragement enough for me to keep writing and updating this blog more frequently.Anyway, earlier in one of my posts I had reviewed Avant Window

  • Configuring Reliance NetConnect on Ubuntu 9.04

    Ambuj
    18 Jul 2009 | 11:41 am
    Important: This post is for people living in India , using Reliance Netconnect and Huawei CDMA modem only. Finally after spending close to six months in University, am back home. Now, at home my dad uses Reliance Netconnect ISP for Internet. It is extremely simple to configure Reliance Netconnect on Windows, as Reliance provides a very simple installer for modem as well as dialer which configures

  • Browser Update : Opera 10 beta and Google Chrome

    Ambuj
    13 Jun 2009 | 5:47 am
    Past few weeks saw lot of activity in Linux Internet Browser sphere, finally after waiting almost an year; an early alpha developer version of WebKit based Google Chrome was made available. Also, Opera released beta version of their popular web-browser, Opera 10 Beta.Google ChromeGoogle Chrome was released almost an year back with much fanfare, it was initially available only for Microsoft

  • Relive old NES days with Secret Maryo Chronicles

    Ambuj
    17 May 2009 | 1:52 pm
    Mario Bros and Super Mario has been one of the most popular games in computer games/console games history. The story of character Mario , who tries to save princess in Mushroom land has been like a legend in the video game world. I still fondly remember spending my childhood playing these awesomely made games day and night out (along with another awesome computer game Price of Persia :P) on my
 
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  • Droid: Enjoyed

    Renay San Miguel
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    If I had my way, I would encourage Verizon Wireless to invest in both hologram technology and more "Star Wars" film rights. That would allow the carrier to hire an Alec Guinness lookalike who could pop up in 3-D visions in Verizon stores across the country, wave his hand over racks full of Motorola's new smartphone, and in full Obi-Wan Kenobi drag intone the words, "these are the Droids you're looking for." Ohhh-kayyyy, so maybe it's a good thing I'm not in charge of Verizon marketing.

  • There's Something About Droid

    Richard Adhikari
    5 Nov 2009 | 2:56 pm
    Verizon Wireless is stoking the excitement around its upcoming Motorola Droid smartphone, which it will officially put on sale on Friday. The buzz on the Droid isn't driven entirely by a marketing team, though. The phone's hardware has received many positive reviews, and it will be the first phone to ship with an updated version of the Android operating system. The circumstances of its arrival also make for a compelling back story: Motorola desperately needs a hit, and Verizon needs an answer to AT&T's iPhone.

  • Does Wine Make Linux Too Loose?

    Katherine Noyes
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Following the Karmic Koala's joyful reception last week, sentiments toward the FOSSy marsupial have become distinctly less enthusiastic in recent days -- at least for some. "Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala" was the headline on a piece that ran in The Register on Tuesday, which chronicled multiple cases of frustration among some users upgrading to the new version. Still, the problems one is likely to encounter with Linux tend to pale by comparison with the security problems one is likely to have using Windows. Unless, that is, you're using Wine.

  • Yahoo Lets FOSS Community Drive Its Traffic Server

    Jack M. Germain
    4 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    In a move that resembles a major food vendor giving away its prize recipe -- minus the secret sauce -- to all of its customers and competitors, Yahoo on Monday donated the source code for its Traffic Server software to the Apache Software Foundation through the Apache Incubator Project. Yahoo hopes to grow a community of product users who return to use the full recipe rather than trying to make the recipe work on their own. Yahoo intends to build a robust community of developers around the open source Traffic Server, the company said.

  • Sony Ericsson Starts Some Early Buzz for a Late Android

    Richard Adhikari
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:03 pm
    Handset maker Sony Ericsson on Tuesday announced the new Xperia X10 smartphone. It will run on the Android 1.6 mobile operating system, also known as "Donut." The Xperia X10 will begin shipping to select markets next year. In announcing the Xperia X10, Sony Ericsson named the handset as the flagship device of a family of phones coming to market during the first half of 2010. The device will have a new UX platform that will let users organize everything on the smartphone with what the company calls the "most open, human and intuitive user experience yet."
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  • ECS Elitegroup P55H-A

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:54 am
    Back in September we published a launch-day Linux preview of Intel's Lynnfield processors and provided Core i5 / Core i7 benchmarks. With that initial testing of the Lynnfield processors and the new Intel P55 Chipset we had used an Intel DP55KG "Kingsberg" motherboard, but since then many P55 motherboards from different vendors have flooded the market. One of the P55 motherboards to be introduced for the budget-conscious consumer is the P55H-A, which comes from ECS Elitegroup. This motherboard is very reasonably priced while offering support for up to DDR3-2200MHz memory (in an overclock…

  • NVIDIA Prepares 195.xx Linux Driver, Carries Fermi Support

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:14 am
    It was just last week that NVIDIA had finally released a stable 190.xx Linux driver after this driver series had been in beta for months. The 190.xx driver series brought new hardware support, OpenGL 3.2 support, VDPAU improvements, and a fair amount of other changes...

  • X Server 1.7.2 Is A Step Closer To Release

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:51 am
    At the end of October X Server 1.7.1 was released and at that time Peter Hutterer had said that the 1.7.2 build should arrive in about five weeks. It hasn't been five weeks yet, but it looks like he's still on track to delivering this bug-fix release on time or earlier...

  • They Say A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

    5 Nov 2009 | 1:37 pm
    ...but what about two pictures? Yes, that is an early build of a future version of the Phoronix Test Suite running natively atop Microsoft Windows 7. Of course, the Phoronix Test Suite already runs atop OpenSolaris, *BSD, and Mac OS X too. How come? How will this benefit the Linux community? It will all be answered shortly, but for now you can chime in with your thoughts or ideas in the forums...

  • Fedora 12 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

    5 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am
    Canonical released Ubuntu 9.10 last week, which introduced the Ubuntu Software Center and brought a wide variety of other improvements, while Red Hat is scheduled to release Fedora 12 in two weeks. With the impending release and the current development freeze, we took the compose release candidate for Fedora 12 x86_64 and have looked at how its performance compares to Ubuntu 9.10. In this article are our results, which actually show some rather large differences between Fedora and Ubuntu when it comes to the speed of the Linux desktop.
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  • Cyber Secure Institute: Linux Isnt Significantly More Secure

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:29 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Rhetoric or Fact? Read on to see what they say about the security of the US President's very own cell phone. First, while many believe that open source software is more secure, in fact, the process by which open source software is created raises the serious risk that malicious code can be inserted into a program. With tens of thousands of lines of code-much of it of unknown or little known origins-and without any formal proof of the code, there simply is no way to ensure that open source software is fully secure-let alone prove it.

  • Controversial email blocklist SORBS sold

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:09 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: GFI Software has confirmed the purchase of sometimes controversial spam blocklist provider SORBS for a reported $451,000.

  • Turning clouds into crackers: $45 a password

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:04 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Security experts recommend long, complex passwords because they require a super computer's power to hack into a system. So what happens now that a super computer is available to anyone with a credit card?

  • Expert calls SSL protocol vulnerability a non issue

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:02 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Two security researchers are calling for an industry-wide response to fix a serious vulnerability they discovered in the SSL protocol, used widely on the Internet for secure data transfers. But a noted network security researcher says the vulnerability has very little impact on most users and will not result in data loss.

  • Open Source You Can Use, November Edition

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:01 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: News for a slow Friday. In this edition: two ways to browse the web, and one great way to find everything scattered across all your storage media. Read on.
 
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  • Four short links: 6 November 2009 - Barcode Scanning, Downloadable Community Book, Gov Hack Day, Android Kludges

    Nat Torkington
    Red Laser -- "impossibly accurate barcode scanning". Uses Google Product Search to identify products that you scan using the camera on the phone. I remember Rael and I talking to Jeff Bezos about this years ago, before camphones had the resolution to decode barcodes. The future is here and it's $1.99 on the App Store ... (via Ed Corkery...

  • Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

    Allen Noren
    We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

  • Four short links: 29 October 2009 - Learning Programming, Functional Javascript, Controlling Firefox, Kicking Ass (with SSDs)

    Nat Torkington
    Anatomy of SSDs -- A teeth-rattlingly technical Linux Magazine article explaining the different types of SSDs (Solid State Disks--imagine a hard drive made of rapid-access Flash memory). Artur Bergman told me that installing an SSD drive in his MacBook Pro gave the greatest performance increase of any computer upgrade he'd performed since he went from no computer to one. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

  • VMware Cookbook

    Matthew Helmke, Ryan Troy
    A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use

  • Linux Netbooks: They're Still Out There

    Caitlyn Martin
    I found a wide variety of systems with Linux available from mainstream outlets and factory direct, at least here in the United States where I live. While I don't have updated market share figures it's clear, despite claims by Microsoft and their supporters, that Linux remains entrenched in the netbook market and is spreading out from there.
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  • HCI Foundations: Evaluation Methodologies

    seele
    30 Oct 2009 | 3:00 am
    This semester I have a class which examines foundational literature in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Each week we have a topic and have been asked to write a short response or position on a question related to the topic. These responses could be interesting to those who are interested in HCI or would like to know more about the real science behind usability and design. I’ve decided to share some of my responses here on my blog. Question: What principles and techniques can be used to evaluate interfaces? Keywords: Heuristic evaluation Heuristic evaluation is a method of using heuristics,…

  • Maryland LoCo Karmic Release Party

    seele
    26 Oct 2009 | 12:45 pm
    The Maryland Ubuntu Local Community will host a Karmic release party on October 31, 2009 at 12PM at Fudruckers in Columbia Maryland USA. Come join us to celebrate the latest Ubuntu release! More information…

  • HCI Foundations: System Usability

    seele
    23 Oct 2009 | 3:00 am
    This semester I have a class which examines foundational literature in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Each week we have a topic and have been asked to write a short response or position on a question related to the topic. These responses could be interesting to those who are interested in HCI or would like to know more about the real science behind usability and design. I’ve decided to share some of my responses here on my blog. Question: What are issues that should be considered in designing for system usability? Keywords: Performance, return on investment, satisfaction Evaluation…

  • Closed Design or No Design? Something is better than nothing.

    seele
    17 Oct 2009 | 10:38 pm
    Recently, Mark Shuttleworth announced on the Ayatana list an attempt to improve existing Ubuntu design processes by closing design participation and feedback from the community to invite-only. This has been met with mixed reviews with some supporting the decision and others opposed. As a practitioner and someone who has managed design teams, I have to agree with this move. It is a hard decision especially in open source but sometimes you have to make an attempt to balance the signal:noise ratio. Last December, Ubuntu came under fire when they unveiled the Notify-OSD design which was developed…

  • HCI Foundations: Design Methodologies

    seele
    16 Oct 2009 | 3:00 am
    This semester I have a class which examines foundational literature in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Each week we have a topic and have been asked to write a short response or position on a question related to the topic. These responses could be interesting to those who are interested in HCI or would like to know more about the real science behind usability and design. I’ve decided to share some of my responses here on my blog. Question: What are various methodological approaches for designing human-computer interfaces? Keywords: Participatory design, user-centered design There are many…
 
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  • Ubuntu 9.10 Released

    From the Karmic dept.: The latest version of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has been released. Offering numerous enhancements for both desktop and server environments, this release includes notable features like Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud images, the Ubuntu One 'personal cloud,' and Linux kernel version 2.6.31.

  • Android 2.0 SDK Released

    From the Sarah Connor dept.: Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync, account manager and contacts APIs, you can write applications to enable users to sync their devices to various contact sources. You can also give users a faster way to communicate with others by embedding Quick Contact within your application. With the new Bluetooth API, you can now easily add peer-to-peer connectivity or gaming to your applications.

  • Firefox 3.5.4 Release

    From the Up2Date dept.: Firefox 3.5.4 fixes the following issues: Several security issues. Fixed several stability issues. Added the ability to re-submit crash reports (bug 378528) After using Clear Recent History some SSL sites would not load all images and styles without pressing reload (see bug 480619)

  • WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal

    From the From the Top dept.: WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software...

  • HTC Releases Hero Source Code for Developers

    From the Late than Never dept.: HTC has just posted the source code for the HTC Hero Android build on its dedicated developer portal. This follows weeks of demands from open source developers regarding the availability of the source code from the manufacturer, as HTC originally stated that it was waiting on its own developers to provide the source before making it available.
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  • Unix turns 40 (8 Jun 2009)

    Nice retrospective by computer world."After batting around some ideas for a new system, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix, which the pair would continue to develop over the next several years with the help of colleagues Doug McIlroy, Joe Ossanna and Rudd Canaday. Some of the principles of Multics were carried over into their new operating system, but the beauty of Unix then (if not now) lay in its less-is-more philosophy." Unix turns 4

  • Using PHP directly from the command line on Linux (5 Jun 2009)

    Learn how to better integrate scripts with command-line tools. Examine using shell_exec(), exec(), passthru(), and system(); safely passing information to the command line; and safely retrieving information from it. See how to integrate closely with underlying shell commands and folding any return values into your interfaces and processes.

  • Anatomy of a Linux hypervisor (5 Jun 2009)

    The battleground has shifted from the Operating System to the hypervisor, and Linux has a clear role to play. One of the most important modern innovations of Linux is its transformation into a hypervisor. Learn about KVM and Lguest and why the most important modern innovations of Linux is its transformation into a hypervisor

  • Boost Linux performance on old hardware (1 Jun 2009)

    The ideas in this article may help you breathe life (and some additional security) into your old machines and make better use of Linux on aging hardware. A lack of physical memory can severely hamper Linux performance. Llearn how to accurately measure the amount of memory your Linux system uses. You also get practical advice on reducing your memory requirements using an Ubuntu system as an example.

  • Comparing UNIX inovation (29 May 2009)

    This article compares and contrasts some of the innovations of the latest releases of AIX 6.1, Solaris 1, and HP-UX. Learn the differences on how to work with certain tasks, such as networking and performance tuning. Also, see at a high level some of the virtualization differences among these big three. You decide what you prefer best.
 
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  • « Simple comme Ubuntu » adapté à la version 9.10 d'Ubuntu

    Toolinux
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:14 pm
    Pour Framasoft, ce framabook est un « best seller » : il a directement ou indirectement contribué à faire migrer de nombreux utilisateurs d'un système d'exploitation propriétaire à un système d'exploitation libre. - Livres

  • Un séminaire sur Magento à Paris le 10 novembre

    Toolinux
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:10 pm
    Ce mardi 10 novembre est organisé à Paris, de 9h à 12h, un séminaire gratuit consacré aux solutions de e-commerce open source, avec un focus particulier sur le produit Magento. - Evénements et séminaires

  • Inscrivez-vous jusqu'au 15 novembre aux Etoiles du Libre 2009

    Toolinux
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    L'Association des Etudiants de l'Université de Technologie Belfort Montbéliard organise le Prix Universitaire du Logiciel Libre le 12 décembre. Il vous reste 8 jours pour vous manifester. - Evénements et séminaires

  • Linux détiendrait 32 pour cent du marché des netbooks

    Toolinux
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pm
    Après l'échec de GNU/Linux lors de la première vague de Netbook dû à des choix plutôt mal ficelés dans les distributions proposées, voici une étude dévoilée lors d'une interview qui semblerait indiquer un regain de vigueur de notre kernel préféré sur ce marché. - Revue de presse

  • MySQL jusqu'à 7 fois plus rapide ?

    Toolinux
    5 Nov 2009 | 3:48 pm
    Adaptec livre le résultat des essais de performance de sa nouvelle solution MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance dans les environnements MySQL. Les performances de la base de données opensource seraient multipliées par huit. Rien que ça ! - Communiqué
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  • Convert PNG to GIF via Command Line

    devnet
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:24 am
    I installed a bare bones Arch Linux system today and took a screenshot.  With no graphics utilities installed, I needed a way to convert a PNG to a GIF for a Simple Machines forum template thumbnail.  I figured I’d use a command line utility to help me and ImageMagick is installed by default on most distributions.  A quick read through the ImageMagick manpage and I found the convert command and thought I’d share it with everyone.  Use convert in the following fashion:  convert [input-options] input-file [output-options] output-file convert SMFPress.png -channel Alpha…

  • Foresight, rPath, LiveCD, and Unity Linux

    devnet
    14 Oct 2009 | 7:20 am
    Most, if not all, top distributions of Linux ship a live CD that allows an end user to preview the operating system without installing it. Foresight Linux is the exception. Now, this isn’t because they don’t WANT to have a Live CD…they do.  The problem is that rPath, the creators of rBuilder Online, have discontinued the Live CD image creation type. There was no announcement…no news posting…no clue dart thrown toward Foresight for this discontinuation.  There was only a comment on a single bug in the rPath issue tracker just this past May…Formally…

  • Links for 2009-09-25 [del.icio.us]

    26 Sep 2009 | 12:00 am
    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/25/svn-strikes-back-a-serious-vulnerability-found/ Interesting note for SVN users/admins

  • YALB – ITLPD

    devnet
    19 Sep 2009 | 8:41 am
    In honor of today, which is International Talk like a Pirate Day, my blog now comes in pirate flavor thanks to a very interesting plugin. So have a look around!  Some posts are pretty silly sounding and others are downright hilarious.  And have a great day or you’ll probably have to walk the plank somewhere No related posts.

  • Clarification on Foresight and Fedora

    devnet
    9 Sep 2009 | 1:51 pm
    I previously wrote about a possible “rebasing” of Foresight Linux on the Fedora platform. This conjecture was a bit premature it seems as I am completely wrong on this being a possibility The best part about me being absolutely wrong on this is that there is still going to be benefits for Foresight and Fedora even without the rebase. Foresight is toying with the idea of having a sub-project (completely separate from Foresight Linux base) that it has tentatively called ‘boots, a Fedora remix‘ (a play on Dora in Fedora for those of you with kids). What would happen is…
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  • The Intersection Of Quality And Expectations

    jono
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:16 pm
    There has been a little bit o’chatter on the tubes recently regarding quality and our recent release, Ubuntu 9.10. There we were on Thursday, champagne in hand, kicking a new release out the door and while I have seen countless reports of happy users with effortless upgrades and hardware and software working better than ever before, there are of course some reports of things going less-well, some broken upgrades and unexpected quirks. Those of us involved in the Ubuntu project, like anyone involved in any kind of endeavour, are emotionally invested in our work. When we hear of problems,…

  • Not Tolerating The Intolerant

    jono
    5 Nov 2009 | 2:55 pm
    Thanks to my friends over at ZDNet for allowing me to post another guest article on their Between The Lines column. This time I have written an article discussing the importance of a productive, pleasant and pleasurable community that rewards great work and celebrates the exchange of both agreeable and challenging opinions, ideas and views, and how intolerance can risk and undermine that community. Go and read Not Tolerating The Intolerant.

  • The Art of Community #1 Culture Book on Amazon.com

    jono
    5 Nov 2009 | 11:25 am
    It may have changed by the time you read this, but The Art of Community has now hit the #1 slot for the Business and Culture category Amazon.com: You can see it on this page and you can check out the Art of Community Amazon page here. Go and buy a copy and support the project, folks! Today I also did a webinar about the book and you see it here. Thanks to Intro Networks for the opportunity!

  • Art of Community Webinar Soon

    jono
    5 Nov 2009 | 7:34 am
    Just a quick note: I am doing a webinar on my book The Art of Community at 9am Pacific today. You can join us here.

  • Canonical Matching Creative Commons Donations

    jono
    4 Nov 2009 | 5:06 pm
    Here at Canonical we are all big fans of the Creative Commons. For those of you unfamiliar with them, they have created a set of Free Culture licenses that make it simple for people to release open content. They also run a variety of resources to make finding and remixing content simple and empowering. In the Ubuntu community we have celebrated these freedoms with the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase: a competition in which we select free culture content that is included with each Ubuntu release. In addition to this, I am personally a huge fan of the Creative Commons: I have released two albums…
 
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  • WotD: Trollumnist

    Jeff Waugh
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:48 pm
    It used to be that to get your own column in a broadsheet, you needed to add some value. Expertise, skill in interpreting social and political developments, or a distinguished history as a journalist were rewarded with a bit more space in the paper. There, you could spin out a longer-form piece analysing burning issues in a little more depth, or you could even act as an advocate for things that weren’t on the public’s radar. As the newspaper business model heads south, though, we’ve been subjected to the rise of what we might christen the “trollumnist” — the…

  • Sexism, metaphor, whimsy and caprice

    Jeff Waugh
    6 Oct 2009 | 11:17 pm
    It’s difficult to recall the last time I laughed out loud when reading an Ubuntu changelog entry. Please direct any questions or comments you may have to the Department of Metaphor. hunspell-en-us (20070829-2ubuntu4) karmic; urgency=low * debian/extrawords.txt: added "misandry" and "misandrist" (LP: #436145) -- Mackenzie Morgan Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:38:32 -0400

  • QotD: John Lennon

    Jeff Waugh
    10 Sep 2009 | 5:00 am
    No. No musicals. I loathe musicals. I never did have a plan for doing one. My cousin made me sit through some fucking musical twice. I just hate them. They bore me stiff. I think they’re just horrible. Even Hair. And they’re always lousy music.  — John Lennon, from The Lost Interviews by Ray Connolly

  • QotD: Guy Rundle

    Jeff Waugh
    22 Jul 2009 | 9:01 pm
    The whole thing shows that if you have a basic contempt for the idea of government — that you wanted it to be small enough to “get it in the bathtub and drown it” — then it will come back at with you with failure that threatens the very basis of orderly life itself. California’s getting a lesson in that.  — Guy Rundle in Crikey: What’s happened to the once great state of California?

  • Watching nginx upstreams with collectd

    Jeff Waugh
    22 Jul 2009 | 4:22 am
    Already happy with nginx in front of Apache for a number of sites, I decided it was time to start testing nginx/fastcgi on my personal server (the serial crash test dummy of my web operations). The only problem: I have yet to find a sensible method of grabbing useful runtime information from the PHP fastcgi process itself, and if you can’t sensibly watch it, you can’t sensibly deploy it. So for now, instead of watching the PHP fastcgi process directly, I’m tracking its performance and usage from nginx’s perspective. You can log all kinds of data about upstream…
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  • Links for 2009-11-05

    dailylinks
    5 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    Introducing Resque - GitHub : github’s take on a good, distributed queueing system in Ruby (tags: ruby github queueing ipc resque)

  • Links for 2009-11-04

    dailylinks
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    SBSettings : good overview of this jailbreak app (tags: iphone jailbreak hack software apple sbsettings unlock) Why would I want to jailbreak an iPhone 3GS? : Ask MeFi thread, mostly recommending tethering and SBSettings (tags: sbsettings jailbreaking askmefi metafilter iphone apple) Subversion Submitted to Become a Project at The Apache Software Foundation : woot! (tags: svn subversion asf apache open-source incubator)

  • Links for 2009-11-03

    dailylinks
    3 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    Spiritual search turns into a stampede as impatient lose faith in double visionaries - The Irish Times - Mon, Nov 02, 2009 : hilarious article on the BVM-witnessing hysterics in Knock. ‘if you looked hard enough, you could indeed discern a face in the play of light and shadows. When I squinted a certain way, I thought I could make out Bruce Forsyth.’ (tags: mayo religion hysteria funny bruce-forsyth bvm fortean) Structural Regular Expressions : ‘The current UNIX text processing tools are weakened by the built-in concept of a line. There is a simple notation that can describe…

  • Links for 2009-10-30

    dailylinks
    30 Oct 2009 | 3:05 pm
    Mike Shroepfer on Engineering at Scale at Facebook : lots of gory details on FB’s innards via Dare Obasanjo (tags: facebook scaling scalability erlang caching architecture multifeed) Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap : sweet. HDMI out, MythTV streaming, and silent for $300 (tags: mythtv hdmi tv diy linux media-center nettop htpc xbmc hardware) MullingarHeifer.com : ‘Become a virtual beef farmer. Control your personal food chain.’ also deliver prime beef. mmmm (tags: meat beef mullingar heifers cows food eating shopping ireland)

  • Links for 2009-10-29

    dailylinks
    29 Oct 2009 | 3:05 pm
    Ubuntu 9.10 Technical Overview : lots of new features, and a switch of default IM client (tags: ubuntu 9.10 linux release-notes releases) The Best Way to Cook a Thick Steak : 30 minutes over medium heat, cooked in its own fat. whoa, I want to try this (tags: food delicious cooking eating meat recipe steak beef howto recipes)
 
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  • Using GStreamer-python in Maemo 5 on N900

    admin
    16 Oct 2009 | 4:47 am
    Yesterday lunchtime I wrote a simple GStreamer app in python to run on the N900 with the video embedded in a widget inside the app. I committed it inside gst-python git inside the folder examples. It just does videotestsrc ! videoscale ! ximagesink. It could have been videotestsrc ! xvimagesink but I wanted to grab a screenshot. Code (with comments): http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-python/tree/examples/maemogst.py

  • Maemo widget experience - circular clock with transparent background

    admin
    12 Oct 2009 | 1:34 am
    So last week, I started writing a maemo fremantle widget in a few spare pockets of time. One thing got me stuck. I could not get the thing to be transparent. I tried looking at other widgets’ code but just couldn’t figure it out. Finally at the Extending Hildon Desktop BoF yesterday at the Maemo Summit, I got my answer: set the colormap of the window to be 32bit rgba. Here is the code needed in the __init__ in a python widget: colormap = self.get_screen().get_rgba_colormap() self.set_colormap (colormap) In the expose event handler, you have to clear with the cairo context (which I…

  • Last time seen with my Minima glasses :(

    admin
    8 Oct 2009 | 3:04 am
    Above (taken on Fri Oct 2 2009) was the last photo taken of me with the glasses I picked up and wore for the first time on my wedding day 6 years and 2 months ago. They have found their destiny to rest in peace just outside Barcelona in Spain. Yesterday I ordered a replacement pair.

  • Free time hacking

    admin
    6 Sep 2009 | 3:34 am
    So in my spare tme, I have been hacking on a couple of new projects. The first is a web based video switch controller for the mosque. We have an Autopatch 16 input 48 output video matrix switch, and the APControl software that comes with it just does not suit our workflow at all with macros being tedious to setup and figure out which to run due to the complexities of our programmes. It is also limited to running on one computer. So about 9 months ago I started on a web based replacement called Zap but development had stalled. The idea was that there would be 2 views. One was a matrix view…

  • Spykee over UPnP

    admin
    20 Jul 2009 | 3:23 pm
    At GCDS/Guadec, I discussed with Frank about Spykee being exposed over UPnP and started implementing a coherence backend for it. Only tonight, did I get a little time to refine and test what I had written. Below is a screenshot of UPnP Inspector and an Ogg/Theora stream exposed by the Spykee coherence backend being sent to 2 GStreamer based MediaRenderers. I also right clicked on the URL in UPnP Inspector and selected Open URL and it opened and played in Firefox 3.5 directly.
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  • Perl far from dead, more popular than you think (Royal Pingdom)

    ris
    6 Nov 2009 | 11:19 am
    The Royal Pingdom takes a look at popular websites that use Perl. "Perl has been around since 1987 and became an early darling of web developers. These days, however, you don't hear much about Perl. Everyone seems to be talking about trendier languages like PHP, Python and Ruby, with Perl left in the back as a neglected, not-so-hip cousin. That might lead you to think that Perl is dying, but as it turns out, it's still used by plenty of websites out there, including some pretty big hitters."

  • Checking in on CodePlex (The Standards Blog)

    ris
    6 Nov 2009 | 11:10 am
    A few weeks ago LWN talked with Sam Ramji about the CodePlex Foundation. Since then the Foundation has published its new Project Acceptance and Operation Guidelines (PDF). Andy Updegrove takes a look at the new guidelines. "The Guidelines and recent reviews with Sam also provide more detail on what types of work the Foundation hopes to undertake. I think that two of the projects that are described in the Guidelines can be particularly useful. The first (mentioned earlier) is intended to provide a resource to help developers understand not only what individual OSS licenses say, but how they…

  • Security advisories for Friday

    ris
    6 Nov 2009 | 11:09 am
    Debian has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated kernel (F11, F10: multiple vulnerabilities), alienarena (F11, F10: buffer overflow), alienarena-data (F11, F10: buffer overflow). Gentoo has updated horde (multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated libgd2 (multiple vulnerabilities), libhtml-parser-perl (denial of service).

  • SFLC summary of Bilski v. Kappos

    ris
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:12 am
    The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has compiled a summary of some of the main arguments in the Bilski v. Kappos case dealing with software patents. "As a legal services organization for free and open source software (FOSS), we filed a brief in support of the respondent arguing (1) that all software is unpatentable under Supreme Court precedent, (2) that software patenting reduces the level of innovation in software, and (3) that constitutional limitations from the First Amendment prevent Congress from making patent law that covers mental steps, basic ideas, or algorithms."

  • Linux-Kongress 2009 (The H)

    corbet
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:55 am
    The H has a report from Linux-Kongress 2009, recently held in Dresden. "Theodore Ts'o said that it is hard to predict which trends will emerge after mobile and cloud computing in two or three years – but that those who can answer this question might become rich. 2010 will (not) be the year of the Linux desktop just like the years before it, said the developer. Ts'o considers developing Linux for desktop PCs a difficult task – while the required improvements to the software stack are in progress, they aren't happening as fast as many people would like, he explained."
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  • Four short links: 6 November 2009 - Barcode Scanning, Downloadable Community Book, Gov Hack Day, Android Kludges

    Nat Torkington
    Red Laser -- "impossibly accurate barcode scanning". Uses Google Product Search to identify products that you scan using the camera on the phone. I remember Rael and I talking to Jeff Bezos about this years ago, before camphones had the resolution to decode barcodes. The future is here and it's $1.99 on the App Store ... (via Ed Corkery...

  • Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

    Allen Noren
    We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

  • Four short links: 29 October 2009 - Learning Programming, Functional Javascript, Controlling Firefox, Kicking Ass (with SSDs)

    Nat Torkington
    Anatomy of SSDs -- A teeth-rattlingly technical Linux Magazine article explaining the different types of SSDs (Solid State Disks--imagine a hard drive made of rapid-access Flash memory). Artur Bergman told me that installing an SSD drive in his MacBook Pro gave the greatest performance increase of any computer upgrade he'd performed since he went from no computer to one. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

  • VMware Cookbook

    Matthew Helmke, Ryan Troy
    A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use

  • Linux Netbooks: They're Still Out There

    Caitlyn Martin
    I found a wide variety of systems with Linux available from mainstream outlets and factory direct, at least here in the United States where I live. While I don't have updated market share figures it's clear, despite claims by Microsoft and their supporters, that Linux remains entrenched in the netbook market and is spreading out from there.
 
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  • Could Microsoft switch to Linux?

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:59 am
    Might Windows 8 or 9, actually have Linux under the hood? read more

  • Ex-Microsoftie: Linux will destroy Windows

    Preston Gralla
    5 Nov 2009 | 6:53 am
    It's not only long-time Linux true believers who say that Linux will eventually wipe out Windows. An former Microsoft employee of 11 years says that "proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed," and believes that Microsoft's future lies in releasing its own version of Linux. read more

  • Linux for grandma & grandpa

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:32 pm
    Do you provide technical support for older friends and relatives? Want to make your life easier? Give them Linux. read more

  • 5 Reasons why Ubuntu 9.10 is better than Windows 7

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    3 Nov 2009 | 3:43 pm
    The newest desktop Linux vs. the newest Windows -- and the winner is ... read more

  • No open-source Skype ... yet

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    2 Nov 2009 | 8:47 am
    The popular Internet voice program Skype is not going open source real soon, but, it is on its way. read more
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  • GNOME Miro Video Page

    J5
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:10 am
    Will over at the Miro project, that super cool Open Source media player, sent me a link today of their Miro Community site. It is a video aggregation site that allows for communities to collect all of their video in one place even if they were originally posted elsewhere.  To that effect he has also set up a GNOME Miro Community site.  I know we have a bunch of great videos talking about GNOME and showing off its features.  This is a shout out to people who have great GNOME related video content to go ahead and start aggregating those videos so others can find them.  Let’s start…

  • Litl’s little netbook

    J5
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    I popped down to Boston today to see Litl’s internet computer and catch up with friends who now work for Litl. Unfortunately I did not see Havoc there (probably release partying too much or more likely coding) but a number of GNOME folk and others who I worked with at OLPC did show up. (I’m not going to name names because I will inevitably leave someone out). In any case the Litl webbook looks promising. Finally someone has looked at what a target group of consumers wanted and designed a simplified interface around services instead of just dropping a Linux distribution in and…

  • Quick video using Jokosher, PiTiVi and my Canon digital camera

    J5
    2 Nov 2009 | 9:51 am
    You will need “Firefox 3.5 to view this video or another browser that support the HTML 5 video tag and ogg theora video format. I also wish planet would not filter out video tags!!! Rome.ogv This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License Above is a song I was writing for my sister’s wedding. Unfortunately I never finished it and logistics got in the way of me bringing a guitar to Italy (namely I didn’t want to lug a guitar all around Italy). I thought I would record it using my Cannon PowerShot camera…

  • Another Boston Summit in the History Books

    J5
    13 Oct 2009 | 9:32 am
    I managed to make it to the Beer Summit and the last day of the Boston Summit before succumbing to the inevitable jet lag. From what I heard the summit was again a success and I would like to thank Jon Mccann, Colin Walters and Ajax for pitching in and running the various aspects of the Summit and everyone else who came to make GNOME rock. As always we thank Henry Holtzman for being the MIT faculty backer of the conference and Walter Bender of SugarLabs for doing some leg work for us. The delegation worked so well I think I will save some of my stress levels next year by finding others who…

  • Off to Italy for two weeks

    J5
    29 Sep 2009 | 4:14 am
    Sean’s wedding is down in the books and now it is time for my twin sister’s wedding. For that I am flying out to Rome today and will be running around Italy for the next two weeks. Four days in Rome, three in Venice, three in Lake Como and one in Milan. I won’t be bringing a computer so I will only be checking my public e-mail accounts infrequently at internet cafe’s. The best way to reach me will be by phone. [read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]
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  • Google Maps Navigation

    Robert Love
    28 Oct 2009 | 8:30 am
    The future is here:Google Maps NavigationGoogle announces Google Maps Navigation for Android: 3D turn-by-turn GPS navigation with real-time maps and traffic. For free. Shipping first on the Verizon Droid.Other features:Voice searchStreet View integration: See a photo of your next turn or the destinationSearch along route: Find a gas station on your current roadSatellite viewFor more information: Google Maps Navigation for Android.

  • Linux in a Nutshell 6ed

    Robert Love
    13 Oct 2009 | 12:30 pm
    I've been spending more cycles tweeting than blogging, so I know I don't get to mention this here but once. Yet I am excited to announce the sixth edition of Linux in a Nutshell, the book that DesktopLinux calls the "most complete and authoritative command reference for Linux."I suspect many of this blog's readers consider themselves beyond the need for a Linux reference, but Linux in a Nutshell is an essential book for new and advanced Linux users alike, with the sixth edition going well beyond your basic file utilities and system management. For example, highlights of this edition include,A…

  • Tiananmen, Then and Now

    Robert Love
    5 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am
    Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Today, The Big Picture, the Globe's photo blog, put up a touching remembrance. The changes—the disconnect, the growth—between these two pictures, 1989 and today, are striking:Changan Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, 1989Changan Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, 2009When I was last in China, my blog was blocked by the great firewall. That's me, a rabble rouser. I rouse rabble.

  • Cupcake!

    Robert Love
    8 May 2009 | 1:00 pm
    For users: Top 10 features you'll love about Android 1.5For developers: Download SDK 1.5

  • Where I've Been

    Robert Love
    31 Mar 2009 | 1:00 am
    I have been silent, I know. Both work and life keep me busy. At work, we released Android 1.1, which added voice search, Latitude, and paid apps. We continue to advance the platform, with exciting upcoming releases including the anticipated cupcake milestone. And of course there will be more phones.In life, I spend most of my blogging cycles on my food blog (feed), knocking out several posts a week—that is not just a lot of blogging, but quite a bit of braising, infusing, roasting, and even foam making.I find myself again with pen to paper—nothing anytime soon—and am happy…
 
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  • Universities Seeing the Open Source Light

    27 Oct 2009 | 6:55 am
    I just recently learned about UCOSP. The details of the program can be found here.We are continually seeing academic institutions realizing the benefits of having their student body taking part in open source development work as part of the curriculum. I give credit to those universities or colleges that are participating in such activities. For too long, aspiring software engineers have frowned upon the completion of a degree, primarily due to the lack of relevance their studies provide them upon graduation. This no longer needs to be the case. As this program shows, it is possible for…

  • Florida Linux Show Update

    22 Oct 2009 | 7:15 am
    I will be speaking at 9:30AM this Saturday, 10/24, at the Florida Linux Show. It is at the Radisson Resort Orlando-Celebration in Kissimmee, FL. Look forward to seeing anyone there that will be in attendance. Looks to be a promising event!

  • All About the Brain Power

    16 Oct 2009 | 3:42 am
    Here is an enlightening article about the core of open source. Too many companies get so excited about open source based on the price tag they associate with it. Lest they forget about what makes it such great software to begin with. Behind every great product is a great brain, and in the case of open source, we are talking about thousands of great brains. As has always been the case, the power of collaborative development bears fruit for all involved.

  • Helpful Hints In Avoiding the Ax

    22 Sep 2009 | 9:25 am
    Given the state of the labor market, the one thing you want to try to limit is your chances of getting fired. Of course, there are plenty of instances (workforce reduction, etc.) that are out of your control. However, it is imperative that you take care of behavior that is in your control.In this Datamation article, Eric Spiegel outlines three steps you can follow to limit your chances of getting the ax. All three are very relevant, but one in particular sticks out to me. The notion that you, as a developer, must promote your own work.I agree completely with this. In a number of cases, this…

  • Why Do Companies Give Tests to Open Source Developers?

    16 Sep 2009 | 8:27 am
    Recently, I have had a couple of companies give programming tests to individuals that have had code accepted for an open source project. Why is that? Sometimes I have a hard time understanding what is going to be gained by doing so. I have always been under the impression that if your code is accepted by a particular project, that is a testament to your abilities to program in that language. At the very least, it is the perfect opportunity for a company to take the necessary time to review the code to determine ones ability. Most of the time, below par code is not allowed into an open source…
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  • Installing Ubuntu 9.10

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:38 am
    Ubuntu 9.10, also known as the Karmic Koala, arrived exactly on October 29, 2009 and is the eleventh release of Ubuntu OS. We've created the following tutorial to teach Linux newcomers how to install the Ubuntu 9.10 operating system on their personal computer. Therefore, it is addressed to people who have just heard about Ubuntu, those who have never installed Ubuntu before and want to test it, but don't know how. The tutorial will make things very simple for you, but if you get stuck somewhere in the middle of the installation and you need help, do not hesitate to use our commenting system…

  • Moblin 2.1 Has 3G and Bluetooth Support

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:36 am
    The amazing team of developers behind Intel's Moblin project, through Imad Sousou, proudly announced last night (November 4th) the immediate availability of the Moblin 2.1 operating system for Intel Atom-powered netbooks and nettops. In this release, users will find a new and powerful web browser, support for 3G data connections, Bluetooth support, an integrated application installer for Moblin Garage, an improved user interface and overall performance. Additional documentation has also been added in Moblin 2.1. "The Moblin project steering committee today announces the project release of…

  • Scientific Linux 5.4 Brings Improved Support for Wi-Fi Networks

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    5 Nov 2009 | 3:43 am
    Connie Sieh and Troy Dawson announced last evening (November 4th) the immediate availability of Scientific Linux 5.4, a Linux distribution put together by various universities and labs around the world. Being based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4, the new release of Scientific Linux brings improved support for Atheros wireless chipsets, the iwlwifi 5150 ucode firmware, lots of updated packages and numerous bug fixes. The iwlwifi 4945, 3945, and 5000 ucode has also been updated, and the Lua programming language has been added. "We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and…

  • Monomaxos 4.0 English Edition Released

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:26 am
    Dimitris Papadatos proudly announced on November 3rd that the fourth edition of Monomaxos Greek operating system was now also available for English users! Being based on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), Monomaxos 4.0 comes as a 1.7 GB Live DVD and it offers out of the box support for HD (High-Definition) video files and any other multimedia content. It contains lots of useful applications, such as OpenOffice.org 3.1, the XBMC Media Center, the MAME emulator (with more than 500 functional games), the Avant Window Navigator, and many more. Besides the various software packages, Monomaxos 4.0…

  • Mandriva Linux 2010 Officially Released

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:11 pm
    After Canonical showed off their latest operating system, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), it is now time for another Linux mammoth to take the spotlight. In other words, Mandriva Linux 2010.0 was just released a few minutes ago, after two Alpha versions, one Beta and two Release Candidates, totaling more than four months of hard work. With this article, we are proud to present the new features that are included in the new Mandriva Linux release. Don't forget that Mandriva 2010.0 can be downloaded for free either as a Live KDE and GNOME CDs or a 100% Free DVD/Dual CD/Mini CD, for both i586 and…
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  • Open Source Gains More Traction

    Prakash
    7 Nov 2009 | 12:36 am
    IT budget cuts, an improved ecosystem and more maturity have boosted the demand for open source applications in Indian enterprises. Read this article. I have been quoted in this article. It’s benefits like these that have changed the attitude of enterprises towards open source solutions. Opines Prakash Advani, Partner Manager for Central Asia, Canonical, “Initially there was a certain amount of resistance (towards open source) due to user resistance to change, but this has changed in the recent past.” Related posts:New Ubuntu version makes software installation easy Ubuntu is an…

  • Workflows and Dependency maps

    Prakash
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:02 pm
    Dr. Nagarjuna, Founder of Gnowledge and Director FSF India, shared this very interesting app. It creates a dependency map for any Debian package. It can also create similar maps for any concept not just packages.. Now this opens up a whole new opportunities to graphically represent many ideas and concepts. Ff someone wants to track the email workflows within the organisation, this can be used. For example if A sent an email to B and B forwarded to C &D, this application can show A how the email is flowing within the organisation and show roadblocks. And yes this app is Open Source/Free…

  • New Ubuntu version makes software installation easy

    Prakash
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:47 pm
    Ubuntu is an increasingly popular version of Linux today, and it seems easier for new users to sink their teeth into this free operating system with each new release. I have been quoted in this article in the Hindu: It is this focus on the ease-of-use factor that has contributed to Ubuntu’s popularity. Prakash Advani, partner manager, Central Asia at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, said a survey conducted last year revealed that India accounted for the largest number of Ubuntu server users among the various countries surveyed. Read the complete article. Related posts:Ubuntu 9.04…

  • Economic impact of Free and Open Source Software

    Prakash
    2 Nov 2009 | 11:07 pm
    Prof. Rahul De of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has carried out this study. Economic Impact of Free and Open Source Software – A Study in India. The study has reached out different organisations and has documented to total amount that they saved after moving to Free and Open Source software. Related posts:Bad economy good for Open Source? As the global economy is slowing down, companies are now...Open source trading platform A software startup called Marketcetera has released an open source...Infosys to contribute to Open Source The currently global economy seems to be…

  • Flipbac for Olympus E-P1

    Prakash
    1 Nov 2009 | 9:47 am
    I have been using the Flipbac with the Olympus E-P1. This is a great product to use, if you have a camera with a Fixed LCD and want some flexibility. If you already have an LCD Protector film installed, you need to first remove it. Advantages: Acts as an LCD Protection Provides flexibility to take pictures at different angles Can move Horizontal and Vertical as well Limitations: Is not a replacement for a Varied Angle LCD which you can flip around. Image is inverted in the reflection of Flipbac, so takes a while getting used to it. good for partial views, not complete views. I ordered off…
 
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  • Judge: Norwegian ISP Does Not Have to Block The Pirate Bay

    7 Nov 2009 | 3:22 am
    Every now and then you come across these news items that make just too much sense to be true. Earlier this year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry threatened Norway's largest ISP, Telenor: block access to The Pirate Bay within 14 days, or face legal action. Telenor refused to comply - so it went to court. In what can only be seen as a major victory, the judge sided with Telenor.

  • * The iPod Touch 2nd Gen *

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:06 pm
    Geeks.com, a popular shop for computer parts and mp3 players sent us over the second generation iPod Touch 8 GB for a review. Check in for more! Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...

  • Microsoft Shows Off Another 'Minority Report' UI Concept

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:24 pm
    Whether you like Microsoft or not, the Redmond giant does have one thing going for it: the company's research division. Working together with several universities and other institutions, Microsoft Research works on the soft and hardware of the future, ranging from research operating systems to insanely cool things like what Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie showed off during the Microsoft College Tour '09 (more videos).

  • Moblin 2.1 Released

    6 Nov 2009 | 3:45 pm
    "The Moblin project steering committee today announces the project release of Moblin v2.1 for Intel Atom processor-based netbooks and nettops. This project release includes the broadest feature additions, customer requested improvements, and overall polish to date. With this community release you will see significant feature additions and improvements including enhanced browser functionality and plug-in support, UI enhancements, support for 3G data connections, Bluetooth device management, input method support for localized languages, integrated application installer for the Moblin Garage,…

  • 'No, ZFS Really Doesn't Need a fsck'

    6 Nov 2009 | 3:42 pm
    "There is a discussion at osnews.com about a simple question: "Should ZFS Have a fsck Tool?". The answer is simple: No. I could stop now, as this answer is pretty obvious when you work a while with ZFS, but i want to explain my position. And i want to ask a different question at the end."
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  • few leftovers:

    srlinuxx
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:38 pm
    Fudge Messaging: A new open source encoding for messaging Celtx – The Ultimate Screenwriting Suite Workflows and Dependency maps 10.4-inch HMI PC runs Linux on Atoms NVIDIA Prepares 195.xx Linux Driver, Carries Fermi Support Open Source You Can Use, November Edition Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only? AT&T using Drupal Myka announces its latest Linux-based 'net top box' FLOSS Weekly 94: Gnash Linux Basement Episode 45 - Hulu Your DNS Advertisement: read more

  • other howtos:

    srlinuxx
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:31 pm
    An important Linux Security Fix Useful Mysql Commands Snoop on your own network with ntop Convert PNG to GIF via Command Line Beginner's Guide to Linux Desktops Backups: Basic Strategies and Tools Wireless Linux: Using the Linux Wireless ToolBox Installing Linux on WRT54g Wireless Router Advertisement: read more

  • some ubuntu howtos:

    srlinuxx
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:38 pm
    Ubuntu: Dual monitors with Nvidia in 9.10 How To Close A Stuck Program In Ubuntu Linux How to setup Ubuntu to synchronize its time over the Internet Change your desktop background to xsplash / gdm Automatically Change Your Xsplash Background To Your Desktop Wallpaper How to install Grub2 in Ubuntu 9.04 Backup Your Ubuntu Machine Easily with SBackup Make GTK+ apps look better in Kubuntu Karmic (KDE 4.3) Howto Install Picasa 3.5 in ubuntu Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu 9.10 Advertisement: read more

  • Ubuntu 9.10

    srlinuxx
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:31 pm
    Ubuntu 9.10 Thoughts on the Koala Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' is here: 5 things CIOs must know Experimental OpenShot PPA Launched Ubuntu Marketing resurrection and SpreadUbuntu Ubuntu-n00b: Day 2, Day 1 Ubuntu: Ruminations on Karmic and the Linux desktop Advertisement: read more

  • Mandriva 2010 installation walk through

    srlinuxx
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:04 pm
    ghacks.net: Mandriva is another one of the Linux distributions that has been around for quite some time. This installation will be accomplished with the help of the Live CD. Once you are up and running you will see the Install icon on the desktop. Double click that icon to begin the installation. Advertisement: read more
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  • Looking forward to some improvements

    sankarshan
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:06 pm
    I have been using Transifex based systems for a couple of days/weeks now. And, in line with what I did mention on my micro-blog, Transifex and Lotte make things really easy. The coolest devel crew makes that happen. And, since they lurk online and engage with their users, every little tweak or, improvement that is suggested and considered makes the consumers feel part of the good work they are doing. Good karma and awesome excitement all around. At some point in time during the week, I’d put them in the tickets as feature enhancements. However, for the time being, here’s a couple:…

  • Get to know a Fedora Ambassador or User

    sankarshan
    6 Nov 2009 | 7:59 am
    Since Paul Mellors (MooDoo) started this off, here’s what it is: Name: sankarshan IRC Nick: sankarshan (or, sm|CPU) IRC Channel : #fedora-india … #fedora-ambassadors Fedora Ambassador: India The mandatory mugshot is here. The post is brought to you by lekhonee v0.8

  • GPS data logging and, a nifty data logger

    sankarshan
    24 Oct 2009 | 3:49 am
    Primarily due to Kushal’s enthusiasm, I got myself a GDL-3204 GPS Data Logger from Sparc Systems Limited. In spite of the somewhat “home brew” looks it is a nifty little device with great accuracy. Kushal has been having fun with it during his recent visit to Malda and, we (Runa and me) have been learning how to get tracks and waypoints done using the simple manual that comes with it. At some point in time I should start getting familiar with the JOSM application and, upload the logged data using the script here. For now, it is great fun. The post is brought to you by…

  • A bunch of stuff

    sankarshan
    20 Oct 2009 | 5:10 pm
    Recently, I had the chance to use Lotte to translate and, it simply blows me away. The Transifex crew deserve some well earned applause for including elements that make it incredibly helpful for those involved in the work of translations. There is a slight annoyance which has now been turned into a ticket. Read off Planet Sugar that “several weeks ago”, activities.sugarlabs.org has exceeded 1 million downloads of activities. That’s just too awesome not to talk more about. As is mentioned in this tweet, imagine an activity developer who sees a steady increase in download and…

  • Two of my favorite songs

    sankarshan
    13 Oct 2009 | 5:38 pm
    আমি কান পেতে রই         ও আমার আপন হৃদয়গহন-দ্বারে বারে বারে কোন গোপনবাসীর কান্নাহাসির গোপন কথা শুনিবারে — বারে বারে ।। ভ্রমর সেথা হয় বিবাগি নিভৃত নীল পদ্ম লাগি রে, কোন রাতের পাখি গায় একাকী সঙ্গীবিহীন অন্ধকারে বারে বারে ।। কে সে…
 
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  • SeaMonkey 2.0 Internet Suite now availble for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    7 Nov 2009 | 12:06 am
    The SeaMonkey project at Mozilla is excited to release its completely refurbished next generation of the all-in one Internet suite. SeaMonkey 2.0, melds the ideas behind Netscape Communicator with the modern platform of Firefox 3.5 to create one of the most compelling open source products for advanced Internet users. The combination of an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, that has already established a wide user base in its previous incarnations, has been rebuilt on top of the modern Mozilla platform, featuring world-class add-on…

  • Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 now available for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:06 am
    Mozilla Firefox has been updated to 3.5.5 which provides many stability updates. 5  stabilty updates were applied to this release. 3 crash bugs fixed and 2 other minor bugs cleared.  Fireofox 3.5.5 is currently available on our premium server and shipping to the public servers shortly.

  • Virtualbox 3.0.10 now available for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    28 Oct 2009 | 11:46 pm
    VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See “About VirtualBox” for an introduction. Currently available on our premium server and will be available on our public mirrors shortly.

  • Opera 10.01 update now available for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    28 Oct 2009 | 4:02 am
    Opera 10.01 QT3 and Opera 10.01 QT4 versions are now available for PCLinuxOS Pass members. This release is a bug fix update fixing small niggles the were brought to light after the 10.00 release. Opera 10.01 is currently available on our premium server and shipping to the public servers shortly.

  • Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 now available for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    27 Oct 2009 | 9:06 pm
    Mozilla Firefox has been updated to 3.5.4 which provides many stability updates. The 11 critical Firefox 3.5 vulnerabilities were located in a variety of components, including Web worker calls, the GIF color map parser, the string-to-number converter, a trio of third-party media libraries, and both the JavaScript and browser engines.  Fireofox 3.5.4 is currently available on our premium server and shipping to the public servers shortly.
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  • BSDTalk #179 - OpenBSD Developer Jacek Masiulaniec

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:59 am
    Will Backman of BSDTalk fame has released yet another in his series of much appreciated BSD interviews. This time a developer who recently joined OpenBSD to hack on OpenSMTPD is the interviewee. The chat is about OpenSMTPd (naturally) and also about the data deduplication software Epitome File Info:14Min, 7MB: mp3 or ogg

  • Reliability Fix: kernel NULL pointer dereference in getsockopt()

    29 Oct 2009 | 12:13 am
    A bug has been found in the IPsec parts of ip_output.c that can lead to NULL pointer dereference in getsockopt(). On kernels from before 4.4, this could lead to a local privilege escalation on certain architectures. The currently supported releases, however, protect against this by no longer allowing userland to map the NULL page in the kernel, reducing the attack to a local Denial of Service by panicking the kernel. Patches are available for OpenBSD 4.6 (patch, errata), OpenBSD 4.5 (patch, errata) and OpenBSD 4.4 (patch, errata). Of course, the patches are already available in -current, the…

  • Tunnelling out of corporate networks (Part 2)

    24 Oct 2009 | 6:07 pm
    Mark Uemura (mtu@) writes in:

  • The -stable Ports Tree for 4.6

    22 Oct 2009 | 8:04 am
    William Yodlowsky (william@) announced on the announce@ mailing list that the OpenBSD project will shortly be providing -stable updates for the 4.6 ports tree: From: William Yodlowsky To: announce@openbsd.org Subject: 4.6-stable ports Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:05:37 -0400 We are happy to announce that 4.6-stable ports will soon be receiving security updates and fixes. Please note that this also marks the end of updates to 4.5-stable ports, as we are supporting the presently-available release only. Thanks, William, for your work on -stable ports!
 
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  • Example: Mount a Debian guest on the host using FUSE and libguestfs

    cj2003
    4 Nov 2009 | 11:16 pm
    Example — mount my Debian guest on my host Fedora server, using FUSE support which we added to libguestfs today… More here

  • Something I’ve done with Debian

    cj2003
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:07 pm
    For the newest song, I used Debian by itself, since I’ve now gotten LMMS working great on Debian. I just wanted to copy and paste the post to show how great Debian really is, and that I’ve done something using NOTHING but Free / Open software Hey all, I sent a similar message to a FreeBSD mailing list since I did use FreeBSD as well as Linux for all of this music, but the newest song, I used Debian by itself, since I’ve now gotten LMMS working great on Debian. I just wanted to copy and paste the post to show how great Debian really is, and that I’ve done something…

  • Bits from the ftp-team

    cj2003
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:23 am
    Just a quick update on goings on in ftpmaster after the meeting last week. We’ll be sending out a full report as soon as we’ve finished writing it, but we wanted to make people aware of a few things. First of all, the following parts of the archive are temporarily non-functional: * NEW processing (sometime this week) * {o-,}p-u-new to {o-,}p-u migration (sometime this week) These two just need some converting to handle the new way of processing packages. Members of the ftpteam are already working on patches to the code and it should be done sometime this week. * queue cleaning *…

  • Enabling Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) in Debian Linux kernel

    cj2003
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:14 am
    Some of you must have heard about a new feature that got introduced since 2.6.29 Linux kernel known as Kernel Mode Setting (KMS).I will not go into the details about the benefits of KMS in this post but rather I will show you how to enable KMS on your Debian system More here KMS is a feature now in Linux kernel which will do the work of setting your screen resolution, depth, colors, etc. Earlier this was done by the XOrg graphics drivers. For example, before the kernel version 2.6.28, when you use to change your screen resolution from your GNOME/KDE, the XOrg driver use to do it. Now the same…

  • DebConf 10 New York dates confirmed

    cj2003
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:11 am
    The tenth annual DebConf event will be held in Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus and include coding parties, workshops and various discussions. Featured speakers for the event, however, have yet to be confirmed More here
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  • SimpleBurn (ver. 1.2.3)

    6 Nov 2009 | 9:38 am
    SimpleBurn is a basic application for burning CDs and DVDs. About this version DVD detection bugfix and rewritable DVD writing improvement (it is no more needed to blank it before burning)

  • PeaZip (ver. 2.8.beta)

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:24 am
    PeaZip is a cross platform, desktop neutral archiver tool for many compressed or not formats. About this version More user-friendly archive/file browser: easier file selection, custom icons for most commons file types, remember sorting column and sorting order etc... In extraction interface it is possible to set a default extraction path; extract to new folder is now remembered as option of Extract action rather than being a separate action. Extract button, within an archive, extracts selected object; if nothing is selected extracts all displayed objects (like WinRar/7-Zip). In archiving…

  • gastify (ver. 1.3.0)

    6 Nov 2009 | 1:41 am
    a call-notification for gtk About this version At first a thanks to Alessandro Zummo for providing a huge patch which added the new features in this release. Changes: * ability to initiate a recall or a call per script * telephonenumber lookup * nicer layout * italian translation

  • Figaro and #39;s Password Man (ver. 0.76)

    6 Nov 2009 | 1:06 am
    Figaro's Password Manager 2 is a program that allows you to securely store the passwords using GTK2 interface. About this version Now FPM2 can be minimized in tray on startup without master password input. Added more translation and fixed minor bugs.

  • Notecase Pro (ver. 2.8.8)

    5 Nov 2009 | 12:48 pm
    NoteCase Pro is a hierarchical text notes organizer (outliner). About this version Some highlights: - many important bug fixes - support for Nokia Maemo 5 OS (Nokia N900) - node icon is now clickable, double click allows quick change of icon - implemented node attachment view (with context menu and accepting dropped files) - saving to .ncd/.nce file now has a proper progress (instead of old "pulsing" progress) - new "Copy Node Only" action enables user to copy the selected note to clipboard without its children - many new Lua functions with sample scripts implementing new features: sample Lua…
 
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  • Surf Online Securely and Anonymously using IP Privacy [Review]

    Mezanul
    6 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    Everybody who goes online is always concerned about their privacy. After all, nobody wants to show their identity online, as you never know who may be keeping track of your online activities and may use it against you. But if you are reading this you don’t need to worry anymore as today we have tested an application which helps protect your online privacy and keep your identity secure. Overview The application that will do this task is IP Privacy by Privacy Pro. It is a privacy protection app that keeps your identity secure by hiding your real IP address behind highly anonymous fast…

  • How To Access & Manage Windows Live SkyDrive Files from Desktop

    Mezanul
    5 Nov 2009 | 1:45 pm
    Windows Live SkyDrive (formerly known as Windows Live Folders) is a part of Microsoft’s Windows Live range of online services. It is a free online storage service from Microsoft that offers 25 GB of online storage space, with each file limited to 50 MB, for its users to upload their favorite photos, files, media, etc. It uses Windows Live ID to control access to the user’s files, allowing them to keep the files private, share with contacts, or make the files public. Publicly shared files do not need a Windows Live ID to access. So as long as you have a Hotmail or MSN email account, you…

  • How To Create Ubuntu 9.10 Live Bootable USB Flash Drive

    Mezanul
    4 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am
    Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution available for the Desktop or Netbooks. Recently, Canonical released Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), on 29 October 2009. This release is Canonical’s eleventh release of the distribution and it will be supported by them until April 2011. The desktop version of Ubuntu 9.10 includes, among other programs, GIMP 2.6, GNOME 2.28, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Open Office.org 3.1, Linux 2.6.31, X.Org 7.5 and Empathy Instant Messenger. The default file system is of Ubuntu 9.10 is ext4. Using the tutorial in this article, you’ll be able to create Ubuntu 9.10…

  • Get a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 for Free on November 11

    Mezanul
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:44 pm
    a-squared Anti-Malware gives a comprehensive PC protection against trojans, viruses, spyware, adware, worms, bots, keyloggers, rootkits and dialers with 2 cleaning scanners (anti-virus + anti-spyware) in 1 and 2 guards (signature scan + behavior analysis) against new infections. Unlike other malware protection products, a-squared Anti-Malware was designed to run parallel with other antivirus and firewall software without troubles. In case you find a conflict with another software, the support team will help to solve the problem quickly. a-squared Anti-Malware runs on Windows XP, Vista, 7 as…

  • How To Install & Use Windows XP Mode in Windows 7

    Mezanul
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:40 am
    Windows XP Mode is freely available for Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise users. It allows you to run legacy applications inside a Windows XP virtual machine running in the background. Windows XP Mode was primarily designed to help businesses move from Windows XP to Windows 7. Almost all programs that are compatible with Windows Vista and a majority of Windows XP programs, run well in Windows 7. But, if a program doesn’t run properly even after trying the Program Compatibility troubleshooter, you can run the program in Windows XP Mode. Windows XP Mode runs in a…
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