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  • Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:03 am
    Computerworld: "Ksplice Inc. today officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers"

  • BM Ups Its Processor Power to 7

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:33 am
    Hardware Central: "During an event late last month celebrating the completion of Oracle's merger with Sun, the company's outspoken chief executive took repeated shots at IBM (NYSE: IBM), saying that Big Blue's systems couldn't scale."

  • KDE.org Relaunched for Software Compilation 4.4

    9 Feb 2010 | 9:03 am
    KDE.news: "The KDE web team is pleased to announce a major redesign of the KDE.org frontpage and buzz.kde.org, just in time for the pending release of our updated Workspace, Application and Development Platform compilation. The redesign is the result of many hours of work by artists, coders, writers and testers."

  • The application is the new the operating system

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:33 am
    The Open Road: "If you're a Google Nexus One user, you experienced a bit of magic last week. In one click of an over-the-air update, your Nexus One became an iPhone--offering the ability to pinch and expand the screen to zoom in or out."

  • Linux can compete with the iPad on price, but where's the magic?

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:03 am
    Jim Zemlin's blog: "His main message about the iPad was “a magical device at a breakthrough price.” He repeated this many times throughout the pitch and twice at the end. This phrase demands an honest response: how will Linux-based devices compete with the iPad?"
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  • Android versus Linux?

    Dj Walker-Morgan
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:52 am
    Is Android at odds with Linux after the removal of Android device drivers from the Linux source code tree or is this business as usual for the Linux community and nothing new? The H looks at the issues.

  • Open-Source ATI R600/700 Mesa 3D Performance

    Michael Larabel
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:22 am
    As we alluded to last week, we have been in the process of benchmarking many Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics cards using the open-source ATI Linux graphics stack with the Mesa R600/700 DRI driver. We have now carried out our first batch of R600/700 3D tests using this constantly evolving open-source driver to provide OpenGL acceleration and here are the results.

  • Ubuntu and SUSE: Targeting Red Hat's ISV Base?

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:25 am
    Two recent moves by Canonical and Novell, respectively, show promise as Ubuntu and SUSE Linux seek to compete more aggressively against Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here are the details.

  • How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Ubuntu 9.10

    Falko Timme
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:28 am
    This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave). MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that both databases are in sync. This is not a backup policy because an accidentally issued DELETE command will also be carried out on the slave; but…

  • The KDE 4.3 System Settings - Part 3 - Computer Administratio

    Steve Lake
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:31 am
    Welcome to part 3 of our overview of the KDE 4.3 System Settings panel, the replacement for the old control panel of KDE 3.5. Today we're going to look at the Computer Administration master section. This will be a key area for those wanting to administer their own section. So sit back, pay attention, and enjoy.
 
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  • Annual Free Software Foundation Membership Drive Appeal

    I wrote this for the FSF's annual membership drive where it was originally published. I am reposting it here. At its core, I think of free software as about the ability of computer users to take control of their technology. Insofar as our software defines our experience of the world and each other, software freedom is an important part of what allows us to determine the way we live, work, and communicate. Free software is not really about software in this fundamental sense; it's about bringing freedom to users through software. In free software's incredible success over the last two decades,…

  • What's in a name?

    Over the summer, there was a bit of a tussle at the highest level of Ubuntu governance over whether or not Canonical Ltd., the company that funds the majority of work done directly in Ubuntu, should name its file syncing and backup service Ubuntu One. Canonical's service involved a freely licensed client included in the Ubuntu distribution but, as a network service running on Canonical servers, it was not clearly a part of Ubuntu (the GNU/Linux distribution) or Ubuntu (the community) in the way the term was usually used within the community. Although the network service itself was not…

  • Center For Future Irony

    My sister just got a lower back tattoo that says "No Regrets." She does not seem to appreciate the potential for irony. That's too bad. In my book, that potential is the best reason to get such a tattoo.

  • Center for Future Names of Media Lab Centers

    A few years ago, the MIT Media Lab, working with the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, created the Center for Future Civic Media. It's a great project and one I've been involved in since the beginning. Not too long after, the lab announced the Center for Future Banking through a partnership with Bank of America. One couldn't help but notice the similarity between the names. The meme became further entrenched when, not too long after, the lab announced the Center for Future Storytelling in collaboration with Plymouth Rock Studios. But perhaps the very first in the pattern is the the…

  • Upcoming Travel

    As is becoming my custom, I'm planning to spend much of December and January on the road. This time I'll be in Seattle, Japan and Wellington, New Zealand. Here's the rough schedule: December 18-28: Seattle December 28-January 2: Tokyo January 2-14: Traveling in Japan January 15-17: Boston to compete in the MIT Mystery Hunt January 19-24: Wellington, New Zealand to give a talk at LCA Mika will also be around for everything but the NZ leg and SJ seems likely to make an appearance in Japan during the first week of January. Feel free to get in contact if you'd like to meet up in any of the places…
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  • LinuxCon opens for registration, paper submission

    3 Feb 2010 | 12:45 pm
    The Linux Foundation announced a call for papers and open registration for its second annual LinuxCon conference, scheduled for August 10-12 in Boston. The conference will feature several mini-summits prior to the show on topics including security and KVM, says the nonprofit Linux advocacy organization.

  • Open source nettop designed from survey requests

    27 Jan 2010 | 12:30 am
    The Open-PC project, which developed an open source Linux PC based on community survey requests, says its KDE-flavored nettop will ship next month. The Open-PC is equipped with a 1.6GHz dual-core Atom N330 with 3GB RAM, but the nettop's high $500 price has stirred some controversy.

  • Free training webinars feature Linux luminaries

    26 Jan 2010 | 12:59 am
    The Linux Foundation announced a free webinar series on topics ranging from Linux administration to performance tuning. The Linux Training Webinar Series will launch with a webinar on Linux contributions on Mar. 1 by Jon Corbet, while future sessions feature leading Linux kernel maintainers and developers.

  • Second Lucid Lynx alpha said to offer 15-second start-ups

    22 Jan 2010 | 2:38 pm
    The second alpha of Ubuntu 10.06 boasts 15-second boot-time, says an industry report. Meanwhile, the Ubuntu project posted a controversial survey about which proprietary apps might be considered for inclusion with the distro, and Canonical announced a support plan for IBM's Ubuntu/Lotus "Smart Work" cloud distribution.

  • Ubuntu books span Koala and Lynx distros

    22 Jan 2010 | 2:34 pm
    Sams Publishing has published a 2010 version of its book Ubuntu Unleashed for Karmic Koala and Lucid Lynx releases. The publisher also launched an Ubuntu Linux Starter Kit combination book and boxed distribution, and has updated A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming.
 
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  • Canonical serious about business, Asay hired as COO

    Leah Rosin
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:24 am
    If people thought Canonical was nothing more than that fun company with the cute and easy-to-use desktop version of Linux that was the pet project of its benevolent dictator, Mark Shuttleworth, then today they heard that needle sliding on a record sound. Stop. In December, Canonical announced that Shuttleworth was stepping down from his role as CEO and COO Jane Silber was moving up, but no hint was given as to who would be filling her shoes. Today, the company sent out a press release announcing that the role would be filled by long-time open source business strategist, Matt Asay. Some of us…

  • Linux on mobile: Does Windows really have a chance?

    Leah Rosin
    21 Jan 2010 | 4:47 pm
    Jim Zemlin, President of the Linux Foundation, came out swinging in a blog post about Microsoft’s Robbie Bach’s prediction that Linux on mobile will lose. Bach’s premise is that the multiple variants of Linux on mobile devices is bad for customers because of the lack of consistency. But Zemlin argues that the ecosystem of support around Linux on mobile is key to its success. Linux as the underlying platform of such mobile offerings as Android, Moblin and many more is growing exponentially, and precisely because it affords this choice. Palm, Motorola and others have jumped…

  • Linux Foundation launches Jobs Board

    Leah Rosin
    14 Jan 2010 | 8:48 am
    The Linux Foundation and the JobThread Network have found that demand for Linux-related jobs has grown 80% since 2005. To help connect employers with skilled workers, the Linux Foundation has launched the Linux Jobs Board on Linux.com. “Linux’ increasing use across industries is building high demand for Linux jobs despite national unemployment stats,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation. “By providing a Jobs Board feature on the popular community site, we can bring together employers, recruiters and job seekers to lay the intellectual foundation…

  • Linux inside at CES 2010

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    12 Jan 2010 | 9:31 am
    This blog post was contributed by Paul Ferrill. Walking the floors at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) with a surface look at the products won’t tell the true story of the impact of Linux. While there might be a few occasional mentions of Linux, for the most part the real story is what’s behind those e-Book readers, MP3 players and pretty much anything with the word “smart” in the name. Embedded Linux has staked its claim as the go-to choice for a wide array of electronic devices. e-Book readers, Wi-Fi HDTV, and smart phones rely on Linux This year’s CES saw an explosion of e-Book…

  • Google launches Chrome for Linux (beta), and further reaches into your privacy

    Leah Rosin
    8 Dec 2009 | 11:17 am
    Sometimes we like to discuss some of our “pet issues” in these blogs. One of my own is Google’s steady growth and run at world domination. On December 8, 2009, Google announced that its Chrome browser for Linux has gone beta. Despite criticism about Google’s true “open source” nature, the company claims that more than 50 open source developers have contributed to Chromium. In addition to the Linux and Mac beta versions, Google announced that over 300 extensions had been made available for the Windows and Linux versions of Chrome. This follows on the heels of last week’s…
 
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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 on the Misa Digital Guitar

    Joshua Saddler
    Gentoo has turned up in lots of interesting places before, but Michael from Misa Digital has put Gentoo to work in something entirely different: a unique instrument he invented, a MIDI guitar that uses a touchpad and digital keys instead of strings! Behold the Misa Digital Guitar: The Misa runs Gentoo Linux on an AMD Geode processor, using the Linux kernel version 2.6.31. It sports MIDI and Ethernet ports for connectivity. I had the chance to ask Michael some questions about the guitar and his preferred choice of operating system: Why Gentoo? Since the guitar is an embedded system, I needed a…

  • German Gentoo Book

    David Abbott
    A parting gift for the German Conspiracy, Gunnar Wrobel recently acquired the rights for his own book about Gentoo, and it has now been published under a free license and is available for download. The latex source for the book is also included. Gunnar's intentions in publishing the latex source was to encourage translations... it would be neat if that really happens. Please take the time to thank Gunnar for all the excellent work he has done for Gentoo. Stephanie J. Lockwood-Childs contributed to the draft for this announcement.

  • 26th Chaos Communication Congress

    David Abbott
    Yes, we will be there! Compiling all the way ... , Gentoo will be present at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3), from December 27th to 30th in Berlin, Germany. The annual conference of the Chaos Computer Club takes place at the Berliner Congress Center (bcc) in Berlin, Germany. Enjoy our ebuild hacking sessions, bug filing workshops, get some merchandise and use our local rsync/http mirror. You will find the Gentoo table on the upper floor. Hope to see you there! Robert Buchholz contributed to the draft for this announcement.

  • Yes-No Vote on behalf of the Foundation

    David Abbott
    The Gentoo Foundation Inc. has been approached by a few large Gentoo users about purchasing advertising on the gentoo.org side bar. They are not in the IT industry so cannot support us in the traditional way, by donating their own product. The trustees anticipate that more approaches of this nature will be received and view it as a sign of Gentoo maturing. Recognising that this would be a break with tradition, by allowing even major users to contribute to Gentoo in this way the trustees determined to put the question to a vote of Foundation members. The recording date for the vote will be…

  • 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…
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  • Nagios XI Review (Free Nagios core Vs Nagios XI)

    Ramesh Natarajan
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:02 pm
    Nagios Price: Nagios Core is free and open source. Nagios XI is $1,295 (to monitor unlimited number of hosts). This is perpetual license — Once you’ve purchased the software, use it as long as you want without any additional license fees. Nagios Support: The free Nagios Core is very easy to install, configure and maintain. If you have in-house [...] Read More: Nagios XI Review (Free Nagios core Vs Nagios XI)Copyright © The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support us when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Get your copy of Vim 101 Hacks eBook.Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password:…

  • How To Change Wallpaper in Fluxbox Window Manager

    Leonardo Sanchez
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:01 pm
    Question: How do I change the desktop background wallpaper in fluxbox window manager? Answer: We discussed fluxbox earlier in an introduction to the fluxbox window manager and how to shutdown the system from fluxbox window manager. In this article we’ll see how to change the wallpaper in fluxbox by using a bash script or by editing the [...] Read More: How To Change Wallpaper in Fluxbox Window ManagerCopyright © The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support us when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Get your copy of Vim 101 Hacks eBook.Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password: linux-is-wonderful

  • 7 Powerful Awk Operators Examples (Unary, Binary, Arithmetic, String, Assignment, Conditional, Reg-Ex Awk Operators)

    Sasikala
    2 Feb 2010 | 10:02 pm
    This article is part of the on-going Awk Tutorial Examples series. In our earlier awk articles, we discussed about awk print, awk user-defined variables, and awk built-in variables. Like any other programming language Awk also has lot of operators for number and string operations. In this article let us discuss about all the key awk operators. There [...] Read More: 7 Powerful Awk Operators Examples (Unary, Binary, Arithmetic, String, Assignment, Conditional, Reg-Ex Awk Operators)Copyright © The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support us when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Get your copy…

  • Unix Less Command: 10 Tips for Effective Navigation

    Ramesh Natarajan
    31 Jan 2010 | 10:03 pm
    I personally prefer to use less command to view files (instead of opening the file to view in an editor). Less is similar to more command, but less allows both forward and backward movements. Moreover, less don’t require to load the whole file before viewing. Try opening a large log file in Vim editor and [...] Read More: Unix Less Command: 10 Tips for Effective NavigationCopyright © The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support us when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Get your copy of Vim 101 Hacks eBook.Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password: linux-is-wonderful

  • 2 Books Giveaway Winners: Linux Firewall and Learning jQuery 1.3

    Ramesh Natarajan
    28 Jan 2010 | 11:08 pm
    I’m happy to announce winners of the 2 books giveaway contest. Following are randomly selected winners, who will receive the corresponding PDF version of the book. Linux Firewall Book Winner: Frank Q (comment #93) Learning jQuery 1.3 Book Winner: Sigurdur Jonsson (comment #133) Since there were 154 awesome comments, I generated two random numbers between 1 and 154 using [...] Read More: 2 Books Giveaway Winners: Linux Firewall and Learning jQuery 1.3Copyright © The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support us when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Get your copy of Vim 101 Hacks…
 
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  • Cabanyal

    31 Jan 2010 | 1:52 pm
    Today, I was glad to attend the biggest demonstration ever in favour of the Cabanyal neighbourhood of València, a traditional district populated by the sea people of the city. After decades of oblivion, the Valencian right-wing government is trying to execute an old plan to “open Valencia to the sea”, which means demolishing around 450 traditional houses, many of them under protection for their cultural and architectural value, to extend a big avenue until the beach. Patrimonial loss aside, neighbours would be forced to other areas in the city (sadly, this has been happening for a decade…

  • Ten years as a Debian Maintainer

    24 Nov 2009 | 1:47 pm
    On the 24th of November of 1999, the Debian ftpmasters processed the NEW package wmbiff, which got installed in the potato distribution. This sponsored upload by Fernando Sánchez was the first of my packages to hit the official Debian archive, thus officially making me a Debian maintainer. So, in short, today is my tenth anniversary as a Debian contributor! I actually started a few days before, and soon after that upload, many other ITPs and uploads followed. I will always be thankful to fer for his patience with my upload sponsoring until I became a Debian developer with full rights and was…

  • 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…
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  • The Quest for Python 3

    J5
    3 Feb 2010 | 3:24 pm
    Well, I’ve gone and done it. Thanks to David Malcolm’s excellent 2to3c tool and some hand wrangling with PyUnicode objects I was able to get D-Bus Python compiling and working on Python 3. Grab the patch and start testing it out. I’ve also tested this under Python 2.6 but it would be nice to see if it also works under Python versions < 2.6 since 2.6 has a couple of compatibility layers built in. [read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]

  • kamaloka-js 0.9.0 released

    J5
    28 Jan 2010 | 1:04 pm
    I am proud to announce the second release of the kamaloka-js AMQP bindings. This release brings with it a high level API modeled after the new Sender/Receiver and addressing API’s being developed in the Qpid project. It is intended to bridge the gap between the 0.10 protocol and the upcoming 1.0 protocol. I have also simplified the code base and improved the code generator. Because we are getting so close to implementing the complete 0.10 protocol spec, we have bumped the version to the 0.9.x series to indicate a redefined focus on stabilizing the current code base. You will notice…

  • Flattening the model

    J5
    27 Jan 2010 | 1:14 pm
    In my quest for cleaner code in Kamaloka-js I have been working on simplifying the dispatch model.  AMQP has some interesting features built into it to facilitate real-time functionality along with message prioritization.  To accomplish this messages can be sent on different queues and tracks, and also be broken up into segments which can be further broken up into frames. Frames Frames are the basic building blocks of the AMQP data stream.  They contain complete headers that describe queue, track and segment that is currently being constructed.  The payload of a frame (the segment being…

  • Getting kamaloka-js ready for a new release

    J5
    22 Jan 2010 | 2:10 pm
    Those who are following AMQP know that work on version 1.0 of the protocol spec is happening right now. Previous versions of the API were heavily dependent on the protocol itself but with 1.0 around the corner a new messaging API has come along to help bridge the gap between 0.10 and 1.0 for the most common use cases. In kamaloka-js, the JavaScript AMQP bindings, I have been working on implementing this API along with cleaning up the codebase significantly. Today I put the final touches on multi-part frame decoding as well as the dispatching code and hope to have a brand new release next…

  • It’s all about the API

    J5
    13 Jan 2010 | 7:28 am
    If there is one thing I learned when working on D-Bus is that if you build a decent API, people will use it. Right now I am working on Kamaloka-js – JavaScript bindings for building JavaScript native AMQP clients. As AMQP starts moving towards 1.0 a new high level API, based loosely on JMS, is emerging to bridge the gap between 0.10 and 1.0. Previously with AMQP you pretty much worked with patterns on the protocol level which meant when the new specification came out you would pretty much have to rewrite to the new API. The new messaging based API seeks to decouple the protocol from the…
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  • International Women’s Day Comp: Get Your Entries In!

    jono
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:05 am
    Look at this lovely bag of swag: Image courtesy of Melissa Draper. Want to own all this goodness, including Ubuntu Backpacks, women’s t-shirts, key chains, 1 year digital subscription to Linux Pro Magazine or a 1 year print subscription Ubuntu User, and a copy of the The Art of Community by some beardy community guy? On January 10, 2010 the Ubuntu Women Project announced an International Women’s Day Competition; an awesome effort to gather wonderful stories of how women have discovered Ubuntu. From the announcement: Ubuntu-Women has tried in the past to find some way to celebrate…

  • Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week: Call For Participation!

    jono
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:53 pm
    In the continued interests of helping to make Ubuntu rock as a platform for scratching itches and making awesome apps, I am putting together a new online learning event: Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week, happening online between 1st – 6th March 2010. The week will be just like our previous online learning events such as Ubuntu Developer Week and Ubuntu Open Week, but instead providing a week jam packed with awesome sessions about writing applications that scratch your itch, and predominantly focusing on Python tools and frameworks, Bazaar, Launchpad and infrastructure. The goal for…

  • Master Of The Situation

    jono
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:42 pm
    I had a crack at creating some electronic music. I know, not metal. I figured I would share this, and I have never done this before, so be gentle. Check out Master Of The Situation in MP3 and Ogg format. Created in Cubase with Halion One, a KeyRig and Drumkit From Hell.

  • I Support Same Sex Marriage

    jono
    6 Feb 2010 | 12:17 pm
    I love being married, it has opened up an incredible sense of commitment and security in my life and my wife’s life. Love is love, and I would never want to prevent anyone from enjoying what I am afforded the privilage of enjoying. This includes gay people. As such, I have joined this Facebook group to get 1,000,000 who support same sex marriage. I usually hate these kinds of groups, but I think it could be interesting to visualize the support behind this issue. Worthy, methinks.

  • Project Awesome Opportunity

    jono
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:46 pm
    In the continued interests of making Ubuntu a rocking platform for opportunistic developers, today we formulated the plan for Project Awesome Opportunity. The goal is simple: build an opportunistic development workflow into Ubuntu. You will install one package from Universe and your Ubuntu will be hot-rodded for opportunistic application development, making development more fun and more accessible for a glorious itch scratching smackdown. At the heart of the project is Ground Control by Martin Owens and Quickly by Rick Spencer and Didier Roche. I have been thinking about the challenges of how…
 
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  • Design contest launched for tiny Linux net server

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:36 am
    Lantronix announced a design contest based on its recently introduced XPort Pro, touted as the & world's smallest Linux networking server.& Lantronix will award prizes of $6,000 and $3,000 to the two top entries for Best Linux Design, plus a separate $3,000 prize for the Best Student Linux Design, says the company....

  • Smartphone SoC brings high-speed uplink to low-end phones

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:46 am
    Broadcom announced an ARM11-based SoC (system-on-chip) intended to provide low- and mid-range smartphones with HSUPA (high-speed uplink packet access networking). Providing data uploads at up to 5.8Mbps, the BCM21553 runs Android or Windows Mobile, includes a & high performance 3D graphics core,& and supports cameras up to eight megapixels, the company says....

  • Atom-powered military PC works to 161 deg. F

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:29 am
    Aitech Defense Systems announced a rugged PC aimed at defense and industrial applications. The fanless NightHawk RCU (rugged control unit) employs an Intel Atom processor, sealed military connectors, SSD (solid-state disk) storage, and a built-in surge protector, according to the company....

  • Wind River Hypervisor rev'd for new Intel chips

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:11 am
    Wind River released a new version of its Linux-compatible embedded virtualization software for single and multi-core processors. Wind River Hypervisor 1.1 adds support for Intel Nehalem and Core i5/i7 processors, enables new inter-virtual machine communications, and debuts virtual board debugging via the newly revised Wind River On-Chip Debugging, says the company....

  • Google's phone struggles but wins convert in Linus Torvalds

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:29 pm
    Google's Nexus One Android phone is selling at a much slower rate than the Droid, according to a research firm -- but happy customers include Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who endorsed the phone. Last week, meanwhile, the Torvalds-directed Kernel.org announced that Android code has been deleted from the Linux kernel....
 
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  • Welcome to the New LinuxJournal.com

    Webmistress
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:49 am
    You may have noticed something different about LinuxJournal.com today. I am very pleased to share our newly redesigned site with you, and I'd like to tell you a little bit about some of the new features. I hope you'll take the time to register, if you have not already, so that you may take advantage of all of the new features we have added and will continue to add. more>>

  • Symbian Opens Up

    Justin Ryan
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:08 am
    When Nokia bought Symbian in 2008, nobody had any reason to believe their thoughts were anywhere near Open Source — particularly given that just weeks prior, its Open Source chief declared that when it came to FOSS, the company wasn't "ready to play by the rules." Nevertheless, Open Source was exactly what Nokia had in mind for Symbian, and as of today, the process is complete. more>>

  • The Small Picture: More OpenOffice.org Extensions

    Bruce Byfield
    4 Feb 2010 | 8:10 am
    Every few weeks, I like to browse the OpenOffice.org Extensions site to see what is available, and what people are using. New extensions that are both useful and well-designed seem to be getting few and far between. However, if you search patiently, you can still find extensions worth trying. more>>

  • Pass the Bug, Collect $500

    Justin Ryan
    2 Feb 2010 | 6:22 pm
    Bugs are a reality of software development, and a pain for both coders and users. Security bugs are a particularly nasty variety, and in an effort to kill as many as possible, Google is now coughing up cash for catching Chrome and Chromium glitches. more>>

  • Start and Control konsole with DBUS

    Mitch Frazier
    2 Feb 2010 | 10:41 am
    Some time back I wrote about creating a number of konsoles automatically using dcop. Although we were at the time well into the KDE4 era I had not yet upgraded since there were still things that weren't quite working with KDE4, most of these have now been fixed so I've upgraded some of my systems to KDE4, which means it's time to update the original code to now use dbus. more>>
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  • Amateur Radio Articles and Newsletter

    David Lane
    31 Jan 2010 | 10:25 am
    For those that have been waiting patiently for the Amateur Radio articles from the January 2010 edition to be available on line, your wait is over! You will find a permanent link to them in the Linux Journal Virtual Ham Shack, but for your convenience, I will put them here too: more>>

  • Wither the web (site)

    David Lane
    26 Jan 2010 | 4:40 am
    Are web sites today so complicated because they have to be or because they can be? I am sure if you are a web site designer, you believe the former, but as an end user and part time designer, I am really beginning to wonder. more>>

  • Linux.conf.au - Day Four

    Jes Fraser
    21 Jan 2010 | 3:07 pm
    Day four of the conference opened with a keynote entitiled "Hackers at the End of the World" by Glyn Moody. Glyn explored the history of sharing in science and art as inspired by the open source movement, and contrasted this with the anti-sharing 'my gain is your loss' culture of the global financial community. more>>

  • Linux.conf.au - Day Three

    Jes Fraser
    20 Jan 2010 | 1:14 pm
    The glorious weather that had punctuated the first two days of the conference held, heralding in the third day in a blaze of sunshine. The conference proper was introduced by a keynote by Benjamin Mako Hill on Antifeatures: Why your software works against you and why software freedom offers hope of a better future. more>>

  • Linux.conf.au - Day Two

    Jes Fraser
    19 Jan 2010 | 12:16 pm
    The second day of the conference dawned just as bright and sunny as the first. The opening keynote was delivered by Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. more>>
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  • Email

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:13 am
    We've been working on an "OSNews version 5" upgrade for several months, and with several months to go, we decided to make some incremental changes to OSNews on the existing codebase.

  • How To Reverse Engineer A Motherboard BIOS @ Phoronix

    9 Feb 2010 | 3:36 am
    Since being let go by Novell last year where he worked on the RadeonHD Linux graphics driver and X.Org support within SuSE Linux, Luc Verhaegen has continued work on his VIA Unichrome DDX driver as well as other X.Org code and he has also become involved with the CoreBoot project that aims to create a free software BIOS for most chipsets and ...

  • Inside CloudLinux's New Linux-Based Cloud OS

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:03 pm
    For the past 13-years, Igor Seletskiy has developed a series of innovative new products for the hosting industry, including the control panel H-Sphere, container-based virtualization product FreeVPS, single server control panel CP+, Web-based file manager WebShell, and website building tool SiteStudio.

  • IBM launches eight-core Power7 processor, servers

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm
    Agam Shah 09 February, 2010 07:43 IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time.

  • linux c++Programming

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:43 am
    Jeff gives us a head-start for learning C++ on our own. Object-Oriented programming is a hot topic in the computer industry these days, and most experts agree that C++ is the predominant object-oriented programming language.
 
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  • RHSA-2010:0094-1: Critical: HelixPlayer Security Update

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated HelixPlayer package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. CVE-2009-4242, CVE-2009-4245, CVE-2009-4247, CVE-2009-4...

  • RHBA-2010:0093-1: gnbd-kernel bug fix Update

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated gnbd-kernel packages that fix module-loading issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8, kernel release 2.6.9-89.0.20.EL.

  • RHBA-2010:0089-1: cman-kernel bug fix Update

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated cman-kernel packages that fix module-loading issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8, kernel release 2.6.9-89.0.20.EL.

  • RHBA-2010:0092-1: GFS-kernel bug fix Update

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated GFS-kernel packages that fix module-loading issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8, kernel release 2.6.9-89.0.20.EL.

  • RHBA-2010:0081-1: dlm-kernel bug-fix Update

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated dlm-kernel packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8, kernel release 2.6.9-89.0.16.EL.
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  • Mozilla Firefox to Drop Support of Mac OS X 10.4

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Open source browser says support for outdated operating system has been a hindrance, but promises users of older Mac versions will have time before they need to worry about an upgrade.

  • Stable Kernel 2.6.32.8

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:06 pm
    Stable kernel 2.6.32.8 has been released. It is fairly large set of patches, with changes all over the tree, along with at least one security fix. Users of 2.6.32 are, as usual, very strongly encouraged to upgrade.

  • Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 3.1 Alpha 1

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    The Mozilla developers have released the first alpha for version 3.1 of their popular open source Thunderbird email and news client, code named "Lanikai"...

  • New UI, Features Highlight McAfee 2010 Suites

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Security suite vendor McAfee debuts their 2010 product line today, introducing an overhauled interface and new features in a bid to remain competitive.

  • Restructured Ruby-on-Rails Hits Beta

    6 Feb 2010 | 3:36 pm
    Added Merb The beta of the third, and restructured, edition of Ruby on Rails has been delivered.…...
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  • Phone-Hater Linus Torvalds Blesses Nexus One

    Katherine Noyes
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    Google's Nexus One phone is a winner, according to Linus Torvalds, founder of the operating system it's based on. "I generally hate phones," explained Torvalds, who is known as "the father of Linux," in a blog post on Saturday. "At the same time I love the concept of having a phone that runs Linux, and I've had a number of them over the years," he wrote. Torvalds has rarely used the phones he has had, including Google's original G1, he said. However, he's been a happy camper since he bought the Nexus One last week.

  • Open Symbian: New World Order or Big Yawn?

    Katherine Noyes
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    It's not every day that a major operating system gets opened up, never mind one that leads the global market in its category. So, when the news came out last week that that's just what the Symbian Foundation had done -- and four months ahead of schedule, no less! -- it was hard not to get excited. Android is no longer the only big kid on the open source mobile block, it seems, and the scales are now tipped considerably more in FOSS' direction.

  • Eyeing Android, Symbian Opens Up

    Katherine Noyes
    5 Feb 2010 | 9:25 am
    When the Symbian Foundation announced the opening up of its namesake smartphone platform on Thursday, it caused a major shift not just in the mobile landscape but also in the FOSS world. Announced by Nokia back in 2008, the transition of the leading platform from proprietary code to open source was completed four months ahead of schedule and is the largest in software history, the foundation said. "The development community is now empowered to shape the future of the mobile industry," said Lee Williams, the Symbian Foundation's executive director.

  • TweetCaster for Android Gets Almost Everything Right

    Tim Conneally
    5 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    Those who say there are no decent Twitter apps for Android simply haven't found the right one. When the Android Market first opened, you could sign in, watch the handful of new apps being uploaded every day, and generally know everything that was available on the platform. There really were only a couple of Twitter clients. Now that the Market has been revised -- and there are more than 25,000 apps by the last unofficial count from Androlib -- there are plenty of Android Twitter clients to choose from.

  • Apple and Oracle: Will the Real Tech Titans Please Stand Up?

    Dana Gardner
    5 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    I was a bit distracted from the Apple iPad news due to the marathon Oracle conference last week on its shiny new Sun Microsystems acquisition. However, the more I thought about it, the more these two companies are extremely well-positioned to actually fulfill what other powerful companies tried to do and failed. Apple and Oracle may be unstoppable in their burgeoning power to dominate the collection of profits across vast and essential markets for decades. Apple is well on the way to dominating the way that multimedia content is priced and distributed.
 
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  • Review: Mod-Security 2.5 by Magnus Mischel

    29 Jan 2010 | 3:04 pm
    LinuxSecurity.com: Thanks to Eric Lubow for contributing this great review.

  • Review: Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You

    16 Dec 2008 | 12:25 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: If I ask "How much do you know about Google?" You may not take even a second to respond. But if I may ask "How much does Google know about you"? You may instantly reply "Wait... what!? Do they!?" The book "Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You" by Greg Conti (Computer Science Professor at West Point) is the first book to reveal how Google's vast information stockpiles could be used against you or your business - and what you can do to protect yourself.

  • A Secure Nagios Server

    11 Nov 2008 | 12:00 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Nagios is a monitoring software designed to let you know about problems on your hosts and networks quickly. You can configure it to be used on any network. Setting up a Nagios server on any Linux distribution is a very quick process however to make it a secure setup it takes some work. This article will not show you how to install Nagios since there are tons of them out there but it will show you in detail ways to improve your Nagios security.

  • Never Installed a Firewall on Ubuntu? Try Firestarter

    25 Sep 2008 | 11:09 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: When I typed on Google "Do I really need a firewall?" 695,000 results came across. And I'm pretty sure they must be saying "Hell yeah!". In my opinion, no one would ever recommend anyone to sit naked on the internet keeping in mind the insecurity internet carries these days, unless you really know what you are doing. Read on for more information on Firestarter.

  • Review: Hacking Exposed Linux, Third Edition

    18 Aug 2008 | 1:00 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: "Hacking Exposed Linux" by ISECOM (Institute for Security and Open Methodologies) is a guide to help you secure your Linux environment. This book does not only help improve your security it looks at why you should. It does this by showing examples of real attacks and rates the importance of protecting yourself from being a victim of each type of attack.
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  • X@FOSDEM 2010 Video Status Update

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:43 am
    For those waiting on our X@FOSDEM 2010 videos that we recorded, they still need to be uploaded. Each of the talks, which were less than an hour in length, are about 3GB in size with the original HD files...

  • There's Evergreen KMS Support & More To Test

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:26 pm
    David Airlie has re-based his drm-radeon-testing tree and there's now a whole lot of new code and features that users can play with and test. The drm-radeon-testing tree is a branch of the Linux kernel and is code for the Radeon DRM area that will ultimately make it into the mainline tree in the Linux 2.6.34 kernel series and later. To be found in drm-radeon-testing right now is new I2C code that supports the hardware I2C engines found on Radeon graphics cards and exposes it to user-space, a PLL algorithm rework, DRM power management support, basic Evergreen "R800" KMS support, and various…

  • Open-Source ATI R600/700 Mesa 3D Performance

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:10 pm
    As we alluded to last week, we have been in the process of benchmarking many Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics cards using the open-source ATI Linux graphics stack with the Mesa R600/700 DRI driver. We have now carried out our first batch of R600/700 3D tests using this constantly evolving open-source driver to provide OpenGL acceleration and here are the results.

  • DirectX 10/11 Coming Atop Gallium3D

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:54 am
    With state trackers emerging for the Gallium3D driver architecture to provide acceleration for a range of APIs from OpenGL ES and OpenVG to OpenGL and OpenCL, we knew it was likely that at some point there would be support for Microsoft's DirectX API. There was even a rumor of Tungsten Graphics already having a working DirectX state tracker...

  • Jerome's Radeon KMS Short-Term TODO List

    7 Feb 2010 | 6:38 am
    After the earlier X talks today and then Luc's debated Linux graphics driver stack proposal (largely between he and Eric Anholt and Daniel Stone with conflicting views, but at least Intel admitting "there's a subset of users we care about and a subset we don't"), Jerome Glisse began talking about ATI Radeon kernel mode-setting and its current state. While most that read Phoronix regularly know the direction of Radeon KMS support for the coming releases, below is Jerome's short-term TODO list for the ATI kernel support. Coming up in the Radeon DRM for the Linux 2.6.34 kernel (or releases…
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  • When is a 0day not a 0day? Fake OpenSSh exploit, again

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:35 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: When is a 0day in OpenSSH not a 0day? When it's local exploit code. Not the kind that exploits a vulnerability in the system you are logged into, to escalate privilege for example. The kind that takes advantage of potential vulnerabilities in the gray matter between your ears to make a mess of your local system. A reader wrote in to advise us of a potential 0day in the current version of OpenSSH 5.3/5.3p1 released Oct 1, 2009.

  • Mozilla Removes Two Malicious Firefox Add-Ons

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:30 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Mozilla on Friday said that it had removed two Firefox add-ons from its Web site because they installed malware. "Two add-ons in the experimental section of addons.mozilla.org were found to be containing malware," Mozilla said on its security blog. "These were not originally detected with the anti-malware scanning tools that we have been using. We have since increased the number of scanning tools, and will be taking additional steps to minimize the risk of further incidents."

  • Google's Android code deleted from Linux kernel

    4 Feb 2010 | 1:58 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: After removing Google's Android driver code from the Linux kernel, Novell Fellow and Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has argued that the mobile OS is incompatible with the project's main tree. Kroah-Hartman deleted the Android drivers on December 11 - Android code is no more as of version 2.6.33 of the kernel release - and yesterday, with a post to his personal blog, he explained the move in detail.

  • Report Details Hacks Targeting Google, Others

    4 Feb 2010 | 1:54 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: It's been three weeks since Google announced that a sophisticated and coordinated hack attack dubbed Operation Aurora recently targeted it and numerous other U.S. companies. Until now we've only known that the attackers got in through a vulnerability in Internet Explorer and that they obtained intellectual property and access to the Gmail accounts of two human rights activists whose work revolves around China. We also know a few details about how the hackers siphoned the stolen data, which went to IP addresses in Taiwan.

  • How Wi -Fi attackers are poisoning Web browsers

    4 Feb 2010 | 1:52 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Public Wi-Fi networks such as those in coffee shops and airports present a bigger security threat than ever to computer users because attackers can intercede over wireless to "poison" users' browser caches in order to present fake Web pages or even steal data at a later time.That's according to security researcher Mike Kershaw, developer of the Kismet wireless network detector and intrusion-detection system, who spoke at the Black Hat conference.
 
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  • SuSE: Linux kernel

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:59 pm
    LinuxSecurity.com:

  • Mandriva: squid

    5 Feb 2010 | 2:07 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability have been discovered and corrected in Squid 2.x, 3.0 through 3.0.STABLE22, and 3.1 through 3.1.0.15, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via a crafted DNS packet that only contains a header (CVE-2010-0308). This update provides a fix to this vulnerability.

  • SuSE: Linux kernel

    4 Feb 2010 | 6:24 pm
    LinuxSecurity.com:

  • Debian: chrony denial of service

    4 Feb 2010 | 2:56 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in chrony, a pair of programs which are used to maintain the accuracy of the system clock on a computer. This issues are similar to the NTP security flaw CVE-2009-3563. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • Mandriva: rootcerts

    4 Feb 2010 | 1:21 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: It was brought to our attention by Ludwig Nussel at SUSE the md5 collision certificate should not be included. This update removes the offending certificate. Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers. The mozilla nss library has consequently been rebuilt to pickup these changes and are also being provided.
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  • Akademy 2010 Call for (Technical) Papers

    seele
    1 Feb 2010 | 11:47 am
    Akademy, the annual KDE conference, will be held in Tempere Finland July 3 to 10 2010. The call for papers has been announced, requesting presentations, papers, and bofs from KDE community members on what is new and coming in KDE. For more information see the call for papers. This will be the second year in a row Akademy will be hosting an option for a short technical paper (4-6 pages) to accompany a 45 minute talk. Last year, we have a wide range of papers describing interesting KDE content we don’t normally hear about at the Akademy. Technical papers benefit KDE by providing easily…

  • DC/Baltimore KDE 4.4 Release Party!

    seele
    29 Jan 2010 | 10:04 am
    Hey everyone, if you are in the Washington DC/Baltimore area Friday February 12, why not stop by Fudruckers in Columbia between 19:00 and 21:00 EST? Even if you are only k-curious, stop by for burgers (veggie options available), beers, fun, and good geekery. More information and directions.

  • Quick UDW Update

    seele
    29 Jan 2010 | 9:56 am
    Unfortunately due to an unavoidable meeting, maco wil be giving my talk on Kubuntu papercuts this afternoon at 19:00UTC in #ubuntu-classroom. I worked with her on several papercuts last cycle and she will have some great experiences to share!

  • Ubuntu Developer Week

    seele
    25 Jan 2010 | 10:56 am
    The latest Ubuntu Developer Week kicked off today with some great talks about contributing to Ubuntu. I will be talking about how you can contribute to Kubuntu through the 100 Papercuts Project on Friday January 29th at 19:00UTC. See you in #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode!

  • Camp KDE Day 2

    seele
    17 Jan 2010 | 1:56 pm
    The morning started (with a slight delay) with Frank’s keynote: KDE and the Cloud. The cloud includes software using online services and Internet storage. A current trend is a move from desktop to cloud-based applications such as online music services like Pandora, Google Docs, and web-based email clients and messaging. He used Google as an example of how we interact with the cloud. Also, Google is an example that one company has so much control over the cloud and that KDE needs to provide FLOSS cloud solutions which bridge the desktop and the cloud. Kris talked about PC-BSD a…
 
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  • OpenOffice dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04

    From the Keep it Speedy dept.: According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community have decided to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs. ...The developers have been removing applications that are irrelevant on a netbook. While document editing is clearly a not irrelevant on a netbook, the developers feel that with netbooks being used mostly for internet related works, Google Docs will suffice.

  • Mono Project Delivers Moonlight 3.0 Preview

    From the Wolfman dept.: We have just released our first preview of Moonlight 3.0. This release contains many updates to our 3.0 support, mostly on the infrastructure level necessary to support the rest of the features. In the release: MP4 demuxer support. The demuxer is in place but there are no codecs for it yet (unless you build from source code and configure Moonlight to pick up the codecs from ffmpeg). Initial work on UI Virtualization. Platform Abstraction Layer: the Moonlight core is now separated from the windowing system engine. This should make it possible for developers to port…

  • iPhone App Store bars mention of Google Android

    From the Tyrell Corp. dept.: Apple has told a tiny mobile software developer that its application cannot be included in the iPhone App Store if it mentions Google Android. Flash of Genius offers a mobile app aimed at students preparing for their college entrance exams. "Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab" debuted on the iPhone, and at the end of last year, a version was introduced for Android as well.

  • US House Overwhelmingly Passes Cybersecurity Bill

    From the One Ping Only dept.: The Caucus, a NY Times Blog, is reporting on the overwhelming majority vote (422 yeas) the House gave a new cybersecurity bill. The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act, H.R. 4061 has a number of interesting provisions. Representative Michael Arcuri, a Democrat of New York who sponsored the bill called cybersecurity the 'Manhattan Project of our generation' and estimated the US needs 500 to 1,000 more 'cyber warriors' every year in order to keep up with potential enemies.

  • UK.gov tweaks open source policy small print

    From the Baby Steps dept.: The government published the latest revision to its policy today, after it brought in new measures to promote open standards and encourage the reuse of software on 25 February 2009. Measures outlined in the strategy - which took five years to be overhauled - included an education programme, guidance on procurement from the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council, headed up by John Suffolk, and assessment of new products. It also aimed to spotlight open standards by ensuring systems were interoperable and avoided product lock-in.
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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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  • Le Google Nexus One a les faveurs de Linus Torvalds

    Toolinux
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:39 pm
    Quel téléphone mobile peut bien avoir Linus Torvalds, le créateur de Linux ? A en croire ses plus récentes déclarations, le Nexus One a ses faveurs. Pour lui, c'est un "winner". - Communauté

  • Une alpha de Silverlight 3 pour Linux

    Toolinux
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:25 pm
    Adobe AIR avance vite ? Aucun problème, Microsoft maintient le cap et le rythme des mises à jour de Silverlight. Après avoir présenté la version 4.0 bêta sous Windows, une première version 3 voir le jour sous Linux grâce aux efforts de MONO. - Développement

  • Chiffres trimestriels moroses pour Novell

    Toolinux
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:20 pm
    Ce week-end, Novell publiait des résultats décevants : une perte nette de 259 millions de dollars pour le quatrième trimestre de son exercice 2008-2009. En cause : des charges exceptionnelles pour dépréciations de survaleur, notamment. - Economie

  • Forum Decideo Edition Open Source le 18 mars à Paris

    Toolinux
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:20 pm
    Le 18 mars prochain aura lieu au Musée de l'Informatique, au sommet de la Grande Arche de Paris La Défense, la 3ème édition du Forum Decideo Edition Open Source. Son objectif : réunir au sommet du principal quartier d'affaires français, les utilisateurs et les professionnels des applications d'entreprise en open source - Evénements et séminaires

  • Symbian devient enfin open source

    Toolinux
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:15 pm
    Symbian est devenu open source. Ce n'est pas vraiment un scoop, cela avait été annoncé de longue date. La vrai nouvelle, c'est que le code source est enfin disponible. Il est placé sous une licence Eclipse Public License (EPL). - Logiciels
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  • Unity 2010 Beta 2 Impressions

    devnet
    15 Jan 2010 | 12:30 pm
    As noted previously, I’ve been pretty hard pressed lately in my secular job due to migrations and other fun activities happening throughout the past few months.  I did however, get the chance to download Unity 2010 Beta 2 and give it a go.  I had some problems when booting because I was brought to a blank black screen with a mouse pointer no matter what options I passed during boot.  To get by this, I had to follow some IRC advice on #unitylinux  (thanks wile_netbook!) and change to a second tty, kill the Xserver and GDM, followed by executing do-vesa.  It’s hard to try to do…

  • Status Update for Devnet

    devnet
    5 Jan 2010 | 8:30 am
    For those of you who follow me here at Yet Another Linux Blog you might be wondering where I went the last month.  I assure you I’m still here and I still use Linux every single day.  I’m currently running both Arch Linux (32bit) and Unity Linux (64bit) on my main computer. I’ve been working pretty hard through the holidays at my full time job where I am a server administrator for a medium sized hospital in the U.S.  Recently (in December), I moved 2000+ users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007.  So, that’s why I’ve been pretty inactive as of late.  As you…

  • Zealots and Narcissism

    devnet
    21 Dec 2009 | 11:45 am
    Many times in my journeys of distribution hopping, I’ve run across rabid fans and communities [1] I’ve written a guide for new users on how to understand the vitrol that rabid zealots spew in Linux communities [2] Those problems are all very easy to see…but these articles deal with only the tangible problems in these areas.  What are the reasons these problems exist?  Is it because of one or two individuals?  Is it mob mentality?  Are people just waking up on the wrong side of the bed?  I don’t think these reasons get down to the core of what the real problem…

  • Unity Linux Theme Refreshes

    devnet
    9 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm
    I’ve been pretty busy lately with theme design for the Unity Linux project.  The following pages were updated: Unity-Linux.org Planet.Unity-Linux.org A new forum theme called SMFPress @ forum.unity-linux.org Uniformity was the key ingredient to the stylings.  I’m trying to match everything to the front page theme at the main site page.  Using the color pallete from that site, I worked on creating a theme for our forum and then gave planet unity a facelift as well.  We’ll test out the planet capability a bit longer (see how updates go) before we ultimately conclude to use…

  • 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…
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  • International Women’s Day Comp: Get Your Entries In!

    jono
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:05 am
    Look at this lovely bag of swag: Image courtesy of Melissa Draper. Want to own all this goodness, including Ubuntu Backpacks, women’s t-shirts, key chains, 1 year digital subscription to Linux Pro Magazine or a 1 year print subscription Ubuntu User, and a copy of the The Art of Community by some beardy community guy? On January 10, 2010 the Ubuntu Women Project announced an International Women’s Day Competition; an awesome effort to gather wonderful stories of how women have discovered Ubuntu. From the announcement: Ubuntu-Women has tried in the past to find some way to celebrate…

  • Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week: Call For Participation!

    jono
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:53 pm
    In the continued interests of helping to make Ubuntu rock as a platform for scratching itches and making awesome apps, I am putting together a new online learning event: Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week, happening online between 1st – 6th March 2010. The week will be just like our previous online learning events such as Ubuntu Developer Week and Ubuntu Open Week, but instead providing a week jam packed with awesome sessions about writing applications that scratch your itch, and predominantly focusing on Python tools and frameworks, Bazaar, Launchpad and infrastructure. The goal for…

  • Master Of The Situation

    jono
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:42 pm
    I had a crack at creating some electronic music. I know, not metal. I figured I would share this, and I have never done this before, so be gentle. Check out Master Of The Situation in MP3 and Ogg format. Created in Cubase with Halion One, a KeyRig and Drumkit From Hell.

  • I Support Same Sex Marriage

    jono
    6 Feb 2010 | 12:17 pm
    I love being married, it has opened up an incredible sense of commitment and security in my life and my wife’s life. Love is love, and I would never want to prevent anyone from enjoying what I am afforded the privilage of enjoying. This includes gay people. As such, I have joined this Facebook group to get 1,000,000 who support same sex marriage. I usually hate these kinds of groups, but I think it could be interesting to visualize the support behind this issue. Worthy, methinks.

  • Project Awesome Opportunity

    jono
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:46 pm
    In the continued interests of making Ubuntu a rocking platform for opportunistic developers, today we formulated the plan for Project Awesome Opportunity. The goal is simple: build an opportunistic development workflow into Ubuntu. You will install one package from Universe and your Ubuntu will be hot-rodded for opportunistic application development, making development more fun and more accessible for a glorious itch scratching smackdown. At the heart of the project is Ground Control by Martin Owens and Quickly by Rick Spencer and Didier Roche. I have been thinking about the challenges of how…
 
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  • Links for 2010-02-08

    dailylinks
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:05 pm
    PeteSearch: How to split up the US : wow. fascinating results from social-network cluster analysis of Facebook, splitting up the entire USA into 7 clusters (tags: clusters facebook data statistics maps culture analytics datamining demographics socialnetworking graph dataviz)

  • Links for 2010-02-07

    dailylinks
    7 Feb 2010 | 3:05 pm
    Inside View from Ireland: Analysing Electronic Forensics Evidence : fascinating note from Bernie Goldbach: ‘MORE THAN 20 YEARS ago, I worked with message traffic and the work told me the importance of verifying source material.’ (tags: bernie spam anti-spam authentication spoofing security phishing)

  • Links for 2010-02-05

    dailylinks
    5 Feb 2010 | 3:05 pm
    Op-Ed Contributor – Microsoft’s Creative Destruction – NYTimes.com : MS internal politics routinely torpedoed cool new projects. surprise, surprise. ‘Engineers in the Windows group falsely claimed [ClearType] made the display go haywire when certain colors were used. The head of Office products said it was fuzzy and gave him headaches. The VP for pocket devices was blunter: he’d support ClearType and use it, but only if I transferred the program and the programmers to his control.’ (tags: cleartype microsoft software bureaucracy politics culture management…

  • Links for 2010-02-04

    dailylinks
    4 Feb 2010 | 3:05 pm
    Dublin City Development Plan 2011-2017: Public Consultation – boards.ie : Dublin City Council is offering the ability to public consultation via a Boards forum. cool (tags: boards dublin council consultation politics civic)

  • Links for 2010-02-03

    dailylinks
    3 Feb 2010 | 3:05 pm
    Trojan torrent sites – why you should never reuse passwords : ‘for a number of years, a person has been creating torrent sites that require a login and password as well as creating forums set up for torrent site usage and then selling these purportedly well-crafted sites and forums to other people innocently looking to start a download site of their very own. However, these sites came with a little extra — security exploits and backdoors throughout the system. This person then waited for the forums and sites to get popular and then used those exploits to get access to the…
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  • Mozilla Firefox to Drop Support of Mac OS X 10.4

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Open source browser says support for outdated operating system has been a hindrance, but promises users of older Mac versions will have time before they need to worry about an upgrade.

  • Stable Kernel 2.6.32.8

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:06 pm
    Stable kernel 2.6.32.8 has been released. It is fairly large set of patches, with changes all over the tree, along with at least one security fix. Users of 2.6.32 are, as usual, very strongly encouraged to upgrade.

  • Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 3.1 Alpha 1

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    The Mozilla developers have released the first alpha for version 3.1 of their popular open source Thunderbird email and news client, code named "Lanikai"...

  • New UI, Features Highlight McAfee 2010 Suites

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Security suite vendor McAfee debuts their 2010 product line today, introducing an overhauled interface and new features in a bid to remain competitive.

  • Restructured Ruby-on-Rails Hits Beta

    6 Feb 2010 | 3:36 pm
    Added Merb The beta of the third, and restructured, edition of Ruby on Rails has been delivered.…...
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  • Inside CloudLinux's New Linux-Based Cloud OS (Web Host Industry Review)

    ris
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:33 am
    Web Host Industry Review takes a look at CloudLinux. "The proprietary isolation technology provides a range of benefits for shared hosts, including increasing the number of accounts per server, as well as reducing hardware, electricity, data center space and management costs. As for data centers, it provides customers with a well tested, commercially supported and maintained OS, better security reduces churn and the costs associated with security support issues, and drives extra revenue via upsell to commercially supported distribution that was optimized for Web."

  • Stable kernel 2.6.32.8

    jake
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:06 am
    Stable kernel 2.6.32.8 has been released. It is fairly large set of patches, with changes all over the tree, along with at least one security fix. Users of 2.6.32 are, as usual, very strongly encouraged to upgrade.

  • openSUSE Survey 2010

    jake
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:54 pm
    openSUSE is looking for information from its users about the distribution by way of a survey, which runs through the end of February. The survey is meant to "give feedback to the openSUSE project about the distribution, the openSUSE tools environment and the project in general. Let us know where things are in good shape and areas where improvement is needed." Click below for the full announcement.

  • Linux Storage and Filesystems Summit cfp

    jake
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:32 pm
    James Bottomley has announced this year's Linux Storage and Filesystems Summit, which will be held just prior to LinuxCon in Boston on August 8 and 9. It will be held in conjunction with the Virtual Memory (VM) summit, so there will be three tracks (storage, filesystems, VM) as well as joint meetings for all participants. Proposals for discussion topics and requests for invitations are being solicited; click below for the full announcement. "Presentations are allowed to guide discussion, but are strongly discouraged. There will be no recording or audio bridge, however written minutes will be…

  • Security updates for Monday

    jake
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:16 pm
    Fedora has updated chrony (F11, F12: denial of service) and ocsinventory (F11, F12: multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated squid (denial of service) and kernel (multiple vulnerabilities). SUSE has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).
 
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  • Canonical picks open-source leader for COO

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:17 am
    Matt Asay, well-known open-source leader and Alfresco VP, has moved over to Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company. read more

  • Misc: Facebook email, verbal contracts, free Symbian, Jonathan Schwartz

    IT Blogwatch
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:58 am
    Sometimes, there's more going on than will fit into one post. Here are a few more links that caught my eye over the past 24 hours. In IT Blogwatch, Facebook un-munges email addresses, Fraunhofer lets you sign contracts on the phone, Symbian goes free, and Jonathan Schwartz tweets his final goodbyes. read more

  • Linux upgrades the easy way

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:36 pm
    When you upgrade Windows, you have to jump through endless hoops. With Linux, you just download and go. read more

  • Anything the iPad can do, Linux can do better.

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    27 Jan 2010 | 3:07 pm
    Well, the Apple iPad has finally been launched, and it looks grand. But, really what can it do that a Linux-powered tablet can't do for less? read more

  • Scott McNealy's emotional farewell: Sun set to be Oracle's

    IT Blogwatch
    27 Jan 2010 | 3:03 am
    So goodbye then, Scott McNealy. Your company, Sun Microsystems, broke the mold and made more than $200B over 28 years. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers pay tribute to a departing leader. Not to mention a Haiti charity infographic... (ORCL) (JAVA) read more
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  • The Quest for Python 3

    J5
    3 Feb 2010 | 3:24 pm
    Well, I’ve gone and done it. Thanks to David Malcolm’s excellent 2to3c tool and some hand wrangling with PyUnicode objects I was able to get D-Bus Python compiling and working on Python 3. Grab the patch and start testing it out. I’ve also tested this under Python 2.6 but it would be nice to see if it also works under Python versions < 2.6 since 2.6 has a couple of compatibility layers built in. [read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]

  • kamaloka-js 0.9.0 released

    J5
    28 Jan 2010 | 1:04 pm
    I am proud to announce the second release of the kamaloka-js AMQP bindings. This release brings with it a high level API modeled after the new Sender/Receiver and addressing API’s being developed in the Qpid project. It is intended to bridge the gap between the 0.10 protocol and the upcoming 1.0 protocol. I have also simplified the code base and improved the code generator. Because we are getting so close to implementing the complete 0.10 protocol spec, we have bumped the version to the 0.9.x series to indicate a redefined focus on stabilizing the current code base. You will notice…

  • Flattening the model

    J5
    27 Jan 2010 | 1:14 pm
    In my quest for cleaner code in Kamaloka-js I have been working on simplifying the dispatch model.  AMQP has some interesting features built into it to facilitate real-time functionality along with message prioritization.  To accomplish this messages can be sent on different queues and tracks, and also be broken up into segments which can be further broken up into frames. Frames Frames are the basic building blocks of the AMQP data stream.  They contain complete headers that describe queue, track and segment that is currently being constructed.  The payload of a frame (the segment being…

  • Getting kamaloka-js ready for a new release

    J5
    22 Jan 2010 | 2:10 pm
    Those who are following AMQP know that work on version 1.0 of the protocol spec is happening right now. Previous versions of the API were heavily dependent on the protocol itself but with 1.0 around the corner a new messaging API has come along to help bridge the gap between 0.10 and 1.0 for the most common use cases. In kamaloka-js, the JavaScript AMQP bindings, I have been working on implementing this API along with cleaning up the codebase significantly. Today I put the final touches on multi-part frame decoding as well as the dispatching code and hope to have a brand new release next…

  • It’s all about the API

    J5
    13 Jan 2010 | 7:28 am
    If there is one thing I learned when working on D-Bus is that if you build a decent API, people will use it. Right now I am working on Kamaloka-js – JavaScript bindings for building JavaScript native AMQP clients. As AMQP starts moving towards 1.0 a new high level API, based loosely on JMS, is emerging to bridge the gap between 0.10 and 1.0. Previously with AMQP you pretty much worked with patterns on the protocol level which meant when the new specification came out you would pretty much have to rewrite to the new API. The new messaging based API seeks to decouple the protocol from the…
 
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  • Caterpillar, Lost

    Robert Love
    21 Jan 2010 | 6:35 am
    Defrosting in the Caribbean. Sun & sand. Carib & books.Lost Caterpillar, Rendezvous Bay, Anguilla, BWIContent with the world, as if consulted in its creation.

  • 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
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  • More Training News - This Time Qt

    29 Jan 2010 | 8:49 am
    KDAB, the Qt experts, is extending the training courses it offers for Qt developers. If anyone is interested, a detailed press release with all the information can be found here.

  • Training Offerings from Linux Certified

    28 Jan 2010 | 7:33 am
    Linux Certified is offering training in different disciplines over the next month or two. A full detailed schedule can be found here. It appears to include everything from system administration to kernel internals.I have not spoken to too many people that have utilized their training program over the years, so I am not able to give my opinion one way or the other on the value of it. They do have a student feedback section with some comments. It would be nice if they would post who the instructor is going to be. I would hope that anyone that is interested can get that information prior to…

  • FREE Training Webinar Series at Linux Foundation

    27 Jan 2010 | 8:33 am
    The Linux Foundation has just launched a series of webinars that are free to the public. The press release can be found here.The best part of these webinars, besides them being free of charge, is that they are being led by multiple luminaries in the open source community. Not too often can you go get a refresher on Linux Performance Tuning by someone like Ted Ts'o. Therefore, I credit the Linux Foundation with putting forth a list of talented individuals to educate more of the public on certain topics in open source software.I am sure that the goal is to get people interested in taking part…

  • Interesting Article on India's Contribution to Open Source

    21 Jan 2010 | 6:52 am
    Sam Varghese of ITWire writes an interesting blog piece about India's contributions to open source. You can find it here. His claim is that given the amount of engineering talent that exists in India, it does not necessarily translate into meaningful contributions to open source software.He makes a valid point to some extent, but at the same time I believe it is important to look at the entire picture. We get inundated with resumes from India on a daily basis. And, as the years have passed, there is no question that the talent level, as it relates to open source, continues to get better and…

  • Linux.com Launches Job Board

    14 Jan 2010 | 8:17 am
    It appears that Linux.com has launched a job board on their site. The press release can be found on Linux Today here .I believe they have had their jobs section for a little bit of time (could be wrong), but it appears they are either relaunching this or putting more effort into it by utilizing the JobThread Network. It is a very interesting concept in the sense that you end up paying $.49 for each matching view.It will be interesting to see how this does. As has been the case, the number of open source positions continues to increase. Perhaps they will be able to take advantage of this…
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  • KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 Released

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:16 am
    A few minutes ago, the wonderful developers behind the KDE project announced the final and stable release of the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.4.0. Dubbed Caikaku, KDE SC 4.4.0 is the next major release with over 7,000 bugs squashed, over 1,400 new features, new applications, new effects, and much more! KDE SC 4.4.0 is composed of... (read more)

  • Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 83

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:14 am
    Welcome to the 83rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1, VortexBox 1.1, Elive 1.9.60, Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2 and Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition. In other news: Canonical announced the immediate availability of an important kernel update for its U... (read more)

  • Available Now: Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:28 am
    Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint community proudly announced on Saturday, February 6th, the final release of the Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition operating system. Based on Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), the new version is now powered by Linux kernel 2.6.31 and built on top of the KDE Software Compilation 4.3.4. Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edit... (read more)

  • Download and Test Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    6 Feb 2010 | 2:51 am
    The second Alpha release of the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2010.1 (Spring) operating system, due for launch in early June this year, is now available on mirrors worldwide. Once again, bleeding-edge packages are at home with Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2, including Linux kernel 2.6.33 RC6, KDE Software Compilation 4.4 RC3, GNOME 2.29.6, Mozilla Firefo... (read more)

  • 10 Kernel Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    5 Feb 2010 | 3:24 am
    Canonical announced a few hours ago the immediate availability of a new Linux kernel security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake), 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and 9.10 (Karmic Koala). The update also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu and it patches... (read more)
 
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  • Tumblings, Jan 24

    jdarnold
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:07 am
    A couple of links posted to my Linux Tumblr last week: Wicked Cheap Hosting - some great web hosting deals, courtesy of All About Linux TermBuilder - a simple web app to build a commandline command...

  • Arched

    jdarnold
    7 Feb 2010 | 7:37 am
    So early in December, I went on a quest for a new Linux distro. It wasn't so much that I was unhappy with my openSUSE 11.0 installation, but I knew I was probably going to install the new 11.2 version and so I figured I would cast about to see...

  • Linux Love Links

    jdarnold
    2 Feb 2010 | 12:46 pm
    A few things I have recently thrown down on my Linux Love Tumblr blog, which I use for quick little Linux links and notes: 7 Best Linux Apps for Ripping CDs and DVDs | Maximum PC 50+ Ultimate Collections of Planet Wallpapers TermBuilder: a graphical Linux command line generator...

  • On Being Persistent

    jdarnold
    1 Feb 2010 | 6:28 am
    Those of us who have multiple hard drives in our computers will inevitably boot up one morning to find the naming scheme for these drives has changed. What was once /dev/sda is now /dev/sdb and vice versa. Your computer won't boot and fsck complains about an uknown or mismatched filesystem...

  • Glorious LXF126 Contest

    jdarnold
    2 Dec 2009 | 5:27 am
    If you are the winner in my glorious Linux Format 2009 Christmas Issue giveaway, here's what you have to look forward to: Ultimate eye candy - a pretty interesting article on how to get the most dazzling display, whether you use Compiz, KDE, or GNOME. Despite my general disdain...
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  • USB 3 is here

    Prakash
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm
     USB 3 devices have finally started showing up in the US and expect them to be more widely available everywhere else in the world, later this year. USB 2 has been around, but with serious bottlenecks. Its slow and gets slower when you connect multiple peripherals. Is USB 3 going to solve the problem? It looks promising. What is USB 3 all about? 10 times faster than USB 2.0 with 5Gbps. USB 3 is bi-directional so its much faster. In USB 2 data can flow only in one direction at a time. Realistically you should get 3 times faster transfer speeds for external drives. Backward compatible with…

  • Avatar was created on Ubuntu

    Prakash
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:12 am
    What common between Avtar, King Kong, Lord of the Rings, Fantastic Four, X-Men, i-Robot? They were all created at Weta Digital in New Zealand. Now some vital stats: 2 Petabyte disk array 10gbps networking 10 TB Ram 35,000 cores (4,000+ blades) Ubuntu Related posts:Ubuntu vs Windows Hardware Requirements I compared the hardware requirements of a popular Linux Desktop:... AWN Manager – Mac OSX like dock for Ubuntu I installed AWN Manager on Ubuntu, following the instructions... Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala now available for download Ubuntu 9.10 is finally available for download. It’s…

  • Why Microsoft can’t be creative anymore

    Prakash
    5 Feb 2010 | 10:49 pm
    Here is a nice article posted in New York Times written by a former Microsoft Vice President. “Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator. Its products are lampooned, often unfairly but sometimes with good reason. Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation. Some of my former colleagues argue that it actually developed a system to thwart innovation. Despite having one of the largest and best corporate laboratories in the world, and the luxury of not one but three chief technology officers, the company routinely manages to frustrate the efforts of its visionary…

  • Symbian goes Open Source

    Prakash
    5 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am
    After Google Android, now Symbian has decided to go Open Source. Since Android is Linux based and this had a good chance of Linux becoming the de facto operating system in Cellphone too. So Symbian reacted and released all its source code too, in the hope that their customers don’t switch to Linux and they are able to retain their 46 percent market share in smartphones. It remains to be seen weather cellphone manufacturers decide to use Linux or continue to use Symbian, however this is great news as Symbian as this will only improve Symbian. Expect stability improvements, as more…

  • My take on Apple iPad

    Prakash
    4 Feb 2010 | 5:07 am
    Now that the dust has unsettled on the iPad and more anxiety is being generated , I decided to write my two cents. Apple is known to be an innovative company and they have done exactly that with this device, however they could do better. What they seems to have done is just zoomed up the iPhone , guess Mr. Jobs is getting old . Apple realised that people liked the iPhone but found the screen size too small, so why not make it bigger while everything else remains the same.  Good strategy because you can use all your iPhone apps, bad one because it still has the limitations of the iPhone. Here…
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  • NVIDIA Unveils Optimus Seamless GPU Switching

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:18 am
    Notebooks with dual GPUs have been shipping for a while now, but switching between the fancy discrete GPU and the low-power integrated one hasn't exactly been painless. Today, NVIDIA introduced a technology called Optimus, which makes the switching process automatic and transparent. In Windows, that is.

  • Battery "Bug" Caused by Batteries, Not by Windows 7

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:55 pm
    The past few weeks or so, there's been a lot of interest in a supposed battery status report bug in Windows 7. After installing Windows 7, some users reported seeing "consider replacing your battery"-warnings in systems that appeared to be operating just fine on Windows XP or Vista. After extensive research, Steven Sinofsky has now explained on the Engineering 7 blog that the fault is not with Windows 7 - it really, really is your battery.

  • AMD Reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, To Challenge Intel in Laptops

    8 Feb 2010 | 3:34 pm
    "The 'Llano' processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU - instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an 'application processor unit', or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11-compatible GPU with four out-of-order CPU cores on a single, 32nm processor die."

  • Concept: Stream Adaptive Computer System, Locus OS

    8 Feb 2010 | 1:38 pm
    Developed by industrial designer Barton Smith, the Stream Adaptive Computer System is an interesting take on making computing easier and more adaptable to suit the user's current needs. Today, he also unveiled the operating system and user interface that would run on Stream. It's... Amazing.

  • Power7: Big Blue Eye on UNIX

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:38 am
    "The scuttlebutt is that IBM seemed perfectly content to wait until May to launch the Power7-based Power Systems servers, but something changed and compelled the company to move up the announcement of its first machines using the eight-core processor to today. Big Blue is not in a habit of explaining its motives or its timing for product launches, but it seems clear that IBM wanted to get out in front of a whole lot of processor and systems launches that are expected between now and the summer."
 
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  • 2009 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

    srlinuxx
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:40 am
    jeremy.linuxquestions.org: The polls are closed and the results are in. We once again had some extremely close races and a couple multi-year winners were unseated this year. KDE, which had won Desktop Environment of the Year every year we’ve had the MCA’s, was finally unseated… Advertisement: read more

  • Gimp is being sabotaged

    srlinuxx
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:36 am
    penguinpetes.com: They're munging Gimp up again. I say it over and over again. And truly, if every interface overhaul was so great, then why would they need to change it again? Huh? Hmmm? Where's all the 2.4 advocates saying that 2.4's interface change was so perfect, now? Advertisement: read more

  • The Windows 7 honeymoon is over

    srlinuxx
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:33 am
    The Windows 7 honeymoon is over How Microsoft uses open source to fight open source From Windows to Linux: a sound decision Advertisement: read more

  • Anjal: GNOME's Evolution for Netbooks

    srlinuxx
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:25 am
    earthweb.com: One unforeseen benefit of the rise of netbooks is the rethinking of desktop interfaces. Compared to workstations, netbooks have smaller screens and less memory, and developers generally assume that users do less demanding tasks on them. Few netbook interfaces illustrate this re-examination better than Anjal. Advertisement: read more

  • Debian 6.0 Squeeze behind schedule

    srlinuxx
    9 Feb 2010 | 8:22 am
    h-online.com: The Debian release team are sounding the alarm: With only one month left before the planned release freeze, the number of critical bugs in Debian 6.0 Squeeze is still far too high to freeze development. Advertisement: read more
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  • February 2010 Issue of The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine Released

    admin
    1 Feb 2010 | 5:02 am
    The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the February 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. The magazine is lead by Paul Arnote, Chief Editor, and Andrew Strick, Assistant Editor. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license, and some rights are reserved. In the February 2010 issue: 10 Beginner Mistakes To Avoid Game Zone: Machinarium Behind The Scenes: davecs KDE 4:…

  • January 2010 Issue of the NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine Released

    admin
    11 Jan 2010 | 4:22 am
    The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the January 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. In the January 2010 issue: 2009: A Look Back Game Zone: Modern Warfare 2 Behind The Scenes: A Chat With Hootiegibbon Sproggy’s Glass Panel Tutorial Command Line Interface Intro: Part 4 Double Take & Mark’s Quick Gimp Tip Forum Foibles Ms_meme’s nook Book Worms Unite: An E-Book Explosion Archiving Movies With dvd::rip – An Update Computer Languages A to…

  • Happy Holidays from PCLinuxOS

    admin
    24 Dec 2009 | 1:20 pm
    As the Holiday Season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and on those who have helped to shape our distribution in a most significant way. We value the PCLinuxOS community and look forward to the year to come. We wish each of you a very happy Holiday Season and a New Year filled with peace and prosperity. Happy Holidays!

  • Mozilla Firefox 3.5.6 now available for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    15 Dec 2009 | 1:50 pm
    Hot from the coders desk comes Firefox 3.5.6 with numerous bug fixes and performance improvements. 62 bug fixes have been applied to Firefox 3.5.6 of including 11 critical and 6 major ones. Firefox 3.5.6 is currently available on our premium server and shipping to the public servers shortly.

  • Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Email Client now available for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    11 Dec 2009 | 11:59 pm
    If you like Firefox’s tabbed browsing, you’re going to love tabbed email. Thunderbird 3’s tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Search results open in a new tab too. New tools like timeline and filtering tools will help you pinpoint the email you’re looking for, whether it’s the one from yesterday, last month, or several years ago. Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 is currently available on our premium server and shipping to our public servers shortly.
 
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  • Hackers in need of hardware

    27 Jan 2010 | 2:16 pm
    Bret Lambert (blambert@), your friendly OpenBSD hacker in Norway, writes in about some hardware requests that have been added to want.html recently. The requests focus on (for now) unsupported or partially supported hardware that is under active development. Machines like the Lemote Yeelong, more SGI hardware and USB infrared dongles are being asked for and Bret asked some of his fellow developers why they requested this gear. Please read on for their replies. Read more...

  • Call for testing: pcc and the OpenBSD kernel

    28 Dec 2009 | 10:48 pm
    Michael Dexter from BSD Fund writes in with an update on pcc developments: Anders Magnusson (ragge@) reports that pcc can now build a bootable OpenBSD -current x86 kernel and that amd64 support is coming soon. Your testing using a fresh snapshot is greatly appreciated. Please report any bugs in the pcc bug database and be as precise as possible. Code samples are welcome. We'd like to thank Jonathan Gray (jsg@) for finding many code-generation bugs that were revealed by the kernel and also the dozen donors who contributed a total of over $750 to this effort this month, bringing us less than…

  • ospf6d -- Going Crazy with IPv6

    24 Dec 2009 | 8:00 am
    Claudio Jeker (claudio@), our favourite network hacker from Zürich, Switzerland, writes in with a story about his work on ospf6d: A few days ago I decided it was time to enable ldpd(8) and ospf6d(8) in the builds since without additional attention they will never get finished. ldpd still needs a kernel with option MPLS enabled to be usable but this does not really matter here. This is about ospf6d and what drives me crazy about IPv6. Check out the rest of Claudio's adventures in IPv6 land below. Read more...

  • Tunnelling out of corporate networks (Part 4)

    15 Dec 2009 | 4:04 am
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  • Planetarium Software for Young Children in Ubuntu / Debian Linux : Stellarium

    cj2003
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:54 am
    Stellarium is a free open source planetarium Software for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Too fun not to mention, look here!

  • LCA2010 raises over $33,000 in support of Life Flight Trust!

    cj2003
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:52 am
    WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Monday 8 February 2010 – linux.conf.au 2010 is over, but the generosity of its delegates will leave a lasting impression on the Life Flight Trust. During the conference closing dinner at the Wellington Town Hall, attendees bid to win a unique opportunity to join an action-packed Westpac Rescue Helicopter winch training mission. All bids were donations to Life Flight. Delegates could donate online with their laptops and results were displayed in real-time on an open source application created by Andrew Caudwell of Catalyst IT. At the end of the evening a $12,750…

  • RSS Installing & configuring shorewall firewall in Ubuntu/Debian

    cj2003
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:29 am
    Shore line firewall known as “Shorewall”, it is a very high level firewall and very easy to install and configure More here

  • Installing Debian Lenny on virtualized ARM arch (with QEMU) on Ubuntu Karmic Koala

    cj2003
    6 Feb 2010 | 9:22 am
    Yesterday I played with QEMU in order to run a Debian Lenny distro on a virtualized ARM arch. The Debian installation was easy thanks to this post of Chris Dew. I just wanted to point out what I did to get the virtual machine running after installing the distro. More here

  • Debian Linux on the Toshiba Libretto 100ct

    cj2003
    6 Feb 2010 | 9:20 am
    I like to tinker with computers, and I wanted a machine that I could use to experiment with a full installation of Linux. I also wanted to restrict myself to a command line interface only to internalize the use on the console. More here With all this in mind, I bought my Libretto 100ct on ebay and proceeded to install Linux. I tried a number of different things, and referred to a bunch of different websites before I got things working. I am not going to go into all of the things I tried that failed. But once I got things working, I started over again to fix a few mistakes and documented the…
 
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  • DeVeDe (ver. 3.16.0)

    7 Feb 2010 | 2:52 pm
    Creates video DVDs, suitables for home players About this version # Added support for two-pass encoding (thanks to Gustavo Sanchez) # Added support for 64bit Windows # Fixed a bug when importing old .devede files # Fixed a bug that prevented to manually choose the aspect ratio # Allows to change the final volume # Now remembers the last output directory used, and the last subtitle language and codepage # Added support for UTF-16 subtitles # Autodetects ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 subtitles # Allows to create DVDs without menu # Check if there's a /, | or \ in the file name # Allows to force the…

  • gnubiff (ver. 2.2.13)

    7 Feb 2010 | 5:36 am
    Email notification program. About this version This is a minor feature release. Several translations have been updated (Vietnamese, Dutch, Swedish) and a new one has been added (Indonesian; thanks to Arif E. Nugroho). There is now support for IPv6. The bug that sometimes prevented gnubiff from restarting to look for mail after connection failures is now fixed.

  • etm (ver. 522)

    6 Feb 2010 | 7:29 pm
    event, action and task manager About this version Added regex matching to busy view and added general support for matching strings with unicode characters. Improved parsing of entry bar option strings using shlex. Added groupby context, project and keyword options to agenda view.

  • gurlchecker (ver. 0.12.1)

    6 Feb 2010 | 2:02 am
    gurlchecker is a graphical web link checker. About this version Avoid using gtk_widget_set_visible() function to preserve Gtk+ < 2.18 compatibility.

  • AutoScan-Network (ver. 1.50)

    6 Feb 2010 | 1:13 am
    A utility for network exploration About this version Various bugs have been fixed.
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    My Technology Guide

  • Google’s Super Bowl Ad – “Parisian Love”

    Mezanul
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:21 am
    Google’s search engine is the world’s favorite search engine, the reason for its popularity is because it returns relevant results faster and with a no-frills, simple user interface. It became popular not by the traditional means of advertising but via recommendation by its users to their friends, relatives and colleagues to use it.Google rarely used any traditional means of advertising to promote its products and services, but this policy started changing, when Google used billboards to promote GOOG-411 service. Google also aggressively promoted it’s Chrome browser using…

  • Rizone Security Restore – Easily Restore your Computer to Default Security Settings

    Mezanul
    7 Feb 2010 | 12:16 pm
    Most of the time, in the event of a virus attack, the virus changes computer security settings to hide itself and do harm. Even though, you may have cleaned the virus by using the various security tools, these changed security settings remains intact in the computer which further causes trouble. You may start getting various “You don’t have permission to…” errors, which is very frustrating. Previously, we have written about tools like Re-Enable, XP Quick Fix Plus and 7 Quick Fix which to some extends help restoring default settings in Windows. We found a new utility…

  • Get Free, Lifetime Valid, Genuine License of WinUtilities Pro worth $49.99

    Mezanul
    6 Feb 2010 | 12:41 pm
    WinUtilities Pro is an award-winning collection of tools to optimize and speed-up your system performance. this suite has utilities to clean registry, temporary files on your disks, erase your application and internet browser history, cache and cookies. it also supports to defragment your disk drives and improve computer performance and stability. built-in StartUp Cleaner allows you to control startup programs that load automatically with windows, find duplicate files, fix broken shortcuts and uninstall unneeded software. other features include secure file deletion, recycle bin shredding,…

  • My Technology Guide Moved to a New Server [Update]

    Mezanul
    5 Feb 2010 | 11:57 am
    My Technology Guide had a rough day today with around 3 hour, 15 min of downtime in total. The main cause of this was the server on which it was hosted. So we took the issue with Dreamhost Support (our host) to see into the matter. They promptly replied with an apology for the situation explaining about why this was happening. In order to save us from further downtime, they moved us to a new server entirely.The move to the new server was almost transparent and caused little to no trouble at all. I don’t had to do any work on the server or configure anything entirely due to this move.

  • Email Client Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 alpha (Lanikai Alpha 1) Released

    Mezanul
    4 Feb 2010 | 1:33 pm
    Mozilla Thunderbird is a very popular desktop email client. Thunderbird email software was recently updated by its developers, Mozilla, to version 3. The update brought many new features and notable changes like better email account integration and configuration options, global search option, etc.The next version of Thunderbird will be version 3.1 and the first alpha release, codenamed “Lanikai Alpha 1” confirms this. Mozilla has asked interested users to test the new alpha release version of the email client and give their opinion. The developer has also warned anyone from…
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