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  • Fedora 12 Released with Huge Improvements in Tablet Support

    18 Nov 2009 | 6:30 pm
    Fedora 12 has been released. This release touts huge improvement in support for tablets accompanied by tweaks to our favourite software such as a new pen preset tool in Inkscape, Brush dynamics tool in Gimp, Handwriting recognition tool named Cellwriter, a notes taking application (Xournal) to name a few. The following are some of the other new features you will find in Fedora 12. Fedora 12 Main FeaturesEmpathy, an instant messenger that supports chat, video, and audio. It lets you talk to your friends who are on AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, Jabber, Live (MSN), MySpace, and many other platforms.

  • World's first 80 dollar laptop which can run Linux

    17 Nov 2009 | 9:48 pm
    After the $100 laptop OLPC project, it is the turn of the $80 laptop. You heard me right, this laptop costs only $80 if the video review that follows is to be believed. The $80 laptop branded EasyPC is one of the products rolled out by a Chinese laptop manufacturer - MENQ Group. EasyPC $80 laptop full specificationsEasyPC E790 comes with a modest 64MB RAM and 2 GB disk space. While the disk space is quite stingy, the good news is, it has an integrated standard SD card slot which supports cards of upto 32GB size. These are the full specs of the $80 laptop from the manufacturer's website. The…

  • How to self publish your own book

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

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

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

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

    3 Nov 2009 | 4:06 am
    There has always been a dearth in quality training material in Linux System Administration. And if there are resources on the Net, they are hard to find. Now here is a new venture by John Yerhot who endevours to provide very well made videos which explain how to use different commands in Linux, useful to people who administer Linux servers. FOSSCasts are short, free screencasts covering Linux, Unix, and Open Source software in general. Each episode is under 10 minutes and covers a different piece of Open Source software or a set of tips and tricks novice and seasoned veterans will both find…
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  • openSUSE 11.2-- Incremental Updates, Plenty of Polish

    21 Nov 2009 | 4:02 am
    LinuxPlanet: "With the purchase of SUSE by Novell many feared that the brand would be subsumed into the corporate borg and contaminated with proprietary add-ons. But openSUSE goes its own way, and the result is a sleek, reliable distribution with all the bells and whistles. Paul Ferrill takes it for a spin and reports."

  • Microsoft, other rivals slam Google Chrome OS

    21 Nov 2009 | 12:02 am
    Computerworld: "Microsoft Corp. is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google Inc.'s demonstration of its upcoming Chrome OS today, but neither were potential rivals who make Linux and instant-on operating systems."

  • Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:02 pm
    Phoronix: "Intel's Linux graphics driver stack is often at the forefront of X.Org / Mesa innovations, from Intel being the first driver having in-kernel video memory management to being the first driver with mainline kernel mode-setting support to even being the driver that often first receives support for new OpenGL extensions in Mesa."

  • Editor's Note: Do It Yourself "Cloud"

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:02 pm
    Last week I wrote "Cloud is Just Another Word for "Sucker". My objections to buying into this whole "cloud" services fad are three-fold: trust, reliability, and performance. But why not do-it-yourself? Linux has everything you need.

  • Google Chrome OS: First looks, first impressions

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:33 pm
    Ghacks: "The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released (and done so fully open sourced). It’s not an operating system you can (and should) be putting on a stand alone machine. Actually what has been released are VirtualBox and VMware images that can be booted in their respective virtual machines."
 
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  • Does Linus Torvalds Hate Freedom?

    Ken Hess
    21 Nov 2009 | 3:40 am
    It seems odd that Linus would oppose freedoms guaranteed under the GPL.

  • Some People Don't Know When To Leave Well Enough Alone

    Caitlyn Martin
    21 Nov 2009 | 2:42 am
    I am hounded, week in and week out, including three comments on DistroWatch this week, about my "refusal" to run Puppy Linux and my "crazy review". It never stops, it continues in e-mail and on every Linux forum where I write. Why are the Puppy Linux community members so obsessed with me? Here is the only reason I can think of...

  • Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 3) - Storage

    Thorsten Leemhuis
    21 Nov 2009 | 1:45 am
    The kernel development team have enhanced various aspects of Btrfs, one effect of which is to significantly improve the experimental file system's write performance. A number of changes to the block layer promise better data throughputs and reactivity. There are also several new drivers for storage hardware.

  • Security adapters ship with Linux SDK

    Eric Brown
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:48 am
    Cavium announced a new line of Nitrox network security adapters that ship with a Linux SDK. The Nitrox XL CN16XX-NFBE family offers a FIPS 140-2-certified hardware security nodule (HSM) with PCI Express Gen2 connectivity and integrated Network Interface Card (NIC) functionality, says Cavium.

  • Automatic Linux Laptop Backups

    Juliet Kemp
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:51 pm
    Laptops are often disconnected from networks, which makes running automated network backups a bit challenging. But in Linux there is always a way, and Juliet Kemp shows how to set up hands-off worry-free automatic laptop backups.
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  • Antifeatures

    In preparation for LCA, I'm going to be giving my new Antifeatures talk a few times to smaller local audiences. The first is going to be today in Boston (apologies for the late notice!) at Northeastern University at 11:45 and it's being hosted by the ACM chapter there. The second one will be at my alma mater Hampshire College in Amherst this Friday. A draft flier (ignore the unpluralized "antifeatue") is below.

  • Mr. Postman

    The mailbox in my building is broken. Nobody can remember it being any other way. The lock is busted so anyone in the building can get access to every apartment's individual boxes in the same way that the mailman does. It's not a huge problem since there are only four apartments in the building and the box is behind a locked door to the street. I saw the mailman come one day to deliver mail. He used a key to unlock a box on the outside of the building from which he retrieved a key to first unlock the outside door and then another to "unlock" the mailbox. Every day, my mailman…

  • Meta-Microblogging

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

  • Updating the Ubuntu Code of Conduct

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

  • Interview by Joe Barker

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

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:50 am
    Klaus Knopper has released version 6.2 of his Debian-based live-CD Linux distro. Based on Debian 5.0 ("Lenny"), the new version uses the lightweight LXDE as the default desktop, and includes a new version of the ADRIANE talking menu system for vision-impaired users.

  • Debian Linux-based Google Chrome OS debuts, goes open source

    19 Nov 2009 | 2:11 pm
    Google unveiled its Debian Linux- and Chrome browser based "Chrome OS" today and announced the open-sourcing of the project. Due to ship on netbooks in late 2010, the lightweight, cloud-oriented Chrome OS offers seven-second boot-ups, works only with flash storage, and borrows from projects including Moblin.

  • Mint 8 achieves RC1, and Fedora 12 goes final

    17 Nov 2009 | 11:56 am
    The Linux Mint team has announced the first (RC1) release candidate of the Ubuntu 9.10-based Linux Mint 8. Meanwhile, the Fedora community has released the final version of Fedora 12, and an eWEEK review praises the release for its improved system privilege management and virtualization features.

  • Dell PCs cram multimedia power into tiny package

    13 Nov 2009 | 12:14 am
    Dell announced a miniature PC using single- or dual-core AMD processors, available with Ubuntu Linux. Starting at approximately $230, the Inspiron Zino HD sports up to 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive, comes in ten colors, and is available with discrete graphics, says Dell.

  • OpenSUSE 11.2 and Novell's Mono Tools ship

    12 Nov 2009 | 10:56 am
    The Novell-backed OpenSUSE Linux distro project today released the final OpenSUSE 11.2, which received a mostly positive, in-depth review from eWEEK. Meanwhile, Novell released its Mono Tools for Visual Studio for developing .NET applications for Linux, Unix and Mac OS X, says another eWEEK story.
 
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  • Ohio LinuxFest is ready for 40 Years

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

  • The File Menu

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

  • OpenShot — Video Editing Made Simple

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

  • Hosting Mercurial Repositories with Nginx

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

  • Dim the screen at dark

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

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

  • Gentoo Ten Live DVD 10.1 Release

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

  • 2009 Gentoo 10 Screenshot Winners

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

  • Gentoo Linux - Ten Years Compiling: 1999 - 2009

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

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

    Matthew Summers
    Global Financial Derivatives trading company, OSTC Poland, uses Gentoo Linux in significant sectors of its IT infrastructure. We spoke with long time Gentoo user and head of OSTC Poland's IT department, Patryk Rządziński, to learn more about how and where Gentoo is used. We discovered, as you will read in the full interview, that Gentoo, and more generally open source software, serves well in the commercial world.
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  • How To Install, Edit, or Remove Cron Jobs in Batch Mode

    Ramesh Natarajan
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:03 pm
    Question:  How can I install all the schedule jobs from a text file to the crontab? Also, can I remove all the cron jobs at once instead of removing the individual lines from the crontab? Answer: You can install, edit and remove crontab in batch mode as examples below. Also, refer to our 15 crontab examples. [...] Read More: How To Install, Edit, or Remove Cron Jobs in Batch ModeCopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook. Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password: linux-is-wonderful

  • Unix bc Command Line Calculator in Batch Mode

    Ramesh Natarajan
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:02 pm
    You may be using bc command in command line for calculations. It can also be used for batch mode calculations as explained below. 1. Calculation using Single command $ echo "4+10" | bc 14 2. Calculation using Multiple commands $ echo "obase=15;5+9" | bc E 3. Using previous results in the current operation In the following example, “last” represents the result of the [...] Read More: Unix bc Command Line Calculator in Batch ModeCopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook. Linux 101…

  • 5 Easy Steps to Create a Flowchart Using Dia

    Ramesh Natarajan
    15 Nov 2009 | 10:01 pm
    Dia is a GTK+ based multi-platform diagram creation program. Dia is similar to the Visio program for Windows. If you don’t have dia, download it from here. In this article, let us review how to create a simple flow chart using Dia. Step 1. Select Flow Chart in the diagram tools window Select the flow chart in diagram tools [...] Read More: 5 Easy Steps to Create a Flowchart Using DiaCopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook. Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password: linux-is-wonderful

  • Fortran Hello World Example: How To Write and Execute Fortran Program on Linux OS

    Ramesh Natarajan
    12 Nov 2009 | 10:03 pm
    Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute a Fortran program on Linux OS. Can you explain it with a simple example? Answer: In this article, let us review very quickly how to write a basic Hello World Fortran program and execute *.f program on Linux or Unix OS. 1. [...] Read More: Fortran Hello World Example: How To Write and Execute Fortran Program on Linux OSCopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook. Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password: linux-is-wonderful

  • Ubuntu Tips: How To View System Log Files in GUI

    Ramesh Natarajan
    10 Nov 2009 | 10:03 pm
    Question: When debugging an issue on Ubuntu, I typically go to the command line to view the log file. Are there any GUI log file viewers available for Ubuntu? Answer: Ubuntu comes with an inbuilt system log file viewer. Launching System Log Viewer Click on System -> Administration -> Log File Viewer, to launch the GUI log viewer [...] Read More: Ubuntu Tips: How To View System Log Files in GUICopyright The Geek Stuff. All Rights Reserved. Support thegeekstuff when you shop at amazon. Thank You!Download Vim 101 Hacks eBook. Linux 101 Hacks eBook Password: linux-is-wonderful
 
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  • Dead PowerBook G4

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

  • Flags and outrages

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

  • Operation PANTS

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

  • Unread email

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

  • DebConf 9

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

    J5
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:10 am
    Having followed its development for a long time now and used other video editing software I can say that PiTiVi is an awesome app that is only going to get better. Sure it isn’t perfect yet but that is software development for you. It takes time to get all the features in and make them solid. One of the great parts of Open Source Software is you get to see it develop and grow. It is also one of the biggest misunderstood aspects of such software. In a world where people are gripped by the next best thing – a collective psychosis of product ADD – where patience is no longer a…

  • Is the whole world smiling or just laughing behind your back

    J5
    8 Nov 2009 | 8:39 pm
    For various reasons I am staying out of government politics these days but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stay away from a bit of controversy when it comes to my beloved Open Source crowd. I remember at one Boston Summit, being held at the MIT Stata Center, where Luis Villa, our much appreciated lawyer in training (or is he an actual lawyer yet and more importantly can we start cracking lawyer jokes?), was holding a Marketing BOF. In this BOF we ended up listing things that GNOME didn’t do well in which someone who was not part of the GNOME community but rather an invited…

  • GNOME Miro Video Page

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

  • Litl’s little netbook

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

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

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

    jono
    9 Nov 2009 | 3:48 pm
    One of the challenges that every community faces, particularly teams inside a larger community, is the ability to coordinate what goals and ambitions the team is going to work on. Traditionally this has always been somewhat ad-hoc: people join a team and work on whatever they feel like. Ideas are ten-a-penny though. For most teams that work on larger projects (such as events, software, products and more) to actually be productive, coordinating this work can be complex: some projects require coordination across many people with different skill-sets, time-availability and resources. Something I…

  • Canonical and Creative Commons Meet Donations Target

    jono
    9 Nov 2009 | 10:25 am
    Melissa from the Creative Commons pointed me to the rather good news that Canonical’s offer to match Creative Commons donations up to $3000 has already been matched: Just five days ago we announced that Canonical would be generously matching every donation dollar for dollar for the next week – up to $3,000. Well, we met that goal in record time! Thanks to everyone who donated in the past five days and had your donation doubled – for a total of $6,000 going toward our annual campaign to sustain CC! Many thanks to Canonical for their ongoing support of free culture and Creative…

  • One Year Anniversary

    jono
    8 Nov 2009 | 7:17 pm
    One year ago today, I married the love of my life, Erica. From the minute we went on our first date, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. We instantly developed a close connection; a bond that spans beliefs, interests, ambitions and tastes. Since that day we have not only carved out a life with each other, but grown a partnership that is strong and connected, underlined with a lust for life, experienced and shared together. When it comes to relationships, I have always been inspired by my parents. They have been together for thirty years and they still hold hands, tell each…

  • The Intersection Of Quality And Expectations

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

  • Not Tolerating The Intolerant

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

    19 Nov 2009 | 2:51 pm
    I noticed that the source released happened during the webcast, so go get it now!Getting and building:http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os

  • Speaking UNIX: 10 great tools for any UNIX system

    19 Nov 2009 | 10:31 am
    The universe of UNIX® tools changes constantly. Here are 10 tools—some you may have overlooked and some new—to tinker with.

  • The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It's Coming Soon

    18 Nov 2009 | 11:20 am
    The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real.Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.

  • 20 Essential Tips Every Ubuntu User Should Know

    17 Nov 2009 | 8:00 pm
    We've compiled a list of the 20 most important skills that every Ubuntu user should have. These tips, ranging from basic GUI manipulation to advanced system recovery, are essential to your Ubuntu computing experience.

  • PDC09 - Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework

    17 Nov 2009 | 3:11 pm
    Peter Galli reporting form PDC09 - Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here in Los Angeles, we announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that we are open sourcing the product and making it available under the Apache 2.0 license...
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  • Low-cost NAS gains USB ports, social net sync

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:49 pm
    Cloud Engines has released a new version of its Linux-based Pogoplug networked-attached storage (NAS) device, which uses the Marvell SheevaPlug reference design. The Pogoplug is larger and costs $30 more, but moves from one USB port to four, and adds new synchronization, multimedia sharing, and social networking integration features....

  • Gaming boards run Linux

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:38 pm
    Acrosser announced two Linux-ready & All-in-One& boards for gaming and AWP (Amusement With Prizes) machines. The ACE-B5296 supports an Intel Pentium and 915GME northbridge, and the ACE-B5692 runs a Core 2 Duo and GME965, and both offer dual VGA outputs, PCIe expansion, plus Ethernet, USB, serial, storage, ccTalk, and JAMMA I/O....

  • Knoppix rev'd

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:27 am
    Klaus Knopper has released version 6.2 of his Debian-based live-CD Linux distro. Based on Debian 5.0 (& Lenny& ), the new version uses the lightweight LXDE as the default desktop, and includes a new version of the ADRIANE talking menu system for vision-impaired users....

  • HMI SBC gains larger display, Linux BSP

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:58 am
    Blue Chip Technology has released an updated version of its small SBC (single board computer) aimed at embedded HMI (human machine interface) applications. Based on a MIPS32-based RMI Au1100 processor, the new RE1 & REsolution& SBC adds a full Linux board support package and a 7-inch LCD module, says the company....

  • Security adapters ship with Linux SDK

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:14 pm
    Cavium announced a new line of Nitrox network security adapters that ship with a Linux SDK. The Nitrox XL CN16XX-NFBE family offers a FIPS 140-2-certified hardware security nodule (HSM) with PCI Express Gen2 connectivity and integrated Network Interface Card (NIC) functionality, says Cavium....
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  • Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Implementations of the dynamic language leverage popular platforms to broaden its appeal

  • Why Chrome OS will fail -- big time

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    A lack of flexibility will doom Google's latest ego trip to the dustbin of history

  • Google Chrome OS: A Simple FAQ

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Everyone's all a-twitter over Google's newly announced operating system, Google Chrome OS. Some swear it'll be a hit; others are convinced it's destined for failure. Love it or hate it, though, this puppy's one tough piece of software to ignore.

  • Google's Chrome OS: A Web appliance, not a PC

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Expected for Christmas 2010, these browser-based netbooks will run only Web apps

  • Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Succeed

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Google's Chrome OS doesn't signal the apocalypse for Apple and Microsoft, but that doesn't mean the operating system won't succeed when it arrives next year. Just like the Chrome Web browser, Google's carving out a small slice of the market for people who want the company's buzzwords of speed, security and simplicity. Over time, the legion of Chrome OS fans will grow, and Google will look at its operating system as a success, not a failure, as my colleague Tony Bradley argues.
 
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  • Coolest Desktop Screenshot Wins Prize

    LJ Staff
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:54 am
    Take a screenshot of your desktop and post it to the Linux Journal Flickr pool (or e-mail it to us). Our editors will pick the 5 they deem "coolest" on Monday and we'll post them here for all to revel in. read more

  • More Fun With Bash Quoting

    Mitch Frazier
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:52 am
    I've written about bash quoting before, and yes, it's about as exciting as watching paint dry or listening to the corn grow. It can also be extremely frustrating when it doesn't do what you want, case in point: trying to script the updating of a field in a mysql table when the field to be changed contains quote characters. read more

  • IRC Chats with Pidgin!

    Shawn Powers
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:51 am
    Download in .ogv format read more

  • Renaming Groups of Files From the Command Line

    Mitch Frazier
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:04 am
    Download in .ogv format. See how I did it. See how Shawn does it. read more

  • Introducing OpenShot

    Dave Phillips
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:56 am
    As promised, I've continued to research and test desktop video editors for Linux. This week we'll look at OpenShot, a GTK-based project. read more
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  • Let's Act on ACTA Before it's Too Late

    Glyn Moody
    9 Nov 2009 | 8:19 am
    It was over a year ago that I wrote about the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (ACTA), a new global standard for the enforcement of intellectual monopolies currently being discussed by representatives of the United States, the European Commission, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand. Since then, the secret negotiations have been continuing, and the threats it poses to the Internet as we know it grow ever larger. read more

  • More on Poulsbo (GMA500), Intel, and the Community

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

  • Finally! SecDef signs Clarifying Guidance Regarding Open Source Software

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

  • A Bit of Licence

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

  • Cloud Computing: Good or Bad for Open Source?

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

    21 Nov 2009 | 12:31 am
    Now this is one to ponder. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Barack Obama, president of the United States.

  • Microsoft's embrace of MySQL could kill it

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:02 pm
    For those who have fret about Microsoft fighting against open source, I have news for you: Microsoft's impact on open source may be worse as a friend than as an enemy.

  • Microsoft, other rivals slam Google Chrome OS

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pm
    Eric Lai, Computerworld Microsoft is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google's demonstration of its upcoming Chrome OS, but neither were a number of potential rivals in the Linux and instant-on operating system space.

  • Facebook Previews a Sleek New Photo Uploader

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:08 am
    Facebook is not only the world's biggest social network, it's also one of the most popular places to share photos .

  • SK Telecom prepping LiMo phone for Korea

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:45 am
    LiMo Foundation announced that Korean wireless provider SK Telecom will deploy a Samsung-made "SCH-M510 "phone that complies with the LiMo specification and offers a 3.5-inch AMOLED display.
 
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  • Ubuntu in Truffle Shuffle with Chrome OS

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:13 am
    Ubuntu’s commercial sponsor Canonical revealed late yesterday that it has been working with Google on its Chrome OS platform since before Mountain View announced its game-changing plans in July this year...

  • Linux 2.6.32-rc8 Released

    19 Nov 2009 | 2:56 pm
    Ok, the way things are going, this will likely be the last -rc. I wish we had more people looking at the regression list, but at some point I'm just going to have to say "ok, enough is enough..."

  • Chrome OS Now Open Sourced, Gearing for 2010 Release

    19 Nov 2009 | 11:56 am
    Though there was no formal Chrome OS release announcement made today by Google, the Mountain View, CA company did give media a sneak peek at the new Linux-based operating system while announcing that as of today, the entire Chrome OS project will be available for open source development.

  • More Fun With Bash Quoting

    19 Nov 2009 | 5:52 am
    I've written about bash quoting before, and yes, it's about as exciting as watching paint dry or listening to the corn grow. It can also be extremely frustrating when it doesn't do what you want, case in point: trying to script the u...

  • Canonical Working on an iTunes-Like Music Store for Ubuntu?

    18 Nov 2009 | 11:14 am
    One program people I know miss when they've tried to switch to Linux is iTunes.
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  • Open Source Science: A Revolution From Within

    Vivian Wagner
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Ask anyone in the open source science movement what it's all about, and you're likely to come back to the word that's right there in its name: "open." Open source science is all about open access. To research methods. To data. To scholarly publications. And supporters feel that it's vital to the continued growth and evolution of science itself. "Open source science is a collaborative and transparent approach to science," said Walter Jessen, a bioinformatician and cancer biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

  • Google Spills Chrome OS' Guts

    Richard Adhikari
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:28 pm
    Google on Thursday opened the source code for its fledgling Chrome operating system to developers. This means "Google developers will be working on the same tree as external developers, and we're looking forward to working with the open source community," said Sunder Pichai, vice president of product management at Google. Netbooks running Chrome OS will hit retail shelves next year in time for the holiday season, Pinchai added. Google is developing specifications for hardware and will work with OEMs to ensure they deliver products made to its specs.

  • FOSS and the Google Question

    Katherine Noyes
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Devices based on Google's Linux-based Android operating system may be dominating headlines in the mobile world, but does the search giant *really* love FOSS? Google's introduction of the open Go programming language, for instance, has attracted considerable notice in the blogosphere, inviting widespread speculation as to how it will compare with competitors. Meanwhile, there was also discussion on the blogs of Google's use of Linux in its own operations.

  • Maemo Edges Out Symbian in Nokia's N900 Smartphone

    Richard Adhikari
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:25 pm
    Three months after Nokia announced its N900 smartphone, the device has arrived in the United States. The N900 runs on the Linux-based Maemo platform, and Nokia's hype around it raises questions about whether the company plans to replace its older Symbian platform with Maemo. Meanwhile, rumors that Nokia might purchase device maker Palm have been swirling around in the market, drawing yet another question mark around the Finnish smartphone vendor's plans. Maemo is an open source platform based on Debian GNU/Linux.

  • Microsoft FOSSifies .Net Micro Framework

    Jack M. Germain
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    The latest version of Microsoft's .Net Micro framework is now in the hands of the FOSS community. Microsoft announced at its Professional Developer Conference on Tuesday the release of version 4.0 under the Apache 2.0 license. The license transfer makes good on a longstanding promise from Redmond that it would make the popular .Net code base available as open source. The gift to the open source community, however, does come with some strings attached -- or, rather, removed from the gift wrapping.
 
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  • Phorogit Turns Two, Happy Birthday

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:06 pm
    Today marks the two-year anniversary of the creation of Phorogit.com. Phorogit is the Git repository that is sponsored by Phoronix Media to house the development of a few free software projects. The two most prominent projects currently housed at Phorogit are the ATI Catalyst Linux driver packaging scripts (fglrx-packaging.git) and the Phoronix Test Suite (phoronix-test-suite.git)...

  • libvdpau, libva Both Updated Today

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:19 pm
    In hopes of pushing VDPAU beyond just being a NVIDIA Unix driver technology and to make it an open standard for Linux video driver developers wishing to provide HD video acceleration on Linux via the GPU, NVIDIA released a standalone VDPAU library back in September and have been trying to push some VDPAU bits for DRI2. Today NVIDIA has updated its standalone VDPAU library, libvdpau, which is now at version 0.3. This library update supports versioning to the drivers, configurable install directory support, libvdpau_trace, and documentation updates...

  • Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:10 am
    Intel's Linux graphics driver stack is often at the forefront of X.Org / Mesa innovations, from Intel being the first driver having in-kernel video memory management to being the first driver with mainline kernel mode-setting support to even being the driver that often first receives support for new OpenGL extensions in Mesa. The Intel Linux driver stack can be attributed with many firsts, but continually pushing this driver while putting out quarterly timed releases has led to some pains. Earlier this year in fact the driver stack was rather buggy -- especially in Ubuntu 9.04 -- that…

  • Fedora 13 May Support Btrfs System Rollbacks

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:11 am
    Fedora 12 was just released this week, but features for Fedora 13 have been in planning long before this release made it out the door. In fact, it was last month that we began talking about features for Fedora 13...

  • X Server 1.7.2 RC2 Released With 15 Fixes

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:16 am
    X Server 1.7.2 is scheduled to be released a week from Friday, so in preparations for that, Peter Hutterer has just pushed out the second release candidate for this minor point release. X Server 1.7.2 RC2 is made up of 15 fixes (mostly for XQuartz) since the RC1 release that arrived earlier this month. There's nothing real exciting in this release beyond addressing bugs as most developers are now focused on X Server 1.8, which will be released in March...
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  • 64-bits of protection?

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:34 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Joe Faulhaber of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center has made the interesting claim that 64-bit Windows 7 is actually safer than ordinary, 32-bit Windows. He's right. "64-bit Windows [does] has some of the lowest reported malware infection rates in the first half of 2009." But, that's not the whole story.

  • Google Chrome OS goes open source in Chromium OS

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:32 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Google today has officially open sourced its under-development Chrome OS operating system under the Chromium OS project. The code is available now at: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os - I'm currently in the process of trying to build a full system now (so more to come from me soon). Right now the gziped Tarball is 232 MB (pretty small for an OS) and the official build milestone number is 0.4.22.8.

  • PHP 5.3.1 Security Updates

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:27 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Nearly five months after the release of PHP 5.3.0, the PHP developers have released the first maintenance update to the 5.3 branch of their popular programming language. The PHP 5.3.1 update focuses on stability and includes approximately 100 bug fixes, some of which are security related.

  • Using a Cisco Router as a "Remote Collector" for tcpdump or Wireshark

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:10 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Have you ever thought about your routers. I mean - *really* thought about them? They think all day long, processing all of the packets in and out of your company's WAN or internet connection, and hardly ever complain. But can you get any useful information out of those packets?

  • A Linux Security Primer

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:09 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: Linux aficionados and computer security experts -- not to mention many IT writers -- are known to use a couple of terms with, well, not-easily-discernable definitions when they talk about Linux security. Problem is, you need to know these terms to understand discussions about computer security (and, of course, to communicate effectively with security vendors).
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  • Mandriva: glpi

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:09 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: This is a maintenance and bugfix release that updates glpi to 0.72.3.

  • Pardus: Qt: Webkit: Multiple Vulnerabilities

    19 Nov 2009 | 12:15 pm
    LinuxSecurity.com: Description ========== * CVE-2009-3384: Multiple security flaws (integer underflow, invalid pointer dereference, buffer underflow and a denial of service) were found in the way WebKit's FTP parser used to process remote FTP directory listings. If a remote FTP server issued a specially-crafted FTP command, it could lead to disclosure of sensitive information, denial of service (application crash) or, potentially to execution of arbitrary code, once the command was parsed.

  • Mandriva: perl-URPM

    19 Nov 2009 | 10:12 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: perl-URPM can sometimes get confused about which GPG pubkey belong to which media. This update fixes this issue.

  • Mandriva: SDL_image

    19 Nov 2009 | 10:03 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: SDL_image shipped in Mandriva Linux 2010.0 contains a hidden link on libjpeg62, which is incompatible with libjpeg7 shipped in 2010.0. The hidden link will cause downstream applications such as tuxmath unable to launch. This update fixes this issue.

  • Mandriva: pango

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:42 am
    LinuxSecurity.com: A bug in pango was preventing correct location of some glyphs when scaling was in effect. This update fixes this issue and enforce version dependency on cairo, which could cause crashes when upgrading Mandriva Linux distribution to release 2010.0.
 
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  • The Problem With The Linux Community

    Caitlyn Martin
    While I'm very positive about the openSUSE team I must say that I am a lot less sanguine about some in their community. Some fans (or really fanatics) came out in force ready to attack the reviewer (me), to question my skills and even my sanity, to attack Ladislav Bodnar for posting the review, to blame the hardware, anything at all but the distro code which is, according to some, "the best release ever".

  • Four short links: 6 November 2009 - Barcode Scanning, Downloadable Community Book, Gov Hack Day, Android Kludges

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

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

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

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

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

  • VMware Cookbook

    Matthew Helmke, Ryan Troy
    A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use
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  • How much tea?

    seele
    12 Nov 2009 | 1:15 pm
    Anyone who knows me knows that I love tea and drink *a lot* of it. Today I asked myself, “How long would it take to drink my weight in tea?” (Note: this is approximated using both fluid and dry measurements) 1 serving of tea requires ~1 tablespoon of dried tea leaves There are 2 tablespoons in 1 ounce There are 16 ounces in 1 pound There are 125 pounds in 1 Celeste There are 365 days in 1 year (give or take 1/7 of a day) 1 serving of tea makes ~3 infusions (which is a good approximation of how much tea I drink a day) 1 serving of tea * 2 tablespoons * 16 ounces * 125 pounds = 4000…

  • HCI Foundations: Evaluation Methodologies

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

  • Maryland LoCo Karmic Release Party

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

  • HCI Foundations: System Usability

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

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

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

    From the Conceptual dept.: Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions. The Chromium OS project includes our current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development. This is the initial sketch and we will color…

  • Spain Codifies 'The Right to Broadband'

    From the More FPS dept.: Spanish citizens will have a legal right from 2011 to be able to buy broadband internet of at least one megabyte per second at a regulated price wherever they live, the country's industry minister said on Tuesday. The telecoms operator holding the so-called "universal service" contract would have to guarantee it could offer "reasonably" priced broadband throughout Spain, said Miguel Sebastian in a statement sent to media.

  • Microsoft open sources .NET Micro Framework

    From the Micro dept.: Back in July, Microsoft announced it was making .NET available under its Community Promise, which in theory allowed free software developers to use the technology without fear of patent lawsuits. Unsurprisingly, many free software geeks were unconvinced by the promise (after all, what's a promise compared to an actual open licence?), but now Microsoft has taken things to the next level by releasing the .NET Micro Framework under the Apache licence. Yes, you read that correctly: a sizeable chunk of .NET is about to go open source.

  • Google Introduces Own Open Source Language "Go"

    From the Go Go Google C dept.: Go is a new programming language from Google that aims for performance that is nearly comparable to C, but with more expressive syntax and faster compilation. What it won't do, however, is liberate the coding masses from bracist tyranny. Google's Go is yet another take on C.

  • EC Formally Objects To Oracle's Purchase of Sun

    From the Maginot Line dept.: European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Oracle Corp.'s $7.4-billion US takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing concerns that the takeover could hurt competition in the database market. The European Commission sent a statement of objections to Sun on Monday. At the heart of the issue is Sun's MySQL division, which makes the most popular open source database software. Oracle is the market leader in proprietary database software — the kind that is protected by copyright.
 
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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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  • Google Chrome OS a été officialisé ce jeudi

    Toolinux
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pm
    En marge de la conférence de presse qui s'est tenue dans son siège de Mountain View, Google a publié ce jeudi soir le code source de son système d'exploitation Google Chrome OS. Objectif : "Inciter les partenaires technologiques, la communauté open source et les développeurs indépendants à participer à son développement." Les premiers ordinateurs équipés de l'OS seront disponibles avant Noël 2010. - Logiciels

  • Firefox 3.6 sort en beta 3

    Toolinux
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:25 pm
    Mozilla annonce la disponibilité de Firefox 3.6 beta 3. Au menu, selon la Fondation : "plus de personnalisation (avec l'intégration de Personas), une sécurité renforcée (avec la vérification automatique de la validité des plugins), des performance améliorées, et des améliorations dans l'interface." - Logiciels

  • Rencontres Fedora 12 à Paris 12 et 13 décembre

    Toolinux
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:25 pm
    Deux jours après la sortie de la dernière Fedora, l'association Fedora-Fr annonce, les 12 et 13 décembre 2009 à la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie de Paris, les "Rencontres Fedora 12". - Evénements et séminaires

  • NextiraOne/ATEME "libère" des casernes en Corse

    Toolinux
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:07 pm
    ATEME a été choisie par NextiraOne et la Gendarmerie Nationale pour fournir dess solutions d'encodage, de transmission, d'enregistrement et de transcodage pour le projet de sécurisation des casernes en Corse. - Communiqué

  • Confoo Montréal en mars 2010

    Toolinux
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    PHP Québec, Montréal-Python, Ruby Montréal, W3Qc, et OWASP Montréal lancent la première édition de la Conférence Confoo.ca. La manifestation se tiendra du 10 au 12 mars 2010 au centre-ville de Montréal. - Evénements et séminaires
 
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  • 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…

  • Foresight, rPath, LiveCD, and Unity Linux

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

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

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

  • YALB – ITLPD

    devnet
    19 Sep 2009 | 8:41 am
    In honor of today, which is International Talk like a Pirate Day, my blog now comes in pirate flavor thanks to a very interesting plugin. So have a look around!  Some posts are pretty silly sounding and others are downright hilarious.  And have a great day or you’ll probably have to walk the plank somewhere YALB – ITLPD originally appeared on Yet Another Linux Blog on September 19, 2009. No related posts.
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  • Creating a roadmap for more successful teams

    jono
    9 Nov 2009 | 3:48 pm
    One of the challenges that every community faces, particularly teams inside a larger community, is the ability to coordinate what goals and ambitions the team is going to work on. Traditionally this has always been somewhat ad-hoc: people join a team and work on whatever they feel like. Ideas are ten-a-penny though. For most teams that work on larger projects (such as events, software, products and more) to actually be productive, coordinating this work can be complex: some projects require coordination across many people with different skill-sets, time-availability and resources. Something I…

  • Canonical and Creative Commons Meet Donations Target

    jono
    9 Nov 2009 | 10:25 am
    Melissa from the Creative Commons pointed me to the rather good news that Canonical’s offer to match Creative Commons donations up to $3000 has already been matched: Just five days ago we announced that Canonical would be generously matching every donation dollar for dollar for the next week – up to $3,000. Well, we met that goal in record time! Thanks to everyone who donated in the past five days and had your donation doubled – for a total of $6,000 going toward our annual campaign to sustain CC! Many thanks to Canonical for their ongoing support of free culture and Creative…

  • One Year Anniversary

    jono
    8 Nov 2009 | 7:17 pm
    One year ago today, I married the love of my life, Erica. From the minute we went on our first date, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. We instantly developed a close connection; a bond that spans beliefs, interests, ambitions and tastes. Since that day we have not only carved out a life with each other, but grown a partnership that is strong and connected, underlined with a lust for life, experienced and shared together. When it comes to relationships, I have always been inspired by my parents. They have been together for thirty years and they still hold hands, tell each…

  • The Intersection Of Quality And Expectations

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

  • Not Tolerating The Intolerant

    jono
    5 Nov 2009 | 2:55 pm
    Thanks to my friends over at ZDNet for allowing me to post another guest article on their Between The Lines column. This time I have written an article discussing the importance of a productive, pleasant and pleasurable community that rewards great work and celebrates the exchange of both agreeable and challenging opinions, ideas and views, and how intolerance can risk and undermine that community. Go and read Not Tolerating The Intolerant.
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  • links for 2009-11-16

    Jeff Waugh
    16 Nov 2009 | 12:01 am
    Drupal, [WordPress] or Django? A Guide for Decision Makers "Drupal represents a middle ground between framework and CMS that we’ve chosen not to take. Drupal is far more capable than a CMS like WordPress, but also much less flexible than a pure framework [like Django]." — Great post which reflects my current attitude towards WordPress, Drupal and Django/Rails. (tags: django drupal wordpress php cms web opensource)

  • links for 2009-11-12

    Jeff Waugh
    12 Nov 2009 | 1:37 am
    Ajax Autocomplete for jQuery "Ajax Autocomplete for jQuery allows you to easily create autocomplete/autosuggest boxes for text input fields." — But this one is genuinely sweet. (tags: jquery jquery-autocomplete ajax autocomplete javascript web)

  • WotD: Trollumnist

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

  • Sexism, metaphor, whimsy and caprice

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

  • QotD: John Lennon

    Jeff Waugh
    10 Sep 2009 | 5:00 am
    No. No musicals. I loathe musicals. I never did have a plan for doing one. My cousin made me sit through some fucking musical twice. I just hate them. They bore me stiff. I think they’re just horrible. Even Hair. And they’re always lousy music.  — John Lennon, from The Lost Interviews by Ray Connolly
 
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  • Links for 2009-11-18

    dailylinks
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    nginx_http_push_module – Comet For The People : looks great (tags: nginx ajax webdev server comet scalability)

  • Links for 2009-11-17

    dailylinks
    17 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    “Source Code Optimisation”, Felix von Leitner, Linux Kongress 2009 [PDF] : Good presentation on C compiler optimization, via Cal Henderson. ‘People often write less readable code because they think it will produce faster code. Unfortunately, in most cases, the code will not be faster.’ I particularly like ‘Fancy-Schmancy Algorithms’: ‘If you have 10-100 elements, use a list, not a red-black tree; Fancy data structures help on paper, but rarely in reality. (More space overhead in the data structure, less L2 cache left for actual data.)’ (tags:…

  • Links for 2009-11-15

    dailylinks
    15 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    JSON Format : ‘your online JSON Formatter’. useful. via JKeyes (tags: via:jkeyes json formatting tools useful format debugging) Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures : good reviews and notes from Peteris Krumins (tags: algorithms mit programming coding lectures)

  • Links for 2009-11-14

    dailylinks
    14 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    MacRumors iPhone Blog: Undercover 1.5 Adds Push Notification Tool to iPhone Theft Recovery App : very clever. ‘You can make the messages as enticing as you want – say, by having them pretend to be a notification from your bank account. If the crook chooses to view the push notification, Undercover will launch, [..] loading any Website of your choosing, such as the aforementioned bank’s. While the thief is distracted, Undercover will be happy to save the device’s GPS coordinates and IP address to Orbicule’s Website.’ (tags: iphone theft crime…

  • Links for 2009-11-12

    dailylinks
    12 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    HTC Hero is on Meteor : according to Fergal, at half of the price of O2’s iPhone “deal” (tags: htc hero o2 iphone android phones mobile ireland meteor) SSL trick certificate published : ioerror published the ‘\00′ wild-card SSL cert for any domain (for affected SSL client libs at least) (tags: ssl tls security nul ioerror bugs exploits)
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  • Ubuntu in Truffle Shuffle with Chrome OS

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:13 am
    Ubuntu’s commercial sponsor Canonical revealed late yesterday that it has been working with Google on its Chrome OS platform since before Mountain View announced its game-changing plans in July this year...

  • Linux 2.6.32-rc8 Released

    19 Nov 2009 | 2:56 pm
    Ok, the way things are going, this will likely be the last -rc. I wish we had more people looking at the regression list, but at some point I'm just going to have to say "ok, enough is enough..."

  • Chrome OS Now Open Sourced, Gearing for 2010 Release

    19 Nov 2009 | 11:56 am
    Though there was no formal Chrome OS release announcement made today by Google, the Mountain View, CA company did give media a sneak peek at the new Linux-based operating system while announcing that as of today, the entire Chrome OS project will be available for open source development.

  • More Fun With Bash Quoting

    19 Nov 2009 | 5:52 am
    I've written about bash quoting before, and yes, it's about as exciting as watching paint dry or listening to the corn grow. It can also be extremely frustrating when it doesn't do what you want, case in point: trying to script the u...

  • Canonical Working on an iTunes-Like Music Store for Ubuntu?

    18 Nov 2009 | 11:14 am
    One program people I know miss when they've tried to switch to Linux is iTunes.
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  • N900 (and other OMAP3 devices) DSP accelerated Theora

    admin
    12 Nov 2009 | 12:45 am
    David Schleef’s theora optimisation for the dsp in the OMAP3 will really make open video a reality for the N900 and other OMAP3 devices like Palm Pre/Motorola Droid. Thank you David and Mozilla for the work.

  • N900 Youtube app

    admin
    9 Nov 2009 | 1:02 am
    At the end of last week, I put packages for flv and ffmpeg gstreamer plugins into maemo extras-devel for fremantle (the version of Maemo that ships in the N900). With those packages, the N900 can play flv files from youtube and elsewhere but there was no app making use of it except the built in media player which one would have to write a mafw plugin for the different sites. So on Sunday afternoon, after a good round of golf (albeit some really crappy short putts missed) I decided to try and write a youtube browser and player. After 20 minutes (and code to parse youtube stuff borrowed from…

  • Using GStreamer-python in Maemo 5 on N900

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

  • Maemo widget experience - circular clock with transparent background

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

  • Last time seen with my Minima glasses :(

    admin
    8 Oct 2009 | 3:04 am
    Above (taken on Fri Oct 2 2009) was the last photo taken of me with the glasses I picked up and wore for the first time on my wedding day 6 years and 2 months ago. They have found their destiny to rest in peace just outside Barcelona in Spain. Yesterday I ordered a replacement pair.
 
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  • [$] Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

    jake
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pm
    Fedora 12 was released on November 17 with the usual pile of new packages and features. By the sounds, it is a solid, well-received release. But one feature—unpublicized, undocumented, and turned on by default—has a number of Fedora users up in arms, leading to a huge thread on fedora-devel, in the bugzilla entry, and here at LWN. Subscribers can click below for a look at this issue from next week's edition.

  • Help wanted: kbuild maintainer

    corbet
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:12 pm
    Sam Ravnborg, long-time maintainer of the kernel build (kbuild) subsystem, has announced his intention to step down from that role. "I have done this solely on a hobbyist basis and family (3 kids etc) + job require me so the kbuild maintainer job was becoming a duty and not that fun suddenly." It's not clear who the replacement will be. Thanks are due to Sam, who has left the state of kernel building far better than he found it.

  • MySQL Community Server 5.0.88 has been released

    ris
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:02 am
    MySQL Community Server 5.0.88 has been released. This release includes a security fix along with other bug fixes. "Security Fix: MySQL clients linked against OpenSSL did not check server certificates presented by a server linked against yaSSL."

  • Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation

    jake
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:07 pm
    Fedora project leader Paul Frields has announced that the PackageKit policy that allowed non-root users to install packages will be changed. "After more discussion and thought, though, the package maintainers have posted to the fedora-devel-list mailing list agreeing to provide an update to Fedora 12's PackageKit. The update will require local console users to enter the root password to install new software packages." The message from Owen Taylor gives a good overview of the issue.

  • The 2.6.32-rc8 kernel is out

    corbet
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:17 pm
    Linus has released 2.6.32-rc8. "The way things are going, this will likely be the last -rc. I wish we had more people looking at the regression list, but at some point I'm just going to have to say 'ok, enough is enough'." Details may be found in the full changelog.
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  • The Problem With The Linux Community

    Caitlyn Martin
    While I'm very positive about the openSUSE team I must say that I am a lot less sanguine about some in their community. Some fans (or really fanatics) came out in force ready to attack the reviewer (me), to question my skills and even my sanity, to attack Ladislav Bodnar for posting the review, to blame the hardware, anything at all but the distro code which is, according to some, "the best release ever".

  • Four short links: 6 November 2009 - Barcode Scanning, Downloadable Community Book, Gov Hack Day, Android Kludges

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

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

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

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

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

  • VMware Cookbook

    Matthew Helmke, Ryan Troy
    A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use
 
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  • I would just like to say PiTiVi rocks

    J5
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:10 am
    Having followed its development for a long time now and used other video editing software I can say that PiTiVi is an awesome app that is only going to get better. Sure it isn’t perfect yet but that is software development for you. It takes time to get all the features in and make them solid. One of the great parts of Open Source Software is you get to see it develop and grow. It is also one of the biggest misunderstood aspects of such software. In a world where people are gripped by the next best thing – a collective psychosis of product ADD – where patience is no longer a…

  • Is the whole world smiling or just laughing behind your back

    J5
    8 Nov 2009 | 8:39 pm
    For various reasons I am staying out of government politics these days but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stay away from a bit of controversy when it comes to my beloved Open Source crowd. I remember at one Boston Summit, being held at the MIT Stata Center, where Luis Villa, our much appreciated lawyer in training (or is he an actual lawyer yet and more importantly can we start cracking lawyer jokes?), was holding a Marketing BOF. In this BOF we ended up listing things that GNOME didn’t do well in which someone who was not part of the GNOME community but rather an invited…

  • GNOME Miro Video Page

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

  • Litl’s little netbook

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

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

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

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

  • Linux in a Nutshell 6ed

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

  • Tiananmen, Then and Now

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

  • Cupcake!

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

  • Where I've Been

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

    9 Nov 2009 | 9:50 am
    Linux related jobs continue to outpace its counterparts. An article on SearchEnterpriseLinux.com goes into details of the findings from data collected by Dice.com. Not surprisingly, the number of overall technical jobs have been reduced sequentially on a year by year basis. However, the important thing to note is the fact that open source related jobs are growing at a faster clip than Windows and other technical areas. More and more enterprises have adopted open source software into their data centers. This trend continues to this day. Hopefully, in the future we will not only be talking…

  • Universities Seeing the Open Source Light

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

  • Florida Linux Show Update

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

  • All About the Brain Power

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

  • Helpful Hints In Avoiding the Ax

    22 Sep 2009 | 9:25 am
    Given the state of the labor market, the one thing you want to try to limit is your chances of getting fired. Of course, there are plenty of instances (workforce reduction, etc.) that are out of your control. However, it is imperative that you take care of behavior that is in your control.In this Datamation article, Eric Spiegel outlines three steps you can follow to limit your chances of getting the ax. All three are very relevant, but one in particular sticks out to me. The notion that you, as a developer, must promote your own work.I agree completely with this. In a number of cases, this…
 
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  • Google Chrome OS Promises a 3-Second Boot

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:45 am
    Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, announced on November 19th the immediate availability of the source code for their upcoming Chrome Operating System, under the name of Chromium OS. The actual Chrome OS, as Google said, will be released sometime at the end of 2010, one year from now, and it will be available at first for netbooks and, later on, high-end machines. With this source code freely available for download, various developers can get involved in the project, by creating applications, patches, etc. In other words, from now on, the development of the…

  • KNOPPIX 6.2 Is Available for Download

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:27 am
    Klaus Knopper proudly announced on November 18th version 6.2 of the famous KNOPPIX Live Linux distribution. Being based on Debian Lenny (Testing and Unstable), the brand-new KNOPPIX 6.2 is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.31.6, X.Org 7.4 and it uses the lightweight LXDE as a desktop environment. The Live CD version of KNOPPIX, entitled "Microknoppix," has been completely rewritten based on the KNOPPIX boot system, from the 6.0 and 6.1 versions. Also included in KNOPPIX 6.2 is the A.D.R.I.A.N.E. 1.2 (Audio Desktop Reference Implementation And Networking Environment) talking menu, especially…

  • ATI Catalyst 9.11 Has Initial Support for openSUSE 11.2

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:01 am
    Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, announced on November 17th a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary display driver for Linux users, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The ATI Catalyst 9.11 suite updates the software to version 8.671 and brings production support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and initial support for openSUSE 11.2. Among the resolved issues in ATI Catalyst 9.11, we can mention: · For Ubuntu 9.04 users, the animated busy mouse cursor flickering issue, in Clone mode, has been resolved; · Resolved an issue on SUSE 11.1, in which, when the…

  • Fedora 12 Officially Released

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    17 Nov 2009 | 7:34 am
    After Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), Mandriva Linux 2010.0 and openSUSE 11.2, the time has come for Fedora fans to grab the final release of the Fedora 12 (Constantine) operating system, announced a few minutes ago by the Fedora Project developers. Fedora 12 is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.31, and it includes the KDE 4.3 and GNOME 2.28 desktop environments. Just like Mandriva, the Fedora developers introduced support for Moblin, as well as improved power management and webcam support, audio/video codec support and many more! GNOME Shell is also available for testing, in the default software…

  • Parted Magic 4.6 Runs Better on Netbooks

    Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)
    17 Nov 2009 | 1:06 am
    Yesterday evening, November 16th, Patrick Verner announced the immediate availability of Parted Magic 4.6, a Slackware-based Linux distribution that was created to help users easily partition their hard drives or perform recovery tasks. Parted Magic 4.6 comes with improved support for netbooks, Super Grub Disk, the Clamav anti-virus and lots of other new packages, improvements and bug fixes. Without further introduction, let's have a look at the long list of changes brought by Parted Magic 4.6: · Improved support for netbooks; · Fixed the "ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is…
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  • Scratching the Linux Itch, pt. II

    jdarnold
    13 Nov 2009 | 7:41 am
    Finally, we get started building the system in Chapter 5. As mentioned in the last important point here, for every package done in Chapter 5, you need to do the following commands, as the 'lfs' user: $ cd $LFS/sources lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources$ tar xjvf binutils-2.20.tar.bz2 lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources$ cd binutils-2.20 If the downloaded package...

  • Scratching the Linux Itch, pt. I

    jdarnold
    12 Nov 2009 | 7:36 am
    So I'm going to try a Linux From Scratch build and installation, just because I need another pointless project to write about :) Here is the result of my version-check.sh script on my openSUSE 11.0 system: bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release /bin/sh -> /bin/bash Binutils: (GNU Binutils; openSUSE 11.0) 2.18.50.20080409-11.1 bison (GNU...

  • Linux Format 125

    jdarnold
    10 Nov 2009 | 7:53 am
    My favorite Linux magazine, by far, is Linux Format, a UK based magazine that is just chock-a-block full of great Linux info. They also run the informative Tux Radar blog. So I thought I would just give a rundown each month of the highlights from the most recent issue....

  • Mysterious Icewind Port

    jdarnold
    23 Jul 2009 | 4:13 pm
    This doesn't really have anything to do with Linux, but I needed to put this down somewhere so maybe it would help someone else. My friend and I like to play "hardcore" computer RPG games, cooperative style, across the Internet. We have a weekly session, playing for a couple of...

  • Creator and emacsclient

    jdarnold
    2 Jul 2009 | 9:56 am
    Some notes on using emacsclient on KDE, as I'm trying to integrate it with Qt Creator, because Qt Creator doesn't have Emacs key bindings (so far, my biggest gripe). There's an albeit painful keystroke to pass the current file off to an external editor, so I'm trying to get it...
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  • Plug Computing is a very interesting

    Prakash
    16 Nov 2009 | 8:39 pm
    What’s a plug computer? Small ARM Based Computer Runs Linux and other OS: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and FreeBSD Consumes just 2  watts of power Can be kept always on to run those long nightly downloads such as Torrents Can you used for any application that requires an always on computer Access through browser or shell Has USB, Ethernet and SD Card. And yes costs $99 More photos For more information check plugcomputer.org Related posts:Ubuntu bets on cloud computing, tie-ups Ubuntu that it launched last week, to penetrate markets such...Interesting Restaurant concept My friend…

  • Canon D-SLR – 7D over Nikon D300s

    Prakash
    15 Nov 2009 | 9:27 pm
    Canon has launched a new 18 Megapixel Digital Camera. I don’t know if Megapixel matter anymore unless you are going to print large banners. Anyways here is the specs. 18 Megapixel 1080p HD Video recording at 30fps 8 Frames aper second continuous shooting Environmental sealing for those harsh environments: Beaches, Deserts and dusty places. Metallic Body CF Card (wonder why they didn’t standardise on SD) 19 Focal points Live View Built in Flash and optional external flashes HDMI Connectivity Weight 820g Option for Battery Grip (for extra batteries) or Wireless Grip which can…

  • Stop complaining, you are richer than you think

    Prakash
    14 Nov 2009 | 4:16 am
    Many of us (this includes me , often complain that we don’t have enough money, we don’t earn well, we are poor and so on. This is called poverty thinking cause we may not actually be poor, we just think we are. Now this statistics may come as a surprise to you. If your annual income is US$10,000 and you thought you were poor? Think again. You are actually richer than 87 percent of the world population. Now this gets even more interesting. If your annual income is US$50,000 then you are in the top 1% richest person in the world, better off than 99 percent of the world! So stop…

  • Open Networking alternative to Cisco

    Prakash
    11 Nov 2009 | 10:28 pm
    Vyatta is providing a Linux based Networking routers and equipments to compete with Cisco. All their software is open source and they have very competitive pricing. Seem to also have an impressive customer list so far including Toyota, Rackspace and Boeing. Related posts:BJP commits support to open source The BJP, India’s biggest opposition party has released its IT...Economic impact of Free and Open Source Software Prof. Rahul De of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has...Bad economy good for Open Source? As the global economy is slowing down, companies are now... Related posts…

  • Linux owns 32 percent of netbook market

    Prakash
    10 Nov 2009 | 6:30 pm
    Forget what Microsoft wants you to believe, Linux is a success on Netbooks. The cat is out of the bag. ABI Research is projecting that in 2009 Linux will represent 32 percent of netbook sales, far higher than the seven percent figure claimed by Microsoft, says a report. ABI also estimates that Linux will overtake Windows on netbooks by 2013, largely due to sales in less-developed countries. Read More Related posts:Linux Netbook returns a non issue Microsoft has been harping about the fact that there are...Microsoft A History of Anticompetitive Behavior The European Committee for Interoperable…
 
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  • MikeOS 4.0 Released with BASIC Interpreter

    21 Nov 2009 | 3:28 am
    A new version of the learning tool OS MikeOS is available, sporting a new BASIC interpreter with 24 instructions. You can run BASIC code from inside the text editor by pressing F8. See the App Developer Handbook for a guide to the BASIC dialect (somewhat similar to old 8-bit BASICs, nostalgia fans), and the User Handbook for info on running MikeOS from a USB key, floppy or CD.

  • IBM Halts Future Cell Development

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:58 pm
    German website Heise Online has received confirmation that IBM is terminating its Cell processor line. This means that no future development will take place, making the PoweXCell 8i the last Cell processor. Parts of the Cell project will still make it into future processor designs, however.

  • Growl for Windows 2.0 Arrives

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:51 pm
    "The Growl for Windows Project developers have released version 2.0 of their Windows-compatible port of the Mac-based Growl global notification application. The major update includes a number of bug fixes, performance improvements and new features."

  • Dell Earnings Down 54 Percent

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:44 pm
    "Dell reported its third-quarter earnings results Thursday, showing a small improvement over the last quarter, but revenue was down 15 percent over the last year, and profits fell 54 percent. The company reported revenue of $12.9 billion, within analysts' expectations between $12.8 billion and $13.5 billion. Earnings were 17 cents per share, when excluding 6 cents of pretax expenses and amortization. That's 54 percent off the 37 cents Dell recorded a year ago. Besides its acquisition of Perot Systems last month, there weren't too many positive signs in the recently completed quarter.

  • Microsoft's Problematic Lack of Nightly Builds for IE

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:39 pm
    "Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds - or at least something fairly frequent - of Internet Explorers. Ars talks to Microsoft's general manager for Internet Explorer, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. We don't think that's a great idea."
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  • today's leftovers:

    srlinuxx
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:00 pm
    Coolest Desktop Screenshot Wins Prize PiTiVi Creator Responds To Readers Fears... Users cautious on Red Hat's stake in EnterpriseDB Fedora 12: Drenched in glory Why SHMConfig is off by default Geek & Poke: Good Consultants KDE Licensing Policy Changes PulseAudio Phonon Support now in KDE trunk and heading towards 4.4 Unstable & Not Ready – Uninstalling Fedora 12 24-Hours Later Chrome OS: There Will Be Local Storage Advocacy group protests government's approving of OOXML Keep Cool Over Open Source License Violations Crossover Gamers 8.1 for Linux released Open source and the cloud -…

  • some howtos:

    srlinuxx
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    How to Configure SAMBA on a Linux Server Take advantage of md5 checksums for download validity Ksh Read a File Line By Line Install Multiple Applications With AllMyApps Install minitube in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim Advertisement: read more

  • Some People Don't Know When To Leave Well Enough Alone

    srlinuxx
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:02 pm
    ever-increasing-entropy.blogspot: I've had enough of the hatred spewed at me from the Puppy Linux forums and Puppy Linux users everywhere. I am hounded, week in and week out, including three comments on DistroWatch this week, about my "refusal" to run Puppy Linux and my "crazy review". It never stops. Advertisement: read more

  • Gaming boards run Linux

    srlinuxx
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:01 pm
    linuxfordevices.com: Acrosser announced two Linux-ready "All-in-One" boards for gaming and AWP (Amusement With Prizes) machines. Advertisement: read more

  • Opera 10.10 Just A Smidgeon Away

    srlinuxx
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Opera 10.10 Just A Smidgeon Away Quirks with Opera Advertisement:
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  • FAmSCo elections and so forth

    sankarshan
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:22 pm
    This is the season of elections and, the one that I’d like to talk about is the FAmSCo one. This time around all the 7 seats are up for elections and, an ensemble cast of Fedora folks have put their hats into the ring. The FAmSCo, along with the other *SCo in Fedora land offer the finest opportunity to demonstrate leadership, show commitment and, work in one of the front-line roles of the project. I took sometime in reading up the statements of the candidates and, one of things that struck me (besides those mentioned here) was the recurring theme of making the FAmSCo process more…

  • Glitches in collecting book data based on ISBNs

    sankarshan
    10 Nov 2009 | 7:01 pm
    Over the weekend I snagged a somewhat cheap and, easily available hand-held barcode scanner – an iBall LS-162. Fairly nifty device and, works plug-n-play on Fedora. The reason behind this was to finally collect and collate information about all the books that is stashed around me and, create a nice list based on the ISBN data. Which is here I ran into a glitch I did not anticipate. A number of the technical books which I buy (yes, in spite of the Safari, ACM and IEEE subscriptions, sometimes I do buy books) are Indian reprints and, using the ISBN to look-up the metadata isn’t…

  • Looking forward to some improvements

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

  • Get to know a Fedora Ambassador or User

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

  • GPS data logging and, a nifty data logger

    sankarshan
    24 Oct 2009 | 3:49 am
    Primarily due to Kushal’s enthusiasm, I got myself a GDL-3204 GPS Data Logger from Sparc Systems Limited. In spite of the somewhat “home brew” looks it is a nifty little device with great accuracy. Kushal has been having fun with it during his recent visit to Malda and, we (Runa and me) have been learning how to get tracks and waypoints done using the simple manual that comes with it. At some point in time I should start getting familiar with the JOSM application and, upload the logged data using the script here. For now, it is great fun. The post is brought to you by…
 
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  • Virtualbox 3.0.12 update now available for PCLinuxOS.

    admin
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:18 am
    VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Virtualbox allows you to run multiple operating systems right from your existing PCLinuxOS desktop without the need to reboot to run the other operating system.  Virtualbox is a great way to test  Linux distributions without wasting a CDR …

  • Google Chrome Browser update available for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:14 am
    Google Chrome is a  web browser from Google that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.  An updated build is now available through our Synaptic Package Manager.  While still under development, the Google Chrome Brower is still quite functional and can handle most web browsing tasks. Flash is supported as well as many other multimedia functions. Try it today!

  • KDE 4.3.3 update now available for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    15 Nov 2009 | 11:57 am
    November’s edition of KDE is a bugfix and translation update to KDE 4.3. With the KDE 4 series picking up in popularity, we’re happy to encourage even more people to give KDE 4 another spin — or just upgrade your existing KDE to KDE 4.3.3. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. Users around the world will appreciate that KDE 4.3.3 is more completely translated. KDE 4 is already translated into more than 50 languages, with more to come. KDE 4.3.3 update is currently available on our premium server and…

  • The New PCLinuxOS Magazine November 2009 Issue

    admin
    9 Nov 2009 | 10:52 am
    The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the November 2009 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. In the November 2009 issue: Scanner Saga: Part 2 Command Line Interface Intro: Part 2 Catch The (Google) Wave Manually Create A Live USB Flash Stick Double Take & Mark’s Quick Gimp Tip Absolute Beginner’s Guide To LaTeX on PCLinuxOS Flashback: Simple Backups With Grsync Gadgets & Gear: Silvercrest OM1008 Wireless Mouse Behind The Scenes: Joble, In His Own Words Favorite Wallpaper Sites Ms_meme’s Nook & Forum Foibles Linux Ads Hit The Airwaves…

  • SeaMonkey 2.0 Internet Suite now availble for PCLinuxOS

    admin
    7 Nov 2009 | 12:06 am
    The SeaMonkey project at Mozilla is excited to release its completely refurbished next generation of the all-in one Internet suite. SeaMonkey 2.0, melds the ideas behind Netscape Communicator with the modern platform of Firefox 3.5 to create one of the most compelling open source products for advanced Internet users. The combination of an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, that has already established a wide user base in its previous incarnations, has been rebuilt on top of the modern Mozilla platform, featuring world-class add-on…
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  • Tunnelling out of corporate networks (Part 3)

    11 Nov 2009 | 8:08 pm

  • French radio show about the recent OpenBSD kernel bug

    9 Nov 2009 | 3:20 pm
    Clément Lecigne, who found the recent getsockopt() bug, was interviewed in the Random radio show. The OpenBSD 4.0 song (Humppa Negala) was also broadcasted. Note that the OpenBSD 4.6 release was announced in the previous show (which was actually the first), with the OpenBSD 4.6 song (Planet of the users). File info: 59 min, 54.9 MB. Download it. French only. File info: 59 min, 54.9 MB. Faster mirror. French only.

  • BSDTalk #179 - OpenBSD Developer Jacek Masiulaniec

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

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

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

    cj2003
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:25 pm
    Klaus Knopper has released version 6.2 of his Debian-based live-CD Linux distro. Based on Debian 5.0 (”Lenny”), the new version uses the lightweight LXDE as the default desktop, and includes a new version of the ADRIANE talking menu system for vision-impaired users. More here Today, Knoppix is commonly used by independent software vendors wishing to create demonstration versions of their wares. Knoppix is also fairly easy to install on CompactFlash, as described in this Knoppix-based solid-state CF music recorder project. Several Live CD distros are based on Knoppix, including…

  • Upgrade Debian 3.1(sarge) to 4.0(etch)

    cj2003
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:21 am
    It look like that to upgrade from Debian 3.1 to 4.0 should be fairly easy; however, the truth is that you will somehow trap by “libc6″ loop. Here is a note to solve the problem. More here

  • Knoppix 6.2 arrives

    cj2003
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:36 am
    Knoppix 6.2 features version 2.6.31.6 of the Linux kernel, X.org 7.4 and version 1.2 of ADRIANE (Audio Desktop Reference Implementation and Networking Environment). ADRIANE is a “a talking menu system, which is supposed to make work and internet access easier for computer beginners, even if they have no sight contact to the computers monitor.” More here

  • Debian – The Universal Operating System

    cj2003
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:32 am
    The claim from the Debian project that it is “The Universal Operating System” is spot on, and I hope this post shows you really how universal it truly is. More here First off, let me start by saying that Debian isn’t perfect. No operating system is. However, I find the flexibility of Debian extremely powerful. So powerful, in fact, that Debian can meet the needs of most individuals and situations. While it may not meet the needs of all individuals all the time, I’m confident that it can either meet the needs of all individuals some of the time, or some of the individuals all the time.

  • The Debian Installer – The Most Flexible Linux Installer

    cj2003
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:03 am
    I used to think that the openSUSE installer was the most flexible Linux installer, with Anaconda running a close second, but I think I’m going to at least put the Debian installer in a 2-way tie for first with openSUSE. More here However, one thing that continues to impress me about the Debian installer is the extreme amount of choices in which to get Debian installed on your system. You can pick any path, ranging from the complete newbie-have-the-installer-choose-everything-for-you to total hacker control over what you want installed, and everything in between
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  • PeaZip (ver. 2.8)

    21 Nov 2009 | 1:02 am
    PeaZip is a cross platform, desktop neutral archiver tool for many compressed or not formats. About this version New file/archive browser Improved navigation menu for browsing, extraction and archiving Improved scheduler launching jobs from program's GUI Archive conversion feature, either converting each archive separately or consolidating input archives into a single output archive of the desired format

  • GNOME Sensors Applet (ver. 2.2.5)

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:21 pm
    GNOME panel applet to display system temperatures, fan speeds and voltage readings from hardware sensors under Linux. About this version * Add support for ATI GPUs using proprietary driver * Add support for monitoring disk temperatures via devicekit-disks * Add zh_CN translation (thanks to lerosua) * Cleanup old compatibility code and drop support for older version of GTK+ and Glib - now require 2.14 for both

  • CherryTree (ver. 0.5.1)

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:31 pm
    A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting. About this version - the system tray behave was modified. now, if the system tray is enabled, the application quit will not shut down the app but just hide it and open the tray icon. the tray icon will not be visible when the cherrytree window is visible. to shut down totally cherrytree right click upon the tray icon and select quit - improved the memory of the latest window position and size with a better handling of the maximization/unmaximization - introduced the memory of the scrollbar position when going…

  • GAdmin-Rsync (ver. 0.1.5)

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:43 am
    An easy to use GTK+ frontend for the rsync backup client and server. About this version The program can now restore from backups. It switches to the progress tab when a backup or restore is started and adds progress start text. Dry run is selectable for restore operations. Backup at system shutdown is now supported but is probably not rock solid atm. Input on this would be nice. Sets status color and missing programs color. Desktop menu is also added to the servers and internet sections. Added more help window contents. Vector indexing fixes.

  • gpick (ver. 0.1.92-1)

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:01 am
    Advanced color picker written in C++ using GTK+ toolkit About this version Performance improvements Color scheme creation tools improved Edit function for all color widgets, allows text based color input New 'Layout preview' mode with ability to export CSS files
 
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  • Download Free Units Conversion Program – Convert

    Mezanul
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:58 pm
    There are many unit conversion tools available for the Windows platform but nothing comes close to Convert in terms of speed, accuracy and user-friendliness. Convert, created by Joshua F. Madison, is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions. Convert v4.10 can run without any problem in any version of Windows starting from Windows 95 to Windows 7. To be precisely speaking it runs on…

  • Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Downloads Now Available for Everyone

    Mezanul
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:47 am
    Microsoft Office 2010 Beta downloads have been active for a few days for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Now Microsoft Office 2010 Beta downloads are available for the public and are now available on the official Microsoft Office 2010 Beta website. To be able to download the beta of Microsoft Office 2010, users need to first log in using a Microsoft Live account and fill out a short form. Downloads are available for both 32-bit and 64-bit editions and for various languages. The product key for the beta will also be displayed on those pages. This key is required to activate the beta after…

  • Quick Tip: Fine Tune ClearType Font Smoothing in Windows 7

    Mezanul
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:56 pm
    The default font smoothing may not suite to everyone. If the setting that is nice is smooth to your eyes may be blurry for someone else. For this reason Microsoft provides the ClearType Text Tuner in Windows 7. To start the ClearType Text Tuner, click on the Start Button and type cttune in the Start Search Box and then press Enter. Now, just follow the wizard and select the options that looks best to you. Then after a few more customizations, the wizard will complete. If you are not satisfied run the wizard again. Click on Finish to save your settings.

  • Download Yahoo! Messenger 10 Final (Offline Standalone Setup Installer, all Languages)

    Mezanul
    16 Nov 2009 | 1:01 pm
    Yahoo has officially released Yahoo! Messenger 10 final version, build 10.0.0.1102. The final version incorporates many bug fixes, including some bugs related to the new video call feature, also improves on overall stability of the product. It also offers users with detailed connection log for troubleshooting connection woes. When a user tries to download Yahoo Messenger 10 from the official home page, they get the web installer instead of the full installer. This web downloader when started downloads the messenger app in background. Not many users likes this approach. They…

  • Windows 7 in a Box – Access All Features Of Windows 7

    Mezanul
    15 Nov 2009 | 5:54 pm
    If you have recently switched to Windows 7 and finding it difficult to find all the advanced settings, hidden deep inside. Then, here is the ultimate tool for you, Windows 7 in a Box. Earlier we mentioned about a similar program for Windows XP, Windows XP in a Box. Both these programs helps you find hidden advanced settings related to different Windows functions, programs, gives access to different hidden Windows tools, etc. Windows 7 in a Box is designed to help you guide through the brand new operating system from Microsoft. It is easy to navigate and puts an end to all the…
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