How to Make Windows Faster than Linux Tech Source: "I can go on and on explaining about its quickness but since I'm here to teach you how to make Windows faster than Linux, I will now share with you these tips:" (Jul 16, 2010)
Linux Today Features
Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux Slashdot: "SCO's ex-CEO's brother, a lawyer named Kevin McBride, has finally revealed some of the UNIX code that SCO claimed was copied into Linux." (Jul 12, 2010)
The PHP Content Management/Framework Upgrades in ExpressionEngine 2 (Jul 30, 2010, 10:04 UTC) (46 reads)
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(feedback) PHPBuilder: "A few months ago I wrote a series of articles highlighting PHP-driven content management systems and frameworks, and I singled out ExpressionEngine as one particularly impressive solution that effectively balances the best features of both. This popular Web development solution recently took another major step forward with the July 12 release of ExpressionEngine 2.1"
Millions of Home Routers at Risk (Jul 30, 2010, 08:04 UTC) (971 reads)
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(feedback) eSecurity Planet: "In his presentation at Black Hat, security researcher Craig Heffner detailed how an external attacker could gain full control of a user's router and use that to gain access to the internal local area network (LAN)."
Emulating an Amiga in Linux (Jul 30, 2010, 06:04 UTC) (704 reads)
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(feedback) Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio: "The Amiga was one of the most powerful PC's of it's time, easily trumping the emerging IBM PC's in the 80's. You can relive this classic PC on your Linux desktop thanks to a number of emulators that are available."
5 Best Web eCommerce Software for Linux (Jul 30, 2010, 04:04 UTC) (1024 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Source: "For those of you who are planning to build or setup an online shop to sell goods or services, I have here a list of some of the most popular web eCommerce software for Linux. The following web eCommerce programs that I'm about to feature here are all free and open source, so try or use them as you wish:"
In Search Of... Android Tablets (Jul 30, 2010, 02:04 UTC) (1171 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Broiler: "Along with Bigfoot, the lost city of Atlantis, and the Bermuda Triangle, the lack of Android tablets continues to be an unsolved mystery."
MeeGo Selected as Platform to Power In-Vehicle Infotainment Devices (Jul 30, 2010, 00:04 UTC) (791 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Pro Magazine: "GENIVI, the nonprofit industry alliance that was founded by BMW, Delphi, Intel, GM, PSA, Wind River and Magneti-Marelli, announced that MeeGo would become the operating platform for the next generation of In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) devices."
Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux (Jul 29, 2010, 23:06 UTC) (2259 reads)
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(feedback) PC World: "A happy customer might tell someone. An unhappy customer tells everyone. Converting to Linux before taking a dose of reality might make you a very unhappy customer."
Ubuntu 10.04: A Second Look
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(feedback) IT News Today: "After I review an operating system or Linux distribution, it’s always fun to go back and try out the product again, with all updates, and see how it’s improved. Ubuntu 10.04 was something I thought was pretty decent, but not decent enough to steal me away from Arch."
KDE 4.5 Screenshot Tour (Jul 29, 2010, 22:06 UTC) (2168 reads)
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(feedback) Abhi Blog: "KDE 4.5 is coming out in August but I simply couldn’t wait to try it out a few days before the release. Hence, I got my hands on the Release Candidate v2 via kubuntu-beta ppa.Apart from some dazzling eye candy,KDE4 has matured a lot when it comes to stability."
SECURITY: DNSSEC is Here. Now What? (Jul 29, 2010, 21:36 UTC) (909 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Networking Planet: "Two years ago at the Black Hat USA 2008 conference, security researcher Dan Kaminsky detailed a critical flaw in DNS that could have destroyed the Internet as we know it. Two years later, the root zone of Internet DNS is now signed with DNSSEC, partially as a response and a solution to Kaminsky's 2008 finding."
35 Dollar Indian Pad? Go Indians, Go! (Jul 29, 2010, 20:36 UTC) (1030 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Pro Magazine: "By now you probably have heard about the “pad” computer designed in India that is being touted as costing thirty-five U.S. Dollars to manufacture. While there is very little in the way of technical details about it, some information has been published that says it consists of:"
Slashdot Struggles to Remain Relevant in The Social Web (Jul 29, 2010, 20:06 UTC) (1275 reads)
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(feedback) New York Times: "Surprisingly, tech news community Slashdot was not in the list of top referrers. In fact, according to Woopra CEO John Pozadzides, Slashdot "drives close to 0% of traffic to the sites Woopra measures.""
Python development - the golden rules (Jul 29, 2010, 19:36 UTC) (1586 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User and Developer: "As part of his massive Python Masterclass article, Kunal Deo drew up some golden rules when working with Python."
Digital Copywrongs (Jul 29, 2010, 19:06 UTC) (694 reads)
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(feedback) The American Prospect: "New DMCA exemptions are an improvement, but the basic paradox of telling consumers how they may use electronics remains unaddressed."
ATM hack gives cash on demand (Jul 29, 2010, 18:36 UTC) (1508 reads)
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(feedback) PC World: "Windows CE-based machines can easily be made to dole out cash, a security researcher says"
Systems Administrators Changing Roles (Jul 29, 2010, 18:06 UTC) (1355 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "It's a sad truth that advancements in technology often make jobs obsolete, usually sooner than most people are ready. The more savvy workers learn to keep up with the times..."
Toshiba NB300 netbook review (Jul 29, 2010, 17:36 UTC) (1101 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User and Developer: "Pros: It’s a pleasing design with some of the best netbook technology on the market"
Basket – A Multi-Purpose Note Pad For KDE (Jul 29, 2010, 16:36 UTC) (811 reads)
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(feedback) MakeTechEasier: "Basket Note Pads is a multipurpose note-taking application for KDE. Business people can use it to keep track of important tasks and notes. Writers can use it to organize their thoughts."
Demonstrating multi-processing in Bash 4 (Jul 29, 2010, 16:06 UTC) (1270 reads)
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(feedback) I Am, Therefore I Think: "I have an on-going project, to code the Collatz sequence in as many languages as I can. So far, I've implemented it in C (integer and floating-point), assembly (x86, x86_64, and SPARC32), Java, BASIC in Open Office.org, Tcl, Lisp, Ada, Python, and Bash."
Spotlight on Linux: SimplyMEPIS 8.5.x (Jul 29, 2010, 15:36 UTC) (880 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "SimplyMEPIS is a simply wonderful distribution. It was the first to offer a complete out of the box experience all tied up in a pretty package. It would be fair to say that it was probably the inspiration for many of the easy-to-use distributions available today."
The U.S. Government and Its Partners Open Up To FOSS (Jul 29, 2010, 15:06 UTC) (1005 reads)
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(feedback) Acrossad: "In a rapidly evolving world, people at high levels in the government have come to the realization that FOSS may offer higher levels of software development flexibility than the traditional proprietary models. The fact that FOSS helps to alleviate some of the pressure created by tight budgets and other fiscal constraints doesn't hurt."
Linux is dough, windows is glass. (Jul 29, 2010, 14:36 UTC) (2098 reads)
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(feedback) Technology & Life Integration: "What happens? It goes splat, and flattens out but is still in one piece. That is what happens when Linux crashes."
Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1%. (Jul 29, 2010, 14:06 UTC) (3121 reads)
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(feedback) Greg DeKoenigsberg Speaks: "If you doubt, for a nanosecond, that Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization, then you’re either an unapologetic Ubuntu fanboy or you’re not paying attention"
Oracle shuts down open source test servers (Jul 29, 2010, 13:06 UTC) (2095 reads)
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(feedback) IT News: "Oracle has shut down servers Sun Microsystems was contributing to the build farm for open source database software, PostgreSQL, forcing enthusiasts to scramble to find new hosts to test updates to their software on the Solaris operating system."
Spotlight: Kate Scripting (Jul 29, 2010, 12:36 UTC) (830 reads)
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(feedback) Milian Wolff: "Dominik asked me to blog about a feature in Kate that is still (sadly!) pretty unknown and seldom used: Kate Scripting. As you should know you can script KatePart completely via JavaScript."
Android vs iPhone vs Palm Pre vs Maemo: which is best? (Jul 29, 2010, 12:06 UTC) (2392 reads)
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(feedback) TuxRadar: "We've looked at three Linux-based phones that give the iPhone a run for its money. There's the Palm Pre, running WebOS; Nokia's Maemo 5-based N900, and the HTC Legend, running Android. Each is a strong challenger to Apple's device, and they beat it today in significant areas. So, which is best for you?"
Apple iPad's rivals are coming (Jul 29, 2010, 10:36 UTC) (2539 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "I get that Apple's iPad is hotter than hot with over three million sold so far, but to say "Apple has won the battle for tablet computing already" is really overreaching."
Don't Be Too Quick to Dismiss Open Core (Jul 29, 2010, 07:36 UTC) (1270 reads)
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(feedback) IT World: "I've been taking some shots at open core lately, because I've come to the realization there are inherent flaws in this business model as it relates to open source."
Python Development Masterclass (Jul 29, 2010, 03:06 UTC) (1963 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User and Developer: "Mostly seen as a scripting language for system administrators, it is actually capable of doing almost everything and beyond the limitations of regular programming languages. Python started its life as a time-saver programming language."
"Can Open Source be secure" BCS riposte (Jul 29, 2010, 01:36 UTC) (1494 reads)
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(feedback) Advogato: "Experts do not agree about open source security in terms of whether there is an advantage or disadvantage to its use in the business world"
Irssi - A Really Good Terminal Based IRC Client For Linux (Jul 29, 2010, 00:06 UTC) (1155 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Drive-in: "The only IRC client I ever used was XChat. I decided to try something different and Irssi client was a great find. Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for Unix systems and is probably the best I have used till now"
Benchmarking ZFS On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux (Jul 28, 2010, 23:34 UTC) (2485 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "ZFS is often looked upon as an advanced, superior file-system and one of the strong points of the Solaris/OpenSolaris platform while most feel that only recently has Linux been able to catch-up on the file-system front with EXT4 and the still-experimental Btrfs."
Sunbird: Your Calendar, Your Way (Jul 28, 2010, 23:04 UTC) (1922 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxInsider: "Mozilla's Sunbird gives you customization options for the interface as well as a rich set of under-the-hood controls for setting up where, how and when the application gets its information."
