Linux Tips & Tricks: Converting PDF-s to pictures in Linux
(Jul 6, 2009, 04:03 UTC) (409 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Dr. Ivan's Blog: "Ever wondered how to render PDF-s into individual pictures page by page? It is really simple."

Ultimate Firefox Productivity Tips: For the Geeks.
(Jul 6, 2009, 00:03 UTC) (1429 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Priyank Bolia: "Instead of typing http:// prefix and .com, .net, or .org suffix in the Firefox address bar, you can just type the name of the website like slashdot and press CTRL+SHIFT+Enter to automatically append .org..."

GoldenDict: A Dictionary Nugget
(Jul 5, 2009, 20:02 UTC) (956 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "On the face of it, GoldenDict looks like any other dictionary application. But dig deeper, and you'll discover a few rather neat features that make it not only a rather competent dictionary but also an excellent research tool."

Would You Like Linux With Your Jello?
(Jul 5, 2009, 16:02 UTC) (1168 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "Rather than blank walls and bad TV to stare at, patients in the new West Tower at Glendale Adventist have access to the outside world, via Linux-based thin clients available right in the patient's room."

Why I Use Linux: Lofton’s Story
(Jul 5, 2009, 12:02 UTC) (2296 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT News Today: "It’s a great fitting to a (temporary?) conclusion to this series, as Lofton tells an interesting tale of trying to keep academic honesty going in a climate that wasn’t very friendly to honest users."

Go to Toys 'R Us for your Linux netbook needs
(Jul 5, 2009, 08:02 UTC) (3293 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "One of the most annoying things, thanks to Microsoft strong-arming PC manufacturers, is finding a Linux netbook to buy at a store-front retailer. But, it turns out that there's at least one store that still carries Linux netbooks: Toys R Us."

Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0: Virtual Developer's Delight
(Jul 5, 2009, 04:02 UTC) (3072 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Broiler: "With little fanfare, Sun Microsystems released version 3.0 of xVM VirtualBox, the Open Source and multi-platform desktop virtualization tool for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac."

Apple Wary of Ogg Theora: No Agreement Yet on HTML5 Video Standard
(Jul 5, 2009, 00:02 UTC) (2829 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "Apple refuses to implement Ogg Theora in QuickTime by default in Safari, complaining of lack of hardware support and patent issues."

Freedom is not Free for Countries nor Computer Users
(Jul 4, 2009, 21:15 UTC) (1414 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The ERACC Web Log: "Is it correct to compare the freedom of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to the freedom gained from the Revolution of the States?"

Eyecandy Themes For Ubuntu - Download directly from Synaptic - No More Hassles
(Jul 4, 2009, 20:02 UTC) (3396 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ubuntu Manual: "But there is an option to download it from PPA launchpad repo itself, which is always the safer bet. Special thanks to the Zgegblog guys for contributing these out of the world themes for Ubuntu users."

Sifting Through Billions and Billions of Bytes
(Jul 4, 2009, 16:02 UTC) (1675 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "According to an anecdote, a person born before the Twentieth Century might amass enough information in a lifetime to fill one edition of today’s Sunday New York Times."

Miro 2.0 - Watch TV Podcasts and Videos in HD
(Jul 4, 2009, 12:02 UTC) (2523 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tuxarena: "Miro is an open-source and cost-free application for watching Internet TV in high definition quality. It's available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows."

Hands off the Gimp
(Jul 4, 2009, 06:40 UTC) (4343 reads) (23 talkbacks) (feedback)
Always Right: "rickspencer3 proposes pulling the gimp from the CD: ... * F-Spot has key features, like crop and red-eye removal"

Course: Using LDAP
(Jul 4, 2009, 04:02 UTC) (2288 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
BeginLinux: "This course will help you understand the benefits of LDAP as well as implementation of LDAP. The OpenLDAP Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and open source LDAP suite of applications and development tools. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenLDAP Suite and its related documentation."

Bazaar for Subversion users, part 1 - the basics
(Jul 4, 2009, 00:02 UTC) (1449 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Alex on Linux: "This series of articles is a summary of things that I had to learn to know Bazaar and to convert some of my projects from Subversion."

Firefox 3.5 - A Really Impressive Release
(Jul 3, 2009, 20:04 UTC) (4679 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tuxarena: "Firefox is currently the most popular browser on the Linux platform and the top choice on Windows after Internet Explorer (although there are statistics showing it beats IE in terms of popularity in some countries)."

Linux Migration Guide: Finding Linux Equivalents to Your Favorite Windows Programs
(Jul 3, 2009, 16:04 UTC) (3282 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Which do you spend more time interacting with: your operating system, or your software?"

Tiny Core Linux 2.1 Review
(Jul 3, 2009, 12:04 UTC) (2906 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Desktop Linux Reviews: "They say that good things come in small packages and so it is with Tiny Core Linux, a diminutive but powerful distribution. "

5 Top of the Line Twitter Desktop Clients for Linux
(Jul 3, 2009, 08:04 UTC) (2185 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Source From Bohol: "For Linux users, here's my list of top of the line Twitter desktop clients that can surely help you better organize your friends, followers, and tweets, and overall make tweeting a lot more fun:"

SECURITY: How Microsoft benefits from Conficker
(Jul 3, 2009, 04:04 UTC) (4181 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
ITWire: "An attack by the Conficker worm, that infects Windows systems, has cost the Manchester Council in England around £1.5 million - and Microsoft has benefitted too, according to a report in the Manchester Evening News."

Linux Vendors Head to the Cloud in Search of Cash
(Jul 3, 2009, 02:04 UTC) (1255 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: "Is there a silver lining in the cloud for Linux vendors? This week, two of the largest Linux vendors each announced new initiatives to provide commercial services for cloud customers"

Editor's Note: Freedom is Not Embarrassing
(Jul 3, 2009, 00:04 UTC) (3126 reads) (32 talkbacks) (feedback)
We've all heard the scornful criticism against idealism, as though it were something to be ashamed of, and mocking of the fundamental ideals of Free Software. I'm not embarrassed to have ideals, I am proud.

How To Configure SSH Keys Authentication With PuTTY And Linux Server In 5 Quick Steps
(Jul 2, 2009, 23:34 UTC) (1965 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how you can replace password-based SSH authentication with key-based authentication which is more secure because only the people that own the key can log in. In this example, we're using PuTTY as our SSH client on a Windows system."

Eschalon Review - Commercial Role-Playing Game for Linux
(Jul 2, 2009, 23:04 UTC) (1720 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tuxarena: "Eschalon is a turn-based RPG (role-playing game), which tries to reproduce the feeling of classic RPG games. It's closed-source, available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, and it comes with a demo too. The full version is available as a download for $19.95."

SECURITY: Will AES crypto go the way of MD5?
(Jul 2, 2009, 22:34 UTC) (1994 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Netstat -vat: "The AES (Advance Encryption Standard) (Define:AES) is a standard encryption mechanism in use by the US Government and many others - and it is now at risk from a very theoretical attack."

Mozilla's Crowdsourcing Mystique
(Jul 2, 2009, 22:04 UTC) (1417 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Business Week: "So Ken Saunders, a 41-year-old, legally blind volunteer for Mozilla, took it upon himself to create a tool that makes the player easier to use for people with vision problems."

VirtualBox 3.0: No More Booting Windows
(Jul 2, 2009, 21:34 UTC) (5383 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "VirtualBox 3.0, with its improved 3D support, can ensure that some users won't need to boot Windows even when gaming."

ASCAP Makes Outlandish Copyright Claims on Cell Phone Ringtones
(Jul 2, 2009, 21:04 UTC) (1608 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Electronic Frontier Foundation: " But as part of a ploy to squeeze more money out of the mobile phone companies, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has told a federal court that each time a phone rings in a public place, the phone user has violated copyright law."

Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python
(Jul 2, 2009, 20:34 UTC) (2259 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
A Million Chimpanzees: "Welcome to "Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python". Not a book about learning Python as such, but an introduction to the discipline of Computer Science with Python as your guide."

PostgreSQL 8.4 Improves Database Management, Security
(Jul 2, 2009, 20:04 UTC) (1315 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: "In total, PostgreSQL 8.4 includes 293 enhancements from the previous 8.3 release, an update that was primarily centered around performance."

Available Now: GNOME 2.26.3
(Jul 2, 2009, 19:34 UTC) (2100 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Softpedia: "The GNOME developers, through Lucas Rocha, have announced early this morning in a press release that the last maintenance release of the popular GNOME 2.26 desktop environment is now available for download."

Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 released
(Jul 2, 2009, 19:04 UTC) (1248 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The H Open: "The Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) developers have announced the release of version 6.2 of their PowerPC distribution that runs on the Sony PlayStation 3 and other computers with Cell processors, including IBM's Cell blades."

5 reasons to switch to Linux
(Jul 2, 2009, 18:34 UTC) (2598 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
TechDigest: "Struggling along on your Windows-based PC and considering moving over to Linux? Here are five reasons why you should make the switch."

Get started with Linux - part 1
(Jul 2, 2009, 18:04 UTC) (1442 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computeractive: "Here, we will explain how to get started with Linux. No experience is necessary, as we will guide you through all the basics. To start we will explain how to install the software, either by replacing Windows or running alongside it."

The cranky CIO says the hard drive is inside the computer
(Jul 2, 2009, 17:34 UTC) (2729 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux Distillery: "Those of us who work in technology have a jargon all of our very own. We know the difference between CPUs and GPUs, between SSD and HDD, let alone HD and SDTV! Yet, our users are flat out calling everything "the hard drive.""

New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents
(Jul 2, 2009, 17:04 UTC) (2518 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ars Technica: "The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft."

Get to Know Clustered File Systems
(Jul 2, 2009, 16:34 UTC) (1509 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "In this article we will cover a few common physical storage configurations, as well as clustered and distributed file system options. Hopefully, this is a good starting point to begin looking into the technology that will work best for your high availability storage needs."

Kernel Log - Coming in 2.6.31 - Part 1: New Wi-Fi drivers and other network-related changes
(Jul 2, 2009, 16:04 UTC) (2020 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The H Open: "Linux 2.6.31 will be IEEE 802.15.4 capable and will include a new Wi-Fi driver for Intel chips. Developers have also added support for recent Ralink Wi-Fi components and revamped the Rfkill framework."

Mono: Shielding the facts
(Jul 2, 2009, 15:34 UTC) (2946 reads) (25 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Wire: "Until the anti-Mono crowd actually make a contribution to Free Software, they will continue to be treated as cranks - and their questions left unanswered."

Microsoft yanks 10 old patches down; smells like anti-Linux FUD
(Jul 2, 2009, 15:04 UTC) (4565 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Microsoft Subnet Blog: "He seemed to think that much of the code in Linux belongs to Sun, and therefore will soon be owned by Oracle, who will turn around and use its so-called power to control Linux."

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