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Infrastructure Linux News for Nov 06, 2008:
Quick Firefox Tip: Word Count Bookmarklet
(2008-11-06 00:05:11)
LinuxPlanet: "Authors need to count the words in articles. But when it's an HTML document all full of tags, you don't want to count the tags. Akkana Peck shows a fast way to count only the words."
Linux Border Patrol: Porn Breath Tests for PCs Heralds 'Stop and Scan'
(2008-11-06 01:35:11)
The Register: "Technology that claims to pick up traces of illicit images on PCs has attracted the interest of Australian cops. The software, developed in an Australian University, might eventually be used to screen PCs for pr0n during border inspections."
Intrepid Ibex Lays Claim to the Black Tower
(2008-11-06 03:05:11)
DeviceGuru: "It finally happened: Ubuntu 8.10 (aka "Intrepid Ibex") has uprooted Kubuntu 8.04 from the Black Tower. Although I’ve been a staunch KDE advocate for many years, this exceptional new distribution -- based on Linux 2.6.27, GNOME 2.24, and X.Org 7.4 -- has unexpectedly converted me into a GNOME user."
Midgard 8.09.2 "Bosporus queries" Released
(2008-11-06 04:35:11)
Midgard Project: The Midgard Project has released the second maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software content management framework.
Chrome and Firefox Browser Betas Duke it Out in Speed Tests
(2008-11-06 07:35:11)
OStatic: "Speed tests are starting to come in from several sources for the updated beta versions of the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers."
Ultrasol - 400 different Solitaire games in one pack in openSUSE
(2008-11-06 09:05:11)
SUSE & openSUSE: "Ultrasol is a collection of nearly 400 different solitaire or patience games. There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck."
Bash: Preserving Whitespace Using set and eval
(2008-11-06 12:05:11)
Linux Journal: "If you don't care much about whitespace bash is great: it normally turns multiple whitespace characters into one and it breaks things into words based on white space. If on the other hand you'd like to preserve whitespace bash can be a bit difficult at times. A trick which often helps is using a combination of bash's eval and set commands."
Fedora 10, a "Live" Solution for One Laptop Per Child.
(2008-11-06 13:05:11)
On-Disk.com: "When One Laptop Per Child starts their next Give 1 Get 1 program on November 17th, there will be an option to purchase an upgrade that will allow users to run a standard Linux desktop based on Fedora 10, on their XO system (pronounced "ex - oh"). This special edition of Fedora 10 is an alternative for adults who may not find the child focused graphical interface called Sugar practical for daily use."
10 Linux Desktops You Shouldn't Overlook
(2008-11-06 13:35:11)
TechRepublic: "In fact, the Linux desktop might very well be the area where there are the most options. But for a lot of users, desktop selection doesn't usually go beyond KDE or GNOME. With this article, I hope to help the average Linux user get beyond the standard fare."
A Gallery of Extremely Geeky Bumper Stickers
(2008-11-06 14:35:11)
Royal Pingdom: "There is no place like home;
The most famous IP address of them all, good old localhost"
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Raises the Bar
(2008-11-06 15:35:11)
Linux.com: "Each new Ubuntu release has raised the standard by which other Linux distros are judged. With the new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, the focus is on mobility and 3G network support. I found Intrepid to be a fast and stable release, yet I experienced some minor issues that keep it from absolute perfection."
Harvard Professor Challenges RIAA Anti-Piracy Campaign
(2008-11-06 16:05:11)
Linuxworld: "A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and alleged music pirates by challenging the constitutionality of a statute being used by the industry group to bring lawsuits against alleged copyright violators."
Linux Threat to Microsoft
(2008-11-06 16:35:11)
The Age: "Small laptops are becoming a big problem for Microsoft's Windows business."
Free Live Streaming from UKUUG Linux Conference 2008
(2008-11-06 19:05:11)
Linux Magazine: "Linux Magazine is broadcasting a live stream from the UKUUG Linux Conference in Manchester, UK (November 7 through 9). It's the yearly event of the UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group."
Open Source and Managed Services: Coming together?
(2008-11-06 20:05:11)
MSPMentor: "Open source is starting to influence portions of the managed services market. But can MSPs really trust open source?"
openSUSE 11.1's New Partitioning Module
(2008-11-06 21:05:11)
OStatic: "The fourth beta release became available Monday, with some new bug fixes, updated versions of GNOME, Banshee and the kernel, and webcam support re-enabled. One of the changes long time openSUSE users will notice right away is the new YaST disk partitioner."
Wi-Fi Linux Network Bug Found, Fixed
(2008-11-06 21:17:11)
Cyber Cynic: "Actually, it's bigger than just a problem that could crash a system. Secunia, a security company, stated that "Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code." In other words, you could use the bug to crack PCs and take control of them."
Why Firefox Rocks on Linux: Great Firefox Tricks, Part III
(2008-11-06 21:35:11)
LinuxPlanet: "But it's the little power user features that make an application you look forward to using all day every day. And Firefox has a lot of special features that are written specifically for Linux users. Here are a few of my favorites."
Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks
(2008-11-06 22:05:11)
Phoronix: "In our performance exploration of Ubuntu we now have additional tests to publish this morning. This time around we're switching out the hardware we're testing on to Intel's newer Core 2 series and we're comparing the performance of the x86 and x86_64 editions of Ubuntu 8.10 against Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 operating system."
A Few Ways To Gauge Possible Memory Bottlenecks In SUSE Linux
(2008-11-06 22:35:11)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to take a look at a few (well, maybe more than a few) ways to check your Linux box to find out if the reason it's beginning to perform poorly is related to memory or memory-management issues. For today's examples, in particular, we’ll be using SUSE Linux 9.x, but most of these examples translate just as easily to RedHat, Ubuntu and other widely-used distros, with some minor modifications."
Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their X-Fi Driver
(2008-11-06 23:35:11)
Phoronix: "However, Creative Labs today has finally turned this situation around and they have open-sourced the code to this notorious driver. The source-code for the Creative X-Fi driver is now licensed under the GNU GPLv2."
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