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News Linux News for Aug 01, 2008:
Is Google's Knol Already Becoming a Den of Spam?
(2008-08-01 00:05:04)
Linux Journal: "But so far Knol looks to me like the biggest risk might be to Google itself. That's because it provides one more way for spammers to game Google's advertising monoculture."
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2008 Kicks Off Next Week in San Francisco
(2008-08-01 01:30:04)
RedOrbit: "The LinuxWorld exhibit floor will feature companies that are driving the future of Linux and open source, including, ACCESS, CA, CISCO, Fujitsu, Intel, Talend, Ubucon, Novell, Bivio Networks, VMware, SugarCRM, Rackable Systems, Wind River, Oracle and many more. Many exhibitors consider LinuxWorld the perfect stage to announce their latest product and service offerings or other breaking news relevant to the Linux and open source industry."
OOo Basic crash course: Creating charts with Base and Calc
(2008-08-01 03:00:04)
"While OpenOffice.org Base is good for storing and querying data, it doesn't provide any easy way to chart information. This is exactly what Calc does best, with its dedicated chart module. If you want to visualize data stored in a Base database, you can write an OOo Basic macro that pulls data from a database, inserts it into a Calc spreadsheet, and then creates a chart."
Linux Tablets Gain Slick Remote Desktop Tech
(2008-08-01 04:30:04)
Linux Devices: "LogMeIn announced a beta plugin for Nokia's Linux-based N800 and N810 Internet Tablets. The LogMeIn Nokia N800/810 Browser Plugin enables Internet Tablet users to access and control their Windows PCs or Macs running the free or commercial versions of LogMeIn."
Buck DNS Monoculture with BIND Alternatives
(2008-08-01 06:00:04)
LinuxPlanet: "Out of several good choices, we're going to look at MaraDNS and Dnsmasq. MaraDNS is great for both caching and authoritative name serving, and claims to be highly secure. Dnsmasq is a great program for name services on the LAN: DNS caching, local name resolution, and DHCP."
Top Screencast Sites for Open-Source Developers
(2008-08-01 07:30:04)
OStatic: "Let's say that you've decided to start using a new programming language or framework. How can you learn what to do, or take some initial steps? Years ago, the obvious answer was the buy a book, or perhaps a magazine. Today, you're likely to read an online tutorial, or one of the many blogs that have sprung up about many of these technologies."
Insanely Securing Your Unix or Linux Systems
(2008-08-01 09:00:09)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "2. Take the idea of making generic accounts su-only one step further and start restricting access to the su binary as much as possible. If you can get away with it, ensure that your /usr/bin/su file is chowned to root:special and chmod'ed to 4750. Now only root and users who belong to the "special" group can even use su to do anything. Everyone else will get an error just for trying to run it."
Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 5.2
(2008-08-01 10:30:09)
HowtoForge: "In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.2 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project."
Google Code blacklists Mozilla Public License
(2008-08-01 12:00:09)
The Register: "The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is the latest casualty of Google's decision to remove open-source licenses from its popular code hosting service.
The search giant has said Google Code is no longer accepting projects licensed under MPL, although existing MPL-licensed code is allowed to stay."
Police Director Sues for Critical Bloggers' Names
(2008-08-01 12:30:09)
Commercial Appeal: "Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of Godwin and his department."
Native Ogg Theora support in Firefox
(2008-08-01 13:00:09)
Ginger's Thoughts: "Chris Blizzard and Chris Double of Mozilla have just announced that native Ogg Theora and Vorbis support is now available in the trunk of Firefox’s codebase. Compiles of that codebase have the support enabled by default, which means that very soon now any Firefox that gets installed on any platform will come with built-in Ogg Theora/Vorbis support out of the box."
10 Ultimate Rules for Effective System Administration
(2008-08-01 13:30:09)
nixCraft: "7. Use Command Line more than GUI
Use the command line as much as possible. Whether you are configuring a VLAN on a switch or setting up LDAP/NIS authentication on a Linux server, always use the command line instead of GUI."
Microsoft’s Dana Perino Problem With Open Source
(2008-08-01 14:00:09)
ZDNet: "Every few years Microsoft gets a new “good cop” regarding open source...Then Steve Ballmer opens his yap and we’re back to square one."
Will LSB 4 Standardize Linux?
(2008-08-01 14:30:09)
Internet News: "LSB 4.0, set for release by the end of this year, could be the catalyst that enables independent software vendors, or ISVs TERM (define), to develop applications that will run on any LSB-compliant Linux distribution. If it gets adopted, LSB 4 could bring a new wave of multidistribution Linux application development."
The A-Z of Programming Languages: JavaScript
(2008-08-01 15:00:09)
Computerworld: "Brendan Eich created JavaScript in 1995 with the aim to provide a "glue language" for Web designers and part time programmers. It has grown to become one of the most widely used languages on the planet."
HP Pays Half for Nvidia's Graphic Problems
(2008-08-01 15:30:09)
The Inquirer: "According to people close to the agreement, Nvidia has agreed to shoulder half the costs that HP sees, and that is averaging about $150 per incident. Someone doesn't want this information out, and anyone close to it is being shut up."
Google: No Such Thing as Complete Privacy
(2008-08-01 16:00:02)
Builder AU: ""Today's satellite-image technology means that...complete privacy does not exist," Google said in its response to the complaint."
Linux Preinstalls Rocket to Three Per Cent
(2008-08-01 16:30:02)
The Inquirer: "The Linux share of this route to market has edged up ever since the Vista launch. Then it broke the two per cent barrier in May after the latest release of Ubuntu, the strain of Linux most capable of kicking Microsoft in the shins."
How Big is the Free Economy?
(2008-08-01 17:00:02)
The Long Tail: "The "Linux ecosystem" (everything from RedHat to IBM's open source consulting business) is around $30 billion today."
Vista SP1 and XP SP3 vs. Mac OS X and Linux
(2008-08-01 17:30:02)
Softpedia: "Both Mac OS X and Linux have made consistent inroads into Windows' territory, a trend which only managed to accentuate following the availability of Windows Vista. But, at the end of July 2008, Microsoft got a little space to breathe."
Linux Desktop Odyssey: When Linux Has a Bad Day
(2008-08-01 18:00:02)
Techworld: "I was preparing to move to my Linux desktop yesterday when all hell broke loose. It seems the SLED 10 box and its partner in crime Lotus Notes were having a very bad day."
Acer Aspire One ZG5 (Linux)
(2008-08-01 18:30:02)
PC World: "We looked at the Linux (Linpus) version for this review, which has an 8GB SSD and 512MB of DDR2 RAM accompanying its 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU. Straight out of the box, the Linpus interface boots up in around 20sec."
How to Install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.04
(2008-08-01 19:00:02)
Softpedia: "To eliminate the "terminal madness" for Linux beginners, we've used apt-url links in this tutorial. So, just click the links in the guide in order to install the packages!"
amaroK: Music App for Linux Reviewed
(2008-08-01 19:30:02)
OSWeekly: "Over the past few years, I have heard a lot of noise about how great it would be to see KDE coming to Windows world. Despite this happening on its own, it really means little with the exception of perhaps one application - amaroK."
Boxee: A New Competitor For MythTV?
(2008-08-01 20:00:02)
Phoronix: " MythTV now has a new competitor and that is Boxee. Boxee is a "social media center" that is based upon the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) with versions for Linux, Windows, and MacOS X."
Could Your Project Use $5000?
(2008-08-01 20:30:02)
OStatic: "He recently followed up and discovered that the money had been used for ... nothing."
Letting The Parents Choose The OS: Good or Bad?
(2008-08-01 21:00:02)
Linux Loop: "First, the likelihood that parents will be able to make an informed decision is almost zero."
Alfresco Supports Microsoft SharePoint's Protocol: Thanks, EU!
(2008-08-01 21:30:02)
OStatic: "As a result of its legal problems with the EU, Microsoft was forced to expose key protocols for Microsoft Office. Previously, Microsoft offerings such as SharePoint tended to tie in very tightly with Office, but other platforms couldn't leverage SharePoint's content sharing and collaboration features."
How to run RedHat and CentOS Linux in an Open Solaris Zone.
(2008-08-01 22:00:02)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to be looking at installing "branded" zones in Open Solaris; specifically, RedHat Enterprise Linux (although CentOS is also supported). We'll take a look at what Linux OS's and hardware are supported in Open Solaris, do a quick rundown of how to set up a Branded Linux zone and sneak a quick peak at some test results from Sun's site."
Microsoft Has Serious Plans to do Away With Windows
(2008-08-01 22:30:02)
Computerworld: "The plans, which are far from being finalized, indicate the Microsoft is really running scared of Mac OS and Linux on the desktop."
Editor's Note: Is Google Evil, or Just Naughty?
(2008-08-01 23:00:02)
Is it really that hard to do the right thing, all on your own without being forced to? It seems to me that after a person makes their first billion dollars they might sit back, relax, and think about how to improve the planet a little bit...
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