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News Linux News for Aug 05, 2008:
20 Most Nimble and Simple X Window Managers for Linux
(2008-08-05 00:07:08)
Tech Source From Bohol: "One of the best ways to speed up your Linux desktop is to utilize an ultra-lightweight window manager. To all speed-conscious techies, minimalist lovers, and to those who are still hoping to revive their ageing computer hardware, let me introduce you to the 20 most nimble and simple X window managers for Linux."
Tech Spying Tools: Feeding the Cancer Within
(2008-08-05 01:30:08)
LinuxInsider: "...she e-mailed photos of herself in a bikini to a married cable sports anchor. His wife -- who had access to the e-mail account -- mailed back what she thought of the pictures, and somehow it all ended up on Page Six of the New York Post."
New Linux Foundation Meeting for End-Users
(2008-08-05 03:00:08)
Practical Technology: "The meeting will be held on October 13 and 14th at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York City. The idea is to get end users and community developers together to try to co-ordinate what users want and what developers plan on delivering."
gDesklets - Desklets for your Desktop in openSUSE
(2008-08-05 04:30:08)
SUSE and OpenSUSE: "gDesklets is another great tool like Google Gadgets for bringing mini programs called desklets such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness."
OpenGL Benchmarking On Linux Reaches New Heights
(2008-08-05 06:00:08)
Phoronix: "Running Lightsmark 2008 on Linux with a modern graphics card is able to deliver stunning results. Among the individual areas tested within this benchmark are real-time radiosity, global illumination, infinite light bounces, High Dynamic Range, color bleeding, indirect lighting, area lighting, hard shadows, soft shadows, and penumbra shadows."
dnstop: Monitor BIND DNS Server (DNS Network Traffic) From a Shell Prompt
(2008-08-05 07:30:08)
nixCraft: "How do I find out and view current DNS queries such as A, MX, PTR and so on in real time? How do I find out who is querying my DNS server or specific domain or specific dns client IP address?"
Working With Shortcuts in Linux (Ubuntu)
(2008-08-05 09:00:02)
IT Wire: "When you install an application, in most cases it will show up somewhere in the menu. Sometimes the location seems to be a bit arbitrary.
So, firstly we'll have a look at how to move items in the menu. Once again, all of the following information applies to Ubuntu."
Postfix Virtual Hosting With LDAP Backend & Dovecot On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
(2008-08-05 10:30:02)
HowtoForge: "I've been running with a MySQL backend for virtual hosting for some time, but when I discovered Phamm and the added FTP feature (amongst others) I decided to switch to LDAP as backend for Postfix with virtual hosting."
The Updated OSP and Free Software Interoperability
(2008-08-05 11:30:02)
Brendan Scott's Weblog: "The OSP provides the assurance that Microsoft will not assert its Necessary Claims against anyone who make, use, sell, offer for sale, import, or distribute any Covered Implementation under any type of development or distribution model, including the GPL."
Linux set to dominate MIDs
(2008-08-05 12:00:02)
DeviceGuru: "The Linux OS, in the form of Moblin, LiMo, and Maemo, looks ready to take the lion’s share of the Mobile Internet Devices (MID) market and is set to capture unit volumes of 50 millions units per annum in 2013, reports market analyst ABI Research."
Enterprise Router Runs Open Linux OS
(2008-08-05 12:30:02)
Linux Devices: "Vyatta has spun a branded hardware "appliance" version of its dual-licensed Linux and open source software-based router and firewall stack. The first in a "Series 2500" line of "Open Networking Appliances," the Vyatta 2501 targets data centers requiring up to 10Gbps of throughput."
Mandriva Spring 2008: The New Definitive Linux?
(2008-08-05 13:00:02)
Tech Republic: "I’ll just lay this out right from the beginning: Mandriva Spring 2008 Live CD is better than most other distributions fully installed. I am currently writing this blog on a laptop (that is generally flaky about Linux distributions) running the Live version of Mandriva Spring 2008. And even without installing the distribution, I am very impressed."
Cybercrime and Politics
(2008-08-05 13:30:02)
Help Net Security: "...Internet-based risks are a serious concern as they can be used to disseminate misinformation, defraud candidates and the public and invade privacy."
Avant Window Navigator (AWN) Mac OS like Dock in openSUSE
(2008-08-05 14:00:02)
SUSE & OpenSUSE: "Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets. The dock at the bottom of the screen gives a nice apple Mac like look for your openSUSE. There are a lot of Themes Plugins and Applets that can be added onto the dock."
Linux Laptop, Make or Buy?
(2008-08-05 14:30:02)
ZDNet: "My recent call for a Linux laptop drew a lot of response and several kind e-mails."
Why Did Javascript/AJAX Mop the Floor With Java, Flash and Silverlight?
(2008-08-05 15:00:02)
Free Software Magazine: "...Java applet were famous for crashing people’s browsers in 1995 — and they are still famous today for being immensely heavy and memory-hungry. I can only wonder how much better Java would be if the whole community were able to improve it and its libraries."
How to Prevent a Coffee Shop Wi-Fi Attack
(2008-08-05 15:30:02)
Datamation: "When you point your Wi-Fi interface at a local wireless access point (WAP), you’re implicitly trusting it. Say, for example, you’re in your favorite coffee shop and turn on your mobile device and see there’s a Wi-Fi net present—say, something like “Acme-wireless.” You see it’s not using WEP, so you blindly and courageously take the leap of faith and connect to it."
Linux Rescues KVM Rack Gear
(2008-08-05 16:00:02)
Linux Devices: "According to Opengear, datacenters and enterprise computer rooms still contain more than $3 billion in KVM infrastructure. Yet, KVM infrastructure is less than ideal or even useless for administrating modern blade or virtual servers, OpenGear says. According to OpenGear, in conjunction with legacy KVM setups, the KCS6000 gateway can provide both in-band and out-of-band management of a wide range of servers, networking gear, un-interruptible power supplies, and other devices with serial or USB interfaces."
Kill Bill? It Will Open New Vistas
(2008-08-05 16:30:02)
Moneyweb: "How is it possible that the whole computer can be so dependent on one little sys file? If it is so dependent on a single sys file, why not duplicate it or reinforce it somehow. Put it in the damn bios, if necessary. It's like Eskom complaining about wet coal. It rains in January every year; did no one think of that?"
Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects
(2008-08-05 17:00:04)
CIO: "Linus Torvalds needs no introduction in operating systems or open-source circles. He's the creator, muse and chief developer of the Linux operating system. Torvalds started Linux while he was in college in 1991. Today, Linux is the foundation of multibillion-dollar companies including Oracle, Novell and Red Hat. It's used on computers from small office servers and home office desktops to the New York Stock Exchange."
MS-OOXML: A Format Without a Future?
(2008-08-05 17:30:04)
IT Pro: "Microsoft's problems with OOXML just won't go away. MS-OOXML was supposed to supplant the Open Document Format (ODF), but is becoming an embarrassment. As a format it betrays its hurried origins, and is over-complex. At best, it has technical problems. At worst, it is barely fit for purpose."
Using Grub To Change RedHat Linux's Root Password
(2008-08-05 18:00:04)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to take a look at a quick way to get back your root password (assuming its yours) if, for some reason, you get locked out of your machine. It happens... more than I'd care to admit..."
Build Your Own Fedora Re-spin
(2008-08-05 18:30:04)
Linux Format: "Why would you want to do this? By the time a distro has been released, there are probably already several updates available. This is not a problem on a single internet-connected computer, but what if you have to install a dozen machines in an office, or there is no decent internet connection? An updated install DVD removes the need for this. Also, do you really want to answer all those questions each time when the answers are always the same? A custom install disc can take care of that for you."
Review: OpenOffice.org 2.4.0
(2008-08-05 19:00:04)
ZDNet: "OpenOffice.org has no equivalent to Outlook. However, there are free open source email clients worth checking out, such as Mozilla's Thunderbird 2."
What If IT Pay was Performance Based?
(2008-08-05 19:30:04)
Datamation: "A trade magazine just published the list of the most highly paid CIOs and I noticed that many of them worked for companies that haven’t done so well recently (or since the CIOs have been there). These CIOs probably wouldn’t like performance-based pay..."
FbTerm: Better Terminal Windows When You Don't Have X
(2008-08-05 20:00:04)
Linux.com: "FbTerm provides you with a fast terminal emulator that runs directly on your system's framebuffer. Using the framebuffer brings improved performance while allowing you to render UTF-8 text in the terminal. FbTerm aims to be at least as fast as the normal Linux kernel terminal while providing internationalization support and modern font handling with fontconfig. It allows you to create as many as 10 different terminal windows on the same framebuffer, each window having scrollback history."
Drizzle Plans to Wash Away DBMS Past
(2008-08-05 20:30:04)
The Register: "Drizzle -- unveiled recently at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) by MySQL director of architecture Brian Aker - is described as a "slimmed down version of MySQL" and defined as much by what it doesn't do as by what it does.
It will have no unnecessary features, won't support Windows or be compatible with MySQL, and neither will it be "SQL relational compliant"."
What to Expect in Debian 5: Lenny
(2008-08-05 21:00:04)
Practical Technology: "Unlike the last Debian release, Etch, which was delayed for several months by internal developer dissension, Lenny, however, has had a smooth development path. With any luck at all Lenny should appear, as scheduled, in September."
X.Org 7.4 To Lose DRI2 Support
(2008-08-05 21:30:04)
Phoronix: "However, there has been some last minute bloodshed before this first major X Server release in nearly a year. It appears that DRI2, which was first proposed back at 2007 X Developers' Summit, will be dropped from the X Server 1.5 series."
Funny On Monday - MS Has Pushed It Too Far
(2008-08-05 22:00:04)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Hopefully you'll enjoy this long-long joke from long-long ago (and my tags for this post :)"
Safer Ajax Web Form Validation With DOM and JSP
(2008-08-05 22:30:04)
IBM Developerworks: "In this third part of the series, you'll learn how to develop client-side validators based on JavaScript as well as server-side validators, which are implemented as JSP tag files backing up their JavaScript counterparts. You'll also learn how to use resource-bundles that are reloaded automatically when changed, without requiring the restart of the application."
Killing With Linux: A Primer
(2008-08-05 23:00:04)
LinuxPlanet: "You're running commands and editing configuration files and things are working and life is good. Until -- yes, you knew the good times weren't going to last -- until you hit the dreaded "send the process a SIGHUP" instruction."
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