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News Linux News for Sep 03, 2008:
Why Lifehacker Readers Switched to Linux
(2008-09-03 00:01:32)
Lifehacker: "We asked the devoted Linux users, the dual-Windows-and-Linux-booters, and the newer converts to the open-source operating system last week why they made the switch to Linux, and received over 330 responses as of this posting."
Convert a Linksys NSLU2 to an RTorrent Appliance
(2008-09-03 01:31:32)
JBCobb.net: "In this story I will show you how I converted a mild-mannered Linksys NSLU2 into an RTorrent Appliance. I can park this on a bookshelf someplace and anytime from anywhere I can scp a torrent file to that machine which will then download the requested file to the attached storage."
Actor/Author Stephen Fry Endorses Free Software
(2008-09-03 03:01:32)
Linux.com: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off a month-long celebration of the GNU Project's 25th anniversary with a video in which British actor and comedian Stephen Fry expresses his support for free software."
Exaile Music Player - Music Player for GTK+ in openSUSE
(2008-09-03 04:31:32)
SUSE & openSUSE: "Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support"
Getting Started With CodeIgniter
(2008-09-03 06:01:32)
IBM Developerworks: "If you're a PHP developer, it doesn't take long to make a profound discovery when it comes to your programming language of choice: Large projects can get messy."
Using 'find' to unrar Files Recursively
(2008-09-03 07:31:32)
volatile int: "Sometimes when I've downloaded something, it is compressed into several small rar files, divided into lots of subfolders. This can be handy to keep track of files, but at the same time a pain in the ass when uncompressing them."
Finnix: Compact Linux Distribution for System Administrators
(2008-09-03 09:01:32)
Linux.com: "Finnix is a live CD distribution designed to assist system administrators in such tasks as system recovery and network monitoring. Based on Debian testing and Linux kernel 2.6, Finnix helps with filesystem and partition manipulation as well as with data recovery, installation of other operating systems, and boot record repair."
Number Pools And Guaranteed Combinations Within Fixed Strings
(2008-09-03 10:31:32)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Our Objective: Given a Number Pool of "x through y," create the maximum possible Fixed String Length variations of our Fixed String that contain some variation of our Guaranteed Combination, without any duplication (i.e. 1, 2, 3 is equal to 2, 3, 1 and would only count as one match), and return the results."
Strip Mining of Open Source
(2008-09-03 12:01:32)
IT Pro: "...Fleury claimed that "IBM reacted negatively to the Sun announcement" that Java would be released under the GPL "because IBM's approach to open source is what we call 'strip mining'..."
Debian Distro Named for Little Green Man
(2008-09-03 12:31:32)
Desktop Linux: "With "Lenny" in the final stages of preparation, Project Maintainer Luk Claes has announced that Lenny's successor will be named for "squeeze," a three-eyed space alien."
Citibank Infuriating its Customers With Linux-Hostile Site
(2008-09-03 13:01:32)
The Inquirer: "But when you start using that credit card and want to check you card usage on-line, the system won't work when accessed with Linux."
If Google's New Browser Isn't Even Available on Linux, Why is This Great News For Linux?
(2008-09-03 13:31:32)
Zemlin's Blog: "In particular in makes a LOT less sense for people to PAY for a heavy and bloated operating system."
link fixed-- ed.
Be Sure to Read Chrome's Fine Print
(2008-09-03 14:01:32)
WebWare: "Although you retain any copyrights to content you own and use in the browser, Google says it has a right to display some of your content, in conjunction with promoting its services."
Google Chrome: First Run Around the Track
(2008-09-03 14:25:32)
Cyber Cynic: "Once in a great while, though, something comes along that lives up to its promise. Google Chrome lives up to its promise."
What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?
(2008-09-03 14:35:32)
Tech Broiler: "I think we all know what the answer is, but we're afraid to say it -- Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."
A Review of Google Chrome -- What Rocks and What Sucks
(2008-09-03 14:45:32)
OStatic: "The browser reflects a focus on web applications--letting you create shortcuts for your favorite ones that will open the apps even if Chrome is closed, and more--and runs well. Still, it will be some time before I consider it as my default browser."
Linux Fights Creationism in UK Schools
(2008-09-03 15:02:32)
Computerworld UK: "God-Bill created Windows 2000/XP he saw that it was good and would no doubt have rested there with his finished work."
Hooray, it's a 4.1.1!
(2008-09-03 15:32:32)
KDE.news: "With only a good month of development time -- and Akademy in between -- the changelog is still impressively long."
CONSEGI 2008 Declaration -- Open Letter to ISO Reveals More OOXML Issues
(2008-09-03 16:02:32)
Groklaw: "There is an unexpected reaction from major government IT agencies in six countries condemning the ISO/IEC refusal to act on the four appeals against OOXML, which they say "reflects poorly" on ISO/IEC. They have signed and sent an open letter to ISO, which I'll show you in full."
One Tale of Two Scientific Distros
(2008-09-03 16:32:32)
Linux Journal: "Although it is basically identical to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it is, in essence, a completely different release, just with the same programs, packaged the same way."
Chalk Another One Up for Linux
(2008-09-03 17:02:32)
Motley Fool: "You have to wonder how much Novell would have sold if the products weren't essentially free to the end user."
$98 Laptop From China -- Industry changer?
(2008-09-03 17:32:32)
Technocrat: "On Techvideoblog is a story of the new HiVision mininote laptop, a MIPS based machine with WiFi, USB, Ethernet, SDHC, plus a fairly complete Linux install, for $98."
Faqs! Facts! Fax! Windows XP vs Linux
(2008-09-03 18:02:32)
Telegraph: "Q. I have an AMD computer, which I set up to dual boot to Windows or Ubuntu Linux until I rashly tried to install XP Service Pack 3. It went well at first but the computer rebooted before completion and the promised safeguard of a System Restore failed to work..."
Aliases and Variables Keep Things Short and Simple
(2008-09-03 18:32:32)
ServerWatch: "Aliases are great for saving typing time, and you probably already have a handful set up. But you may not be aware that it's possible to set up aliases that take command line variables as an argument."
Money Manager Ex -- Personal Finance Manager in openSUSE
(2008-09-03 19:02:32)
SUSE & openSUSE: "Money Manager Ex is a free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one's finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a great tool to get a bird's eye view of your financial worth."
Getting to Grips With Linux
(2008-09-03 19:32:32)
BBC News: "Instead, I'm stamping loudly round the living room swearing like a sailor, looking for a cat to kick and cursing a Finnish computer programmer whose name meant nothing to me only days before."
GNU Turns 25
(2008-09-03 20:02:32)
The Register: "...software was a tool that had always been open, hackable and redistributable, and now mediocre people in ill-fitting suits were trying to steal that freedom... by making a quick buck with dodgy products, and putting very little back."
Ubuntu Offers an Exciting Alternative for the Vista-Wary
(2008-09-03 20:32:32)
Business in Vancouver: "The recent 8.04 release of Ubuntu Linux, the most popular distribution these days, offers some features that are worth a look for people seeking a virus and spyware-free alternative to Windows but not wanting to jump to new Apple hardware."
Sharing Files With wdfs and FUSE
(2008-09-03 21:02:32)
Linux.com: "I move from computer to computer constantly -- desktops, laptops, testing machines -- and rather than worry about synchronizing the assorted hard disks content, I prefer to keep one central copy of my documents that I can access anywhere. I do that using wdfs, the WebDAV file system for FUSE."
Linux Tip of the Day -- Task Alert
(2008-09-03 21:32:32)
dralnuX: "Have you ever started a long running task, and after some time decide you want to be alerted when it finishes?"
Tomorrow's War: Why FOSS Needs to Change its Views of Apple
(2008-09-03 22:02:32)
Datamation: "...while fear and loathing of Microsoft often reaches towering, even paranoid heights, Apple is hardly ever condemned, and even seems to be regarded with approval by many members of the FOSS community. Yet, in some ways, Apple poses a greater proprietary threat than Microsoft."
Lists vs. Strings: Perl List Permutations For Linux Or Unix
(2008-09-03 22:32:32)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "That basic building block is known as the permutation of a list, as opposed to an array (or string). Given Perl's definitions, at their basic, a list is static and cannot be modified, while the opposite is true of an array."
Networking 101: Understanding (and Using) ICMP
(2008-09-03 23:02:32)
LinuxPlanet: "Charlie Schluting explains how ICMP is much more than "that thing ping uses". There's plenty to take in before we move further up the layer stack."
Automatically Lock/Unlock Your PC Using Your Webcam
(2008-09-03 23:32:32)
My Technophilic Musings: " This is a simple (and useless) script to monitor motion in front of your PC, auto-lock it when you are away and auto-unlock it when you come back."
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