News Linux News for Sep 09, 2008:

Determining Maximum Pool Sets Using Binomial Coefficients On Linux and Unix
(2008-09-09 00:01:19)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For our purposes, we'll reduce it to something that looks like regular mathematics (which it is) and tie it back into our series of posts from last week."

Linux Performance Hunting Tips - Take Copious Notes (Save Everything)
(2008-09-09 01:31:19)
Computing Tech: "A well-organized set of notes allows you to test a theory about the cause of a performance problem by simply looking at your notes rather than rerunning tests."

Discovering Mozilla Firefox: an Introduction
(2008-09-09 03:01:19)
IT Wire: "He said that learning something new was all too difficult and he'd just stick with Internet Explorer. "

Brazilian Government Owned IT Enterprise SERPRO Selects Debian GNU/Linux
(2008-09-09 04:31:19)
Debian News: "The SERPRO board decided that Debian GNU/Linux is more suitable for its new corporate goals. SERPRO has decided to increase supplier independence, flexibility, agility, and participation in technical solutions by direct interaction with the Debian Project community."

Linux Wi-Fi Works With wicd
(2008-09-09 06:01:19)
LinuxPlanet: "Wireless management on Linux is a bit of a hodge-podge, especially for roaming users...wicd (pronounced "wicked"), the wireless interface connection daemon, tries to do the job better, so we're going to give it a test drive."

Cybersecurity Best Practice: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
(2008-09-09 07:31:19)
Datamation: "Perhaps guilty until proven innocent isn’t so bad an idea after all."

Firefox Suffers Chrome's Bite
(2008-09-09 09:01:19)
Tectonic: "Launched last week, Google’s Chrome web browser is already making inroads into Firefox’s popularity, something that we feared."

Ad Danger to Open Source
(2008-09-09 10:31:19)
ZDNet: "But open source has not grown through branding. Tux is a cute penguin, but the primary way open source has gained power is through values."

Three Typing Tutors and a Boy
(2008-09-09 12:01:19)
Linux.com "I recently sat down with my 12-year-old son Ian, who agreed to sit still long enough to try a few typing teacher applications on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Ian has a lot of experience on the computer but, until now, he has subscribed to the hunt and peck typing philosophy."

SystemRescueCd 1.1.0 Packed with New Utilities
(2008-09-09 12:31:19)
Softpedia: "The SystemRescueCd team has announced today the latest version of their Linux system. This new release brings important new features, such as advanced customization and kernel recompilation, as well as updates to some of the already present applications."

Top 200 Tech Blogs: the Datamation List
(2008-09-09 13:01:19)
Datamation: "So the question becomes more difficult every year: Which of the gazillion tech blogs are worth your time?"

Alas, My Love, You Do Me Wrong: Player Piano Rolls
(2008-09-09 13:31:19)
Linux Magazine: "Maddog finds out that copyright prevents preserving paper player piano rolls."

Browsershots
(2008-09-09 14:01:19)
Linux Journal: "...my friend Mario in Costa Rica sent me a link to browsershots.org which seems to be a better answer than having a handful of computers with a handful of different operating systems..."

Ubuntu Debuts Jaunty Jackalope
(2008-09-09 14:15:19)
ZDNet UK: "The news comes as Ubuntu last week made available an advance testing version of its Linux distribution, with the full 8.10. The "Intrepid Ibex" release is scheduled to be launched in late October."

Announcing the Ubuntu Manpage Repository: manpages.ubuntu.com
(2008-09-09 14:31:19)
:-Dustin: "It occurred to me that there may well be a contingent of Ubuntu users who are entirely disconnected from the wealth of resources so many developers have poured into manpage-based documentation."

Lenovo Denies Ditching Linux [updated]
(2008-09-09 14:46:04)
Desktop Linux: "Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBM's personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as a pre-installation option. None of the company's 49 ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook models -- nor its many ThinkCenter and IdeaCenter desktops -- can currently be ordered with Linux."

Linux Mint 5 XFCE Edition Is Out
(2008-09-09 15:01:19)
Softpedia: "Today is a happy day for Linux Mint fans as the developers of one of the most popular Linux distributions decided to please us with yet another release."

Windows Vista: The OS About Nothing
(2008-09-09 15:31:19)
Information Week: "The background: Windows is losing market share to Apple's Mac OS and even Linux. And Vista, the latest version, has been a big fat dud."

40 Reasons to Lose Linux and Vote Vista!
(2008-09-09 16:01:19)
IT Wire: "4. Vista has the most advanced and widest range of security software available."

Tip of the Trade: Cracking Passwords
(2008-09-09 16:31:19)
ServerWatch: "Enforcing password security with a multiple-user system can be a hassle — users all too often use inadequate passwords. john-the-ripper (also available via most distros) is a password-cracking tool that enables the identification of vulnerable passwords before someone with nefarious intentions finds the weakness."

Putting A 'Korset' On The Spread Of Computer Viruses
(2008-09-09 17:01:19)
Science Daily: "They recently unveiled a unique new program called the "Korset" to stop malware on Linux, the operating system used by the majority of web and email servers worldwide."

Learning the Craft of Programming
(2008-09-09 17:31:19)
Tux Deluxe: "Neither of us had a formal computer science education, and as we ended up comparing great computer related books we'd both read, it started me wondering, "How did we learn this stuff ?""

London Stock Exchange Suffers .NET Crash
(2008-09-09 18:01:19)
Cyber Cynic: "It should have been a great day on the London Stock Exchange. The U.S. government had announced on the Sunday before that it was coming to the rescue of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae."

The Cyber Crime Hall of Fame
(2008-09-09 18:31:19)
PC Magazine: "Rules are made to be broken the same way networks are made to be hacked into. These are nine of the most infamous criminal hackers to ever see the inside of a jail cell."

Fedora, Red Hat, and Distributor Security
(2008-09-09 19:01:19)
LWN: "Seriously scary, but Red Hat has been able to convince itself that none of the compromised packages were fed out to RHEL subscribers. So this attack, too, failed - but not by much."

What is So Great About Linux
(2008-09-09 19:31:19)
Computing Tech: "The culture of sharing in the open source community and adoption of a wide array of tools for communicating on the Internet have helped Linux move quickly through infancy and adolescence to become a mature operating system."

Frugalware Linux 0.9 Introduces an Abundance of Changes
(2008-09-09 20:01:19)
Softpedia: "Frugalware 0.9 (codename Solaria) is now available for the i686 and x86_64 architectures, and brings 6,400 changes, among which there are 2,279 updated packages, 568 new ones and 926 closed tasks, as well as numerous bug fixes."

Kernel Tuning With Sysctl
(2008-09-09 20:31:19)
Linux.com: "Sysctl provides an interface that allows you to examine and change several hundred kernel parameters in Linux or BSD. Changes take effect immediately, and there's even a way to make them persist after a reboot."

UK Govt Screws Browser Choice
(2008-09-09 21:01:19)
The Register: "A firestorm is brewing over proposals issued by the UK's IT advisory body over which browsers the public sector should support. Taxpayers will be forced to change their browsing habits and computer setup to accommodate the guidelines, say web standards experts."

Lego-Like Linux Modules Ready to Ship
(2008-09-09 21:31:19)
Linux Devices: "Announced last November, the Bug platform consists of a tiny BugBase computer and various Lego-like modules that can be mixed and matched to create custom devices."

Google Hopes Chrome Will Help, Not Hurt Firefox
(2008-09-09 22:01:19)
Internet News: "Internet Explorer. Firefox. Safari. Opera. Flock. Now Chrome. Do we really need another browser? "

Intel, Nokia and Google do Battle in Mobile Linux Market
(2008-09-09 22:31:19)
Electronics Weekly: "The battle lines are being drawn in a contest that will almost certainly define the design of mobile phones over the next five years."

What Xandros Has Up Its Sleeve
(2008-09-09 23:01:19)
TechNewsWorld: "Xandros, which bought Linspire in July, won't release a new commercial version of the Linspire Linux distribution. Furthermore, Freespire, the free version of Linspire, will be based on the Debian code base rather than Ubuntu, as it has been in the past."

Installing Games On Ubuntu With Playdeb
(2008-09-09 23:31:19)
HowtoForge: "Playdeb is a repository for Ubuntu games that makes it easy to install games that are available on getdeb.net. This article shows how you can install games using Playdeb on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop."

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