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News Linux News for Sep 10, 2008:
Developers: Legal Tips for Young Players - Contracts
(2008-09-10 00:01:19)
Brendan Scott's Weblog: "In this series of posts we look at a number of generic legal issues which are relevant to developers, and especially to open source developers working for themselves or in small or medium enterprises."
Tcsh Shell Variable Manipulation
(2008-09-10 01:31:19)
IBM developerWorks: "Learn how you can use tcsh shell variables to make your work easier and how to take advantage of tcsh's advanced security features."
Citadel: A Bastion of Groupware Functionality
(2008-09-10 03:01:19)
LinuxPlanet: "Citadel is 100% GPL, and doesn't play games with making either binary or source downloads easily available. If I had to describe Citadel in a word, it would be "simplicity". It is a complex application with a lot of power and flexibility, but it's easy to install and administer."
Video: Programming with the Python Django web framework
(2008-09-10 04:31:19)
Linux Magazine: "In response to a challenge to programming language developers set by the editors of Linux Magazine, Python Django returned with a solution that is now available as a video workshop."
Finding Overlapping Matches Using Perl's Lookahead Assertion Matching On Linux
(2008-09-10 06:01:19)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "In many instances, a well thought-out regular expression can convince most non-technical people in the room that you're a computer genius who's brain possesses more synapses, forming more bridges and firing more rapidly than anyone's ever should."
Port-Forwarding With rinetd On Debian Etch
(2008-09-10 07:31:19)
HowtoForge: "This article shows how you can do port-forwarding with rinetd on Debian Etch. rinetd allows you to forward ports from one system to another. This useful if you have moved your web sites to a new server with a different IP address."
6 Offbeat Open Source Ideas Worthy of Rube Goldberg
(2008-09-10 09:01:19)
OStatic: "The open source arena never fails to surprise when it comes to offbeat implementations of community-produced technologies. Put together enough eyeballs and collaboration, and unusual inventions will ensue."
PostgreSQL's Transaction Model
(2008-09-10 10:31:19)
Packt: "We will look into the details of how PostgreSQL handles transactions and how it can be advantageous over Oracle's Transaction Model."
Cook Up Tasty Custom Ubuntu Live CDs With UCK
(2008-09-10 11:31:19)
Linux.com: "The Ubuntu Customization Kit, tastefully called UCK, lets you add your favorite applications into the distro. If you're not happy with the factory-installed Ubuntu apps, here's your chance to spin up your very own Ubuntu live CD without too much effort."
The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis
(2008-09-10 12:01:19)
Datamation: "Faced with a security problem, Red Hat reacted far less like Debian and much more like Microsoft..."
With Linux, Even Rootkits Are Open Source
(2008-09-10 12:31:19)
Linux Journal: "Linux has traditionally been regarded as significantly more secure than other common platforms...That may well have changed last Thursday, however, as a commercial "penetration testing" firm released what may be the most difficult to detect Linux rootkit to date — under an open source license."
The Simple and Elegant PhotoAlbum Extension for OpenOffice.org Impress
(2008-09-10 13:01:19)
OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas: "Once I installed this extension, it took me about six seconds to create a presentation based on a directory of graphics, one slide for each graphic."
Why Mozilla is Committed to Gecko as WebKit Popularity Grows
(2008-09-10 13:31:19)
ars Technica: "...some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Despite the growing popularity of WebKit, those who understand the differences between the two rendering engines and have an appreciation of Gecko's technical strengths..."
Lenovo Exits pre-Installed Linux Desktop Business
(2008-09-10 14:01:19)
Practical Technology: ""We will be delivering new Linux offerings on our new Lenovo servers, and IdeaPad netbook education models, scheduled for release in September and October respectively." The IdeaPad S9, the model with Linux, however, will not be available at all to the U.S. market."
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ONE Reason Why OS X is Better Than Vista and Linux
(2008-09-10 14:31:19)
IT Wire: "Forget 10 reasons why Vista is better than Linux, or 20 reasons why Linux is better than Vista. All you really need to know is that there is one single reason why Apple Mac OS X is better than them both."
Free Book Chapter Explains Debugging
(2008-09-10 15:01:19)
Linux Devices: "No Starch Press is offering a free chapter of its book on using open source debugging tools. Written by Norman Matloff and Peter Jay Salzman, The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse offers readers advice and strategies for each tool..."
FAQs to the VIA Open Source Driver
(2008-09-10 15:31:19)
Harald Welte's blog: "One of the commonly asked questions is _why_ not the complete source, including codec acceleration, TV out and 3D was published."
The World's Biggest Science Experiment Runs Linux
(2008-09-10 15:45:19)
Netstat -vat: "Beyond the 20 years it took to build and half of all the world's astrophysicists it also takes another key ingredient to make LHC work -- Linux."
Netbooks, Chrome and the Future of Computing
(2008-09-10 16:31:19)
ZDNet: "Combine netbooks like the Asus Eee PC 900, which we’ve been reviewing, and Google Chrome.
They change computing in fundamental ways."
How-To: Install Video Codecs and DVD Support in Ubuntu/Kubuntu Hardy Heron
(2008-09-10 17:01:19)
Echoes: "Medibuntu is a project somewhat similar with debian-multimedia.org for Debian, providing packages which are not included in the official Ubuntu repositories due to legal issues."
Chrome Snatches Share From IE
(2008-09-10 17:31:19)
LinuxWorld: "Internet Explorer users abandoned the browser last week to try out Google's new Chrome, a Web metrics vendor said Tuesday."
Four Percent of My Site Visitors Run Google Chrome Web Browser
(2008-09-10 18:01:19)
The VAR Guy: "Four percent of the people visiting The VAR Guy now run the new Google Chrome Web browser."
20 Reasons to Shed the Microsoft Yoke and Use Linux
(2008-09-10 18:31:19)
ITWire: "Well, well, well! We seem to be going on a crusade here at iTWire - the old W vs L battle. The Windows is better than Linux creed - which I think is another way of proffering reasons why marketing is better than technology."
Which is More Important to IT -- Certification or Experience?
(2008-09-10 19:01:19)
The Tech Herald: "It is an age old question. When you hire IT staff, is more consideration given to IT certifications or experience? Perhaps your company wants both. The Tech Herald recently posed this line of questioning to various companies to see what they had to say on the topic."
Red Hat - Free Software done horribly wrong
(2008-09-10 19:31:19)
lefty.crupps' GNUski bacon: "I cannot tell you how many problems I've had with Red Het software and their online Red Hat Network...But their implementation of this software is horrible."
X.Org 7.4 To Be Released Today
(2008-09-10 20:01:19)
Phoronix: "This release is shipping quite late and with a slimmed down set of features, but in this article we have more details on what this release holds in store for the Linux desktop community and why it may be a short-lived release."
Copyleft Has no Impact on Project Activity?!
(2008-09-10 20:31:19)
Free Software Magazine: "...the one measure I could derive of how much copyleft actually works showed that copyleft made no difference whatsoever! If true, this means a lot of free software’s social theory is wrong and many things will have to be re-thought."
AMD Pushes Out Three More Triple-Core Chips
(2008-09-10 21:01:19)
LinuxWorld: "Advanced Micro Devices Monday unveiled more triple-core processors, adding to several models released earlier this year."
htaccess Allow From
(2008-09-10 21:31:19)
The Linux Blog: "htaccess allow from gives you the ability to allow (or deny) specific IP’s or domain names from a directory on your server."
Intel Ships Solid-state Drives for PCs, Plans Server Version
(2008-09-10 22:01:19)
LinuxWorld: "The 80G-byte drives can write data at speeds up to 70M bytes per second and have a read latency of 85 microseconds, Intel said."
UNetbootin - Universal Netboot Installer
(2008-09-10 22:31:19)
UNetbootin: "UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely."
Grumpy Gnome-Hater Almost Changes Mind
(2008-09-10 23:01:19)
Linux Today Blog: "So I switched to KDE for my main workstation, and IceWM, XFCE, and Blackbox for lower-powered PCs. For all these years I haven't seen much to like in Gnome. Not until Ubuntu Hardy Heron, that is."
Give One, Get One: I Still Don't Get It
(2008-09-10 23:31:19)
Computerworld UK: "The idea of making Windows the first experience of children, especially in countries where computing has hitherto not yet made much of a mark, was a betrayal of the highest order..."
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