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News Linux News for Sep 12, 2008:
Akademy 2008 was Amazing
(2008-09-12 00:02:47)
KDE Dot News: "It has been a couple of weeks since Akademy 2008 finished. KDE's contributors are now back home, more enthusiastic than ever about our future. If you missed the talks videos are now online. This article covers what happened during the week and outlines some of the results."
Changing the URL of Your Sourceforge SVN Repository
(2008-09-12 01:00:47)
volatile int: "Sourceforge has done some huge updates and changes during the last couple of months...
Today when I was doing some updates and fixes, I tried to call it a night and did the final touch: a commit. But for some reason I kept getting a '403' error, which means there is some security issue."
64-Bit Linux, Is It Time?
(2008-09-12 01:32:47)
jeffanderson.us|Blog: "Among these is the availability of twice as many CPU registers as 32-bit hardware. This allows twice as much data to be processed without having to hit the caches or RAM."
Report: IT Spending to Drop, but Red Hat and Oracle to Clean Up
(2008-09-12 03:02:47)
The Open Road: "The even better news if you're open-source vendor Red Hat? Shrinking IT budgets are your friend."
The CERN Large Hadron Collider is Using KDE
(2008-09-12 04:32:47)
Notes on ScopePort: "I just read that the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that started it first “live” runs today is using KDE for at least some parts of the projects software. This screenshot of a KDE at CERN/LHC looks like a monitoring program (with a knote ;)):"
Celestia - Free Opensource Space Simulation to Explore the Universe
(2008-09-12 06:02:47)
SUSE & openSUSE: "Celestia provides photo-realistic, real-time, three-dimensional viewing of the solar system, the galaxy and the universe and has become a valuable tool for education in Astronomy."
Speaking UNIX: More Shell Scripting Techniques
(2008-09-12 07:32:47)
IBM Developerworks: " How could someone make a more powerful editing tool than vi, you may ask? The answer is Vim, and this article provides details on the many enhancements that have made Vim a highly used and acceptable editor in the world of UNIX and Linux."
Evaluating Number Grids Using Perl On Linux Or Unix
(2008-09-12 10:32:47)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Hopefully, you didn't give the brain-teaser too much effort if the answer didn't appear to you quickly. Like I said, I wasted a lot of time looking for suitable number sequences ( golden strings, etc ), but, in the end, found that I could reasonably deduce the most economical 8 out of 56 lists by just looking at them."
Ubuntu Saves Compaq Presario 2100 From Certain Death (And Windows)
(2008-09-12 12:02:47)
WorkswithU: "Ubuntu Linux saved a Compaq Presario 2100 from certain death last weekend. Here’s the horror story and the happy outcome. For all of you with aging, slow-running Windows systems, I hope this quick blog post inspires you to breathe new life into the system by installing Ubuntu."
Fedora Reboots Updates After Hack
(2008-09-12 12:32:47)
ZDNet AU: "The Red Hat-supported Fedora Project has started issuing updates to its Linux distribution again, after a hiatus of several weeks caused by a hacker break-in."
Nexenta : Ubuntu Server with ZFS goodness
(2008-09-12 13:02:47)
OS News: "OSNews has been reporting on the Debian/Ubuntu/GNU/Opensolaris hybrid for several years. But for those of you who've never looked more closely at this interesting OS, a Nexenta developer has laid out some of its more noteworthy features and advantages."
The Market Loves Linux
(2008-09-12 13:32:47)
Lew Rockwell: "My wife often rolls her eyes at me, because once I find a new hobby I latch onto it as though life depended on it. The more arbitrary the nature of the hobby, the less she's impressed with it. So imagine her immense delight when, a year ago, the only thing I would talk about with her was Linux."
Korset: Linux Security Thanks to Static Analysis
(2008-09-12 13:53:42)
Linux Magazine: "Coworkers at the University of Tel Aviv have presented a prototype for a new host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) for Linux. Named Korset, it uses static code analysis and promises zero failures."
link fixed--ed.
The A-Z of Programming Languages: Lua
(2008-09-12 14:02:47)
Computerworld: "Professor Roberto Ierusalimschy offers an in-depth examination of what he believes to be the most successful programming language not born in a developed country."
Mandriva One 2009 - KDE4 - RC1
(2008-09-12 14:32:47)
Planet OSS: "The live CD booted into KDE 4.1.1 desktop which has customized menu and theme/wallpaper. All the hardware components were detected and configured properly. There was no 'Live Install' icon on the desktop but you can find it under "tools" menu."
The Fail, er, Joke is on the Web
(2008-09-12 15:02:47)
Internet News: "The blogosphere had a field day with this image below. It was the industrial metal band Nine Inch Nails performing with what appeared to be a Windows blue screen of death crash on the backdrop screens."
Ohio Linux Fest Looms!
(2008-09-12 15:32:47)
LXer: "Every year around this time a huge number of Linux geeks converge upon downtown Columbus Ohio. Registration (free!) has been open for quite some time. The even takes place October 11 and is part trade show, part geek-fest, part technical -- but it's 100% fun."
Firefox 3.1 "Porn" Mode Following IE, Safari and Chrome
(2008-09-12 16:02:47)
Netstat -vat: "Firefox 3.1 will be getting the so-called private mode (aka Porn mode). Mozilla competitors, Microsoft IE 8, Apple Safari and even Google Chrome already all have private mode."
OSCON Leaving Oregon and Moving to the Bay
(2008-09-12 16:44:37)
Netstat -vat: "After 10 years in Portland, Oregon, OSCON - O'Reilly's Open Source Conference is moving in 2009 to the San Franciso Bay area."
Second Microsoft Ad: Still No Clue
(2008-09-12 17:02:47)
Tectonic: "The latest advert - the full version is a long four-minutes plus - features Bill Gates and Seinfeld getting in touch with "real people""
IBM Linux Ads Show Up Microsoft’s Seinfeld Campaign
(2008-09-12 17:32:47)
Tectonic: "By way of comparison, have a look at these two older ads from IBM promoting Linux. Irrespective of whether you’re a Linux and IBM fan or not, the message is clear an unambigious."
SUSE Linux Virtualized on Windows--Why?
(2008-09-12 17:47:47)
Negative Approach: "Linux running in a VM on top of a MS host platform..because everyone wants to put their Corvette on top of a skateboard."
The Bankruptcy Hearing Schedule for Sept. 16th, a Letter, and a Spector Sideshow, but Where's York?
(2008-09-12 18:02:47)
Groklaw: "...there is also a letter to the bankruptcy judge from an ex-employee of SCO alleging some bookkeeping skullduggery on SCO's part with regard to back pay and severance, and finally a story in the Miami Herald involving allegations of a weird bankruptcy auction, something about a mystery bidder, if there actually was one."
Tech Comics: "What Computers Have Taught Us"
(2008-09-12 18:17:47)
Datamation: "How to be Polite"
Complete Story
Why Linux Frightens Both the Software and Hardware Industry
(2008-09-12 18:32:47)
Datamation: "Because both platforms have provided a well-developed means of ensuring compatibility through a consistent set of development standards, developing hardware drivers for both platforms is a painless experience for the most part."
Bash Shell PS1: 10 Examples to Make Your Linux Prompt like Angelina Jolie
(2008-09-12 19:02:47)
The Geek Stuff: "While the gadget and style of Angelina Jolie is hard to match, at least let us try to make the good old Linux prompt very functional and stylish using the 10 examples provided in this article."
Boxee Aims to Shake up the Home Theater
(2008-09-12 19:32:47)
Linux.com "Boxee is a new entrant into the increasingly crowded open source media center space. The company's eponymous application is billed as a "social media center" -- melding a smorgasbord of social networking services into an XBMC-based media center designed for the couch-centric user."
The Real Reason to Celebrate GNU's Birthday
(2008-09-12 20:02:47)
Computerworld UK: "But I think all of these paeans rather miss the point, which is that GNU represents the start of not just free software, but also many, many other movements, all based around the idea of sharing and collaboration."
Make Your Linux Desktop More Productive
(2008-09-12 20:32:47)
Lifehacker: "Today we're detailing a Linux desktop that helps you move quickly, work with Windows, and just get things done; read on for a few suggestions on setting it up."
Bash Shell: Take Control of PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PROMPT_COMMAND
(2008-09-12 21:02:47)
The Geek Stuff: "In the following example, the default PS1 was "s-v$", which displays the shell name and the version number. Let us change this default behavior to display the username, hostname and current working directory name as shown below."
How to Get Help When X Refuses to Start
(2008-09-12 21:32:47)
Echoes: "I'm sure many of us had this problem, and not only once: for some reason or another, the X Window System refuses to start and you get stuck in console. I remember an event also referred to as the 'Black Ubuntu Day', when an update crashed X."
Father of Web Scolds IE for Defying Graphics Standards
(2008-09-12 22:02:47)
LinuxInsider: "...it relies on an Adobe plug-in to perform a similar function. The problem is, Adobe will discontinue supporting that plug-in at the end of this year."
IRC Clients for Linux Part 1: List of 6 GUI Clients
(2008-09-12 22:32:47)
Linux Weekly: "I decided to put up this list which contains no less than 6 graphical IRC clients for Linux, powerful or user-friendly. I also provided several screenshots where I considered necessary and a brief description for each of them."
Editor's Note: It Is A War
(2008-09-12 23:02:47)
FOSS keeps people honest. That's the #1 reason there is such strong, well-funded opposition to it.
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