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News Linux News for Nov 06, 2008:
Quick Firefox Tip: Word Count Bookmarklet
(2008-11-06 00:05:11)
LinuxPlanet: "Authors need to count the words in articles. But when it's an HTML document all full of tags, you don't want to count the tags. Akkana Peck shows a fast way to count only the words."
Linux Border Patrol: Porn Breath Tests for PCs Heralds 'Stop and Scan'
(2008-11-06 01:35:11)
The Register: "Technology that claims to pick up traces of illicit images on PCs has attracted the interest of Australian cops. The software, developed in an Australian University, might eventually be used to screen PCs for pr0n during border inspections."
Intrepid Ibex Lays Claim to the Black Tower
(2008-11-06 03:05:11)
DeviceGuru: "It finally happened: Ubuntu 8.10 (aka "Intrepid Ibex") has uprooted Kubuntu 8.04 from the Black Tower. Although I’ve been a staunch KDE advocate for many years, this exceptional new distribution -- based on Linux 2.6.27, GNOME 2.24, and X.Org 7.4 -- has unexpectedly converted me into a GNOME user."
Midgard 8.09.2 "Bosporus queries" Released
(2008-11-06 04:35:11)
Midgard Project: The Midgard Project has released the second maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software content management framework.
IBM, Sun Microsystems Launch ODF Toolkit Union
(2008-11-06 06:05:11)
Openoffice.org Conference: "IBM and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the launch of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Toolkit Union, a new open-source software community project organized to make document software more innovative, versatile and useful for business."
Chrome and Firefox Browser Betas Duke it Out in Speed Tests
(2008-11-06 07:35:11)
OStatic: "Speed tests are starting to come in from several sources for the updated beta versions of the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers."
Ultrasol - 400 different Solitaire games in one pack in openSUSE
(2008-11-06 09:05:11)
SUSE & openSUSE: "Ultrasol is a collection of nearly 400 different solitaire or patience games. There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck."
Reduce Power Consumption Through Smart Activity Monitors
(2008-11-06 10:35:11)
IBM Developerworks: "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) and the power configuration systems built into modern computers provide a wide range of options for reducing overall power consumption. Linux and its associated user space programs have many of the tools necessary to master your PC power consumption in a variety of contexts."
Bash: Preserving Whitespace Using set and eval
(2008-11-06 12:05:11)
Linux Journal: "If you don't care much about whitespace bash is great: it normally turns multiple whitespace characters into one and it breaks things into words based on white space. If on the other hand you'd like to preserve whitespace bash can be a bit difficult at times. A trick which often helps is using a combination of bash's eval and set commands."
Fedora 10, a "Live" Solution for One Laptop Per Child.
(2008-11-06 13:05:11)
On-Disk.com: "When One Laptop Per Child starts their next Give 1 Get 1 program on November 17th, there will be an option to purchase an upgrade that will allow users to run a standard Linux desktop based on Fedora 10, on their XO system (pronounced "ex - oh"). This special edition of Fedora 10 is an alternative for adults who may not find the child focused graphical interface called Sugar practical for daily use."
10 Linux Desktops You Shouldn't Overlook
(2008-11-06 13:35:11)
TechRepublic: "In fact, the Linux desktop might very well be the area where there are the most options. But for a lot of users, desktop selection doesn't usually go beyond KDE or GNOME. With this article, I hope to help the average Linux user get beyond the standard fare."
Say What You Want From Us But Not What we Don't Want to Hear
(2008-11-06 14:05:11)
mmu_man's blog: "Oddly it seems I'm not the only one asking for opensource on that forum... But it seems to be more "politically correct" when it's for GNU/Linux... which usually means the result would be GPL, so unsuitable licence-wise for porting to Haiku, and unportable anyway because no stable driver API in Linux means no way to understand it easily. "
A Gallery of Extremely Geeky Bumper Stickers
(2008-11-06 14:35:11)
Royal Pingdom: "There is no place like home;
The most famous IP address of them all, good old localhost"
Not Free at Any Price
(2008-11-06 15:05:11)
Boston Review: "But just as I was switching to an OLPC, the project backed away from its commitment to freedom and allowed the machine to become a platform for running Windows, a non-free operating system."
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Raises the Bar
(2008-11-06 15:35:11)
Linux.com: "Each new Ubuntu release has raised the standard by which other Linux distros are judged. With the new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, the focus is on mobility and 3G network support. I found Intrepid to be a fast and stable release, yet I experienced some minor issues that keep it from absolute perfection."
Harvard Professor Challenges RIAA Anti-Piracy Campaign
(2008-11-06 16:05:11)
Linuxworld: "A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and alleged music pirates by challenging the constitutionality of a statute being used by the industry group to bring lawsuits against alleged copyright violators."
Linux Threat to Microsoft
(2008-11-06 16:35:11)
The Age: "Small laptops are becoming a big problem for Microsoft's Windows business."
Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) LAMP Server Setup
(2008-11-06 17:05:11)
Ubuntu Geek: "In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation."
Windows 7: Should Open Source Fans Keep An Open Mind?
(2008-11-06 17:35:11)
The VAR Guy: "The VAR Guy ultimately jumped to Ubuntu Linux in mid-2007. But now -- as Microsoft gears up for Windows 7 -- it's time for our resident blogger to reengage with the software giant. Here's why."
Zimbra Collaboration Server Open Source Edition is a Promising Low-End Package
(2008-11-06 18:05:11)
Linux.com: "If you're looking to run a serious open source collaboration server, Yahoo's Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) should be on your short list. This Web 2.0 email and groupware server offers AJAX Web-based administrator and user interfaces, a variety of useful groupware features, and email import functionality."
Not Screws and Bolts
(2008-11-06 18:35:11)
Linux Gazette: "The aim of these notes is to give you root access to a Debian "lenny" installation on on your existing computer without worrying about any hardware issues. To do this, you will not need to re-boot your computer, and will only append to the existing data on it.
The question of why1 you may want to do this is addressed in the last section..."
Free Live Streaming from UKUUG Linux Conference 2008
(2008-11-06 19:05:11)
Linux Magazine: "Linux Magazine is broadcasting a live stream from the UKUUG Linux Conference in Manchester, UK (November 7 through 9). It's the yearly event of the UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group."
European Commission Publishes Guidelines on the Procurement of FOSS
(2008-11-06 19:35:11)
Fossbazaar: "Public administrations in Europe have to follow public tender procedures and the new guidelines give practical and legal advice on how open source software and related services can be incorporated into the procurement process."
Open Source and Managed Services: Coming together?
(2008-11-06 20:05:11)
MSPMentor: "Open source is starting to influence portions of the managed services market. But can MSPs really trust open source?"
Once Thought Safe, WPA Wi-Fi Encryption is Cracked
(2008-11-06 20:52:08)
IT World: "Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks."
openSUSE 11.1's New Partitioning Module
(2008-11-06 21:05:11)
OStatic: "The fourth beta release became available Monday, with some new bug fixes, updated versions of GNOME, Banshee and the kernel, and webcam support re-enabled. One of the changes long time openSUSE users will notice right away is the new YaST disk partitioner."
Wi-Fi Linux Network Bug Found, Fixed
(2008-11-06 21:17:11)
Cyber Cynic: "Actually, it's bigger than just a problem that could crash a system. Secunia, a security company, stated that "Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code." In other words, you could use the bug to crack PCs and take control of them."
Why Firefox Rocks on Linux: Great Firefox Tricks, Part III
(2008-11-06 21:35:11)
LinuxPlanet: "But it's the little power user features that make an application you look forward to using all day every day. And Firefox has a lot of special features that are written specifically for Linux users. Here are a few of my favorites."
Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks
(2008-11-06 22:05:11)
Phoronix: "In our performance exploration of Ubuntu we now have additional tests to publish this morning. This time around we're switching out the hardware we're testing on to Intel's newer Core 2 series and we're comparing the performance of the x86 and x86_64 editions of Ubuntu 8.10 against Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 operating system."
A Few Ways To Gauge Possible Memory Bottlenecks In SUSE Linux
(2008-11-06 22:35:11)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to take a look at a few (well, maybe more than a few) ways to check your Linux box to find out if the reason it's beginning to perform poorly is related to memory or memory-management issues. For today's examples, in particular, we’ll be using SUSE Linux 9.x, but most of these examples translate just as easily to RedHat, Ubuntu and other widely-used distros, with some minor modifications."
3 More Things Every Good Linux Adminstrator Knows
(2008-11-06 23:05:11)
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Since my "5 Things Every Good Linux Administrator Knows" post the other day...I left out three very important things that every good Linux administrator should know."
Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their X-Fi Driver
(2008-11-06 23:35:11)
Phoronix: "However, Creative Labs today has finally turned this situation around and they have open-sourced the code to this notorious driver. The source-code for the Creative X-Fi driver is now licensed under the GNU GPLv2."
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