News Linux News for Nov 11, 2008:

Bilski - What It Means, Part 3 - The Mayer Dissent & Some Intangibility Questions
(2008-11-11 00:04:54)
Groklaw: "Continuing our series on the In Re Bilski ruling [PDF], here is Judge Mayer's dissenting opinion as text, the one that points out how utterly damaging all business methods patents are."

Cheap laptop batteries: Good Deal or Risky Business?
(2008-11-11 00:34:54)
Computerworld: "We all want to save money, but not if it puts our notebooks at risk. Buying an aftermarket battery often goes against the advice of laptop manufacturers, and in some cases can even void the warranty. Is it worth it to save a few bucks?"

Fix Unresponsive or Frozen Linux Computers Using Shortcuts
(2008-11-11 01:04:54)
Makeuseof: "Or if nothing works you can hit the power button may be? But before you head towards that power button there is one last magical way to get back your system, and I am going to talk about it in this article."

Mandriva appoints Hervé Yahi as Chairman – Chief Executive Officer
(2008-11-11 02:34:54)
Mandriva: " Mandriva, the leading European Linux publisher, today announced the appointment of Hervé Yahi as Chairman – CEO."

OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release, The year of the laptop?!
(2008-11-11 04:04:54)
FOSS Boss: "I've always been a Unix junkie, of course mostly running Linux for a decade now, but Solaris is starting to look more and more like a real modern option."

Enrich Your Web Site With the Fruits of the Wikimedia Project
(2008-11-11 05:34:54)
IBM Developerworks: "You know Wikipedia, but do you know of the dozens of related sites that provide user-generated content that is just as valuable? Many of the related sites under the Wikipedia umbrella are very useful to Web developers. Learn how to enrich your information space with resources beyond Wikipedia, including examples of widgets applying data from these sites."

New Laptop Based Chinese Loongson CPU is Announced
(2008-11-11 07:04:54)
17lamp.net: "On Nov,8 more than 20 fans attended the China Internaltional Industry Fair in the ShangHai New International Expo Centre to look and test the new box based Chinese Loongson CPU although it's rain."

Installing Xen On CentOS 5.2 (i386)
(2008-11-11 08:34:54)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.2 system (i386)."

GravityZoo Goes Open Source With MediaZoo
(2008-11-11 10:04:54)
GravityBlog: "MediaZoo is an online media library & player. It streams uploaded music to any device where a GravityZoo client is installed, and allows users to invite close friends to their "Music Room"."

Updated Bash Script To Get Cable, Dish and Local TV Listings
(2008-11-11 10:34:54)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "This week's script is an update to include a lot of error checking and (from the suggestion I received the most often :) the ability to pick a time span. This script's invocation will allow you to get listings from "right now" (or whatever you set the "time" variable to) to the regular 3 hour time span in half-hour increments."

4 Open Source Code Review Tools
(2008-11-11 11:34:54)
OStatic: "While code review started out as a physical meeting process, there's been increasing interest in supporting distributed code reviews via the web. A recent tool release from Google, Rietveld, brought this back into the news - but there are other tools that are probably a better fit for most organizations."

Kicking the Beast
(2008-11-11 13:04:54)
Blog of Helios: "In an effort to help proliferate the Linux Desktop, HeliOS Solutions has contacted a number of Big Box stores and smaller businesses throughout the Austin Metro Area and asked them if we could set up professional and attractive displays for Linux Live CD's."

Shuttleworth: There's More to Linux Development Than Kernel Hacks
(2008-11-11 13:34:54)
The Open Road: "As I've noted before, there is more to open-source development than lines of code written, important though that activity is. There is, for example, the critical work done by Canonical, the company behind the ubiquitous Ubuntu Linux distribution, which tends to involve more ease-of-use development than core kernel development."

Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?
(2008-11-11 14:04:54)
Tech Broiler: "November 5th, 2008 was the 40th anniversary since computer scientist Alan Kay devised the "Dynabook", a theoretical computing device which was aimed toward higher education and "children of all ages"."

Songbird Plus Mozilla, the Ultimate Media Mashup for Your Music
(2008-11-11 14:34:54)
Free Software Magazine: "But Songbird has one unique feature. It has a built-in browser, Mozilla, which allows it to extract maximum mileage from your music collection. Web integration leverages your music and allows you to do some really great stuff. This article will look at the features of Songbird that make it an essential addition to any installation."

Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers
(2008-11-11 15:04:54)
IEEE Spectrum: "More cores per chip will slow some programs [red] unless there’s a big boost in memory bandwidth [yellow]."

OpenOffice 3.0 Downloads Reach 10 Million
(2008-11-11 15:34:54)
Linux Magazine: "At the 6th Annual OpenOffice.org Convention in Peking November 5-7, the project could celebrate a new milestone in their 3.0 release: downloads of their office package have reached 10 million."

Intel High Definition Audio in Linux
(2008-11-11 16:04:54)
bekir serifoglu: "A great number of laptops produced after 2004, including my vaio fz 190, come with an Intel® High Definition Audio chipset. Interestingly, these chipsets has problems in both Linux and Windows."

KDEs Big Mistake
(2008-11-11 16:34:54)
TechRepublic: "In the migration from 3.x to 4.x, the KDE developers decided to make a rather bold move: replace KDE's file browsing function with Dolphin. Now before I get into this rant, I want to say that Dolphin isn’t horrible, it's just that Konqueror was probably one of the finest file managers available — on any platform. That being said..."

Go-oo: A Lighter, Faster OpenOffice, With Extras
(2008-11-11 17:04:54)
OStatic: "...the applications are slow compared to the sleeker standalone alternatives, and even slower than the comparable Microsoft Office apps. If you've run into this problem, and if you use OpenOffice but occasionally run into compatibility problems in sharing files with the Microsoft Office applications, try Go-oo."

IBM to Microsoft: It's Small Biz Server War
(2008-11-11 17:34:54)
Microsoft Watch: "The new Foundations appliance takes on Small Business Server 2008; it's Linux versus Windows, baby."

Linux Smartphone Shipments up 49 Percent
(2008-11-11 18:04:54)
LinuxDevices: "Symbian was the only major operating system (OS) to lose share over the last year in a smartphone market that grew 28 percent, says a Canalys study. Other findings include big gains for Apple and RIM, and a 49 percent increase in sales of Linux smartphones."

Examining the Compilation Process, part 3
(2008-11-11 18:34:54)
Linux Journal: "I hadn't intended for this to be a three part series, but it's been pointed out that I didn't cover the make utility and I think it's almost negligent to discuss software development and not discuss make. Since I don't like to think of myself as negligent, I decided to extend the series to one more article."

Microsoft Denies Paying Contractor to Abandon Linux
(2008-11-11 19:04:54)
InfoWorld: "Microsoft has denied paying a Nigerian contractor $400,000 in a bid to battle Linux's movement into the government sector."

Android on iPhone
(2008-11-11 19:34:54)
Tech Source From Bohol: ""Why bother installing Android on an iPhone?" you may ask. I've got a simple answer: a combination of the most gorgeous phone in the world with the most advanced mobile OS would be spectacular."

Windows 7 no Threat to Netbook Linux
(2008-11-11 20:04:54)
LinuxWatch: "I've been nonplussed the last few weeks as ordinarily sane compu-journalists opine that Windows 7 will somehow kill Linux on netbooks. This weekend, I had a chance to actually see XP running on an EEE 900, and I can tell you, Linux has nothing to fear from Redmond."

The Big Windows 7 Lie
(2008-11-11 20:39:51)
Cyber Cynic: "When I said recently that early Windows 7 reviews based on handpicked bribes, ah high-end laptops, to reviewers and bloggers could only give results that were not a lot different from those of a rigged demo I was more right than I knew."

WPA Vulnerability Discovered
(2008-11-11 21:19:26)
Wi-Fi Planet: "Our own security expert, Lisa Phifer, who has been following the news, called the flaw "more of a pinhole, than a crack.""

Building Command Line Utilities with Python
(2008-11-11 21:34:26)
Enterprise IT Planet: "When you write code, whether in Python or some other language, you probably have a goal that you or someone else will one day run it. A very common, useful, and powerful option for running your code is to call it from a command line. Writing your code so that it runs from the command line is easy. In fact, you don't have to do anything special to get it working on the command line."

OpenOffice vs. Google Apps
(2008-11-11 22:04:26)
Datamation: "Not only does OpenOffice.org match Google Apps in convenience and availability, but, feature for feature, it leaves Google Apps writhing helplessly on its back and choking on FOSS dust."

"Custom Debian Distributions" Renamed "Debian Pure Blends"
(2008-11-11 22:34:26)
OStatic: "On Monday, the Debian project announced that it was renaming the former "Custom Debian Distribution" concept (the umbrella term under which Debian projects such as Debian Junior, Debian Med, and DebiChem were collectively known) to the more accurate (and catchier) name "Debian Pure Blends."

Linux Printing: A Curious Mix of Yuck and Excellence, part 1
(2008-11-11 23:04:26)
Linux Today Blog: "We miss out on a lot of CUPS' useful functionality, such as printing over the Internet and connecting Windows clients without Samba, because the interface and documentation skip over the gnarly bits of how to actually set these up."

Automated Processing Tools for Better Digital Pictures
(2008-11-11 23:34:26)
Linux.com: "When you return from a trip and copy your digital pictures over to your file server, you might like to rename the image files or (losslessly) rotate them to their correct orientation to make finding and viewing them simpler. You might even want to embed comments right into the image files in such a way that all image viewing tools should be able to harvest and share this metadata. In this article we'll take a look at some command-line tools to help you with these tasks."

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