News Linux News for Nov 13, 2008:

Does cb2bib Remove Drudgery From Bibliography Creation?
(2008-11-13 00:04:26)
Linux.com: "Many academics and students share a dirty secret: They hate the drudgery of assembling bibliographies. The cb2bib utility attempts to remove some of the drudgery, at least so far as online references go. Designed primarily for use with BibTeX, cb2bib can also be used with other formats once you export the results. However, whether the application actually makes bibliographical tasks easier seems questionable."

Install Bacula for Open Source Backups
(2008-11-13 01:34:26)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "If you're looking for a darned good open-source backup solution, this may be your lucky day for an interview with this data-sucking vampire. For tape backup and even disk-to-disk backup, Bacula is one of the more popular and well-maintained open source applications out there."

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 8.10
(2008-11-13 03:04:26)
HowtoForge: "In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 8.10 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license."

Bruce Schneier: Securing Your PC and Your Privacy
(2008-11-13 04:34:26)
Datamation: "He might be called the international rock star of computer security. Having testified before Congress and given well-regarded speeches the world over, when Bruce Schneier talks about security, experts listen."

Scale Your File System With Parallel NFS
(2008-11-13 06:04:17)
IBM Developerworks: "The Network File System (NFS) is a stalwart component of most modern local area networks (LANs). But NFS is inadequate for the demanding input- and output-intensive applications commonly found in high-performance computing—or, at least it was. The newest revision of the NFS standard includes Parallel NFS (pNFS), a parallelized implementation of file sharing that multiplies transfer rates by orders of magnitude. Here's a primer."

Installing The LLTD Protocol Responder For Linux
(2008-11-13 07:36:18)
HowtoForge: "This document describes how to install and configure the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Protocol - Responder Source Code from Microsoft."

Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB
(2008-11-13 09:03:10)
Phoronix: "In this article we are looking at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB under Ubuntu Linux."

Zenoss Adds Native VMware Management
(2008-11-13 10:34:51)
LinuxPR: "Zenoss 2.3, now enables enterprise IT staff and cloud services providers to monitor their virtual and physical IT infrastructures with a single, integrated product"

Create a LAN for Virtual Servers with KVM and VDE
(2008-11-13 12:06:13)
Debian Admin: "Do it! First, you need VDE pkg for emulate a switch on host hoster (vde is in debian testing version)."

Standardize Displays on Web Portals Running on Firefox 3 and IE 7
(2008-11-13 13:36:10)
developerWorks: "In this article, I talk about how running a Web portal in IE 7 and Firefox 3 can give different results. IE 7 has default fonts that you can resize and use, while Firefox 3 lets you set default fonts without resizing them."

My First Few Minutes In Chrome
(2008-11-13 14:01:11)
steaming open cup: "While Firefox does beat Chrome in the Features category, what with all those amazing plugins, all I really need right now is plain and simple S-P-E-E-D."

Java and Linux on the Android - Almost the Perfect Match?
(2008-11-13 14:30:17)
steaming open cup: "Don't worry I'll be concentrating more on linux and java than the phone itself. For who knows? These two might end up in each other's arms in the end."

Broad Usage Of ipcs And ipcrm On Linux And Unix
(2008-11-13 15:06:34)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "And today, to commemorate his entertaining, and often confusing, apocalyptic outlook on life, I'm going to make our post about something that has almost no relation whatsoever to any of our posts so far this week, this month or this year, and attack two commands that vary in options and output on almost every distro of Linux or Unix you'll ever pick up: ipcs (Inter-Process Communication Status) and ipcrm (Inter-Process Communication message queue, semaphore set or shared memory segment Remover). I salute, and dedicate this post to, you, Captain Trips"

Can Apache Maven Make It by Going Commercial?
(2008-11-13 15:36:12)
InternetNews: "The figures behind Apache Maven are betting that for the widely deployed, open source Java project management tool, the answer is relying on open source's ability to slip in the enterprise back door, gain fans organically and only then upsell users on commercial-grade improvements."

World Without Linux
(2008-11-13 16:06:14)
Cyber Cynic: "At this point in his (Ballmer's) keynote speech, there was a disturbance in the front as a group of demonstrators started shouting "GNU-HURD! GNU-HURD! GNU-HURD!" The police quickly hustled them away."

Are Mobile Linux and Open Source Finally for Real?
(2008-11-13 16:33:13)
THE 451 GROUP: "We delve into this question and look at how mobile Linux and a general move toward openness in the mobile industry are coinciding with the disruption of Apple’s iPhone and resulting mobile combat with other heavyweights."

Novell's Faustian Pact
(2008-11-13 17:04:15)
ComputerWorld UK: "Of all the companies offering GNU/Linux distros, Novell has chosen to work closely with Microsoft, despite the ties that it bind it to the rest of the broad free software community."

Ethernet Connector Contains Linux Server
(2008-11-13 17:35:19)
DeviceGuru: "Digi International has introduced a Linux-based server packaged within a somewhat elongated RJ45 connector. The ME 9210 comes with an embedded OS based on a Linux 2.6.26 kernel."

Distributed Compilation: A Programmer's Delight
(2008-11-13 18:36:01)
developerWorks: "Learn about open source tool options that can help speed up your build process by distributing the process across multiple machines in a local area network."

Ubuntu on a Chip: ARMv7 Devices to Get Full Ubuntu Desktops
(2008-11-13 19:03:32)
OStatic: "Canonical has announced that because of increased demand from hardware manufacturers, it will begin supporting ARMv7 processors (used in many smaller and system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices) with an optimized, commercially supported, full version of the Ubuntu desktop."

Giving it Away for Free
(2008-11-13 19:34:19)
debiantutorials.org: "I was talking with a pal of mine yesterday out back in his workshop. He was making a beautiful piece of furniture and I was going on about the world which, of course, eventually led to a discussion of computer operating systems, open source, that kind of thing."

Chickens Pecking Red Hat
(2008-11-13 19:35:27)
Linux Today Blog: "Today I want to wonder aloud why all these big tough tech companies have Red Hat in their cross-hairs? Oracle, Microsoft, and now Novell all seemed determined to crush Red Hat like a bug. And yet Red Hat, despite being the largest and most successful pure Free/Open Source company, is tiny by comparison."

Debian Installer Lenny Release Candidate 1
(2008-11-13 20:09:10)
Debian News: "The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny."

Linux: Setup iSCSI Target ( SAN )
(2008-11-13 20:34:17)
nixCraft: "Linux target framework (tgt) aims to simplify various SCSI target driver (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SRP, etc) creation and maintenance. The key goals are the clean integration into the scsi-mid layer and implementing a great portion of tgt in user space."

Ubuntu vs OS X: The Deathmatch!
(2008-11-13 21:34:17)
Lennart Regebro: "As you may have seen from my recent posts I'm trying out OS X. There is no doubt that for the casual computer users viewpoint OS X kicks Linux's ass. But I'm a open source computer programmer, and for us things are definitely not as clear cut."

University Challenged to Ditch Microsoft
(2008-11-13 22:04:17)
The Inquirer: "The Open University has breached its founding principles by supporting Microsoft software and should make amends by helping its students switch to free software, said the UK's Open Source Consortium in a letter last month. Last week, the OU replied: yeah but, no but, no."

No Recall for Carphone Warehouse Freebie Laptops
(2008-11-13 22:34:17)
The Inquirer: "The Carphone Warehouse has struck a blow to Open Source software by no longer supplying its Webbook laptops with the Ubuntu Linux operating system."

A Copyright Call to Arms
(2008-11-13 23:04:17)
Globe and Mail: "As one example, under legislation sponsored by the Conservatives in the last parliament Canadians could be fined $500 for the downloaded songs on their computer."

Computer Per Child - Govt's Initiative To Boost ICT Skills In Public Schools
(2008-11-13 23:34:17)
Graphic Online: "All school children between the ages of five and 12 in public schools will soon be provided with personal computers by the government."

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