News Linux News for Dec 03, 2008:

Trumpet Windows Loudly--- Except When It's Malware Outbreaks
(2008-12-03 00:01:22)
Linux Today Blog: "Ever notice how Microsoft plasters the Windows name on everything it can reach? Splash screens, stickers on computers, and advertising everywhere. There is no escaping it. Except when it's yet another malware outbreak-- then all the news organization go inexplicably deaf, dumb, and blind, as this latest story demonstrates:
Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base."

Why Netbooks Aren't There Yet
(2008-12-03 00:31:22)
Datamation: "At the same time, today's netbooks aren't perfect. Many suffer cramped keyboards and track pads; neither is fun to use during marathon typing sessions. Some netbooks are more comfortable than others, but nearly all sport keys that are less than full size. There's also the lack of screen real estate..."

MySQL 5.1 Released With Crashing Bugs
(2008-12-03 01:03:22)
Cyber Cynic: "This sure doesn't sound like a ready to go to work software release to me! In fact, according to Widenius, the long-delayed release of MySQL 5.1, is anything but ready for production use."

Red Hat Spacewalk Expands Linux Management, Replace Oracle
(2008-12-03 02:33:22)
InternetNews: "Red Hat's Spacewalk project is getting into place. The project wants to feed development of the Red Hat Network Satellite product for system management."

OpenLDAP Quick Tips: Switch to the Dynamic Config Backend (cn=config)
(2008-12-03 04:03:22)
Suretec: "The following should be getting you very excited: provides the ability to change the configuration dynamically at runtime."

10 Ways to Reduce Removable Media Headaches in Linux
(2008-12-03 05:33:22)
TechRepublic: "For many new Linux users, removable media can be a deal-breaker. Anyone coming over from Windows knows you simply insert the CD, use it, and eject it. With Linux, it isn't always that simple. In fact, with Linux, removable media has always held a completely different philosophy."

40 Open Source Tools for Protecting Your Privacy
(2008-12-03 07:03:22)
eSecurityPlanet: "You don't need to fork over big bucks – or even any bucks – to keep your online activities and identity secret. The open source community has dozens of privacy-related projects in development, and some of them have already proven themselves to be among the best privacy protection tools available."

Shred and Secure-Delete: Tools for Wiping Files, Partitions and Disks in GNU/Lin
(2008-12-03 08:33:22)
Free Software Magazine: "I carry a small, laminated card indicating my subscription to the IUSP (International Union of the Super Paranoid, tin hat division). Well, you can’t be too careful. After all, we live in a dangerous world and computers are just an extension of that."

The Perfect Server - Fedora 10
(2008-12-03 10:03:22)
HowtoForge: "This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 10 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP5/Ruby/Python, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc."

Camp KDE 2009 Takes Shape: Presentations Announced
(2008-12-03 10:33:22)
OStatic: "Late last week, the Camp KDE 2009 presentation selections were announced. In addition to the presentations, the meeting will feature the traditional keynote addresses and birds-of-feather meetings."

Metastasis
(2008-12-03 11:33:22)
Blog of Helios: "I would guess that if Steve Ballmer had his way and he could "un-say" any three public statements he's made, one of them would be this one. He said that Linux was a Cancer."

Copyright Office Should Right DMCA Wrongs in Rulemaking
(2008-12-03 12:33:22)
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed three exemption requests with the U.S. Copyright Office today aimed at protecting the important work of video remix artists, iPhone owners, and cell phone recyclers from legal threats under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)."

A Visual Desktop Tour of 10 Fedora Releases
(2008-12-03 13:03:22)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Let's take a trip down memory lane and have a visual desktop tour of this wonderful distro starting from its inaugural version that was released on November 6, 2003 until its most recent version that was out just a few days ago."

Hands-on: KDE 4.2 beta 1 Brings Impressive Improvements
(2008-12-03 13:33:22)
ars Technica: "Thousands of bugs have been fixed since the 4.1 release and many aspects of the environment are starting to feel very smooth and polished. Although it still lacks stability and has some noticeable bugs, the new beta provides a much stronger desktop experience than 4.1."

Oracle, Emulex Unite to Fight Data Corruption
(2008-12-03 14:03:22)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "Oracle announced today that it is contributing block I/O data integrity infrastructure code to Linux, which has been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel."

IE Share Slips Under 70%; Firefox Surges Past 20%
(2008-12-03 14:33:22)
Computerworld: "The market share of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer dropped under the 70% mark last month for the first time since Web metrics vendor Net Applications Inc. started keeping tabs on browsers, the company said today."

Linux Clone of Microsoft's Silverlight in Beta
(2008-12-03 15:03:22)
InternetNews: "Linux users are getting closer to full Microsoft Silverlight functionality to view rich media applications on the Web. The Novell-sponsored Moonlight project today released its first beta of its Linux implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight media framework."

The Day The Web Went Dead
(2008-12-03 15:33:22)
Forbes: "On Oct. 30, Sprint Nextel severed its last connection to Cogent Communications, disconnecting two of the Internet's five largest backbones. Instantly, major American and Canadian universities lost contact with each other."

KDE 4 Video Editor Kdenlive Released
(2008-12-03 16:03:22)
KDE.News: "The promising nonlinear video editor Kdenlive has made its first non beta for KDE 4, version 0.7 is on us. This closes another gap of the free desktop world: a usable open source video editor."

Compiz? Emerald? Metacity? What's the Difference?
(2008-12-03 16:33:22)
Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tricks: "I found myself the other night explaining on IRC how the window manager and window decorator parts fit together. There seems to be a misconception that Compiz requires Emerald. That is far from true. There also seems to be confusion regarding what different kinds of themes do. So let's start at the basics."

Why Ubuntu Now Beats Vista
(2008-12-03 17:03:22)
ChannelWeb: "...what is becoming increasingly clear is that the free, downloadable operating system has in many critical ways caught or surpassed Microsoft's flagship desktop operating system -- and poses a significant threat to the software giant if the market catches on."

Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System
(2008-12-03 17:33:22)
Phoronix: "With the EXT4 file-system being marked as stable in the forthcoming Linux 2.6.28 kernel, and some Linux distributions potentially switching to it as an interim step until the btrfs file-system is ready, we decided it was time to benchmark this journaled file-system for ourselves"

Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) in Ubuntu
(2008-12-03 18:03:22)
Ubuntu Geek: "MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs."

Lessons from Open Source - SmartCause.org in Public Beta
(2008-12-03 18:33:22)
SmartCause Blog: "For several years, I worked at a Linux software company. For those of you who don't know, Linux is an operating system, like Windows or Mac. But while Windows is made by people in cubicles at Microsoft and Mac is made by people in more stylish cubicles at Apple, Linux is developed by thousands of volunteers all over the world."

Chinese Ordered to Stop Using Pirate Software
(2008-12-03 19:03:22)
The Inquirer: "A CITY IN CHINA has required Internet cafe operators to replace pirated software with legitimate versions -- the officials primarily pushing Linux."

The World's Worst Way to Market Linux
(2008-12-03 19:18:22)
Cyber Cynic: "Getting businesses to go legal with a native Chinese Linux sounded like a win to me. Until, I saw the Red Flag Linux price tag: 5,000 yuan, that's $725 U.S."

Today's YouTube: US v. Microsoft 10 Years Later
(2008-12-03 19:33:22)
Groklaw: "I found a treasure on YouTube. Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society has a channel on YouTube now. And they held a conference in September on the US antitrust trial against Microsoft, collecting many of the players in that famous litigation, including David Boies. So it's your opportunity to see him in action. As usual, he's impressive."

Another tale of Open Sourcery
(2008-12-03 20:03:22)
The Open Sourcerer: "Our former parent company was running a character based ERP system called MAX on Unix and a Windows file serving network. So day 1 (ish!) we set up two RH servers and installed samba, sendmail, apache etc on one for file print intranet and email and the Linux port of MAX on the other."

The Big Ol' Ubuntu Security Resource
(2008-12-03 20:33:22)
IT Security: "But although Ubuntu is billed as the ultra-secure solution, you should know that even though Ubuntu's default install has its flaws, like every other operating system. To combat these weaknesses, IT Security has prepared a guide to help you close your system's backdoors and protect you from some of the common Ubuntu exploits."

10 of the Best Songbird Add-ons
(2008-12-03 21:03:22)
Tech Source From Bohol: "At the moment, there are probably hundreds of add-ons, so as a guide to new Songbird users, let me share to you a few of my favorites:"

Growth in Internet Crime Calls for Growth in Punishment
(2008-12-03 21:17:22)
Help Net Security: "F-Secure's detection count tripled in one year, which means that the total amount of malware accumulated over the previous 21 years increased by 200% in the course of just one year."

How Comcast Controls Sony's Internet TV Plans
(2008-12-03 21:33:22)
New York Times: "Why should cable companies have anything to say about what I watch that is not on their system?"

Red Hat Chief: 'Cheaper Generally Wins'
(2008-12-03 22:03:22)
ZDNet: ""At times like this, cheaper generally wins," Whitehurst said as he spoke to journalists on Monday about his thoughts on the Linux market and the immediate future for Red Hat."

Technology, Innovation and the Challenge of the Missing Standards
(2008-12-03 22:17:22)
Standards Blog: "Barack Obama promises to be the most technologically attuned U.S. president ever. More than a year ago, he released a policy statement on technology and innovation that detailed his plans to employ state of the art technology to pursue a broad spectrum of goals...In pursuit of these goals, he also promised to appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer."

Nitrogen: A Background Setter For Lightweight Desktop Manager
(2008-12-03 22:33:22)
MakeTechEasier: "Gnome, KDE and XFCE users will have no problem changing the wallpaper on their desktop. However, if you are using a lightweight desktop manager such Openbox or Fluxbox, you will find that there is no way that you can set the wallpaper for your desktop. In this case, Nitrogen will come in handy."

WiMAX Deal "Clears" Linux for Takeoff
(2008-12-03 23:03:22)
DesktopLinux: "Clearwire Corp. announced that it has completed a $14.5 billion transaction with Sprint Nextel to combine their Mobile WiMAX broadband services. The merger of the two largest WiMAX services may accelerate deployments crucial to the success of Linux MIDs, netbooks, and other devices."

Using Spawner To Populate SQL Database
(2008-12-03 23:33:22)
LinuxHaxor: "There are many reasons why you would want to generate bogus data for your database. Perhaps you'd like to know how well your databases will perform when filled with data, or maybe you just need some data so that you can start creating a front end for the database."

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