News Linux News for Dec 04, 2008:

A Microsoft Veteran Embraces Open Source
(2008-12-04 00:03:42)
New York Times: "That in itself isn't unique. More unusual is that Mr. Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, the world's largest software company, believes deeply that open source is the future of software."

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase Looking for Artistic Ninjas
(2008-12-04 00:04:24)
OStatic: "Ubuntu has once again opened up a call for submissions to anyone interested in being a part of the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. If you're a musician, artist, photographer, or all-around creative genius and would like to enter your work in the current competition, you've got until February 9, 2009 to submit something to the judges."

Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon
(2008-12-04 00:33:42)
Physorg.com: "Zipf's law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. The linguist George Kingsley Zipf first proposed the law in 1949, when he noticed that the distribution of words in a newspaper, book, or other literary article always followed the same pattern."

Analyzing TCP Disconnects On Linux Or Unix
(2008-12-04 01:03:42)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "One question that I get asked a lot (and used to ask a lot ;) has to do with the TCP protocol. More specifically, with how an established connection goes about graciously ending. And, if you haven't guessed, the reason the question gets asked so often is that, with all the different states a graceful TCP disconnect goes through, lots of folks (involved in troubleshooting) are curious as to whether the output they're pouring over is "good" or "bad.""

Public Key Crypto for Enterprise Users
(2008-12-04 02:33:42)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "Its strength lies in the fact that it can be used to exchange encrypted information between two parties that have never communicated together before and have therefore never agreed on a secure way of exchanging messages."

Bash Script To Find Free Online Fiction and Non-Fiction Books
(2008-12-04 04:03:42)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this week's Monday Linux/Unix bash shell script we're going to do the (almost) exact opposite of what we've been doing for the past few weeks. Today, we're going to find free books on the Internet and, possibly, read them ;)"

A Ride With Hessian
(2008-12-04 05:33:42)
Noor: "Today, I came across what I call a deep-sea pearl. I came to know Hessian, the binary web service protocol."

Why Does Microsoft Always Get A Free Pass? Why Does Big Business Reek So Badly?
(2008-12-04 07:03:42)
LinuxPlanet: "John Gilmore, one of the founders of Electronic Frontier Foundation and all-around awesome geek and activist, is often quoted as saying "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." But does it? The Internet is under the control of the companies who own the wires, which ain't us peons out here in the world."

Installing Cherokee Web Server With PHP 5 & MySQL 5 Support On Ubuntu 8.10
(2008-12-04 08:33:42)
HowtoForge: "Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more."

Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB OC
(2008-12-04 10:03:42)
Phoronix: "Sapphire though manufactures a Radeon HD 4650 graphics card that operates well beyond the reference core and memory frequencies for the RV730PRO and sells it at a very affordable price. In this article we are seeing how well the Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB OC graphics card can perform under Linux."

How Windows Users Are Changing Linux And What We Should Do About It
(2008-12-04 11:33:42)
Linux Canuck's Weblog: "There is no doubt that people are leaving Windows, many going to the Mac and some are turning to Linux. This is partly due in part to dissatisfaction with Vista. The reason isn't important. What is happening to the Linux community is."

Replacing Linux with Windows Saves 1 Million Pounds
(2008-12-04 13:03:42)
IT Wire: "A UK company says its switch from Linux to Windows will save it 1 million Pounds (almost $A2.3 million). How does that work?"

Fedora Project Taking Ideas For Next Release Name
(2008-12-04 13:33:42)
OStatic:"Distribution naming schemes are one of the more humorous aspects of the open source community. Ubuntu uses an adjective followed by an animal name (Intrepid Ibex, Jaunty Jackalope), while Debian names releases after characters in the movie "Toy Story" (Sarge, Etch, Lenny). Fedora's method is a bit more obscure, but no less clever."

Android Phone Launches in China
(2008-12-04 14:03:42)
17Lamp.net: "TechFaith Wireless and Qigi Future Technology announced a smartphone that runs the Google Android mobile Linux stack. The i6-Goal is only the second Android phone to launch, and reportedly includes a 2.8-inch touchscreen, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and a two-megapixel camera."

World's Second Android Phone Unveiled
(2008-12-04 14:33:42)
APC Magazine: "Australian-based tech importer Kogan has revealed the first Google Android-based phone that will ship in Australia -- and only the second that will ship worldwide."

Dell Customer Awarded Windows Refund
(2008-12-04 15:03:42)
ynet: "Zvi Devir from Haifa was recently able to do the impossible: He held Dell to the fine print in its end-user license agreement."

Speaking UNIX: Go Fish! The Friendly Interactive Shell
(2008-12-04 15:33:42)
IBM Developerworks: "The Friendly Interactive Shell, or fish, is a joy to use. Its syntax, context-sensitive help, and color-coded command-line interface (CLI) greatly simplify the use of UNIX and ease the burdens of scripting."

What is trackerd and Why Is It Running?
(2008-12-04 15:41:35)
The How-To Geek: "If you've looked at the running processes on your Ubuntu box and wondered why there's a process named "trackerd" that is overusing the CPU, you are in luck, because that's exactly the topic we'll cover today. Tracker is a search tool built into Ubuntu, and by default seems to be configured to maximize CPU while indexing."

Linux Comparison: Introduction and Ubuntu
(2008-12-04 16:03:42)
Neowin: "I have toyed around with Linux on and off for the last few years, mostly with Ubuntu. My first experience of Linux was Ubuntu. At first it was a bit scary, with me wondering if my CPU would implode should I type the wrong command. The more I used Linux though, the more I learnt about my computer."

Slicing up Sun
(2008-12-04 16:33:42)
Tech Broiler: "One of those companies that has been front and center in the middle of this crisis is Sun Microsystems, which incurred massive losses last quarter, just cut 6000 jobs, and has been steadily hemorrhaging money for years, particularly in their enterprise server business."

Saving the Intellectual Commons with Open Source
(2008-12-04 17:03:42)
Open Enterprise: "Despite that, I strongly recommend a new book from someone who not only approves of the term "intellectual property", but of its fundamental ideas. I do so, however, because this avowed fan also has serious reservations:"

Losses at Mandriva
(2008-12-04 17:33:42)
LWN.net: "Two Mandriva contractors - Adam Williamson and Oden Eriksson have announced that their contracts are being terminated. These two developers are responsible for a great deal of the work which goes into the Mandriva distribution; as Oden notes: "Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain."

Does Google Have a Secret OS?
(2008-12-04 18:03:42)
InternetNews: "Net Applications caused a bit of a stir this week with a report that showed Microsoft's operating system share had dipped below 90 percent. This played very well where anti-Microsoft sentiment was strongest, not surprisingly."

Intel, Hitachi Make a Splash in Solid State Storage
(2008-12-04 18:19:56)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "A new partnership between Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to develop enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs) promises to push the technology further into enterprise storage systems."

Firefox Nightly Beats Chrome in Speed And Webkit Nightly Eats Them For Breakfast.
(2008-12-04 18:33:42)
LinuxHaxor: "We already knew that Firefox nightly beats Chrome in speed, the gap is getting wider with the latest Firefox builds (3.2a1pre)."

IBM Virtual Desktop Bundles Lotus, Ubuntu Linux to Freeze Out Microsoft
(2008-12-04 18:47:42)
eWeek: "IBM teams with Ubuntu provider Canonical and virtual desktop software maker Virtual Bridges on a bundle that lets systems administrators deliver open-source Linux and Lotus messaging and collaboration software to desktops and workstations across remote offices."

WFTL Bytes! for Dec 3, 2008: Now Open Source Is Broken, Viruses Eat Army, Microsoft Buys Friends
(2008-12-04 19:03:42)
WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, December 3, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. In today's news, not only is Linux apparently broken, so is the open source business model. Mandriva falls on hard times again, viruses cripple US military base, Microsoft pays for recommending them, OpenSUSE throws out the EULA, the costs of piracy, and a new browser war."

Microsoft's Tired TCO Toffee
(2008-12-04 19:33:42)
Open Enterprise: "Those with good memories may recall a phase that Microsoft went through in which it issued (and generally commissioned) a stack of TCO studies that "proved" Windows was better/cheaper than GNU/Linux. Of course, they did nothing of the sort, since the methodology was generally so flawed you could have proved anything."

Ubuntu or Fedora?
(2008-12-04 20:03:42)
MyBroadband: "Last week Fedora Linux released its latest version, Fedora 10. We take a look at how it stacks up against Ubuntu 8.10, released a month before."

WordPress Being Slow, a DNS Problem
(2008-12-04 20:33:42)
MyThoughts: "His site was still extremely slow, I mean it took almost a minute to load the index page. Installation of a caching plugin, deactivating all plugins, selecting the default theme did not help at all."

Will a Linux Certification Help You Get a Linux Job?
(2008-12-04 20:45:07)
LinuxPlanet: "There are a host of Linux certifications, such as the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Novell's Novell Linux Certified Engineer (NLCE), and the Linux Professional Institute's entry-level LPIC-1. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols looks for the answer to the question, How much help are they for turning your Linux expertise into a Linux job?"

Our Linux Dream 2008
(2008-12-04 21:03:42)
LinuxLoop: "The question is: what do you want to happen in this upcoming year? Last year I asked for reader’s Linux dreams, and received a great response, so this year I am doing it again."

Netflix Movie Downloads Come to Linux PCs
(2008-12-04 21:33:42)
DeviceGuru: "Boxee announced today that it has added Netflix video downloads -- including the ability to browse Netflix's media library from within Boxee -- to its A/V media center platform for Linux, Mac, and (soon) Windows PCs."

Indian GNU/Linux Advocate and Independent FOSS Consultant Raj Mathur (video)
(2008-12-04 22:03:42)
Linux.com: "New Delhi resident Raj Mathur is living proof that a Free and Open Source Software advocate can earn a decent living working with clients who are using or planning to use FOSS."

TIP: Switching Soundcards In Ubuntu
(2008-12-04 22:33:42)
Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "If you have multiple soundcards in your system and have to switch between them regularly...you would definitely be under-whelmed by the less-than-stellar performance of ubuntu in switching between the sound cards."

Tips For Documentation Writers (This Means You Too, Ace Coders)
(2008-12-04 23:03:42)
Linux Today Blog: "The Internet is full of software and hardware forums, tips, tricks, and howtos from all kinds of people. It is a wonderful thing that there are so many generous users sharing what they have learned...Nobody expects Nobel-winning literary excellence, but there are a few simple techniques for writing better documentation that anyone can learn."

Recover a Failing Disk Using a Linux Live CD
(2008-12-04 23:33:42)
Kevin's World: "I had a friends disk fail the other day and this is how I attempted to recover it."

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