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News Linux News for Dec 11, 2008:
Mozilla Losing its Chief Security Officer Window Snyder
(2008-12-11 00:03:47)
Netstat -vat: "Mozilla's Chief Security Officer Window Snyder announced today that she is leaving her post at Mozilla by the end of the year."
Why DU And DF Display Different Values On Linux And Unix
(2008-12-11 01:33:47)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to look at a little something that is a fairly hot-running-water issue on most of the Linux and Unix boards lately (actually, probably always has been, but our research staff quit on us ;) This post will be similar in focus to our previous post on the differences between sar and vmstat with regards to free memory/swap reporting."
Will Linux Defenders Save Linux from Microsoft?
(2008-12-11 04:33:47)
InternetNews: "Questions over patent validity in software are never easy to answer, but it's one that a new effort called Linux Defenders from the Open Invention Network (OIN) is trying help solve."
What Shall we do About Software Patents?
(2008-12-11 06:03:47)
Open Enterprise: "One of the central issues facing free software around the world is what can be done about the threat of software patents."
Red Hat Backs Jaspersoft's Open Source BI
(2008-12-11 07:33:47)
InternetNews: "Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Jaspersoft has closed a new round of financing -- thanks to backers that now include Linux vendor Red Hat, InternetNews.com has learned."
New Notifications for Jaunty
(2008-12-11 09:03:47)
Hurray, Let the Rants Begin: "This is a big concern of mine, as I’ve worked on that code locally, and have definitely wanted to see some progress here for ages. Unfortunately, the upstream is more or less dead or limping due to conflicting time constraints on the lead developer, Christian Hammond."
Vim as Typewriting Tutor
(2008-12-11 10:33:47)
Polish Linux: "Vim is an advanced text editor, used by many free software fanatics. It is highly configurable, beside the default features it has a way to be enhanced using the built-in interpreter."
Set Up A Fully Encrypted Raid1 LVM System
(2008-12-11 12:03:47)
HowtoForge: "For this Howto I use Debian Lenny (still testing and not "stable" for the simple reason as - contrary to Debian Etch and/or Ubuntu 8.04/8.10 - the install routine does setup the initrd correctly so that you can set up encrypted swap and also an encrypted raid1 lvm during install). This Howto will be heavy on screen shots again - a lot of them are repetitive as I setup multiple partitions at once."
Whither Open Source in the Land of Leeches?
(2008-12-11 13:03:47)
The Open Road: "IBM's Savio Rodrigues sees a lot of benefits from proprietary technology companies like Cisco "leeching" off open-source communities to boost profits and drive top-line revenue growth. I'm inclined to agree, at least with his assessment of IBM's involvement in open source."
Black Duck Software on Open Source Myths
(2008-12-11 13:33:47)
OStatic: "Is open source just source code? According to Black Duck: "Source code is actually only 15% of what is released by open source developers. There are four times as many binary files as source files in open source releases.""
Linux Taking Center Stage This Week
(2008-12-11 14:03:47)
Bryan's Blog: "To be honest though, the opinion that matters to me the most is my own opinion. Except for the occasional hardware compatibility issue, Linux is the operating system I have found to be the most dependable."
The Most Popular Linux Posts of 2008
(2008-12-11 14:33:47)
Lifehacker: "Having said that, when we get to write about great Linux-based tweaks or downloads, we get pretty excited—and, apparently, so do our readers and visitors linked in from across the web. Today we're looking back at the Linux-related posts that got the most attention in 2008, so read on to see what you might have missed, and what the open-source crowd is down with."
If Microsoft’s EULA Applied To Books
(2008-12-11 15:03:47)
Richard Dooling: "2. INSTALLATIONS AND USE. You may install, use, access, display and read ONE COPY OF THIS BOOK on a SINGLE PERSON, such as an adult, man, woman, teenager, or other human person. This book may NOT be read by more than one person."
Five Firefox Extensions for Mobile Users
(2008-12-11 15:33:47)
Linux Magazine: "While you won't find any Firefox extensions designed specifically for mobile users, there are a few add-ons you might find particularly useful when you are on the move. Here are five of them."
How to Create A Minimal And Beautiful Desktop With Conky
(2008-12-11 16:03:47)
MakeTechEasier: "Conky is a simple, lightweight system monitor application that can display information on your desktop and allows you to monitor several processes simultaneously. For those who like to keep a minimal desktop, but still want to have quick access to various information such as emails, weather, memory usage etc, then Conky is just the application for you."
YouTube and GNU/Linux: Download and Convert Videos the Easy Way
(2008-12-11 16:33:47)
Free Software Magazine: "YouTube has a rather frivolous reputation, the sort of site you might visit to see a video of snowboarding hamsters or jetpacking gerbils. It wasn't until I started re-learning the guitar, learning to play the piano too and sight reading sheet music that I began to realize that YouTube was a great source of online tutorials."
Unix And Linux Factoids - Your Time To Live Is Gonna Come
(2008-12-11 17:03:47)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to start a new random thread of posts dealing with common commands and how they work. The meat of today's post is near the end, as the explanation, when I get around to it, is fairly simple and easy to both convey and understand."
Using Varnish to Capitalize on Image Hotlinkers and Retain Referred Visitors
(2008-12-11 17:33:47)
Rudd-O: "Hotlinkers suck your bandwidth dry, but referrals are valuable to you. Learn how to use Varnish to stop image hotlinkers while at the same time welcoming referred visitors and gaining a big performance edge."
Internet Explorer: Fewer Bugs Than Firefox and Google Chrome?
(2008-12-11 18:03:47)
The VAR Guy: "So, which Web browser has the most software bugs: Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox? uTest, a fast-growing marketplace for software testing, uncovered some rather intriguing answers."
Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations
(2008-12-11 18:38:21)
Free Software Foundation: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. The FSF's complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library."
Free Ubuntu Training course
(2008-12-11 19:03:47)
EasyLinuxCDs: "The Free Ubuntu Training course includes over 150 pages of Ubuntu desktop training topics with screen shots and step-by-step Ubuntu help. Many issues Ubuntu Linux newbies experience are explained here including Ubuntu history, installation, users and groups, desktop effects, resolution, appearance, mouse and keyboard configuration, network configuration, synaptic, printers, command line, file system, NFS and Samba, system services and much more."
How to Zoom In and Enlarge Details In OOo Impress Slideshows
(2008-12-11 19:33:47)
LinuxPlanet: "OpenOffice Impress is an excellent slideshow application with a wealth of useful features, including animations. Experienced speakers know that animations are more often distracting than helpful, but one very useful animation is zooming in to enlarge small details."
HD Video Playback With A $20 CPU & $30 GPU On Linux
(2008-12-11 20:03:47)
Phoronix: "To see how well NVIDIA's VDPAU really is though, we have carried out some more thorough testing now and our hardware consists of a CPU we purchased for $20 USD and a NVIDIA GeForce graphics card that retails for just $30. Can this very low-end hardware manage to play high definition videos under Linux?"
What's New in PHP V5.3, Part 2: Closures and lambda Functions
(2008-12-11 20:33:47)
IBM Developerworks: "Follow along in this "What's new in PHP V5.3" series of articles that covers the new and exciting features found in PHP V5.3, which will be released by the end of 2008. Part 1 looks at the changes made to the object-oriented programming and object handling in PHP V5.3. Here in Part 2, we look at closures and lambda functions. They are designed to make programming much easier by allowing you to easily define throwaway functions that can be used in many contexts."
Review on "CUPS Administrative Guide"
(2008-12-11 21:03:47)
Matthew Helmke(dot) Net: "I received the book this week. Not only is CUPS much more powerful and configurable than I previously knew, but the book’s author does a very good job of discussing the system and its options clearly."
A Sprint Android Phone for 2009?
(2008-12-11 21:33:47)
PDA Street: "Bloomberg.com reports that Sprint will be one of the first wireless providers to take advantage of the open Google Android platform and hopes to have a model available within a year. T-Mobile released the first Android-run smartphone, the G1, a couple of months ago."
Best Backup Solutions for Desktop Linux
(2008-12-11 22:03:47)
Intranet Journal: "Despite common misconceptions, there are more solid backup solutions for desktop Linux than most people might suspect. Best of all, many of them are completely free with the code being open source. Some of them however, are not.
In this piece, I will give you a break down of each of them. How they can work in your specific situation, where you will find the applications, and I'll provide the needed details so that you can better decide what option is best for you."
Google Chrome Fixes Hotmail by Being Safari
(2008-12-11 22:33:47)
Netstat -vat: "The really interesting part is that Google admits that Hotmail does not yet properly recognize the Chrome browser so users need to trick Hotmail into thinking that Chrome is actually Apple Safari (which is supported by Hotmail)."
Ax Falls at Yahoo as Yang Notes 'Tough Times'
(2008-12-11 23:03:47)
InternetNews: "Layoff notices were given at Yahoo today as the struggling Internet giant looks to control costs during a management transition and the downturn in the economy."
Programming GNOME Applications With Vala
(2008-12-11 23:33:47)
Linux.com: "GNOME's Vala programming language lets you use the GLib2 object system at the heart of the GNOME desktop without having to do object-oriented programming in ANSI C. Unlike Mono or Java, a Vala program does not require any virtual machine or runtime libraries, so people who use your Vala objects don't even have to know they are not written in C."
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