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News Linux News for Feb 13, 2009:
The Personal Cluster: Coming To A Desk Near You
(2009-02-13 00:01:10)
Linux Magazine: "Once the hallmark of the data center, HPC hardware is beginning to find its way to the desk side/top. Multi-core, efficient design, and even application scalability have combined to clear the way for personal HPC."
Miro 2.0 gets serious about Web video, leaves us wanting
(2009-02-13 01:31:10)
ars Technica: "A major new version of the open source Internet TV and video podcast player brings support for a variety of Web services like Hulu, YouTube, and Legaltorrents.com, a separate video playing window, and a more polished UI. Most of Miro's key drawbacks, however, still remain."
5 Awesome Robot Kits to Get You Started with Robotics
(2009-02-13 03:01:10)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Every geeks dream is to have a personal robot that can be programmed to perform various tasks. If you have seen Tony Stark's robotic assistants in the movie Iron Man then you probably know what I mean."
Dell's hybrid laptops: Intel + ARM, Windows + Linux
(2009-02-13 04:31:10)
CNet: "Dell is offering Windows-Linux hybrid laptops that use both Intel and ARM processors. Though the user would never know it."
'Don't Click' Attack Strikes Twitter Users
(2009-02-13 06:01:10)
Internet News: "Using the simplest of social engineering hacks -- an enticing message with a link, labeled "don't click" -- a "clickjacking" exploit of the Twitter microblogging service flooded its network today, hijacking users' status to spread itself before the link could be shut down."
Perform uniform mounting with generic NFS
(2009-02-13 07:31:10)
IBM Developerworks: "To efficiently achieve uniform mounting in the presence of multiple, simultaneous NFS version exports, you need a generic NFS mount utility. Learn how a generic NFS mount utility can help reduce handling multiple NFS versions and simplify the management of those versions. The article describes the concept of the generic NFS mount, outlines the advantages and applications of the system, and gives some overall design details."
Magic hashes - compare, secure and audit your data
(2009-02-13 09:01:10)
Tech Czar: "This is a fairly common question. People want to know if the file they received is identical to the original source. Most of the time people look at the file size and if its the same, then that must mean the file is the same... but this is completely false."
Ask the Wi-Fi Guru: daisy chaining, DD-WRT, signal boosting, and remote administration
(2009-02-13 10:31:10)
Wi-Fi Planet: "Q: I have setup WDS with two routers using DD-WRT sp1 at my folks' house, which is in a different town. I can remote into the base router with their IP address:port, but I want to be able to access the second router from my house, as well."
10 Songbird add-ons for a better audio player
(2009-02-13 12:01:10)
LinuxForums: "The 1.0.0 release launched in the first days of December delivers an impressive arsenal ranging from themes to add-ons."
The Cold Numbers of Microsoft's Netbook/Linux Nightmare
(2009-02-13 13:31:10)
Netbook Digest: "We did the heavy lifting and dug up the real numbers to accurately quantify what's going on and what it means (hint: developers are getting laid off!)."
The move to Linux, stymied by hardware...the server side...
(2009-02-13 14:01:10)
Linux Journal: "But after 30 hours of frustration, cussing, ISO burning, and hacking, even I begin to wonder if it is all worth it, when I know I can slap my copy of Server 2008 in the same box and be up and running in a couple of hours and management is willing to live with the shortcomings."
12 tips to getting things done in open source
(2009-02-13 14:31:10)
Stormy's Corner: "Most people used to the proprietary software world, with no experience in open source software, are amazed that anything gets done. (And lots gets done in the open source, way more than in most proprietary software companies!)"
Party Like It's 1234567890!
(2009-02-13 14:43:44)
Planned celebrations will spontaneously erupt all over the globe as computer geeks celebrate when UNIX time hits 1234567890! On Friday the 13th! The day before Valentine's Day!
I Give Up. Windows Is Proof That People Are Too Stupid To Use Computers.
(2009-02-13 15:01:10)
Linux Today Blog: "We need to give up the notion that such computer users can be rescued by Linux-- we don't WANT them using Linux. "It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are ingenious""
Are you sure you want to use GPL?
(2009-02-13 15:31:10)
Armin Ronacher: "The reason why I changed the license is a rather complex one and I want to share my experiences with the gpl and other Open Source licenses here for a moment. I suppose many people acted like me and chose the gpl because everyone else did but didn't know about all the implications it has."
How to Install the HP Mobile Experience Interface On Non-HP Computers
(2009-02-13 16:01:10)
Linux-Ninja: "Earlier we covered the new, shiny GUI for Ubuntu that HP started shipping with the new Mini Mi netbook. Unsurprisingly, it didn't take long for jealous, non-HP Ubuntu users to figure out how to install the HP Mobile Experience Interface on their own computers"
Ubuntu Users: Focused On the Wrong Market?
(2009-02-13 16:31:10)
WorksWithU: "I think Ubuntu Server Edition should be Canonical's top priority for 2009. But only 8 percent of WorksWithU’s readers agree with me..."
A touch of sadness as Lenny emerges
(2009-02-13 17:01:10)
IT Wire: "But the emergence of Lenny, or version 5.0, on Saturday, February 14, will be tinged with some sadness as well, following the death of a developer in a tragic accident last year."
Linux Gets Gooey on Friday the 13th
(2009-02-13 17:31:10)
Blog of Helios: "It's been one of the loudest excuses I've heard for people not wanting to use Linux.
"Linux won't play my games."
The problems with Microsoft's Moonlight solution
(2009-02-13 17:46:10)
The Open Road: "Schroepfer...then raised the question that if he downloads and then distributes the code for Moonlight, would he get the patent protection?"
Deploying education desktops - made easier
(2009-02-13 18:01:10)
Khaotic Musings: "I've been working on a project to outfit schools with 'spray and wipe' versions of live educational USB-key Linux distros for netbooks, for quite a while;"
British Conservative Shadow Chancellor backs "Open Source"! Again. But don't get excited.
(2009-02-13 18:31:10)
Free Software Magazine: "Cameron spoke of "championing open source software, not big clunking mainframe solutions"."
Wrap text using linux fold
(2009-02-13 19:01:10)
UNIX BASH Scripting: "Today I came to know about Linux 'fold' command, using which we can wrap each input line to fit in specified width."
10 Reasons to Use Linux-Based Virtualization
(2009-02-13 19:31:10)
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Do you need 10 reasons to use Linux-based virtualization? Linux is the chosen virtualization platform for Cloud vendors, virtualization software companies and the largest IT companies in the world. What do they know that you don't?"
Moonshine: drinking fermented Windows Media content on Linux
(2009-02-13 20:01:10)
ars Technica: "Novell developer Aaron Bockover has created a clever Firefox plugin that uses Moonlight to play conventional Windows media streaming video content at websites like C-SPAN. The plugin takes advantage of the video codecs that Microsoft provides for Moonlight, Novell's open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application framework."
Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Beta is available
(2009-02-13 20:31:10)
Mandriva: "Step 1 of Speedboot is now available in Spring beta version. This should improve your boot time. It's not enabled by default. To test it, enter speedboot keyword at boot time. You can use Bootchart to test precisely effects on your boot time."
Geek Hero Comic: Everything is Open Source, Actually
(2009-02-13 21:01:10)
Datamation: "Why, what's the difference between open source software and closed source, anyway?"
Mono Wins Product of the Year Award
(2009-02-13 21:31:10)
Developer.com: "Internet.com, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation, has announced the winners for the Developer.com Product of the Year Awards for 2009. These 2009 awards mark the seventh year for this competition."
Hack a Linux router for fun and profit
(2009-02-13 22:01:10)
Null Pointer: "The hardware is fine and capable of doing so much more, but is shackled by the vendor's software.
In short, if you haven't considered user-created firmware by this stage, you really should."
Browser benchmarks 2: even Wine beats Linux Firefox
(2009-02-13 22:31:10)
TuxRadar: "Some people have said that we should have used a stock build from Mozilla. (We disagree, because we'd argue that most Linux users use software from their package manager rather than downloading bits and pieces from the web.)"
Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal
(2009-02-13 23:01:10)
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "Apple's iPhone, now the best-selling cellular phone in the U.S., has been designed with restrictions that prevent owners from running applications obtained from sources other than Apple's own iTunes App Store. "Jailbreaking" is the term used for removing these restrictions, thereby liberating your phone from Apple's software "jail.""
Maximize Your Screen with Littlefox (Linux Minute video)
(2009-02-13 23:31:10)
Linux Journal: "How to maximize your screen area with Littlefox, a plugin that shrinks the Firefox interface, which is especially useful for wee netbook screens."
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