News Linux News for Jul 09, 2009:

Inside Today's Falling IT Salary Levels
(2009-07-09 00:03:52)
Datamation: "Sure, IT pay in 2009 is looking anemic. Based on data from Janco Associates (see chart below) the average paycheck slipped a fraction of one percent from 2008. That’s not great, but hey, it’s not terrible. Given the constant dark headlines – and an unemployment rate marching toward double digits – it could be worse."

Open Source Landmark: Mono Freed at Last?
(2009-07-09 01:33:52)
Datamation: "Mono, the free software implementation of .NET (C#), has been the subject of bitter debate for eight years. Yesterday, that debate ended -- or at least shifted to another level -- with Microsoft's announcement that it was extending its Community Promise to include the patents that left Mono possibly encumbered."

Five Places You Can Slash IT Spending
(2009-07-09 03:03:52)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: "As IT budgets are squeezed, and managers are looking for new ways to save money yet deliver the same services, this may be the perfect time to look into vendor-independent solutions."

Why Google Chrome OS matters already, on Day 1
(2009-07-09 04:33:52)
Cyber Cynic: "At last. At long last, there's a real challenger to the Windows desktop, and its name is Google Chrome OS."

Linux Distros Upbeat, Wary of Google's New Chrome OS
(2009-07-09 05:03:52)
InternetNews: "But will the introduction of its Chrome OS create a new challenger to existing Linux distributions or will it play nice with the community and help grow Linux as a whole? "

LinuxPR: LinuxCertified Announces Linux Device Driver Development Course
(2009-07-09 06:03:52)
LinuxCertified press release: "LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from July 20th to July 22nd. "

Interview with Daniel Chalef of KnowledgeTree
(2009-07-09 07:33:52)
Free Software Magazine: "I recently installed KnowledgeTree for a small office that needed a piece of document management software. Document management is one of those things: you don’t think you need one until you actually see one."

Turn off or limit the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu
(2009-07-09 09:03:52)
Tips4Linux: " If you want to turn off the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu, all you have to do is create a .gtkrc file in your home directory..."

Ubuntu Beats Windows 7 and Windows XP by a huge margin
(2009-07-09 10:33:52)
Flexense: "But, what about the operating system – which one of modern operating systems is capable of utilizing fast hard drives and multi-core CPUs most effectively?"

10 Reasons Why Chrome OS Is No 'Windows Killer'
(2009-07-09 12:03:52)
Datamation: ""Google Operating System To Smash Windows," predicts Sky News. "Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome," warns TechCrunch . "DOMINATE: GOOG PLOTS DEATH BLOW TO MSFT!" screams Drudge. Really? Based on what? Google's blog post?"

Did Microsoft force Asus to axe Linux?
(2009-07-09 12:33:52)
Guardian.co.uk: "Microsoft is right to warn about the danger of a serious monopoly in search because of Google's dominance. Its own revamped search engine, Bing, is a welcome addition and has some interesting features that should earn it more followers."

Organise your music with Picard
(2009-07-09 13:03:52)
TuxRadar: "Organising your digital music collection can be a Herculean effort. Yet when you have several gigabytes of tracks to sift through, your only chance of finding what you want to hear is if your music files are properly tagged."

The fun of legacy hardware
(2009-07-09 13:33:52)
Stubborn Tech Problem Solving: "I have an old embedded system that uses an SBC-MAX (pdf) board from Computer Dynamics. The unit was part of a vehicle monitoring system that used Windows 98 (one of many fundamental flaws in the design)."

Lian Li PC-A05N
(2009-07-09 14:03:52)
Phoronix: "Rather than pulling air into the chassis from the front and exhausting it at the rear, the Lian Li PC-A05N is designed to pull in the fresh air from the back of the ATX chassis and then the exhaust is at the front, which Lian Li engineers claim will deliver dramatically better performance."

VirtualBox 3.0: An easy way to mix and match operating system
(2009-07-09 14:33:52)
Computerworld: "If you want to tinker with multiple operating systems, VirtualBox 3.0 is fast and easy to use."

Mono: Microsoft community promise inadequate, says RMS
(2009-07-09 15:03:52)
IT Wire: "Microsoft's bid to dispel the patent fears surrounding the open source .NET clone, Mono, has met with little enthusiasm from free software advocates."

And Now Google Wants My Netbook Too
(2009-07-09 15:33:52)
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Instead of that cute little taskbar, there will be a constant stream of advertising crawling along enticing you to click and buy."

Why IE Doesn't Support HTML 5 Video (Yet) - Patents
(2009-07-09 16:03:52)
InternetNews: ""We do not currently support the AUDIO or VIDEO tag and are concerned about the patent issues that surround some of the codecs," a Microsoft spokesperson told InternetNews.com."

MySQL: Five More Dials To Turn
(2009-07-09 16:33:52)
Database Journal: "Last month we talked about some things to set and tune in a new MySQL database installation. We touched on connections, query cache, temp tables, session memory, and the slow query log. This second part in the series hits on some other very important things to tune in a new MySQL database."

Go Google Chrome OS! Just don't go too fast, too far
(2009-07-09 17:03:52)
Cyber Cynic: "But, do I really want a desktop operating system, Linux-based or not, which will need Google's online applications to run just as much as a car does gas? Eh... I don't think so."

5 Simple APT Tips for Debian and Ubuntu, Part II
(2009-07-09 17:33:52)
TuxArena: "Several months ago I created an article with 5 APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) tips for both Debian and Ubuntu available here. APT is the package manager in Debian and Debian-based distributions, like Ubuntu. Here's part two of that article, with 5 more tips and tricks for APT."

Write Your Own Linux Twitter Client In Less Time Than It Takes To Find One!
(2009-07-09 18:03:52)
LinuxPlanet: "Ace coder Akkana Pack didn't want to keep a tab open in a browser all day every day just to keep an eye on Twitter, and none of the available Linux clients had what she was looking for. Either they required installing something like Mono or Adobe Air, or they had nasty bugs. And then she found out about Python-Twitter and how to write her own. (Beginners can do this too!)"

Mono outpaces Java in Linux desktop development
(2009-07-09 18:33:52)
SDTimes: ""We have seen a real spike in Mono [application] development for the Linux desktop over the last two to three years," said RedMonk analyst Stephen O'Grady."

Kdenlive: A Video Editor in the Spotlight
(2009-07-09 19:03:52)
Linux Magazine: "Linux distributions strive to include all the useful applications that users will need, but a quality video editor has been lacking for quite some time. Now with KDE4 getting better and better, could an application like Kdenlive fill that gap?"

Kernel Log: progress with free graphics drivers, three new stable kernels
(2009-07-09 19:33:52)
The H Open: "A new version of the nv driver supports later NVIDIA GPUs. Drivers giving 3D support for later Radeon GPUs are making progress, and so is code for running the X server without root rights."

Check Out Open Source Library and Collections Management Software
(2009-07-09 20:03:52)
Linux.com: "Not surprisingly, although there are proprietary products available, open source software plays a big role in library management."

Microsoft hands the victory to Chrome OS
(2009-07-09 20:33:52)
Semi-Accurate: "MS has only itself to blame for the nuclear missile that may very well have ended the company, they simply produced crap for way too long."

Mandriva Linux One 2009.0 (KDE)
(2009-07-09 21:03:52)
Desktop Linux Reviews: "So I snagged a copy of Mandriva Linux One (a free download) and thought I’d give it a whirl. I picked the KDE version as I wanted to spend more time playing with KDE."

Internet radio sites, music industry reach agreement over royalties
(2009-07-09 21:33:52)
LA Times: "Deal with SoundExchange allows webcasters such as Pandora to pay lower per-song royalties or a percentage of their revenue."

Licensing 101 for Open Source Projects: Choosing an Open Source License
(2009-07-09 22:03:52)
Linux.com: "The most important thing for your open source project’s success is obviously good and useful code. Licensing, however, can make or break your project as well. Choosing the right open source license for your software is crucial for your project’s success..."

Copy Your Linux Install to a Different Partition or Drive
(2009-07-09 22:33:52)
Linux Journal: "If you need to move your Linux installation to a different hard drive or partition (and keep it working) and your distro uses grub this tech tip is what you need."

Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop
(2009-07-09 23:03:52)
Howtoforge: "This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system."

Google Frenzy and Mono Mania
(2009-07-09 23:33:52)
Linux Today Blog: "...the news is simply an announcement that the Chrome OS project has been officially launched. There is no OS yet. What levels of hysteria are going to be reached when the actual code is released? Rioting? Suicides? Looting?"

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