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(Nov 21, 2008, 06:33 UTC) (447 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's going to be a "fun with awk" day. I figure we should have one now because we never had them in school when I was a kid... The topic, as the title suggests, has to do with columnar arithmetic or, less pompously put, performing arithmetic operations on columns or, even more accessibly, adding stuff up ;) It's somewhat like our older post on doing simple cumulative math with awk, but slightly more confusing."
(Nov 21, 2008, 04:03 UTC) (637 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) IBM Developerworks: "Each article in this "30 game scripts you can write in PHP" series will cover 10 scripts in 300 words or less (3d10 stands for "roll three 10-sided dice") simple enough for even a beginning developer, but useful enough for a seasoned game player. The goal is to give you something you can modify to suit your needs, so you can impress your friends and players by busting out your laptop at your next gaming session."
(Nov 21, 2008, 02:33 UTC) (378 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) WFTL Bytes!: "Your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Thursday, November 20, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. Today you'll discover how low open source company stock has gone, you'll find out that Mozilla is doing okay, that Moonlight is coming (real soon now), that your old computers are going places you don't care to know, and that Jurassic Part may be just around the corner. Or not."
(Nov 21, 2008, 01:33 UTC) (1124 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) OStatic: "The Ubuntu project says that the initial alpha release of Ubuntu 9.04 (the "Jaunty Jackalope") could be available for testing in less than twenty-four hours. Yes, that's a little less than a month after the current, stable version, "Intrepid Ibex" was finalized and formally released."
(Nov 21, 2008, 01:03 UTC) (609 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Raiden's Realm: "If you're happy with the level of functionality you receive from your current router, then you can stop reading now if you like. However, if you want to crank up your gateway's functionality and security by astronomic proportions, then this tutorial is for you."
(Nov 21, 2008, 00:33 UTC) (509 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux.com: "With diff-ext, GNOME users can compare and merge files from within Nautilus. If, instead, you use KDE 3, try out kdiff-ext from the same site, which works with Konqueror. Each utility handles paths to files and directories and invokes an external diff tool to perform the grunt work. With diff-ext you can easily compare two files with different names, from different directories, or whole directory trees."
(Nov 21, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (907 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Enterprise IT Planet: "If you are an average internet user, then you interact with daemons every day. This article will describe what daemons do, how to create them in Python, and what you can use them for."
(Nov 20, 2008, 23:33 UTC) (698 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) LinuxDevices: "Via announced a fanless panel PC that runs Linux, and resists both liquids and dust. The "VIPRO VP7710" includes Via's Eden or C7 processors, a 10.4-inch touchscreen display, gigabit Ethernet, three serial ports, and two USB 2.0 ports, the company says."
(Nov 20, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (495 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Open Enterprise: "Even more outrageously, those doors are nonetheless being opened for representatives of trade organisations who wish to see their own agendas pushed through, but not for ordinary citizens, who seem to have no rights in this arena."
(Nov 20, 2008, 22:33 UTC) (463 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) CNet Digital Media: "Truth be told, the state of Tennessee didn't need a lot of prodding from the recording industry to pass a law that requires universities and colleges to filter for unauthorized music downloads."
(Nov 20, 2008, 22:03 UTC) (881 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux.com: "Bandwidth limitation is still a problem for a lot of people who connect to the Internet. You can improve your available bandwidth by installing Squid caching proxy server on your network with configuration parameters that will increase your byte hit rate, giving you about 30-60% more bandwidth."
(Nov 20, 2008, 21:33 UTC) (1479 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) LinuxPlanet: "Firefox is cram-full of hidden treasures, as we have learned in this series. Today Akkana Peck exposes Firefox's expertise at handling those ridiculously long URLs that plague the Web-- email clients mangle them, copy and paste is a nightmare-- but Firefox has some special tricks that make them easy."
(Nov 20, 2008, 21:03 UTC) (540 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Magazine: "If you've ordered the DVD, you're probably already busy throwing sheep and beating up rats in a lovely virtual countryside."
(Nov 20, 2008, 20:33 UTC) (2424 reads) (2 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Tech Source From Bohol: "If you are new to Linux, chances are you will meet a stupid person perhaps in a forum or chat room that can trick you into using commands that will harm your files or even your entire operating system."
(Nov 20, 2008, 20:03 UTC) (694 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Phoronix: "Earlier this year VIA announced they wanted to join the open-source bandwagon by establishing an open-source driver development initiative, releasing documentation and source-code, and to better engage with the Linux community at large. They have made a few small steps over the past few months, but today they have made their largest open-source contribution yet by releasing four programming documentation guides..."
(Nov 20, 2008, 19:33 UTC) (555 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) OStatic: "In an effort to coax more users to take advantage of the many extensions for its Firefox browser, Mozilla has just launched FashionYourFirefox.com. The site is divided up into categories, which cater to individual interests and "online lifestyles," according to Mozilla's announcement."
(Nov 20, 2008, 19:03 UTC) (1855 reads) (3 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The Linux Distillery: "Linux rocks; if you have a netbook, a GPS, a portable media player or any of a number of gadgets chances are it's running Linux under the hood. That's because Linux is reliable, it's versatile, it's robust and it has no licensing fees. So why isn't it mainstream in the desktop world?"
(Nov 20, 2008, 18:33 UTC) (675 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Neowin: "But if they were to hit Google, they would be getting much more that just names and credit card numbers and an address - they would essentially be getting everything that makes us... us. Search history, emails, friends lists, past conversations, pictures and even a voice sample"
(Nov 20, 2008, 18:03 UTC) (1152 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Magazine: "Criminals, intruders, and corporate saboteurs leave data behind on the hard disks of any computers they visit. Many of these computers are Windows systems, but you don’t need Windows to extract valuable forensic information from a Windows hard disk. In this article, I will describe some simple techniques for getting forensic data from a Windows disk using Linux."
(Nov 20, 2008, 17:33 UTC) (703 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) OStatic: "While I remain in agreement with many observers who see the economic downturn as potentially very positive for open source, I have to wonder whether we're going to see some of the leadership open source companies swallowed up in all the financial carnage."
(Nov 20, 2008, 17:03 UTC) (1483 reads) (21 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Softpedia: "The hard working team behind the UbuntuME (Ubuntu Muslim Edition) project announced today a new version of their Linux-based operating system. Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.10 is based on Intrepid Ibex, also known as the Ubuntu 8.10 operating system."
(Nov 20, 2008, 16:33 UTC) (1563 reads) (5 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) ZDNet: "Over the course of a month Apple’s downtime was 2 minutes, putting them in the middle of the pack. Microsoft's? An hour and 19 minutes.
This proves what, exactly?"
(Nov 20, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (1217 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Royal Pingdom: "All Linux distributions have their own home base: their homepage. How well is this homepage taken care of and how well does it perform? To answer these questions we have monitored the uptime and load time of the homepages for 16 Linux distributions for a month."
(Nov 20, 2008, 15:33 UTC) (1547 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) TGDaily: "The company's most famous employee, Linux inventor Linux Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early 2000. Almost nine years later Transmeta’s journey is over."
(Nov 20, 2008, 15:03 UTC) (1223 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) AppleInsider: "The Intel-developed technology is called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) and aims to prevent copying of digital audio and video content as it travels across a variety of display connectors, even if such copying is not in violation of fair use laws."
(Nov 20, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (2103 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Cyber Cynic: "Talk about a change in priorities! When Adobe decided it was time to start work on a 64-bit Flash Player, they didn't release the first test version on Windows or Mac OS X. No, they released it on Linux and Solaris. Wow."
(Nov 20, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (737 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Netstat -vat: "Mozilla Chief Wrangler Mitchell Baker today reported Mozilla's financial position which shows 2007 revenues of $75 million up by 12 percent from 2006 revenues of $67 million. Though Mozilla is on the upswing, Baker's report shows some areas of potential future financial concerns."
(Nov 20, 2008, 13:33 UTC) (829 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Realeyes Technology: "Jazz fans will recognize the title of this post as one of the most famous jazz pieces ever written. It was composed and performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and was part of the album Time Out, which contained several pieces in unusual time signatures."
(Nov 20, 2008, 13:03 UTC) (1031 reads) (2 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux.com: "StarOffice 9 reminds me of the classic Monty Python skit in which Graham Chapman wrestles himself. Although StarOffice is being aggressively presented as an alternative to Microsoft Office, it seems to be equally marketed and bundled to compete against OpenOffice.org, the free software project that is sponsored by Sun and that shares a common code base with StarOffice. The trouble is, the differences between the two have diminished with each release, until, with StarOffice 9, you have to wonder who the potential customers might be."
(Nov 20, 2008, 11:33 UTC) (954 reads) (2 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) O'Reilly Media: "Join us for this free live webcast:
Everything you wanted to know about Drupal but were afraid to ask;
Presented by Jeff Eaton and James Walker, authors of "Using Drupal"
(Nov 20, 2008, 10:03 UTC) (965 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) HowtoForge: "Security is based on three characteristics: prevention, protection and detection. Grsecurity is a patch for Linux kernel that allows you to increase each of these points."
(Nov 20, 2008, 08:33 UTC) (907 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) SearchEnterpriseLinux: "In the event that something happens to a Xen virtual machine (VM) that prevents you from starting it, it's a good practice to have the virtual machine storage back end mounted in the Linux file system of the Xen-based server. By doing so, you'll be able to repair the VM quickly and painlessly. In this tip, I'll cover how to do this for physical devices that are used as storage back ends."
(Nov 20, 2008, 08:03 UTC) (1277 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Ulteo: "Following its commitment to desktop virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop Infrastructure company, announced today that they were releasing the first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for enterprises."
