Ubuntu Netbooks: What Dell Can Learn From ZaReason
(Sep 5, 2008, 06:02 UTC) (137 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Works With U: "But Dell can learn two key lessons from ZaReason, a small PC maker that specializes in Ubuntu systems."

Sorting Perl Lists And Removing Duplicates On Linux Or Unix
(Sep 5, 2008, 04:32 UTC) (186 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to look a Perl list sorting. In this context, you can actually consider our lists as arrays if you prefer. I'm going to keep calling them lists because, in the end, it will most closely approximate what we will want to manipulate; a fixed list of numbers."

Writing Plug-ins in Python
(Sep 5, 2008, 03:02 UTC) (352 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "One of the more popular examples of the use of plug-ins to extend an application is the Firefox plug-in community. There are Firefox plug-ins for Flash players, Web development, managing RSS feeds, and more."

Spam Blocking And Web Filtering With The Untangle 5.3 Network Gateway
(Sep 5, 2008, 01:32 UTC) (362 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "Untangle bundles common open-source applications for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network in one single Linux distribution."

Smile and Say 'Cheese'
(Sep 5, 2008, 00:32 UTC) (444 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Think of Cheese as a computerized version of those booths you step into in malls or fairs, the ones that happily take your dollars and spit out four small photos of you and whoever else you can cram in the small booth. That's pretty much the concept, but it's a lot less expensive to use and you can probably crowd more people around your Webcam."

Windows Guy Tries Open Suse 11
(Sep 5, 2008, 00:02 UTC) (1604 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
10 Minute Tech Guy: "I’ve wanted to see if I could walk on the Linux side for a while now. I wanted to see if I could really switch over and do all the things I need to do easily. So I decided to give it a try."

Do You Want a Notebook With That Order?
(Sep 4, 2008, 23:31 UTC) (667 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "I know some of you really, really wanted Dell's first mini-notebook to have a price-tag of $299 and you're down because the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 starts at $349 with Ubuntu Linux or $399 with Windows XP. Well, just wait, you're soon going to be able to get it for even cheaper with a 3G or Wi-Fi contract."

KDE's Office Suite Running on Nokia's Mobile Internet Device
(Sep 4, 2008, 23:01 UTC) (494 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
KDEdevelopers: "As KOffice is supposed to be a lightweight office suite, I figured it would be nice to see how well it would run on maemo based devices."

Power Monitoring and Logging With Apcupsd and Cacti
(Sep 4, 2008, 22:31 UTC) (359 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris 10, Apcupsd reliably warns me when the power goes out and gives me time to get my box properly shut down before data is lost, or does so automatically if I am not there to supervise."

Wasted on an Idiot
(Sep 4, 2008, 22:01 UTC) (1231 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Blog of Helios: "Seven letters that make up your last name. You have no idea how I've agonized over typing those seven letters in this blog. I so dearly want to. You sanctimonious piece of trash."

SECURITY: Remember Figlets? They're Back With Zend
(Sep 4, 2008, 21:31 UTC) (510 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internet News: "Who knew they would work well to tell humans from bots on Web sites? You can now use them as part of the PHP framework, too."

ZaReason (and Other Independents) Outshine the Big Boys
(Sep 4, 2008, 21:01 UTC) (467 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Today Blog: "But let's not forget that these Linux-come-lately party-crashers are very late to the party, and have been whining and foot-dragging and making excuses for years why they couldn't sell Linux PCs..."

Red Hat Bets on Startup to Shake Up Virtualization
(Sep 4, 2008, 20:31 UTC) (692 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internet News: "The acquisition brings Qumranet's SolidICE virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) under the Red Hat banner, giving the Linux vendor a claim to end-to-end platform virtualization -- thanks to its existing role in the OS."

GNOME Debian Package Finder: Rough and Ready Package Search For the Desktop
(Sep 4, 2008, 20:01 UTC) (435 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Now, the GNOME Debian Package Finder (gpfind) is in the process of bring much of the command-line search capacity to the desktop -- although, at version 0.1.6, it is still too rough to replace its command-line equivalents for most users."

Beta Debian 5.0 Live Version Available
(Sep 4, 2008, 19:31 UTC) (699 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Practical Technology: "Debian 5, Lenny, is getting closer to delivery and as part of that, the Debian Live Team has released the first official version of Debian Live."

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 w/ Linux
(Sep 4, 2008, 19:01 UTC) (1744 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Laptop: "Dell enters the mini-notebook market with its long-anticipated Inspiron Mini 9. Dell took its time releasing its own netbook, and it is clear they spent the extra days and hours getting (nearly) everything just right."

Microsoft's IE Market Share Drops Again
(Sep 4, 2008, 18:31 UTC) (1292 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "Internet Explorer lost nearly a full percentage point in market share during August, the browser's biggest drop in three months, a Web metrics firm said today."

Linux in U.S. Schools: Why the Resistance?
(Sep 4, 2008, 18:01 UTC) (1325 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: "Software alternatives are just not available for Linux."

What's Coming in Ubuntu 8.10?
(Sep 4, 2008, 17:31 UTC) (2233 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Polish Linux: "Alpha 4 has a new version of X.org server and Linux kernel. There is also a new Network Manager. It has one of my long waited features, namely 3G network support."

City University of New York to form New York City Open Source Solutions Lab
(Sep 4, 2008, 17:01 UTC) (391 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet Asia: "Red Hat and Intel are collaborating with City University of New York (CUNY) to form the New York Open Source Solutions Lab for software design and development."

Fonality, Backed By Intel, Plans Open Source Acquisitions
(Sep 4, 2008, 16:31 UTC) (434 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Move over, Digium. You’re not the only poster child for Asterisk and open source PBXes. Rival Fonality has scored another $12 million in financing from Intel Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson..."

Dell Bets on a Small Laptop
(Sep 4, 2008, 16:01 UTC) (1453 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Fortune: "Asus has one. Hewlett-Packard has one. And now, Dell has one, too."

Ubuntu Linux Now Has 8 Million Users
(Sep 4, 2008, 15:31 UTC) (1374 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Sure, Windows is expected to run on 1 billion devices by 2010. But a loud minority is making its voice heard by moving to Ubuntu Linux. In fact, Canonical’s marketing materials state that Ubuntu now has more than 8 million users."

IBM Ditches i and AIX in U.S. Open Systems for Linux
(Sep 4, 2008, 15:01 UTC) (1307 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Four Hundred: "The one big change at this year's tennis tournament is that IBM is not only consolidating servers, but has ported all the applications, which do scoring and provide Web applications, to Linux."

Novell: Desktop Linux Losses Trigger Server Gains
(Sep 4, 2008, 14:31 UTC) (761 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Novell is losing money in the desktop Linux market, but those desktop deals are driving big wins in the server arena, according to Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon."

On Stupid Mascots and Closed Source Browser Plugins
(Sep 4, 2008, 14:01 UTC) (948 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Broiler: "Everyone's been harping on Google this week with the release of Chrome, so I thought I would be different -- today I’m going to give Adobe some love. Because I bet they feel left out."

ATI to Show Linux Some Love
(Sep 4, 2008, 13:31 UTC) (1472 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Softpedia: "According to recent reports, AMD's graphics subsidiary is set on becoming more Linux-friendly. The company plans to release new Catalyst drivers for Linux-based operating systems, which will allow playback of protected high-definition content on a Linux OS."

Google on Chrome EULA Controversy: Our Bad, We'll Change It
(Sep 4, 2008, 13:01 UTC) (1496 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
ars Technica: "Google's new web browser Chrome is fast, shiny, and requires users to sign their very lives over to Google before they can use it. Today's Internet outrage du jour has been Chrome's EULA, which appears to give Google a nonexclusive right to display and distribute every bit of content transmitted through the browser."

Dell's Ubuntu-Powered Mini-Laptop Arrives Today
(Sep 4, 2008, 12:31 UTC) (2281 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "...whoops they changed the name on me, it's the Inspiron Mini 9 -- mini-laptop. It will come with your choice of (Boo!) Windows XP Home SP3 or (Yea!) Ubuntu 8.04."

ISP Web Tracking Dead As Net Eavesdropping CEO Resigns
(Sep 4, 2008, 12:01 UTC) (570 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Wired: "Online privacy scored a small victory this week as the CEO for controversial net eavesdropping firm NebuAD resigned just months after Congress successfully scared the country's ISPs into abandoning dreams of windfall profits from tracking their customers around the web."

Google: Chrome Browser Will Make Money
(Sep 4, 2008, 10:31 UTC) (1715 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internet News: "The Incognito window, which is Google Chrome's privacy mode, is also a key feature that Goodger explained was meant to keep stuff off a user's computer so sites won't appear in history and cookies aren't saved."

Burned by Chrome
(Sep 4, 2008, 09:01 UTC) (2184 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Register: "Astute Reg readers have pointed out a Chrome condition of service that effectively lets Google use any of your copyrighted material posted to the web via Chrome without paying you a cent."

zim - a Desktop Wiki for Ubuntu Linux
(Sep 4, 2008, 07:31 UTC) (1777 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ubuntu Geek: "Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor. It aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to your desktop. For example every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved automatically."

SECURITY: Managing Active Directory Accounts From Ubuntu (And Monitoring WMI)
(Sep 4, 2008, 06:01 UTC) (1204 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
An Irishman's (IT) Diary: "Last week I found a truly excellent tool for adding, modifying and managing user in Active Directory from Linux...adtool."

Marching Penguins: Monitoring Your HPC Cluster
(Sep 4, 2008, 04:31 UTC) (717 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "Then you get an email: “Why are my jobs slow?” Or a project manager comes by and wants to know if the expensive new hardware is actually being used. Perhaps you are trying to plan for the coming year and need to know the recent usage trends. Monitoring your systems to establish a set of baseline figures and current performance information can help with each of these problems."

Displaying RSS And Atom Feeds On Your Web Site With SimplePie
(Sep 4, 2008, 03:01 UTC) (664 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "SimplePie is a PHP library that can fetch, cache, parse, and normalize RSS and Atom feeds. It allows you to display the newest articles from websites with RSS or Atom feeds on your own site. This is a great way to add new, fresh, and relevant information to your site. This guide shows how you can set it up for your own web site."

Amarok, the Music Player That Does it All
(Sep 4, 2008, 01:31 UTC) (1572 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "He started thinking about how cool it would be if someone merged the Midnight Commander interface with an XMMS backend. Since no one else seemed to be doing it, Kretschmann threw his own app together and called it amaroK, after the album by Mike Oldfield."

Book Review: Ubuntu for Non-Geeks
(Sep 4, 2008, 00:01 UTC) (910 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com "Ubuntu for Non-Geeks: A Pain-Free, Project-Based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook, by Rickford Grant, introduces non-Linux users to the world of Linux and shows them how to be productive in a complete Linux environment."

Automatically Lock/Unlock Your PC Using Your Webcam
(Sep 3, 2008, 23:32 UTC) (1341 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
My Technophilic Musings: " This is a simple (and useless) script to monitor motion in front of your PC, auto-lock it when you are away and auto-unlock it when you come back."

Networking 101: Understanding (and Using) ICMP
(Sep 3, 2008, 23:02 UTC) (1347 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Charlie Schluting explains how ICMP is much more than "that thing ping uses". There's plenty to take in before we move further up the layer stack."

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