Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 4 - Traffic Shaping, Firewall
(Oct 13, 2008, 15:37 UTC) (289 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Adam's Tech Talk: "Following on from the previous article, I’ve written some scripts which you’ll find in the /root/scripts/ directory of the prebuilt image. I've attached and commented them here, as they could also be useful elsewhere."

Meeks: Measuring the True Success of OpenOffice.org
(Oct 12, 2008, 12:07 UTC) (2590 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
LWN: "Michael Meeks has taken a detailed look at contributions to OpenOffice.org and come away worried. "Crude as they are - the statistics show a picture of slow disengagement by Sun, combined with a spectacular lack of growth in the developer community."

Linux-Kongress: Corbet Presents New Kernel 2.6.27
(Oct 11, 2008, 12:07 UTC) (2198 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "In the second keynote of the Linux-Kongress in Hamburg, Germany, cofounder of LWN.net and kernel developer Jonathan Corbet presented details on yesterday's released Kernel 2.6.27, but also described some of the work Linux Torvalds and his group of hackers have been up to."

Cross platform development with JRuby and Swing
(Oct 11, 2008, 06:37 UTC) (1126 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "In addition to building Web and console applications with Ruby, you can write complex GUI desktop applications that run unmodified on multiple platforms. This article introduces Monkeybars,a library that uses JRuby and Swing for building applications, and takes you through an example application."

Develop a Dynamic Location-Based Mashup
(Oct 11, 2008, 05:07 UTC) (1056 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Mashups are a new, highly interactive Web development methodology. Essentially a mix of related content put together from disparate sources, mashups provide rich dynamic content for a superb user experience. Getting Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) and mashup chops into your development toolbox will benefit you with high demand in the evolving Web 2.0 workspace."

Mozilla Labs Introduces Geode
(Oct 11, 2008, 00:35 UTC) (1746 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "Geode is one of the first applications to use the new W3C geolocation specification API. It is currently available as a plug-in for Firefox 3 (and seems to only support Windows and Mac systems at this time)."

On Making Releases...
(Oct 10, 2008, 21:50 UTC) (1259 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linus' Blog: "So I cut the 2.6.27 release today, and it's always a somewhat anti-climactic thing."

Open Source is About Belief in Code
(Oct 10, 2008, 19:05 UTC) (1049 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux and Open Source: "You can read stories about doom and depression somewhere else today...There is something there that does not exist in the proprietary wreckage, something important. Code."

SECURITY: eCryptfs: Single-File Encryption in Linux
(Oct 10, 2008, 17:35 UTC) (1333 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
DevX: "Yet many developers try to build their own cryptographic technology, which often gets them in trouble. A better approach is to employ tools that rely on proven cryptography techniques and algorithms. A great example of this approach is eCryptfs, a complete cryptographic file system for Linux that essentially is a robust implementation of mature cryptographic technology."

Many Fixes, Enhancements in Dojo's Release 1.2
(Oct 10, 2008, 09:05 UTC) (806 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "Dojo, which is developed by the Dojo Foundation and released under both the BSD License and Academic Free License, is officially integrated with a number of Web development frameworks, such as Django and the Zend Framework, and by vendors such as IBM and Sun Microsystems."

Analyze Java Programs on Multi-Core Hardware
(Oct 10, 2008, 07:35 UTC) (921 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM AlphaWorks: "The Data Collector for Linux component is a loadable kernel module for Linux operating systems. Both x86 and POWER5 multi-core processors are supported. To use this component, the Linux kernel must have DebugFS and/or Relay features enabled and kernel debug symbols ready to use..."

Deploy an SCA Application Using Apache Tuscany
(Oct 10, 2008, 05:35 UTC) (649 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Apache Tuscany provides an easy-to-use open source infrastructure for the development and operation of SCA applications. This article shows you how to administer an SCA domain using a Tuscany Web-based domain manager UI and code, and how to use the domain administrative UI to deploy an SOA solution comprised of SCA components."

Linux-Kongress: Linux Foundation Declares OS X a Luxury Jail
(Oct 9, 2008, 22:35 UTC) (1293 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux-Magazine: "Bottomley instead likened the OS X to a luxury jail and that Microsoft users are clearly finding themselves in one with dirty toilets in comparison. Mac users, he says, can't even see the cell bars for the plasma screens surrounding them. He emphasized that Apple might participate in Open Source, but that it gives little in return and doesn't disclose many of its components."

Glintech Integrates Asterisk, Jabber for Open Source UC Platform
(Oct 9, 2008, 21:35 UTC) (734 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Techworld: ""One thing that Jabber allowed us to do was to provide server side rosters so that when a new user starts, they already had everyone else in their contact list," he said. "By looking at another user's profile, they can also get their mobile number and other contact information.""

Separate Content From Presentation With XSLT and SimpleXML
(Oct 9, 2008, 07:35 UTC) (892 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "In this tutorial, you will explore two solutions to separating data and business logic from presentation logic: one using XSLT through the XSL module in PHP 5 and the other using the SimpleXML module in PHP 5. To do this, you'll use a Web page for a personal resumé stored as an XML file as an example."

Branching, Tagging and Merging in Subversion
(Oct 9, 2008, 01:35 UTC) (1322 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Although many development teams use version-control systems to manage code changes, they can struggle when developers code off the same code base, in parallel. In this Automation for the people installment, automation expert Paul Duvall shows how to effectively tag, branch, and merge source code using the open source, freely available Subversion version-control system."

Upcoming PHP 5.3 Beefs up Security
(Oct 8, 2008, 20:31 UTC) (1038 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "PHP security guru Stefan Esser recently posted on some of the changes and important security issues that are likely to have significant effects for the everyday PHP coder (and user) with the release of the upcoming PHP 5.3."

Using Iconv To Convert Character Sets On Linux And Unix
(Oct 8, 2008, 20:01 UTC) (752 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to look at character conversion Since, if you looked at the picture in yesterday's bash script post, you probably noticed that a lot of the foreign characters came up looking like garbage. Ok; maybe not garbage, but certainly not in the way they were intended to be shown."

The LXF Guide: Write a Perl module
(Oct 8, 2008, 17:01 UTC) (810 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Format: "Looking to make your Perl code more re-usable and easier to maintain? Juliet Kemp explains how to create, build and install your own Perl modules, and it's not as difficult as you might think..."

Examining the Compilation Process. Part 1.
(Oct 8, 2008, 15:01 UTC) (1172 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "The students in this class were non-programmers who had been hired to receive bug reports for a compiler product. As Analysts, they had to understand the software compilation process in some detail, even though some of them had never written a single line of code."

Linux Robot - Watch This Space
(Oct 8, 2008, 04:31 UTC) (1206 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Robot: "The device will initially have few inputs and outputs. It will support miniPCI, USB, Serial Console, CF card, GPIO or some other good method for controlling a relay board and some motors. The device will have 4 small wheels, maybe rubber [old mouse] balls instead and some ultrasonic sensors, 4, 6 or 8."

Video: Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel
(Oct 8, 2008, 03:01 UTC) (1228 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
YouTube: "This talk describes the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change."

Microcontrolling on the Cheap With Arduino and Linux
(Oct 7, 2008, 20:35 UTC) (1223 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Rob Reilly introduces us to the revolutionary and accessible new world of inexpensive microcontrollers, open hardware, and development environments that run on Linux. Unleash your inner mad scientist with these inexpensive yet sophisticated tools."

Is .NET on Linux Finally Ready?
(Oct 7, 2008, 17:35 UTC) (1819 reads) (18 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: "Even though Mono 2.0 is compatible with Microsoft's .NET 2.0, it's not in full compliance with the latest .NET releases from Microsoft. The Mono effort is important as it is intended to enable .NET (define) applications to run on Linux."

Finally a Big-Name Backer for Linux
(Oct 7, 2008, 16:05 UTC) (3501 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
reHASHplus: "The problem with Linux is that the backers of Linux distributions tend to be small little companies or at least not really famous ones. Funny names like Red Hat, Mandrake and Ubuntu don't help, either, not to mention "difficult to understand" business and profit models."

Interview: Gentoo's Berkholz and Gaffney Look Ahead
(Oct 7, 2008, 15:05 UTC) (766 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "I recently got the chance to talk with Gentoo Catalyst/Genkernel Release Engineering Lead Andrew Gaffney and developer/council member Donnie Berkholz about Gentoo Linux, the challenges it is facing, and the work that is being done by the community -- from veteran developers to new users -- to overcome them."

The Bizarro Steve Jobs
(Oct 7, 2008, 12:35 UTC) (1415 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Eye of the Needle: "Stories about Steve Jobs invariably tag him with words like mercurial, feisty, secretive and charismatic. Kallasvuo is none of those."

APNIC Box - Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 3 - Installing Debian, Prebuilt Disk
(Oct 7, 2008, 06:05 UTC) (859 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Adam's Tech Talk: "In this part, I’m going to provide a download link to a prebuilt image which you can write directly onto your own CF card with dd or similar tool. I'm also going to provide a step by step to installing debian yourself without my prebuilt disk image."

Shell Script To Access The International Thesaurus!
(Oct 7, 2008, 03:05 UTC) (1001 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is follow-up in our (must-almost-be-ending) series of posts on Linux and Unix Bash shell scripts to keep you from having to switch to your browser ;)"

Developers: Legal Tips for Young Players - Record Keeping
(Oct 7, 2008, 01:35 UTC) (984 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Brendan Scott's Weblog: "Small and medium enterprises typically have poor record keeping processes. Without records, it can be very difficult to prove any point you're trying to establish - especially if the other side has kept their own (self serving) records."

What's So Evil About Mono?
(Oct 6, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (3163 reads) (53 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Today Blog: "The Mono project has been branded as evil, a sellout, a product of a Microsoft-loving lackey from its inception. I think this is a misguided attitude that is rooted in a mistrust of the power of FOSS, and especially the GPL."

You Get What You Pay For: Paid Contributors Drive Open Source
(Oct 6, 2008, 22:47 UTC) (847 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Community, Incorporated: "In other words — much of the heavy lifting in open source is done thanks to corporations that have an interest in open source."

In Open Source Development, Does Money Change Everything?
(Oct 6, 2008, 22:33 UTC) (744 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "FOSSBazaar recently highlighted Evangelia Berdou's doctoral thesis on the differences between the contributions of paid open source developers and volunteer contributors."

Mono 2.0 lets .Net apps Run on Linux
(Oct 6, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (1855 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
InfoWorld: "Considered a major upgrade, the open source Mono 2.0 runtime leverages Microsoft's .Net Framework 2.0 programming model. With Mono, developers can build desktop and server applications using Microsoft-based environments and deploy them across multiple platforms, including Windows. Novell is leading the Mono effort."

GNU Toolchain Update: September 2008
(Oct 6, 2008, 15:03 UTC) (1094 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
nickclifton: "One of my jobs at Red Hat is to take the changes in the public versions of the toolchain sources and copy them into our internal repository. I do this on a monthly basis and I produce a short report each time detailing what has happened. One of my friends here suggested that people outside of Red Hat might be interested in these monthly reports and so that is why I have started this blog."

Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source
(Oct 6, 2008, 06:33 UTC) (2789 reads) (8 talkbacks) (feedback)
Slashdot: ""The Register is reporting that Microsoft is hosting Windows-only projects on its 'open source project hosting site,' CodePlex. Miguel de Icaza caught and criticized Microsoft for doing this..."

Bash Weather Script - World Update!
(Oct 4, 2008, 22:33 UTC) (1809 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is an update on our Bash Weather Script. the info is still grabbed from WeatherBug.com."

How Open Source Biology May Rock Your World
(Oct 4, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (1422 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "Just as open source software is often shared in online repositories, the BioBricks Foundation has a registry online for open source biological parts. Here's more on how these efforts may change the world, following open source principles."

Z80 Inventor Zilog Embraces ARM9, Linux
(Oct 4, 2008, 04:33 UTC) (2205 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
DeviceGuru: "Zilog expects its new general purpose 32-bit microcontroller family to see use in applications such as home and office monitoring and control, multimedia devices, medical equipment, telematics and GPS systems, cameras, and universal remote controls."

Rule #1: Hold On Loosely
(Oct 4, 2008, 01:33 UTC) (1248 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "In the proprietary production world, what matters about a copyright is who owns it. In the free production world, however, who owns a copyright is relatively unimportant. What matters is what license it is offered under."

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