9 Months And Still No UT3 Linux Client
(Aug 20, 2008, 16:34 UTC) (20 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "It's been exactly nine months (or 274 days) since Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC was released. It was also exactly one year when we confirmed that UT3 would be released for Linux..."

States Throw Out Costly Electronic Voting Machines
(Aug 20, 2008, 16:04 UTC) (124 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Yahoo News: "The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers."

10+ Essential Programs for the Terminal Junkie
(Aug 20, 2008, 15:34 UTC) (535 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Binary Codes: "Alpine, based on the old pine mail client and licensed under the apache license, is a simple yet efficient text-based mail client. Unlike mutt, it doesn't need any external program to fetch mails..."

Microsoft Invests $100 Million More in Novell
(Aug 20, 2008, 15:04 UTC) (381 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Network World: "However, Novell has only invoiced $156 million of Microsoft's original $240 million certificate purchase, leaving 35% of the funds still unused."

How to Spy on Your PC When You Are Away
(Aug 20, 2008, 14:34 UTC) (733 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Hackosis: "Have suspicions about what goes on on your own computer when you are away?...Maybe you just want to keep tabs on what your kids are looking at when you aren’t right there watching.

Why Debian is Different
(Aug 20, 2008, 14:04 UTC) (593 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Wire: "As the Debian GNU/Linux project marks 15 years of existence, how much has it diverged from the intentions with which it set sail? As times change and people correspondingly change, motivating factors often tend to change and this is reflected in changes in most software projects. Is this true for Debian?"

First Ubuntu Netbook Remix Laptop Appears
(Aug 20, 2008, 13:34 UTC) (1003 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Practical Technology: "It comes in four colors: Onyx, Snow, Solar and Blossom. SYLVANIA g netbooks and accessories are available at leading retailers such as TigerDirect, Amazon, Micro Center, J&R, CompUSA, DataVision and RCS Experience."

Would a VMware Acquisition of Red Hat Go Anywhere?
(Aug 20, 2008, 13:04 UTC) (997 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "While both companies have declined to comment, the prospect could make a lot of sense for VMware for several reasons."

What Does Michael Phelps Have in Common With Linus Torvalds?
(Aug 20, 2008, 12:34 UTC) (979 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Source From Bohol: "What does the most prolific Olympian of all time have in common with one of the greatest, if not the greatest computer programmer in history?"

Internet Terrorist: Does Such A Thing Really Exist?
(Aug 20, 2008, 12:04 UTC) (430 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Help Net Security: "Recently, I have experienced an increase in organizations questioning how real is the threat of Internet terrorism and what they can do to protect themselves. As a former CISO, this was one of the last concerns that crossed my mind, especially since it was a daily up-hill battle getting buy-in for the most basic security controls and services."

Utilities Automate Debian Filesystem Creation
(Aug 20, 2008, 11:04 UTC) (443 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Devices: "Longtime embedded Linux developer Behan Webster has released a collection of utilities for developers assembling root filesystems from Debian packages and compiled applications. The "Embedded Linux Build System" (elbs) utilities can be used to quickly assemble NFS-mounted or flash-based filesystems that support native development, as well as apt-getting Debian binaries."

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett Talks The Impact of Technology
(Aug 20, 2008, 09:34 UTC) (338 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Laptopmag: "Barrett criticized the U.S. for a relative lack of focus on education, and funding R&D and innovation. The Intel’s mission for its next billion customers became crystal clear as he discussed the importance of spreading technology to all parts of the world. “A good teacher is the best tool for a good education anywhere in the world,” he stated."

Java Run-time Monitoring, Part 2: Postcompilation Instrumentation and Performance Monitoring
(Aug 20, 2008, 08:04 UTC) (541 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Part 1 of this three-part series on run-time monitoring of Java™ applications focuses on the JVM's health and ways to instrument source code to capture performance metrics. This second installment presents techniques for instrumenting Java classes and constructs without modifying the original source code."

Music Education With Linux Sound Tools, Redux
(Aug 20, 2008, 06:34 UTC) (643 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "I'm interested in how and where my younger students hear new music. Some of the old channels still work for them, especially live shows, but television and radio have little appeal. On-line music services such as iTunes and Magnatunes are very popular, many students have directed me to music tracks and performances on YouTube and MySpace sites, and the Guitar Hero games have inspired some students to learn tunes they may not have heard elsewhere."

Pandora Can't Make Money, May Pull the Plug
(Aug 20, 2008, 05:04 UTC) (805 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ars Technica: "Buckling under the weight of the Internet radio royalty hike that SoundExchange pushed through last July, Pandora may pull its own plug soon. Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company still isn't making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it can't last beyond its first payment of the higher royalties."

Gigabyte EP45-DS3L & EP45T-DS3R
(Aug 20, 2008, 04:04 UTC) (616 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "Intel's P45 Chipset was released this summer along with the P43, G43, and G45 Chipsets as the mainstream Eaglelake alternative to Intel's current flagship X48 Chipset...the P45 has the advantages of using Intel's newer ICH10 / ICH10R Southbridge and support for up to 16GB of DDR2/DDR3 memory, which is double that of what's supported by the X48."

Finally Django Runs on Jython!
(Aug 20, 2008, 03:04 UTC) (685 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
random.choice: "For Jython, I think this is great. Not only showing that it is alive and well, but also to expose how much progress has been done in almost every front."

Build an Embedded Linux Distro From Scratch
(Aug 20, 2008, 02:04 UTC) (976 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Learn how to build a custom Linux® distribution to use in an embedded environment, in this case to drive a Technologic Systems TS-7800 single-board computer. In this tutorial, you learn about cross-compiling, the boot loader, file systems, the root file system, disk images, and the boot process, all with respect to the decisions you make as you're building the system and creating the distribution."

How To Install Django On Mandriva 2008.1 (Apache2/mod_python)
(Aug 20, 2008, 01:04 UTC) (444 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Mandriva 2008.1 server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide."

4 Linux Distros Which Look Like Mac OS X
(Aug 20, 2008, 00:04 UTC) (2891 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internetling: "Here’s an interesting compilation of Linux distribution which resemble Apple’s Mac OS 10. They might not be identical, but you guys who like Apple’s design might appreciate the fact yu can get something like it, with the nice-on-the-inside GNU/Linux kernel, out-of-the-box."

Fedora 10 Takes Shape
(Aug 19, 2008, 23:04 UTC) (1484 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internet News: "Frields said he tested the feature in a literal road test -- he was able to maintain a network connection while riding in a car, courtesy of the ad hoc network created by users in a second car, which had a broadband Wi-Fi connection."

Free Digital Texts Begin to Challenge Costly College Textbooks in California
(Aug 19, 2008, 22:34 UTC) (1209 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
LA Times: "McAfee said he wrote his open-source book because the traditional textbook market is broken. Textbook and college supply prices nearly tripled between 1986 and 2004..."

Tip of the Trade: Nagios Plugins
(Aug 19, 2008, 22:04 UTC) (858 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: "The excellent open-source monitoring software Nagios is set up to use plugins to do the actual work of checking services. Here are some useful plugins from the official plugin site and an unofficial plugin collection."

GoboLinux and Replacing the FHS
(Aug 19, 2008, 21:34 UTC) (639 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OSNews: "In order to remain compatible with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, symbolic links are used to map the GoboLinux tree to standard UNIX directories. A post in the GoboLinux forums suggested that it might be better to turn the concept around: retain the FHS, and then use symbolic links to map the GoboLinux tree on top of it."

Finding Running Process ID's On Linux Using Pidof
(Aug 19, 2008, 21:04 UTC) (683 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: ""pidof," as the name would suggest, is a program that will find the process id (PID) of a running program (or the PID's of programs). Again, just like its name, it finds the "pid of" a running process. I'm just repeating this over and over again because the name is so self explanatory is seems contrary to everything I've come to expect from Linux and Unix."

Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others
(Aug 19, 2008, 20:34 UTC) (692 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Business Week: "Only a handful of open-source acquisitions the last two years have netted investors at least 10 times their money."

Speaking UNIX: The new and improved Vim editor
(Aug 19, 2008, 20:04 UTC) (1420 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "How could someone make a more powerful editing tool than vi, you may ask? The answer is Vim, and this article provides details on the many enhancements that have made Vim a highly used and acceptable editor in the world of UNIX and Linux."

Is The “Killer App” Argument Dead?
(Aug 19, 2008, 19:34 UTC) (1295 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet: ""The problem with both Apple and Linux is that neither OS has a compelling killer app driving the user base.""

A Tour of Empathy IM client. Will it replace Pidgin?
(Aug 19, 2008, 19:04 UTC) (1620 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open Computer: "Listed on the roadmap to Gnome 2.24 is the integration with Empathy, a multi-protocol IM client. This integration could be a sign of a replacement for Pidgin and Ekiga with one single SIP and multi-protocol IM application."

9 Linux Myths Debunked
(Aug 19, 2008, 18:34 UTC) (2048 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Royal Hehe2-ness: "First of all, let’s face it, YOU are the weakest link in any OS. The user is the one that wreaks havoc to any OS, with ignorance or miscalculated decisions. Linux users are generally more savvy than the Windows or Mac users out there. We don’t just click on files promising us the latest Hollywood diva nude pictures."

MSNBC Spam-O-Rama
(Aug 19, 2008, 18:04 UTC) (1127 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "Headlines have ranged from the semi-plausible: "McCain Plans Vietnam Campaign Tour;" to the unlikely, "Nation Morns the Tragic Loss of Britney Spears;" to the utterly unbelievable: "Paris Hilton Lectures on Dickens and Dostoevsky.""

Lots of Foot-Dragging on IPv6
(Aug 19, 2008, 17:34 UTC) (969 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internet News: "The IPv4 address space is near exhaustion, yet a new report claims that traffic on the modernized IPv6 (define) protocol is slow and migration to the newer address spaces is sluggish."

20 Beautiful Dark Themes for Gnome and Ubuntu
(Aug 19, 2008, 17:04 UTC) (2911 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cats Who Code: "Some weeks ago, I shown you a list of 30 themes for enhancing your Gnome desktop."

OpenSolaris: a Linux Admin's View
(Aug 19, 2008, 16:34 UTC) (1530 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Format: "Sun is battling hard to break into the open source operating system world with OpenSolaris. Juliet Kemp takes it for a test-drive, sampling its unique features and seeing how it fares against Linux."

What's That They Say About Assumptions?
(Aug 19, 2008, 16:04 UTC) (966 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Blog of Helios: "Sometimes Linux isn't the answer."

The Brampton Factor: Analysts Fail on Open Source
(Aug 19, 2008, 15:34 UTC) (655 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Pro: "For open source software to achieve its full potential, people's perceptions must change. Yet how can that happen when open source is so woefully neglected by analysts, asks Martin Brampton."

Why Red Hat Invested In JBoss Instead Of Linux Desktops
(Aug 19, 2008, 15:04 UTC) (1847 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Ever wonder why Red Hat spends so much time focused on the JBoss middleware market and so little time trying to make Linux a desktop standard? The answer involves some simple but startling open source math."

How Adobe Can Stop Microsoft
(Aug 19, 2008, 14:34 UTC) (2353 reads) (8 talkbacks) (feedback)
Market Watch: "If you've gone online to watch the Summer Olympics on your computer, you've found the elaborate NBC Web site done in conjunction with Microsoft Corp. featuring videos from almost all the events, using a new online-video presentation technology called Silverlight."

42 of the Best Free Linux Scientific Software
(Aug 19, 2008, 14:04 UTC) (2864 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Links: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 42 high quality Linux scientific applications, covering a broad spectrum of uses. There's a mix of graphical and console based applications included. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for all types of users."
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China Takes Lead in Linux Education
(Aug 19, 2008, 13:34 UTC) (740 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Since the Chinese government began supporting domestic open source communities in 2005, hundreds of thousands of young people in the world's most populous country have become a part of the open source world."

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