Slashdot Struggles to Remain Relevant in The Social Web
(Jul 29, 2010, 20:06 UTC) (55 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
New York Times: "Surprisingly, tech news community Slashdot was not in the list of top referrers. In fact, according to Woopra CEO John Pozadzides, Slashdot "drives close to 0% of traffic to the sites Woopra measures.""

Python development - the golden rules
(Jul 29, 2010, 19:36 UTC) (253 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux User and Developer: "As part of his massive Python Masterclass article, Kunal Deo drew up some golden rules when working with Python."

Digital Copywrongs
(Jul 29, 2010, 19:06 UTC) (238 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The American Prospect: "New DMCA exemptions are an improvement, but the basic paradox of telling consumers how they may use electronics remains unaddressed."

ATM hack gives cash on demand
(Jul 29, 2010, 18:36 UTC) (624 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
PC World: "Windows CE-based machines can easily be made to dole out cash, a security researcher says"

Systems Administrators Changing Roles
(Jul 29, 2010, 18:06 UTC) (641 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "It's a sad truth that advancements in technology often make jobs obsolete, usually sooner than most people are ready. The more savvy workers learn to keep up with the times..."

Toshiba NB300 netbook review
(Jul 29, 2010, 17:36 UTC) (543 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux User and Developer: "Pros: It’s a pleasing design with some of the best netbook technology on the market"

Create an Application Shortcut to Open Nautilus as Root in Ubuntu
(Jul 29, 2010, 17:06 UTC) (466 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Lifehacker: "You need root access to edit a lot of files in Linux, but Terminal work can get tedious. Here''s a simple way to add a shortcut to your applications menu for a root-enabled Nautilus."

Basket – A Multi-Purpose Note Pad For KDE
(Jul 29, 2010, 16:36 UTC) (467 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
MakeTechEasier: "Basket Note Pads is a multipurpose note-taking application for KDE. Business people can use it to keep track of important tasks and notes. Writers can use it to organize their thoughts."

Demonstrating multi-processing in Bash 4
(Jul 29, 2010, 16:06 UTC) (777 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
I Am, Therefore I Think: "I have an on-going project, to code the Collatz sequence in as many languages as I can. So far, I've implemented it in C (integer and floating-point), assembly (x86, x86_64, and SPARC32), Java, BASIC in Open Office.org, Tcl, Lisp, Ada, Python, and Bash."

Spotlight on Linux: SimplyMEPIS 8.5.x
(Jul 29, 2010, 15:36 UTC) (502 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "SimplyMEPIS is a simply wonderful distribution. It was the first to offer a complete out of the box experience all tied up in a pretty package. It would be fair to say that it was probably the inspiration for many of the easy-to-use distributions available today."

The U.S. Government and Its Partners Open Up To FOSS
(Jul 29, 2010, 15:06 UTC) (639 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Acrossad: "In a rapidly evolving world, people at high levels in the government have come to the realization that FOSS may offer higher levels of software development flexibility than the traditional proprietary models. The fact that FOSS helps to alleviate some of the pressure created by tight budgets and other fiscal constraints doesn't hurt."

Linux is dough, windows is glass.
(Jul 29, 2010, 14:36 UTC) (1487 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Technology & Life Integration: "What happens? It goes splat, and flattens out but is still in one piece. That is what happens when Linux crashes."

Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1%.
(Jul 29, 2010, 14:06 UTC) (2063 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Greg DeKoenigsberg Speaks: "If you doubt, for a nanosecond, that Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization, then you’re either an unapologetic Ubuntu fanboy or you’re not paying attention"

The PC Is Not Dead; Long Live PCs
(Jul 29, 2010, 13:36 UTC) (1286 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "First, let me pose a question: Why don’t other industries have the same black/white mentality?"

Oracle shuts down open source test servers
(Jul 29, 2010, 13:06 UTC) (1539 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT News: "Oracle has shut down servers Sun Microsystems was contributing to the build farm for open source database software, PostgreSQL, forcing enthusiasts to scramble to find new hosts to test updates to their software on the Solaris operating system."

Spotlight: Kate Scripting
(Jul 29, 2010, 12:36 UTC) (542 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Milian Wolff: "Dominik asked me to blog about a feature in Kate that is still (sadly!) pretty unknown and seldom used: Kate Scripting. As you should know you can script KatePart completely via JavaScript."

Android vs iPhone vs Palm Pre vs Maemo: which is best?
(Jul 29, 2010, 12:06 UTC) (1861 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
TuxRadar: "We've looked at three Linux-based phones that give the iPhone a run for its money. There's the Palm Pre, running WebOS; Nokia's Maemo 5-based N900, and the HTC Legend, running Android. Each is a strong challenger to Apple's device, and they beat it today in significant areas. So, which is best for you?"

Apple iPad's rivals are coming
(Jul 29, 2010, 10:36 UTC) (2055 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "I get that Apple's iPad is hotter than hot with over three million sold so far, but to say "Apple has won the battle for tablet computing already" is really overreaching."

SECURITY: Whitelisting Advances with New Bouncer App
(Jul 29, 2010, 09:06 UTC) (675 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
eSecurityPlanet: "Starting with Bouncer 6.0, the company is moving to a software appliance model powered by Ubuntu Linux."

Don't Be Too Quick to Dismiss Open Core
(Jul 29, 2010, 07:36 UTC) (1065 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT World: "I've been taking some shots at open core lately, because I've come to the realization there are inherent flaws in this business model as it relates to open source."

Weekly Ten: Microsoft's New Slogan: Hey, It Could Be Worse, $200 Linux PC, Cloud Cracks WPA
(Jul 29, 2010, 06:06 UTC) (2259 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Source: "In 2008, I speculated about the future of distributed security cracking. That future has arrived, in the form of a $17 “cloud” based service provided through the efforts of a security researcher known as Moxie Marlinspike."

Three Sysadmin Rules You Can’t (And Shouldn’t) Break
(Jul 29, 2010, 04:36 UTC) (3948 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Geek Stuff: "When I drafted this article, I really came-up with 7 sysadmin habits. But, out of those 7 habits, three really stood out for me."

Python Development Masterclass
(Jul 29, 2010, 03:06 UTC) (1611 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux User and Developer: "Mostly seen as a scripting language for system administrators, it is actually capable of doing almost everything and beyond the limitations of regular programming languages. Python started its life as a time-saver programming language."

"Can Open Source be secure" BCS riposte
(Jul 29, 2010, 01:36 UTC) (1250 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Advogato: "Experts do not agree about open source security in terms of whether there is an advantage or disadvantage to its use in the business world"

Irssi - A Really Good Terminal Based IRC Client For Linux
(Jul 29, 2010, 00:06 UTC) (978 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Drive-in: "The only IRC client I ever used was XChat. I decided to try something different and Irssi client was a great find. Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for Unix systems and is probably the best I have used till now"

Benchmarking ZFS On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux
(Jul 28, 2010, 23:34 UTC) (2192 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "ZFS is often looked upon as an advanced, superior file-system and one of the strong points of the Solaris/OpenSolaris platform while most feel that only recently has Linux been able to catch-up on the file-system front with EXT4 and the still-experimental Btrfs."

Sunbird: Your Calendar, Your Way
(Jul 28, 2010, 23:04 UTC) (1646 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxInsider: "Mozilla's Sunbird gives you customization options for the interface as well as a rich set of under-the-hood controls for setting up where, how and when the application gets its information."

Is Linux Just Another Unix Flavor?
(Jul 28, 2010, 22:34 UTC) (1928 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
PC World: "But, is the Linux operating system just another flavor of the Unix operating system? Yes. But, it’s also much more."

OpenStack: Open Standards Meet The Cloud
(Jul 28, 2010, 22:04 UTC) (906 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "We’re pleased to see OpenStack, the new open source project for cloud computing projects from Rackspace and NASA. In the past, only large institutions like NASA had access to super computing functionality to complete large-scale computational projects."

LinuxCon 2010 - Just for Fun - Poll
(Jul 28, 2010, 21:34 UTC) (846 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Given this amazing year, we want to hear from you about what you think are some of the most important milestones in the areas that we're going to be exploring at LinuxCon in a couple weeks"

Filing for Unemployment in Illinois requires Windows/IE
(Jul 28, 2010, 21:04 UTC) (2128 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
yfrog: "This is the error message I get when attempting to file an Unemployment Claim with the State of Illinois using Ubuntu/Chrome."

Using ALSA to Control Linux Audio
(Jul 28, 2010, 20:34 UTC) (1389 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Planet: "ALSA has been the default Linux sound system for many years, and it is a perfectly capable audio subsystem even in this modern era of fancy new things. Carla Schroder shows us how to to control Linux audio with ALSA."

Linux Format wallpapers
(Jul 28, 2010, 20:04 UTC) (1950 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
TuxRadar: "We've had a number of reader requests to make available some of the imagery we use in Linux Format magazine. Naturally we're happy to share with you all, so we've put this page online where we'll upload artwork as it's requested."

Cisco Details Enterprise Security Threats
(Jul 28, 2010, 19:34 UTC) (911 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
eSecurity Planet: "Cisco said Adobe Reader/Acrobat, Sun Java, and Adobe Flash were the three most common malware targets over the first half of 2010."

Why Free Software is a Matter of Life and Death
(Jul 28, 2010, 19:04 UTC) (1180 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld UK: "But for most people, it's hard to understand why software freedom is really that important. So this new report “Killed by Code: Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices” from the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) provides a handy opportunity to get the message across:"

Novell opens Linux appliance gallery
(Jul 28, 2010, 18:34 UTC) (1187 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Channel Register: "Novell has opened an online gallery for SUSE software appliances. It has been a year since Novell launched its SUSE Appliance Program, which offers a set of online tools, dubbed SUSE Studio, for spinning up software appliances based on its SUSE Linux distro."

Linux-based hybrid video server supports 40 channels
(Jul 28, 2010, 18:04 UTC) (956 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Exacq Technologies is shipping a line of Linux-based hybrid video surveillance appliances with Intel Atom processors. The ExacqVision EL-S systems offer eight or 16 analog inputs and up to 24 IP inputs, allowing creation of systems with up to 40 channels overall, says the company."

The Gallium3D R600 Driver Now Has Texture Support
(Jul 28, 2010, 17:34 UTC) (984 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "There's good news for those interested in the open-source Gallium3D driver for the ATI R600/R700 (Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series) graphics cards: the R600g driver is beginning to work."

Why Android won
(Jul 28, 2010, 17:04 UTC) (3985 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet: "The LiMo Foundation and GNOME sent out a press release this week touting their cooperation and the media laughed."

Going fast with DWM
(Jul 28, 2010, 16:34 UTC) (1328 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "If there was any justice in this world, there would be two cars parked in my driveway. One would be a 1977 Ferrari 308 GTS. The other would be a midnight blue BMW M3 convertible with all the amenities."

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