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Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Since version 2 came out in 2005, Google Desktop for Windows has included a sidebar that users can fill with screen gadgets, but the Linux version (version 1, from June 2007) provided only indexing and search functions, with no eye candy whatsoever. This has finally changed. Google recently released Google Gadgets for Linux (GGL), which closes the gap between the operating systems. With GGL, you can run as many gadgets as you wish on your screen -- or at least that's the idea. Some flaws still need to be fixed, and not everything works 100% correctly."
Source: Linux Today Techtree: "Benson Lin: Comparatively SSD-based EEE PCs are lighter than those with hard drives. We believe that Indian users would like to have bigger storage so we came up with 80GB Hard Drive option. We didn't think the SSD solution would work here. Thus we changed the strategy for India and launched the Hard Drive solution. In future, we will offer SSD-based solution and the solution will cost almost the same vis-a-vis hard drive solution."
Source: Linux Today Linux Devices: With the next version of Debian frozen for release in September, eight of its 12 architectures risk exclusion. That's because, according to Debian Maintainer Luk Claes, in some cases "The architecture qualification pages on wiki.debian.org are still missing a LOT of information."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Since 2004, GovTrack.us has housed information about the United States Congress, including 10 years of bills, voting records, and contact information for individual members of Congress. Visitors can also find out who represents them and search the database for committee assignments, legislative statistics, and the Congressional Record, which is the official record of daily proceedings in Congress. All the code that makes GovTrack run is open source, and all the information stored there is freely available to everyone."
Source: Linux Today ReadWriteWeb: "When the Yahoo! Music Store closes its doors this fall, the company announced today, past customers dependent on their music "phoning home" to get license approval before playing are out of luck. They'll be able to continue playing purchased tracks on a single computer, until they make any changes to their operating system."
Source: Linux Today As usual, the rabble must rise and take matters into our own hands when faced with vendor misdeeds.
Source: Linux Today Red Hat Magazine: "This article will present a simple VoIP solution using Asterisk, an open source private branch exchange (PBX) product. It will show you how to install Asterisk, configure it using its LDAP backend, and connect to it using the Ekiga software VoIP client and a Cisco 7900 Series VoIP telephone to make calls."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "I usually set the work interval to 55 minutes, the break interval to 5 minutes and check the box to allow for postponing of breaks. That's it. Very simple and easy. When a break happens, the screen is locked out, so it forces me to get up and move around."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "Dell was the first of the major computer manufacturers to support pre-installed Linux, but it's not just pre-installing Linux. The Austin, Tex. company is also adding functionality to Ubuntu Linux on its desktops and laptops."
Source: Linux Today The Inquirer: "VIA has contracted Harald Welte, known within the free software community as a hacker of the Linux kernel and for his activities in enforcing the GNU General Public Licence, as the company’s Open Source liaison officer."
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "Now I am the victim of my own success: my household now has four physical computers, one of them dual boot. All are on a single internal Local Area Network (LAN) with five real users plus sundry administrative ones on each. Some of the computers are also running services. I also have two computers sitting in a box, which will probably be added to this mess soon, plus my wife plans to get a laptop. Like it or not, I now manage a network bigger than many small businesses! But I can’t afford to pay a system administrator, and the tedium of “network plumbing” is my least favorite part of computer technology. Surely, there must be a way to automate this mess?"
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: "Today we are pleased to announce the Automatix replacement: Ultamatix! It is actually based on Automatix, therefore it looks and acts exactly the same. The good news is that Ultamatix is designed to work with Ubuntu Ultimate Editon 1.8, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and the unstable branch of Debian Linux."
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "Who's afraid of patents? Not Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu Linux and CEO of Canonical. He figures he's 'REALLY' got it covered."
Source: Linux Today Echoes: "Listen is a not so widely known audio player written in Python and using the GTK toolkit, with an interface similar to the one of Rhythmbox, and including features like a music library, podcasts support, lyrics fetching, Wikipedia integration, and Last.fm song submission."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Almost time for the weekend, so I thought we'd go back and look at some more simple Perl one-liners. Note that this post is not really meant to be educational in any way, but maybe it'll help someone out there somewhere. If anything, it should pass a good 5 to 10 minutes of your time when you could be doing something useful ;)"
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "oogle's Summer of Code (SoC) has been around since 2005 as a way to get students involved in open source. But according to Google program Manager Leslie Hawthorne the Google system used for managing the projects within the SoC hasn't been all that great. So Google is developing a new collaboration platform called Melange (based on the concept of Melange / spice from Frank Herbert's Dune novels)."
Source: Linux Today Chao-Kuei's Notes: "I strongly believe that spreading GNU/Linux on usb sticks is a highly effective advocacy strategy. For example, it renders the debate about which OS to pre-install pointless if hardware vendors can be persuaded to sell diskless computers. As another example, InstallFest can be much lighter now: participants don't need to bring their notebook computers, and they don't have to spend time learning the "technical details" of the (scary!) 7 steps required to install Ubuntu. They can bring their usb sticks and hand them over to the organizer, and have a chat or watch app demos while their usb sticks are being cloned with one single command."
Source: Linux Today ConsortiumInfo: "Back in December of last year, Google posted a brief announcement of a new experiment in online publishing. At first blush it seemed to represent a challenge to the Wikipedia - but with a few differences. Google summarized the concept as follows:
"Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling "knol", which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project.""
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "Software is Linutop 2's strongest suit. It comes with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (a.k.a. Hardy Heron), Open Office 2.4 and enough utilities to work well out of the box. In five minutes, I was nosing around the Web, playing YouTube videos, listening to Internet radio and viewing Adobe Acrobat files. Plus, the system can use and save in Microsoft Office .doc, .xls, .ppt and other popular formats."
Source: Linux Today Wired: "Here's the way the timeline was supposed to work: Kaminsky discovered the vulnerability about six months ago, and quietly worked with vendors to patch it. (There's a fairly straightforward fix, although the implementation nuances are complicated.) Of course, this meant describing the vulnerability to them; why would companies like Microsoft and Cisco believe him otherwise? On July 8, he held a press conference to announce the vulnerability -- but not the details -- and reveal that a patch was available from a long list of vendors. We would all have a month to patch, and Kaminsky would release details of the vulnerability at the BlackHat conference early next month.
"Of course, the details leaked "
Source: Linux Today Ubuntu Forums: "Linux and FreeBSD do not work with this motherboard due to it's ACPI configuration, using a disassembler program, I have found that it detects Linux specifically and points it to bad DSDT tables, thereby corrupting it's hardware support "
Source: Linux Today Direct2Dell: "I'd like to follow up our Ubuntu 8.04 post with a quick update on the technical details for what we have added with this release. We have continued to build and improve upon on what we did for our Ubuntu 7.10 offering, and here are some of the highlights:
We have added Fluendo GStreamer codecs for mp3, wma, and wmv playback. This will allow you to play media of those types in your favorite media player on the system "
Source: Linux Today NewTeeVee: "Pouwelse acknowledged that the system needed some tweaking early on, but the reason wasn’t that P2P wasn’t working. Instead, it worked too well, blasting the client with huge amounts of data that overloaded the client computer’s CPU and affected live playback."
Source: Linux Today Desktop Linux: "The Debian project's maintainer, Luke Claes, announced in an email Saturday that it will freeze the "testing" or "Lenny" tree, in preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux. On Claes's checklist for September 2008: "Release lenny!""
Source: Linux Today Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog: "I need to give it a bit more thought but it looks like we’re going forward with deploying Spinn3r on SSD. Specifically, machines with 3 SSDs on Linux software RAID.
The performance of SSDs is nothing short of astounding "
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "With Apple's sexy MacBook Air thrusting them into the limelight, laptops with built-in solid state drives (SSDs) are suddenly all the rage. Now they are also available from a variety of Windows OEMs including Lenovo, Toshiba and Dell. While the drives can offer higher performance than conventional rotating storage, they also add about $500- $800 to the base purchase price of laptops, and can be almost ten times as expensive as a standard hard disk."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Google is on a roll. Hot on the heels of releasing its internal Protocol Buffers data interchange format, it has open-sourced Google XML Pages (GXP). Though the project page reports this as version 0.2 beta, don't be fooled: according to a presentation about the technology, this is the templating language behind AdWords, Blogger, Google Reader, Google Analytics, and other properties."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: ""State" is a central concern of all sorts of distributed applications, but especially of Web applications, as HTTP and its derivatives are intrinsically stateless. Clear thinking about how data persists across retrievals, sessions, processes, and other boundaries can help you improve your Web applications, both present and future."
Source: Linux Today IBM DeveloperWorks: "Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of designing loosely coupled applications that rely on named resources rather than messages. The hardest part of building a RESTful application is deciding on the resources you want to expose. Once you've done that, using the open source Restlet framework makes building RESTful Web services a snap. This tutorial guides you step-by-step through the fundamental concepts of REST and building applications with Restlets."
Source: Linux Today Packt: "JBoss jBPM is built around the concept of waiting. That may sound strange given that software is usually about getting things done, but in this case there is a very good reason for waiting. Real-life business processes cut across an organization, involve numerous humans and multiple systems, and happen over a period of time. In regular software, the code that makes up the system is normally built to "do all these tasks as soon as possible". This wouldn't work for a business process, as the people who need to take part in the process won't always want or be able to "do their task now"."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "In this article, learn about seven practices that can reduce overtime, cut costs, and speed up production on your software development project. Create a solid foundation for healthier development, and increase your chances of meeting deadlines with less stress."
Source: Linux Today Help Net Security: "Nowadays, instead of exposing high profile zero-day vulnerabilities at conferences, many researchers opt for selling their discoveries on a growing market."
Source: Linux Today Practical Technology: "The genie is out of the bottle. According to Robert McMillan in PC World, the creators of the Metasploit hacking toolkit have included a viable DNS server attack in their ‘penetration testing toolkit.”"
Source: Linux Today Tech Broiler: "His morning double espresso with frothed skim milk and mocha is already waiting for him, thanks to his new Korean-made LG RoboCafe, which brews and extracts a perfect crema every time using pre-portioned, mess-free nitrogen-sealed pods imported from Brazil."
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