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Raiden's Realm: "Ultimately the only way to get them to change would be to make it so painful for them to stay, that it's preferable to go to another program and learn it instead, rather than stay and suffer. That's where DRM, activation, software keys, and other anti-consumer technologies are very much the friend of FOSS."

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IBM Developerworks: "This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking up."
An oldie but a goodie -- ed.

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HowtoForge: "L7-filter is a classifier for the Linux Netfilter that identifies packets based on patterns in application layer data. This allows correct classification of P2P traffics.
It can classify packets such as Kazaa, HTTP, Jabber, Citrix, Bittorrent, FTP, Gnucleus, eDonkey2000, etc., that uses unpredictable ports as well as standard protocols running on non-standard ports."

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Ubuntu Forums: "Yesterday evening I sent one debug version BIOS about this issue to Ryan, ask him to help us verify again. This morning Ryan replied me his testing result. Almost bugs are fixed by this BIOS."

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SUSE and OpenSUSE: "Virtualization cannot be that simpler than in openSUSE 11.0. In openSUSE 11.0, Xen Virtualization ins pre-built and all it takes is a few clicks away from up and running with Virtualization in no time."

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symfony: "I am pretty happy to announce that I have just deployed a new version of the symfony project website with a brand new "Plugins" section (look at the top menu entries) to replace the Trac plugin management system."

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ISP-Planet: "Several Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), including the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), have warned that routers and network management software should be upgraded ahead of the increased distribution of four-byte Autonomous System (AS) numbers."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Ryan1984 writes "Only a week after the bad press coverage regarding the Linux-related bugs in a number of motherboards released by Foxconn (which turned out to be the AMI BIOS that several board makers use), Foxconn is the first vendor out with a publicly released test patch that fixes the bulk of the problems, allowing kernel 2.6.26 to run well on the afflicted boards. The remaining issues appear to either be kernel bugs in builds earlier than 2.6.26, issues with the Intel chipset itself, or minor annoyances that Foxconn is still working to resolve. Foxconn representative Heart Zhang has posted on the Ubuntu forums (where the situation began), apologizing for the issues, thanking Foxconn customers and the community at-large for their feedback, and promising that Foxconn will take Linux support and testing seriously, going forward."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes to point out the first in a series of articles from a while back about using the Playstation 3 as a development environment under Fedora. Here are the second and third parts of the series. Quoting: "Early on, it was a bit of a challenge to get Linux natively installed on the PS3. Time has passed, and a great deal has changed. Fedora 7 installs on the PS3 out of the box, with the most challenging installation steps eliminated. This article introduces the basic configuration knobs and widgets specific to the PS3 running Linux, shows you how to use them effectively, and suggests the kind of trickery that gets improved performance."Read more of this story at Slashdot.