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Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Sun Microsystems, which is pinning much of its future on open source, just reported its fourth-quarter numbers, which were not rosy. The company's profit dipped 73 percent, year over year, for the fiscal quarter ended June 30th."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "So how do you know if your ISP is playing fast and loose with your packets? That's where Switzerland, a new tool from the EFF, comes in."
Source: Linux Today Wired: "Oh yeah, it also comes in an ugly batch of colors, including a tartan-weave plaid case that spells out 'Debian' in Morse Code."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "I'll leave you with some more funny stuff I found at this Unix Humor site. Some of it's a bit dated, but funny nonetheless. I'm putting the "chicken crossed the road" joke out here, but you should definitely check out this site for a whole lot of other funnies that, at the very least, the site owner deserves recognition for putting all in one place :)"h
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Another week has past and it's time to laugh heartily before it all ends in tears ;) This week, I stumbled upon Two sites that had me working overtime trying not to laugh out loud at my desk. Nonsense humor isn't for everyone, but I find it the most enjoyable kind. It's goofy, it's random and once something gets me going I sound like I'm having a massive asthma attack while I'm trying to force myself to not laugh."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor Has Redmond given up the fight? Or is this just their latest strategy?"
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Some Ubuntu fans out there may remember Automatix, a tool for Ubuntu that allowed easy access to many popular non-free applications and commonly-used audio and video codecs. It debuted a few years ago, and got negative reviews from Ubuntu developers and experienced users due to the risk of breaking dependencies Now Ultamatix hopes to continue where Automatix left off."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Using XStream, you can serialize most Java objects without any mapping. Object names become element names in the XML produced, and the strings within classes form the element content of the XML. The classes that you serialize with XStream don't need to implement the Serializable interface. XStream is a serialization tool and not a data binding tool, which means that it doesn't perform class generation from an XML or XML Schema Definition (XSD) file."
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