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Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This guide explains how you can use mod_mysql_vhost to create simple virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Debian Etch. With mod_mysql_vhost, lighttpd can read the vhost configuration from a MySQL database. Currently, you can store the domain and the document root in the MySQL database which results in very simple virtual hosts."
Source: Linux Today PC World: "The repackaging makes the middleware easier and cheaper to install on Linux PCs and free desktops from Microsoft software, IBM said.
The easy availability of collaboration tools could trigger businesses to switch to Linux "
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: "If the only part of your body that's subjected to a real workout every day is your brain, it might be time to consider strategies for getting the rest of you moving. Other health issues aside, a lack of physical activity can have a detrimental effect on mental performance."
Source: Linux Today Standards Blog: "The latest edition of Linux World ground to a halt in San Francisco today. I made it into town just last night for a VIP party hosted by the Linux Foundation where I caught up with lots of the true believer friends (developers, journalists and corporate supporters), and for the Board meeting today. I never made it to the show this year, opting instead to arrive early but then head out of town for some bouts of hiking in the hills south of town "
Source: Linux Today It painted a picture of Open Source software as being a minefield of grumpy litigious geeks who want to cash in with fat lawsuits, and no clear guidance for how to stay out of trouble. Oddly, this all seemed to come from a most unlikely source, the director of the Gnome Foundation, Stormy Peters. Even unlikelier, it was from her talk at LinuxWorld, which hardly seems a good venue for spreading misinformation of any kind
Source: Linux Today TechWorld: "Being youthful at the time I figured I could design and implement a language "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike" ABC, improving upon ABC's deficiencies, and solve our support applications problem, so around Christmas 1989, I started hacking. For various reasons, soon after Python was complete enough to be used, that particular project was no longer as relevant, but Python proved useful to other projects at CWI, and in early 1991 (i.e. a little over a year after I started) we did the first open source release (well before the term open source had even been invented)."
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "Inkscape is one of the most popular free software vector drawing applications. With minimal effort you can achieve some excellent results. However, for the inexperienced it can be a bit hard to find out how to get those results. In this tutorial I'll look at creating a simple ribbon effect which will hopefully introduce some of the key Inkscape features along the way."
Source: Linux Today SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system "
Source: Linux Today ZTrek: "When my teenager learned that I was heading to LinuxWorld this week, he said, "I'd like to try Linux." Good for him; he's already bilingual, with a MacBook for schoolwork and a buffed-up Dell desktop for gaming. Why not Linux too?"
Source: Linux Today Linux Devices: "Toshiba has announced new NAND flash memory devices said to offer the highest densities ever. The 32GB devices use chips built on 43 nanometer process technology, integrate controllers for standard interfaces, and target mobile phones, handhelds, and PNDs (personal navigation devices)."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For today's post, we're going to look at using grep to reduce script-bloat. Of course, we won't be covering every possible way this can be done, because I have yet to finish perfecting the art of using editor tricks to reinforce bad habits."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: "The downside to any tweaking, however, is that pushing components beyond their rated limits can make a system unstable -- but enthusiasts feel it's worth the risks.
"They feel like they are getting something for free. That's why they do it,""
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "When I first connected an HP Inkjet 3550 printer to my laptop, it was easier to get it working than in Windows! The driver for the printer was already available in Linux, so all I had to do was select it and the printer worked."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "I was surprised at the different results I got searching for the word "ethernet." Although it is obviously only a single search, Tracker returned what might be the most relevant result as the top item. Beagle showed the networking HOWTO as the fifth result (shown as "Networking" in the results), with the HOWTO indexes scoring higher than the individual HOWTOs. The Ethernet HOWTO that Tracker offered as it's top hit is much more applicable to the search term."
Source: Linux Today CNet: "The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a long-standing state law ruling that employers can't restrict employees from working for a competitor or soliciting former clients when they leave the company."
Source: Linux Today Technical Mercenary: "Well I'm a sell out, it's official. I've had such an overwhelming response, according to my stats, on the Vyatta router story that I had to do another. So let's grab some documentation and get started."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: ""We do have our occasional heated discussions, we have 1000+ developers and that sometimes means on any given topic, we may have 2000 opinions.""
Source: Linux Today InfoWorld: "The number one presentation of the conference was IOActive's Dan Kaminsky's talk on his recent DNS exploit find. There was some question if there would still be any interest in the topic since the details of Dan's exploit leaked out two weeks ago. The question was answered by a standing room-only crowd of thousands that filled the largest conference room long before the scheduled start time."
Source: Linux Today Raiden's Realm: "There is one thing that many people have yet failed to realize, and that is that Linux is a platform, not an OS. Now as bizarre as that may sound, if you truly think about it, you'll realize that I'm right. It's true that Linux does indeed describe an operating system, but that's only a minor part of the overall experience."
Source: Linux Today CIO: "The open-source community is no longer the sole province of technology geeks. The mood is shifting. As the mistress of ceremonies at OSCON (the Open Source Convention) commented: instead of open source trying to figure out its place in the enterprise, today the enterprise is seeking its place in open source. And that, among other trends, is causing changes in the community."
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: "f security researcher Dan Kaminsky is right about the dangers threatening DNS security, how come nobody's drawn attention to any specific, massively mobilized exploits of the vulnerability? It's because of the nature of DNS -- servers are indeed being continuously poisoned, according to admins, but it's hard to tell exactly who's being exploited and how."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "For example, consider an GigE switch. They all do the same thing right? You just plug in the cables and everything just works. That is unless you bought the switch that makes a carrier pigeon network look fast when all the ports are running at full speed. I often make the statement, “You can’t build a cluster by consulting those glossy data sheets "
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: "One of the biggest problems with the so-called Web 2.0 movement has been its encouragement of oversharing -- which often means underestimating security risks. Adding doodads of varying quality to a home page can add a lot of pizazz, but can also be fraught with danger, since they can open a door for hackers."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Michelle Murrain is a great example of what the FOSS community is all about. She's complicated: she calls herself a "scientist turned technologist turned theologian turned writer," all blended into one person. She's also an active supporter of and contributor to open source software projects. She's not a developer, however, and Murrain would really like to see more space for people like her, with different gifts to share, in the open source community."
Source: Linux Today Monkey Bites: "Perhaps the most interesting part of the new gOS is that the distro has adopted the newer, lightweight LXDE (which stands for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), giving the old Enlightenment desktop the heave-ho in the process."
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "I have some screenshots from an old Caldera OpenLinux Lite CD that a member still had in his possession to show you. They disprove certain allegations SCO has made regarding Linux, I think, in the IBM litigation. For example, SCO claimed that it never released anything under the GPL. And it tried to allege that some headers and other features were their property and that Linux infringes them. I will show you differently."
Source: Linux Today Desktop Linux: "A fast, fast-booting, implementation of GNOME aimed at netbooks and older hardware has emerged, and shows "a lot of promise." LXDE has already stacked up a heap of distribution partners."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & OpenSUSE: "TrueCrypt is a free opensource software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume http://newsadmin.linuxtoday.com/(data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys."
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