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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "In many instances, a well thought-out regular expression can convince most non-technical people in the room that you're a computer genius who's brain possesses more synapses, forming more bridges and firing more rapidly than anyone's ever should."

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Linux Magazine: "In response to a challenge to programming language developers set by the editors of Linux Magazine, Python Django returned with a solution that is now available as a video workshop."

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LinuxPlanet: "Citadel is 100% GPL, and doesn't play games with making either binary or source downloads easily available. If I had to describe Citadel in a word, it would be "simplicity". It is a complex application with a lot of power and flexibility, but it's easy to install and administer."

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IBM developerWorks: "Learn how you can use tcsh shell variables to make your work easier and how to take advantage of tcsh's advanced security features."

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Brendan Scott's Weblog: "In this series of posts we look at a number of generic legal issues which are relevant to developers, and especially to open source developers working for themselves or in small or medium enterprises."

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HowtoForge: "Playdeb is a repository for Ubuntu games that makes it easy to install games that are available on getdeb.net. This article shows how you can install games using Playdeb on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop."

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TechNewsWorld: "Xandros, which bought Linspire in July, won't release a new commercial version of the Linspire Linux distribution. Furthermore, Freespire, the free version of Linspire, will be based on the Debian code base rather than Ubuntu, as it has been in the past."

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Electronics Weekly: "The battle lines are being drawn in a contest that will almost certainly define the design of mobile phones over the next five years."

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Internet News: "Internet Explorer. Firefox. Safari. Opera. Flock. Now Chrome.

Do we really need another browser? "

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Linux Devices: "Announced last November, the Bug platform consists of a tiny BugBase computer and various Lego-like modules that can be mixed and matched to create custom devices."

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The Register: "A firestorm is brewing over proposals issued by the UK's IT advisory body over which browsers the public sector should support. Taxpayers will be forced to change their browsing habits and computer setup to accommodate the guidelines, say web standards experts."

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Linux.com: "Sysctl provides an interface that allows you to examine and change several hundred kernel parameters in Linux or BSD. Changes take effect immediately, and there's even a way to make them persist after a reboot."

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Softpedia: "Frugalware 0.9 (codename Solaria) is now available for the i686 and x86_64 architectures, and brings 6,400 changes, among which there are 2,279 updated packages, 568 new ones and 926 closed tasks, as well as numerous bug fixes."

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Computing Tech: "The culture of sharing in the open source community and adoption of a wide array of tools for communicating on the Internet have helped Linux move quickly through infancy and adolescence to become a mature operating system."

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LWN: "Seriously scary, but Red Hat has been able to convince itself that none of the compromised packages were fed out to RHEL subscribers. So this attack, too, failed - but not by much."

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PC Magazine: "Rules are made to be broken the same way networks are made to be hacked into. These are nine of the most infamous criminal hackers to ever see the inside of a jail cell."

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Cyber Cynic: "It should have been a great day on the London Stock Exchange. The U.S. government had announced on the Sunday before that it was coming to the rescue of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae."

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Tux Deluxe: "Neither of us had a formal computer science education, and as we ended up comparing great computer related books we'd both read, it started me wondering, "How did we learn this stuff ?""

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Science Daily: "They recently unveiled a unique new program called the "Korset" to stop malware on Linux, the operating system used by the majority of web and email servers worldwide."

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ServerWatch: "Enforcing password security with a multiple-user system can be a hassle — users all too often use inadequate passwords. john-the-ripper (also available via most distros) is a password-cracking tool that enables the identification of vulnerable passwords before someone with nefarious intentions finds the weakness."

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IT Wire: "4. Vista has the most advanced and widest range of security software available."

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Information Week: "The background: Windows is losing market share to Apple's Mac OS and even Linux. And Vista, the latest version, has been a big fat dud."

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Softpedia: "Today is a happy day for Linux Mint fans as the developers of one of the most popular Linux distributions decided to please us with yet another release."

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Desktop Linux: "Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBM's personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as a pre-installation option. None of the company's 49 ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook models -- nor its many ThinkCenter and IdeaCenter desktops -- can currently be ordered with Linux."

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:-Dustin: "It occurred to me that there may well be a contingent of Ubuntu users who are entirely disconnected from the wealth of resources so many developers have poured into manpage-based documentation."

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ZDNet UK: "The news comes as Ubuntu last week made available an advance testing version of its Linux distribution, with the full 8.10. The "Intrepid Ibex" release is scheduled to be launched in late October."

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Linux Journal: " my friend Mario in Costa Rica sent me a link to browsershots.org which seems to be a better answer than having a handful of computers with a handful of different operating systems "

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Linux Magazine: "Maddog finds out that copyright prevents preserving paper player piano rolls."

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Datamation: "So the question becomes more difficult every year: Which of the gazillion tech blogs are worth your time?"

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Softpedia: "The SystemRescueCd team has announced today the latest version of their Linux system. This new release brings important new features, such as advanced customization and kernel recompilation, as well as updates to some of the already present applications."

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Linux.com "I recently sat down with my 12-year-old son Ian, who agreed to sit still long enough to try a few typing teacher applications on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Ian has a lot of experience on the computer but, until now, he has subscribed to the hunt and peck typing philosophy."

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ZDNet: "But open source has not grown through branding. Tux is a cute penguin, but the primary way open source has gained power is through values."

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Tectonic: "Launched last week, Google’s Chrome web browser is already making inroads into Firefox’s popularity, something that we feared."

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Datamation: "Perhaps guilty until proven innocent isn’t so bad an idea after all."

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LinuxPlanet: "Wireless management on Linux is a bit of a hodge-podge, especially for roaming users wicd (pronounced "wicked"), the wireless interface connection daemon, tries to do the job better, so we're going to give it a test drive."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

jammag writes "When Linux journalist Bruce Byfield tried to dig for details about the security breach in Fedora's servers, a Red Hat publicist told him the official statement — written in non-informative corporate-speak — was all he would get. In the wake of Red Hat's tight-lipped handling of the breach, even Fedora's board was unhappy, as Byfield details. He concludes: 'If Red Hat, one of the epitomes of a successful FOSS-based business, can ignore FOSS when to do so is corporately convenient, then what chance do we have that other companies — especially publicly-traded ones — will act any better?'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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mr_3ntropy writes "Ars is reporting Mark Shuttleworth announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 will be called Jaunty Jackalope. to be released next April. It will focus on improving boot times and the convergence of desktop and web. The 8.10 release, Intrepid Ibex, is coming next month with GNOME 2.24 and will include better support for subnotebooks."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

jQuery is emerging as the JavaScript library of choice for developers looking
to ease their creation of dynamic Rich Internet Applications. As browser-based
applications continue to replace desktop applications, the use of these libraries will
only continue to grow. Get to know jQuery in this series of articles and learn how
you can implement it in your own Web application projects.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

This is the first article in a four-part series about using XForms, DB2 pureXML, and Ruby together to more easily create Web applications. In this series you will develop a hypothetical application for managing patient information at a doctor's office. You will get a taste of the individual strengths of each technology, but you will also see how to integrate them together. In this first part of the series, you will examine how XForms, DB2 pureXML, and Ruby on Rails can all help more rapidly build XML-centric Web applications.

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Access-control based security of application resources is one of the core features of Project Zero. With the goal of radical simplification in mind, the developers of Project Zero Security have made an effort to simplify the enablement of security and make it quick and easy. Learn about Project Zero Security and how to create a user registry, define security rules for the application, and leverage the two most common types of authentication -- basic and form-based. By the end of this article, you will have all the tools you need to build security into your Project Zero applications.

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The Ganymede release of the Eclipse IDE includes 24 separate projects, covering a wide
range of technologies. Many of these projects are mature, and this release provides
incremental improvements to those. But Ganymede also includes a number of new projects
that introduce new technologies to the Eclipse platform. In this three-part "Using
Eclipse Ganymede to develop for the desktop, Web and mobile devices" tutorial
series, we will cover the following new Ganymede features: RCP, RAP, and eRCP, which
allow you to develop software for the desktop, Web, and mobile platforms, respectively,
with one common code base; Subversion for version control; and p2 for update and
installation. Here in Part 2, we will take the personal organizer developed in Part 1,
and modify it to use the new Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) to package and distribute the application on the Web.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Unlike traditional single-screen setups, multi-screen display systems require
special consideration for user interfaces (UIs). This article presents tools and code
designed to address the acquisition and change of input focus across multiple displays.

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In this two-part article series, you'll develop an application for a real
estate brokerage to display all available apartment listings as clickable
Placemarks on Google Maps. In Part 1, you created the first half of the
application that collects the apartment listing information from the user, uses
the Google Geocoder Web service to turn the street address into its geographical
coordinates (longitude and latitude), and stores the coordinates in the database
along with the address information. In Part 2, you will use this data to produce a
KML overlay document and display it in Google Maps and Google Earth. First, you'll use stored procedures to produce XML from MySQL. Then with XSLT and a technique called Muenchian grouping, you'll transform the XML data into a KML document containing the overlay information -- one Placemark for each apartment building. The pop-up balloon for each Placemark displays the available apartment listings in that building. Finally, you'll use the Google Maps API to display the KML overlay in a Google Map embedded within your own Web site.