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Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to install memcached and the PHP5 memcache module on a Debian Etch system with Apache2. memcached is a daemon that can store objects in the system's memory (e.g. results of database queries) which can speed up your web site tremendously."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "If you have multiple computers on your desktop there are a number of scenarios for using them Use x2x, the solution we'll examine here, to share the keyboard and mouse between systems."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player. While primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems, elisa also currently support Microsoft Windows."
Source: Linux Today Raiden's Realm: "One of the greatest and most destructive beliefs in the open source community is that "Because I'm not a programmer, I can't participate in an open source project." Let me be the first to tell you that if you believe that, you're wrong. Dead wrong."
Source: Linux Today Linux Weekly: "Ubuntu 8.04 comes with Wine 0.9.59, which is already pretty old. In the meantime, the latest development version of Wine is 1.1.4, which was released on September 5, 2008.
In order to compile Wine from source and install it on Ubuntu, you will only need to follow several easy steps I list below:"
Source: Linux Today The Geek Stuff: "In the following example, the default PS1 was "s-v$", which displays the shell name and the version number. Let us change this default behavior to display the username, hostname and current working directory name as shown below."
Source: Linux Today FOSS keeps people honest. That's the #1 reason there is such strong, well-funded opposition to it.
Source: Linux Today Linux Weekly: "I decided to put up this list which contains no less than 6 graphical IRC clients for Linux, powerful or user-friendly. I also provided several screenshots where I considered necessary and a brief description for each of them."
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: " it relies on an Adobe plug-in to perform a similar function. The problem is, Adobe will discontinue supporting that plug-in at the end of this year."
Source: Linux Today Echoes: "I'm sure many of us had this problem, and not only once: for some reason or another, the X Window System refuses to start and you get stuck in console. I remember an event also referred to as the 'Black Ubuntu Day', when an update crashed X.:
Source: Linux Today Lifehacker: "Today we're detailing a Linux desktop that helps you move quickly, work with Windows, and just get things done; read on for a few suggestions on setting it up."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld UK: "But I think all of these paeans rather miss the point, which is that GNU represents the start of not just free software, but also many, many other movements, all based around the idea of sharing and collaboration."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com "Boxee is a new entrant into the increasingly crowded open source media center space. The company's eponymous application is billed as a "social media center" -- melding a smorgasbord of social networking services into an XBMC-based media center designed for the couch-centric user."
Source: Linux Today The Geek Stuff: "While the gadget and style of Angelina Jolie is hard to match, at least let us try to make the good old Linux prompt very functional and stylish using the 10 examples provided in this article."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "Because both platforms have provided a well-developed means of ensuring compatibility through a consistent set of development standards, developing hardware drivers for both platforms is a painless experience for the most part."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "How to be Polite"
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Source: Linux Today Groklaw: " there is also a letter to the bankruptcy judge from an ex-employee of SCO alleging some bookkeeping skullduggery on SCO's part with regard to back pay and severance, and finally a story in the Miami Herald involving allegations of a weird bankruptcy auction, something about a mystery bidder, if there actually was one."
Source: Linux Today Negative Approach: "Linux running in a VM on top of a MS host platform..because everyone wants to put their Corvette on top of a skateboard."
Source: Linux Today Tectonic: "By way of comparison, have a look at these two older ads from IBM promoting Linux. Irrespective of whether you’re a Linux and IBM fan or not, the message is clear an unambigious."
Source: Linux Today Tectonic: "The latest advert - the full version is a long four-minutes plus - features Bill Gates and Seinfeld getting in touch with "real people""
Source: Linux Today Netstat -vat: "After 10 years in Portland, Oregon, OSCON - O'Reilly's Open Source Conference is moving in 2009 to the San Franciso Bay area."
Source: Linux Today Netstat -vat: "Firefox 3.1 will be getting the so-called private mode (aka Porn mode). Mozilla competitors, Microsoft IE 8, Apple Safari and even Google Chrome already all have private mode."
Source: Linux Today LXer: "Every year around this time a huge number of Linux geeks converge upon downtown Columbus Ohio. Registration (free!) has been open for quite some time. The even takes place October 11 and is part trade show, part geek-fest, part technical -- but it's 100% fun."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: "The blogosphere had a field day with this image below. It was the industrial metal band Nine Inch Nails performing with what appeared to be a Windows blue screen of death crash on the backdrop screens."
Source: Linux Today Planet OSS: "The live CD booted into KDE 4.1.1 desktop which has customized menu and theme/wallpaper. All the hardware components were detected and configured properly. There was no 'Live Install' icon on the desktop but you can find it under "tools" menu."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "Professor Roberto Ierusalimschy offers an in-depth examination of what he believes to be the most successful programming language not born in a developed country."
Source: Linux Today Lew Rockwell: "My wife often rolls her eyes at me, because once I find a new hobby I latch onto it as though life depended on it. The more arbitrary the nature of the hobby, the less she's impressed with it. So imagine her immense delight when, a year ago, the only thing I would talk about with her was Linux."
Source: Linux Today OS News: "OSNews has been reporting on the Debian/Ubuntu/GNU/Opensolaris hybrid for several years. But for those of you who've never looked more closely at this interesting OS, a Nexenta developer has laid out some of its more noteworthy features and advantages."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet AU: "The Red Hat-supported Fedora Project has started issuing updates to its Linux distribution again, after a hiatus of several weeks caused by a hacker break-in."
Source: Linux Today WorkswithU: "Ubuntu Linux saved a Compaq Presario 2100 from certain death last weekend. Here’s the horror story and the happy outcome. For all of you with aging, slow-running Windows systems, I hope this quick blog post inspires you to breathe new life into the system by installing Ubuntu."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Hopefully, you didn't give the brain-teaser too much effort if the answer didn't appear to you quickly. Like I said, I wasted a lot of time looking for suitable number sequences ( golden strings, etc ), but, in the end, found that I could reasonably deduce the most economical 8 out of 56 lists by just looking at them."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "Coworkers at the University of Tel Aviv have presented a prototype for a new host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) for Linux. Named Korset, it uses static code analysis and promises zero failures."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: " How could someone make a more powerful editing tool than vi, you may ask? The answer is Vim, and this article provides details on the many enhancements that have made Vim a highly used and acceptable editor in the world of UNIX and Linux."
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