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Source: Linux Today Industry Standard: "Not surprisingly, the largest number of networks displaying the new address blocks are those registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean."
Source: Linux Today Adam's Tech Talk: "On the underside of the board there is a single miniPCI socket which houses an Atheros 5212 802.11a/b/g miniPCI card. It has two antenna outputs which run under the board and two the two external antennae."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "The application has had a robust community of developers behind it for years, and now a new version 2.6 is downloadable. Here's what's under the hood in the update, including a whole slew of interface enhancements."
Source: Linux Today Preacherpen: "Do any of you use Linux as your primary operating system? I have been dual-booting Linux and Windows for about five years now, though it’s a rare thing, indeed, for me to use the latter for anything. I know whatever you decide to use is entirely up to you, unless you are stuck using someone else’s computer."
Source: Linux Today VoIP Planet: "Dozens of open-source and shareware tools have been developed to capture, manipulate, replay, and generate SIP and RTP messages. Before attempting to conduct your own VoIP vulnerability assessment, you might want to browse the VOIPSA Security Tools list, the Hacking VoIP Exposed Security Tools list, or the iSEC Partners VOIP Security Tools list, following links to download software and create your own VoIP security toolbox."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "ICANN, IANA, IETF, ISOC, IAB, IRTF, SRS, NSI, RIR, NSO-- who or what are these, and what do they have to with what you can do with the Internet? Charlie Schluting explains the roles of the many organizations and governing bodies that operate behind the scenes."
Source: Linux Today IT Pro: "The coder is not always the best person for the job of documenting a project, if only because, as Richard Stallman once observed, "writing good English is a rare skill among programmers"."
Source: Linux Today Metamorphosis: ""Sweden now joins Brazil, Croatia, Italy, South Korea, and South Africa as countries whose national standards bodies have formal approved this standard", the ODF advocacy organisation writes in this week's newsletter."
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "Firstly let's talk about trust. How much do you trust Google or any other online service provider?"
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "Untangle, which develops open source security solutions, has a rather interesting pitch for VARs and small businesses. It involves a simple USB stick known as the Silver Bullet."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "So, which will it be? Open-source Windows Mobile or proprietary Windows Mobile, continuing to be sold at an outlandish $8 to $15 per phone for software that Businessweek's Stephen Wildstrom calls "awkward to use after a decade of tweaking by Microsoft.""
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Earlier this year Fedora 9 was the first distribution providing kernel-based mode-setting (or KMS for short) We had provided a preview of kernel-based mode-setting that showed how the system display looked when it came to the flicker-free boot experience, fast and clean VT switching, and the technical advantages this method provides."
Source: Linux Today Smartphones and Cell Phones: "The Why Palm Needs Android article makes the case for three reasons why Palm should consider the Android OS on future devices rather than rolling out its own Linux operating system "
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "Open Source is emerging for the first time as a central theme at the CeBIT 2009 conference. Linux Magazine, together with the conference organizers and the Linux Foundation, is now encouraging Open Source projects to bid for free booths at the conference."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Though with the Intrepid artwork final deadline passing last week, what does the desktop look like in the Ubuntu 8.10 Beta release due out this week?"
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "The Health-e Information Technology Act of 2008 offers incentives for health care providers to move to an open, shared platform for health records."
Source: Linux Today Snake Bytes: " the two were asked if they could take out a data center. While they've never tried, it appears to be a totally plausible attack. Worse yet, unlike most DoS attacks, the machines often do not come back online once the attack is over. The victim system just doesn't respond any more."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "Nokia's new purchase of Trolltech has renamed the company Qt Software."
Source: Linux Today Macworld: "That's why most people use Windows or Mac OS X as their desktop operating systems, and not Linux. Linux has only begun to see desktop use after it included the pretty icons."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "I was probably always subtly aware of the abilities of some free software programmers, so I should not continue to be amazed by what they can do. But I must admit they do continue to astonish me."
Source: Linux Today Enterprise Networking Planet: "But Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, also offers a server version of the software, and this raises an obvious question: Do you really want to be running cheap and cheerful server software at the heart of your enterprise?"
Source: Linux Today Tech Treasures: "I was surprised by this response because as the economy worsens, it seems to me the Cloud is actually a safe haven where you can continue to operate without worrying about expensive infrastructure investments. On a consumer level it gives you access to free web-based apps like GMail "
Source: Linux Today There Is No End, But Addition: "One view was that ODF had served its purpose (to get MS formats out into the open) and should now declare victory before fading away gracefully; another was that OOXML would surely become the default format of the OpenOffice.org suite "
Source: Linux Today Works With U: "One market that Ubuntu has yet to crack is that of the SoHo server. Millions of office workers all over the world send email via, print through and save documents to a Microsoft Windows Small Business Server. But is Ubuntu ready to compete head-on against SBS? The current answer may not thrill Ubuntu fans."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "Like what you ask? Like these five prime examples of open-source software that's every bit as good, if not better, than their proprietary equivalents."
Source: Linux Today O'Reilly: "We are confident that after trying the free version you will want to come back and purchase the DELUXE version."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "A lawsuit over a file format conversion?"
Source: Linux Today Linux Developer Network: "So who will benefit from LinuxCon? A group that, in my opinion, has been a bit underserved by the "big" conferences: the Linux community itself."
Source: Linux Today Adam's Tech Talk: "Now personally I think it's a pretty cheap thing to do, and it's also quite frustrating to those users that have to suffer this 'feature'. A number of ISPs use such methods to 'improve' the quality of your service and I think it's all pretty bad."
Source: Linux Today Raiden's Realm: "Are we living the fast and dangerous life in Linux just because it's so bullet proof and safe? I ask that question because I have honestly found myself in recent months openly ignoring, not consciously mind you, but unconsciously, long held safety and security practices whenever I'm on a Linux or BSD machine."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "A few days back, the New York Times online ran what was, for many, a sensational headline about Sun's Solaris: "Is Sun's Solaris on its deathbed?" While the piece was not written by its own staff, the fact that what many still consider to be a newspaper with some credibility ran with such a story did evoke plenty of reaction."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "Microsoft just announced the obvious: open source is an increasingly critical (and common) component of software today, including proprietary software. The open-source software in question is jQuery, an excellent open-source javascript library that Microsoft will be including in its Visual Studio application development platform."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Validating data is the most important habit you can possibly adopt when it comes to security. And when it comes to input, it's simple: Don't trust users. Your users are probably good people, and most are likely to use your application exactly as you intended. However, whenever there is chance for input, there is also chance for really, really bad input."
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