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That Linux Guy: "Now that we’ve learned all about the terminal and what it can do, we’re going to start using it and begin showing off the power of it. We’ll use the pwd, cd and ls tools to move around and and list directory contents, and we’ll also take a look at the file and less tools."

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Lifehacker: "This morning, though, we're taking a more nuts-and-bolts look at changes you can make to your newly-installed system to make it faster, reliable, and more enjoyable from the inside out. Read on for five tweaks that any Ubuntu user (or Linux user in general) should consider making to get started on the right foot."

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The Linux Hardcore: "Well, djsroknrol posted on The Linux Hardcore Forum about having a few issues with his Ubuntu install. After a bit of investigation, he realised that even though he had created and enabled a swap partition, it wasn't listed in /etc/mtab."

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HowtoForge: "This document describes how you can configure a Debian Etch system for IPv6 so that a) it can connect to other IPv6 hosts and b) other IPv6 hosts can connect to it. IPv6 should become more important in the future as recent estimates assume that there will be no more IPv4 addresses left by 2010 or 2011. Therefore it's time time to learn IPv6."

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nixCraft: "Question: How do I open a shell prompt or gnome-terminal at the current location while browsing directories and files via nautilus file manager? I'd like to see Open Terminal / Prompt here option added to my right click menu."

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Linux.com: "The first article in this series showed ways to use the names of files and directories as a simple database -- to organize collections of data and find them quickly from either a GUI menu, from a program, or from the command line."

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Phoronix: "However, Creative Labs today has finally turned this situation around and they have open-sourced the code to this notorious driver. The source-code for the Creative X-Fi driver is now licensed under the GNU GPLv2."

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Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Since my "5 Things Every Good Linux Administrator Knows" post the other day I left out three very important things that every good Linux administrator should know."

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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to take a look at a few (well, maybe more than a few) ways to check your Linux box to find out if the reason it's beginning to perform poorly is related to memory or memory-management issues. For today's examples, in particular, we’ll be using SUSE Linux 9.x, but most of these examples translate just as easily to RedHat, Ubuntu and other widely-used distros, with some minor modifications."

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Phoronix: "In our performance exploration of Ubuntu we now have additional tests to publish this morning. This time around we're switching out the hardware we're testing on to Intel's newer Core 2 series and we're comparing the performance of the x86 and x86_64 editions of Ubuntu 8.10 against Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.5 operating system."

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LinuxPlanet: "But it's the little power user features that make an application you look forward to using all day every day. And Firefox has a lot of special features that are written specifically for Linux users. Here are a few of my favorites."

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Cyber Cynic: "Actually, it's bigger than just a problem that could crash a system. Secunia, a security company, stated that "Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code." In other words, you could use the bug to crack PCs and take control of them."

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OStatic: "The fourth beta release became available Monday, with some new bug fixes, updated versions of GNOME, Banshee and the kernel, and webcam support re-enabled. One of the changes long time openSUSE users will notice right away is the new YaST disk partitioner."

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IT World: "Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks."

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MSPMentor: "Open source is starting to influence portions of the managed services market. But can MSPs really trust open source?"

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Fossbazaar: "Public administrations in Europe have to follow public tender procedures and the new guidelines give practical and legal advice on how open source software and related services can be incorporated into the procurement process."

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Linux Magazine: "Linux Magazine is broadcasting a live stream from the UKUUG Linux Conference in Manchester, UK (November 7 through 9). It's the yearly event of the UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group."

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Linux Gazette: "The aim of these notes is to give you root access to a Debian "lenny" installation on on your existing computer without worrying about any hardware issues. To do this, you will not need to re-boot your computer, and will only append to the existing data on it.

The question of why1 you may want to do this is addressed in the last section "

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Linux.com: "If you're looking to run a serious open source collaboration server, Yahoo's Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) should be on your short list. This Web 2.0 email and groupware server offers AJAX Web-based administrator and user interfaces, a variety of useful groupware features, and email import functionality."

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The VAR Guy: "The VAR Guy ultimately jumped to Ubuntu Linux in mid-2007. But now -- as Microsoft gears up for Windows 7 -- it's time for our resident blogger to reengage with the software giant. Here's why."

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Ubuntu Geek: "In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation."

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The Age: "Small laptops are becoming a big problem for Microsoft's Windows business."

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Linuxworld: "A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and alleged music pirates by challenging the constitutionality of a statute being used by the industry group to bring lawsuits against alleged copyright violators."

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Linux.com: "Each new Ubuntu release has raised the standard by which other Linux distros are judged. With the new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, the focus is on mobility and 3G network support. I found Intrepid to be a fast and stable release, yet I experienced some minor issues that keep it from absolute perfection."

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Boston Review: "But just as I was switching to an OLPC, the project backed away from its commitment to freedom and allowed the machine to become a platform for running Windows, a non-free operating system."

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Royal Pingdom: "There is no place like home;
The most famous IP address of them all, good old localhost"

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mmu_man's blog: "Oddly it seems I'm not the only one asking for opensource on that forum But it seems to be more "politically correct" when it's for GNU/Linux which usually means the result would be GPL, so unsuitable licence-wise for porting to Haiku, and unportable anyway because no stable driver API in Linux means no way to understand it easily. "

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TechRepublic: "In fact, the Linux desktop might very well be the area where there are the most options. But for a lot of users, desktop selection doesn't usually go beyond KDE or GNOME. With this article, I hope to help the average Linux user get beyond the standard fare."

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On-Disk.com: "When One Laptop Per Child starts their next Give 1 Get 1 program on November 17th, there will be an option to purchase an upgrade that will allow users to run a standard Linux desktop based on Fedora 10, on their XO system (pronounced "ex - oh"). This special edition of Fedora 10 is an alternative for adults who may not find the child focused graphical interface called Sugar practical for daily use."

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Linux Journal: "If you don't care much about whitespace bash is great: it normally turns multiple whitespace characters into one and it breaks things into words based on white space. If on the other hand you'd like to preserve whitespace bash can be a bit difficult at times. A trick which often helps is using a combination of bash's eval and set commands."

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IBM Developerworks: "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) and the power configuration systems built into modern computers provide a wide range of options for reducing overall power consumption. Linux and its associated user space programs have many of the tools necessary to master your PC power consumption in a variety of contexts."

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SUSE & openSUSE: "Ultrasol is a collection of nearly 400 different solitaire or patience games. There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck."

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OStatic: "Speed tests are starting to come in from several sources for the updated beta versions of the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "In a move that's a win for the free software community, Creative Labs has decided to release their binary Linux driver for the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium sound cards under the GPL license. This is coming after several failed attempts at delivering a working binary driver and years after these sound cards first hit the market."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "As a sequel to their Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? Phoronix now has out an article that compares the performance of Ubuntu 8.10 to Apple Mac OS X 10.5.5. They tested both the x86 and x86_64 spins of Ubuntu and threw at both operating systems a number of graphics, disk, computational, and Java benchmarks, among others. With the Mac Mini used in some of the comparisons 'Leopard' was faster while in others it was a tight battle."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Billed as the "Microsoft Access for Linux," Kexi is an integrated data management application that allows you to easily work with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases.

Source: Security DevCenter

Editor Andy Oram will present "Improving Online Education and Documentation for Developers." Andy has spent the past several years exploring the strengths and weeknesses of user contributions to software documentation and support. He'll show the results of a survey and some research on the quality of mailing lists, followed by suggestions for systems that could make better use of free user contributions.

Source: Security DevCenter

Dr. Larry Brilliant, today's first speaker at the annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, has marked a turn in the tone of this seminal conference. Brilliant, a long-time philanthropist who has spent his life helping fight disease around the world, is the executive director of Google.Org, the search giant's attempt to make a difference in the world, and he opened the main stage conversations and "high order bits," with John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly.



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Source: Security DevCenter

At the Web 2.0 summitt, John Doerr mentioned the high number of games available in the iTunes App store, and wondered whether the iPhone's potential as a gaming platform is being underestimated by Sony and Nintendo. His interest stems from KP having funded a company that develops free and paid games available through the iTunes store. I decided to pull

Source: Security DevCenter

Web 2.0 Summit High Order Bit -Mary_Meeker Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Business Economics marymeeker web2summit Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker just took the stage at Web 2.0 Summit and is presenting her information-rich slides. I've put a copy up on Scribd for all to view. The video of her talk will be up shortly .

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LibriVox is a volunteer effort with a big goal: record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. In this Q&A, LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire discusses the project's beginnings, the organic development of the LibriVox community, and the distinctions (or lack thereof) between "professional" and "amateur" efforts.

Source: Security DevCenter

Yesterday's blog
"Don't say the Internet has changed elections"
was all about how elections still rely overwhelmingly on mainstream
broadcast media. But an interesting inverse is that the mainstream
broadcast media also rely on elections.

Source: Security DevCenter

OpenSSH 5.1 includes a feature called visual fingerprints for host keys. The previous representation of a key is a hexadecimal sequence. Perhaps the ASCII art version will be easier to remember -- and verify.

Source: Security DevCenter

Everything you need to know about XMPP, the open network protocol that drives real-time communication today, is contained in this practical book. XMPP: The Definitive Guide walks you through the thought processes and design decisions involved in building a complete XMPP-enabled application, and adding real-time interfaces to existing applications. You'll not only learn simple but powerful XMPP tools, but through developer stories, you'll discover how common XMPP "building blocks" can help solve particular classes of problems.

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The most authoritative book on Google's cloud computing service, Programming Google App Engine teaches you how to build massively scaleable applications on Google's immense computing infrastructure. Google's Dan Sanderson introduces you to this service and describes how to perform common web development tasks using the App Engine tools and APIs. For anyone building large web applications or growing a small company, this book offers you clear and concise instruction right from the source.

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As part of the continuing theme of do-good at Web 2.0 Summit 2008, Lance Armstrong, unretired cyclist-cum-philanthropist extraordinaire took the main stage as the dinner keynote. This was the only appearance he agreed to honor after announcing his cycling comeback and his visit was much anticipated. It didn’t disappoint.



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Al Gore may have "invented" the Internet (as his critics occasionally charged) but there is no question that Barack Obama is the first successful presidential nominee to fully exploit the medium's potential. While it is always difficult to know any president-elect's exact plans for a topic as focused as the Internet, a look at how he used the power of social networking and the Internet in general provides an intriguing look into the technical side of an Obama administration.

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Take a geek and a PC, add one soldering iron, a home, and a copy of Home Hacking Projects for Geeks, and you'll give new meaning to the term, "home improvement." From fearless neophytes to tool-wielding masterminds, the home hacker in any geek will find new inspiration and plenty of hands-on guidance to take on a variety of home-transforming projects once relegated to the world of sci-fi. This fun new guide combines creativity with electricity and power tools to achieve cool--and sometimes even practical--home automation projects. Never again will you have to flip a light switch when you enter a room or use a key to open your front door. With a few off-the-shelf devices, some homemade hardware, and a little imagination, you can be living in your own high-tech habitat. Home Hacking Projects for Geeks shows hackers of all ability levels how to take on a wide range of projects, from the relatively small but energy-conscious automating of light switches, to building home theaters using Windows or Linux-based PCs, to more complicated projects like building home security systems that rival those offered by professional security consultants. Each project includes a conceptual diagram, a "What You Need List" and a small "Project Stats" section that describes the relative difficulty, time involved, and cost of the project. What's more, each project is a workable, practical way to improve your home--something unique that you can customize for your individual needs. The thirteen projects in Home Hacking Projects for Geeks are divided into three categories: Home Automation, Home Entertainment Systems, and Security, and include projects such as: Remotely Monitor Your Pet Make Your House Talk Remotely Control Your Computer's MP3 player Create Time-Shifted FM Radio Watch Your House Across the Network Build a Home Security System If you've ever thought the Jetsons had it made, or looked around your house and thought, "I could make that better " then you're ready for Home Hacking Projects for Geeks.

Source: Security DevCenter

As a quick reference and tutorial in one, ASP.NET in a Nutshell goes beyond the published documentation to highlight little-known details, stress practical uses for particular features, and provide real-world examples that show how features can be used in a working application. This book covers application and web service development, custom controls, data access, security, deployment, and error handling. There's also an overview of web-related class libraries. Examples use Visual Basic .NET.

Source: Security DevCenter

Gordon Meyer (Smart Home Hacks) will present about Mac-based home automation at the Chicago Apple Users Group.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

IBM U2 SystemBuilder Extensible Architecture for UniData and Universe (SB/XA)
6.0.0 introduces an entirely new application architecture for SystemBuilder
applications. One of the features, provided by the changes in the architecture, is
the ability to modify the presentation of your U2 applications without modifying the
underlying business logic. In this article, learn how to present a traditional SystemBuilder menu as a Tree View menu.