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Source: Linux Today Suretec: "You need to obtain information regarding the current state of your slapd instance:"
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "ubuntu-system-panel is a simple launcher for the GNOME desktop, providing easy access to Places, Applications and common configuration items for your computer. This guide shows how to install and configure it on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "Linux has been doing pretty well in China, with recent year-on-year sales going through the roof. However, there can be no escaping the global economic crisis, not even for Chinese Linux."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "What is Ubuntu? --I can hear you all saying that it is a popular Linux distribution. What is the meaning of the word "Ubuntu"? --Some of you are probably Googling for it right now :-)"
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "One of the most fun ways to get your daily dose of Linux and other FOSS-related news is to listen to a podcast. Sometimes fueled by beer-drinking podcasters, the discussions are always entertaining and informative at the same time, that's why I make it a point to listen to an episode of my favorite podcasts each day."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "GNOME's Vala programming language lets you use the GLib2 object system at the heart of the GNOME desktop without having to do object-oriented programming in ANSI C. Unlike Mono or Java, a Vala program does not require any virtual machine or runtime libraries, so people who use your Vala objects don't even have to know they are not written in C."
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "Layoff notices were given at Yahoo today as the struggling Internet giant looks to control costs during a management transition and the downturn in the economy."
Source: Linux Today Netstat -vat: "The really interesting part is that Google admits that Hotmail does not yet properly recognize the Chrome browser so users need to trick Hotmail into thinking that Chrome is actually Apple Safari (which is supported by Hotmail)."
Source: Linux Today Intranet Journal: "Despite common misconceptions, there are more solid backup solutions for desktop Linux than most people might suspect. Best of all, many of them are completely free with the code being open source. Some of them however, are not.
In this piece, I will give you a break down of each of them. How they can work in your specific situation, where you will find the applications, and I'll provide the needed details so that you can better decide what option is best for you."
Source: Linux Today PDA Street: "Bloomberg.com reports that Sprint will be one of the first wireless providers to take advantage of the open Google Android platform and hopes to have a model available within a year. T-Mobile released the first Android-run smartphone, the G1, a couple of months ago."
Source: Linux Today Matthew Helmke(dot) Net: "I received the book this week. Not only is CUPS much more powerful and configurable than I previously knew, but the book’s author does a very good job of discussing the system and its options clearly."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Follow along in this "What's new in PHP V5.3" series of articles that covers the new and exciting features found in PHP V5.3, which will be released by the end of 2008. Part 1 looks at the changes made to the object-oriented programming and object handling in PHP V5.3. Here in Part 2, we look at closures and lambda functions. They are designed to make programming much easier by allowing you to easily define throwaway functions that can be used in many contexts."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "To see how well NVIDIA's VDPAU really is though, we have carried out some more thorough testing now and our hardware consists of a CPU we purchased for $20 USD and a NVIDIA GeForce graphics card that retails for just $30. Can this very low-end hardware manage to play high definition videos under Linux?"
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "OpenOffice Impress is an excellent slideshow application with a wealth of useful features, including animations. Experienced speakers know that animations are more often distracting than helpful, but one very useful animation is zooming in to enlarge small details."
Source: Linux Today EasyLinuxCDs: "The Free Ubuntu Training course includes over 150 pages of Ubuntu desktop training topics with screen shots and step-by-step Ubuntu help. Many issues Ubuntu Linux newbies experience are explained here including Ubuntu history, installation, users and groups, desktop effects, resolution, appearance, mouse and keyboard configuration, network configuration, synaptic, printers, command line, file system, NFS and Samba, system services and much more."
Source: Linux Today Free Software Foundation: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. The FSF's complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "So, which Web browser has the most software bugs: Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox? uTest, a fast-growing marketplace for software testing, uncovered some rather intriguing answers."
Source: Linux Today Rudd-O: "Hotlinkers suck your bandwidth dry, but referrals are valuable to you. Learn how to use Varnish to stop image hotlinkers while at the same time welcoming referred visitors and gaining a big performance edge."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to start a new random thread of posts dealing with common commands and how they work. The meat of today's post is near the end, as the explanation, when I get around to it, is fairly simple and easy to both convey and understand."
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "YouTube has a rather frivolous reputation, the sort of site you might visit to see a video of snowboarding hamsters or jetpacking gerbils. It wasn't until I started re-learning the guitar, learning to play the piano too and sight reading sheet music that I began to realize that YouTube was a great source of online tutorials."
Source: Linux Today MakeTechEasier: "Conky is a simple, lightweight system monitor application that can display information on your desktop and allows you to monitor several processes simultaneously. For those who like to keep a minimal desktop, but still want to have quick access to various information such as emails, weather, memory usage etc, then Conky is just the application for you."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "While you won't find any Firefox extensions designed specifically for mobile users, there are a few add-ons you might find particularly useful when you are on the move. Here are five of them."
Source: Linux Today Richard Dooling: "2. INSTALLATIONS AND USE. You may install, use, access, display and read ONE COPY OF THIS BOOK on a SINGLE PERSON, such as an adult, man, woman, teenager, or other human person. This book may NOT be read by more than one person."
Source: Linux Today Lifehacker: "Having said that, when we get to write about great Linux-based tweaks or downloads, we get pretty excited—and, apparently, so do our readers and visitors linked in from across the web. Today we're looking back at the Linux-related posts that got the most attention in 2008, so read on to see what you might have missed, and what the open-source crowd is down with."
Source: Linux Today Bryan's Blog: "To be honest though, the opinion that matters to me the most is my own opinion. Except for the occasional hardware compatibility issue, Linux is the operating system I have found to be the most dependable."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Is open source just source code? According to Black Duck: "Source code is actually only 15% of what is released by open source developers. There are four times as many binary files as source files in open source releases.""
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "IBM's Savio Rodrigues sees a lot of benefits from proprietary technology companies like Cisco "leeching" off open-source communities to boost profits and drive top-line revenue growth. I'm inclined to agree, at least with his assessment of IBM's involvement in open source."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "For this Howto I use Debian Lenny (still testing and not "stable" for the simple reason as - contrary to Debian Etch and/or Ubuntu 8.04/8.10 - the install routine does setup the initrd correctly so that you can set up encrypted swap and also an encrypted raid1 lvm during install). This Howto will be heavy on screen shots again - a lot of them are repetitive as I setup multiple partitions at once."
Source: Linux Today Polish Linux: "Vim is an advanced text editor, used by many free software fanatics. It is highly configurable, beside the default features it has a way to be enhanced using the built-in interpreter."
Source: Linux Today Hurray, Let the Rants Begin: "This is a big concern of mine, as I’ve worked on that code locally, and have definitely wanted to see some progress here for ages. Unfortunately, the upstream is more or less dead or limping due to conflicting time constraints on the lead developer, Christian Hammond."
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Jaspersoft has closed a new round of financing -- thanks to backers that now include Linux vendor Red Hat, InternetNews.com has learned."
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