| Linux Today News BOT ATTACKS LINUX AND MAC BUT CAN'T LOCK DOWN ITS BOOTY
"From the department of cosmic justice comes this gem, spotted by researchers from Symantec: a trojan that targets Windows, Mac, and Linux computers contains gaping security vulnerabilities that allow rival criminal gangs to commandeer the infected machines" CYBERCRIMINALS SHIFTING FOCUS TO NON-WINDOWS SYSTEMS
"In a major cybercrime turning point, scammers have begun shifting their focus away from Windows-based PCs to other operating systems and platforms, including smart phones, tablet computers, and mobile platforms in general, according to the Cisco 2010 Annual Security Report." USE THE LEVELS ADJUSTMENT TOOL IN DIGIKAM
"When it comes to tweaking photos, Levels is the most important weapon in digiKam?s arsenal. This tool lets you adjust brightness and contrast by specifying the location of complete black, complete white, and midtones" OPENERP MAKES OPEN SOURCE ERP SOFTWARE EASY TO USE
"OpenERP has released the latest version of its open source ERP software, and the company is also offering a SaaS version for $39 a month per user." UBUNTU 11.04 NATTY NARWHAL - FIRST IMPRESSIONS
"At the time of writing this article, Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed "Natty Narwhal" is still very much in its nascent stages of development. I really wanted to take it for a spin and write about my first hand impressions on latest build Ubuntu Natty." ADVENTURES IN COPYRIGHT
"A few events took place that affirmed for me that pushing forward with the agenda to rid our room of copyright violations and plagiarism is the right course of action." UNTANGLING CODE: MUCH CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ABOUT PROGRAMS WRITTEN BY VOLUNTEERS IS WRONG
"Yet sometimes the hype is justified, in particular in the case of open- source software, free programs developed by loosely knit groups of developers. Within just 15 years they have completely changed the landscape of the software industry, turning it from a mostly capitalist economy into a mixed one." 50 ANDROID APPS FOR YOUR LUNCH BREAK
"A fun android app can really come in handy. Let?s face it: when you're sitting behind a desk, sometimes the most productive thing you can do is take a break." INSTALLING A DEBIAN GNU/LINUX TEST SERVER WITH VIRTUALBOX
"There are a number of good reasons for installing a virtual machine on your computer ? as a way to run software that isn?t compatible with your primary operating system, as a sandbox for development, or as a place to test package installations, new distributions, or new server configurations. Setting one up with VirtualBox OSE is quite easy." SUPPORTING OOXML IN LIBREOFFICE
"An extensive and sometimes bitter debate on whether LibreOffice should write files in the OOXML format is a good example of differing views of how this project (and free software in general) should work." THE LAST 12 MONTHS IN UBUNTU (AND A BRIEF LOOK AHEAD)
"This has been an interesting year for Ubuntu with two on-schedule releases. Ubuntu community leader, Ubuntu Developer and general a good egg Dave Walker takes a look back at the last 12 months of Ubuntu" eBook: Managing the Evolving Data Center
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CISCO: JAVA ATTACKS ON THE RISE AS SPAM DECLINES
"For years, the scourge of the Internet has been ever increasing volumes of spam that clog inboxes around the world. According to a new report from Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), 2010 was the first year on record that spam volumes actually declined. " SCHMIDT OUT AS GOOGLE CEO, Q4 PROFIT SOARS
"Search giant Google reported a double-digit increase in fourth quarter revenues on Thursday, topping analysts' forecasts, but the company overshadowed its rosy financial performance with the announcement of a major shakeup in the ranks of its top executives" SCALE 9X KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED: JANE SILBER AND LEIGH HONEYWELL
"Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical, the corporate sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux Operating System, set to give one of the two keynotes at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 9x) in Los Angeles, CA from February 25-27, 2011" EXPECT SCRIPT TUTORIAL: EXPRESSIONS, IF CONDITIONS, FOR LOOP, AND WHILE LOOP EXAMPLES
"Expect scripting language is easy to learn. It expects specific string, and sends (or responds) strings accordingly. If you are new to expect, read our 6 expect script examples (including hello world example) to get a jump start." WEEKLY TEN: ARDUSPIDER ROBOT, ANDROID'S HONEYCOMB INSIDE, PLAYSTATION 3 JAILBREAK
"The PlayStation 3 is a compromised system. Its master key is all over the Internet, custom firmware allowing third-party software to run on the hardware is a click away, and Sony is furiously trying to stop this information from spreading." GOODBYE OPENSUSE 11.1
"Announced by the openSUSE developers a little over two years ago, the openSUSE 11.1 operating system has reached end of life (EOL) on January 13th, 2011." ANDROID VIRTUALIZATION: IT'S TIME
"With device update lag seemingly becoming an epidemic on the Android platform, there?s only one answer to nip this problem in the bud once and for all: Virtualization." SPLIT AND MERGE PDF FILES WITH PDF-SHUFFLER [LINUX]
"If you have two or more Words documents, you can easily open them in any Office suite and cut/paste the content to split or merge them. What about PDF files?" ADD TRANSITIONS WITH OPENSHOT VIDEO EDITOR
"In my last article I introduced you to the open source OpenShot Video Editor (see my article ?Create videos with OpenShot video editor.?). In that article I alluded to OpenShot?s ability to add transitions to your video" ANSI SQL CAN COMBINE ADVANTAGES AND PRINCIPLES OF RELATIONAL AND HIERARCHICAL DATA PROCESSING
"Michael M. David describes how relational and hierarchical data processing can be seamlessly combined in a way that supports and preserves both hierarchical and relational processing advantages while avoiding their disadvantages." OSI AND FSF IN UNPRECEDENTED COLLABORATION TO PROTECT SOFTWARE FREEDOM
"Faced with a potentially large threat to free/libre and open source software from patent consortium CPTN, the two organisations have collaborated publicly for the first time." ENTERPRISEDB RELEASES NEW POSTGRES PLUS SECURITY TOOLS
"EnterpriseDB is out this week with Postgres Plus Standard Server version 9, updating their commercially supported version of the open source PostgeSQL database. The open source community version of PostgreSQL 9 debuted in September 2010, adding new database replication and scalability features." PCAL ? CREATE A CALENDAR FROM THE COMMAND LINE
"Thanks to a message on identi.ca I ve saw this program usable from the command line that allows you to easily create custom desk calendars, marked with the dates that interest you and with the ability to add pictures to one (or more) special days." GOOGLE EARTH ON UBUNTU 10.10
"Have you ever wanted to install the latest greatest Google Earth on Ubuntu, only to find that the repository contains an old version. Here is the solution laid out in simple to follow terminal commands." SAMSUNG, T-MOBILE ROLL OUT GALAXY S 4G
"Samsung today gave speed-obsessed smartphone consumers something new to ponder, announcing that its Galaxy S 4G smartphone -- which it claims will be the fastest smartphone running on T-Mobile's 4G network -- will be available sometime in the next few weeks." MAIN DEVELOPMENT PHASE OF LINUX KERNEL 2.6.38 COMPLETED
"Exactly 14 days after Linux version 2.6.37 was released, Linus Torvalds has published the first beta version of kernel 2.6.38, which is expected to be completed at the end of March or beginning of April." SONY V. HOTZ: SONY SENDS A DANGEROUS MESSAGE TO RESEARCHERS -- AND ITS CUSTOMERS
"For years, EFF has been warning that the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can be used to chill speech, particularly security research, because legitimate researchers will be afraid to publish their results lest they be accused of circumventing a technological protection measure...We've never been sorrier to be right." INCLUSION OF QT IN UBUNTU 11.10 IS A WIN FOR DEVELOPERS
"In an announcement published today on his personal blog, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed that Nokia's Qt toolkit will be included as a standard component in future versions of Ubuntu. The move will pave the way for applications built with Qt to become a part of the popular Linux distribution." WEB DEVELOPER BASICS: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HTML4 AND HTML5
"Now that we've seen how to use some of the newer whiz-bang features of the draft HTML5 standard, it's time to take a few steps back and take a look at some of the other differences between HTML4 and HTML5." WITH PAGE AS CEO, OPEN SOURCE IS STRONGER THAN EVER AT GOOGLE
"When Google announced that Eric Schmidt was stepping down as CEO and Google co-founder Larry Page was moving up to the CEO chair, you could have knocked Wall St. analysts over with a feather." OPENSTREETMAP'S POINT OF NO RETURN
"Back in 2008, LWN reported on the OpenStreetMap project and its plan to change the licensing of its map database. This change was controversial, to say the least, but the project as a whole appeared to be determined to press forward with it" GLOBAL DIGITAL MUSIC SALES SLOWING DESPITE PIRACY CRACKDOWN
"Industry looks to subscription services such as Spotify to help reverse drop in total worldwide music sales of up to 9% in 2010" REPORTS FROM THE COURTROOM: ORAL ARGUMENT AT 10TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS - SCO V. NOVELL
"Our reporter at the oral argument in SCO's appeal of its loss to Novell before the jury and before the judge in Utah District Court today has now filed his reports. It sounds from the reports like it went quite well for Novell, although we can't be sure until the order issues, which could be months." CRITICS' CHOICE: SMARTPHONE REVIEW OF MOTOROLA ATRIX 4G
"Raise your hand if you saw this one coming: A phone maker that had lost its considerable cachet in recent years scored one of the recent Consumer Electronics Show's biggest hits." THE PERFECT PC
"A couple of weeks ago I rebuilt my writing PC using Debian Squeeze and lxde. I wrote about it here and mentioned that I was so impressed with the performance that I was thinking about rebuilding my current main PC in the same way." TECH COMICS: "GEEK MARRIAGE PROPOSALS"
"A geek relies on strict logic when coding the all-important marriage proposal." ASK THE EXPERTS: HOW TO GET PAID TO WORK ON LINUX
"Looking for a job? If so, you're certainly not alone. Millions of people continue to be on the hunt." MAKING MUSIC IN LINUX AND BEYOND
"You can do a lot with free open-source software, also known as FOSS. Musicians with a yen for Linux are in luck; the array of choices for creating, editing, producing, and publishing music using nothing but FOSS software is staggering." RESEARCH SEEMS TO POINT TO GOOGLE INFRINGEMENT OF JAVA CODE
"Fans of Google who were rooting for the company in the Oracle v. Google copyright infringement case over Java may be a bit dismayed after reading the claims by one free software advocate made this morning. According to Florian Mueller, there is mounting evidence in the original source files from Oracle's Java and Google's Android that code was indeed infringed." | 
