| Linux Today News CISCO LINKSYS ROUTERS STILL DON'T SUPPORT IPV6
"It's hard to fathom why Cisco hasn't added IPv6 to its Linksys consumer routers yet, but the company has promised support will come this spring." JUDGE DENIES SONY'S (SCEA) MOTION TO SHORTEN TIME - UPDATE: SONY GOOFS BIGTIME
"Sony Computer Entertainment America's motion [PDF] asking the judge in the SCEA v. Hotz case to set an earlier date to hear oral argument on its motion to do expedited discovery has been denied." UN-BRICKING LINUX PLUG COMPUTERS
"Little Linux wall wart computers have a thousand and one uses. But what if you accidentally brick your little plug server? No worries, for Akkana Peck shows us how to un-brick them." HELP GIRLS DISCOVER HOW COOL A CAREER IN TECHNOLOGY COULD BE!
"If you have some time this Saturday, take half an hour or so to help show girls how cool a career in technology can be. Dare 2B Digital is a conference for girls to learn more about careers involving computers." WHEN IT WORKS, INTEL CORE I5 2500K GRAPHICS ON LINUX ARE FAST!
"After a month of headaches for Intel and myself, there are now Sandy Bridge graphics benchmark results from the Intel Core i5 2500K under Linux to finally publish." MPAA THREATENS TO DISCONNECT GOOGLE FROM THE INTERNET
"Over the last few months, Google has received more than 100 copyright infringement warnings from MPAA-affiliated movies studios: most are directed at users of Google's public Wi-Fi service but others are meant for Google employees. The MPAA is thus warning the search giant that it might get disconnected from the Internet." CANONICAL RELEASES COMPONENT CATALOG FOR UBUNTU & LINUX
"?But will it work with Linux?? That?s a question that many end-users has asked over the years about PC components and peripherals." KNOW THY MACHINE
"Giving someone a computer is one thing....sure you've given someone a tool to participate in current technology... But making sure they know how to use that tool is just as important." SEARCHING FILESYTEM FROM COMMAND LINE
"There are several commands available on the command line to locate files and folders on the file system. This article reviews three of them, viz whereis ,locate. find." LIVE BLOG: RUNNING PC PRO ON UBUNTU
"To mark the Complete Guide to Ubuntu feature in the new issue of PC Pro ? on sale today ? we?re attempting to run our magazine and website on Ubuntu 10.10 for one day only." DNS: WILL WORLD GOVERNMENTS BE ABLE TO VETO YOUR DOMAIN NAME?
"ICANN's recent initiative to expand the pool of top-level domain names has sparked speculation about how much veto power the U.S. and other governments will have over proposed TLDs as well as all Internet addresses in general." COLLABORATE USING LIBREOFFICE WRITER CHANGES AND COMMENTS
"Being a writer, I often have to collaborate with other writers or editors on an assignment or book. Because of this, there is a need for collaboration tools within my word processor." LCA: LESSONS FROM 30 YEARS OF SENDMAIL
"The Sendmail mail transfer agent tends to be one of those programs that one either loves or hates. Both its supporters and its detractors will agree, though, that Sendmail played a crucial role in the development of electronic mail" Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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WINESKIN 2.0 RELEASED
"Wineskin 2.0 has been released! Wineskin 2.0 wrappers are made from Wineskin Winery, which is also being released in a 1.0 form today!" OPEN SOURCE AS AN ALTERNATIVE ?STUDY ABROAD? EXPERIENCE?
"I?m going to spoil the surprise from the outset: the text below is taken from a random search result for ?why study abroad,? with appropriate nouns for FOSS work substituted. I was surprised at how few sentences I had to patch up to make the whole thing make sense." NEW OPENOFFICE.ORG SUITE: ADEQUATE, BUT UNINSPIRING
"The open-source office-productivity suite appears doomed for mediocrity." OPEN XANGE 2011 - FINAL RELEASE LAUNCH!
"the Xange team are proud to anounce the release of Open Xange 2011 - Final Release launch!" OPENFILER 2.3 ACTIVE/PASSIVE CLUSTER (HEARTBEAT, DRBD) WITH OFFSITE REPLICATION
"Openfiler is a Linux based NAS/SAN application which can deliver storage over nfs/smb/iscsi and ftp. It has a web interface over that you can control these services." GETTING STARTED WITH MEEGO
"The MeeGo project is about to celebrate its first birthday, but there may still be Linux and open source developers who aren't quite sure how it relates to other Linux-based distributions for tablets, netbooks, or phones" THE PROC CONNECTOR AND SOCKET FILTERS
"The proc connector is one of those interesting kernel features that most people rarely come across, and even more rarely find documentation on. Likewise the socket filter. This is a shame, because they?re both really quite useful interfaces that might serve a variety of purposes if they were better documented." GC LINGUA FRANCA
"Open Letter to the LKML; If we were already talking to our computers, etc. as we should be, I wouldn?t feel a need to write this to you." THE TYEE: REGULATORS OF OUR DIGITAL FUTURE HAVE LOST PUBLIC'S TRUST
"Oligopoly friendly policies have taken Canada to the bad place we're at now." LIES, DAMNED LIES AND SEARCH ENGINES
"Google has caught Microsoft with its hand in its search-engine cookie jar. That's bad, but it also leads me to the question, How much can you trust any search engine?" LINUX FOR MOBILE USERS
"Linux is an ideal solution for notebook users. We help you choose the best mobile distro" HOW NOT TO PISS OFF A KERNEL SUBSYSTEM MAINTAINER - PART 5
"Heck, It's not like I haven't said all of this before, but it sure seems like no one learns from the past, or reads the documentation that we write for how to actually submit a patch for the kernel." SCALE BLOG: THE DIRT ON IPV6 AT SCALE
"SCALE will be delivering both IPv4 and IPv6 network address space to all vendors, orgs, and attendees. This will be the second year that both ACT USA and Digilink Network Services have provided IPv6 to the show." THE VERSIONS OF ODF
"However, as the ODF 1.2 specification goes through remainder of its review/approval process in OASIS, we�??ve increasingly turned our attention to ODF-Next." WHY BROWSER 'DO NOT TRACK' FEATURES WON'T WORK
"Mozilla, Microsoft, and Google have each developed some sort of "do not track" feature for their respective Web browsers. The intent is good, but each solution is fundamentally flawed and is unlikely to work very well in the real world." GTK 3.0 TAKES ON QT WITH NEW RELEASE
"GTK 3.0 is now available, and it promises some nice advances over GTK 2.x which is the UI framework behind GNOME (and tonnes of other cross-platform open source apps the rely on it)" TOP 5 LINUX DVD RIP SOFTWARE
"A DVD ripper software allows you to copying the content of a DVD to a hard disk drive. You transfer video on DVDs to different formats, or make a backup of DVD content, and to convert DVD video for playback on media players, streaming, and mobile phone" WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN APPSTREAM, THE "LINUX APP STORE"
"Add a donation option tab. This tab could be turned off in preferences, and should be unobtrusive, no asking or reminders to donate. Different options to donate: such as a general donation and specific donation." SYSRQ IN LINUX AND UBUNTU
"Sometimes happen that your desktop freeze and you cannot do anything, so the only choice is to unplug the power cord ? No, Linux has the magic SysRq key that can sync your disk and issue a reboot of your system" DESKTOP LINUX'S KILLER FEATURE: FLEXIBILITY
"Debian has a reputation in the world of Linux distributions as, well, "stodgy". Debian Stable is pointed to as being out of date, stale, boring. Nothing could be further from the truth." ROBBIE WILLIAMSON TO HOST THE UBUNTU WEEKLY Q&A SESSION TODAY
"Announced last week, the Ubuntu Managers at Canonical are giving weekly Q & A sessions to the community. Originally to be held in the ubuntu-meeting channel, these sessions have been moved to the moderated #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat IRC channels on irc.freenode.net." UBUNTU 11.04 DROPS RELEASE CANDIDATE
"Kate Stewart, Ubuntu Release Manager at Canonical, announced on the ubuntu-devel announce mailing list there will be no release candidate for the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwal release." OPEN SOURCE LICENCE COMPLIANCE MADE EASY
"A company that creates software to check for open source licence compliance claims that version 4 of its product is set to give it a competitive edge in the market." LINUX SUPERCOMPUTER IS A CONTESTANT ON JEOPARDY
"Who is smarter, Linux or people? IBM's SUSE Linux powered supercomputer Watson faces off against human contestants on the TV game show "Jeopardy"." TECH COMICS: "A GEEK CHEATS?"
"Geeks may define cheating differently than non-geeks." | 
