| Linux Today News INSTALLATION OF OGRE 3D
"Ogre 3D is one of the biggest open source 3D render engines and enables its users to create and interact freely with their scenes." HOW TO CRASH THE INTERNET
"In a report from New Scientist, Max Schuchard a computer science graduate student and his buddies claim they?ve found a way to launch DDoS attacks on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network routers that could crash the Internet." THE JOY OF REMASTERING YOUR OWN LINUX DISTRO
"Like most of you, I'm tired of hearing about the latest Ubuntu Linux distribution spin-off. Doesn't it feel like everybody has released their very own variant of Ubuntu?" TROUBLESHOOTING LINUX SERVERS WITH TELNET
"The venerable telnet is still a useful tool in the server administrator's toolkit. Juliet Kemp shows how to test basic SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, and IRC server functions with telnet" UBUNTU GNOME WATCHING DIGITAL TELEVISION (DVB) WITH ME-TV
"Me TV is a GTK desktop application for watching digital television services that use the DVB standard. Me TV was developed for the modern digital lounge room with a PC for a media centre that is capable of normal PC tasks" CREATE A MULTI-BOOT USB STICK WITH MULTISYSTEM
"Enter MultiSystem, a nifty tool that can squeeze several distros on to a single USB stick. Not only that, MultiSystem lets you add a persistent storage for each distro, and the tool automatically generates a boot menu with a few handy options." MAC OS X INTEL GRAPHICS STILL OUTPERFORM LINUX
"In recent weeks we have been talking about Intel's Linux advancements as it concerns their latest "Sandy Bridge" generation of processors with integrated graphics (and there are a few more articles on the way), but how is their latest open-source driver stack performing on the older generations of Intel integrated graphics?" I HAVE SOME NEWS: I'VE LEFT ORACLE.
"I have some news: I've left Oracle. But I have not left OpenOffice.org and so remain deeply involved in the project and in the promotion of the OpenDocument Format, or ODF" KERNEL DEV SETS OUT ON AN UNCHARTED PATH
"Valerie Aurora has many achievements to her name. In a world where FOSS developers are overwhelmingly men, she has been a Linux kernel developer for the last 10 years. She's been a consultant, speaker, writer, founder of companies and advocated for women in open source." A LOOK AT SABAYON LINUX 5.5
"Sabayon Linux is a distribution based on the popular source-based Gentoo project. Sabayon takes source packages from Gentoo's repositories, builds them into binary packages and puts them together in various editions, such as KDE, GNOME & Gaming." GNOME 3 USER DAY KICKS OFF TOMORROW
"GNOME 3 User Days are a great opportunity for users to find out about GNOME 3 and to talk to members of the GNOME project about the new release. Everyone is welcome to get involved and ask questions about GNOME 3." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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MPEG-LA TARGETS GOOGLE?S VP8 VIDEO CODEC
"First, Google opened up its VP8 video codec. Then, Google removed built-in support for the MPEG-LA patent encumbered H.264 video codec from its Chrome Web-browser in favor of VP8. After that it was only a matter of time before the MPEG-LA patent consortium came gunning for Google VP8." ELOP IS AFTER ME
"So I was not happy to see Elop (after graduating from Adobe and Microsoft, which surely increased his business ?skills?) took over the role of Nokia CEO. Oh, oh? spider sense ticked off." WHAT MAKES A SMART DEVELOPER? (IS IT GOOGLE?)
"This young gun obviously didn?t know the answer to my question. Yet from his perspective there was a feeling of ?who cares?? because the answer could always be Googled." BOOST YOUR PIANO PLAYING SKILLS
"PianoBooster is a fun way of playing along with a musical accompaniment and at the same time learning the basics of reading musical notation. The difference between playing along to a CD or a standard midi file is that PianoBooster listens and follows what you are playing on a midi piano keyboard. " DEBIAN 6 SQUEEZE REVIEW
"It wasn?t too long ago that I did a very late review of Debian 5. I?m happy to say that it didn?t take me nearly as long to get around to the latest release, Debian 6 Squeeze" EXERCISE #2: LEARNING AWK WITH OPERATORS
=? is used to find that information." OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN EDUCATION
"The 4th Annual Open Source Software in Education conference will be held on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton. By popular demand this year's OSSIE conference has been moved to a weekend so educators may attend without missing classes." UBUNTU 11.04 NATTY NARWHAL AND THE UNITY DESKTOP
"Since 1995, with my first install of Debian from 14 (or 16, can't remember) 1.4MB floppy disks, I have used many different Linux distributions." WELL THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG-- MSQT
"MSQt? is an application and UI framework. Using MSQt?, you can write web-enabled applications once and deploy them across MS? Windows®, MS? Mobile® and MS? Tablet® operating systems without rewriting the source code." IS KWIN ROCKET SCIENCE?
"This weekend I played around with adding a slight animation to the BoxSwitch effect when the selection changes and when new windows are opened or existing closed. Here?s the video:" UBUNTU 11.04 NATTY ALPHA 2 LIVE CD -- VIDEO WORKS, IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM THERE
"Readers of this blog are no doubt very familiar with my video drama/issues over the ATI Mobility Radeon 4200 HD chip in my Lenovo G555 laptop" LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE SUSE LINUX CHOICE BASED ON HFT CAPACITY
"The London Stock Exchange?s new matching engine, which went live at 8am today, has been based on Novell SUSE Linux in order to satisfy vast messaging capacity requirements, according to the supplier." THE MODIFIED PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ORDER IN SCEA V. HOTZ
"We have the details of the modifications that the judge in SCEA v. Hotz ordered [PDF] to her original preliminary injunction order. Here's how it will work:" CALL IT "3G" OR "4G," AMERICA'S WIRELESS NETWORKS ARE STILL SLOW
"If you watch TV, you might think this is a good thing. The whole country is moving to 4G?next generation wireless?and according to some carriers, this is our chance to beat the world in broadband. For Obama, it's a chance to Win the Future. " QT'S FUTURE: BIGGER THAN NOKIA
"Friday's odd slow-motion train wreck of an announcement from Nokia that they would be entering a strategic partnership with Microsoft to ship Windows Mobile 7 devices prompted a lot of initial dismay from Android fans, who questioned the sanity of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and his executive team." TEMPLE OF TANGRAM PUZZLE GAME NOW HAS A LINUX VERSION!
"Almost a day ago, developer Jochen Heizmann from Intermediaware informed us about the Linux port of his popular puzzle game Temple Of Tangram. I had never heard of it before(I am not an avid gamer of sorts) and so I decided to give it a first hand try. And I got to tell you, I was impressed." SAMSUNG LAPTOPS AND LINUX
"Finally, after many years of people asking for this, Linux can now properly support all known Samsung laptop devices." OPENSHOT 1.3.0 RELEASED - GETS BUCKETLOADS OF NEW FEATURES
"A new version for OpenShot, one of the most popular video editors for Linux has been released. The new version brings plenty of new features, better integration with Gnome, new themes, Youtube upload feature and many many more updates." THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE MOVES TO NOVELL LINUX
"September 8th 2008 was one of the worst days ever for the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and high-end Windows server-based applications. That was the day that the LSE came to a crashing stop." USE LOGGER TO WRITE MESSAGES TO LOG FILES
"Want a quick and easy way to write to system logs? Check out logger, a shell utility that works with syslog." SAVE YOUR PC: BOOTABLE LINUX RESCUE TOOLS
"Linux is now a respected, mature operating system that's free and open source, so it shouldn't be surprising that it has a generic role as a platform for tools for the repair and rescue of both Linux and Windows operating systems" 53 OPEN SOURCE REPLACEMENTS TO SPICE UP YOUR DESKTOP
"We've collected 53 different open source projects that can make your desktop environment faster, prettier, easier to use or just a little different. They run the gamut from small utilities that do just one thing to open source operating systems that can replace Windows." TINY CORE LINUX 3.5 RELEASED
"Version 3.5 of Tiny Core Linux has been announced on behalf of "Team Tiny Core", by lead developer Robert Shingledecker." JOOMLA VS. DRUPAL: AN OPEN SOURCE CMS SHOOTOUT
"For many organizations (or individuals) with content to post and manage, blog tools like the highly popular WordPress may be more than adequate. But for companies with greater amounts of content, users, or complexity, including integration with ecommerce and also with other internal and external applications, a more comprehensive content management systems (CMS) is needed." IRONBEE OPEN SOURCE WAF PROJECT LAUNCHES
"In the open source world, the ModSecurity project has helped to lead the charge for WAFs, but there is now a group that is aiming to build a new open source WAF called IronBee." ADVANCED IP SUBNET CALCULATOR SIPCALC
"Sipcalc is an advanced console-based IP subnet calculator. It can take multiple forms of input (IPv4/IPv6/interface/hostname) and output a multitude of information about a given subnet." | 
