| Linux Today News ON-THE-FLY DATA COMPRESSION FOR SSDS
"The key to good SSD performance is the controller. One SSD controller that has received good reviews is the SandForce SF-1200. However, a recent test of a SF-1200 SSD reveals some interesting things about what this controller does and just how it does it" SCALE 9X BLOG: WHATS NEW IN SUDO 1.8
"The "killer feature" in sudo 1.8 is dynamically loaded modules. This makes it possible for third parties to write sudo plugins that implement custom security policies and logging of command input and output." BUILDING THE TECHNOLOGY STACK FOR INTERNET FREEDOM
"Hillary Clinton called for the U.S. to promote Internet freedoms earlier this week and introduced a $25 million fund for technology companies that might help with the task." CAN YOU RUN YOUR OWN SOHO E-MAIL SERVER?
"As a recent Slashdot reader found out, many ISPs won?t let you run your own mail server. Specifically they block port 25, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) port, which is used for sending mail." MOTOROLA XOOM ANDROID 3.0 TABLET COMPUTER: THE IPAD 2 KILLER?
"After the slick Motorola Xoom tablet computer has been considered as the best device at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, it seems like the hype has never ceased." WINE 1.3.14 RELEASED
"The Wine development release 1.3.14 is now available. What's new in this release: * Many cleanups to address Valgrind and Clang warnings." HOW TO ROOT A NOOK COLOR TO TRANSFORM IT INTO AN ANDROID TABLET
"Barnes and Noble launched the Nook Color last year with the aim of enabling a more interactive user experience and tighter Web integration than conventional e-book readers. The device's color touchscreen and assortment of Internet-enabled applications help differentiate it from Amazon's increasingly ubiquitous Kindle" UPSTREAMS, DOWNSTREAMS, AND REVENUE STREAMS IN UBUNTU
"Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Case in point: Vendors can take a hefty cut of the profits from applications sold through their app stores or shipped by default. But should they?" AMAZON.COM INCLUDES LINUX USERS IN NEW MOVIE STREAMING SERVICE
"Linux users have long searched for a way to legally watch premium movies on their computers with little luck. Netflix, Cinemanow, (and the now bankrupt Blockbuster) strictly forbid anything other than Windows or Mac systems" THE OPENPC PROJECT: READY-MADE GNU/LINUX MACHINES
"The Open Desktop communities Open-PC project is now offering three different models of open computers with turn-key GNU/Linux and KDE installations based on OpenSUSE (or Ubuntu). These systems could provide real competition with pre-installed Windows or Mac computers" LIBREOFFICE IS NOW INTEGRATED IN UNITY FOR UBUNTU 11.04
"Bjoern Michaelsen from the Canonical's development team managed to integrate Ubuntu's 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) default office suite, LibreOffice 3.3, with Unity's global menubar." 3TB DRIVES ARE HERE
"In real estate it's about location. In storage it's about capacity. The next crop of high density drives are available but there are some gotchas related to some 3TB drives that you need to know before making a land grab." GOODBYE MS EXCHANGE: GOOD LINUX EMAIL SERVERS
"Don't pay top dollar for Microsoft lard when you can get the best mail servers for free. The Linux world is full of great servers, both free and with commercial support options." OPEN SOURCE, A HEALTHY CHOICE
"Through open source, I rekindled an old flame, so to speak; I taught myself the very skills I use to support my family and I get to give something of value to others for free." SONY'S NEW IMPROVED SUPER ANTI-PIRACY PLAN!!!
"See here and here. Basically the plan is to hire more two more lawyers...which is like hiring more rappers to get your yacht built faster." USING THE FACTORY PATTERN IN PHP APPLICATIONS
"In this article you will learn how to use the factory pattern design in your PHP application to construct different objects for interrogating a database (books) and displaying the records from a table (bookstore). You'll also learn how to display a randomized array of strings and colors, and how to display a randomized array of strings and some associated pictures into an HTML table." INSTALLING AND USING OPENVZ ON DEBIAN SQUEEZE (AMD64)
"In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Squeeze server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project." SONY V. HOTZ: THE PARTIES AGREE AND DISAGREE ON JURISDICTIONAL DISCOVERY ISSUES
"The parties in SCEA v. Hotz have conferred and now have sent a 17-page joint letter to the Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero, informing him that certain disputes about jurisdictional discovery have been resolved but others need his intervention." MOVING TO PYTHON 3
"Python 3.0 was released at the end of 2008, but so far only a relatively small number of packages have been updated to support the latest release; the majority of Python software still only supports Python 2" A RESPONSE TO DISTROWATCH "INTRODUCING DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 6.0"
"The 8th DistroWatch Weekly of 2011 feature article, "Introducing Debian GNU/Linux 6.0", comes in as a qualified success for Debian." LOVING UBUNTU LINUX
"Although Ubuntu remains the dominant distro, criticisms of its relationship with the rest of FOSS seem to be coming every other month.? To which, I can only reply, ?So what else is new??" OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: TOP 59 SITES
"Frequently, Datamation puts together lists of top open source software. This time we've done something a little different and made a list of top open source Web sites." DNA STRUCTURE ANIMATION IN HTML5
"Here is another nice and interesting HTML5 experiment that generates a DNA structure on the fly." JUDGE GUTS SUIT AGAINST SONY FOR KILLING LINUX IN PS3
"A federal judge has dismissed all but one of the claims leveled against Sony for dropping Linux support from its PlayStation 3 game console, but gave the plaintiffs permission to refile an amended complaint that fixes the deficiencies." CUSSING IN COMMITS: WHICH PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE INSPIRES THE MOST SWEARING?
"As any programmer can tell you, programming will make you swear. But did you know that writing C++ will make you swear considerably more than PHP or Python?" STILL THINK LINUX IS JUST FOR START-UPS?
"That's the question the Financial Times was asking last week, and it's a rather strange question, when you think about it. It really begs another question: Was there ever, let alone still, anyone who thought Linux was "just for start-ups." Who would these people be?" CISCO KILLS LINUX POWERED HOSTED EMAIL SERVICE
"Email is a tough business. Just ask networking giant Cisco. After just over a year of trying to make a market for its own Linux-powered hosted email service, Cisco is calling it quits." UBUNTU: THERE WAS NEVER ANY LOVE TO START WITH
"Was the Ubuntu GNU/Linux project set up because the founder had some kind of deep love for the FOSS community and wanted to become a folk hero of sorts?" FIRST SETUP AND CONFIGURATION MYSQL SERVER ON SLACKWARE
"This is really a very small how-to, actually more than a how-to is a self note, so I can remember how to setup mysql on a recently installed Slackware server." WEBOS ITERNALS AT SCALE 9X
"Wow, what a big week for WebOS Internals! We can hardly take our eyes away from Twitter for fear that we will miss the next bit of news from Rod Whitby. So, let us try to break this whole thing down for you so you know what the guys at WebOS Internals have had their hands on this week" A MINIATURE LINUX OFFICE SOLUTION (MINI ITX)
"Back in January of this year (2011) I was on-site at one of our local client offices setting up yet another Microsoft Windows XP system for a dedicated use. That PC is there just for running the United Parcel Service (UPS) WorldShip? software" GNOME 3 ALMOST READY, OR IS IT
"GNOME 3 Shell is nearing its projected released date and development snapshots have been coming from openSUSE and Fedora. GNOME Shell 2.91.6 was released today with lots of listed improvements. But not everyone is thrilled." ANGELA BYRON ON DRUPAL 7
"I was both intrigued and excited by the profound humanitarian implications of the free software movement. Better-than-commercial-quality software, available to be tinkered with and expanded upon by anyone with an interest and drive to learn, given away at no cost to everyone, including non-profits and educational institutions." DUAL-BOOTING LINUX MINT 10 KDE AND WINDOWS 7
"Linux MintThis is the latest article in the series on dual-booting Windows 7 and Linux distributions. It is intended for those new to Linux, and who might need some assistance installing Linux Mint 10 KDE side by side with Windows 7 on a computer with a single hard disk" BUILDING CUSTOM KERNELS FOR LINUX PLUG COMPUTERS
"Little Linux plug computers come ready-to-use. But they're still Linux, which means hackable. Today we learn how to build a custom kernel for a plug computer." VIDEO DRIVES THE COMPUTING EXPERIENCE...
""Video drives the computing Experience..." That seems to be a statement made by Captain Obvious..." THE 6 BIGGEST MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT IPV6
"For 15 years, Internet engineers and policymakers have been publicizing the need to upgrade the 'Net's current addressing scheme -- known as IPv4 -- to handle the network-of-network's explosive growth." PAYPAL CUTS SERVICE TO COURAGE TO RESIST, BRADLEY MANNING SUPPORT
"They said they would not unrestrict our account unless we authorized PayPal to withdraw funds from our organization?s checking account by default." LEAVING FLICKR BEHIND: WHY YOU SHOULD HOST YOUR OWN PHOTOS AND WHY LINUX MAKES IT SO DAMN EASY
"I?ve left Flickr. After many years as a loyal Flickr user, I decided not to extend my pro account and leave the popular photo sharing service altogether. Why?" | 
