| Linux Today News 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?" AN OVERVIEW OF THE TCL SHELL
"Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a scripting language originally designed for embedded system platforms. Since its creation, Tcl has grown far beyond its original design with numerous expansions and additions" WHY TRAINING REALLY IS A BARRIER TO LINUX
"That's a change from my younger days, when I would see such reverse migrations as carefully staged Microsoft PR events designed purposely to embarrass Linux on the desktop." BUFFERBLOAT: SACRIFICING LATENCY FOR THROUGHPUT
"because we have thrown so much technology at improving throughput and bandwidth for the sake of an exploding rate of growth of consumer Internet traffic, we have overridden the basic congestion avoidance protocols that could reduce latency and prevent Internet traffic jams in the first place." DROID AND MY TRACKS HELP WIN SPEEDING TICKET COURT CASE
"On his dashboard sat a Motorola Droid smartphone, and running on the device was My Tracks. For those that don't know, My Tracks allows a GPS enabled phone to record detailed statistics about time, speed, distance, and elevation travelled." MANAGING MULTIPLE LINUX SERVERS WITH CLUSTERSSH
"If you're a Linux system administrator, chances are you've got more than one machine that you're responsible for on a daily basis. You may even have a bank of machines that you maintain that are similar ? a farm of Web servers, for example." DOES COMMITTING CODE TO AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT MEAN COMMITTING CAREER SUICIDE?
"Plenty of developers work on open source projects on their own time or even with their employer?s blessing. But before you become a committer, you should be aware of these legal concerns." THE SECURITY MIRAGE OF THE BROWSER PADLOCK
"After Your Secure SSL Session Ends, Merchants can Theoretically Keep your Entire Customer Profile in Clear Text. Attackers love to Exploit Vulnerabilities in Online Stores to Steal that Data." MY FAVORITE LINUX DESKTOP: MINT 10
"Over the years, I?ve seen more Linux distributions than anyone this side of the Distrowatch editors. " IT'S TIME TO RETHINK CHINESE TECH MANUFACTURING
"But after reading a recent report by Apple, I started thinking about the workers who make the gadgets and computers in our lives. Were they children coerced into lying about their age by their own schools? Were the workers poisoned with illegal industrial chemicals?" AN INTERVIEW WITH JANE SILBER
"I?m Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical. I live in London and hold dual American/British citizenship. I spell like a Brit, speak like an American, and wave my hands about like an Italian." REALTIME COLLABORATION WITH GOBBY AND KOBBY ON LINUX
"Gobby and Kobby are both outstanding real-time collaborative text editors for the GNOME and KDE desktops (respectively). Both are easy to install, easy to use, and are two of the most efficient means of collaboration you will find" THE ADA INITIATIVE ANNOUNCES ADVISORY BOARD
The Ada Initiative, a non-profit promoting women in open technology and culture, announced the members of its advisory board today. DISNEY, VIACOM LOSE BID TO HOLD INTERNET PROVIDER LIABLE FOR USERS' PIRACY
"Walt Disney Co. and Viacom Inc.?s Paramount Pictures are among Hollywood?s biggest movie studios that lost a piracy lawsuit in Australia as an appeals court upheld a ruling that a local internet provider wasn?t responsible for customers illegally downloading films." QUICK LOOK AT EXAILE & INSTALLATION IN UBUNTU AND DEBIAN
"Exaile is a pretty decent music player for GNOME written in PyGTK which comes with features like tabbed playlists, lyrics fetching, radio support, file browser, support for dynamic and smart playlists, cover support, 10-band equalizer and more. The latest version was released a few days ago and comes with several bug fixes and minor issue fixes." UBUNTU IS THE 4TH MOST POPULAR LINUX DISTRIBUTION ON WEB SERVERS
"Ubuntu has been the most popular Linux distribution on desktop systems for sometime now and according to Google Trends data, Ubuntu probably is the first ever Linux distro to overshoot popularity of Linux itself." OPENSTREETMAP: OPEN DATA THAT CREATE SERVICES AND JOBS FOR EVERYBODY
"OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the Wikipedia applied to mapping: a digital map of the whole world that everybody can contribute to draw. The results is maps that you can print, use with several GPS navigation systems or customize at will." NOKIA AND OPEN SOURCE - A TRIAL BY FIRE
"Richard Hillesley has a look at Nokia's curious relationship with open source, finds out where it all went wrong and has a conversation with a survivor of its effects." OPENSIM USED IN PROJECT TO HELP ASPERGER'S KIDS
"Researchers from Victoria University plan to aid kids with Asperger syndrome by helping them learn through interaction with professional programmers and designers." DEBIAN 6 HAS A FEW ROUGH SPOTS: REVIEW
"This latest release from the Debian project will play well in server deployments that draw on open-source components" PAYPAL RESTORES BRADLEY MANNING DONATIONS
"eBay?s PayPal decided to stop donations made to Bradley Manning, the US soldier allegedly behind the original Cablegate WikiLeaks leaks, to help towards his defence costs. But PayPal has now backed down." INTEL'S BIOS IMPLEMENTATION TEST SUITE, BASED ON GRUB2
"The Intel BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS) provides a bootable pre-OS environment for testing BIOSes and in particular their initialization of Intel processors, hardware, and technologies." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE HAULED OFFLINE AFTER MAJOR DATA PROBLEM
"The London Stock Exchange stopped trading this morning immediately after the opening auction, which experienced a major technical glitch." KERNEL LOG: COMING IN 2.6.38 (PART 3) ? NETWORK DRIVERS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
"Kernel version 38 will offer a new meshing implementation, loads of new and improved LAN and Wi-Fi drivers, plus various minor changes that promise to improve the network subsystem's performance." DEBATE ON UBUNTU LINUX'S BANSHEE $$ GRAB GETS NASTY
"There are a lot of 'touchy' issues in the open source world - none are perhaps more controversial than those involving money." HOW TO SYNC FIREFOX ADD-ONS, BOOKMARKS, PREFERENCES, HISTORY
"Do you have lots of Firefox add-ons installed? Ever wondered if there's an easy way to backup and restore your Firefox's add-ons, preferences, history, passwords, bookmarks, and even the opened tabs?" TECH COMICS: "TECH DINOSAURS"
"Some of today's tech companies are quite large, but does that mean they'll be around long term?" INSTALINGL NFDUMP AND NFSEN NETFLOW TOOLS IN LINUX
"Using nfsen it is possible to view IP traffic statistics on Linux interfaces including the graphs showing data sent and received (see the screenshot to the right) as well as historical information about all data transfers." WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON FRIDAY?
"What are you doing Friday? We're Building a Cloud with Cloud.com, Openstack, and Opscode" U.K. COMES OUT FOR ROYALTY-FREE STANDARDS FOR GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT
"The U.K. has become the latest country to conclude that for information and communications technology (ICT) procurement purposes, ?open standards? means ?royalty free standards.?" | 
