| Linux Today News 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?" INSTALLING 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.?" UBUNTU LINUX FOR BEGINNERS: TIPS FOR GETTING STARTED
"Answers to all your Ubuntu setup questions -- and some you didn't think to ask." SENATE DEMS VOICE OPPOSITION TO HOUSE NET NEUTRALITY REPEAL
"Unfortunately, the House has decided that it knows better what is good for the Internet than the people who use, fund, and work on it" CANONICAL CALLS ORIGINAL PROPOSAL A "MISTAKE" AND OVERRIDES BANSHEE TEAM'S DECISION
"Canonical revises Banshee deal: Pray it doesn't alter it further" FREEBSD 8.2-RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
"The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features" SCRIPTING THE LINUX DESKTOP, PART 2: SCRIPTING NAUTILUS
"This series of articles explores how to use Python to create scripts for the GNOME desktop, the screenlets framework, and Nautilus to deliver a highly productive environment. Scripts on the desktop enable drag-and-drop functionality and quick access to the information and services you commonly use. In this installment, learn how to use Python to add functionality to extend Nautilus on your desktop." EDITOR'S NOTE: SONY, SLAYER OF PROGRESS
I was working on a piece similar to this, but Make author Phillip Torrone wroter a better, calmer, and more complete article. Enjoy! WHEN THE NET WAS YOUNG
"I would like to wax philosophic on a subject for a moment. My apologies to anyone who doesn't care." HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR PRIVACY AND SECURITY BY INSTALLING TOR ON YOUR ANDROID SMARTPHONE
"Mobile communications can easily be surveilled. One step you can take to prevent tracking is to install Tor on your phone." FREEBSD 8.2 EXPANDS ZFS SUPPORT -- WITHOUT ORACLE
"When one door closes, sometimes another one opens. The open source FreeBSD operating systems is out this week with a new release expanding support for the ZFS filesystem and improving disk encryption performance." POSTGRESQL, OPENSSL, AND THE GPL
"The OpenSSL license, which is BSD-style with an advertising clause, has been a source of problems in the past because it is rather unclear whether projects using it can also include GPL-licensed code." HOW APPLE DODGED A SUN BUYOUT: FORMER CEOS MCNEALY, ZANDER TELL ALL
"At a Churchill Club dinner, former Sun CEOs Scott McNealy and Ed Zander discuss why the company didn't buy Apple in 1996, the real beginnings of cloud computing and why Linux should never have come into existence." FIRST LOOK AT UBUNTU "NATTY" AND THE STATE OF UNITY
"Ubuntu's 11.04 release ("Natty Narwhal") is going to be an important inflection point for the project, and for Canonical. The company is banking on its users, and potential users, embracing a user interface (Unity) that differs significantly from the previous Ubuntu release as well as other familiar desktop UIs." CANONICAL & BANSHEE AGREE TO DISAGREE
"Canonical, Ubuntu?s parent company, has spoken with the developers of Banshee, which is to be the default music player in next version of Ubuntu Linux, and announced a ?compromise? on how to handle Banshee?s revenue from its built-in Amazon Store connection. Banshee?s programmers are not happy." FOSDEM: ICING THE ROBOT
"Anybody who looks at an Android system knows that, while Android is certainly based on the Linux kernel, it is not a traditional Linux system by any stretch. But Android is free software; might it be possible to create a more "normal" Android while preserving the aspects that make Android interesting?" TROUBLESHOOTING OPENVPN 2: CONFIGURATIONS
"Routing gives an insight into troubleshooting routing problems when setting up a VPN using OpenVPN. You will learn how to detect, diagnose, and repair common routing issues." 10 REASONS WHY SSDS ARE BETTER THAN MECHANICAL DISKS
"Have you ever heard the terms, head crash or stiction? Better yet, have you ever experienced either of them? These terms are just two of the unhappy occurrences associated with mechanical disks." BURNING CDS OVER THE INTERNET WITH OR WITHOUT ISO IMAGE
"How many GUI CD/DVD burning applications do you know? Now, how many of them you can name that can burn an ISO image directly from ftp server or burn your remote directory over ssh?" CHROME ALONE?
"Has the moment passed already for Google Chrome OS? Linux User columnist Simon Brew examines the evidence" GREEDY CAR THIEVES - NEW LINUX GAME INSPIRED BY GRAND THEFT AUTO SERIES
"Greedy Car Thieves is a new Linux game in development inspired by one of the most popular game series - Grand Theft Auto. The game is free as of now and developers have released a beta version for users to test." WEEKEND PROJECT: HARVEST MICROFORMATS FOR FUN AND PROFIT
"Microformats are a way to slip computer-readable information into HTML, so it's "semantically" marked-up, not just visually marked up. With hCalendar, for example, when you advertise a big event on your Web page, it's not only human-readable, but the browser can notice that it's a calendar event..." DATALIGHT RELEASES FIRST FULL-FEATURED FILE SYSTEM FOR EMBEDDED LINUX
"Datalight announced today that it has released Reliance Nitro 2.0, the first full-featured file system for embedded Linux." WORK WITH PHOTO METADATA IN DIGIKAM
"Inside each digital photo hides metadata in the EXIF, IPTC, or XMP formats, and digiKam provides tools for viewing and editing this useful information." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE CALLS SOFTWARE CRISIS MEETING WITH FURIOUS MARKET DATA VENDORS
"The London Stock Exchange has called an urgent meeting next week with price data vendors, in an attempt to solve the serious market stock price irregularities appearing on traders' screens since the exchange launched its new trading software." INSTANT VINTAGE PHOTO EFFECTS WITH THE FIL SCRIPT FOR GIMP
"You can emulate different vintage photo effects in GIMP, but usually this is a rather laborious and time-consuming process that requires some editing chops. Fortunately, the Film Imitation Lab (FIL) script lets you turn plain snaps into eye-popping vintage photos with a minimum of effort." WHY I BELIEVE MICROSOFT WILL BUY NOKIA
"I have been pretty lucky in January to predict that Nokia would pick Windows 7 as its new OS. I even won a beer in a bet with the Honorary Consul to Finland in Silicon Valley, clear sign the Finns were not expecting it at all..." MCNEALY: SUN COULD HAVE WON OUT OVER LINUX
"Sun Microsystems' mishandling of Solaris on the Intel platform left an opening for Linux to become established, when the company's Solaris OS could have won out instead" OVER 40,000 DOES DISMISSED IN COPYRIGHT TROLL CASES
"These have been some eventful weeks in the world of copyright trolling. Thousands of unnamed ?John Does? in P2P file sharing lawsuits filed in California, Washington DC, Texas, and West Virginia have been severed, effectively dismissing over 40,000 defendants." WHY A LINUX AFICIONADO USES AN IPHONE
"Although I?m a diehard Linux advocate, I happen to be a reasonably happy owner of an iPhone 4. You didn't just misread this, I actually prefer using the iPhone over countless Android phones I?ve tried in the past." EXERCISE #6: SET VARIABLES IN SCRIPTS
"When you need to set variables, you can do that in the BEGIN section of an awk script. Here the variable firstuser is set to 1000. The BEGIN section sets that variable and it is then used later in the script." 5 BEST LINUX DISTRIBUTION WITH NO PROPRIETARY COMPONENTS
"In this post I will list five best Linux distribution that meets the FSF's strict guidelines and contains no proprietary components such as firmware and drivers." PYTHON4KIDS: NEW TUTORIAL - A BIG JAR OF PICKLES
"In the last tutorial we learned how to pickle our objects. Pickling is a way of storing the object (on the computer?s file system) so that it can be used later." LET US ACCESS THE DATABASES IN THE EASY DRIVER WAY !
"Easy Driver is a project to access the databases, it is Free and Open Source. It is formed of a Java library and a code generator." ARCH?S DIRTY LITTLE NOT-SO-SECRET
"A reader of my blog recently made a comment about Arch?s lack of package signing, and this got me looking into the issue more carefully. What I found has left me deeply concerned with a number of aspects of Arch." JONO BACON DEFENDS UBUNTU: AN INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE
"Last week, in "Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go?" I presented one view of Ubuntu and its relationship with other parts of the free and open source software (FOSS) community." HOW TO PROPERLY REDIRECT THE OUTPUT OF COMMAND EXECUTED WITH SUDO.
"We are faced with a problem when trying to redirect with sudo, as the second part of the command is not executed with root privileges." HOW TO INSTALL VLC-SHARES IN UBUNTU AND STREAM VIDEOS TO ANDROID
"VLC, without a doubt, is the best media player around. Not only is it able to play almost any file format, it is also able to stream audio/video from the Web and transcode on the fly." | 
