| Linux Today News 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." ON LINUX, SOFTWARE PATENTS, SHAKESPEARE & THE WEB
"My first love wasn?t poetry but computers. My first substantial work was not a poem, fable or story, but a piece of software written on the Apple IIe. Presently, my primary OS is Ubuntu..." BLACKBERRY'S ANDROID?
"Now, there?s a rumor that RIM may well add support for Android applications to its BlackBerry line on top of its forthcoming QNX operating system." RED HAT'S "OBFUSCATED" KERNEL SOURCE
"while the cross-distribution cooperation on the 2.6.32 kernel has been a great thing, Red Hat is making things harder by shipping its RHEL 6 kernel source as one big tarball, without breaking out the patches." THINGS OVERHEARD ON THE WIFI FROM MY ANDROID SMARTPHONE
"Today in my undergraduate security class, we set up a sniffer so we could run Wireshark and Mallory to listen in on my Android smartphone. This blog piece summarizes what we found" USE ZENITY TO GUI-UP SCRIPTS
"Some people just aren't comfortable with the command line. If you're writing scripts for those people, you want to take a look at Zenity, a GNOME utility that provides simple GUI dialogs from a shell script." ATOM E6XX PC IS CLAIMED TO BE WORLD'S SMALLEST
"Toradex announced a Linux-based single board computer (SBC) with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom E6xx, and also debuted a PC based on it that's claimed to be "the world's smallest."" THE DOCUMENT FOUNDATION REACHES GOAL OF ?50,000 IN EIGHT DAYS
"The Document Foundation sent out an announcement this morning of reaching its goal of ?50,000 in order to set up a legal foundation in Germany." FOXIT READER 4.3.1 FOR DESKTOP LINUX IS AVAILABLE NOW!
"Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer for the Linux platform, with a new streamlined interface, user-customized toolbar, incredibly small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich features." PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY IN LINUX - AN EXTENSIVE GUIDE
"Right now Windows and Mac dominate the professional photography world. That does not mean though that Linux does not have the tools available for professional photography." A LOOK AT WOLFER LINUX 2
"The Wolfer Linux distribution is developed by a small team who seem to be operating on two assumptions: one, that Ubuntu makes a good base from which to build a distro and, two, a good user interface can go a long way toward making a good product." BATS LINUX TRADING PLATFORM TO REPLACE CHI-X INSTINET FOLLOWING ACQUISITION
"Chi-X acquisition leads to one Linux platform replacing another" GEEK TIME WITH JIM ZEMLIN
"Jim explains the role of the Linux Foundation in Linux kernel development, including the work of Linus Torvalds. (0:18)" WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH OPEN.ORG?
"What would you do with Open.org? That was the question put forth by members of the Linux Fund organization last night during a Birds of a Feather session at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 9X)." THE PROBLEM ISN'T EMAIL, IT'S MICROSOFT EXCHANGE
"The takeaway: don't pretend your appointment book can handle your email. And don't blame the Internet for all the compatibility issues. The main problem is Microsoft Exchange." PEARLS BEFORE SWINE..
"My life isn't glamorous." USING OPENFIRE FOR REALTIME COLLABORATION ON LINUX
"Offering real-time collaboration tools within a company is becoming a must-have if a company is serious about getting their employees to work as efficiently as possible." DOCUMENT: WHAT A MICROSOFT EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT LOOKS LIKE
"I will diligently perform my assigned duties and devote my entire working time, abilities, and efforts to such duties and to furthering the interests of MICROSOFT." X.ORG COMPLETES X SERVER 1.10
"X development veteran Keith Packard has released version 1.10 of X.org's X Server. A list of all changes, mostly minor improvements and bug fixes, are included in the release email." MAKE CUSTOMERS SMILE IN 7 EASY STEPS WITH OTRS - PART 4
"In Part 3, you learned how to accept, open and close tickets, and use the OTRS interface to communicate with customers and internal team members through the ticket resolution workflow." LINUX BACKUP SERVER: REFINING RSYNC, PASSWORDLESS AUTHENTICATION
"At last here are the final two parts of this series. Today we learn how to tell rsync which files to include or exclude, set up passwordless login on the backup server, and safely test everything." LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE WOES NOT LINUX'S FAULT
"The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has had better times. First, it had reoccurring problems with its integration with large-stock market data players such as Thomson Reuters Eikon, Interactive Data, and Morningstar." 3 FUN CONDITIONAL TRICKS FOR YOUR WORDPRESS CUSTOM FIELDS
"To quickly recap the idea of custom fields, they are made of two parts: the key and the value. You define a key once, which is usually universal to your WordPress setup, and the value can be defined on a per post basis" OPEN SOURCE EXPERT TAKES ON THE HARDEST JOB AT MICROSOFT
"A few months ago, Gianugo Rabellino traded his Linux and Mac PCs for a Windows 7 laptop, left the open source company he founded and moved to Redmond for a new job with Microsoft. His goal: improve Microsoft's credibility within open source circles." LIVE PERFORMANCE MONITOR FOR YOUR MYSQL SERVER
"If you are a Linux system administrator or have a Linux server running a LAMP stack, you might want to be able to keep an eye on the different elements that contribute to keeping your applications and websites alive." FRUGALWARE 1.4 NEXON REVIEW
"I?ve gotten a fair number of requests to look at Frugalware in the past so I decided to take a peek at Frugalware 1.4 (Nexon). Frugalware has always had a reputation for not being very accessible to newer Linux users or those who simply wanted an easy to use desktop version of Linux." IBM DB2, NOVELL PARTNER FOR LINUX SOFTWARE APPLIANCES
"Novell is expanding its SUSE Studio Linux appliance technology today with the addition of new templates for IBM's DB2 database." WHO CONTRIBUTES THE MOST TO LIBREOFFICE?
"Cedric Bosdonnat has been tracking contributions to LibreOffice since its announced fork from OpenOffice.org. He uses Git Data Miner to gleen results from the main branch of LibreOffice Git repositories." DICTATORS, LIBYA, AND THE UNRELIABLE INTERNET
"The recent unfortunate doings in Libya have made an example of how the Internet works around problem areas. And it reminded me that if you are going to put your content in the hands of a dictator, it is nice to know whom you are dealing with." KAJONGG: TRUE MAHJONG AT LAST
"I am not talking, you understand, about the matching game that masquerades as Mahjong. That is a game sometimes called Shanghai that uses Mahjong tiles, but has more in common with solitaire or patience than true Mahjong." | 
