| Linux Today News BLACK OPS: HOW HBGARY WROTE BACKDOORS FOR THE GOVERNMENT
"On November 16, 2009, Greg Hoglund, a cofounder of computer security firm HBGary, sent an e-mail to two colleagues. The message came with an attachment, a Microsoft Word file called AL_QAEDA.doc, which had been further compressed and password protected for safety. Its contents were dangerous" 10 ANDROID APPS FOR LINUX SERVER ADMINS
"The Linux server admin on the go needs a good remote administration toolkit. Here are 10 useful remote administration apps for Android devices." HOW TO CHANGE THE GRUB 2 SETTINGS WITH GRUB CUSTOMIZER 2.0 IN UBUNTU 10.10
"Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the grub2. The application allows the user to add, remove, freeze, rename and reorder boot menu items" WE WANT MORE LINUX PRESENTATIONS INSIDE SHOPPING CENTERS!
"Last october I wrote about the first Italian presentation of Free Software inside a supermarket chain because it looked to me, and still looks, a wonderful idea that should find many followers worldwide, since it proves that Free Software isn?t a boring topic best left to software professionals." EXERCISE 5: MANAGING THE STRUCTURE OF THE AWK FILE
"The awk file can have three parts which allow you to perform various tasks and enhance your script and it?s usability. The three sections are; BEGIN, BODY and END." UK GOVERNMENT GETS REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT OPEN SOURCE
"Monday 21st February 2011 saw the first 'Open Source System Integrators Forum' held by the Cabinet Office and I'd like to share a few modest bits of news with you all" VIEWSONIC VIEWPAD 7 REVIEW -- THE PERFECT COMPROMISE ON PRICE & PERFORMANCE?
"Can ViewSonic upset the establishment with an affordable tablet inspired by Apple?s iPhone 4? Russell Barnes puts the 7″ Android-powered ViewPad 7 through its paces in an effort to find out" SNOW SABRE, UNI - TWO ELEGANT MAC ICON THEMES PORTED TO GNOME
"Here are two new Mac themes inspired icon themes for GNOME that demands your attention. Snow Sabre icon theme has a light and black variant and both of them looks very neat and simple while Uni icon theme for GNOME looks quiet good too." FBI: WEB-BASED SERVICES HURTING WIRETAPPING EFFORTS
"Web-based e-mail, social-networking and peer-to-peer services are frustrating law enforcement wiretapping efforts, a lawyer for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation told lawmakers Thursday, but she did not offer concrete ideas on how to fix the problem." NOVELL'S STOCKHOLDERS APPROVE ATTACHMATE BUYOUT BUT THE DEAL'S FAR FROM DONE
"Last week, Novell announced that its stockholders have voted to adopt the previously announced merger with Attachmate and Longview Software Acquisition Corp., a special purpose vehicle formed by Attachmate designed to acquire all of Novell?s stock." REVIEW: HANDS ON WITH THE BOXEE BOX
"Everywhere you look these days, there is a new device for sale designed to get music, movies, and entertainment to your TV without the hassle of old-fashioned delivery systems like cable or satellite." FEDORA TO INCLUDE HACKING TOOL SQLNINJA AFTER ALL
"As recorded in the minutes of the most recent meeting of the Fedora board, the Fedora Project is to integrate hacking tool sqlninja into its Linux distribution." WHY FIREFOX COULD STILL BE THE BROWSER STORY OF THE YEAR
"As 2011 begins, browsers represent one of the most hotly contested categories in all of open source. Open source browsers, especially Google Chrome and Firefox, are leading innovation, and are both on increasingly rapid development cycles." HOW MOVABLE TYPE LOST WITH OPEN SOURCE
"There's little in this world that' more saddening than telling a friend, "You blew it." But that's how I feel about Six Apart and their blogging / CMS system Movable Type." WHEN IN DOUBT, REBOOT? NOT UNIX BOXES
"I want to take a closer look at the reboot issue. It's a hot spot for all server admins, but to Unix geeks, it's a deeper issue -- probably because Windows admins use reboots as one of their first troubleshooting steps, while it's one of the last for the Unix team." QT IMPLEMENTATION FOR ANDROID INTRODUCED
"The Romanian software developer Bogdan Vatra has announced a first alpha version of his Qt implementation for the Android mobile operating system." SOLID STATE DRIVES REFUSE TO DELETE DATA
"The first time I was briefed on developments that would lead to solid-state hard drives for laptops I thought it was such a great idea I couldn't wait to get one." BEST PRACTICES IN OPEN SOURCE FOUNDATION GOVERNANCE ? PART I
"For some time now, I have been meaning to write a series of blog posts setting forth my views on best practices in forming and governing open source foundations. Why?" UBUNTU: WHERE DID THE LOVE GO?
"Once the darling of the open source crowd, Ubuntu is now increasingly criticized." BODHI LINUX RC2 & UPDATES
"After three weeks of user input and a few bugs reports the Bodhi team and I are happy to present our second release candidate (version number 0.1.6)." USING CUT ON LINUX TERMINAL
"Among the commands available from the linux terminal there?s also cut, very useful for processing strings and characters in general." TOP 5 IMAGE VIEWERS FOR UBUNTU/KUBUNTU
"This article overviews five image viewers available for Ubuntu and also includes at the end a list of another five ones which either are no longer maintained or are based on older libraries (KDE3 for example)." GOODBYE, HD COMPONENT VIDEO: HOLLYWOOD HASTENS THE 'ANALOG SUNSET'
"as of January 1st of this year, manufacturers have not been permitted to make new Blu-ray players with component-video jacks capable of outputting high-definition (HD) video" ANDROID: THE OPEN MOBILE CHOICE
"Recently there has been a bit of a hubbub over Microsoft forbidding the use of software using the GPLv3 open-source license and all similar licenses on Windows Phone 7 (WP7)." NOVELL EXPANDS LINUX AVAILABILITY FOR SAP
"Novell is enhancing its partnership with SAP with an expanded Linux offering for SAP applications. Josh Dorfman, director of alliance marketing at Novell, told InternetNews.com that the new version of SLES for SAP Applications is based on SLES 11." INTEGRATING THE MENU INTO THE UBUNTU UNITY WINDOW TITLEBAR
"I just read a very interesting post about placing the menu bar into each window titlebar in Ubuntu's Unity desktop." CERF: FUTURE OF INTERNET DOESN'T INCLUDE AN IPV7
"Vint Cerf takes his title of Chief Internet Evangelist for Google seriously, and is knee-deep in several projects to bring the next versions of the Internet into being. These projects include pushing for worldwide IPv6 adoption, but they don't include plans for an IPv7." INTRODUCING DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 6.0
"But, up to this point, I've never managed to get a stable release of Debian GNU/Linux to install and run on my hardware." BACKGROUND: GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE DROPS LINUX
"The German Foreign Office will migrate its desktop computers from Linux back to Windows. However, no truly compelling reasons for the decision appear to exist." FREE ANDROID APPS: 50 TOP DOWNLOADS
"Free Android apps are wonderful things. If you?re on the hunt for yet more free Android apps for your phone, here's a list of 50 free apps you should consider." 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" | 
