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"...if I take my experience of Linux as a benchmark then what I�ve found is that if things go OK and you only see the happy face of Linux, then the world is a happy place. But if things start going wrong, and for one reason or another Linux shows you its Mr. Yuk face, then things get real ugly, real fast." 5 SIMPLE REASONS TO CHOOSE LINUX OVER VISTA
"Windows Vista comes with an in-built digital rights management (DRM) feature that is absent on Linux machines. The DRM features can cause a lot of problems like - technical support problems, sluggish behavior of the computer, conflict with the peripheral devices and software.' XATAFACE LETS NON-TECHNICAL USERS EDIT MYSQL DATA
"Xataface is a framework for the LAMP stack designed to allow non-technical users to edit the contents of MySQL databases through a Web interface. While phpMyAdmin is a great tool for database administrators and those who are familiar with SQL and database design, Xataface aims at allowing less technical people to modify the database." WEB VIDEO AND THE NET'S CREAKING BACKBONE
"Two weeks ago, Apple and AT&T outlets opened their doors to massive lines of fans eager to buy the new iPhone 3G. The stores were stocked and ready to sell, but the network -- shouldered with the burden of activating so many new phones -- was quickly overwhelmed, and the process slowed to a crawl. Demand quickly outpaced the ability of the system to provide for it, and as a result, it failed. Most users were told to go home and activate their new phones from there." SLEIPNIR BROWSER STRADDLES FIREFOX & IE RENDERING
"...it's an extremely customizable browser, and it allows you to choose whether you want to use Firefox's Gecko rendering engine or Internet Explorer's. If you, as I do, primarily work in Firefox but keep Internet Explorer on hand when you run into trouble such as rendering problems, this browser presents an interesting solution." CONTROL, TRANSPARENCY, AND CUSTOMER CONTRIBUTIONS TO OPEN SOURCE
"While most open-source projects attract little to no outside developer interest, corporate-sponsored open-source projects start with an implicit handicap by demanding control of the destinies of their projects:" KDE 4.1 ROCKS THE DESKTOP
"KDE 4.1 was finally released to the public today. After all the controversy since the release of KDE 4.0, I'm happy to announce that KDE 4.1 simply rocks." DEVELOPERS' DELICATE DANCE WITH THE IPHONE APP STORE
"Developers pay the company $99 a year to be a part of the program, and Apple keeps 30 percent of the sales revenue. Software updates are offered on Apple's timetable, which tends to slow things down when an application has a bug that needs fixing." LAUNCHPAD WANTS TO HOST YOUR PROJECT
"Canonical promotes Launchpad as being all about collaboration - which makes sense, since very few open source projects can thrive in the absence of an active community. To further this, version 2.0 adds a formalized way to do code reviews online, with branches proposed for merging spawning their own discussion areas and mailing lists." USING SYSCTL TO CHANGE KERNEL TUNABLES ON LINUX
"...sysctl is a very versatile command and can be used either in its standalone form, or through the modification of the /etc/sysctl.conf file. First, we'll take a brief look at what the sysctl standalone command can do. It doesn't have too many options, so explaining them quickly upfront will make the rest seem like it makes more sense..." WHAT'S ON YOUR BOOKSHELF?
"Paper is good. It's easy on the eyes, portable, easy to hold, and requires no power to read. It can't be infected with DRM, and the vendor cannot flip a remote kill switch and make it unreadable..." CAN AMQP BREAK IBM'S MOM MONOPOLY?
"IBM and Tibco between them control a whopping 93% of the MOM market, which the research firm estimates will be worth around $725 million this year. With a market share like that, IBM and Tibco can pretty much charge whatever they like (using IBM’s arcane “processor value unit” pricing scheme, WebSphere MQ will cost you tens of thousands of dollars per processor)." SPLASHTOP "INSTANT-ON LINUX" GETS HACKED
"...members of the Phoronix Forums have hacked SplashTop. They have been able to run SplashTop from a USB stick on non-ASUS motherboards, boot SplashTop within a virtual machine, run custom applications, and launch a terminal within this proprietary Linux environment." MANAGEMENT: WHAT MOTIVATES YOUR TECHIES?
"Techies are not so different from other employees; it’s just that the things they hold most important are very, very important to them. Even in the post dot-com era, they know there are greener pastures." BORDEAUX 1.4 RELEASED WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 SUPPORT
"...version 1.4 comes with support for Microsoft Office 2003, Visio 2003 and Project 2003. Version 1.4 has improved Office 2000 menu support and Cellar support fixes. There has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the backend to improve the speed and reliablity of all the supported applications and games." CONVERT FILENAMES TO LOWERCASE
"I was going to claim I wrote this yesterday but the timestamp on the file is 22 Nov 1998. Nothing new, nothing fancy but it does the job." CYBER THREATS ACCELERATE AND BROWSER VULNERABILITIES PROLIFERATE
"IBM today released results from its X-Force 2008 Midyear Trend Statistics report that indicates cyber-criminals are adopting new automation techniques and strategies that allow them to exploit vulnerabilities much faster than ever before." TO CATCH A THIEF
"Crime scene: the server room…The thief doesn’t need a key card or the protection of darkness – an intruder can use the Internet to come and go. But despite the secret entrance, the attacker still leaves behind some telltale traces." THE MOST INTERESTING README FILE EVER?
"Another linux zealot at my old job gave me the heads up on this, it’s directly from gnome-cups-manager, and I thought you would all enjoy it." PUTTING THE SNEER BEFORE THE SCOOP: JOE NOCERA AND STEVE JOBS
"...although rumors have swirled, Apple has refused to state whether or not Jobs has had a recurrence of his cancer - or disclose any meaningful details at all. Even on calls with securities analysts, Apple's response has only been that "Steve's health is a private matter."" IS OPEN SOLARIS IN HOT WATER? -- NO, I DON'T THINK SO
"I've been seeing articles implying that Sun may have trouble, now that it has been determined that the Unix copyrights belong to Novell. Here's one example, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' "Is OpenSolaris in hot water?" -- where a number of interviewees opine more or less yes. I disagree, and I'll show you why I disagree." TIPS AND TRICKS: WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS IN KICKSTART FOR CONTROLLING THE BEHAVIOUR OF SELINUX?
DEAL WITH XML PARSING ERRORS IN JAVA APIS
"With the ease of XML parsing in the newer Java™ language APIs, from JAXP to JAXB to JAX-WS, XML parsing has become foundational to Java programming. But with the abstractions and higher-level APIs comes an apparent loss of control over the fine-grained interactions between a parser and your XML data. This typically leads to more errors or worse, a complete halt of parsing when even the smallest problem arises. Fortunately, the Simple API for XML (SAX) still provides an easy-to-use means of dealing with errors..." GIVE APACHE GERONIMO A LIFT
"Lift is a new Web application framework. It is a highly scalable framework built on the Scala programming language. It is the perfect partner for a highly scalable application server, such as Apache Geronimo, especially since Scala compiles to byte code just like the Java language and leverages the Java platform. In this article, you will learn how to create a Web application using Lift and deploy it to Geronimo." VIRTUAL HOSTING WITH PUREFTPD AND MYSQL ON FEDORA 9
"This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup." ORACLE SHIPS EMERGENCY WORKAROUND FOR ZERO-DAY FLAW
"For the first time since the introduction of its quarterly Critical Patch Update process in 2005, Oracle has released an emergency alert to offer mitigation for a zero-day vulnerability that’s been published on the Internet." MANDRIVA LINUX 2009 BETA 1 RELEASED
"The first beta for Mandriva Linux 2009, code named thornicrofti, is now available." KDE 4.1 REVIEW: THE ROCKY ROAD OF THE NEW KDE
"However, one remaining obstacle to 4.1 acceptance is that, despite some improvements compared to 4.0, the customization options are still more limited than on the 3.5 desktop." INTEGRATING LINUX INTO ACTIVE DIRECTORY KEEPS GETTING EASIER
"...LWIS (Likewise Identity Services) enables you to use Active Directory Authentication for your Linux, Unix and Mac PCs." MICROSOFT, ITS TIME TO OFFICIALLY RESCIND THE LINUX LAWSUIT THREATS
"If it stands up says, "Sorry, just kidding!" that won't make the channel partners happy, particularly if they used the threat to convince customers they must buy SUSE or Windows over Red Hat and other distros. But the fact is, we are seeing actions by Microsoft that indicate that the "suing Linux users" jig is up." THE BEAUTY OF LINUX
Here is a 3:46 YouTube video of a Linux 3D desktop in action- very pretty. --ed. SOUTH AFRICAN SISTER COMPANIES PRAISE LINUX-BASED ACCOUNTING PROGRAM
"One of the main reasons to move away from these program was Windows. Instability ... and lots of viruses is something a small upcoming business can do without." ASUS EEE PC 1000 (LINUX)
"But though it is increasingly difficult to pick from the seemingly interminable Eee PCs on the market, the Eee PC 1000 has risen to be one of our favorites." KERNEL SPACE: NO SHORTAGE OF TRACING OPTIONS
"...the main surprise is that, after all this time, Linux still does not have a top-quality answer to DTrace..." IRC CLIENTS FOR LINUX - A REVIEW
"Since I'm an IRC addict and I always liked to spend time learning new stuff on IRC, here is a review of several IRC clients for Linux. Some of them are well-known and popular, like XChat, Konversation or Irssi, and others are not so widely used or known, but nevertheless, they deserve mentioning." IS MICROSOFT GETTING READY TO KILL WINDOWS?
"No, I'm not talking about killing Vista. Microsoft is already burying that living dead operating system as fast it can. I'm talking about killing Windows itself. That's the conclusion I've drawn from David Worthington's story about Microsoft's plans for Midori, a next generation operating system." From the Internet.com eBook Library: Navigating Your IT Career
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TEN TRICKS TO MAKE LINUX BOOT FASTER
"Linux rarely needs to be rebooted. But when it does, it�s often slow to boot. Fortunately, there are ways to speed things up. Some of these methods are not terribly difficult. (although some, unfortunately, are). Let�s take a look." DELL RELEASES WOODEN PC, FLUS SIX FRUITY COLOURS
"How�s this for a 180? One of the creators of the commodity PC market and a bulk mover of inoffensive beige boxes, Dell has now unveilled what we believe to be one of the most stylish desktop systems on the planet." LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER - LVM: PARTITIONS, SLICES AND FRUSTRATION
PCLINUXOS: DEFINITELY �RADICALLY SIMPLE�
"The slogan for PCLinuxOS is �Radically Simple� and, as far as I can tell, it might be one of the most fitting operating system slogans I have seen. But does it apply across the board? From start to finish? I decided it had been too long since I had tried this distribution so I went about giving it a go. I have to say I was certainly impressed." OS ROUNDUP: APPLE, OUT OF TOUCH WITH SERVER ROOM NEEDS
"...but is it any more ridiculous than using Apple's OS X Server or letting end users work on Macs in the enterprise? Because the truth is, Apple is not really a computer company. It makes toys." | 
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