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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Trinity Rescue Kit Size: 111.66 MB Status: 13 seeders and 5 leechers Added: 2008-01-03 14:44:52

Source: mint

Clement Lefebvre announced the release of Linux Mint 4.0 Fluxbox CE Beta 028, the first ever release of a Fluxbox-based Linux Mint Community Edition, which will be followed by a stable release: "The first BETA of Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna Fluxbox Community Edition was released. Maintained in Romania .

Source: Linux Today

Linuxseekers: "With seven stable releases of VectorLinux Standard Gold edition under their belts, the developers of VectorLinux have released the much-awaited VectorLinux 5.9 Standard Gold edition on the 21st of December 2007 to the joy of many Vectorians "

Source: Linux Today

bobcares: "'Kernel compilation is a tough nut to crack'--Most frequently this would be followed by a sigh if the recompiled kernel is not booting up

Source: Linux Today

Marc Fearby's Home Page: "This past week I have evaluated five Linux distributions to see if any of them would make suitable replacements for Windows XP so that I could avoid Vista "

Source: Linux Today

Open Sources: "The fact that many 'sophisticated examples of code in the online world' are of the commercial software kind, and not OSS, is simply because the vendor felt they could grow and be profitable without open sourcing the product "

Source: Linux Today

The Beez Speaks : "I found this comment while I was browsing through an MS-Windows oriented site where a blogger said something nasty about Microsoft "

Source: Linux Today

Sociallized Software: "According to a Net Applications Survey Mac adoption rose with an increase to 7.1% of the total market share for web browsers "

Source: Linux Today

Off the Wall: "No one can be involved in the free software community to any extent without stumbling across conspiracy theorists "

Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Glyn Moody takes Dave Weinberger's Harvard Business Review article on the difficulties singular organizations have with scale and runs with it "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "Well, it's the first work day of 2008, so here are my guesses on what we'll see in the news this year "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "Last week we made a music CD from a live digital recording the easy and simple way. Today we're going to fix volume levels and do graceful fades and transitions using Audacity and normalize "

Source: Linux Today

Linux Tech Daily: "My previous article, 10 things I hate about KDE 4 RC2, got a lot of unexpected attention "

Source: Linux Today

Startup City: "Open source has become standard in Silicon Valley, with nearly every software startup planning to release at least some code. So far, they've found five main business models "

Source: Linux Today

Guardian: "But, six months hasn't turned me into a evangelist but rather a Linux pragmatist "

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "I've spent the better part of the past 2 weeks banging away on 2 LTSP servers for our school district. I find myself lamenting to those around me, and being an otherwise cranky guy as well "

Source: Linux Today

Negative Approach: "Before I was a big-shot executive, the end of a year meant rest and relaxation. Now it's crunching fourth-quarter numbers and budgeting for 2008 "

Source: Linux Today

SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Storm bot attacks threatened, but new Linux tools and updates kept storm bots and most other IT security hacks at bay in 2007. That said, new problems--such as security risks in virtual machines--cropped up last year "

Source: Linux Today

Christopher Blizzard: "A few people have been noticing how good our support on Linux has gotten during the Firefox 3 development cycle and I thought I would post to try and point out some of the good stuff that we have coming down the pipe "

Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "The raw data indicates open source funding fell more than slightly in 2007. Disclosed funding deals were down 40.7% to $323.87m for the full year, compared to $546.3m in 2006 "

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "'New year, new kernel: Linux 2.4.36 is finally ready and has been checked long enough to be released "

Source: Linux Today

InformationWeek: "As tempting as it can be to just look back and feel good about our progress, it's the right time for the community to take a long look forward and figure out what needs to be done to continue--and even accelerate--momentum "

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "In this article I've selected what I consider to be some of the past year's outstanding achievements in the world of Linux music and sound software "

Source: Linux Today

Ted Carnahan: "The history and legacy of the Church in the late 1990s and 2000s will be lost in 10 years because we will lack the software to open its data "

Source: Linux Today

The Linux Distillery: "Its screen is 7" and runs at the odd resolution of 800x480 and the operating system looks like something Fisher Price might have designed. Why would you buy it? What on earth can you do with this ?"

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Randal Schwartz explains why you should consider Contextual::Return for your next tricky return value problem.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

It's time for the yearly batch of retrospectives and predictions. Count me in! Let's see, the big thing of 2007? Well, that had to be multi-core. And, the big prediction for 2008? Why that would be multi-core, once again. There, I'm done. Enjoy your year.

Source: ONLamp.com

Another article of the series “Yet Another Perl 6 Operator”
This article is not about some set of Perl 6 operators, but rather about what happened
to Perl 5 filetests operators. Short answer: They are not operators anymore.

Where programmers were used to write

# good ol' Perl 5
if ( -e $filename ) { print "existsn" }


they will now use pair methods that may be expressed as methods or smart patterns.

if $filename.:e { say "exists" }
# or
if $filename ~~ :e { say "exists" }


As filetests are now methods, the $filename object’s class now decides how to dispatch pair methods. It just happens that Str (filenames), IO (filehandles), and Statbuf (stat buffers) default to the expected filetest semantics.

With the pattern form, multiple tests as adverbial pairs can be stacked into one term, so they are ANDed together. Thus

when :r :w :x


tests whether the current topic is readable, writeable and executable.

The advantage of the method form may be seen in examples like sorting an array of files by
modification time.

sort { $^a.:M $^b.:M }, @files
# or better/shorter
sort { .:M }, @files


All Perl 5 filetest operators are listed in perlfunc.pod which will likely be supported in Perl 6 as well. However negated tests become easier with the negated adverbial forms like

when :!s # file has zero size (same as :z)
when :!t # not a tty


The filetests do not return stat buffers, but simple scalars of type Bool, Int, or Num. The stat buffer will be automatically reused if the
same object has recently been queried. (”Recently” is defined here as less than a second or so.)
If this is a concern, an explicit stat() or lstat() may be used to return an explicit stat buffer which is not subject to timeout. These objects can be tested repeatedly just as filenames and handles can.

In the recently released Perl 5.10, file test operators can be stacked too. So -f -w -x $file is equivalent to -x $file && -w _ && -f _. That syntactical addition was inspired by early Perl 6 design ideas and is related to how Perl 5 caches the stat buffer into _. In turn, the Perl 6 counterpart is based on transparent reuse of the stat buffer and combination via junctions.



Most of this article is rephrasing of the item on filetest operators in section “Changes to Perl 5 operators” of Synopsis 03.


The coming articles on smart matching and junction operators will make clearer some of things mentioned here.


Next article is due next Monday (Jan 7, 2008).


LINKS

Synopsis S03, the official source

The introduction of this series

Official Perl 6 Documentation

Perl 6 in your browser

Source: ONLamp.com

I have been learning so many amazing things from Zope that I decided to create small tips as they crop up. Recently I was introduced to buildout do to my work on setting up several Plone 3 sites. Buildout allows you to define eggs within a simple config file and then perform on the fly package mangement by rerunning buildout. It is truly amazing, and worth a look!
Links:
Noah Gift Blog
osxautomation

Source: ONLamp.com

I try to spend at least an hour a day most days doing cardio. One way I spend the time is by watching Jeff Rush’s insanely great videos at ShowMeDo. I watched the IPython series to prepare myself for a recent article I wrote on Net-SNMP and IPython.
Links:
Noah Gift Blog
osxautomation

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Discover two methods of decomposing XML data, including how to use the
XMLTABLE function for decomposition. Also, find a comparison of annotated XML schema decomposition
and XMLTABLE decomposition and recommendations for the use of each.