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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Storage Forum: "I was a benchmarker at one time and consider myself a reformed benchmarker, so I know the tricks that vendors can use. We'll look at some of them and hopefully in the process make you a more informed consumer."


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The H Open: "The Linux Driver Project (DLP), started by kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman about two and a half years ago, is a group of Linux kernel developers and project managers that focus on developing and maintaining Linux kernel drivers for device manufacturers."


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"You're never too old to try something new; computers are a heck of a lot of fun; and anyone can learn to do anything." I still believe that, and most of the time it's true.


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The Cheapskate: "Zowie! For less than the price of some Netbooks, you can get yourself a full-blown Dell notebook. Here's the deal: Dell is offering the Inspiron 15n for just $299."


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National Geographic: "Researchers have discovered ten new emperor penguin colonies by spotting penguin excrement stains on Antarctic ice from satellite images."


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The Inquirer: "INTEL IS GETTING INTO operating systems big time. The OSes in question run on Mobile Internet Devices and Intel has a big future mapped out for these things. It may not be betting the farm on them, but certainly the double garage, some of the barns and half the furniture could end up on the table."


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KyaPanel: "This is the most tested KyaPanel version ever. We developed our own Q&A; (Quality & Assurance) software to test all it's functions. In it's first version we are testing only Mail Module functions without Zimbra or eGroupware integrations, but even then it's a huge step to KyaPanel quality of software."


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Montana Linux: "I have had about ten laptops over the years. My first one, if you could call it a laptop, was an Atari Portfolio (1992) which I still have and it still works."


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Open Enterprise: "Seven years ago, Mozilla 1.0 was launched:
Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides services to assist the Mozilla community, today announced the release of Mozilla 1.0, the first major-version public release of the Mozilla software."


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Howtoforge: "GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system."


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Linux Magazine: "One of Firefox’s great advantages is the ability for users to create custom extensions. While add-ons have historically been non-trivial to write, Mozilla Labs is looking to make this considerably easier with JetPack."


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Geek.com: "This project attempts to show you how to make your own home media server from readily available PC components & open source software."


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LinuxDevices: "Ibase Technology is shipping an "ultra-compact" signage computer with independent HDMI outputs supporting 1080p resolutions. The SI-28 Signature Book 2 runs either a dual- or quad-core AMD Athlon, and offers an ATI E4690 GPU, gigabit Ethernet, four USB ports, and wireless options, says the company."


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Cyber Cynic: "Chrome, if you haven't tried it, is the speed-demon of Web browsers. I love it. But, until now, there really wasn't a version that would run natively on Linux. Starting last night, June 4th, Google released developer's versions of Chrome for Macs and Linux. They're rough, really rough, but they're also really fast."


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IBM Developerworks: "Here we look at how the leading testing frameworks provide robust auto-discovery of your application tests, and how this replaces the fragile central lists of tests that you used to maintain."


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CRN: "HP has partnered with Red Hat to develop a solution for RISC Migration projects.

The solution offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on HP BladeSystems."


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Internetnews: "Firefox 3.0 is not quite a year old, but users are already clamoring for Firefox 3.5. So where is it, and what is it all about? "


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Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts: "One of the most important rules I have learned over the years is that anything that is not automated and not required, will get skipped."


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PCPlus: "Install the Windows port of KDE and get instant native compatibility with all kinds of great open source Linux software."


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Silicon.com: "Google released Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux Thursday - but only in rough developer preview versions that the company warns are works in progress"


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Handle With Linux: "A little sidestep from my learning of the Gtk toolkit for Perl GUI programming. I was thinking it would be nice to try some 2D animation on the desktop. Not the most useful thing maybe, but I like to make my learning process as much fun as possible. That keeps me motivated and happy."


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IT Wire: "It is bad enough that the bad guys constantly try and phish your financial data via email and fake websites, now cash machines are getting in on the act."


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Freedom Bits: "There are a couple of "beginner's mistakes" when thinking about Free Software in general and its commercial application, in particular. One is to believe there was a substantial difference in the software referred to by the terms "Free Software" and "Open Source." There isn't."


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HowtoForge: "This guide shows how you can install and use BleachBit on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop to delete unnecessary files. BleachBit deletes unnecessary files (such as cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, temporary files, and broken shortcuts) to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. It wipes clean Adobe Reader, APT, Bash, Beagle, Chromium, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, Second Life viewer, Skype, VIM, XChat, Yum, and more."


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Cyber Cynic: "One of the great Linux myths is that it doesn't support modern hardware. What nonsense! I've been finding for years that it's the newer Windows desktops that don't support equipment."


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FOSS Boss: "In this article I'll be installing OpenSolaris 2009.06 para-virtualized under a centos-5-x64 dom0. This setup has the advatange of running OpenSolaris on storage controllers that may not have native solaris driver support."


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NIST: "The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that the two agencies are working with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign on an initiative to enhance the security and stability of the Internet."


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Softpedia: "Back to KDE 4.2.4, you should know that it brings you the usual bugfixes, especially for applications such as Okular, KMail, KAlarm, KGeography, KShisen and of course the KHTML engine, plus some patches in the core."


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EFYTimes: "Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Intel Corporation to deliver Ubuntu as an operating system for the Intel-powered classmate PCs"



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Georg Greve, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), has an insightful look at FOSS from a brand perspective with urgings that the community come together and strengthen open source as a unified brand. "There are plenty of false enemies to go around. Ironically, the most common form of false enemy is found around the animosity that has built around branding and framing issues, more specifically in the area of "Free Software" vs "Open Source." Name-calling and quarreling on either side is not helpful, and serves to hide the common base and interest in having a strong brand and powerful message. The historical facts around Free Software are well documented and available to anyone who wishes to look them up. But instead of focussing on past insults and wrongs, I believe our focus should be on the future. We should realize that what divides us pales in comparison to what we have in common and that division and exclusion are harmful to us all. So we should reign in the name-callers on either side, and empower those people who know how to build cooperation, corporations, and positive feedback loops."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Dan Kegel (who admits to being a Chrome developer) writes to point out a post from Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg, Product Managers for Google Chrome, with some good news for non-Windows users who want to play with Chrome: "In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux (for a couple of different Linux distributions), but whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software." (The announcement continues below.)Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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A light flickers from two distinct points in time. As a child in the early-1970s, one of my toys was a View-Master, a binoculars-like device for viewing 3D images (called stereograms), essentially a mini-program excerpted from popular destinations, TV shows, cartoons, events and the like. Flash forward to the present, and we are suddenly on the cusp of a game-changing event; one that I believe kicks the door open for 3D and VR apps to become mainstream. I am talking about the release of iPhone OS version 3.0.


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The YouTube for slides: SlideShare has a nifty little game they call SlideShare Karaoke. You put in a keyword and it randomly selects one deck of slides for you to present. If you want to improve your presentation skills, there is no better way than going to weekly Toastmasters meetings. You can use the SlideShare Karaoke feature as the basis for Table Topics in your next Toastmaster meeting.


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The EFF just launched a service for tracking Terms of Service changes of 44 major sites including Google, Apple and recursively the EFF. TOSBack provides a feed of changes. In the screenshot below you can see a comparison of Facebook's privacy policy, which has been updated to Facebook's new address.


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At Ignite SF on 4/1 Veronica Belmont shared some do's and don'ts on businesses and their attempts at viral marketing campaigns. Her advice is simple (Don't be a jerk, Don't try too hard, Be funny). Vanessa's examples run the gamut from one of the best (Subservient Chicken) to the recent and risky (Skittles).


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This article demonstrates how the realworld data is imported, managed, visualized, and analyzed within the R statistical framework. Presented as a spatial mashup, this tutorial introduces the user to R packages, R syntax, and data structures. The user will learn how the R environment works with R packages as well as its own capabilities in statistical analysis. We will be accessing spatial data in several formats-html, xml, shapefiles, and text-locally and over the web to produce a map of home foreclosure auctions and perform statistical analysis on these events.



Updated: Sat Jun 6 23:55:01 2009


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