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Linux and Open Source News for 17th June 2009

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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Networking Planet: "Both dynamic VLANs and 802.1q auto-negotiation can enable a hands-off approach to server changes, but there are design and security issues. The question at hand is therefore, "is it worth it?""


Source: Linux Today

InternetNews: "Red Hat's new initiatives aim to position the Linux vendor as a leader in virtualization, challenging vendors like VMware and Citrix for market and mind share on both the server and desktop."


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Microsoft: "If you want a serious shot at the ten grand, upgrade your browser to Windows Internet Explorer now."


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Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "As my colleague Michelle Menga is reporting, Amazon is now making new source code available for its Amazon Kindle. Basically what it represents is, Amazon's responsibility to make the GPL licenced source code that is used in the Kindle available to others."


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Source: Linux Today

Always Right: "7) You can make chicken run on a beef. Show me the opposite if you can."


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Groklaw: "Here's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on ComputerWorld on SCO rising from the dead. We'll see. I'd describe it more like keeping the patient on life support, while hoping for a cure. The plan hasn't been approved yet, y'all. As for who is the actual buyer, it's reportedly Eric LeBlan."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Today Blog: "It's rather brilliant how Microsoft have successfully positioned themselves as the victim in all this, and how it's everyone else's fault, and everyone else's problem."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "In this article we have a range of system benchmarks from Fedora 9, 10, 11, and the latest Rawhide packages as of this week."


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "The point of his talk was really quite simple: "Why should our school systems be paying for proprietary software when teachers are being laid off?""


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Against Poverty: "The date is approaching, and we’re ready to kick Linux Against Poverty into high gear."


Source: Linux Today

Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The Obama Administration's decision to
support Bush-era concealment policies has forced the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge
(PK) to drop their lawsuit about the proposed
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)."


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Source: Linux Today

New York Times: "A designer of censorship software that the Chinese government requires to be preinstalled on computers sold in China has been ordered to fix potential security breaches in the software "The New York Times seems downright allergic to the notion that "computer" does not equal "Windows computer"-- ed


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Source: Linux Today

Hacktivision: "Sharing a webcam stream in Ubuntu is not the easiest thing, but it’s not too bad if you have some help. This tutorial will explain how to use the package webcam-server."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech-no-media: "A few days ago I reviewed what is in my opinion the easiest Linux distribution for Windows switchers: Linux Mint 7.0 The small group of talented people that manage this distribution is led by Clem, the "founder" of Linux Mint. Today he was kind enough to grant me an email interview as a follow up to my review."


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Tech Source From Bohol: "Aside from being a Really Cool Idea, I don't have a lot to say about netbooks themselves what's the next step after netbooks?"


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Softpedia: "Yesterday evening, on June 16th, Patrick Verner proudly announced the immediate release of Parted Magic 4.2, a Slackware-based Linux distribution that was created to help users easily partition their hard drivers or perform recovery tasks."


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Click: "It's been many months since I last used Puppy Linux. I bet more than a year has passed since I seriously ran Puppy, still one of the best Unix-like distributions/projects for older, underpowered computers."


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Source: Linux Today

Tip of the Trade: "The editor Vim supports Unicode natively. If your X or console keymap is set up to enter unicode characters via the keymap, it will work fine in Vim. Alternatively, there are two other ways of entering these characters."


Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "As part of the 2.6.30 kernel bonanza of file systems, a CacheFS implementation for Linux was added. Currently it supports NFS and AFS, but other file systems could benefit from such a caching mechanism "


Source: Linux Today

Larry the Free Software Guy: "It's Fedora 11's fault.

There's a 12-step program for this, no doubt, but I'm powerless in trying to tear myself away from Fedora 11 "


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The Register: "Administrators overseeing Ubuntu mailing lists are taking steps to thwart and apparent rash of un-Ubuntu-like behavior."


Source: Linux Today

Penguin Pete's Blog: "Despite its many advocates, whenever I buy some beef and try it, I always end up going back to chicken. Chicken has what I want, and beef doesn't. The latest releases of beef got my hopes up, but I was again disappointed. Now, don't get me wrong. I like beef "


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Source: Linux Today

Mozilla Hacks: "The result in that test was that Theora did much better at the low bit rate and more or less the same at the slightly higher bit rate."


Source: Linux Today

Free Software Magazine: "
If you haven’t heard yet, Google have released a developer preview of their new social networking and collaboration tool - Wave. What impact might this have on free software users and developers?"


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eWeek: "Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux project is expected to announce a new collaboration with HP to deliver an additional high-performance server configuration for Ubuntu users."


Source: Linux Today

Nanotech, the Circuits Blog: "Android running on devices at Computex was "snappy," while Windows 7 less so, according to a Gartner report published Monday. The report concluded that there is momentum behind the ARM chip platform."


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Wired: "The open source movement gave rise to Linux and spawned a generation of collaborative coders. Now it's extending its reach to the hardware industry."


Source: Linux Today

Groundwork press release: "Move to JBoss Portal provides cutting edge customization and easier enterprise integrations"


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Source: Linux Today

CentOS Pulse: "3.2. Enabling multimedia on CentOS
Configuring your CentOS to use RPMforge is explained in the Installing RPMforge wiki document. This document not only explains how to install RPMforge, but also explains how to protect ("prioritize") your system packages from not being replaced by packages from any extra repository."


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Scribd: "This guide tells you how to defend yourself against those trying to steal your passwords, personal data, and financial information."


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Linux Magazine: "An employee of Google has expressed himself regarding the disadvantages of OGG Theora in comparison with H.264 in a discussion on the mailing list of the web hypertext application technology working group."



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Tired of juggling Ruby gems? Try Rip. It's a one-size-fits-all, no fuss, powerful package manager.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Think writing a compiler is difficult? It is—unless you use Parrot, a complete compiler construction kit. With Parrot, crafting a new programming language is as easy as authoring a new website.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Author Douglas Crockford (JavaScript: The Good Parts) will be presenting on "Ajax Performance".


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Source: Security DevCenter

Author Douglas Crockford (JavaScript: The Good Parts), will discuss the 40-year-old Software Crisis and the grand subject of "Quality" - the processes by which we engineer quality into our software and, of course, the processes by which we often fail to do so.


Source: Security DevCenter

Author Bill Scott (Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction) will be presenting "Designing with Patterns" at the Google Campus, Bldg 43 in Mountain View, CA.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Author Bill Scott (Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction) will be speaking on "Prototyping with DHTML".


Source: Security DevCenter

All eyes are on Tehran right now. As the center of the Iranian election protests the city has become increasingly important to websites this week. To keep their site up-to-date with this latest crisis area Flickr switched out the Yahoo road Map with Open Street Map. When I heard about this I wondered how other major mapping sites faired.


Source: Security DevCenter

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Source: Security DevCenter

Author Derrick Story (The Digital Photography Companion, iPhoto 8: The Missing Manual, and Digital Photography Hacks) presents "Digital Photography Editing for Everyone."


Source: Security DevCenter

Augmented Reality is going to be coming to a phone near you very shortly. All it takes is a decent processor, a camera, a compass and a GPS -- all of which are becoming increasingly common on smart phones (Android phones and the iPhone 3GS qualify). It's going to be used primarily for games and geo-oriented apps. ARhrrr! is


Source: Security DevCenter

Finally, having a chance to decompress following his Maker Faire visit, Mark Sigal ruminates on what Maker Faire's 78K attendees means, concluding that it's all about creative destruction, mass customization and the rise of DIY (do it yourself) class.


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Source: Security DevCenter

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Updated: Thu Jun 18 23:55:02 2009


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