| Linux Today News SALARY LEVELS FOR LINUX ADMINISTRATORS
"Job Description for Linux Administrator -- Installs, configures, and maintains Linux operating systems. Analyzes and resolves problems associated with the operating system's servers, hardware, applications, and software" EASY CRONTAB EDITING WITH CORNTAB
"Never memorize what you can look up. This is one of the essential rules of system administration, and it applies very well to creating crontab entries. If you're not an expert on cron, don't worry -- just use the Corntab site or iPhone app." THE BAD GUYS ARE WORRIED - DID WE WIN?
"The thing most of us think of when we hear the word open is Windows" HOMELAND SECURITY'S DOMAIN NAME SEIZURE MAY STRETCH THE LAW PAST THE BREAKING POINT
"We had a bunch of questions concerning the legality of Homeland Security's seizure of domain names via its Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group. The whole thing seemed of extremely dubious legality. And it appears we're not the only ones to think so." WIKILEAKS DIPLOMATIC CABLE CACHE LINKS CHINA TO GOOGLE HACK
"Included in the massive trove of classified diplomatic cables the website WikiLeaks began releasing on Sunday is evidence reportedly linking Chinese authorities to a massive computer hacking campaign that included a high-profile assault on Google nearly a year ago." RED HAT AT $1 BILLION
"Based on the run rates of the current quarter, Red Hat will likely reach $1 billion in annual revenue in 2011. Only a handful of companies, probably less than 20 software firms, have ever hit this milestone." WHEN LINUS IS AWAY, LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPERS WILL...
"Normally, you'd think that when the 'boss' is away, that the 'employees' will slack-off. But the exact opposite is what happens with Linux kernel developers." A SCHIZOPHRENIC LOOK AT MICROSOFT, NOVELL, AND PATENTS
"No matter how you look at it, Microsoft's open purchase of Novell's patents was very sane." PMML MAKES PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS AND DATA MINING EASIER
"Predictive analytics -- the art of mining and analyzing historical data patterns to predict the future -- is not a common term among IT types, let alone consumers. Yet predictive analytics is practiced widely, and its use affects millions of consumers and businesses every day." 2010'S 5 BIGGEST LINUX AND OPEN-SOURCE STORIES
"The story behind the story is that Linux has become totally mainstream. No, you may not have a Linux desktop in front of you the way I do, but you if you spend most of your day visiting Google, Facebook, and Twitter, you're using Linux." IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN: LIFE FOR SUSE WITH ATTACHMATE
"Attachmate buying Novell came as a bit of a surprise to industry watchers, but now that the deal is inked (but not closed) what does it mean for SUSE, openSUSE, and the rest of the Linux industry?" FIREFOX EXTENSIONS FOR THE WEB DEVELOPER
"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...yada yada yada (I mentioned the kittens). Here are a few of my favorite Firefox things: Web Developer, Pixel Perfect, ColorZilla, Measure It and Pixl Grabber." ALL THAT JAVA JIVE
"I love coffee, I love tea. I love the Java Jive and it loves me.* If Java is giving you jive, put your fears aside. You'll soon love it sweet and hot. Or maybe not." PETER SUNDE ATTEMPTING TO CREATE P2P ALTERNATIVE TO ICANN
"According to Sunde's Twitter feed he has been suspicious of ICANN for a long time." BORDEAUX 50% OFF RECESSION BUSTING SALE
"The Bordeaux Technology Group is proud to announce a 50% off recession busting sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PCBSD and OpenIndiana." LCA 2011: THE QUIET MAN AT THE HELM
"The man behind the next Australian national Linux conference is an academic, a retiring type not exactly prone to bluff and bluster. He and his team are quietly getting things ready for the last week of January 2011 when a host of geeks will converge on Brisbane for the 12th LCA" CREATING A MOVING STORY-REEL SHOT WITH INKSCAPE AND BLENDER - RESULT
"Here's the final result of the pan and zoom background plate shot for use in the story reel for "Lunatics/No Children in Space." Created using Inkscape and Blender." DOMAIN NAME SEIZURES AND THE LIMITS OF CIVIL FORFEITURE
"I was quoted this morning in Sara Jerome's story for The Hill on the weekend seizures of domain names the government believes are selling black market, counterfeit, or copyright infringing goods." EXPORT VARIABLES IN BASH
"You may need to export variables in some circumstances in order to use them in the child process. The export command places the variable in the environment." RED HAT ACQUIRES MAKARA FOR CLOUD COMPUTING MANAGEMENT
"Red Hat has acquired Makara, which develops software for managing applications in the cloud. The move could strengthen Red Hat's Cloud Foundations, platform as a service (PaaS) and virtualization strategies." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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OSSIM: THE OPEN SOURCE SECURITY INFORMATION MANAGER
" OSSIM is a fully featured SIM solution that offers all the necessary functionality, ranging from the detection at low-level to high-level reporting. " P2P SETTLEMENT LAWYERS LIED, COMMITTED FRAUD SAYS NEW LAWSUIT
"Sending settlement letters to accused Internet movie pirates has become big business in the US this year, but a new class action lawsuit seeks to put the brakes on one of the main "settlement fraud and extortion" outfits: the law firm of Dunlap, Grubb, & Weaver." LEVERAGING LINUX FOR SUPERCOMPUTING
"Server virtualization for aggregation replaces the functionality of custom and proprietary chipsets with software and utilizes only a tiny fraction of a system's CPUs and RAM to provide chipset-level services without sacrificing system performance." THE GNOME 3.0 SHELL IS ADVANCING TOO
"Last night an update was published as to the state of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1, which is the Unity desktop interface that Canonical will be using in their next Ubuntu release rather than the GNOME Shell." MYSQL VS. POSTGRESQL, PART 1: TABLE ORGANIZATION
"I'm going to be starting an occasional series of blog postings comparing MySQL's architecture to PostgreSQL's architecture" RED HAT ACQUIRES MAKARA IN CLOUD DEV TOOLS PLAY
"Red Hat is acquiring cloud tools vendor Makara in a bid to expand the Red Hat Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud strategy." 5 OPEN SOURCE GROUPWARE SUITES TO WATCH
"Messaging and groupware is at the heart of business, and applications most people use everyday." REBUILD KERNEL-2.6.32.26-174.XENDOM0.FC12.SRC.RPM ON RHEL SERVER 6
"This post follows up "Howto" http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial ( [1] )." 10 PEAR PACKAGES FOR EVERY PHP DEVELOPER'S TOOLBOX
"PHP easily ranks among the world's most popular programming languages, with the TIOBE Programming Community Index placing it second only to Java, C, and C++ in terms of global language adoption" HOW TO BUY A COMPUTER PRELOADED WITH UBUNTU
"If you've ever paid attention to the market share statistics for desktop operating systems you probably know that Linux is most frequently pegged at about one percent" WIKILEAKS MOVES TO AMAZON'S CLOUD TO EVADE MASSIVE DDOS
"Controversial information disclosure site Wikileaks reportedly faced an intense distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack this morning. The site was temporarily disrupted by the onslaught, but is functioning again after migrating its services to Amazon's cloud" LEARN LINUX, 101: MANAGE FILE PERMISSIONS AND OWNERSHIP
"Summary: Learn to manage file ownership and permissions on your Linux® filesystems. Learn about access modes such as suid, sgid, and the sticky bit and how to use them to enhance security." EU OPENS ANTITRUST PROBE INTO GOOGLE SEARCH
"European antitrust authorities have launched an investigation into Google's search business, probing whether the Web company has used its dominant position to unfairly crowd out competitors." IMPRESSIVE NEW LOOK EVOLUTION MOCKUPS
"The following Evolution mockups are so impressive that I really hope someday these changes will be implemented in Evolution partially at least." IS LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPMENT SLOWING DOWN?
"The Linux Foundation's newly-released "Who Writes Linux" report shows some interesting trends into who is contributing to Linux in 2010 -- and yes, Canonical is on the list." HOW TO SETUP BONDING ON DEBIAN LINUX
"In this article I will describe the setup of bonding on a debian linux system for a high availability setup. The host is connected with two network cards to two different switches. If a switch or a network card fails the host will be still available in the network." UBUNTU'S UNITY INTERFACE: WHAT TO EXPECT
"Starting with Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu is moving from its old GNOME interface to its new Unity interface. Here's what it means to users." NOOK COLOR ROOTED: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR BARNES & NOBLE?
"Should Barnes and Noble fight the efforts to root the Nook Color or should the company let hackers turn the e-reader into a full fledged tablet?" TOP 10 SHELL/BASH TRICKS!
"Following, is my top ten tricks I use when I write scripts or administrate a linux box using bash (or console, if you say so). Note that all commands should work for you except -may be- apt-get, which you should replace with your distro's package manager. Apt-get works for Debian and its derivatives, including of course ubuntu." | 
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