| Linux Today News THE INTRODUCTION OF APACHE WAVE
"The non-profit organization Apache software foundation has accepted the Google wave into the incubator program. The foundation has a reputation for raring up communities that create software." TECH COMICS: "OUR DAILY (TECH) SYMPHONY"
"With so many tech devices in our daily lives, we are constantly serenaded by an odd electronic music." CHROME OS NEEDS TO REMEMBER THE LINUX LESSONS
"It has to be remembered that Linux has already trod the ground that Chrome OS is now trying to conquer. Linux also wanted to corner the netbook market but failed miserably, so the question is can Chrome succeed." ST. NICK IN THE NICK OF TIME
"The reason we closed down is simple. We were out of computers to give away. We had several on hand but they were scheduled for installs already. Once we dispatched those, our cupboards were bare." THE WEB ON THE CONSOLE
"Most people think ?graphical interfaces? when they think of surfing the Web. And, under X11, there are lots of great programs, like Firefox or Chrome. But, the console isn't the wasteland it might seem. Lots of utilities are available for surfing the Web and also for downloading or uploading content." APACHE RESIGNS FROM JAVA COMMUNITY PROCESS - WHAT'S NEXT?
"Apache today officially resigned from the Java Community Process (JCP), after weeks of threatening to do so. At issue is the license under which Oracle makes the TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit) for Java available." WEBOPEDIA TERM OF THE DAY: ENTERPRISE LINUX DEFINED
"Enterprise Linux is the term used to reference any distribution (distro) of the open source Linux operating system that is targeted to the commercial market (not to consumers) for use on corporate or small business servers, desktops, workstations and mobile deployments." DEEP SYSTEM DISCOVERY ON YOUR LINUX SERVER WITH /PROC
"/proc is a virtual filesystem generated at boot and updated regularly by the kernel. With /proc you can investigate exactly what is happening on your Linux system, and also manipulate kernel events" BRAZIL PLANS LARGE GNU/LINUX DEPLOYMENT
"Brazil's Ministry of Education plans to deploy Mandriva GNU/Linux for educational use nationwide, according to information at the official Mandriva blog." REMOTE ROOT VULNERABILITY IN EXIM
"While investigating security break in the network of my company, I've captured (by tcpdump) sequence of successful remote root attack through Exim. It was Exim from Debian Lenny (exim4-daemon-light 4.69-9)" PC COMPANIES, CHIP MAKERS MOVE TO SUPPORT DIGITAL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY
"Chip makers AMD, Intel will drop support for VGA and LVDS by 2015 in move to accelerate adoption of HDMI and DisplayPort digital interfaces. Dell, Lenovo, LG and Samsung signal plans to promote digital display interfaces over older analog technology." Cloud Computing 101: Get Free eBook!
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REVIEW: ARCH LINUX FOR LINUX FUNDAMENTALISTS
"You can, of course, just build Linux from source code, or use a distribution such as Gentoo or Linux from Scratch (LFS) that relies heavily on Linux source code. Those distributions though are best left to developers and other people who know their way around programming." CHROME OS NOTEBOOKS WILL BE WINDOWS-PROOF
"Don't look at one of these if you're into Windows." OPTIMIZING MYSQL QUERY RETRIEVAL SPEED THROUGH TABLE JOINS
AMD'S LINUX TEAM TAKES ANOTHER BLOW
"The Catalyst Linux driver is now largely on-par with the AMD Windows driver (except with areas like XvBA for video acceleration), but today AMD's Linux team is facing a new loss." INTELLECTUAL VENTURES SUES OVER SECURITY PATENTS
"Tis the season to be litigious."" 10 PHP TRICKS FOR ASSOCIATIVE ARRAY MANIPULATION
"The associative array -- an indispensable data type used to describe a collection of unique keys and associated values -- is a mainstay of all programming languages, PHP included. In fact, associative arrays are so central to the task of Web development that PHP supports dozens of functions..." WEEKEND PROJECT: SET UP SAFE GUEST WI-FI WITH LINUX
"The holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means: relatives coming over wanting to use your WiFi. If you'd like to find a solution somewhere between "run an open, unsecured AP" and "hand out your WPA2 password to people who write things like that down on sticky notes" then setting up a captive portal is a convenient option." HOW TO WRITE UNMAINTAINABLE CODE
"In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes" GOODBYE UBUNTU NETBOOK EDITION MAVERICK, HELLO JOLICLOUD 1.1
"I had to switch to something else for my netbook. I'm a ubuntu fan-boy. So I needed a ubuntu derivative. Some google searching, and I found what I was looking for: Jolicloud 1.1. " SELF-ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST: FIRST IMPRESSIONS AFTER RELEASE
"The Linux Foundation?s Open Compliance Program published its compliance self-assessment checklist on November 1 right on schedule" COUNTRIES AND CAPITALS - A COLORFUL INTERACTIVE ATLAS FOR YOUNG GEOGRAPHERS
Geo4Kids, a company that develops geography-related products for children, presents a new member of its growing family of interactive applications that aim to solve these problems and make geography look more attractive in the eyes of the young generation. ANALYST PERSPECTIVE ON NEXUS S, ANDROID 2.3: NEGATIVE
"Google and Samsung's Nexus S smartphone will be available for purchase next week, giving consumers their first look at the much-anticipated Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread, mobile operating system." FOCUSWRITER, WANNABES AND PRACTICING WRITERS
"I generally write in Bluefish. It has just about everything I need -- a word count, a spell-checker, and shortcuts to produce clean HTML (if that's what the editor requires), and little of the overhead and distractions of a word processor." CHANGING THE LOOKS OF NAGIOS IN 60 SECONDS
"Did you know you can easily change the way Nagios looks? Nagios has a number of options for frontends, or skins for the Nagios web interface." LINUX: TUX GOES TO CHURCH
"In today's world of shrinking budgets and shrinking incomes, charitable organizations are feeling a financial crunch from lower giving. Churches are among these organizations that are struggling to make ends meet while attempting to serve the communities around them" HOW TO DUAL-BOOT LINUX MINT 10 AND WINDOWS 7
"This is the latest in a series of tutorials that has been published on this site on how to dual-boot Windows 7 and Linux distributions." IF BANKING WERE MORE OPEN SOURCE, WE WOULD NEED LESS WIKILEAKS
"Banks are important. The world economic crisis is due for a good part to insufficient transparency in banks. Wikileaks next document drop may target banks. And a small group of activists is trying to solve those bank problems in a (Open Source) way that may make Wikileaks less necessary." ENABLING COMPIZ FUSION ON A FEDORA 14 GNOME DESKTOP (NVIDIA GEFORCE 8100)
"This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 14 GNOME desktop. With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop." CONFERENCE ON FREE / OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN LVIV
The International Research and Practice Conference "FOSS Lviv-2011" will take place in Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukrainia, on February, 1 - 4. GOOGLE'S MOTION TO DISMISS PAUL ALLEN'S PATENT INFRINGEMENT COMPLAINT GRANTED
"Paul Allen's patent infringement complaint against the world and its dog has been dismissed." TOO MANY SHOOT 'EM UP GAMES
"But I can't help but be disappointed that developers aren't taking advantage of the advanced Free Software game engines, especially since most of the plays mentioned above don't have versions for GNU+Linux." THE KERNEL AND THE C LIBRARY AS A SINGLE PROJECT
"Linux is nearly unique, however, in its division of kernel and user-space development. Proprietary operating systems have always been managed as a single project encompassing both user and kernel space; other free systems (the BSDs, for example) are run that way as well. Might Linux ever take a more integrated approach?" INSTALL DIGIKAM 1.6 ON UBUNTU 10.10
"Running Ubuntu 10.10? Want the latest version of digiKam with it? Philip Johnsson?s got you covered." UBUNTU BRAINSTORM TOP 10 FOR DECEMBER 2010
"As I mentioned recently, the Ubuntu Technical Board is reviewing the most popular topics in Ubuntu Brainstorm and coordinating official responses on behalf of the project. This means that the most popular topics on Ubuntu Brainstorm receive expert answers from the people working in these areas." CONFIGURE SAMBA SHARES IN CENTOS
"Server OSes, such as CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise do not enjoy the same simplicity as does the modern Linux desktop when it comes to issues like sharing out directories" NON-PROFITS LEAD THE WAY WITH LINUX
"At the same time, the forces behind big label proprietary software applications rail back against open source by saying the open source approach to enterprise needs will end up costing more money in the long run." DEBIAN AND RED HAT CLOSE EXIM HOLE
"Four days after a security hole was discovered in the free Exim mail server, the developers of Debian and Red Hat have released corrected versions for their Linux distributions" ANDROID WILL BE USING EXT4 STARTING WITH GINGERBREAD
"Starting with Gingerbread, newer Android phones (starting with the Nexus S) will be using the ext4 file system. Very cool!" GOOD NEWS OUT OF UNIGINE'S LINUX GAME COMPETITION
"Last month the company behind the very advanced Unigine Engine launched a Linux game development competition whereby they would give away a free license to the game development team that came up with the best game idea and would provide a native Linux game client. Submissions for this contest ended on Friday." 6 FREE WAYS TO STAY SECURE IN THE NEW YEAR
"Fortunately, you don?t necessarily need to spend money for top-notch security software. If you resolve to stay secure in the New Year, here are a half-dozen no-cost ways to do it." KUBUNTU 10.10 REVIEW
"Gareth Halfacree takes the KDE spin of popular desktop Linux distribution Ubuntu, known as Kubuntu, through its paces" TOP 50 PROGRAMMING QUOTES OF ALL TIME
"I hope you have enjoyed our collection of funny computer quotes, Linux quotes, and all those quotes that we have shared with you so far. For today, I've decided to gather a good number of my all-time favorite programming-related quotes." TOP 5 SECURITY THREATS IN HTML5
"But with any major introduction of new features, HTML5 also brings with it potential security vulnerabilities �?? which is not to say that HTML5 is "flawed," but that, invariably, there will be new attack vectors for hackers to exploit." MAKING REALISTIC CHARACTERS FOR BLENDER WITH MAKEHUMAN
"But it?s obviously a very often-needed task, using a lot of common elements, so you?d think someone would come up with a tool to make it easier. And you?d be right. The free-software tool of choice for this task is MakeHuman" WHEN COMPUTERS GO WRONG
"Here, we look at ten IT disasters that highlight the precariously fickle nature of computers. Although our top ten mistakes may have caused lasting damage to the finances or reputations of those involved, nobody was physically harmed in the making of this list." | 
