The Telepathic Desktop: Apps Are Out, People Are In
(Nov 22, 2008, 06:03 UTC) (240 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The New Topyli Standard: "This article is a humble opinion piece of a GNOME user who wishes to stop using communication software and just be in touch with people. I want to write mail to, chat with, talk to, and have video conferences with real people without worrying about applications and technology."

Passive Checks and NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor)
(Nov 22, 2008, 04:33 UTC) (210 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Packt: "Nagios also offers a tool for sending passive check results for hosts and services over a network. It is called NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor). It can be used to send results from one Nagios instance to another. It can also be used by third-party applications running on different machines to send passive check results to a central Nagios server."

Setting Up Master-Master Replication On Four Nodes With MySQL 5 On Debian Etch
(Nov 22, 2008, 03:03 UTC) (281 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Howtoforge: "This tutorial explains how you can set up MySQL master-master replication on four MySQL nodes (running on Debian Etch). The difference to a two node master-master replication (which is explained here) is that if you have more than two nodes, the replication goes in a circle, i.e., with four nodes, the replication goes from node1 to node2, from node2 to node3, from node3 to node4, and from node4 to node1."

Plain English Explanation Of An Awk Statement For Linux Or Unix
(Nov 22, 2008, 01:33 UTC) (485 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "I'll be the first to admit, though, that the examples were somewhat of a test for me when I first slapped them together and probably deserved to be explained more than they were. To that end, we'll look at one of the examples from yesterday and pick it apart, so that the pieces all make sense to, hopefully, any and every one. I aim to please :)"

Can't Print in Evince, GEdit, Claws-Mail
(Nov 22, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (434 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
My Thoughts: "I got the Printer selection box but when I clicked on print an error message popped up, "Can't prompt for Authorization". I checked my printer settings and everything looked fine, so I tried again, another error message popped up: "Too many failed attempts".

Kubuntu Moves Forward: You Can't Please Everyone, All the Time
(Nov 21, 2008, 23:33 UTC) (1116 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "It's nearly a year since KDE released the KDE4 desktop. The initial roll-out was rocky for KDE, and while subsequent releases have brought ever increasing stability and enhancements, some KDE users feel it's not quite ready for daily use."

Editor's Note: Linux Should Copy Amiga
(Nov 21, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (1527 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Mark Shuttleworth made headlines not too long ago when he called for the Linux desktop to surpass Mac OS X in both beauty and functionality. While a lot of folks thought that was breathtaking and audacious, I think he's aiming way too low. I think Linux should aspire to equal or better the Amiga OS.

PC Magazine, a Flagship for Ziff Davis, Will Cease Printing a Paper Version
(Nov 21, 2008, 22:33 UTC) (551 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
New York Times: "Ziff Davis Media announced Wednesday that it was ending print publication of its 27-year-old flagship, PC Magazine, and would take the title online only."

The Sound of Empire Falling
(Nov 21, 2008, 22:03 UTC) (1581 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Armed and Dangerous: "I predicted years ago that what would eventually do Microsoft in was white-box PC makers defecting because they needed to claw back profit margin as the Windows license became the largest single item in their bills of material. And here’s the confirmation I've been awaiting:"

IE8 Coming in 2009, But Will it be Late to the Firefox Party?
(Nov 21, 2008, 21:51 UTC) (652 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Open Road: "With a release candidate not scheduled until the first quarter of 2009, the final release won't hit until the second (or possibly even the third) quarter. Microsoft released a beta of IE8 back in March 2008. Roughly a year later, we should see the full release in action. By that time, will anyone care?"

Complete Backup and Restore Using "tar" Command
(Nov 21, 2008, 21:33 UTC) (704 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linuxhaxor: "I'll explain methods I use to maintain my setup and configuration files without the loss of any data or personal settings. Once you have recovered from the crash, the restoration can be as simple as typing a single command using the Live CD and a terminal."

Red Hat Fedora Linux: 9.5 Million Users and Growing
(Nov 21, 2008, 21:17 UTC) (660 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: "Red Hat's Fedora community Linux distribution has now tallied its user base, and it's a number that on the surface would make it the largest installed base of any Linux distribution, with at least 9.5 million users and possibly as many as 10.5 million. Fedora competitor Ubuntu Linux currently claims to have 8 million users."

GCC Hacks in the Linux Kernel: Discover GCC Extensions for the C Language
(Nov 21, 2008, 21:03 UTC) (645 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "The Linux kernel uses several special capabilities of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) suite. These capabilities range from giving you shortcuts and simplifications to providing the compiler with hints for optimization. Discover some of these special GCC features and learn how to use them in the Linux kernel."

'Dark Knight' on its Way to Becoming 2008's Most Pirated Movie
(Nov 21, 2008, 20:46 UTC) (616 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Open Road: "What a perverse message to send to the movie studios: we love your product so much that we refuse to pay for it."

5 Ways To Beat The IT Budget Blues
(Nov 21, 2008, 20:33 UTC) (487 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "These desperate times call for desperate measures but don't worry these measures aren't nearly so desperate and they just might help you fix that ailing IT budget. All you need is a little creative thinking and some good people behind you--and these 5 things (in order of importance)."

More Milestones in Linux Kernel Development History
(Nov 21, 2008, 20:03 UTC) (590 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Developer Network: "After we published the "Estimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux Distribution" whitepaper, out of curiosity I wondered where in the overall development history of the Linux kernel the $1 billion number was actually reached. There was also the desire to trace the history of Linux and monitor its growth. Here's what I came up with."

Reliable Linux Netbooks for Black Friday
(Nov 21, 2008, 19:48 UTC) (1309 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "I like Linux netbooks. I like them a lot. They're lightweight, they're solid performers, they're cheap, and it looks like they're soon going to be cheaper than ever."

Fedora 11 Release Schedule, Along With Five Features
(Nov 21, 2008, 19:33 UTC) (948 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "The five features that are marked to be introduced in Fedora 11 include DeviceKit integration, improved volume controls, Windows cross-compiler support, Presto plug-in integration, and simple support for setting up a multi-seat system."

Data encryption and Ubuntu, Part I
(Nov 21, 2008, 19:03 UTC) (706 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Wire: "I am a strong believer that in certain circumstances you should have mechanism available to you to protect your own data and be avle to share that data only with people and organisations that you trust. I want to outline several ways of keeping your data private."

Nvidia Announces "Personal Supercomputer"
(Nov 21, 2008, 18:33 UTC) (1064 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
PC World: "Nvidia, working with several partners, has developed the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, powered by a graphics processing unit based on Nvidia's Cuda parallel computing architecture."

A Graphical Way to MySQL Mastery
(Nov 21, 2008, 18:03 UTC) (823 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "MySQL GUI Tools is a suite of graphical desktop applications for working with and administering MySQL servers. The suite consists of three tools: MySQL Query Browser, MySQL Administrator, and MySQL Migration Assistant (available only on Windows). We'll look at the first two to see how well they let us manage MySQL without using the command line."

IETF: Should We Ignore the Kaminsky Bug?
(Nov 21, 2008, 17:33 UTC) (630 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Network World: "The Internet engineering community is grappling with what to do about a serious flaw in the DNS discovered this summer, and the ongoing debate brings to mind a famous quotation from Voltaire: "The perfect is the enemy of the good.""

KOffice Releases New Beta of 2.0 Release
(Nov 21, 2008, 17:03 UTC) (769 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tectonic: "The release team has decided that a number of the applications are now mature enough to be part of 2.0. These include KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, KPlato for project management, Karbon the vector graphics editor, and Krita for raster graphics editing."

Final Judgment in SCO v. Novell: SCO Loses Again
(Nov 21, 2008, 16:33 UTC) (1494 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Groklaw: "The final judgment [PDF] from Utah is here at last."

Happy Birthday, Turing's Universal Machine
(Nov 21, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (581 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Register: "It's just 71 years ago this month that a seminal paper from Alan Turing was published, which helped pave the way to today's multi-billion dollar IT industry and confer on Turing the title of father of modern computer science."

The AIX Administrator's Guide to Learning Linux
(Nov 21, 2008, 15:33 UTC) (756 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Most system administrators planning to install Linux on IBM System p eventually run into an important question: Which Linux distribution should I install? This article compares two distributions from Red Hat and Novell, and weighs the pros and cons of each."

Deploy on Linux or Stay With XP - Hasta la Vista
(Nov 21, 2008, 15:03 UTC) (1715 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "One of the goals of the survey was to examine the influence of SharePoint and the Microsoft stack on the open source community."

The Linux Tinority Responds
(Nov 21, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (1068 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Wire: "But then there are fanatics among the users of every operating system, the Taliban among computer users. There are some who even praise Windows - that's how bad it gets."

Mandrake Linux Founder Back With a Virtual Desktop
(Nov 21, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (1067 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: "Whatever happened to the founder of Mandrake Linux? He's back on the scene with a new open source startup and looking to break some ground with its first offering called a Virtual Desktop solution."

How to Help New Linux Users
(Nov 21, 2008, 13:33 UTC) (714 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "The popularity of Ubuntu Linux has attracted millions of new Linux users. Helping inexperienced computer users, whether as part of your job or just on a friendly basis, can be demanding and frustrating. But it is an essential part of building community, and just being a decent person. Michael Hall has some helpful pointers for keeping perspective, keeping your temper, and keeping your sanity."

Open Source 101: An Executive Guide to Open Source
(Nov 21, 2008, 13:03 UTC) (770 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
CIO: "The success of open-source software has been remarkable, forcing even the largest commercial software vendors such as IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Oracle and Microsoft to acknowledge its influence and, in some cases, adopt its methods. It seems likely that most companies with information technology departments of any size are familiar with - if not actively using - open-source products on a daily basis."

Tables in OpenOffice.org Impress: New and Unstylish
(Nov 21, 2008, 12:03 UTC) (816 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "Impress Tables are one of the most welcome features in the recently-released OpenOffice.org 3.0. Using them is straightforward, but they have their limitations, and you may miss one or two useful features before you learn your way around their somewhat awkward interface."

Book Review: SQL Hacks
(Nov 21, 2008, 11:03 UTC) (761 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "SQL Hacks: Tips & Tools for Digging into Your Data by Andrew Cumming and Gordon Russell sets itself apart through format, easy-going style, and ability to cover lots of tips, tricks, and hacks with Structured Query Language."

Web Browser Hero
(Nov 21, 2008, 09:33 UTC) (2345 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "Perhaps the most versatile, feature-rich web browser available today is on your Desktop and you may not even know its name."

YouTube is Big Fun And Useful
(Nov 21, 2008, 08:03 UTC) (672 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Today Blog: "Some folks, like the MAFIAA, see it only as a den of thieves, stealing the bread from their children's mouths. But to me it's a fantastic showcase for anyone with minimal tools-- a computer, a camera, a bit of editing software-- to create and share."

Convoluted Column Arithmetic Examples Using Awk On Linux Or Unix
(Nov 21, 2008, 06:33 UTC) (825 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's going to be a "fun with awk" day. I figure we should have one now because we never had them in school when I was a kid... The topic, as the title suggests, has to do with columnar arithmetic or, less pompously put, performing arithmetic operations on columns or, even more accessibly, adding stuff up ;) It's somewhat like our older post on doing simple cumulative math with awk, but slightly more confusing."

30 Game Scripts You Can Write in PHP
(Nov 21, 2008, 04:03 UTC) (1126 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Each article in this "30 game scripts you can write in PHP" series will cover 10 scripts in 300 words or less (3d10 stands for "roll three 10-sided dice") simple enough for even a beginning developer, but useful enough for a seasoned game player. The goal is to give you something you can modify to suit your needs, so you can impress your friends and players by busting out your laptop at your next gaming session."

WFTL Bytes! For Nov 20, 2008: Stock Tanks, Mozilla Rises, Moonlight on Dinosaurs
(Nov 21, 2008, 02:33 UTC) (608 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
WFTL Bytes!: "Your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Thursday, November 20, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. Today you'll discover how low open source company stock has gone, you'll find out that Mozilla is doing okay, that Moonlight is coming (real soon now), that your old computers are going places you don't care to know, and that Jurassic Part may be just around the corner. Or not."

Jackalope Rising: Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 1 As Early As Tomorrow
(Nov 21, 2008, 01:33 UTC) (1803 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "The Ubuntu project says that the initial alpha release of Ubuntu 9.04 (the "Jaunty Jackalope") could be available for testing in less than twenty-four hours. Yes, that's a little less than a month after the current, stable version, "Intrepid Ibex" was finalized and formally released."

Building an OpenBSD Gateway - Part 1
(Nov 21, 2008, 01:03 UTC) (943 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Raiden's Realm: "If you're happy with the level of functionality you receive from your current router, then you can stop reading now if you like. However, if you want to crank up your gateway's functionality and security by astronomic proportions, then this tutorial is for you."

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