How the Linux Kernel Manages Virtual Memory
(Nov 22, 2008, 12:03 UTC) (209 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Virtual memory is one of the most important, and accordingly confusing, pieces of an operating system. Understanding the basics of virtual memory is required to understand operating system performance. Beyond the basics, a deeper understanding allows a system administrator to interpret system profiling tools better, leading to quicker troubleshooting and better decisions."

The Telepathic Desktop: Apps Are Out, People Are In
(Nov 22, 2008, 06:03 UTC) (610 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."

Plain English Explanation Of An Awk Statement For Linux Or Unix
(Nov 22, 2008, 01:33 UTC) (674 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) (575 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) (1465 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."

PC Magazine, a Flagship for Ziff Davis, Will Cease Printing a Paper Version
(Nov 21, 2008, 22:33 UTC) (694 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."

IE8 Coming in 2009, But Will it be Late to the Firefox Party?
(Nov 21, 2008, 21:51 UTC) (803 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) (857 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."

'Dark Knight' on its Way to Becoming 2008's Most Pirated Movie
(Nov 21, 2008, 20:46 UTC) (735 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."

Reliable Linux Netbooks for Black Friday
(Nov 21, 2008, 19:48 UTC) (1433 reads) (2 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) (1065 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."

KOffice Releases New Beta of 2.0 Release
(Nov 21, 2008, 17:03 UTC) (834 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."

Happy Birthday, Turing's Universal Machine
(Nov 21, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (618 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 Linux Tinority Responds
(Nov 21, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (1131 reads) (7 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."

How to Help New Linux Users
(Nov 21, 2008, 13:33 UTC) (764 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."

Tables in OpenOffice.org Impress: New and Unstylish
(Nov 21, 2008, 12:03 UTC) (846 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."

Web Browser Hero
(Nov 21, 2008, 09:33 UTC) (2420 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) (703 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) (859 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."

WFTL Bytes! For Nov 20, 2008: Stock Tanks, Mozilla Rises, Moonlight on Dinosaurs
(Nov 21, 2008, 02:33 UTC) (634 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) (1855 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."

Doing a diff Without Touching the Command Line
(Nov 21, 2008, 00:33 UTC) (762 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "With diff-ext, GNOME users can compare and merge files from within Nautilus. If, instead, you use KDE 3, try out kdiff-ext from the same site, which works with Konqueror. Each utility handles paths to files and directories and invokes an external diff tool to perform the grunt work. With diff-ext you can easily compare two files with different names, from different directories, or whole directory trees."

Via Panel PC Resists Shock, Liquids
(Nov 20, 2008, 23:33 UTC) (996 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Via announced a fanless panel PC that runs Linux, and resists both liquids and dust. The "VIPRO VP7710" includes Via's Eden or C7 processors, a 10.4-inch touchscreen display, gigabit Ethernet, three serial ports, and two USB 2.0 ports, the company says."

Straight Talking About the Unspeakable ACTA
(Nov 20, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (705 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open Enterprise: "Even more outrageously, those doors are nonetheless being opened for representatives of trade organisations who wish to see their own agendas pushed through, but not for ordinary citizens, who seem to have no rights in this arena."

Why Firefox Rocks: Great Firefox Tricks, Part IV
(Nov 20, 2008, 21:33 UTC) (1917 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Firefox is cram-full of hidden treasures, as we have learned in this series. Today Akkana Peck exposes Firefox's expertise at handling those ridiculously long URLs that plague the Web-- email clients mangle them, copy and paste is a nightmare-- but Firefox has some special tricks that make them easy."

Sheep-Throwing Marsupial in the "Yo Frankie" Game
(Nov 20, 2008, 21:03 UTC) (673 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "If you've ordered the DVD, you're probably already busy throwing sheep and beating up rats in a lovely virtual countryside."

The 7 Deadly Linux Commands
(Nov 20, 2008, 20:33 UTC) (3091 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Source From Bohol: "If you are new to Linux, chances are you will meet a stupid person perhaps in a forum or chat room that can trick you into using commands that will harm your files or even your entire operating system."

FashionYourFirefox: Mozilla's (Partial) Effort to Push Extensions
(Nov 20, 2008, 19:33 UTC) (656 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "In an effort to coax more users to take advantage of the many extensions for its Firefox browser, Mozilla has just launched FashionYourFirefox.com. The site is divided up into categories, which cater to individual interests and "online lifestyles," according to Mozilla's announcement."

Why Doesn't Everyone Just Run Linux?
(Nov 20, 2008, 19:03 UTC) (2241 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux Distillery: "Linux rocks; if you have a netbook, a GPS, a portable media player or any of a number of gadgets chances are it's running Linux under the hood. That's because Linux is reliable, it's versatile, it's robust and it has no licensing fees. So why isn't it mainstream in the desktop world?"

TMI Google?
(Nov 20, 2008, 18:33 UTC) (779 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Neowin: "But if they were to hit Google, they would be getting much more that just names and credit card numbers and an address - they would essentially be getting everything that makes us... us. Search history, emails, friends lists, past conversations, pictures and even a voice sample"

Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.10 Released
(Nov 20, 2008, 17:03 UTC) (1746 reads) (28 talkbacks) (feedback)
Softpedia: "The hard working team behind the UbuntuME (Ubuntu Muslim Edition) project announced today a new version of their Linux-based operating system. Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.10 is based on Intrepid Ibex, also known as the Ubuntu 8.10 operating system."

64-Bit Linux Adobe Flash Player: Surprisingly good
(Nov 20, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (2326 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "Talk about a change in priorities! When Adobe decided it was time to start work on a 64-bit Flash Player, they didn't release the first test version on Windows or Mac OS X. No, they released it on Linux and Solaris. Wow."

Mozilla Revenues Hit $75 Million - Hello IRS
(Nov 20, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (815 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Netstat -vat: "Mozilla Chief Wrangler Mitchell Baker today reported Mozilla's financial position which shows 2007 revenues of $75 million up by 12 percent from 2006 revenues of $67 million. Though Mozilla is on the upswing, Baker's report shows some areas of potential future financial concerns."

Take Five
(Nov 20, 2008, 13:33 UTC) (926 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Realeyes Technology: "Jazz fans will recognize the title of this post as one of the most famous jazz pieces ever written. It was composed and performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and was part of the album Time Out, which contained several pieces in unusual time signatures."

Sun Wrestles Itself With StarOffice 9
(Nov 20, 2008, 13:03 UTC) (1147 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "StarOffice 9 reminds me of the classic Monty Python skit in which Graham Chapman wrestles himself. Although StarOffice is being aggressively presented as an alternative to Microsoft Office, it seems to be equally marketed and bundled to compete against OpenOffice.org, the free software project that is sponsored by Sun and that shares a common code base with StarOffice. The trouble is, the differences between the two have diminished with each release, until, with StarOffice 9, you have to wonder who the potential customers might be."

Phoronix 2008 Linux Graphics Survey
(Nov 20, 2008, 07:03 UTC) (1057 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "This year we're hosting the survey again to allow the development community to get a better understanding of the video hardware in use, what open-source and closed-source drivers are being used, and other relevant information."

Good (Linux) Things on the Horizon
(Nov 20, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (1682 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM: "We seem to be in a particularly good period for Linux at the moment. We've recently gotten the Mandriva 2009.0 and Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex releases, and both of them seem to be very good. There will be a number of new releases coming in the next few weeks, as well:"

Bash One-Liner Script To Produce Somewhat-Fancy Output Of Who's Logged In
(Nov 19, 2008, 23:33 UTC) (1065 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to shoot out a quick one liner script that can come in handy from time to time. It doesn't fall under the "necessary" category (or, maybe not even the "useful" one ;), but it's nice to have for those times when you just don't feel like doing any extra typing or expending the effort required to separate the wheat from the chaff on a screen full of garbage output."

Book Review: American Nerd
(Nov 19, 2008, 22:03 UTC) (622 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Slashdot: "This book seemed to have potential, particularly since the image of nerds has changed in recent times. Once objects of derision and schoolyard bullying, nerds are now acknowledged as having a place in society. The Lord of the Rings became a multi-million dollar movie trilogy, the internet is now used by an incredible number of people, and computer games are no longer seen as being 'just for kids.'"

Why Free Software is a Con-Trick
(Nov 19, 2008, 21:33 UTC) (1996 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open...: "The key to a con is not that you trust the conman, but that he shows he trusts you. Conmen ply their trade by appearing fragile or needing help, by seeming vulnerable."

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