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Wake-up call: Apple won’t port iTunes to Linux
2008-05-24 17:43:00
I want to bring iTunes-loving Linux users back to reality. As you can see from the following Ubuntu Forums threads, some Ubuntu-ites are deluded about the idea of Apple porting iTunes to Linux:
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Wake-up call: Apple won’t port iTunes to Linux
2008-05-24 17:43:00
I want to bring iTunes-loving Linux users back to reality. As you can see from the following Ubuntu Forums threads, some Ubuntu-ites are deluded about the idea of Apple porting iTunes to Linux:
More About: Itunes , Port , Wake

South Africa Files Official Appeal Re OOXML - OOXML in Limbo Now
2008-05-24 16:47:00
Andy Updegrove has the news that South Africa has filed an official appeal, protesting the approval of OOXML, and the action means that OOXML is now in limbo until the appeal is decided. I wonder if this is why Microsoft suddenly decided to support ODF, to avoid being shut out completely pending the appeal. Might other national bodies be considering doing the same thing? Stay tuned.
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South Africa Files Official Appeal Re OOXML - OOXML in Limbo Now
2008-05-24 16:47:00
Andy Updegrove has the news that South Africa has filed an official appeal, protesting the approval of OOXML, and the action means that OOXML is now in limbo until the appeal is decided. I wonder if this is why Microsoft suddenly decided to support ODF, to avoid being shut out completely pending the appeal. Might other national bodies be considering doing the same thing? Stay tuned.
More About: Linux , South Africa , Files

Simple Perl Script To Demonstrate DNS Name Lookups In Linux
2008-05-24 15:32:00
This article approaches the opposite of a double-reverse-lookup (The double-reverse-lookup being IP to Name to IP mapping, with this being Name to IP to Name mapping). Some sites use Double Reverse Lookups as a security measure.
More About: Linux , Perl , Script , Simple , Demonstrate

FOSS helps Free Geek Vancouver become an ethical recycler
2008-05-24 14:35:00
Free Geek Vancouver (FGV) is now certified as the first ethical recycler in western Canada by the Basel Action Network (BAN), and an important part of the certification is the organization's refurbishing of used computers with free and open source software (FOSS).
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Ubuntu 8.04 behaving itself quite nicely ? all of my issues have been resol
2008-05-24 12:32:00
Now Ubuntu dutifully informs me with the Update Notifier that I have packages that need updating. ... And best of all, something somewhere has solved my USB flash drive problem in Ubuntu 8.04. I now can plug in a flash drive and read and write to it with no problem whatsoever.
More About: Linux , Issues

HOWTO: Nagios 2-way alerting via SMS
2008-05-24 11:35:00
This is a 3 part posting that covers how you can setup 2-way Nagios alerting via SMS. The series is broken down as such: Part 1: Background and RequirementsPart 2: Sending SMS messages from NagiosPart 3: Acknowledging SMS messages For those that wish to setup simple, inexpensive monitoring you will find that it is simpler than first thought. Feel free to grab the code-snippets provided over the series and make use of it in your own environment. The Nagios SMS alert system has been running here now in production for approximately 6 months and works extremely well.
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HOWTO: Nagios 2-way alerting via SMS
2008-05-24 11:35:00
This is a 3 part posting that covers how you can setup 2-way Nagios alerting via SMS. The series is broken down as such: Part 1: Background and RequirementsPart 2: Sending SMS messages from NagiosPart 3: Acknowledging SMS messages For those that wish to setup simple, inexpensive monitoring you will find that it is simpler than first thought. Feel free to grab the code-snippets provided over the series and make use of it in your own environment. The Nagios SMS alert system has been running here now in production for approximately 6 months and works extremely well.
More About: Linux , Howto

Portrait: NimbleX creator Bogdan Radulescu
2008-05-24 10:38:00
Sometimes all it takes to foment innovation may be an idea that sounds cool. When Romanian developer Bogdan Radulescu first ran into what would eventually be known as NimbleX, a mini-live CD project designed to be fast, light, and functional for everyday use. Radulescu recieved his first computer from his parents in the fifth grade. Little did he realize that computers would consume most of his time in the future. "I think my first contact with open source was actually with Linux in the late '99. I had only a [Red Hat 6] CD that I managed to install on my computer. I didn't actually know how to do anything because it was only the CD.
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Portrait: NimbleX creator Bogdan Radulescu
2008-05-24 10:38:00
Sometimes all it takes to foment innovation may be an idea that sounds cool. When Romanian developer Bogdan Radulescu first ran into what would eventually be known as NimbleX, a mini-live CD project designed to be fast, light, and functional for everyday use. Radulescu recieved his first computer from his parents in the fifth grade. Little did he realize that computers would consume most of his time in the future. "I think my first contact with open source was actually with Linux in the late '99. I had only a [Red Hat 6] CD that I managed to install on my computer. I didn't actually know how to do anything because it was only the CD.
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OpenSolaris 2008.05 strikes out again
2008-05-24 09:41:00
After being assured that my test on the Dell Optiplex GX520 didn't work because 512 MB of RAM is usually enough but not always, I tried to boot OpenSolaris 2008 .05 on my Gateway Solo 1450 -- featuring a 1.3 GHz Celeron M processor and a whopping 1 GB of RAM. I got to the console, but no GUI, no matter how hard I tried.
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OpenSolaris 2008.05 strikes out again
2008-05-24 09:41:00
After being assured that my test on the Dell Optiplex GX520 didn't work because 512 MB of RAM is usually enough but not always, I tried to boot OpenSolaris 2008 .05 on my Gateway Solo 1450 -- featuring a 1.3 GHz Celeron M processor and a whopping 1 GB of RAM. I got to the console, but no GUI, no matter how hard I tried.
More About: Linux

Is Open Source software safe and secure?
2008-05-24 08:43:00
It’s a big question: how trustworthy is the software I use on my computer? When it comes to open source, can you trust the quality of programmers who work for free? You can, according to a new report out this week – which also proves major open source offerings to be especially well written. It equally shows up the projects which are slow to respond to vulnerabilities.
More About: Software , Linux , Open Source , Open , Source

Is Open Source software safe and secure?
2008-05-24 08:43:00
It’s a big question: how trustworthy is the software I use on my computer? When it comes to open source, can you trust the quality of programmers who work for free? You can, according to a new report out this week – which also proves major open source offerings to be especially well written. It equally shows up the projects which are slow to respond to vulnerabilities.
More About: Software , Linux , Open Source , Open , Source

Reporting Bugs the Debian Way
2008-05-24 07:46:00
Following on from my recommendation for [apt-buglist][]—where you can see the reported bugs on a package before installing it—I thought it might be useful to look at the other side of the coin, reporting bugs in Debian . The best way to do this is with the dedicated tool: reportbug. Full story
More About: Linux , Bugs

Google carves an Android path through open source world
2008-05-23 11:55:00
Although the company has long used open source software within its internal operations, Android is Google 's highest-profile attempt so far to use the collaborative programming method to change how computing is done outside the company's walls. Google is hardly the first company to try using open-source software to shake up the industry. What's notable is Google's willingness to ruffle feathers in the open-source world, including those of potential allies such as Red Hat, with its approach.
More About: Linux , Open Source , World , Open

Google carves an Android path through open source world
2008-05-23 11:55:00
Although the company has long used open source software within its internal operations, Android is Google 's highest-profile attempt so far to use the collaborative programming method to change how computing is done outside the company's walls. Google is hardly the first company to try using open-source software to shake up the industry. What's notable is Google's willingness to ruffle feathers in the open-source world, including those of potential allies such as Red Hat, with its approach.
More About: Linux , Open Source , World , Open

Adapters for an ESB
2008-05-23 10:58:00
One of the joys of software development is the ease with which you can create complex stuff out of thin air–or your own imagination. Creating new software may fulfill a need that could not otherwise be met. However, you can take advantage of a standardized way of doing things, so that you don’t have to start from scratch every single time. In the case of infrastructure software, using an established standard enables you to concentrate on your specific business needs, and not the supporting systems.
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Adapters for an ESB
2008-05-23 10:58:00
One of the joys of software development is the ease with which you can create complex stuff out of thin air–or your own imagination. Creating new software may fulfill a need that could not otherwise be met. However, you can take advantage of a standardized way of doing things, so that you don’t have to start from scratch every single time. In the case of infrastructure software, using an established standard enables you to concentrate on your specific business needs, and not the supporting systems.
More About: Linux

Anatomy of a Linux Flash File System
2008-05-23 10:00:00
You've probably heard of Journaling Flash File System (JFFS) and Yet Another Flash File System (YAFFS), but do you know what it means to have a file system that assumes an underlying flash device? This article introduces you to flash file systems for Linux , and explores how they care for their underlying consumable devices through wear leveling.
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Anatomy of a Linux Flash File System
2008-05-23 10:00:00
You've probably heard of Journaling Flash File System (JFFS) and Yet Another Flash File System (YAFFS), but do you know what it means to have a file system that assumes an underlying flash device? This article introduces you to flash file systems for Linux , and explores how they care for their underlying consumable devices through wear leveling.
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Chinese Linux rises 22 percent in 12 months
2008-05-23 09:03:00
Linux sales in China have rocketed through the roof in the last year, but how many of these Linux PCs are being used as a cheap route to a pirated Windows machine?
More About: Linux , Chinese , Months

Chinese Linux rises 22 percent in 12 months
2008-05-23 09:03:00
Linux sales in China have rocketed through the roof in the last year, but how many of these Linux PCs are being used as a cheap route to a pirated Windows machine?
More About: Linux , Chinese , Months

IBMers answer call for IBM-free Eclipse
2008-05-23 08:20:00
If Eclipse was hoping to escape its current over reliance on IBM then it's off to a slow start judging by early work on its next platform - E4, due in 2010. Project members are meeting during the next two days at an E4 summit in Ottawa, Canada, to push on with the practical work of building E4, announced at EclipseCon in March.
More About: Linux , Answer , Free , Call

Software Patents in Europe and MicrosoftÂ’s Huge Lobbying Budget as of Late
2008-05-22 16:48:00
Despite recession, the finding seems to suggest that the pace of obligatorily-disclosed amounts now trivially exceeds $10 million for Microsoft alone (annually).
More About: Software , Europe , Budget , Patents , Huge

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols parts company with Ziff-Davis
2008-05-22 15:48:00
I don't know how I missed it, but one of the best writers out there on open-source software, Steven J. Vaughan -Nichols, has -- for reasons unknown to me -- ceased working for Ziff-Davis , the owner of the DesktopLinux.com Web site for which he had written hundreds of entries.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols parts company with Ziff-Davis
2008-05-22 15:48:00
I don't know how I missed it, but one of the best writers out there on open-source software, Steven J. Vaughan -Nichols, has -- for reasons unknown to me -- ceased working for Ziff-Davis , the owner of the DesktopLinux.com Web site for which he had written hundreds of entries.
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Commercial Drupal Theme : 19745
2008-05-22 15:10:00
Tags: fixed-width, centered, creative, business, black, blog, drupal
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Commercial Joomla 1.5 Template : 17779
2008-05-22 15:07:00
Tags: Joomla 1.5, fixed-width, centered, creative, business, clean, white
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