10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer: UPDATED 10 Things: "Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels. You might be violating one of them without even knowing." (Mar 12, 2010)
Linux Today Features
Linux Today Sticky Page On this page we'll maintain links to important articles and documents that pertain to Free Software, Linux, and the tech industry. Please submit your suggestions to editors@linuxtoday.com. Thank you! (Jun 15, 2009)
Small Features
The 10 Most Downloaded Open Source Apps Of All Time! Geek Trio: "Everyone loves open source software. After all… its free! Many times I’ve heard the question, “what is the most popular open source application of all time?” I decided to find out." Mar 10, 2010
Google Offers Migration Tool for Microsoft Exchange Data (Mar 20, 2010, 20:02 UTC) (1719 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Mobile Today: "Google is ratcheting up its efforts to woo Microsoft customers with what it says is a simple, four-step migration process to its cloud-based suite of applications."
Allianz CIO 'lost hair' over Linux upgrade (Mar 19, 2010, 12:34 UTC) (3583 reads)
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(feedback) ZDNet: "Allianz Australia Insurance chief information officer (CIO) Steve Cole said yesterday he had done the equivalent of losing hair while undertaking an upgrade that saw the company move from multiple Wintel servers to a Linux mainframe."
Google Denied Trademark for Nexus One (Mar 19, 2010, 09:04 UTC) (2412 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "Google doesn't get embarrassed too often, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just dealt it a loss of face by rejecting its application for a trademark for the Nexus One smartphone."
Phoromatic 1.0 Unleashed & Ubuntu Joins The Party (Mar 19, 2010, 03:04 UTC) (1927 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Phoromatic has been a huge success, but today we are announcing that Phoromatic has reached a 1.0 status and additionally we are providing the Ubuntu Linux community with a new performance tracker in collaboration with Canonical."
Red Hat CEO Says Innovation Trumps Cost Savings (Mar 18, 2010, 14:03 UTC) (991 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Planet: "In a keynote address, Jim Whitehurst explains why open source has become more valuable as an enabler of innovation in the enterprise than a means to cheaper software."
Get to Know MySQL Workbench (Mar 17, 2010, 23:32 UTC) (1498 reads)
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(feedback) Ghacks: "Although MySQL works exceptionally well from the command line (it's not as hard as one would think), having a solid GUI tool just opens the user up to learning more powerful tasks and getting more work done faster."
SECURITY: Thunderbird Secure Connections Using Postfix (Mar 17, 2010, 22:32 UTC) (1057 reads)
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(feedback) Postfix Mail: "One great alternative client is Thunderbird, Icedove if you are on Debian. Here is a step by step approach to setting up the Thunderbird client for TLS and SMTP AUTH."
IO Profiling of Applications: MPI Apps (Mar 17, 2010, 22:02 UTC) (996 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "In the last article we looked at using strace to examine the IO patterns of simple serial applications. In the High Performance Computing (HPC) world, applications use MPI (Message Passing Interface) to create parallel applications. This time around we discuss how to attack parallel applications using strace."
Regional Nagios Server Setup (Mar 17, 2010, 19:32 UTC) (1010 reads)
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(feedback) BeginLinux: "The major goal of the regional server is to distribute the results of all service checks to the central server. The regional Nagios machines must use OCSP and OCHP in order to send the proper updates to the central server."
Is Microsoft About to Declare Patent War on Linux? (Mar 17, 2010, 18:02 UTC) (2885 reads)
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(feedback) Open Enterprise: "...now the industry is in the process of sorting out what royalties will be for the software stack, which now represents the principal value proposition for smartphones." Really? So the value proposition is not in delivering features and services that customers want.--ed.
SECURITY: Are users right in rejecting security advice? (Mar 17, 2010, 16:32 UTC) (1922 reads)
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(feedback) TechRepublic: "Should you change your passwords often? What’s the risk if you don’t? Little did I know, listening to one podcast would cause me to rethink how I would answer those questions."
SECURITY: Understanding Samba security modes (Mar 17, 2010, 16:02 UTC) (1334 reads)
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(feedback) Ghacks: "
If you have read any of the Samba content here on Ghacks you probably will have noticed that within the smb.conf configuration file a line that begins with security =. This is a very important part of Samba setup and generally the section that gives users the most problems"
Microsoft licensing Linux (Mar 17, 2010, 12:34 UTC) (4201 reads)
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(feedback) MyBroadband: "Proprietary giant is licensing open source to its partners. What is going on? "
Linux on the Cloud: IBM, Novell & Red Hat (Mar 17, 2010, 12:04 UTC) (1377 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "Today, Mar. 16, has been filled with Linux and cloud news — which is great, I guess, if you're ready to trust your data to the cloud."
Open source enables innovation without lawyers or fees (Mar 16, 2010, 21:32 UTC) (1234 reads)
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(feedback) Australian IT: "OPEN source software is seen by some as akin to religion. However, Ingres chief executive Roger Burkhardt insists he is not on a crusade to convert the Microsoft and Oracle faithful."
Find out the clients of your MySQL server (Mar 16, 2010, 21:02 UTC) (1161 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Admin Zone: "Sometimes in large deployments, there are cases when MySQL server, setup by you long time back which has been in use by multiple teams in your organization, needs some change or update or intrupption in its service and you are in need to know how many clients are there which connects to this server."
Installing GOsa2 on Red Hat / CentOS (rpm/yum based) (Mar 16, 2010, 20:32 UTC) (1253 reads)
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(feedback) Fogo na Caixa: "A mighty System-/Config-management frontend using LDAP as a backend. It is able to manage POSIX, Samba, Mail, Kolab, FAX, Asterisk and many more services."
Benchmark of Python Web Servers (Mar 16, 2010, 19:02 UTC) (1565 reads)
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(feedback) Nicholas Piël: "In this benchmark i will be looking at how different WSGI servers perform at exactly that task; the handling of a full HTTP request."
Google to pull out of China soon, reports say (Mar 16, 2010, 18:02 UTC) (1555 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "Both Google and the Chinese government appear to be leaking word that the search firm may soon shutter its operations there as negotiations between the two break down."
QA with Matt Asay: How Linux is Beating Apple and Much More (Mar 16, 2010, 07:02 UTC) (3038 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Foundation: "Matt took some time recently to share his perspective with me on why Canonical can take Linux places Red Hat can't, how Linux beats Apple, and how the Ubuntu community's passion and focus on design will change the way people see Linux for a long time."
Shuttleworth heir opens up on Ubuntu biz (Mar 15, 2010, 15:34 UTC) (1923 reads)
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(feedback) Channel Register: "When you have Mark Shuttleworth as your backer, as commercial Linux distributor Canonical does, it is a bit like having money in the bank when the bank also believes fervently in your cause."
A System Monitoring Tool Primer (Mar 14, 2010, 04:04 UTC) (3360 reads)
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(feedback) CertCities: "Linux comes with a number of utilities that can be used to monitor one or more of these performance parameters. The following sections introduce a few of these utilities and show how to understand the information presented by them"
Top 10 IT Billionaires -- A Closer Look (Mar 13, 2010, 16:02 UTC) (4124 reads)
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(feedback) DevX: "Forbes released its annual list of the world's billionaires Thursday, and technology companies are well represented, even though Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest person."
Elliott Associates: Novell Won't Go to Pieces (Mar 12, 2010, 22:32 UTC) (2252 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "Elliott Associates, the hedge fund that’s seeking to acquire Novell and SUSE Linux, is denying a report that it plans to break up Novell and sell off the pieces. Hmmm…"
Apple's patent attack (Mar 12, 2010, 19:02 UTC) (2440 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "Those who worry about these things have expected that attacks might come from patent trolls, or from software companies with fading prospects. Apple's lawsuit against HTC shows that the real threat may come from a different direction."
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Deployed on Intel Hardware (Mar 12, 2010, 07:02 UTC) (1780 reads)
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(feedback) Softpedia: "Canonical, the company behind the very popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, recognizes the potential of the emerging market and has partnered with Intel and Eucalyptus to promote its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) offering as part of Intel's Cloud Builder program."
Time For Ubuntu to Fork Evolution (Mar 11, 2010, 20:33 UTC) (3697 reads)
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(feedback) WMD Zone: "Novell have previously tried to leverage that market but did it all wrong. They didn’t understand that there is just one killer feature ... that needs to be in there which is Exchange support."
For Sale: Linux OS and Other Assorted Assets (Mar 11, 2010, 16:03 UTC) (1721 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "The enterprise Linux space has suddenly got very interesting following the news that a bunch of sharp-suited New Yorkers have made an offer to buy SUSE Linux's parent company, Novell."
Apple Ready to Rumble with Rival Smartphone Makers (Mar 11, 2010, 12:33 UTC) (1652 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Mobile Today: "Apple's HTC lawsuit may have come out of nowhere as far as the public is concerned, but behind the scenes, Apple has been warning handset vendors for some time that it has patents and lawyers and isn't afraid to use them."
Intro to IO Profiling of Applications (Mar 10, 2010, 18:02 UTC) (1466 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "One of the sorely missing aspects of storage is analyzing and understanding the IO patterns of applications. This article will examine some techniques for performing IO profiling of an application to illustrate what information you can gain."
Unified network administration using eBox (Mar 10, 2010, 17:32 UTC) (1364 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User and Developer: "eBox (or eBox Platform, to give it its full name) can play multiple roles. It can act as a network gateway, an infrastructure manager, a unified threat manager, an office server, a unified communication server or a combination of any of these."
Is Microsoft Afraid to Say the “L”-word? (Mar 10, 2010, 16:32 UTC) (3339 reads)
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(feedback) Open Enterprise: "It seems that, having lost its position as monarch of the world of computing, Microsoft has decided to become the industry jester."
Conquer Video on Linux with MPlayer (Mar 10, 2010, 14:02 UTC) (1732 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "MPlayer is not your run-of-the mill video player. It's a multi-platform codec-chewing monster truck of a video player for the connoisseur of video players. It has options galore and has the flexibility to play almost anything under the sun."
NewEgg Confirms Fake Core i7s, Apologizes (Mar 10, 2010, 13:02 UTC) (1497 reads)
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(feedback) PC Magazine: "Online retailer NewEgg said late Monday that it has confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and that it had broken off its supply relationship with IPEX, the supplier."
Open Source Saves the Day (and Lots of Dosh) (Mar 10, 2010, 00:02 UTC) (2007 reads)
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(feedback) Open Enterprise: "It seems every day we hear about hideous cost overruns on public sector projects in the UK. What makes it even more frustrating is that open source, a real no-brainer for many applications, is rarely given the chance to prove itself here."
