Top 200 Tech Blogs: the Datamation List
Datamation: "So the question becomes more difficult every year: Which of the gazillion tech blogs are worth your time?"
SystemRescueCd 1.1.0 Packed with New Utilities
Softpedia: "The SystemRescueCd team has announced today the latest version of their Linux system. This new release brings important new features, such as advanced customization and kernel recompilation, as well as updates to some of the already present applications."
Three Typing Tutors and a Boy
Linux.com "I recently sat down with my 12-year-old son Ian, who agreed to sit still long enough to try a few typing teacher applications on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Ian has a lot of experience on the computer but, until now, he has subscribed to the hunt and peck typing philosophy."
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Ad Danger to Open Source
ZDNet: "But open source has not grown through branding. Tux is a cute penguin, but the primary way open source has gained power is through values."
Firefox Suffers Chrome's Bite
Tectonic: "Launched last week, Google’s Chrome web browser is already making inroads into Firefox’s popularity, something that we feared."
Cybersecurity Best Practice: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Datamation: "Perhaps guilty until proven innocent isn’t so bad an idea after all."
Linux Wi-Fi Works With wicd
LinuxPlanet: "Wireless management on Linux is a bit of a hodge-podge, especially for roaming users...wicd (pronounced "wicked"), the wireless interface connection daemon, tries to do the job better, so we're going to give it a test drive."
Brazilian Government Owned IT Enterprise SERPRO Selects Debian GNU/Linux
Debian News: "The SERPRO board decided that Debian GNU/Linux is more suitable for its new corporate goals. SERPRO has decided to increase supplier independence, flexibility, agility, and participation in technical solutions by direct interaction with the Debian Project community."
Discovering Mozilla Firefox: an Introduction
IT Wire: "He said that learning something new was all too difficult and he'd just stick with Internet Explorer. "
Linux Performance Hunting Tips - Take Copious Notes (Save Everything)
Computing Tech: "A well-organized set of notes allows you to test a theory about the cause of a performance problem by simply looking at your notes rather than rerunning tests."
Determining Maximum Pool Sets Using Binomial Coefficients On Linux and Unix
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For our purposes, we'll reduce it to something that looks like regular mathematics (which it is) and tie it back into our series of posts from last week."
2000 Caldera-Microsoft Settlement Surfaces in Novell v. Microsoft Antitrust Lawsuit
Groklaw: "I know some of you have wondered if that success inspired Caldera to sue IBM to try to get lightning to strike twice."
2007 Web Application Security Statistics Published
Web Application Security Consortium: "The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is pleased to announce the WASC Web Application Security Statistics Project 2007."
BBC in Covering Technology Badly Shocker
IT Pro: "The first thing they wouldn’t have recommended is to try replacing the stock distribution on an EeePC."
Using Virtual Desktops in Linux
IT Wire: "After my last, rather lengthy, article about useful graphical tools, I am going to talk about another aspect of the Linux graphical user interface that I also find rather useful: Virtual Desktops."
Why Mozilla Is Committed to Gecko as WebKit Popularity Grows
With the recent surge in WebKit adoption, many have stated to question the usefulness of Mozilla's Gecko browsing engine, claiming that WebKit is far superior. Some even go as far as saying that Firefox should ditch Gecko in favour of WebKit. Ars Technica's Ryan Paul explains why that is utter, utter bogus. "From a technical perspective, Gecko is now very solid and no longer lags behind WebKit. A testament to the rate at which Gecko has been improving is its newfound viability in the mobile space, where it was practically considered a nonstarter not too long ago. Mozilla clearly has the resources, developer expertise, and community support to take Gecko anywhere that WebKit can go."
China's Godson 3 Processor To Take on Intel, AMD
When China launched its first microprocessor, the Godson 1 in 2002, it wasn't much of a competitor to what Intel and AMD had to offer. The 64bit Godson 2, released in 2005, still didn't worry the Western chip makers, but the chip did start to pop up here and there outside of China. Expect to see a lot more of them in the coming years, as the Godson 3 promises to be a chip that can compete head on with the big ones: quad-core, eight core version in the pipeline, and 200 extra instructions aiding in x86 compatibility.
Patent: Application-Specific Windows Colourisation
The US patent might be a bit daft, especially when it comes to software, but it does offer some interesting insights into what crazy things the big companies might be working on for future products. One such patent emerged today: Microsoft applied in 2005 (and was granted in 2008) a patent which describes how different windows may be coloured differently, or that they may have different transparency settings. This sounds a bit weird, but it may actually prove to be quite useful.
'A Web OS? Are you Dense?'
With all the recent hype surrounding Google's Chrome, it's refreshing to see someone taking a few steps back and looking at the bigger picture. Superlatives were abound about Chrome (I personally really like it), but some people really took it overboard - take TechCrunch for instance: "Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows." Seeing my nationality, I know a tulip mania when I see one. So does Ted Dziuba.
Review: Eee Box
The Eee Box is the latest addition to the Eee family, and this article takes a closer look at setting up and using the Eee Box. "Unless you've had your head in the sand for the past several months, you've probably heard of Asus' line of Eee PC laptops - low-cost, ultra-portable laptops with solid-state hard disk drives. Over the past several months, the Eee PC has evolved. Newer laptop models come with Linux as well as Windows XP Home, standard hard disk drives, and even the new Intel Atom processor. Now, we have a desktop version of the Eee PC - the Eee Box. Here, I will detail the unpacking and initial setup of an Eee Box unit using text and images."
Learning the Craft of Programming
Tux Deluxe: "Neither of us had a formal computer science education, and as we ended up comparing great computer related books we'd both read, it started me wondering, "How did we learn this stuff ?""
Putting A 'Korset' On The Spread Of Computer Viruses
Science Daily: "They recently unveiled a unique new program called the "Korset" to stop malware on Linux, the operating system used by the majority of web and email servers worldwide."
Tip of the Trade: Cracking Passwords
ServerWatch: "Enforcing password security with a multiple-user system can be a hassle — users all too often use inadequate passwords. john-the-ripper (also available via most distros) is a password-cracking tool that enables the identification of vulnerable passwords before someone with nefarious intentions finds the weakness."
40 Reasons to Lose Linux and Vote Vista!
IT Wire: "4. Vista has the most advanced and widest range of security software available."
Windows Vista: The OS About Nothing
Information Week: "The background: Windows is losing market share to Apple's Mac OS and even Linux. And Vista, the latest version, has been a big fat dud."
Linux Mint 5 XFCE Edition Is Out
Softpedia: "Today is a happy day for Linux Mint fans as the developers of one of the most popular Linux distributions decided to please us with yet another release."
Lenovo Denies Ditching Linux [updated]
Desktop Linux: "Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBM's personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as a pre-installation option. None of the company's 49 ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook models -- nor its many ThinkCenter and IdeaCenter desktops -- can currently be ordered with Linux."
Announcing the Ubuntu Manpage Repository: manpages.ubuntu.com
:-Dustin: "It occurred to me that there may well be a contingent of Ubuntu users who are entirely disconnected from the wealth of resources so many developers have poured into manpage-based documentation."
Ubuntu Debuts Jaunty Jackalope
ZDNet UK: "The news comes as Ubuntu last week made available an advance testing version of its Linux distribution, with the full 8.10. The "Intrepid Ibex" release is scheduled to be launched in late October."
Browsershots
Linux Journal: "...my friend Mario in Costa Rica sent me a link to browsershots.org which seems to be a better answer than having a handful of computers with a handful of different operating systems..."
Alas, My Love, You Do Me Wrong: Player Piano Rolls
Linux Magazine: "Maddog finds out that copyright prevents preserving paper player piano rolls."
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