You Can Have Your Computer and Save Money, Too
Newsday: "Because of the weak economy, I thought it might be a good idea to put together some money-saving ideas and see where that got us. I was surprised. If you're happy with plain-vanilla everything, you can probably save about $800, some of that on a recurring basis."
The Pain-Free Guide to Switching Linux Distros
TechRadar: "Switching to a different distro means formatting at least part of your hard disk and starting again with configuration of your system. It could also wipe out all of your personal files, depending on how your disk is partitioned."
Using Your Linux Computer As A UPnP AV Server (Part 3)
Makeuseof: "By setting your Linux computer as a UPnP AV server, you will be able to access your collection of music, photos and videos that reside in your computer wherever you are within the house."
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Hotmail Does Work--Badly--With Linux
Cyber Cynic: "Linux-Watch has reported that at least one Linux user was unable to use the newly redesigned Windows Live Hotmail. Other Linux desktop users have also reported problems with the new Hotmail."
Linux Boots in 2.97 Seconds
LinuxDevices: "Japanese embedded Linux house Lineo has announced a quick-start technology that it claims can boot Linux in 2.97 seconds on a low-powered system. The technology appears similar to but much faster than Linux's existing "suspend-to-disk" capability."
Unix And Linux Humor - Cult Satire
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Notes from some recent archeological findings on the birth of the UNIX cult on Sol 3 are presented. Recently discovered electronic records have shed considerable light on the beginnings of the cult. A sketchy history of the cult is attempted."
Networking Change Causes Distribution Headaches
LWN.net: "A seemingly innocuous change to the networking code that went into the 2.6.27 kernel is now causing trouble for various distributions...Unfortunately, if the problem is not addressed, some users may never be able to download a fix because their TCP/IP won't interoperate with some broken equipment on the internet."
Linux Print Server Enhances Library Printing
Linux.com: "The library needed a print queue to enable library staff to control patrons' print jobs. It needed to be easy to set up and maintain and cost nothing. We found the answer in using Linux as a print server."
Microsoft Reveals Vista SP1 Driver Installation Failure Rates
One of the common problems when Windows Vista was released was that of missing or non-working drivers. Microsoft massively reworked many of Windows' internal systems and frameworks, meaning lots of drivers broke, with most of them needing major work, and some even needed to be rewritten completely. Apparently, Microsoft didn't communicate this well enough with its hardware partners - or the partners were lazy, who knows - because many devices failed to work with Vista during its early months of being out in the wild. Microsoft is trying to keep this story from repeating itself, saying that everything that works on Vista should work on Windows 7. To gain a little more insight into this problem, Microsoft gave out some very interesting figures regarding driver installation failure rates.
'Digital Dark Age May Doom Some Data'
What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer's hard drive? The concern for archivists and information scientists is that, with ever-shifting platforms and file formats, much of the data we produce today could eventually fall into a black hole of inaccessibility.
Good Code, Bad Computations: a Computer Security Gray Area
"If you want to make sure your computer or server is not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's not enough to keep bad code out of the system. Return-oriented programming exploits start out like more familiar attacks on computers. The attacker takes advantage of a programming error in the target system to overwrite the runtime stack and divert program execution away from the path intended by the system's designers. But instead of injecting outside code - the approach used in traditional malicious exploits - return-oriented programming enables attackers to create any kind of nasty computation or program by using just the existing code."
Lazy Linux: 11 Secrets for Lazy Cluster Admins
Cluster means different things to different people. In the context of this article, cluster is best defined as scale-out -- scale-out clusters generally have a lot of the same type of components like Web farms, render farms, and high performance computing (HPC) systems. Administrators will tell you that with scale-out clusters any change, no matter how small, must be repeated up to hundreds of thousands of times; the laziest of admins have mastered techniques of scale-out management so that regardless of the number of nodes, the effort is the same. In this article, the authors peer into the minds of the laziest Linux® admins on Earth and divulge their secrets.
Red Hat, AMD Migrate VMs Across CPUs Between Different Vendors
Red Hat and AMD have just done the so-called impossible, and demonstrated VM live migration across CPU architectures. Not only that, they have demonstrated it across CPU vendors. "If you look at the video here, you will see that they did it. Live migration while streaming HD video isn't all that bad a trick mind you, but doing it between a Barcelona, Shanghai and Intel box is. 36 more of these, and we will be in great shape." Only a few months ago during VMworld, Intel and VMware claimed that this was impossible. Looking at the initial reaction, VMware is quite irked by this accomplishment by Red Hat using KVM technology and they are pointing to stability concerns. Red Hat has been a heavy contributor to KVM and acquired Qumranet, the original developers of KVM a while back.
Video: The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds
YouTube: "Linus Torvalds, the creator of the operating system phenomenon Linux, tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade."
When Device Support Goes Beyond Drivers
OStatic: "I've been doing some thinking since writing about kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman's statement that Linux supports more devices than any other operating system. Readers made some good comments, and after some time spent wrestling with my (yes, supported) webcam, I can venture an additional suggestion as to why it doesn't always seem that way, beyond Kroah-Hartman's theory of a non-supported device becoming "personal.""
Expresso Livre: Community/Government Free Software Collaboration in Latin America
Free Software in Latin America: "This contrasts with the culture in the north which is traditionally about keeping information secret, guarding knowledge, spending millions of dollars on licensing and spending even more on patent lawyers who use the force of law to keep information and knowledge private."
Researchers Hijack Storm Worm to Track Profits
Washington Post: "A single response from 12 million e-mails is all it takes for spammers to turn annual profits of millions of dollars promoting knockoff pharmaceuticals, according to an unprecedented new study on the economics of spam."
The Top 10 Greatest Geeks of All Time
IT News: "You won't find any smooth-talking chief executives or business masterminds who built computing empires on this list (that comes next week). These people are the geek's geeks. They are the truly magnificent eggheads that worked their magic on the most basic levels, from invention and development to silicon and command lines."
New Old Netbook
Invalid Object: "But I couldn't help thinking abou the old Sony VAIO in my junkpile. It had a fantastic 12-inch LCD, and I had an unused wireless-G card to stick in it. It only weighed three pounds, too. And, although it only had 192 MB of RAM, it should be able to do almost anything a netbook could do."
Russia and Cuba Unite Against Microsoft
Open...: "Recently, Russia announced that it was pushing Microsoft out of its schools in favour of open source. Now, it's going even further by joining with Cuba to write free software that can be used instead of Microsoft's products in other areas:"
Tree View Menu Styles in U2 SystemBuilder/XA Apps
The U2 SystemBuilder Extensible Architecture for UniData and Universe (SB/XA) 6.0.0 introduces new application architecture for SystemBuilder applications. One of the features provided by the changes in the architecture is the ability to modify the presentation of your applications without modifying the underlying business logic. In this article, learn how to present a traditional SystemBuilder menu as a Tree View menu.
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