| Linux Today News GNOME ACTIVITY JOURNAL SHOWS YOUR RECENT COMPUTER WORK
"Linux only: It's still a work in progress, but GNOME Activity Journal already offers a nice at-a-glance look at your file work over the last few days, offering usage charts, image previews, and quick file access." DEAR NETFLIX
" We, the undersigned, are current or prospective subscribers of Netflix that would like the "Watch Now" feature available to Linux users." A LOOK AT KDE 4.4
"The latest version of my favorite desktop, KDE SC 4.4, is due to be released in just a couple of weeks. Even though it’s still in beta, I just couldn’t keep my hands off of it, being the desktop geek that I am. Let’s take a quick look at how KDE 4.4 is shaping up during the last leg of its development phase." LCA: COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF PACKAGE COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING DATA
"Kate Stewart is the manager of the PowerPC team at Freescale. As such, she has a basic customer service problem to solve: people who buy a board from Freescale would like to have some sort of operating system to run on it. That system, of course, will be Linux; satisfying this requirement means that Freescale must operate as a sort of Linux distributor." ANYTHING THE IPAD CAN DO, LINUX CAN DO BETTER.
"The Apple iPad has finally arrived, and, as I predicted a while back, it's really just a big iPod Touch. That's great. I love my iPod Touch. But, really, is there anything here that Linux can't do just as well for less money?" THE IMPORTANCE OF FITTING IN
"Is the success of Linux directly proportional to its ability to integrate with existing proprietary systems like Windows? If so, should free software developers be spending more time integrating with it instead of building better software for free platforms?" FOSS FEATS AND FOLLIES: Q&A WITH RED HAT FEDORA PROJECT LEADER PAUL FRIELDS
"Paul Frields, Red Hat's Fedora Project Leader, talks about FUDCon, what lies ahead for the next generation of FOSS, and how to address some of the lingering problems of Linux communities." 6 OF THE BEST DESKTOP SEARCH TOOLS FOR LINUX
"Do desktop search tools spell the end of grep?" MAKE PRETTY GUI APPS FAST WITH PYTHON-QT
"KDE users love the look of all those pretty applications. The key is the toolkit KDE uses: Qt. Akkana Peck uses a poker game to show how quickly you can create a nice-looking graphical application." TRACKING TIME WITH RACHOTA
"There are quite a few time tracking solutions out there, including the nifty Rachota utility which not only makes it easy to track time spent on different tasks but also helps you to analyze the collected data." OPENOFFICE.ORG EXTENSIONS FOR BUSINESS USERS
"OpenOffice.org is an excellent all-around productivity suite as it is, but you can add a few useful features using extensions to make it better suited for use in a business environment. Here are a handful of extensions worth considering if you are using OpenOffice.org as a business tool." TECH TIP: USE GXMESSAGE FOR DISPLAYING GUI MESSAGES FROM SCRIPTS
"There are many dialog programs out there, Zenity, Kdialog, xdialog, etc. I love programs like these. They make it so easy to spice up a shell script with a little GUI action. Today I'm going to go look at a dialog program called gxmessage." WHAT'S THE FUTURE OF LINUX AND SOLARIS AT ORACLE?
""I love Linux. We're big supporters of Linux, [but] Solaris is an older and more capable operating system," Ellison said." APPLE’S IPAD VS NOTION INK’S ADAM TABLET WITH UBUNTU: BATTLE OF TWO
"We can safely say that the Apple iPad is received with mixed feelings by the IT-savvy community. The main problem is that the tablet is just not as revolutionary as many expected it would be" DOONESBURY ON THE IPAD
"The geeks are calling the new device the 'Jesus Tablet'" Get Ready for Windows 7!
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CREATE YOUR OWN LOCAL UBUNTU REPOSITORY
"There are several reasons you may want to create a local repository. The first is that you want to save on bandwidth if you have multiple Ubuntu machines to update." APPLE IPAD HAS A LITTLE TRADEMARK IPROBLEM
"Though Apple has finally unveiled its widely rumored, long-expected iPad tablet PC, it's not out of the woods yet: Other companies are claiming ownership of the iPad name." ALFRESCO TO DROP GPL, GOES LGPL
"Alfresco has announced that it is changing the licensing of the community edition of its enterprise content management system from GPL to LGPL." LABELS WITH POSTSCRIPT::MAILLABELS GETTING STARTED
"Alan Jackson’s PostScript::MailLabels is a Perl utility to automate production of high-quality label layouts. it is designed to be useful to Perl scripters, who can easily incorporate high-quality PostScript output into their scripts, but the scripts included in the base package are, themselves, an easy-to-use set of command-line tools for label printing." TAGGING THE NOOSPHERE
"With the advent of the Internet and the Web, though, de Chardin's noosphere seemed to have become real rather than abstract. With so much accessible so easily to so many, the philosopher's vision of the noosphere as the foundation for the next evolutionary step of the cosmos seemed plausible..." UBUNTU: MORE BUGS THAN EVER?
"If you’re a frequent Ubuntu user chances are you’ve heard of people suggesting that Ubuntu has gotten decidedly buggy and broken, with even The Register commenting on the lack of polish in Ubuntu 9.10." NEW QT TRAINING COURSES, KD TOOLS 2.2 RELEASED, STEVEN KELLY INTERVIEWE
KDAB, the Qt Experts have issued a new release of the Qt Addon collection KD Tools. This release goes along with a significant extension of KDAB's training course offering, now including in-depth trainings and more advanced topics. PRIVACY BILL NEARS INTRODUCTION IN HOUSE
"The House Democrat heading up the push for legislation that would set new online privacy safeguards that could dramatically reshape Internet marketing said he plans to introduce the bill shortly, with several Republicans likely signed on as co-sponsors." MITIGATE THE SECURITY RISKS OF PHP SYSTEM COMMAND EXECUTION
"Hopefully, you understand how important it is to thoroughly validate all user input accepted through a web form; after all, if you neglect this task, your data could be stolen or damaged via a SQL injection attack, or your users could be spoofed via a cross-site scripting attack." MANDRIVA BRAZIL LAUNCHES ITS BRAND NEW WEBSITE
Mandriva, Europe's leading Linux publisher, announced today the launch of its brand new website for its Brazil' subsidiary: www.mandriva.com/br PUBLICATION OF SECOND ISSUE - INTERNATIONAL FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE LAW REVIEW
"The Editorial Committee of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is proud to announce the immediate availability of the publication's second issue. IFOSS L. Rev. is a peer-reviewed biannual legal review..." IPAD BRINGS MOBILE COMPUTING TO ENTERPRISE
"But analysts say a closer evaluation shows that we'll be seeing the iPad in the enterprise as part of the emerging mobile office." COULD OPEN SOURCE ABANDON THE GOOGLE TRAIN?
"As arguably the world's largest open-source company, Google has a big stake in maintaining its place at the heart of the open-source ecosystem. Recent events, however, suggest that Google can't rest on its laurels if it wants to secure the hearts and minds of open-source developers." BLADE SERVER REALITY CHECK
"Are you seriously considering, or currently deploying, blade servers in 2010? If so, I hope you've done your research and accepted their vendor lock-in and other shortcomings in addition to their marketed promises." FURTHER CONTROL OF LINUX FILES WITH ACL
"If you read my article “Get to know Linux: File permissions” you know that it’s possible, out of the box, to control who can access a file and what they can do with it. This helps to make Linux a fairly secure system. But did you know you can take even further control of that system with the help of Access Control Lists?" IPAD HYPE HANGOVER FOLLOWS BUZZ BINGE
"The glow is starting to fade a bit following Apple's splashy unveiling of its still-to-be-shipped iPad tablet. CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off the highly anticipated device at an event that lit up the twittersphere, blogosphere and innumerable Web sites that reported it both as breaking news and with live-blogging accounts." WHISPERINGWULF: A SILENT PERSONAL CLUSTER
"This project was originally started as a quest for a small and silent HTPC (Home Theater Personal Computer). We have constructed and built several of these boxes. The latest and best design can be seen further down the page in Figure One." NEW MOZILLA EMAIL IS EASIER TO USE, BUT NOT EASY ENOUGH
"Now, Mozilla is trying for another win, with a new, overhauled version of the companion email program for Firefox, called Thunderbird. Unlike Firefox, Thunderbird never really caught on, partly because it was too complicated." ANOTHER SMALL VICTORY FOR UBUNTU SERVER EDITION
"Each day, the drumbeat for Ubuntu Server Edition is getting slightly louder. In recent weeks, a growing list of ISVs (independent software vendors) has vowed to support Canonical�s Linux server operating system" EFF REVEALS HOW YOUR DIGITAL FINGERPRINT MAKES YOU EASY TO TRACK
"Think that turning off cookies and turning on private browsing makes you invisible on the web? Think again." HOW-TO: INSTALL FINCH 2.5.6 IN DEBIAN LENNY
"Finch is a powerful text user interface instant messaging client based on libpurple, and it comes included in the Pidgin source, the popular GNOME IM client. Finch supports various protocols, including AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and IRC." MSI READY TO LAUNCH IPAD ALTERNATIVE
"So we get it, a lot of you are underwhelmed by the iPad. But there's much more to the tablet world than Apple's latest creation. According to Digitimes (via Engadget), MSI's 10" tablet is coming during the second half of 2010. But will you Doubting Thomases be any happier with this offering?" TECH COMICS: "GEEKS AND THE IPAD"
A huge suitcase filled with books? DATA RECOVERY IN THE EVENT OF YOUR DEATH
"It's a scary thought. Computers have completely usurped pencil and paper. We all store our precious family pictures and important data on our computers and some of us go the extra step of securing this data from prying eyes through encryption, obscurity or at least strong passwords." STUPIDWARE
"There are many ways to write good software but the best software begins with a good set of options. Among those options, in my opinion, should be a setting to turn off "needless, idiotic prompts that serve no purpose other than to waste our time"." LCA: HOW TO DESTROY YOUR COMMUNITY
"Josh Berkus is well known as a PostgreSQL hacker, but, as it happens, he also picked up some valuable experience during his stint at "The Laboratory for the Destruction of Communities," otherwise known as Sun Microsystems. That experience has been distilled into a "patented ten-step method" on how to free a project of unwelcome community involvement." KDE TO APPEAR AT SCALE 8X
"Looking to help the KDE community and living in Southern California? Then this is a great opportunity for you! The Southern California Linux Expo will be in town February 20-21, 2010, at the Westin Hotel near LAX. All you need to help out is to be willing and able to be there and be a user of KDE's applications, such as the Plasma Workspaces, Amarok and Koffice." AS THE GPL FADES �
"We�re continuing to see signs that the dominant GPL open source license may be fading from favor among commercial open source software players." CANONICAL COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT POLICY 'SAME AS OTHERS'
"Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has called for an uniform copyright assignment policy for contributors to free and open source software projects." COMPUTING, EVEN IN LINUX, IS ALL ABOUT FAILURE
"Hardware failures, power failures, and most of all, storage media failures. Ever notice how fragile digital storage media are? Are we ever going to get digital storage media that can match plain old paper, and other analog media, for reliability and longevity?" | 
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