| Linux Today News 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?" UBUNTU 8.04.4 LTS IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
"Dear Ubuntu 8.04 users, Steve Langasek announced a few minutes ago the fourth maintenance release of the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) operating system, which (in case you forgot) is supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until April 2011 on desktops, and April 2013 on servers." SIGNAGE COMPUTER SPORTS 46-INCH DISPLAY
"Axiomtek announced a digital signage computer that includes a 46-inch display and a choice of Celeron or Core 2 Duo processors. The DSA-146 features a removable CPU board, an optional motion detection sensor, a Mini PCI Express expansion slot, 1GB of DDR3 RAM..." INTRODUCING TERMBUILDER - A LINUX COMMAND LINE GENERATOR
"This is TermBuilder, an easy-to-use script that helps newbies form Linux terminal commands by selecting from options in their web browser. To get started, all you have to do is select one of the command options from the selection box below, and click Add." GOOGLE WANTS TO SEE CLIENT ADDRESSES IN DNS QUERIES
"Late Wednesday evening, Google employees posted an "Internet-Draft" outlining proposed changes to the DNS protocol that allow authoritative DNS servers to see the addresses of clients." HOW TO FIND AND CLEAN UP DUPLICATE FILES IN UBUNTU LINUX
"If you are like me who have accumulated thousands of audio, movies, and other files over the years, it is not unusual to have tons and tons of duplicate contents that are scattered throughout the hard drive." INSTALLATION OF OPENSIPS 1.6
"It is very important to install OpenSIPS correctly from the source code. It can be installed much faster from the Debian packages or using the apt-get utility. However, installation from the source code is much more flexible as it allows you to select the modules to be compiled." EDITOR'S NOTE: THE MORE I UPGRADE, THE WORSE IT GETS
It all started with a simple CPU upgrade. Or so I thought. ORACLE AND APPLE: THIS WEEK'S BIG TECH NEWS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR LINUX
"The tech industry is jumping this week. On the consumer side, Apple finally took the wraps off the poorly named but interesting iPad. On the enterprise side, Oracle finally had the chance to lay claim to Sun and spell out what it's planning to do with the spoils." CHROME APES IE8, ADDS CLICKJACKING, XSS DEFENSES
"Google yesterday announced it has added several new security features to Chrome, including two that were first popularized by rival Microsoft in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) last year." UBUNTU SERVER EVALUATION
"The Ubuntu server is the most innovative distribution for servers. It enables administrators to gain access to cutting edge technology and implement that with new ideas. If you are looking for the latest and greatest, this is the server option for you." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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BORDEAUX 2.0.0 FOR LINUX RELEASED
"The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases." HOW TO INSTALL ANY LINUX ON A USB
"There are so many reasons why having a Linux distribution on a USB drive can come in handy. From having a �rescue� OS on your keyring to being able to install a new distribution on your EeePC, a �thumb drive� Linux has many uses." HIGH-END NAS DEVICE RUNS LINUX
"Enhance Technology announced an eight-disk, Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) device, offering up to 16TB of SATA storage. The UltraShare NAS8000-P4 incorporates an Intel Xeon (Nehalem) CPU clocked at 2.0GHz, four gigabit Ethernet ports, and an optional gateway for expanding to up to 176TB." INTEL CORE I3 530 CLARKDALE ON LINUX
"We have now received our Core i3 processor and have carried out various processor benchmarks under Linux to see how well Clarkdale runs with the penguins." ATTACKS AGAINST SSL
"The year 2009 has been very interesting for SSL security. Several new and practical attacks were publicized, and fortunately, most were fixed within a relatively short period of time. The year began with an effective attack against MD5-based SSL certificate..." GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR OPENSIPS 1.6
"It is very hard to manage thousands of users manually, so a user-provisioning tool becomes very important in our process. In this article by Flavio E.Goncalves, we are going to see two of these tools--SerMyAdmin and OpenSIPS Control Panel (OpenSIPS-CP)." SOLID STATE DRIVES IN ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
"Flashed-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming a big issue for enterprise storage users; a number of customers I work with are planning for this new "tier 0" data storage for a number of reasons. It could be as simple as IOPS per watt, IOPS per dollar, or for some applications, bandwidth per GB/sec of storage." DENMARK DITCHES MICROSOFT OOXML AND GOES WITH ODF
"The Danish Parliament has agreed to ditch some Microsoft-based software in favour of the ODF standard from April next year." WANTED: COMMUNITY MANAGER
"Today marks the end of the Era of Zonker at Novell, as Joe Brockmeier ends his tenure as Community Manager of openSUSE." INTERNET BLACKOUT: THE FINAL VERDICT
"The Great Australian Internet Blackout campaign against mandatory ISP-level filtering has attracted twice as many websites to its cause as had pledged before it began." WHEN IS IT WORTH SAYING IT'S LINUX?
"Recently, I was showing a Motorola Milestone phone to a non-technical friend. When I mentioned that the phone was running Android, he said to me "Oh, thats the Google Linux for phones isn't it... does it run OpenOffice?"." UBUNTU 9.10 BRINGS POLISH BUT MAY DEMAND TINKERING
"A few months ago, a widely used operating system received a major upgrade -- and Microsoft and Apple had nothing to do with it. This upgrade came from the developers responsible for one of the most popular versions of the open-source Linux operating system Ubuntu." TETHER YOUR ANDROID PHONE TO YOUR LINUX LAPTOP
"In this tutorial you will see how simple it is to tether your Android phone to your Ubuntu laptop. Ha! Got ya. There�s nothing to install. Ubuntu and Android come with everything you need to pull this off." THE REAL VALUE OF FOSS TO BUSINESS � A PERSONAL EXAMPLE
"I am going to tell a story just to give an understanding of the real value of FOSS in business." HITTING THE DEBIAN LENNY SWEET SPOT
"During much of the time I was running Ubuntu, I told myself that I'd be running Debian instead, if only I could get everything working." KDE SC 4.4RC2 FEDORA KDE PREVIEW :)
"So, our awesome KDE SIG and kde-redhat maintainer Rex Dieter, fixed that, and, after fixing my kickstart a few times of course (:D) we have unofficial i686 KDE 4.4 previews." FACEBOOK REWRITES PHP RUNTIME
"Facebook has rewritten the PHP runtime from scratch. This coming Tuesday, they will make a big announcement around this project, and will make it available as open source software." MICROSOFT ON HP AND LINUX, 2002: OH, NOES
"One thing is clear. Microsoft was seriously concerned about Linux. And HP? Somewhat flexible, I'd say. Note the part about "the HP plan of record" to "bring a new Linux powered device into the mid-range marketplace" regarding NAS devices (network attached storage devices) and how Microsoft was able to convince them not to do that." IS BILL GATES� NEW WEBSITE REALLY RUNNING ON LINUX?
"Sometimes tips come in that seem too good to be true. Take today, for example. I got a tip that Bill Gates� new site, The Gates Notes, was running on a Linux-powered server." WHEN MEMORY SERVES YOU: USING RAMFS AND TMPFS
"Need a performance boost for your reads from and writes to a database or other dynamic files? A RAM-based filesystem is just what the good system doctor ordered" AMATEUR RADIO ARTICLES AND NEWSLETTER
"For those that have been waiting patiently for the Amateur Radio articles from the January 2010 edition to be available on line, your wait is over! You will find a permanent link to them in the Linux Journal Virtual Ham Shack, but for your convenience, I will put them here too:" ULTIMATE-DEBIAN-LIVECD-I686 FINAL
"The Ultimate Debian LiveCD! A Megagog plethora of Browsers, utilities, & rescue apps!" DEFECTIVE BY DESIGN IS DEFECTIVE
"Once again the Defective by Design have sprung into action to denounce another product from Apple, and once again nobody really cares." GSTREAMER DECODERS (HTML5 VIDEO AND H.264 PATENTS)
"I read through the FAQ and can't find out if Free and Open Source developers and products need to license the MPEG-LA patents for MPEG-4 Visual." INTEL, MICRON PRODUCE SMALLEST FLASH CHIPS YET
"In the continuing race to design the smallest silicon chips, Intel and Micron Technology have struck again. The duo, partners in flash development, were the first to reach 34-nanometer-process designs for NAND flash memory and have now reached the 25-nanometer barrier." PORTING TO QT4 AND ITS MODEL VIEW CONCEPT - TESTERS NEEDED
"During the last two months Marcel and I ported all tree views in digiKam from Qt3 to Qt4 and its model view concept. These changes are now included in the svn trunk. The new code still needs some serious testing and we would appreciate your help on this." LINUX IS NOT HARD, IT'S IGNORED
"It's a regular complaint: Linux is too hard. But is it hard, or are there other factors at play?" BOOK REVIEW: WEB DESIGN FOR DEVELOPERS
"While there can be some overlap between web designers and web developers, they tend to define their own specific worlds. However, what if a programmer would also like to be better at design? Where does he or she go?" MACHINE EMBROIDERY MANAGEMENT IS COMING TO LINUX!
"I haven�t updated this topic since September, but I�m very excited about the progress so far. You may remember that one develope, David Boddie, had done some work, with the result that I could build .png files to visualise my patterns within Dolphin" ORACLE BEGINS PICKING ITS SUN A-TEAM
"Now that the Sun acquisition is a done deal, Oracle has begun picking and choosing the products that will live on and which will fade out. While CEO Larry Ellison was adamant that there would be no wholesale slaughter of products or staffing cuts, the reality is that not everything can survive or receive full Oracle investment." | 
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