| Linux Today News 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." 7 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX CALCULATORS
"the calculators featured in this article are significantly more sophisticated with the ability to process difficult mathematical functions, to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, and much more." 5 LINUX SPEED TIPS
"There are many ways to do the same tasks in Linux, which is a lovely thing because it means we can tailor our workflows to suit our own personal needs. Here are five of Carla Schroder's favorite speed and efficiency tips." THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING THANKFUL (OR WHY I SAY GNU/LINUX)
"There's nothing wrong with saying "thank you" when someone has fulfilled one's need/wish for something... even more if the person who fulfilled it was not in any way forced to do it for us." ADVICE ON BUILDING A LINUX BOX
" I get a lot of questions on Linux hardware: �What�s the best piece of hardware X for Linux?� �Should I go route A since I�m using Linux?�" FLASH IS AT RISK, BUT IT'S NOT ALL ADOBE'S FAULT
"Mike Bailey, a senior security analyst with Foreground Security, is now turning the focus to how common programming bugs can enable Flash objects to attack Web sites." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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THE ALEXANDRIA PROJECT, CHAP. 3: I JUST HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS
"Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego has been passed over to lead a major project at the Library of Congress, but discovers that the Library has been hacked by a mysterious cracker with motives unknown; now, Frank learns that he may be coming under suspicion." THE BEST WAY FOR ADOBE TO SAVE FLASH IS BY KILLING IT
""But Flash is the only way to deploy a consistent cross platform solution!" Shenanigans. Balderdash." PUPPY LINUX: YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND
"On occasion I have a need for a tiny, lightning fast Linux distribution to boot into in order to check various issues on a machine. Either that or I just don�t want to monkey around with someone else� data. Either way, I will often grab for either a CD or flash drive containing my favorite �micro� distribution, Puppy Linux." IPAD PARTS MAY YIELD TIDY PROFITS FOR APPLE
"Apple's recently launched iPad could yield a tidy profit for the company thanks to its relatively low cost for parts, if an analysis of the components proves accurate." PC SECURITY TIPS FOR CORPORATE EXECUTIVES
"The recent attacks against Google and other companies highlighted "spear phishing" attacks. The term refers to scam e-mail messages designed to trick the recipient into infecting his or her own computer with malicious software (malware)." COULD APPLE'S IPAD BE THE NEW FIREFOX?
"Most people seem to agree that the iPad is a slick piece of technology, and quite plausibly represents the next generation of computing devices. But many feel that the very qualities that make it so desirable also make it profoundly problematic, not least for free software." WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM GIFT ECONOMIES?
"Contrary to popular conception, there is no evidence of a society or economy that relied primarily on barter. Instead, non-monetary societies operated largely along the principles of gift economics. When barter did in fact occur, it was usually between either complete strangers or would-be enemies." ANSWER TO "LINUX IS COMMUNIST" COMMENTS ON LINUX TODAY
"A few weeks ago I was finally able to put down an English version of a short article I had written in October 2009 about the risks for Italian schools hidden in a deal between Microsoft and the Italian Government. Some days later, almost by chance, I discovered that that translation had been linked from Linux Today and that it had caused a couple of comments that really deserve an answer, for reasons that will be clear in a moment." HOW BIG ARE YOUR ICONS?
"Sometimes, you come across sites where the icons are simple huge. Not just big. Humongous. We're talking icons that easily take 20-30% of screen real estate. While we have already established that having relevant icons present is good, making them Godzilla-size could be a sign of desperation or boy-scout zeal. There's such a thing as too much." OPEN SOURCE WEB CONFERENCING FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION
For University or Colleges looking to offer a high-quality learning experience to remote students, we've released a new version of BigBlueButton. BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system that offers real-time sharing of slides, voice, chat, video, and desktop sharing. APPLE'S IPAD MARKETING SPARKS COMPLAINT
"Apple's iPad, announced Wednesday, has already led to one complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in which a consumer charged Apple with false advertising by showing Adobe Flash working on the device" WHAT BOTHERS ME ABOUT THE UBUNTU-YAHOO DEAL
"What bothered me is that the decision was made soley with regard to revenue and not thinking at all about the user experience." WINDOWS 7 SALES DEAL LINUX A WINNING HAND
"While most of Microsoft's businesses were flat to down year over year, Windows 7 generated record profits (and units sold) for the software giant. That's great for Microsoft. It's not so great for anyone else." TYAN S2915 N6650W & S2927 N3600B
"Over the years at Phoronix there have been reviews on many Tyan motherboards for desktops, servers, and workstations. The build quality of these motherboards have always been very good;" MICROSOFT/NOVELL: BREAKING DOWN THE COUPON NUMBERS
"This struck me as a very interesting figure, because after firing up XCalc, I figured out that if indeed just 475 customers have received these coupons, then Microsoft has essentially subsidized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) deployments an average tune of US$505,263.16 per customer." OPENSUSE 11.3 MILESTONE 1 READY FOR TESTING
"This first development version is distributed as a KDE4 and GNOME Live CDs for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. It contains bleeding-edge packages..." LINUX MADE ME FEEL DUMB
"It's true. Linux made me feel dumb. It is not a nice feeling to feel dumb yet I did. Me, the great Locutus who prides himself on his technical wizardry and knowledge of all things involving electrons, had to resort to calling a help desk to solve a problem." VIDEO EDITING IN LINUX: A LOOK AT PITIVI AND KDENLIVE
"While Linux still lacks a direct competitor to tools like Apple's iMovie or Final Cut Pro, the current crop of video editing tools are much more capable and easy to use. Two tools in particular stand out: PiTiVi and Kdenlive." STUDY: > 21% OF GERMAN PCS RUN OPENOFFICE
"According to Webmasterpro.de, a German IT service provider, the open source OpenOffice suite and its derivatives, such as StarOffice or IBM's Lotus Symphony, are installed on more than 21% of German PCs." FIREFOX MOBILE IS OUT BUT ONLY FOR MAEMO
"Developing a browser for mobile devices is no easy task, just ask the good people at Mozilla. Late last week, Mozilla released Firefox Mobile 1.0, but don't run to your Apple, Android or Blackberry AppStore just yet..." NOT ALL COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT IS CREATED EQUAL
"I've written about this before, and recently quit using Ubuntu in part because of Canonical's assignment policies (which is, as Mark correctly points out, not that different from other for-profit company's assignment forms.)" MICROSOFT IE SLIPS, CHROME TOPS SAFARI
"According to the latest browser market share figures, Microsoft saw its Internet Explorer (IE) product continue to slide." AT&T NEXT UP FOR GOOGLE'S NEXUS ONE
"HTC, the Taiwanese builder of the Nexus One smartphone and a variety of other Android-based phones, has submitted documentation to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that point to signs of a new and possibly different Nexus One phone for the A&T network." THE GOOD AND BAD OF UBUNTU TWEAK
"I�ve long heard good things about Ubuntu Tweak, but never used it myself. With the recent appearance of its 0.5 release, however, I decided to give it a go. Here�s what I thought." THE GREAT ORACLE EXPERIMENT
"For the first time, we get to see what happens when a company that has built up an immense global business empire on the basis of its proprietary software takes over some of the most important open source projects around." MIGUEL DE ICAZA SPEAKS
"Miguel de Icaza is a polarising figure amongst licence jockeys like Richard Stallman, but there is no denying his ability to get things done." LINUX ADAPTATION - THE BACKDOOR METHOD
"The guy who first noticed the desktop asked me how he could make his computer do the same thing. I just shrugged. "Unless you are willing to use a system without training wheels, you probably can't."" | 
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