| Linux Today News LINUX.COM LAUNCHES NEW JOBS BOARD
Employers and job seekers gain a targeted resource for fastest growing area of IT industry BERLIOS HOSTING SITE HACKED
"The BerliOS open source software portal was compromised and recently had its home page defaced, but no disclosure has been made on the site." PROUD TO BE A GOOGLER
"Although I obviously had nothing to do with Google�s decision vis-a-vis China, having only started working there for a week, I was definitely glad to see it and it made me proud to be able to say that I work there" INSTALL GNOME-SHELL ON UBUNTU 9.10 KARMIC KOALA
"This article by Christer Edwards outlines the steps required to install and run the latest previews of GNOME Shell, which will become GNOME 3.0. The final release isn't scheduled until later this year, but there are preview snapshots available for testing and feedback." THE DARK SIDE OF UBUNTU LAUNCHPAD BUGS: MAIL TILL YOU DIE
"I unsubscribed to the bugs. The mail kept coming." BERLIOS COMPROMISED (WITH SCREENSHOT)
"The BerliOS repository site has been compromised; indeed, it appears it has been compromised since 2005. What little information is available can be found from this (German) Heise article (Google translation) and a screen shot from the defaced site." GETTING STARTED WITH SCRIBUS
"Scribus is an open source application for desktop publishing. The Scribus Project was started in 2001 and has gained great popularity, support, and won several awards since its inception." PRINT BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM CALENDARS IN LINUX WITH PHOTO CALENDAR
"Santa didn't bring you any calendars this year? Feeling a creative urge? Try Photo Calendar for creating and printing your own beautiful custom calendars." YET ANOTHER SUDOKU PUZZLE SOLVER USING AWK
"We have seen in a previous awk introduction article that awk can be an effective tool for everything from small one-liners up through some interesting applications." CHOOSING A BROWSER: WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR?
"My criteria for choosing a browser may be quite different than yours, though. I'm interested to know what other people look for in a Web browser, and what features may not be that important. Here's what I look for:" ADVANTECH LAUNCHES CORE I7 FLOTILLA
"Advantech launched a flotilla of seven Linux-ready devices using Intel's new, embedded-oriented Core i7 processor." LINUX FOUNDATION HELPS LINUX JOB HUNTERS
"These are rotten times for job hunters, but if you know Linux, you've got a better shot at getting a job." LINUX KERNEL 2.6.32.3 STABLE RELEASE
"The 3rd upgrade of Linux kernel version 2.6.32 has been released." CONFIRMED: IBM AND UBUNTU TO COUNTER WINDOWS 7 AT LOTUSPHERE 2010
"Once again, The VAR Guy’s sources were right. Canonical, as our resident blogger expected, is set to announce some Ubuntu news at IBM’s Lotusphere conference in Orlando the week of January 18." GSM ENCRYPTION CRACK MADE PUBLIC
"The schemes commonly used to encrypt GSM telephone calls, SMS messages, and data transmissions have been theoretically broken for years at both the protocol and cipher levels, but results presented in Berlin at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) on December 27 demonstrate that a practical attack can be easily implemented." LOCATION-AWARE SEARCH WITH APACHE LUCENE AND SOLR
"Whether looking for the nearest coffee shop on a GPS-enabled smartphone, nearby friends via a social-networking site, or all trucks within the city delivering a certain product, more and more people and businesses are using location-aware search services." 2ND CIRCUIT REINSTATES ANTITRUST CLAIM AGAINST ONLINE MUSIC PROVIDERS
"An antitrust suit alleging price fixing by Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other producers, licensors and distributors of music on the Internet has been reinstated by a federal appeals court." WATCHING TV AND LINUX
"Happily like most things in Linux, it just worked, that was a great plus. Sadly the software packages in existence that I ran across were either too much or too little, nothing was just right." Get Ready for Windows 7!
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MICROSOFT ADMITS ZERO-DAY AIDED GOOGLE ATTACKERS
"Microsoft officials acknowledged that widely publicized attacks on Google and perhaps another 20 or more corporations were helped by a previously unknown zero-day (define) vulnerability in most versions of its popular browser." ROBOTS.TXT TIPS FOR DEALING WITH BOTS
"The robots.txt is used to provide crawling instructions to web robots using the Robots Exclusion Protocol. When a web robots visits your site it will check this file, robots.txt, to discover any directories or pages you want to exclude from the web robot listing on the search engine." SUPERGAMER, 8GB OF LINUX-ONLY GAMEPLAY
"I admit, I'm one of those people who dual-boots so I can play video games. I've tried running programs like CrossOver Games in order to feed my need for fragging, but in the end, it seems I always have to install Windows to enjoy some real gaming fun." WEEKLY TEN: GOOGLE CHROME SUPERBOOK, MOBLIN LINUX SMARTPHONE, USB 3.0 FINALLY ARRIVES
"Pete logs onto his desktop computer. It’s a “dumb” netbook built by Google and called Google Chrome Superbook 5, with a fast startup time of 0.3 seconds..." HOBBY OS DEVELOPMENT 512 BYTE BOOTSECTOR COMPETITION
"Implement in no more than 512 bytes a bootsector that will work on BOTH FAT12 and FAT16 formatted media. The bootsector must detect at runtime which filesystem type it is running on and act appropriately." WORDGRINDER: WORD PROCESSING TERMINAL STYLE
"You may think that word processing is all about WYSIWYG and GUI, but WordGrinder is living proof that a word processor that runs in a terminal does make sense." MODELING, SHADING, TEXTURING, LIGHTING, AND COMPOSITING A SODA CAN IN BLENDER
"In this article by Reynante Martinez, we’ll cover everything from modeling a tin can from scratch, giving it some basic shading, adding appropriate textures, finalizing the lighting schemes for the scene to lastly compositing it for a better feel." MAKE FIREFOX A PRODUCTIVITY POWERHOUSE
"Most of us live in the Web browser for day to day work, so it’s important to make it as productive as possible. With the help of a few add-ons and Web services, you can easily double your productivity in Firefox." WHY LINUX ON THE DESKTOP IS WRONG
"At the very least, it is getting painfully clich� to hear the oft repeated mantra that this is the year of "Linux on the desktop."" OPENWRT KAMIKAZE 8.09.2 FOR NETWORK ROUTERS
"OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.09.2 is released. This is a Linux distribution for network routers, like the Linksys WRT54G, or the Asus WL-500g and a lot of other routers. This distribution adds a lot of new functionality to routers, like improved ipv6 functionality." REVIEW: ZENWALK 6.2
"I downloaded and installed the “Core” version of Zenwalk in October 2009 after a rough experience upgrading from Xubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and have used it almost daily since then, mostly for web browsing and other light tasks." OPEN NORWAY: NORWEGIAN BROADCASTING MOVES TO OPENOFFICE AND ODF
"Norway's national broadcasting and TV facility NRK is intent on using the Open Document Format as a standard and is therefore changing its clients over to OpenOffice." UBUNTU 10.04 ALPHA 2 BENCHMARKS
"With Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 having made it out yesterday, we couldn't resist but to run some new benchmarks of the Lucid Lynx after our original tests last month found Ubuntu 10.04 was off to a poor performance start." KDE TEAM REMOVES SUPPORT FOR UNDERSCORE, STARTS ENFORCING STD3 FROM RFC1122
"Interestingly, the latest build of KDE 4 (4.3.90 aka 4.4 RC1) no longer supports the underscore character in host names." GEEK SQUAD FINALLY REPLACES MY LINUX-INFESTED LAPTOP
"An anonymous Best Buy customer told us in December that the Geek Squad refused to honor his extended warranty on his laptop because he had installed (horrors!) Linux." PARTED MAGIC - A NICE TOUCH
"I've been using Parted Magic to work on my disks, and after recently replacing my old 1.x live Parted Magic CD with 4.6, I'm enjoying the little things that PM brings to the project" MAGNIFY THE MOTOROLA DROID
"Gazing at that small screen for more than a few minutes could tire the eyes, though. Is there some low-cost, homebrew way to enlarge the screen image on the Droid? Indeed there is." UBUNTU 10.04 ALPHA 2 REMOVES HAL
"The development of Ubuntu 10.04 is taking another turn. Lucid Lynx now has a second alpha version that gets rid of HAL. " THE BEST LINUX FILE SYSTEM OF ALL?
"Now, Google, which knows a thing or two about fast systems has decided that, for their purposes anyway, Ext4 is the best and close to the fastest file system of all." INTEL'S BUSY 2010 INCLUDES 32NM RAMP UP
"Intel said consumer demand has returned and it expects there will also be an uptick in business computing buying this year. That's good news for all of the hardware vendors that use Intel chips." MULTIPLE WALLPAPERS IN COMPIZ
"But why would you want multiple desktop wallpaper? It seems like nothing more than aesthetics? To many that is true � but for some power users it can make it quite obvious what desktop is for what job." NEW GSM ENCRYPTION CRACKED
"An encryption algorithm designed to protect calls on GSM phones has been broken by three cryptographers using only a dual-core, Intel -based Dell Latitude PC running Linux." TECH COMICS: "GEEKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN STRANGE"
"And what are these lines for?" DRIVE, PATIENT DATA GO MISSING IN CALIFORNIA THEFT
"More than 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients in Northern California this week are being notified that their personal information, including birth dates, addresses, phone numbers and medical-record numbers, was exposed last month after an unencrypted external storage drive was stolen from an employee's car." | 
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