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10 November 2010

YOUR LINUX TODAY NEWSLETTER FOR November 10, 2010

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Wednesday November 10, 2010

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THE TOOLS TO CREATE YOUR NEXT GREAT NOVEL
"November 1st kicks of National Novel Writing Month?a chance for budding authors to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboards, and bang out a 50,000 word (or more) novel in 30 days. Sound like fun?"

LINUTOP OS V4 IS OUT
"Linutop sells small, silent and low power PCs based on AMD Geode and VIA C7 processors to use in business and industrial environments. Now they are launching Linutop OS 4.0 that anyone can download"

BEHIND KDE: MARTIN EISENHARDT
"Ever wondered who is behind anonsvn.kde.org? Want to know what drives a person to provide that service to KDE for years and years?"

THE LINUX PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
"Michael Kerrisk has been the maintainer of the Linux Man Pages collection (man 7) for more than five years now, and it is safe to say that he has contributed to the Linux documentation available in the online manual more than any other author before."

EFF PIONEER AWARDS 2010 - OUR THANK YOU VIDEO
"There are some videos of the EFF Pioneer Awards for 2010 beginning to appear on BAMM.tv, but I gather there were technical problems with the video we sent to the ceremony to say thank you, as you can't hear any sound. Cory Doctorow fills in with some humor..."

UBUNTU 11.04 DELAYED, RELEASE SCHEDULE CHANGED
"The release schedule for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system has been modified last week on the Ubuntu wiki. The distribution will still be released at the end of April 2011."

IT'S CLAMFS CHOWDER TIME!
"Over the years I have heard about clam chowder. I have never had it but it is supposed to be scrumptious. However, this is not a blog about food but about technology and the clam I am going to munch on is none other than clamfs which is a virtual file system for real time protection of viruses using the clam antivirus daemon."

INTRODUCTION TO AWK
"Awk is a pattern-scanning and text processing utility that captures information from text files creating reports in the process, modify files from one format to another, create databases and perform mathematical operations on data."

W3C ACCEPTED AS AN ISO/IEC PAS SUBMITTER ON A ?TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT? BASIS
"If this process sounds vaguely familiar, that?s likely because this is the same process that OASIS used to gain global endorsement of its OpenDocument Format (ODF). Microsoft took a similar, but procedurally distinct, route with OOXML, its competing document format, when it offered it to ECMA"

WIRESHARK II: THE ANALYSIS
"Last week, you had the opportunity to look at Wireshark and its ability to easily capture network packets. This week, you?ll take a deeper dive into those Wireshark-infested streams and explore analytical techniques and shortcuts that you can sink your teeth into."

ORACLE COOKS UP FREE AND PREMIUM JVMS
"Oracle will deliver two Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) based on the OpenJDK project - one free and the other paid."

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ROSE BLOG INTERVIEWS: THE DOCUMENT FOUNDATION'S JACQUELINE RAHEMIPOUR
"On October 31, Jacqueline Rahemipour posted a letter on the dev@native-lang.openoffice.org mailing list called Every end is a new beginning. The letter, which was signed by Rahemipour and 32 other OpenOffice.org contributors, addressed Oracle's response to the recent creation of The Document Foundation."

UNCOVERING OPEN ACCESS
"To the general public, ?doing science? is all about discovery. But in truth, that?s only half the picture. Consider the experience of an obscure nineteenth-century Augustinian monk..."

LINUX / UNIX: DNS LOOKUP COMMAND
"How do I perform dns lookup under Linux or UNIX or Apple OS X operating systems without using 3rd party web sites for troubleshooting DNS usage?"

ALTERNATIVE LINUX DISTROS THAT DESERVE THE LIMELIGHT
"Ubuntu might be the most popular Linux, but there are two other desktop distributions which have a lot to offer but aren't getting the publicity they deserve, says Ashton Mills."

WEEKEND PROJECT: GET TO KNOW YOUR SOURCE CODE WITH FOSSOLOGY
"If you work with open source software of any kind ? whether at work or as a volunteer ? then you understand the importance of license compliance and keeping track of copyright ownership. But as a project grows, those tasks can get tricky, even when everyone is on the same page."

EASE: AN ELEMENTARY PRESENTATION PROGRAM
"What GNOME Office has always lacked, though, is a presentation program. Sure, Evince could always display presentations, but there was no tool to create them. Now that's changed, as there's a new kid on the block: Ease."

IS IT TIME FOR FREE SOFTWARE TO MOVE ON?
"A remarkable continuity underlies free software, going all the way back to Richard Stallman's first programs for his new GNU project. And yet within that continuity, there have been major shifts: are we due for another such leap?"

AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING, SAVING AND PUBLISHING SERIAL RS232 DATA TO THE WEB
"This article will describe setting up a system that will utilize a lightweight command line (CLI) install of Linux (Ubuntu in this example) to capture RS232 (serial) information, capture it and upload it to an ftp server."

IS LINUX FOSS OR OPEN SOURCE?
"The Linux offered under the GPL carries a few surprises under the hood."

WRAPPING A PROGRAM AROUND THE CORE DATA STRUCTURE
"Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming"

HOW TO COMPILE A UBUNTU 10.10 (MAVERICK) KERNEL
"The Ubuntu kernel developers have decided to change things up yet again for the Ubuntu 10.10 kernel, I guess it will change every Ubuntu release."

DO AWAY WITH POWERPOINT WITH S5 ON LINUX
"If you know a bit about HTML and how to work a browser, S5 is a standards-based slide show system that can take the hassle out of creating presentations."

ON GLORIOUS LEADERS
"Yet still, Mark saying ?oh hey this looks neat? becomes a huge splash. Why? I don?t know, really. Because Mark is Mark, I suppose."

MANDRIVA FORK MAGEIA TO SEE ALPHA THIS DECEMBER
"Things have been quiet since the initial announcement of Mageia, until recently. Some details of the plan and a roadmap have now emerged."

INTERNAL EMAIL ON WHY A SOFTWARE COMPANY MIGRATES AWAY FROM MYSQL
"The way the door to evil was opened with GPL"

LINUX NETWORK IP ACCOUNTING
"I need to know how much data are transmitted on my ppp0 network or eth0 Internet links? How do I set IP accounting by address such as 123.1.2.3 and 123.1.2.4? How do I set IP accounting per Apache virtual domain?"

GETTING TO KNOW ALICE
"After I wrote a review of the Scratch programing environment, one of our readers suggested that I look into the Alice programing environment. http://alice.org/ Well, I've gotten to know Alice and have found it to be quite an impressive programing environment."

8 USES OF THE HTACCESS FILE IN APACHE
"The file .htaccess allows us to change some of the settings of a server for a particular directory and it's subdirectories. While it is preferable to make this type of configurations in the server configuration file itself..."

FEDORA 14: WHO IS REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS?
"While I could spend considerable time picking apart the Linux Action Show commentators' various comments I think it is more productive to examine a couple of other actual reviews."

APACHE'S JAVA THREATS AREN'T NEW
"The Apache Software Foundation isn't very happy with Oracle leadership of the Java Community Process. They've gone so far as to issue a lengthy statement saying that if certain items and conditions don't change that they'll leave the JCP."

COMPIZ TO BE REWRITTEN FOR UBUNTU WAYLAND
"One of the more intriguing aspects of Wayland is that it does away with window managers. Instead it pushes all of the work of managing windows to the application."

WHAT'S THE FASTEST PARTITION SCHEME ON CHEAP FLASH MEDIA?
"You read the "Fastest Flash" article so you already know Ext4 can turbocharge your thumb drive. Using GPT (GUID Partition Table) will rocketize your thumb drive even more"

WHY DON'T MANUFACTURES GET TOGETHER AND GET MICROSOFT OUT OF THE LOOP?
"Here comes a crazy thought: Why don't computer manufactures get in cahoots and get Microsoft out of the demi-god loop?"

THE IMAGINEOS 20101103 K1 IS RELEASED (SLACKWARE-BASED LIVECD)
"The second ImagineOS release is finally available. This livecd created by using Linux live scripts with few modifications uses KDE (4.5.1) as desktop environment and its based on Slackware current with more applications and features."

SUGARCRM ADDS SOCIAL CRM, IPHONE APP
"Open source customer relationship management vendor SugarCRM today took the wraps off its first mobile CRM app for Apple's iPhone and also unveiled new social CRM features."

HOW TO INSTALL INTERNET EXPLORER 8 (IE 8) ON LINUX
"Internet Explorer 8 (also known as IE 8) is the latest but not quite the greatest web browser from Microsoft...If you are using Linux and if for some reason you need to install and use Internet Explorer 8, don't worry because it is really quite easy to do so."

WHY CANONICAL SHOULD BUY SYSTEM76
"Canonical seems to be pursuing a very Apple-like strategy with Ubuntu. This might be a winning strategy, but the company is missing one major piece: Its own hardware."

SCRIPT TO INSTALL INCREDIBLE COMPIZ EXPERIMENTAL PLUGINS IN UBUNTU MAVERICK, LUCID
"I was looking for something like this for so long. Using this incredible script, you can easily install some of the finest Compiz plugins in Ubuntu which are not available by default since they are dubbed "experimental". This is one script you should not give a miss at any cost."





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