Create Your Own Linux Appliances
November 15, 2008
Ken Hess’s Linux Blog: “That’s right, create your own Linux virtual appliances with VMware Studio. Appliances are small, single purpose servers that provide a service to users.”
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Intel X.Org, Mesa Performance In Ubuntu
November 15, 2008
Phoronix: “While the open-source graphics drivers have matured a lot over the past eighteen months and many new features have been added, the ATI performance with an R430 GPU really hadn’t improved in the newer releases. To see if the open-source Intel situation is any different, we have carried out similar tests with an Intel 945G Chipset across the past four Ubuntu releases.”
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Editor's Note: High-Tech Masquerades Perversion as Science
November 15, 2008
But a lot of things still have shaking my head in wonderment. The biggest one is the tech industry’s enthusiastic glee for Peeping Tom-ery. It’s like a perversion, an insatiable, pathological need to snoop and pry where, according to ordinary courtesy and respect, they have no business going.
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Why Offshoring Software Development Will Fail
November 15, 2008
Datamation: “The SMFs suggest to anyone foolish enough to use them that the cost of software development is primarily dependent upon the per hour cost of programmers. Thus, the SMFs suggest the best way to reduce development costs is to find cheaper programmers.”
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Novell Bid to Cannibalise Linux Market
November 15, 2008
IT Wire: “ovell is getting increasingly desperate for sales. One can come to no other conclusion on reading the latest offer from the company which once dominated the world of PC networking.”
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Keep Tab On Home Security With A Webcam And Twitter
October 31, 2008
Shantanu’s Technophilic Musings: “Worried about someone breaking into your house in your absence? Or just need to keep a tab on who enters your room while you are away? Well, all you need is a webcam, a linux PC/laptop and a twitter account.”
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A Better File System for Linux?
October 31, 2008
InternetNews: “Oracle’s Better File System for Linux (BTRFS) is gearing up but what will it do and who will use it?”
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Solving Privacy Issues in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
October 31, 2008
Begin Linux: “One of the new features in Ubuntu 8.10 is the ability to create an encrypted directory for content you do not want others to access. Oh, by the way, did you know that anyone can read your files that are in your home directory? Here is an example of sue logged in and able to open files in mike’s home directory. However, note that they are opened read-only so they cannot be changed. Still, who is looking at your stuff?”
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Python Data Persistence Using MySQL
October 31, 2008
Packt: “This article by Yuli Vasiliev will walk you through the process of building a simple Python application that interacts with a MySQL database. In a nutshell, the application picks up some live data from a web site and then persists it to an underlying MySQL database.”
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Novell Makes a Move — Motion for Constructive Trust and Payment Now - Updated 2Xs, as text
October 31, 2008
Groklaw: “Here we go. Novell has filed a motion asking the bankruptcy court to confirm the constructive trust amount and order SCO to pay it now:”
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