LXer Features
Transparently uploading and accessing encrypted files and directories to a Cloud Service
By Tracy Anne Barlow - Nov 28, 2009
iPhone & HTML5 bring "streaming Silverlight content" to LinuxLXer Feature: 28-Nov-2009
The idea is to store ones files on a cloud (Ubuntu One), so that they remain private, using encryption, but so that they can be transparently uploaded and downloaded and accessed, as if they are unencrypted files.
By H.Kwint - Nov 26, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 22-Nov-2009LXer Feature: 26-Nov-2009
Here's a quick blog, because I'm really in hurry, so please forgive any mistakes.
Microsoft worked together with Apple to bring Silverlight video to the iPhone. What this solution basically does is take a video at the server side, cut it in parts and convert the parts to separate H.264 streams. Then stream those files to end users with IIS Media services. These have .ts extensions, a format mplayer understands.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Nov 23, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 15-Nov-2009LXer Feature: 23-Nov-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Nov 17, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 01-Nov-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Nov 02, 2009
Ubuntu "Stick" Blues - or USB for short
By H. Kwint - The Netherlands - Oct 29, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 25-Oct-2009
LXer Feature: 29-Oct-2009
There could be several reasons why your PC doesn't have a CD-ROM. For example, the next scenario:
- 1) You damaged the mobo fan while hoovering dust,
- 2) The new fan you bought featured adhesive tape which didn't last at 60 degrees (C), and an iron cord didn't fix it, causing the fan to fall of,
- 3) The northbridge burned,
- 4) The new 'green' AMD780G mobo you bought could not facilitate both your CD-ROM and IDE drives,
- 5) Given your IDE drives were part of a RAID array, you decided not to connect your CD-ROM drives.
OK, your reasons will probably be different, but these are mine. "Not a problem" I thought. "After all, it's 2009. Who needs CD-ROMs anyway?" The answer is: Mandriva, Gentoo, Tinycore and even Windows 7 don't, but Debian derived stuff does. It makes your life really hard, while Ubuntu is meant to make your life as a human being simple.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Oct 27, 2009
LXer Book Review: Pro Linux System Administration
By Sander Marechal, The Netherlands - Oct 22, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 18-Oct-2009
LXer Feature: 22-Oct-2009
“By the end of this book, You’ll be well on your way to becoming a Linux expert” is quite a bold claim for a book that is aimed at people who only have some familiarity with Windows and networking. “Pro Linux System Administration” by James Turnbull, Peter Lieverdink and Dennis Matotek aims to do precisely that and surprisingly, it largely succeeds. In its 1080 pages it explains how you can set up and configure multiple Linux servers to operate a small business network. Starting with basic Linux management and working up the stack through networking, e-mail and webservers you will end up with a pretty complete network that includes document management, groupware and disaster recovery.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Oct 19, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 11-Oct-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Oct 12, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 27-Sept-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Sep 28, 2009
Ohio LinuxFest report: "Forty Years of Unix"
By anonymous - Sep 28, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 20-Sept-2009LXer Feature: 28-Sept-2009
I just got back from OhioLinuxFest "Forty Years of Unix," and I want to report on what I heard, who I saw, and what I learned. I wasn't sure how it would be this year, with a slowed economy. Compared to last year, it had fewer exhibitors, but roughly the same number of attendees. The raffle tickets sold out, which is a good sign for any fund-raising activity.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Sep 21, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 13-Sept-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Sep 14, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 30-Aug-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Aug 31, 2009
Secure VoIP, GNU SIP Witch, and replacing Skype with free software
By David Sugar - Aug 27, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 16-Aug-2009LXer Feature: 27-Aug-2009
For a number of years I have been when possible working on what is called the GNU Telephony Secure Calling initiative to make communication intercept a thing of the past, whether for individuals, private organizations, or national governments, and to do so entirely using free software.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Aug 17, 2009
TomTom Leeches
By Tracyanne and TomTom - Aug 15, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 19-Jul-2009LXer Feature: 15-Aug-2009
A month or so ago I purchased a TomTom One map/navigation device, only to discover there is no Linux client for TomTom home, and as a consequence i am unable to update the maps on the device, or indeed, any other useful information that is made available for the device.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jul 20, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 12-Jul-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jul 14, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 06-Jul-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jul 06, 2009
LXer Book Review: Practical CakePHP Projects
By Sander Marechal, The Netherlands - Jun 25, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 21-Jun-2009
CakePHP has rapidly been gaining mindshare as a powerful and easy to use MVC framework for PHP. Mimicking Ruby on Rails, it allows developers to quickly prototype and build database driven websites and web applications. With increased popularity books usually follow. “Practical CakePHP Projects” by Kai Chan and John Omokore is one such book. It is aimed at advanced PHP developers who have some experience with CakePHP and builds on books like “Beginning CakePHP” (Apress, 2008). The book promised to show how to build practical, real-world web applications using the CakePHP frameworks.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jun 22, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 14-Jun-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jun 16, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 07-Jun-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jun 08, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 31-May-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jun 01, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 24-May-2009We have a lot of big stories is this week's roundup like the news that the U.S. Army has decided to upgrade from MS Office 2003 to MS Office 2007 and Vista in order to “bolster Internet security”, which begs the question, why isn't the entire military already using SELinux? For those who want to learn some Linux/Unix history and happen to have spare 40ft wall, then this poster might be for you, and SourceForge takes down the rtmpdump project after receiving a cease-and-desist notice from Adobe.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - May 25, 2009
Linux doesn't need marketingWine, you can't live with or without it, it seems, the Berkeley Linux Users Group put up a great review of Mephisto Backup v1.5, Juliet Kemp shows one way to protect your root password, and it looks like Sugar is ultimately going to win because no one is buying XO's with XP on them apparently. Google Chrome 2.0 was released this past week, its amazing to me that Chrome already has twice the browser market share than Opera but then we all know about market share statistics don't we?
By H.Kwint - The Netherlands - May 19, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 17-May-2009
LXer Feature: 19-May-2009
Most Linux adepts will agree Linux could have a higher market share than it does today, if it had been marketed more effectively in the past. Therefore, lots of those adepts stress “Linux needs more marketing!” Some efforts have been done, most notably I remember the Indy 500 car which advertised Linux, and more recently the "We're Linux" Video Contest by Linux Foundation. One question hasn't been answered as of yet however: What's the goal of marketing Linux?
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - May 18, 2009
It Will Never Be the Year of Desktop LinuxThe Mozilla Foundation has released version 1.0 beta of its Prism software. Danijel Orsolic puts a new take on the semantics of whether Linux is an OS or not. Paul Rubens shows us how to optimize hard drives for maximum speed in Linux and Pogoplug, which is a little device that can connect to a USB 2.0 hard drive and an Ethernet connection, and then instantly makes the drive an Internet-accessible storage device promises to publish the source-code if the product fails.
By Thomas King - May 14, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 10-May-2009LXer Feature: 14-May-2009
People always tout this year or that as THE year of desktop Linux. It won't happen. Rather, it'll take time to evolve.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - May 12, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 03-May-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - May 04, 2009
Terminating a Bad AssumptionThe Linux and Unix Menagerie has a hilarious look back at what we thought was cool, Mike Weber has a cool tutorial on how to compile a Kernel in Ubuntu 9.04, HP unveiled a ProBook laptop line that you can get Linux Pre-installed on, and can XP save Windows 7? Something tells me the answer is no..
By gus3 - May 01, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 26-Apr-2009LXer Feature: 01-May-2009
Earlier today (as I write this), our esteemed tuxchick made a very bold statement:
If people don't want to learn an unfamiliar environment why do they stick with windows? Win 95 was radically different from 3.1, and it was a huge success. XP was way different from 2000, and everything was moved around and stuffed into different places. Vista was even weirder, with the added free bonus of new extreme annoyances like UAC. Windows 7 is organized differently yet again, and the tech press are all swoony over it and hailing it as The Best Windows Evah.This touches on something I've been shopping around privately for a couple weeks now: Why do we in the "Linux community" assume prior experience with Windows, or any WIMP interface? At its core, this is a bad assumption for absolutely everyone, proprietary software houses included.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Apr 28, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 19-Apr-2009The biggest story of the week was by far the purchase of Sun, not by IBM but Oracle, which has many FOSS proponents worried about the Open Source projects that Sun is an integral part of. I agree with SJVN's take on it and it explains why Oracle had "Dr DBA" himself appear on stage at the MySQL annual conference only days later.
By Sander Marechal, The Netherlands - Apr 20, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 12-Apr-2009
It has been a busy week on our newswire. There was much good news for open source graphics, not quite so good news on the Linux security front, debatable news from Redmond, a flood of news about Ubuntu and much speculation dressed as news about Sun and IBM. And in between all that we had some regular news, tutorials and musings as well.
Here is an overview of the main things from last week.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Apr 14, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 30-Mar-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Mar 30, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 22-Mar-2009It looks like Google's Chrome browser came out on the winning end of browser hacking contest, so I figured why not back it up with 11 Free Ways to Beef Up Your Web Browser. Eric S. Raymond speaks heresy at a LUG meeting, RMS doesn't want us to fall into "The Javascript Trap" and by the way, your distro sucks.;-)
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Mar 24, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 15-Mar-2009
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Mar 15, 2009
The EeePC and Aspire One: The Good, the Bad and the UglyI figured I would start the Roundup this week with a good play on words with Michael Tiemann's, From the End of the Beginning to the Beginning of the End. Caitlyn Martin gives us a review the very different results in testing the performance of different Linux distributions. Mozilla starts to contemplate a future without Google and Derek Knowlton shows us The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the The EeePC and Aspire One. Oh and by the way Happy 15th Birthday, Linux!
By Derek Knowlton - Mar 10, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 08-Mar-2009LXer Feature: 10-Mar-2009
With the introduction of the EeePC and the Aspire One I was in love.. Originally I just had to have the Asus, but with the great deal Walmart was offering on Black Friday (yeah, I know but I bought the Acer at Wallyworld) I decided to buy an Aspire One as well. Let me tell you about 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' of these two machines.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Mar 08, 2009
The BENQ netbook and EeeBuntuIn this week's LXWR we have more news coming to light on the Microsoft vs. TomTom suit, fat free XFCE, going back to dial-up to save some cash, news and opinions on netbooks, Flock ditches Firefox for Chrome, Linux gets put to the Mom test and much much more.
By Tracy Anne Barlow - Mar 04, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 02-Mar-2009LXer Feature: 04-Mar-2009
The BENQ net book and EeeBuntu. One of the interesting things about KDE4 is the fact that it has caused me to look at Linux Distributions, other than Mandriva, which I've use almost exclusively since I started using Linux in 2000.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Mar 02, 2009
Mr. Stallman's Internet: How RMS May Be Looking The Wrong Way At The InternetIn this week's LXer Weekly Roundup DeviceGuru talks about how Lenny brightened up an old laptop, Linux has a marketing problem, how RMS may be looking at the internet the wrong way, Microsoft sues TomTom and all the rest of the previous week's big stories.
By James Cook - Feb 24, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 23-Feb-2009LXer Feature: 24-Feb-2009
Once more unto the breach my friends, Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has laid another profound thought process out there for us to digest. This man is definitely deserves everyone's respect. Whether you agree with him or not, he has given the whole planet gifts that it does not even realize for the most part. While not the creator of the concept that the code for software should be free, he is without a doubt the one who codified the concept. He laid out exactly what it means for software to be free, in such a fashion that even most laymen could understand it. This alone should earn him the respect of the planet, however, it does not stop at that point.
[This is a response an article that hit our newswire last week. - Scott]
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Feb 24, 2009
Open Source News from FOSDEM 2009 - Day 2
By Hans Kwint and Sander Marechal - Feb 16, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 15-Feb-2009In the weekend of 7 and 8 February, the 9th Free & Open Source Developers' Europe Meeting (FOSDEM) took place at the Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels. Your editors Sander Marechal and Hans Kwint attended this meeting to find out for you what's hot, new in the area of the Linux environment and might be coming to you in the near future. This is our report of the second day covering the talks about Thunderbird 3, Debian release management, Ext4, Syslinux, CalDAV and more. Coverage of the first day can be found in our previous article.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Feb 16, 2009
Open Source News from FOSDEM 2009 - Day 1We start off this week's Roundup with a blast from the past with an article that compared the best Linux distributions of 2000. Its amazing just how far we have come since then. Amazon has unveiled a new slimmer Kindle reader that has more storage and quicker page turns. Priced at a somewhat steep $359, it will keep many who would want to buy it from being able too.
By Hans Kwint and Sander Marechal - Feb 11, 2009
LXer Weekly Roundup for 08-Feb-2009
This weekend, the 9th Free & Open Source Developers' Europe Meeting (FOSDEM) took place at the Université Libre Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels. Your editors Sander Marechal and Hans Kwint attended this meeting to find out for you what's hot, new in the area of the Linux environment and might be coming to you in the near future.
Here is the blow-by-blow of the first day with talks about Mozilla's future, the role of Debian, two OSI talks, Reverse engineering and much, much more.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Feb 09, 2009
The Death of the NewspaperAt the beginning of the week Debian went into a deep freeze until their announced release date for Lenny on Valentine's Day. A group of developers have brought the dark horse of file managers Midnight Commander back from a deep sleep. Jimf exposed me to midnight commander, it was way over my head at the time and in a related article Carla Schroder says you "You Get What You Pay For" that talks about projects having a hard time making ends meet. Both of which I will be talking about again soon..
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Feb 06, 2009
Why does the newspaper deserve to be saved? Just because they have been around for a long time? That is not a good enough reason for me. Or the arguments that society will somehow be lessened by their absence or be less informed without them is arrogant and presumptuous.
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