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Southern nations frown on ISO

State IT organisation representatives from Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba and Paraguay have signed a declaration expressing their dissatisfaction with the International Standards Organisation (ISO). The countries signed the declaration at the CONSEGI conference in Brazil over the weekend in response to news that the ISO/IEC had rejected the appeals from South Africa, Brazil and Venezuela and India to the ISO process to adopt Microsoft’s OOXML format as an international standard.

Change To Google Earth Requires Corroboration For User Entries

  • O'Reilly News; By Caitlyn Martin (Posted by caitlyn on Sep 2, 2008 7:39 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups:
Last week I wrote an article for O'Reilly News documenting alleged anti-Israel political bias and the posting of false information at Google Earth. Similar charges had been previously made about Google News. The main point of the article was to question the integrity of the data provided by Google and questioning if, in effect, Google was losing the trust of its wider user community by making decisions which suited a specific political agenda. [...] It appears that Google has made changes which do address the concerns of the company's critics on this issue.

Stephen Fry punts free software

In one of the less likely combinations of talent, Stephen Fry has been called in to be part of the 25th anniversary of the GNU operating system. Fry, a popular humorist, actor and novelist features in a five-minute long film in which he explains the history of free software and its importance in the world. In true style Fry is entertaining and offers one of the best - and most understandable - explanations of free software and the the GNU is not Unix philosophy.

Analysts fail on open source

Despite their critics, analysts at their best can bridge a significant gap between vendors and software users. Vendor marketers who create information for prospective customers are understandably sales-driven and rarely grasp how their products are deployed. The result tends to be material strong on superlatives and weak on substance. Certain features are emphasized while the processes involved in implementation are largely ignored, even though these may be more significant and costly than the software itself.

This week at LWN: In defense of Ubuntu

Criticisms of the Ubuntu distribution and Canonical, its corporate sponsor, are not hard to come by. Depending on who is speaking, Ubuntu and Canonical are guilty of profiting from the free software community without giving back to it, forking important projects or distributions, legitimizing the use of binary-only system components, and more. Of all of these gripes, it is the "contributing to the community" complaint which is heard most. If one believes these complaints, Ubuntu is a parasitic operation which does not understand how the community works and which is harmful to the community as a whole.

Dynamic Content - Detailed Article Listings

  • bst-softwaredevs.com; By Herschel Cohen (Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 2, 2008 3:33 AM EDT)
  • Groups: PHP; Story Type: News Story
The creation of an automated article listing on the central column of the OpenSourceToday's home page would have begun by running the called php source specified in the action attribute of the input form. The php scripts would have begun by creating the text of the article summary that contained the publication date, the linked title, the author's name and the capsule summary. The entire string described would be enclosed within a div tag pair when written into a new text file. The next task would have been creating a backup copy of the original listing, then appending its content into the new file that contained only the newest article summary. Finally this completed new listing would be copied over the original. That is the process I describe here, in detail.

Google plans 'Chrome' browser

Search giant Google has confirmed it will shortly unveil a new Web browser dubbed 'Chrome' and based on code from the Webkit project. After rumors broke out all over the Web about the new software, Google confirmed the plans this morning in a blog post here. Word first surfaced of the plans in a Web comic book introducing Google Chrome, the search giant's long-rumored open source browser project. While the illustrations, created by cartoonist Scott McCloud, were not announced by Google, they do contain the quotes and likenesses of 19 Google developers.

One Tale of Two Scientific Distros

Several weeks ago, I was flying west past Chicago, watching the ground slide by below, when I spotted the signature figure eight of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, better known as Fermilab. I shot some pictures, which I put up at the Linux Journal Flickr pool (Flickr also uses Linux). I figured Fermilab naturally would use Linux, and found that Fermilab has its own distro: Fermi Linux. Its public site provides a nice window into a highly professional and focused usage of Linux. Within Fermi Linux, specific generations are known as Scientific Linux Fermi, each with version numbers and the code names Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom, Up, Feynmann, Wilson and Lederman.

Number Pools And Guaranteed Combinations Within Fixed Strings

It's been a while since we've taken any time to look at any formal systems or number systems (all the way back to The M I U Puzzle, so today we're going to kick off a quick beginner post that is, somewhat Linux and Unix independent(although we'll be scripting and using Linux/Unix tools to do this work for us in future posts). It's going to segue into something more complicated in a future post, but, for today, we're just going to lay the groundwork. In fact, the beginnings of this process will seem almost brain-dead simple. Which is okay, because they pretty much are ;)

Reading Packets with libpcap Part 2

In the first part of the libpcap series a rudimentry packet reader (or sniffer) was built which could read and print tcp/ip traffic on a particular interface. In the second text a look at some simple checks of the data itself, adding options like interface selection, libpcap filter options and verbosity levels. Some of the checks included are:

  • IP Packet Truncation
  • IP Header Length
  • Ethernet Header Length

The filter options are eventually passed exactly like tcpdump using the tcpdump argv vector copy.

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iPhone chasing Linux in operating system market share race

Before the big launch, the Jesus Phone accounted for just 0.16 percent of the operating system market as measured by web browsing usage. After the iPhone 3G hit the streets that global share shot up to 0.3 percent. Linux, meanwhile, currently has a 0.93 percent share...

Six Nations "Just Say No" to ISO/IEC

  • ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove (Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Sep 1, 2008 9:47 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
In the latest twist in the OOXML - ODF document format story, ISO and IEC, two of the most venerable standards organizations In the world, have been dealt a slap by government IT agencies in six countries.

21 of the Best Free Linux Productivity Tools

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Sep 1, 2008 8:47 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
One of the essential ingredients to running a successful business is maintaining an advantage over your competition. Many different types of computer software can significantly enhance performance at the workplace, or in the home. A polished office suite, a reliable backup system, an intuitive desktop environment, even a welcome break from reality with an immersive game all have their part to play in helping users achieve their maximum potential. However, this article focuses predominately on software that helps individuals organise their day, capture and retrieve information, assist them fulfilling their various roles in life (whether as a parent, employer, employee, good neighbour etc), as well as streamlining the desktop.

Deluge - free opensource Torrent Client for openSUSE

Deluge is a full-featured free opensource BitTorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it’s backend and PyGTK for it’s user interface. Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge’s functionality is available in the form of plugins. Deluge is not designed for any one specific desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.

Stringent Laws Driving Internet Traffic Away from US Servers

  • DaniWeb TechTreasures; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Sep 1, 2008 6:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
To no one's surprise, except perhaps the New York Times, internet traffic is going global, and more so with each passing year. The result is that more traffic is flowing through servers outside the United States. The chief concern about this development, according to the NYT article, was the fact that it has made it more difficult for US intelligence agencies to spy on internet traffic.

Amarok, the music player that does it all

  • Free Software Magazine; By Andrew Min (Posted by scrubs on Sep 1, 2008 5:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
For a time, GNU/Linux music library tools seemed to be, well, non-existent. Sure, XMMS was an awesome media player. But if you wanted to catalog your music, you were out of luck. Apple users had iTunes and were always rubbing it into the free software world’s face. Even Microsoft, the sleeping Redmond giant, had upgraded Windows Media Player to include a library feature. Then, a giant wolf named Amarok charged to the rescue. Andrew Min at Freesoftware Magazine sings the praises of Amarok, the musical poster boy of GNU/Linux, and explores it major features. You can read the full, illustrated article at FSM

Open source stands up for its rights

Intellectual property rights (IPR) are usually associated with large software or music companies. This impression can easily obscure the critical connection between open source and property rights. Just because software is given away, it does not mean all property rights are thrown out of the window. In fact IPR is critical to the health of the open source movement. Many open source developers are ill-equipped to deal with IPR but one who did tackle the issue was Robert Jacobsen, whose case against US company Kamind was recently decided in the US Appeal Court.

Open Source Etiquette

I follow a lot of mailing lists…all of them either Linux or open source in nature. Some of these lists I have been following for years. And from those lists I have seen trends come and go. I have seen technologies blossom and die. I have met a lot of people, some wonderful some not so wonderful. But the one constant that I have noticed throughout this journey is that the Linux and open source community hold some common bonds. One of those common bonds is etiquette.

Dreamhost review and coupon codes

  • Free Software Magazine; By Tony Mobily (Posted by scrubs on Sep 1, 2008 2:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Interview; Groups: GNU
Tony Mobily, Editor in Chief of Free Software Magazine, interviewed one of the founders of Dreamhost to explore their committment to free software on their server and hosting systems. Read the full article at FSM

Improving Boot Times

A common topic of discussion in the Windows world - in fact, in any operating system - is boot performance. Many systems take a long time to reach a usable desktop from the moment the power switch is pressed, and this can be quite annoying if it takes too long. In a post on the Engineering 7 blog, Michael Fortin, lead engineer of Microsoft's Fundamentals/Core Operating System Group, explains what Microsoft is doing to make Windows 7 boot faster.

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