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A while ago somebody asked me what he could tell his boss to convince him to migrate to Linux, so I made him a small list.

If you have an Asus WL-500W, the DIYers’ favourite wireless router, and have installed the Oleg custom firmware on it, then you would have set up a shutdown script for it. This is especially important if you have a USB hard disk attached to it. There are many such scripts available in Oleg’s firmware that you can tweak. The one that we are going to talk about today is named “pre-shutdown” and it is exceuted just before the router is about to shutdown and we'll see an example that will allow us to shut it down gracefully.

For those interested in turn-based strategy games, Battle For Wesnoth 1.6 is now available on Linux and other supported platforms. This major update to Battle For Wesnoth brings a new campaign (called The Legend of Wesmere), many multi-player improvements, improved game graphics, new terrain types, user-interface improvements, and an improved map editor.

The open source GNOME desktop project has changed version control systems (VCS) to Git. The Git version management system was originally created by Linus Torvalds for the development of the Linux kernel. Other projects managed with Git include Ruby on Rails, WINE, X.org and Perl.

Which web browser client is least at risk from hackers? If the PWN2OWN hacking competition is any measure of client security, then the clear winner was Google Chrome.

Just when you thought you were rid of that damned paperclip ;)

Now to begin with, let’s first understand how to evaluate the performance of java code and protect the java code from tainted objects. We’ve already talked about Tainted Object Propagation in my previous post in context with databases. now, it is in context with application code. I’ll explain this with an example of enum pattern.

It will only ever truly support Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk, but Synapse, a new alpha-level IM app, is a pretty—and pretty efficient—way to chat if you're all about open-source communication. The developer of Synapse has a goal of spreading the love for XMPP, which is an open, extensible chat standard. That's great for the open-minded set, and users of Google Talk, which conforms to the standard, but is obviously a bit restricting, given the number of contacts one might have on "legacy" systems like AIM or MSN.

You don't learn to ride a bike by reading books. No one can become a pilot by listening to someone else talk about plane journeys they've been on. Instead, we learn by doing, by trying, by failing and - most importantly - by succeeding. Because when you feel like you're winning, you get confidence in your skills and know that you can do anything.

The design of the Sugar Labs logo was an opportunity to create a coherent visual identity for both the revolutionary educational software and also the organization behind it - a growing community of volunteers from diverse backgrounds and professional disciplines. A simple, typographic approach was used for the logo to set it apart from the primarily iconographic Sugar. The conceptual link to the user interface is color, applied to the letterforms through an outline and an interior color - the same technique used to represent identity in the interface for icons of children and activities.

Maker Faire's got started in the US, the first being held on April 22 – 23, 2006 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. Created by Make: magazine these events celebrate D.I.Y. technology with all kinds of weird and wonderful creations ranging from toys to artworks and gadgets. This year Newcastle hosted the first UK Maker Faire.

Recently, a new browser war has erupted all over the internet, with various browsers making massive improvements in each release to trumpet those made by others. While Firefox certainly ignited this new browser war, Chrome is the one who started the JavaScript war. The first release of Google's web browser came with a brand new JavaScript engine that was a lot faster than those of its competitors, forcing them to improve their JavaScript performance as well. This whole JS thing has gotten to the heads of the folks at Google, and they've created a site for experiments which show off the power of JS.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority is denying that a list posted on Wikileaks.org is the same list it maintains of sites believed to be hosting harmful content such as child porn and malware. The official blacklist is a closely guarded secret.

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

There are many criticisms that one can make of the applications offered by the free software community, but lack of choice is generally not one of them. Our community thrives on competition while our licensing makes it hard to keep secrets from competitors. A recent episode in the Puppet community shows that, while this competition can sometimes take unwelcome forms, there is often little to do but to welcome it anyway.

So it has been a while since I have posted ScreenShots of any distribution lately. So I decided to start it off with the new and improved Debian 5.0. Now I have not used Debian in quite a long time ( Not counting Ubuntu based distro's ). But the last time I installed Debian, it had just a menu base install. Well guess what????? Not any more!!! Debian has joined the world of Linux Gui Installers ( Also has the option for the menu based installation as well, for those of you who need it :) ).. I am personally glad to see that they have joined everyone else.

GNU/Linux is blessed with a good choice of file managers. Gnome has Nautilus, KDE has Dolphin and Konqueror and Krusader, which I wrote about some time ago). If you are looking for a minimalist system with low processor and memory overheads to revive an old “underpowered” machine or make the latest PC look even faster, you have to start thinking about alternatives. One of them is Thunar, the default browser of XFCE. read the full article at Freesoftware Magazine.

Linux will never rule the desktop, and here's why: If you draw a line giving the rate at which Linux is taking over the desktop you'll see it'll take several years from now to become the biggest operating system on desktops. This is never going to happen, because the desktop as it is will die long before we reach this point. The good thing is Microsoft will probably die with it!

The GeSpeak Team has released GeSpeak 0.3.

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for July to December 2008. This document includes reports of the board and the Marketing and System Administration working groups, details of the KDE e.V. activities of the last two quarters of 2008, financial information, and future plans. All long-term KDE contributors are welcome to join the KDE e.V.