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Ever find yourself with too many passwords to remember and no idea where to keep them so that only you can find the password list? Creating a password.txt file in your root directory is out of the question, as is a password-protected OpenOffice.org file. A piece of paper hidden somewhere is not a good idea, because after you forget where did you put it, someone else will find it and abuse it. Instead of these approaches, consider using steganography, a method for hiding sensitive information inside some other object, typically a JPEG picture or a sound file.

LXer Feature: 21-May-2007

An overview of the second annual Ruby on Rails conference held in Portland, Oregon, May 17th - 20th. Covering the talks in great detail would take far to much space, so this article will try to cover the key points and give links to find out more.

Partnership gives Linspire & Freespire users single-click access to easy-to-use, consumer friendly desktop virtualization software

The May 8th-11th OSHCA meeting in Kuala Lumpur, presentations are online nowhere.

All users and developers of Joomla!, the open source content management system, will have an opportunity to meet in Cape Town on June 16.

Much has been written about Microsoft’s allegation of patent infringements in Linux (by which I’m sure they mean GNU/Linux ;-) ). I don’t think Microsoft is the real threat, and in fact, I think Microsoft and the Linux community will actually end up fighting on the same side of this issue.

So it's hours away from the last days of qualifying, truly a now or never moment. Our car is a heap of scrap metal, our driver is busted up in the hospital and while we have "a car" ready for back up, I don't think it was even out of the cosmoline yet. Just kidding...we don't use cosmoline any more. Darrell Soppe our Crew Chief goes into Super Darrell Mode. With some of the best guys in the business, he sets out to put the pieces together.

Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering.

[This should answer many of the questions LXer readers have about Dell's upcoming Ubuntu Linux offering - dcparris]

Roberto Moreno was on the bubble, although not necessarily in danger of missing the Indianapolis 500. But instead of waiting to see what the likes of Jimmy Kite or P.J. Jones could do in their unqualified machines, the 48-year-old Brazilian took his status into his own hands, pulling a slow speed off the board and replacing it with a stout effort better than those of a half-dozen cars on the grid.

I just got back from the track... and what a day for Chastain Motorsports... what a day for Roberto Moreno... what a day for the Linux community!

Ever wished you could display more than one site in Firefox at a time? I'm not talking about tabbed browsing, I'm talking about seeing two sites next to one another without having to juggle two browser windows. Firefox doesn't do this natively, but with the Split Browser extension, you can juggle two or more sites in one browser window.

We've had screaming allegations of fraud, screaming tires and people as our car slammed into a wall at two hundred miles per hour. (alleged) screams in the small hours of the morning as Chastain crew members battled the clock to put a car back together. Even screams of joy as Robert Moreno amazingly squeezed an additional 4 miles per hour out of a car that had been a doorstop less than 72 hours before.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: User-visible functionality added in Plasma. Support for animated SVG images in SuperKaramba.

What makes Windows users so darn dumb?

This session will look at real EHR selection and implementation scenarios that didn't quite go according to plan. In this highly interactive session, the audience will be able to ask questions or present their own scenarios, obtain specifics pertaining to open source software such as advantages including free software and ability to modify easily, and obstacles such as limited support options.

Microsoft has no plans to support OpenDocument Format in its own applications by default, despite the fact it has backed the ODF for ANSI accreditation.

[More BS from MS - dcparris]

Eben Moglen is saying that the SUSE vouchers Microsoft is distributing have no expiration date! I didn't know this. It's huge. This is, according to Moglen's remarks, another defense to any patent infringement claim by Microsoft, and it may well bring that campaign to a screeching halt. Here's why. Someone, Moglen says, is bound to turn a voucher it got from Microsoft in after GPLv3 goes into effect and GPLv3 code is being distributed, and at that moment Microsoft comes under its terms. And that should mean the end of Microsoft's ability to successfully sue anybody over its alleged patents allegedly in Linux, or to phrase it more exactly, it provides a probable defense to all Linux users and vendors, not just Novell's paying customers, if Microsoft does sue.

[I didn't see this until today. - Scott]

NoMachine NX is a Terminal Server and Remote Access solution based on open source technologies. It makes it possible to run any graphical application on any operating system across any network connection as if you were sitting in front of your computer.

Feel OS vendor has them by their RupeesComputer dealers in Gujarat, India held a one-day strike to protest ongoing anti-piracy raids from Microsoft.

[I quit doing business with Microsoft a long time ago. Any GNU/Linux evangelists in the area? - dcparris]

LXer Feature: 20-May-2007

A weekly recap of the big stories concerning Linux and Open Source.