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This week we look at how to secure your web app, choosing a cloud backup vendor and monitoring your most privileged users.

A list of FLOSS for science related books that were published during the month of November 2011.

The GNOME Project announced a few minutes ago, December 23rd, the immediate availability for download and testing of the third development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings assorted improvements and bug fixes.

Like just about every other step in self-publishing a book, researching and selecting a print on demand (POD) publisher can be a time-consuming and even bewildering experience. 

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 stable has been released. Ubuntu Tweak is an application to make Ubuntu's configuration easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn't.

One of the reasons that many hated the Unity desktop in Ubuntu is because there is a lack of customization option. People switched from Windows/Mac to Linux is mainly because Linux offers them an environment where they can customize everything to their liking. When Canonical reduced your ability to do what you want with your desktop, many people start to grunt about it and some even switched to Linux Mint.

The Document Foundation has announced its first bug hunting session for version 3.5 of the open source LibreOffice office suite – to be held online on 28 and 29 December. On those days, the Quality Assurance (QA) team and some experienced developers will be available on the IRC channel #libreoffice (IRC link) from 8am to 10pm UTC and will accept bug reports not only via Bugzilla, usually the only option, but also by chat and email.

David Airlie has achieved a bit more success in his GPU "PRIME" work to provide graphics processor hot-plugging support under Linux with the X.Org Server...

As we explained in our post on Carrier IQ's architecture, one of the main factors in determining what the Carrier IQ stack does on a particular phone is the "Profile" that is running on that device. Profiles are files that are typically written by Carrier IQ Inc. to the specifications of a phone company or other client, and pushed to the phone by Carrier IQ Inc. using its own command and control infrastructure. To create transparency for the public that has been monitored by the more intrusive variants of this software, we will need a comprehensive library of these Profiles, and to know which ones were pushed to which phones at what times...

If you have a single user computer odds are you also have no need for a display manager to be cluttering your system. The solution is to simply have your desktop GUI of choice auto-start when the computer turns on. To do this we are going to use a simple, but effective, piece of software cleverly called "NoDM".

AMD announced the Radeon 7970, based on a 28nm manufacturing process and said to be its fastest-ever GPU (graphics processing unit). The move follows the introduction of 13 new entries in the company's A-Series (& Llano& ) series of processors for laptops and desktops, including two models that can be overclocked....

Canonical developers have now announced that a technical preview of U1DB is available and have given more details of its functionality. According to the announcement, U1DB is an API and data model designed to be backed by any database for storage.

There is a report out that claims that the renewed Google Mozilla deal is worth $300 per year. WHAT? Yup I did a double take when I saw that figure too. Sure I'm a believer in Mozilla, but $300 million sure does seem like an obscene amount amount...or does it?

One of the most promising and interesting space shooters to come from an idie developer all year ever Ensign 1 is nearing the last few days on it's Kickstarter campaign.

Deadline Extended for Submissions!

If you are using Android, you know how Internet data hungry it is. Many Android users get surprised to see their monthly data rates if they have postpaid plans and the prepaid users are shocked to see how their data gets exhausted so soon.

Due to school requiring certain Microsoft software and being tired of using a virtual machine I have decided to keep Windows 7 on my Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5204 laptop, leaving my HP Pavillion DV7-2180US laptop with Ubuntu installed and my MSI Wind U100 with Fedora installed. Of course I immediately started feeling tied down, lacking certain things I get in Linux (like a clipboard manager). So I set out to hunt down some applications that would give me some of my Linux functionality back. This is what I found:

Since I use Linux for several years now I’ve found Linux users of all kinds, having a blog has helped me to identify many types of Linux users. But of all the guys there are some that are very annoying and I will try to classify them. I promise that this post is angering some who feel identified.

Today KDE released the first release candidate for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. Compared to Beta2, RC1 contains hundreds of fixes. Please give this release another good round of testing to help us release a rock-solid 4.8 in January. read more

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.2 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures.