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Ontario Superior Court [Canada] grapples with legalities of anonymous postings on the Net.

We all know that file stores our information in many types of formats. But do you know that we can use it as a storage device too. Surprised? Let’s go through the crazy process We are going to create a empty file in Linux, format it and then mount it as if we are mounting a partition. This process is long , So to understand it easily I am dividing it into 4 steps.

All packages required are already in PPA “Spice-Gtk-0.7 on Ubuntu 11.10?. Spice-gtk-0.7 has been done for Oneiric as two builds. First one with python, gobject-introspection enabled and --with-gtk=”2.0?(GTK2). Second one --with-introspection and --with-gtk=”3.0? (GTK3).This builds actually are the core builds in PPA, which bring RH’s technologies to Ubuntu 11.10. Notice, that option --with-audio=”pulse” is also used by both builds and appears to be working fine.Patched virt-manager and virtinst also support spicevmc channel. Following bellow is brief description of PPA "Spice-Gtk-0.7 on Ubuntu 11.10"

The Pronet Wifi USB adapter is based on the Atheros chip, as evident from its hardware properties displayed in Windows and Linux OSes. This tutorial provides help on installing it on Ubuntu Linux.

This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.0 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

Google Earth has received so much press coverage that many users will appreciate that it is one of the coolest applications to download. In brief, it is a feature-laden 3D virtual globe, map and geography browser which lets users zoom in on their world with fantastic detail.

Today marks two years to the day since the first version of Dancer micro web application framework for Perl hit CPAN! In these two years, the project had countless valuable contributions from a large list of contributing users, gathered over 300 watchers on GitHub, had 84 people fork the repository on GitHub, had 620 pull requests submitted… amazing stuff.

The SSL system helps to protect secure communications across the Internet. It's also a technology that relies on trust; specifically, the trust of the SSL Certificate Authority (CA), which may not always be trustworthy, according to security researcher Moxie Marlinspike.

Speaking at the Black Hat security conference, Marlinspike detailed issues with the current CA system and proposed a new system to replace it.

The need to replace the CA system according to Marlinspike was highlighted by the recent attack on CA provider Comodo in March. Marlinspike noted that Comodo is the second largest CA in the world and the attack was able to do a lot of damage. Comodo officially blamed Iran for the attack.

Welcome to the 159th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Oracle Linux 5.7 and Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3. In other news: The Document Foundation company announced the release of the LibreOffice 3.4.2 open source office suite; Google released the final and stable version of the popular Google Chrome 13 web browser; Linus Torvalds hates GNOME 3 and switches to the Xfce desktop environment. For this week we've also prepared a very nice tutorial about how to install KDE Software Compilation 4.7 on the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system. The weekly ends with the video clip of the week, the new and updated Linux distributions, and the development releases.

Okay guys so because this bundle is just that awesome i have a copy of the bundle up for grabs for one lucky winner.

Tiny Core is one of the most smallest Linux distributions, using Busybox as a user interface and comes and Kernel 2.6 based. Tiny Core comes 3.8 comes along with Micro Core and Multi Core. So let’s check the release announcements, changelog and download options.

While the dream-cat is still in Alpha I figured it would be nice to test it out and see how it behaves. I haven’t used an Ubuntu distro since 8.04 and there’s a good reason for that… it was a tad slow. But a friend said to try it out now, arguing that it has come a long way, therefore I am!

Usually I try not to overdo the Linux evangelism. I'd rather Linux succeeded on its own merits than from the fumbling insights that come from the mouths of believers. But last month I read an article and it left me feeling a little down. It was titled Is Linux Finished? and the author outlined what he thought were the reasons for the distinct lack of success Linux has had on the desktop.

The trouble with FUD is at first it sounds correct, or at least plausible. So when Google complained about the Apple-Microsoft partnership and the deliberate patent policy against Google, Microsoft's first response sounded like a killer blow. It said it had asked Google to join them. But… let's take a little bit closer look, because in doing so, it let slip a fact that we did not know until now -- that Google tried to get the 800 or so Novell patents that CPTN, an entity Microsoft set up with Oracle, Apple and EMC, eventually won.

Version 6.7.0 of the Knoppix Live Linux distribution is now available to download free of charge from the project's download server or via BitTorrent. As usual there are English and German versions for CD or DVD.

We are witnessing a new wave of open source use, driven primarily by innovation rather than cost, flexibility, or other advantages. With this new wave, there is a danger that the ease of commercialization ushered in by wider use, greater credibility and, again, innovation means the all-important community piece -- often the free and open source or community version as well -- becomes an afterthought.

One of the keys to using GNU sed successfully is knowing how to use its regular expressions. If you look over sed scripts without knowing regular expressions, the effect can be pretty disconcerting. Don't worry — it's not as confusing as it looks. This weekend, spend some time with GNU sed's regular expressions and put some real power into your text processing.

So let me get this straight. To get the HP TouchPad to perform as well as its main competitor, I have to hack the WebOS operating system? My ZDNet blogging colleague James Kendrick has written an excellent piece for HP TouchPad owners on how to dramatically improve performance by using a WebOS community-supported software stack called Preware that is written by a team of community software developers over at WebOS Internals.

There are two types of user interfaces Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) and command line interface (CLI). In GUI you use mouse to give instructions, in command line you type commands to control your computer. Linux provides two ways of exploring command line, you can either start a terminal emulator or switch to virtual console. Terminal Emulator Terminal emulator is a program that provides access to command line when you are in GUI. It opens up a window in which you can type commands. To start a Terminal Emulator look in the application menu.

John Carmack talks about the complexities of code optimization in modern games, PC/console development challenges, choosing programming languages, static program analysis tools (mentions PC-Lint), and open-sourcing the id Tech 4 (Doom 3) engine.