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I guess that is what you might call a turn up for the books, as the US Department of Homeland Security announces the 16 members which have been sworn in to serve on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Especially when you consider that one of them, Jeff Moss, is best known for being the founder of the Black Hat and DEFCON hacker conferences and something of a hero to the hacker community.

A newer version of our older perl netbackup backup activity reporting script. Cleaned up a bit and updated to work with NetBackup 4.5 through 6.5

Bordeaux for OpenSolaris 1.8.0 was released with support for Microsoft Office 97, 2000, 2003, Visio 2003, Project 2003, Internet Explorer 6, Adobe Photoshop 6 and Adobe Photoshop 7. There has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the backend to improve the speed and reliablity of all the supported applications.

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual. ?It often refers to the drafting (technical drawing and engineering drawing) of a part or product, including entire buildings. However, CAD software is used in a wide variety of other fields such as electronics and woven fabrics.

This article is necessarily going to be short: I am busy restoring our server from a backup from the 2nd of June. Why? Because 3FN was shut down by the FTC; and yes, 3fn is the hosting company we used and were sponsored by. We are now hosting the magazine with the angels at OpenHosting, which in this case were a life saver. FSM is back! Read the full story at Free Software Magazine.

This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.3 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, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

Gitco is providing http://www.gitco.de/repo/src/xen-3.3.1-0.src.rpm for free download. It gives am immediate option to back port Pygrub ZFS support from Xen 3.4-testing mercurial tree. Details follow bellow.

Hot on the heels of Android 1.5, Google has demonstrated Android 2.0 in San Francisco. So what can we expect from the next generation open source smartphone OS and when can we expect it?

Got a lot of music / videos you need to keep organized? Got Mythbox and a remote? Want to add web-content to that box? Check out these three Linux Media Centers.

Paul Sherman has released Absolute Linux 12.2.5, a lightweight desktop distribution based on Slackware's "current" branch: "Absolute Linux 12.2.5 released. New Linux kernel, new package format, new Python. Every single package has been at least re-packed, modified or updated. Interface updated along with Linux kernel, Python, packaging system which is now TXZ and, due to higher compression, the main release contains much more than previously: OpenOffice.org and Java, as well as many other applications, now fit on a single CD. PCMan file manager and Rox have both been modified to work seamlessly with the TXZ package archives, as well as the new 'Add/Remove Programs' item in root menu. New volume control (now in system tray). New theme, more complete file type handling."

After reading articles like this one today. It's safe to say that this sucks. Linux MADE Asus the market leader it is. Xandros bent over backwards to tailor a UI specifically for the tiny 7inch screen that really did make the first netbooks fly. Now this crap. Some of the things that I've learned by asking (off the record) some local retailers of the Asus systems. These retailers tend to be more hands on than a "Best Buy".

Amarok is my favourite music player. I recently installed version 2 on my Ubuntu 9.04 system but I was having some troubles with it. This is a post about how to fix this problems and make Amarok play perfectly on Ubuntu!

This is a Mini-Course on the setup and use of the Fedora 11 firewall. This is a free course that is available to anyone. The Fedora course is designed to take you step by step through the setup of a firewall that will meet your needs. Much of the free content on the Internet is disjointed and hard to follow in a logical pattern so we have decided to start building Min-Courses that focus on logical development and design to help take a student from the beginning to the end.

One of the things I've heard people say about free/open source software like Linux (fortunately, not in person) is that it is communist/socialist. Admittedly, RMS linking to every left-wing cause in the world on his homepage doesn't help. In reality, though, free/open source software is the best way that software can be handled in a market economy.

Currently, proprietary businesses dominate the operating systems market. In 2008, Microsoft Windows controlled 87.9% of the market with Mac OS X following up with 9.73%, leaving only 2.37% of the market to open source alternatives. However, in the past year alone, Linux market share has grown from .80% to 1.02% (a 27.5% increase) and other open source operating systems have grown from .22% to .58% (a 163% increase). These figures translate into millions of open source operating system users. The question is how to continue these upward trends and break the stranglehold that proprietary operating systems have on the markets. This article discusses the role that open source advocacy plays in increasing open source usage.

Calculate Linux Desktop 9.6 XFCE released Jun 5, 2009. It is the first version of Calculate Linux Desktop, based on the environment XFCE. The main differences:

1. The system has lower hardware requirements for PC.
2. The size of the image stored on a CD.
3. Gtk uses Instead of the graphic library Qt.
4. Portage and sources kernel were removed from the image because of space limitation.

Anyway, I had already written a piece on repetitive tasks before. Yesterday I had to do a thing that required another set of repetitive tricks. I had to find a file that could be included in a number (huge number) of compressed files. Some where named .tar.gz, others where tgz. I didn't want to spend the next month checking each compressed file to see if my target file was there. So I made a one-liner that did the whole thing for me.

We don’t need to declare the year of the Linux desktop anymore. This week alone was pretty darn good. Having spent the week at Computex, the place where you see all the things that people are going to find in Bestbuy and Amazon 6 months from now, it is clear that Linux has a critical role in client computing. Here is a shortlist of this weeks developments.

On May 18, the Linux Foundation announced that it had sent a joint letter to the American Law Institute protesting some provisions in the ALI's proposed principles to be applied to the law of software contracts. That was likely the first that many LWN readers had heard of this particular initiative - or, indeed, of the ALI in general. Your editor, being a masochistic sort of person, has plowed through all 305 pages of the principles (which were made official by the ALI on May 20) with an eye toward their effect on free software. What follows is a non-lawyerly summary of what he found.

Google has made some progress in porting its Chrome browser to the Linux and Mac platforms, though it acknowledged the test versions it's made available are still rough around the edges. Expanding Chrome's availability could open the door to Mac users as well as a potentially sizable population of Android-based netbook users.