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Wireless management on Linux is a bit of a hodge-podge, especially for roaming users. NetworkManager, KWifiManager, and various other utilities that have come and gone all attempt to make managing different network connections easy. wicd (pronounced "wicked"), the wireless interface connection daemon, tries to do the job better, so we're going to give it a test drive.

Chinese PC manufacturing giant Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBM's personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as a pre-installation option. None of the company's 49 ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook models -- nor its many ThinkCenter and IdeaCenter desktops -- can currently be ordered with Linux.

News Items that were on the OpenSourceToday site were mostly rewrites of official company [1.] press releases. These Items were by their nature were highly volatile (read as rapidly prone to rot), hence, were inappropriate for longer term retention. Moreover, whatever marginal gain they offered meant prompt display was a necessity. Therefore, rapid, dynamic updating of the News page was an inherently sensible. I describe here one way to meet those needs.

Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network's first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States. Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.

I've wanted to write this article for quite a while. Over the years I've noted thatJava-based music and sound applications have increased in number and quality, yet no comprehensive list or summaries have covered these advances. And so at long last I present this survey of music and sound applications that require Java. The presentation follows no particular order, but in this first part I'll begin by questioning the use of Java in sound and music applications development, followed by a brief look at Java's internal audio and MIDI capabilities.

Google's Chrome browser appears to be doing more damage to Firefox and Opera's market share, leaving Internet Explorer sitting pretty.

Download management is one of the larger categories on the Firefox Add-ons site, but while hundreds of extensions fall under this category, they are a mixed lot at best. Many have yet to release versions compatible with Firefox 3.0, and others are designed to work with Windows programs. However, with patience, you can find some programs worth exploring -- and even a few small treasures -- in this category.

Well it was a comparatively quiet week on the Linux blogs last week, due at least in part, no doubt, to the Labor Day holiday. Gustav could have been a factor too -- dampening, so to speak, those conversational fires -- but we here at LinuxInsider also have another small theory to explain some of the relative lack of discussion.

This article shows how you can do port-forwarding with rinetd on Debian Etch. rinetd allows you to forward ports from one system to another. This useful if you have moved your web sites to a new server with a different IP address. Of course, you have modified your DNS records, but it can take a few days until DNS changes become effective, and that is where rinetd comes into play. If clients still use the old DNS records, rinetd can redirect them to the new server. With rinetd, you do not have to fiddle with iptables rules.

Thursday's news that Amazon will be running G1G1 v2 starting in late November certainly made quite a splash. I've seen north of 50 news-stories on news.google.com and within 24 hours we also had two major Austrian news-organisations inquire about the details at OLPC Austria.

As a .NET developer, you should avoid using the newly released Managed Extensibility Framework as its license prevents its use beyond the Windows platform. This will prevent your .NET software from running on Linux or MacOS in the future. Luckily, there is a cross platform solution available today that has no platform limitations: Mono.Addins, a technology inspired by Eclipse's own plugin system. We have tutorials, reference manuals, API docs, our FAQ our public groups and multiple large applications with source code available that you can learn from (MonoDevelop, Banshee, F-Spot and Gnome-Do).

NetSuite already supports Apple's Safari browser in addition to Internet Explorer and Firefox. Since Chrome uses the same HTML engine as Safari (WebKit), the major aspect that NetSuite might have needed to accommodate is Chrome's new V8 JavaScript engine.

How's this for some light Monday reading? ;) Actually, the title sounds a lot worse than the concept or its application. In fact, if you read the equation in its "native form," above, it looks like gibberish, unless you're really into mathematics or engineering ;) For our purposes, we'll reduce it to something that looks like regular mathematics (which it is) and tie it back into our series of posts from last week. This is what the derivation looks like in English, assuming n=4 and k=3 (no math involved ;)

LXer Feature: 07-Sept-2008

The big news this week was the release of 'Chrome' the new browser from Google. It is only available on the Windows platform as of right now. I tried it and it has some cool features, it has some things that need a lot of work too. Also Microsoft's new Vista ads start to show up on T.V., a self professed "Windows Guy" decides to takes Open SuSE 11 for a spin, some advice on mailing list etiquette and how to get the younger generation into Linux.

Microsoft, once an ardent proponent of proprietary software, is no longer fighting the growing army of open source developers worldwide and in the Philippines. In fact, it will soon open in the country its first interoperability lab in Asia. The software behemoth’s local subsidiary teamed up with the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and the National Computer Center (NCC) for the establishment of the Microsoft Open Source Interoperability Lab, which will officially begin operations in September this year.

Software licenses stir up emotive feelings in the Linux community. Licenses generally fall into one of two broad categories: proprietary licenses and open source licenses. The type of software license an application uses is significant in the effect it has on the rights of the user of the application, and whether a programmer chooses to contribute his or her time to its development.

A graphical tool to make file backup simpler. Provides a user-friendly interface which allows you to back up your files easily to an archive, to a CD/DVD or to a remote location using SSH.

Linux needs its own distinctive look and feel. A major makeover is in its future.

Sun Xvnc implementation for Nevada, committed in build 76 provides 3 options in general. Third one is to start vncserver by hands. It allocates two ports 580(X) and 590(X), where (X) is available display number.Port 580(X) may be used for http://IP-DomU:580(X) connection to DomU , port 590(X) may be used by vncviewer IP-DomU:(X) connection. Both ways initiate loading Java Applets from DomU into Dom0. Connection via vncviewer has been selected on CentOS 5.2 Dom0 due to issue with Java Web Start and FireFox on 64-bit Linux. By some reasons first and second options provided by official Sun Xvnc failed on SNV97 DomU, successfully installed via pygrub in text mode as usual

During Akademy 2008, we sat down with Fabrizio Montesi who's working on JOLIE integration in KDE (and Plasma in particular). He explained the mechanics of the technology and what it can do for KDE. Read on for the interview.