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Microsoft's Latest Whizzo Plan: Divide and Conquer
Despite the rather surprising news that Microsoft won't have a comprehensive open source strategy until 2015, there's increasing evidence that it has at least established its shorter-term tactic: to head off the growing use of GNU/Linux. That might seem an obvious thing to do, but it's different from earlier attempts to paint *all* of open source as hopeless for enterprise use. Instead, Microsoft is adopting a “divide and conquer” approach, whereby it sends out soothing messages to open source application projects – including much billing and cooing in an attempt to encourage hackers to make their code work better on Windows – all the while putting in the boot where GNU/Linux is concerned.
Linux Installation Guide: So easy, even your grandmother could do it!
I've written this guide with non-geeks in mind. A year ago I always did installations for my friends. With recent advancements in Ubuntu Linux, this is no longer necessary. This guide assumes you are currently running Windows, and want to have both Windows and Linux on the same machine. Simply view the following screen shot gallery in order, following the instructions as you go. Do that, and a few mouse clicks and about an hour later you'll be the proud owner of a computer running Linux!
Creating large graphs with Tulip
Tulip a framework that allows you to create, visualize, manipulate, and export large graphs. Tulip can import graphs from the popular Graphviz package and allows you to export a graph visualization in a number of bitmap image formats as well as SVG and EPS for eventual inclusion into a PDF file. Packages for Tulip are available for Ubuntu Hardy and for openSUSE as a 1-Click Install. There are no packages of Tulip in the standard Fedora repositories, but there are binary RPMs offered on the Tulip download page. In this article I'll install version 3.0.0 from source on a Fedora 8 64-bit machine.
Interview with Palamida's Mark Tolliver
Mark Tolliver, CEO of the source code audit company Palamida, talks about how painful personal experiences led to its creation, the kind of surprises Palamida *always* finds in people's code, and why incorporating open source code in projects will get easier for companies.
Quick-boot Linux environment makes a splash
DeviceVM announced that its quick-booting Splashtop Linux implementation is being pre-installed in ROM (read-only memory) on four new Asus motherboards. Asus says it plans to ship over a million Splashtop-ready motherboards per month, making this one of the largest Linux deployments ever.
Linux Soon to be in your Car
Thanks to a new joint effort between Intel and Wind River, you may soon be running Linux in your car. The effort will run under the auspices of the Intel led Moblin.org effort and will deal specifically with the in-vehicle infotainment marketplace. The idea is to create a Linux based Open Infotainment Platform that will run on Intel's Atom processor. According to a release issued by Wind River, BMW, Bosch and Delphi are among the companies that are already supporting the effort.
'Experimental' Linux distro Exherbo eyes serious developers
A former Gentoo developer yesterday revealed that he has been working on a new hardcore Linux distribution, dubbed Exherbo. Bryan Østergaard said on his blog that Exherbo was at the “experimental” stage and for that reason isn’t openly encouraging anyone to attempt to use it. He said work on the Linux distro has been ongoing over the past few months, and that some elements of Exherbo have been based on ideas and experiences from Østergaard’s time at Gentoo.
Fwknop and single packet authorization
Protecting servers by placing them behind a firewall is a best-practice methodology for systems administrators, but it's not a panacea: those systems are still visible to network scanners such as nmap and nessus. While services like SMTP and HTTP may need to be accessible to the public, most enterprises also have private internal servers that require external access by traveling support staff. For those users, fwknop, an open source utility that provides single packet authorization, can help sysadmins hide their servers from network nasties.
Chicks Love Linux
There I was standing around the LUG booth at the annual Linux expo when I realized that unlike years past, there were considerable numbers of female attendants. No, I am not referring exclusively to those female models hired to promote an OS (I won't mention which one) wearing skimpy demon costumes.
Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists
Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware site, and third-party exploit detection tools are also detecting internal pages as exploit hosting ones, in this particular case Mal/Badsrc-A. What is Mal/Badsrc-A? Mal/Badsrc-A is a malicious web page also known as HTML.XORER, that has been compromised to load a script from a malicious website.
What's the "Linux Tax" Worth to You?
In When Do You Trade in Your Gibbon for a Heron?, I mentioned that I'm considering upgrading my System76 laptop from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron. A commenter named Scummy suggested that a similarly configured Dell system is cheaper: Dude - you just paid a $350 ‘Linux Tax’ by NOT going mainstream in your hardware…
@Mail takes Webmail client open source
Linux e-mail vendor @Mail Monday released an open source version of its Webmail client and is making it available for free. The client, @Mail Open, is AJAX-based and works against any e-mail server that supports the IMAP and POP3 e-mail protocols, including those from Microsoft and IBM/Lotus.
Upgrade Your Desktop From Fedora 8 To Fedora 9 With PreUpgrade
This document describes how to upgrade your desktop from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 via PreUpgrade. PreUpgrade provides a frontend that allows the user to easily download all packages that are needed for the distribution upgrade, and then perform the distribution upgrade.
Microsoft blames users for Vista infections
Microsoft has claimed user "complacency" is to blame for malware infections, and denied that its Vista operating system is less secure than Windows 2000.
Asus Pundit P2-M2A690G Barebone
Asus sent BIOSLEVEL.com their latest AMD-based barebone. BIOSLEVEL.com puts it through several benchmarks and the outlook looks good for Linux support.
I update Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 8.04 LTS ... one has SSH issues, one does not
I have one swappable drive for my test box that has Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and Wolvix Hunter 1.1.0 triple-booting. I hadn't connected the drive in 25 days, and I booted into both Ubuntus to do updates. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS had 26 updates. None of them were for the OpenSSH problems that have plagued Debian-derived Linux distributions in the past week (and, more troubling, over the past two years).
Microsoft is SourceForge Awards’ Only Sponsor, Spreads FUD
Now get a load of this. The only sponsor of SourceForge.net2008 Community Choice Awards is Microsoft. Yes, you heard that right.
Steve Ballmer Egged in Hungary!
Steve Ballmer finally gets to join his buddy Bill Gates in the "food target club" after a visit to the Hungarian University of Economy. A guy (grad student? just some dude?) stood up, yelled "Give back the money of the taxpayers" in an accent Ballmer probably couldn't understand, and started throwing eggs at him.
The Human Hacking Field Guide
This story is about an young female hacker who becomes the student of an even more unlikely female computer hacker and their journey to become "Open Source Hackers".
MySQL: the Australian connection
In an age when paper qualifications and certificates of one description or another are touted as evidence of competence, it's refreshing to know that the top MySQL expert in Australia has only been officially certified on a version of the program which came out years ago.
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