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Ubuntu On The Business Desktop
I work as a consultant in a Windows-centric work-place and we remotely administer Windows servers. We trouble-shoot Windows clients. We keep spammers out of our Exchange servers. We defrag. We update. We install antivirus programs. We eliminate spyware. I suppose it would be fair to say that Microsoft keeps us in business. One day, while the boss was away, I shoved a spare hard-drive into my computer and installed Ubuntu 5.04. I managed to work for a month and a half before the Boss noticed I was using Linux - and that was only because he happened to glance at my screen. Half a year later, I am still using Ubuntu (now version 5.10) at work and I am more productive than ever.
Linux Journal Under Denial of Service attack
The site is down because they are under a DOS attack. I can think of several possible ramifications, but I thought you might want to know.
Why governments really choose open source
The number of open source deployments by governments across the world has accelerated over the last few years. To date at least 160 international local and national governments have deployed open source software and over $2bn has been spent on the Linux open source operating system, according to figures from Linux vendor Red Hat.
Linux News says Microsoft Engaged in Persecution and Discrimination
LXer Day Desk: 11-17-2005Many American conservatives recoil when people bring up the issue of persecution. They call it un-American. We quote the US Constitution when it serves our interests. But when someone is in the minority, reminding the majority of our rights under the constitution means encountering verbal abuse.
So as unpopular as the following argument may seem, let me remind you that a democracy that guarantees citizens certain rights and privileges forms the foundation of our system of government. Vocal incriminations will not change that.
Now, let's take a closer look at some core issues of ethics.
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How to shop for Web hosting
Buying Web hosting for your business is an important decision. Trying to choose a hosting company can be confusing, especially when you're reading the companies' advertisements. But understanding Linux hosting ads can be easy, once you know how.
Using Lazarus to demystify Linux.
For the past four years, I have been the Chief Software Architect for OpenLab international, the company that created the OpenLab GNU/Linux distribution. Over that period, Lazarus has long been included in the distribution, but what fewer people realize is how critical it is to the actual distribution development. Read on for some insight into how we use it."
Italian public employees join to promote open source
With a few notable exceptions, such as the Massachusetts directive in favor of OpenDocument, government agencies usually do not experiment or promote technological innovation in their own offices. However, a small and scattered group of public employees in Italy is trying to join forces to reverse this flow.
ODF Falls Prey to a Nasty Little Turf War
Today, ODF became just a political football on Beacon Hill, as Massachusetts politicians jostled to take control of IT policy in the Commonwealth.
Lightweight Web Serving with thttpd
The Apache HTTP Server is the most popular web server due to its functionality, stability, and maturity. However, this does not make it suitable for all uses: slow machines and embedded systems may have serious problems running it because of its size. Here is where lightweight HTTP servers come into play, as their low-memory footprints deliver decent results without having to swap data back to disk.
Similarly, these small HTTP servers are suitable to serve static content efficiently so as to allow Apache, mod_perl, mod_python, or even servlet containers to handle dynamic requests without tying up memory-hungry children to serve small images. In other words, these applications can serve as a complement to your existing full-featured web server, not as a replacement.
Tackling poverty with technology
It is hard to believe that 19 shiny flat screen computers can cure the ills of this tiny community in South Africa's arid north where people battle every day against poverty, AIDS, illiteracy and hunger. Yet U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. and South African President Thabo Mbeki are promoting Dipichi's smart new IT lab as a blueprint for how technology can trigger growth and tackle poverty across the world's poorest continent.
Linux, Supercomputing And The Mid-Range
The importance of Linux in the world of supercomputers is difficult to understate. Linux is the installed operating system on 72 percent of the supercomputers listed in the latest Top 500 (www.top500.org) tally of the world's fastest supercomputers...The LS/X is the new high end system that Linux Networx claims can provide, "sustained application performance for configurations up to 100 Teraflops."
Create relationship diagrams with Graphviz
If you use charts to represent relationships between data or objects in presentations or project reports, try Graphviz. Licensed under the Common Public License Version 1.0, Graphviz is visualization software, designed to help you easily create structural information. You can use it to visually represent database and table relations in a project report or a simple Web site hierarchy.
Plan certifies consumer-friendly downloads
An anti-spyware initiative backed by Internet portals Yahoo and AOL would certify downloadable software as consumer-friendly and non-invasive.
Cybersource partners on OpenOffice.org training
Training specialist Advanced Training has partnered with open source solutions company Cybersource to offer a training solution for businesses looking to migrate users off Microsoft Office onto OpenOffice.org.
Sony's Copyright Overreach
Call it the revenge of the nerds -- digital style. For years, computer geeks and cyberlibertarians have howled about aggressive user restrictions programmed into music CDs, movie DVDs, and all kinds of software...Now the tide might be turning, thanks to a classic case of overreaching that has fomented a backlash against the industry.
[Ed.- Overreaching, my aunt Fanny. Sony simply got caught. How many more are there? -tuxchick]
Project Looking Glass Screenshot Tour
Sun.com states - What if your desktop were actually a 3D environment? What if your CD or movie database becomes a 3D jukebox? Project Looking Glass is based on Java technology and explores bringing a richer user experience to the desktop and applications via 3D windowing and visualization capabilities. Interested?
OSDir has some nice shots of Project Looking Glass.
A Day in the Life of #Apache
A huge number of the questions on #apache have to do with mod_rewrite. And, fairly frequently, I find myself thinking that the problem being discussed would be so much easier to solve if we could just write a Perl script to deal with it. Of course, you can, using the RewriteMap, but it's moderately hard to come by good examples of using this, either in the documentation, or elsewhere online.
Red Hat bemoans poor Aussie open source takeup
Senior Red Hat executives today admitted open source software was "peripheral" to the IT strategies of most Australian organisations.
Worldwide Mandriva Linux 2006 install party 11/26
Following the release of Mandriva Linux 2006, Mandriva is mobilizing its network of Linux User Groups (LUGs). Free community installation sessions will take place around the world. Major participating locations include the United States, Brazil, Canada, China, Moroco, and the island of Reunion. More than 60 cities are involved, including a dozen in China and 15 in Brazil.
Using Software RAID-1 with FreeBSD
Have you ever needed a software RAID solution for a low-end server install? Perhaps you've wanted your workstation to take advantage of the redundancy provided by a disk mirror without investing in a hardware RAID controller. Has a prior painful configuration experience turned you off software RAID altogether on Unix systems? Since 5.3-Release, FreeBSD comes with gmirror(8), which allows you to easily configure a software RAID 1 solution.
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