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Watch TV on your Linux computer

  • NewsForge (Posted by dave on Mar 11, 2004 3:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wouldn't it be nice to sit at your Linux machine and have a crisp little color TV screen right there in one of your desktop windows? Using a cheapo TV tuner card, you can get great picture and sound quality on anything from an old 133 MHz Pentium on up. The hardware requirements, at $20 for a TV card after rebates, are pretty modest, and the payoff is a lot of fun.

The LDP Weekly News - March 10, 2004

  • Linux.com (Posted by dave on Mar 11, 2004 3:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News Issue Number 10.

Free email could be over

Microsoft and Yahoo!, who between them control the accounts of around 300million people, dominating the email market, are considering charging for every one sent.

Is your enterprise ready for Linux-based messaging?

  • Search Enterprise Linux (Posted by dave on Mar 11, 2004 3:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Exchanging vendor lock-in for Linux and freedom of choice in messaging software sounds like a good idea. But it will flop if enterprise-strength messaging applications aren't available on Linux. Also, it will fail if your company isn't ready for Linux. Never fear! Top tools and good decision criteria are covered in this interview with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com messaging expert and Scalix CEO Julie Hanna Farris.

Using the GNU text utilities

This tutorial shows you how to use the GNU text utilities collection to process log files, documentation, structured text databases, and other textual sources of data or content. The utilities in this collection have proven their usefulness over decades of refinement by UNIX/Linux developers, and should be your first go-to choice for general text processing tasks.

Guest editorial: Open source for capitalists

  • LinuxDevices.com (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 7:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Foreword: This essay by Matt Asay explains why he and others organized the inaugural Open Source Business Conference, set to take place March 16-17 at the St. Francis Hotel on Union Square in San Francisco.

KDE 3.2 - A Quick Review

  • KDE Dot News (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 3:50 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
Right on the heels of the KDE 3.2.1 release, Savanna is back with an article about her latest upgrade to the KDE 3.2 desktop. After being on 3.2 beta for several months, she wasn't expecting too much of this upgrade.

Open Sesame: It's Time for Open Source Software

  • AllAfrica.com (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 2:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
allAfrica.com posts an introduction to Open Source type of article.

National Instruments adds motion control Linux driver support

  • LinuxDevices.com (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 1:45 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Virtual instrumentation specialist National Instruments has developed commercial Linux drivers for its motion controllers, and has added Linux support to its Motion Hardware Driver Development Kit for those wishing to develop their own drivers.

Open source software: a great opportunity for community

  • Voice of Viet Nam (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 1:25 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Government approved US$20 million for nine OSS projects, to be implemented through 2008. The plan also targets a contingent of programmers specialising in OSS application and development as well as IT products that meet criteria and Vietnam’s OSS application requirements.

Debian alert: New sysstat packages fix insecure temporary file creation

  • Mailing list (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 1:25 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security; Groups: Debian
Alan Cox discovered that the isag utility (which graphically displays data collected by the sysstat tools), creates a temporary file without taking proper precautions. This vulnerability could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking isag.

IBM's Wladawsky-Berger sees open source future

  • Computerworld Australia (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 1:24 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM
Open source software needs to be more widely used if the next wave of technology is to fully take off, IBM's Vice President of Technology and Strategy, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, said Monday.

Linux gets Intel help with Centrino

  • CNET News.com (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 1:22 PM EDT)
A year after it launched its Centrino chip package for building notebooks with wireless networking abilities, Intel has begun a public project to let Linux take advantage of the hardware.

Debian alert: New kdelibs, kdelibs-crypto packages fix cookie traversal bug

  • Mailing list (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 1:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security; Groups: Debian
A vulnerability was discovered in KDE where the path restrictions on cookies could be bypassed using encoded relative path components (e.g., "/../"). This means that a cookie which should only be sent by the browser to an application running at /app1, the browser could inadvertently include it with a request sent to /app2 on the same server.

Napster Calls on Linux

  • PC World (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 12:59 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM
In an effort to help its large-scale customers conserve bandwidth and speed up the delivery of online music, Napster is using open standards technology from IBM as part of a cache-management system, the company says.

Linux answers some messaging challenges

  • Search Enterprise Linux (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 11:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Escaping enterprise messaging application and services lock-in isn't impossible, not if you exchange Exchange for Linux. So says Julie Hanna Farris, whose faith in Linux and open source software is so strong that she founded an alternative messaging solutions company, Scalix. Corp.

Book Review: C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3

  • OSnews (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 8:41 AM EDT)
Generally speaking, this is the only book about Qt that discusses a recent version of Qt, so programmers who want to really learn Qt should definitely take a look at this offering. It not only explains how to program for Qt, but also, in some cases, why the API is the way it is. If you are looking into coding a multi-platform application that isn't Java-based, this is the book you need.

Trunk Freezes for Mozilla 1.7 Beta at Midnight Pacific Standard ...

Beta is last-chance for changes that impact localizations so get those string changing fixes and features landed ASAP or let drivers@mozilla.org know if you're going to have trouble getting them in before Beta.

Hardware Review: The Linare Home and Business PC

  • OSnews (Posted by dave on Mar 10, 2004 8:37 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Linare Corporation was very kind to send us a Linare PC for a hardware review (software review will follow in a few weeks). The Linare PC is currently selling via Wal-Mart or via Linare's online shop for only $199.95 US and it comes pre-loaded with Linare Linux 1.0. Is this PC a good first computer option or an adequate home solution? Read on to find out.

Mandrake security alert: Updated mozilla packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in Mozilla 1.4.

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