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As an ex-iphone user, having widgets on the homescreen (without having to jailbreak and use kludgy html based widgets) is great – and the grandaddy of all widgets is the weather widget. There are a lot of great weather widgets, but not that many that show hourly forecasts as their primary function. AIX Weather does this in a compact, informative and attractive way – bottom widget in the screenshot, just in case you were wondering. AIX Weather displays a grid/graph showing weather conditions, temperature and rainfall for the next 24 hours in your chosen location.

Great news guys, it was just announced that the upcoming Linux 3.7 kernel will incorporate support for multiple ARM System on Chips (SoCs) platforms.

This article explains the concept of Intrusion detection system (IDS) in general. It explains how an IDS works, its various types, the pros and cons of an IDS and how it differs from a firewall.

When the call came yesterday morning, I assumed at first I was being trolled—it was just too perfect to be true. My phone showed only "Private Caller" and, when I answered out of curiosity, I was connected to "John," a young man with a clear Indian accent who said he was calling from "Windows Technical Support." My computer, he told me, had alerted him that it was infested with viruses. He wanted to show me the problem—then charge me to fix it.

Verizon can change that password. In other to do that, they must have a master password, or as it is known in some circles, a backdoor. To Verizon, it is an administrative password. The only problem is their “administrative password” can unlock your administrative password.

If you are using an older PC then you have three choices: 1. Run an older version of Windows, 2. Throw it away and get a new one, 3. Install a lightweight Linux distribution such as Zorin OS 6 Lite.

Debian's Drupal package supports putting all your Drupal sites under one install of the package. This requires some attention to detail to make a policy robust enough to support any customization that a site may need. This write-up explains how that much flexibility can be achieved with the stock Debian Drupal package on multi-tenant systems.

Dot Categories: Community and EventsKDE had a visible presence at LinuxCon 2012 in San Diego, California, August 29-31. Thanks to the Linux Foundation for donating an exhibit space to KDE. LinuxCon 2012 was the fourth year this annual event has taken place. Sponsored and produced by the Linux Foundation, it is a premier Linux event and attracts big names in open source, both companies and individuals. The event has a corporate feel with many leading tech companies exhibiting and their representatives making presentations.

(Warsaw, Poland and Kassel, Germany: October 3, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization and its affiliate, LPI-Central Europe (http://www.lpice.eu/), hosted the first LPI Forum, a conference for government officials, Linux professionals and Open Source Software organizations on the future of IT careers at the Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland on September 28, 2012.

Sandia National Laboratories announced on Tuesday that it has set up a network of 300,000 Android virtual hand-held computing devices to study large networks of smartphones. The project, called MegaDroid, is expected to result in a software tool that will let other cyber researchers model similar environments and study the behavior of smartphone networks.

Oracle's NetBeans developers have released a beta of version 7.3 of the NetBeans IDE which features the first appearance of Project Easel, the IDE's new HTML5 Application Development environment. Easel offers an HTML5 project type with a much improved JavaScript editor, which has enhanced code completion, and JavaScript testing support, along with a page inspector and visual CSS style editor. A JavaScript debugger, embedded WebKit browser and Chrome integration via a Chrome extension complete the extensive package of enhanced tools. A video(46 MB and 7 mins 24 secs) presents the new HTML5 features in NetBeans 7.3, including the new project wizard which lets users select initial templates and specific versions of JavaScript libraries to be downloaded from content delivery networks.

While Salesforce and Oracle are two very different companies, the fierce competitors face surprisingly similar issues when it comes to dealing with changes affecting their markets -- and both have a hard time adjusting to market forces. For one, it's the cloud. For the other, social.

Using Linux in cars is a hot topic, even if the market is less visible to most developers than tablets or mobile phones. The Linux Foundation (LF) announced an initiative at the second Automotive Linux Summit in Gaydon, UK, however, that may result in a higher profile for automotive Linux development. The initiative is called Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), and its goal is to produce a distribution tuned for deployment throughout a vehicle, including in-dash systems, instrument clusters, and even safety-critical engine control units. A number of automakers and industry players are on board — which sparked some confusion at the announcement, because many of the same companies are also involved with existing Linux-based automotive efforts like GENIVI.

Pushed to OpenBenchmarking.org over the night were several new and updated test profiles for Linux performance benchmarking...

"To every thing there is a season," as the old saying goes, and "a time to every purpose under the heaven." Can the same be said for Linux distros? That is the question that's been on many Linux bloggers' minds. Specifically, "What Distros Have You Used, in What Order?" was the title of the Ask Slashdot post that got the conversational ball rolling, and it was a provocative one.

Decided to do a quick review of Chakra 2012.09 which was released September 2012. Great looking desktop with many packages and the ability to run non-free drivers.

A recent WSJ guest post argued that CIOs should rely more on human factors than on data. This is especially foolish advice in an age where big data gives CIOs access to more data than ever before -- and the ability to make much better data-driven decisions.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the October 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

The School of Business and Information Management at Oulu University of Applied Sciences (OUAS) created an open source project management software named OpixProject. The objective was not to create something that would compete with the current project management software, but to place students in realistic problem-solving environments in order to reduce the gap between the concepts covered in the classroom and real-world experiences.

Developers working on the Unvanquished open-source game as a visually impressive project have been advancing their OpenGL 3.x renderer...