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Does Oneiric have you down? Is your hardware not up to snuff? Well, what are you going to do about it? Ubuntu 10.04 is almost 2 years old now, but you can teach it the electric slide even if all it knows how to do is the funky chicken.

If your publishing progress has been keeping step with this series, you’ve now not only got the text of book all ready to go, but you’ve decided on how you’re going to bring it to market (POD, Google eBooks, or whatever) as well. So your next set of tasks revolves around this question: what would you like your masterpiece to look like?

Linus Torvalds announced last evening, January 19th, that the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.3 is available for download and testing.

Fantasy author Thomas A. Knight discusses what drew him to the Free Software Community to begin with, and how other communities have affected his writing. Virtual communities bring people together in an amazing way, come celebrate the magic.

While much of the attention has been focused on the implications of adding everything from dot-lawyer to dot-microsoft, the bigger story is the link between new domain extensions and the future of the current Internet governance system.

Just about 24 hours ago I spread the news about a major vulnerability in X.Org / XKB that makes it trivial for anyone with physical access to a Linux-based desktop system to easily bypass any screensaver lock whether you're using GNOME, KDE, or most other desktop environments. So what's changed in the past day?..

From the 'Self-Serving Stats' files...

Yesterday the server company that hosts The Tyee had a major outage caused by a small electrical explosion in downtown Vancouver...

... While we're sympathetic to the SOPA protest, which involved high-profile sites like Wikipedia "going dark" for 24 hours yesterday, we categorically deny blowing anything up in support of the cause.

Yesterday my website, michaelgeist.ca, went dark for 12 hours with thousands of posts replaced by a single page warning against proposed U.S. legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). My site was not alone as the online protest included some of the Internet’s most popular sites, including Wikipedia, Craigslist and Reddit.

Fingers Thai flood whipping boy and netbook decline Microsoft has released its quarterly results, and reports that Windows revenues are down 6 per cent when compared with the previous quarter.…

Oracle is claiming Google makes $3.65 billion a year in mobile advertising from Android, basing its estimate on Google's own boast of 700,000 daily activations for Android devices. Oracle made the new claim to encourage a favorable settlement in its lawsuit against Google, which is finally scheduled to go to trial in March....

With the Kindle Fire, we have a version of Android so different, it could be like developing for an entirely new OS and that could pose challenges for developers.

here is a **Linux website** that demands people's name, phone number and other personal information as a NECESSARY condition to download, as a "Free Offer"... a CC-licensed software manual (and other books about Linux) that is directly available online on its home page

Lanner Electronics announced an Intel Core i3/i5/i7-based PC that's ready to provide 3G, Wi-Fi, and GPS connectivity, thanks to a Mini PCI Express slot and SIM card reader. The LEC-7920 supports up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, includes a 2.5-inch SATA bay, and offers gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, and serial I/O, plus both DVI-I and DVI-D video ports....

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) released a security-enhanced version of Android based on the hardened SE Linux, featuring stricter access control policies. SE Android restricts the system resources available to an Android app regardless of user permissions, blocking malware such as the & GingerBreak& exploit at six different steps during execution, says the NSA....

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.3-rc1 kernel on Thursday afternoon that marks the closure of the two-week Linux 3.3 kernel merge window...

Devon IT announced a thin client that runs Linux on a 1.3GHz Via Eden processor. The TC5V includes 2GB of RAM, 4GB of flash, gigabit Ethernet, and dual display support via DVI-D and DVI-I connectors, according to the company....

New survey shows Linux as the preferred platform for Big Data, virtualization, and cloud computing trends.

Commercial UNIX customers use UNIX because it works for their mission-critical services but virtualization isn’t one of them.

This in depth review of Stanford's excellent course "Introduction to Databases" (covering XML, RDBMS, SQL, OLAP, and NoSQL) focuses on the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tools that are center stage throughout. In addition Stanford's new approach to OER (Open Educational Resources) is critiqued.