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A small script loop on the kindle to log the battery consumption and then plug that data into gnuplot (with screenshots).

Awoken Icon Theme was among our collection of top icon themes for Ubuntu and it surely is one among the best free icon themes available for Ubuntu GNOME desktop. Awoken 2.0 was released few days ago and the latest update brings with it a new customization script, many Ubuntu 11.04 specific improvements and updated PPA for Natty Narwhal as well.

Oracle announced last evening, May 16th, a new update of its popular and powerful VirtualBox virtualization software. VirtualBox 4.0.8 is a maintenance release that brings lots of stability improvements and many bug fixes over previous versions.

As a demand for Linux-related jobs has jumped unexpectedly high in the last couple of years. LinuxCareer.com as a new Linux related job portal attempts to compensate for this sudden surge in demand for Linux skilled professionals and will surely accommodate both employers and job seekers. LinuxCareer.com is not affiliated with any local or international company, nor is it a recruitment or employment agency and it is specialising only in Linux based careers and closely related Information Technology fields. LinuxCareer.com offers tools such as application tracking, job alerts, login and syncing resumes with facebook.com and linkedin.com accounts as well as screening questionnaires for employers and resume uploads for job seekers. Job seekers world wide can stay informed about new job listings using RSS feed or Twitter and search linuxcareer.com portal using their mobile by navigating to linuxcareer.com’s mobile version m.linuxcareer.com .

Groklaw began life in 2003 as the personal blog of Pamela Jones, better known as PJ. "At the start, I was just trying to learn how to use blogging software," she has said. "I was startled to learn anyone was reading what I wrote... I started covering the McDonald's 'I'm fat and it's your fault' litigation and Martha Stewart and just whatever was in the news, just to have something to write about as I learned how blogging worked."

The KDE Promo team has just wrapped up a busy weekend at their sprint in Southampton, England. The group set out with an aggressive agenda and accomplished many of their goals throughout the weekend. read more

Two weeks back I broke the news that Attachmate was laying off all of the Mono developers following their recent acquisition of Novell and SUSE. Today this news has been confirmed by the Mono creator himself, Miguel de Icaza, in announcing the formation of a new company to further drive Mono into the new future...

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Many computer users enjoy customizing their desktop to perfection. Personally I have spent hours playing with different icon sets, GTK themes, Enlightenment themes and E17 gadgets. Something most people like to do almost as much as tweaking their desktop is sharing those sexy screen shots with the world!

It's time for another important Ubuntu release cycle. The upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 codenamed Oneiric Ocelot won't be bombarded with the kind of sweeping changes that its predecessor had to deal with. But in terms of the importance, Oneiric Ocelot might be an even bigger release. A quick peek into the important changes for upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

It has been a horrible few weeks for cloud computing and when you have 3 well publicized outages from the likes of Google, Microsoft and Amazon, it's going to make you take notice, but it's not the end of the Cloud by any means.

It all depends on how you ask the question. The most used license is not the same as the license used in the top downloaded open source apps.

At intervals, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DoJ) have undertaken public initiatives intended to support the standards development process from the antitrust perspective. Well, they're at it again.

Google announced its long-awaited Chromebook last week, which is basically a tablet with a keyboard. I'm here to tell you for the perfect blend of cloud, mobile and elegance, get an iPad.

Some applications are removing the traditional menus (see Firefox, Chrome and so on) so a page has been created to discuss possible changes to the GNOME 3 menus. Let's take a look at some of the mockups available so far.

Well, it's been another exciting week here in the Linux blogosphere, not least because of all the many seismic shifts emanating from the vicinity of Redmond. There was the end of the Justice Department's antitrust oversight of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), of course, marking the end of a historic case and a memorable era in the IT industry. Then -- not coincidentally, given Redmond's new freedom -- there was also its wildly extravagant purchase of Skype, the implications of which still have observers reeling. It's been enough to set geeks' heads spinning, in other words, and that's just what could be observed throughout the hills and dales of the blogosphere.

The LibreOffice developers at the Document Foundation have, for the last time, published an announcement on their main mailing list of a new beta version of LibreOffice. In future, beta releases and release candidates will only be announced on developer mailing lists and the announcements mailing list will only carry news of final and stable versions.

Antoni Norman proudly announced a few of days ago, May 13th, that the final release of the Pinguy OS 11.04 operating system, available for download on mirrors worldwide.

If you are a Fedora user, this post shows you how to upgrade from Fedora13 & 14 to Fedora15.

White hats, get a copy now before the bad guys snap them all up. I've just finished reading Packt Publishing's new book "BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing". The book is meant to be a how-to guide for using BackTrack 4, a freely available Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to provide a platform for a hacker's arsenal. I'd never looked at Backtrack before, but believe me, it's a site to behold.