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LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer Linux system administration bootcamp on February 24 - 25, 2011 near San Francisco (South Bay). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas. All attendees get a free Linux laptop.

Oracle loves open-source projects and technologies – it's just not crazy about other people running them. Now, Oracle has a growing reason to dislike the projects themselves and it's got everything to do with the two things Oracle values most: money and control. Oracle has said that customers are picking the former Sun Microsystems' open-source GlassFish Java application server as an alternative to IBM's WebSphere and Red Hat's JBoss app servers. This means that those moving to GlassFish are not taking out an Oracle license for WebLogic, Oracle's flagship application server that they bought with BEA Systems in 2008 for $8.5bn. Oracle picked up GlassFish with a grab bag of other software – including Java – from Sun for $5.6bn.

The Sendmail mail transfer agent tends to be one of those programs that one either loves or hates. Both its supporters and its detractors will agree, though, that Sendmail played a crucial role in the development of electronic mail before, during, and after the explosion of the Internet. Sendmail creator Eric Allman took a trip to Brisbane to talk to the LCA 2011 about the history of this project. Sendmail is, he said, 30 years old now; in those three decades it has thrived without corporate support, changed the world, and thrived in a world which was changing rapidly around it.

the first Italian presentation of Free Software inside a supermarket chain was criticized because that chain doesn't use or sell Linux. I really hope, instead, that in 2011 there will be many more presentations like that one, just in places where nobody uses or sells Linux.

Watson, a 2880 core IBM Linux cluster computer will attempt to beat two human experts on the USA game show Jeopardy. This is more than a chess match because in Jeopardy you must supply the question based on an answer. It is a measure of how far Artificial Intelligence has progressed.

You don’t need to have a fancy camera with a built-in GPS receiver to geotag your photos. An Android device with the Open GPS Tracker app and digiKam can do the job just fine. The app lets you track your route and save it as a GPX file which you can then use to geocorrelate your photos in digiKam.

Yesterday Juliet Kemp showed us how to perform basic server tests with telnet. Today Carla Schroder shows how to test TLS/SSL-enabled POP3 and IMAP servers.

As you know that in windows the control button like maximize, minimize and close are at right side of window but in ubuntu these are at left side, so today i will show you a small trick to take these buttons to right.

Many large projects mark their significant releases with launch parties. Some become legend for their over-the-top festivities. Photos populate the share sites. Blogs are written for weeks following. But openSUSE has come up with a uniquely Gecko idea: a Secondlife.com virtual dance party.

The vast majority of computer users don't know or care about the underlying technologies that drive the gadgets and utilities they access on a daily basis. Most of these users run Windows and have little idea of what to do when things go wrong. Perhaps the drive won't boot or files are corrupted, random messages pop up, the registry or the file system is broken. The problem may be blamed on a root kit, a broken program, or a virus. Sometimes the data is lost, and sometimes the user gets lucky with a rescue disk supplied by one or other of the anti-virus vendors.

The first Alpha release of Mandriva 2011 is now available along with the first alpha release of its newest offspring, Mageia Linux. This is the first-ever ISO release of Mageia Linux since this free software project was formed last year by many Mandriva developers after the uncertain future of Mandriva's parent company. The Mandriva 2011 Alpha 1 release carries the Linux 2.6.37 kernel, RPM 5.3.8, NetworkManager 0.8.2, KDE Software Compilation 4.6.0, GNOME 2.32.1, Xfce 4.8.0, GCC 4.5.2, Chromium browser, Firefox 4 Beta 11, Wine 1.3.13, and many other updated applications.

Who has two thumbs and isn't at all surprised at Nokia throwing MeeGo under the bus? This guy. The Nokia partnership with Microsoft is appalling and bad news for MeeGo, but not a surprise at all. What comes next? That's up to Intel.

Apps designed to organize your photos, files, etc. may get in the way more than help. If you stick to the basic file management system and a few basic tools you may be better off.

Using awk scripts expands the possibilities with awk and provides an easy way to repeat searches on a number of files.

Evernote is an service/application you can use to store notes, images and all kind of information (like audio, handwritten or video notes) for retrieving later. Nevernote is an open source clone of Evernote that works on Linux. While Evernote now runs on Linux through Wine, the application is quite slow so you may want to try Nevernote.

With stories flying around about Bing cheating and JC Penney gaming Google with paid links, it's hard to trust search engine results, but in the end if you create good content, chances are you'll get good results.

It's taken a while but now HP has joined the mobile fray with its WebOS devices. While everyone at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is watching the Nokia-Microsoft partnership kick off there is other news worth watching: HP's WebOS strategy.

Enlightenment is one of the most beautiful of the Linux window managers that is being produced. I've used the E-Live and PCLinuxOS-Enlightenment LiveCD distributions in the past, and found them to be both quick and aesthetically pleasing. And isn't beauty something that the world needs more of? Well, it certainly doesn't hurt.

HTML5 won't be finished for another three years, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has warned. On Monday, the standards body said that it has extended the charter of its group hammering out HTML5, with plans to advance the proposed spec to last-call status in May. Then we wait – for three years.

Chrome takes up 10 % of worldwide browser share by end of January 2011. The chrome extension gallery features over hundreds of extensions that google-chrome-logofacilitate the chrome users by extending the browser’s functionality.