posted less than an hour ago on linux today
ZDNet: "Organisations and individuals have to operate across many platforms these days. So we all need apps that can function reliably regardless of operating system, says Jack Wallen."
posted about 1 hour ago on linux today
Tech Comics: "People in all walks of life run into problems with IP infringement"
posted about 2 hours ago on linux today
IBM Developerworks: "Summary: Ksplice applies kernel patches on-the-fly—no reboot required—in a fraction of a second. Here's a hands-on guide to performing painless system updates."
posted about 2 hours ago on linux today
The Inquirer: "LINUX USERS can banish forever Adobe's Flash Player cookies, which can be a good idea because, for one thing, as a plugin Flash doesn't observe web browsers' Private Browsing modes."
posted about 3 hours ago on linux today
IBM Developerworks: "Learn how to download and install a Ubuntu image and then go through some basic shell commands to help you navigate through the UNIX® environment. This is part 1 of a 4 part demo series to show you how to implement a solution stack..."
posted about 3 hours ago on linux today
ZDNet: "One of the highly debated subjects with Windows and Linux is with device support. The two have different methods of how drivers are created and implemented into the operating system."
posted about 4 hours ago on linux today
Scott Photographics: " really simple little trick to adding normal text to an image and making it look interesting! This technique can be used for nearly any photograph, however it is a lot easier to see the text with less detailed and contrasty photographs."
posted about 4 hours ago on linux today
Slate: "How to give your creaky old Windows computer an Ubuntu makeover."
posted about 5 hours ago on linux today
Rakudo: "On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6."
posted about 5 hours ago on linux today
Linux Devices: "While Amazon announced a smaller, lighter version of its Kindle e-reader today, the device still has a monochrome-only screen. Color E Ink displays are on the way, however, as today's announcement of a relevant controller chip -- the Epson S1D13524 -- made clear."
posted about 7 hours ago on linux today
PHPBuilder: "A few months ago I wrote a series of articles highlighting PHP-driven content management systems and frameworks, and I singled out ExpressionEngine as one particularly impressive solution that effectively balances the best features of both. This popular Web development solution recently took another major step forward with the July 12 release of ExpressionEngine 2.1"
posted about 9 hours ago on linux today
eSecurity Planet: "In his presentation at Black Hat, security researcher Craig Heffner detailed how an external attacker could gain full control of a user's router and use that to gain access to the internal local area network (LAN)."
posted about 11 hours ago on linux today
Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio: "The Amiga was one of the most powerful PC's of it's time, easily trumping the emerging IBM PC's in the 80's. You can relive this classic PC on your Linux desktop thanks to a number of emulators that are available."
posted about 13 hours ago on linux today
Tech Source: "For those of you who are planning to build or setup an online shop to sell goods or services, I have here a list of some of the most popular web eCommerce software for Linux. The following web eCommerce programs that I'm about to feature here are all free and open source, so try or use them as you wish:"
posted about 15 hours ago on linux today
Tech Broiler: "Along with Bigfoot, the lost city of Atlantis, and the Bermuda Triangle, the lack of Android tablets continues to be an unsolved mystery."
posted about 17 hours ago on linux today
Linux Pro Magazine: "GENIVI, the nonprofit industry alliance that was founded by BMW, Delphi, Intel, GM, PSA, Wind River and Magneti-Marelli, announced that MeeGo would become the operating platform for the next generation of In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) devices."
posted about 18 hours ago on linux today
Wine-Reviews: "On the heels of the highly-anticipated release of Wine 1.2, CodeWeavers, Inc. today announced the simultaneous release of CrossOver 9.1 and CrossOver Games 9.1 for both Mac and Linux."
posted about 18 hours ago on linux today
PC World: "A happy customer might tell someone. An unhappy customer tells everyone. Converting to Linux before taking a dose of reality might make you a very unhappy customer."
posted about 19 hours ago on linux today
IT News Today: "After I review an operating system or Linux distribution, it's always fun to go back and try out the product again, with all updates, and see how it's improved. Ubuntu 10.04 was something I thought was pretty decent, but not decent enough to steal me away from Arch."
posted about 19 hours ago on linux today
Abhi Blog: "KDE 4.5 is coming out in August but I simply couldn't wait to try it out a few days before the release. Hence, I got my hands on the Release Candidate v2 via kubuntu-beta ppa.Apart from some dazzling eye candy,KDE4 has matured a lot when it comes to stability."
posted about 20 hours ago on linux today
Enterprise Networking Planet: "Two years ago at the Black Hat USA 2008 conference, security researcher Dan Kaminsky detailed a critical flaw in DNS that could have destroyed the Internet as we know it. Two years later, the root zone of Internet DNS is now signed with DNSSEC, partially as a response and a solution to Kaminsky's 2008 finding."
posted about 20 hours ago on linux today
Linux Blog: "We reduced the CPU I/O wait from 30% to 0,3% (XFS) and 5% (EXT3) with these combined previously undocumented file system tuning tips."
posted about 21 hours ago on linux today
Linux Pro Magazine: "By now you probably have heard about the “pad” computer designed in India that is being touted as costing thirty-five U.S. Dollars to manufacture. While there is very little in the way of technical details about it, some information has been published that says it consists of:"
posted about 21 hours ago on linux today
New York Times: "Surprisingly, tech news community Slashdot was not in the list of top referrers. In fact, according to Woopra CEO John Pozadzides, Slashdot "drives close to 0% of traffic to the sites Woopra measures.""
posted about 22 hours ago on linux today
Linux User and Developer: "As part of his massive Python Masterclass article, Kunal Deo drew up some golden rules when working with Python."
posted about 22 hours ago on linux today
The American Prospect: "New DMCA exemptions are an improvement, but the basic paradox of telling consumers how they may use electronics remains unaddressed."
posted about 23 hours ago on linux today
PC World: "Windows CE-based machines can easily be made to dole out cash, a security researcher says"
posted about 23 hours ago on linux today
OStatic: "It's a sad truth that advancements in technology often make jobs obsolete, usually sooner than most people are ready. The more savvy workers learn to keep up with the times..."
posted about 24 hours ago on linux today
Linux User and Developer: "Pros: It's a pleasing design with some of the best netbook technology on the market"
posted 1 day ago on linux today
Lifehacker: "You need root access to edit a lot of files in Linux, but Terminal work can get tedious. Here''s a simple way to add a shortcut to your applications menu for a root-enabled Nautilus."