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(Nov 7, 2009, 04:04 UTC) (582 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Pro Magazine: "There are plenty of places on the Web where you can find ebooks in the EPUB format, but what if you need to create an ebook yourself? Sigil can help you with that."
(Nov 7, 2009, 00:15 UTC) (939 reads) (3 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) This column is a bit premature because I haven't had time to set things up and test them yet. But I'm excited about getting started, so here are some preliminary notes on multi-track recording in Linux using a Firewire device.
(Nov 6, 2009, 23:32 UTC) (1570 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) MakeTechEasier: "While on a project, where money was scarce, we were scrambling around looking for a free or open source HTML editor that can provide us the same functionality as Adobe Dreamweaver. During my analysis of the different HTML editor out there, I came across Amaya."
(Nov 6, 2009, 23:02 UTC) (1581 reads) (4 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) PC World: "But Apple isn't the only competition Microsoft has to worry about. Ubuntu, one of the world's more popular Linux distributions, recently launched its latest version, Ubuntu 9.10, and impressions about the new OS are largely positive."
(Nov 6, 2009, 22:32 UTC) (536 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Raiden's Realm: "I'm told that the i7 920 Quad Core is really a i7 940 clock locked by Intel @ 2.65GHz. The target is the CPU, MOBO and CORSAIR 3 channel DDR3 and the goal is to bring it up to 4GHz a49% higher clock and you should take the time and locate you BIOS reset Mother Board jumper."
(Nov 6, 2009, 22:02 UTC) (662 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Business Tech: "Linux jobs in the United States are booming, up 6 percent since January, according to data from Dice.com. This will come as small consolation to Novell employees, however, which weathered another round of layoffs at the Waltham, Mass.-based company."
(Nov 6, 2009, 21:32 UTC) (1006 reads) (5 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Businesswire: "Second, while many believe that Linux is a more secure software platform, in fact, Linux isn’t significantly more secure than the other uncertified systems that are currently on the market."
(Nov 6, 2009, 21:02 UTC) (806 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Treehugger: ""Laptop on Wheels": Has an On-Board Web Server, USB Ports, and Wifi Connectivity"
(Nov 6, 2009, 20:32 UTC) (1221 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) ars Technica: "At this point in time, Windows continues to dominate with more than 90 percent of the market, Mac OS is above the five percent mark, and Linux is just under one percent. In October, Windows was the only operating system not to show positive growth."
(Nov 6, 2009, 20:02 UTC) (1022 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The H Open: "Among the topics were the advantages of Ext4 and Btrfs, fast Ext4 filesystem checks, and kernel and userspace tricks for minimising the time-consuming movements of read/write heads, all of which can speed up some tasks by several orders of magnitude!"
(Nov 6, 2009, 19:32 UTC) (633 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The Open Road: "Google's biggest threat is no longer Microsoft. It is itself.
As the company harvests copious quantities of personal data, it becomes dramatically better at serving customer needs...
...and at freaking them out over privacy concerns."
(Nov 6, 2009, 19:02 UTC) (700 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Frugal Friday podcast: "Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the new Verizon DROID smartphone, the recent antitrust charges filed against Intel by the New York Attorney General..."
(Nov 6, 2009, 18:32 UTC) (697 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Free Software Magazine: "Sita Sings The Blues” by self-taught animator Nina Paley, may be the first feature-length animated film released under a free license (the Creative Commons By-SA)."
(Nov 6, 2009, 18:02 UTC) (909 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Michael Zimmer: "Google describes Dashboard as a simple way to view “the data associated with your account”, and that it will provide users “greater transparency and control over their own data.” ...Unfortunately, Google Dashboard is none of these things."
(Nov 6, 2009, 17:32 UTC) (778 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Seeking Alpha:: "With its open source release Thursday of its Closure JavaScript tools, Google (GOOG) is starting to suggest that it may eventually become a good open source citizen."
(Nov 6, 2009, 17:02 UTC) (1873 reads) (4 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Click: "I haven't loaded up an IM client since I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic).
But I did today, and neither Pidgin nor the new GNOMEish Empathy would run."
(Nov 6, 2009, 16:32 UTC) (749 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Howtoforge: "This article is part one of a two part series that covers setting up a hosting server using gitosis for your central repository, and in the next article, taking an existing SVN repository and running the appropriate scripts and commands necessary to migrate it into something git can work with."
(Nov 6, 2009, 16:02 UTC) (1392 reads) (3 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Information Week: "A Boston-based startup named Litl is taking a big risk: they're betting people will go for a netbook that sports a Linux-based OS and focuses on Web-/network-based productivity (Facebook, Twitter, etc.). The risk is in the pricetag: $700"
(Nov 6, 2009, 15:27 UTC) (1882 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Ken Hess: "Have you searched for Linux distributions that are 100% free? Did you find more than one that suited your needs? Well, here's a list of nine from which you can choose your favorite. Free means freedom to alter, redistribute, sell or release as a different product with no restrictions on you or your new distribution."
(Nov 6, 2009, 14:17 UTC) (655 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) OStatic: "For the first time, there seems to be a growing concensus that an OSI-compliant license alone is not enough to define one's position on the openness spectrum."
(Nov 6, 2009, 13:33 UTC) (2598 reads) (8 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Network World: "A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't stop Linux from market domination, that's an opinion to note."
(Nov 6, 2009, 12:43 UTC) (3517 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) A.P. Lawrence: "A customer reported that a Linux machine used for ssh access (to in turn give telnet access to an ancient SCO machine) was refusing logins. I asked him to try logging in as root at the console; he was unable to do so."
(Nov 6, 2009, 12:04 UTC) (2783 reads) (3 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Desktop Linux Reviews: "Last week I took a look at the latest release of Ubuntu. This week I thought it would be great to continue with Kubuntu Linux 9.10. For those who aren’t familiar with Kubuntu, it’s basically the KDE version of Ubuntu (Ubuntu uses Gnome as its desktop environment)."
(Nov 6, 2009, 10:34 UTC) (1491 reads) (2 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Cloudy News: "Security experts recommend long, complex passwords because they require a super computer’s power to hack into a system. So what happens now that a super computer is available to anyone with a credit card?"
(Nov 6, 2009, 09:04 UTC) (1308 reads) (3 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) MakeTechEasier: "However, it can become a totally bad decision when the security of the cloud server is compromised or the third party providers wind up their services and all your data gone down with them. When such things happen, you might wonder why you have not heard of Tonido earlier."
(Nov 6, 2009, 07:34 UTC) (1639 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) HelpNet Security: "What are the most notable security features introduced with Ubuntu 9.10?
The widest-reaching change was the introduction of non-executable memory emulation for Ubuntu systems that lack non-exec hardware."
(Nov 6, 2009, 06:04 UTC) (1972 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Blog Safari: "For those Wine aficionados out there, beware of the remote possibility that your Linux system could be infected by Windows-seeking malware. "WINE running a Windows virus is nothing more than a 'stupid Linux trick' ... for now""
