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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Microsoft are poised to launch a new $USD 300 million advertising campaign this week, starring comedian Jerry Seinfeld among others. The marketing types responsible are intending to counter Apple’s successful “I’m a Mac” line, but the slogan picked out is simply on the wrong foot from the start and is thwarted by Linux immediately.
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
It’s hardly news these days when RHEL or Suse Linux boots Windows or Unix off a server. And we know that commercial software vendors are paying plenty of attention to commercial open source. But have you ever heard of a community version of the open source operating system displacing one of the popular commercial distributions? That’s exactly what happened in Germany’s third-largest public TV and radio station, according to a new report on community Linux by analyst Jay Lyman of the 451 Group.
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Q. How do I capture specific protocol or port such as 80 ( http ) using TCPDump tool under Linux / UNIX? How do I recording Traffic with TCPDump and find problems later on?
Answer to “TCPDump: Capture and Record Specific Protocols / Port“
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
On a superficial level, Novell’s third quarter, which ended July 31, 2008, didn’t look that good. A closer look reveals though that Novell did quite well in general and extremely well with its Linux business. According to the company press release, “For the quarter, Novell reported net revenue of $245 million.” This was up from Novell’s net revenue of $237 million for the third fiscal quarter 2007. “Income from operations for the third fiscal quarter 2008 was $1 million, compared to a loss from operations of $10 million for the third fiscal quarter 2007. Loss from continuing operations in the third fiscal quarter 2008 was $15 million, or $0.04 loss per share, due to a $15 million impairment charge related to our auction-rate securities.”
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
This week in the neverending drama in the Linux.com forums: resetting lost passwords, making your own SSL certificate, and the return of an old favorite for those of you who want more excitement at the command line. Plus, a heaping bowlful of nutritio…
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Q. How do I ignore hidden .dot files while searching for files? How do I ignore or exclude certain files while running Linux / UNIX find command?
Answer to “Find command: Exclude / Ignore Files ( Ignore Hidden .dot Files )“
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
I received an email recently from a young man in Brazil who wanted me to come to his university and talk to the students and faculty about using Free Software. I am normally happy to advise universities to use Free Software, but usually this is done in conjunction with some large conference held at the university or some other venue. I just do not have the time to visit each and every school. But I did investigate the university of the student and found that Microsoft was indeed a sponsor of the University. In fact, the university had a large banner on the front page of their web site talking about Microsoft as a partner. It was the first time I saw a university advertising a commercial firm on their home page.
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
“Poky Linux” and Matchbox developer OpenedHand announced that it has been acquired by Intel Corp. The U.K.-based embedded Linux services team will join the Intel Open Source Technology Center, and will focus on Moblin development for mobile Internet devices and other mobile devices.
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
SimplePie is a PHP library that can fetch, cache, parse, and normalize RSS and Atom feeds. It allows you to display the newest articles from websites with RSS or Atom feeds on your own site. This is a great way to add new, fresh, and relevant information to your site. This guide shows how you can set it up for your own web site.
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
The following is a version independent IOS shellcode, it will work on most of the Cisco’s IOS operating systems and provide escalation of privileges to level 15 as well as remove the requirement to…
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Remote exploitation of multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Sun Microsystems Inc.’s snoop could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the nobody user…
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
You may recall, just a few days ago (I think…), we put out a script do language translation using Yahoo/AltaVista’s Babelfish interface. I mentioned, briefly, in that post that, when translating something into a foreign language, I always like to do a “reverse translation” using the translated output from my original query, and see how close the back-translation comes to what I originally wrote. It can make for hilarious results. In fact, unless you’re entering something like “hello,” it’s almost guaranteed to come back goofy when translated back to English (or your native language).
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
been able to have OpenBSD’s /etc/fstab automatically mount the ext2 filesystem on my Compaq Armada 7770dmt’s hard drive with no difficulty lately, but every couple of days or so I get a message while booting OpenBSD that says the Linux filesystem is not clean and that I should run fsck on it. I then boot Puppy Linux 2.13, run e2fsck on the partition, the errors are cleared up, and all is well until a few more days pass.
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
This is a site that looks like it is attempting make wireless for linux better.
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Reader [John Grayson], known for his multiconsole portable, has constructed a brand new portable. Not liking the controls or the tethered nature of retro TV games he decided to build a modular portable system. He built a custom system that uses cartridges created from TV game systems. The device has a 5.4″ screen and two [...]
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Not only do the French have a different word for everything, they also have a strong Open Source leadership position. The French have done much to foster the growth and acceptance of Open Source software–especially Linux. The Mandriva Linux distribution was born and raised in France (now in its 10th year), the French government offers tax incentives to encourage more Open Source development, and more 175,000 memory sticks with Open Source software were given to Parisian high school students last year.
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open source movement — none more so than France — and left U.S. developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile projects, the French Republic for years has been advocating for all open source all the time, in government and education. And France is not stopping: This summer, an economic commission set up by French President Nicolas Sarkozy recommended tax benefits to stimulate even more open source development.
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