Over the past few weeks, I have been busy. My regular job, my hobby and working with the folks at Linux Journal. Along the way, I have been thinking about the Open Source world more than I have in the past. And as I have been talking about it with people, I have been getting the standard responses you might expect.

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Creating a largish playlist for Android is no longer painful. Learn how to create those from the PC

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[Hunter Davis] is at it again, this time hacking the pink IM-ME to use as a wireless terminal. It sells for between $12-16 and he ordered it to get free shipping with another purchase. The wireless antenna registered as an HID device when he plugged it into his Linux box. He then sat down for [...]

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Border guards held Goodman and her colleagues for an hour and a half, searching their belongings and telling them they could only stay in the country for two days.

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Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 23, 2009

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"You never know when the next George W. Bush is going to come along and give you a once in a lifetime opportunity like he gave me."

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[Epokh] has release some homebrew software that uses a Nintendo DS as a voice reader for documents. This is extremely useful for blind and visually impaired folks who normally use screen readers but can utilize this technology for reading books, documents, and email on the go. Future versions look to add an email client and [...]

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Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts and the Gucci styles, but beneath these accouterments, there is a dictatorship built by slaves.

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It doesn’t much matter whether people "support" the escalation. What matters is whether they openly oppose it — and, if so, how vocally and emphatically.

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Warren refuses to reject the radical ideas of Martin Ssempa, a rabidly anti-choice and anti-gay Ugandan pastor who has visited to his Saddleback Church.

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One of OpenOffice.org’s greatest strengths is its emphasis on styles. Some users balk at styles, claiming they are restrictive, but no other feature repays a little organization with so much ease of use and saving of time. Yet even those who are used to styles in Writer tend to overlook the styles used in other applications. That is especially true of graphic styles.

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The Perfect Desktop – Linux Mint 8 (Helena)

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 8 (Helena)
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 8 is a
Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 9.10 that has lots of packages in
its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader,
Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other
distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience
even for Linux newbies.

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This year at the creepy robot dace-a-thon, also known as the Robo-one dance competition, we get to see the creepy brought to new levels. We thought the Lou Vega decapitated head bot was creepy, but somehow these people managed to make a biped out creep a hexapod. Watch above as this uncanny valley resident tries to shimmy into [...]

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Nearly five months after launching a free, ad-supported application for iPhone and iPod Touch, eBuddy is today introducing a paid version of the program, which enables users to communicate with contacts across various instant messaging clients.

Priced at $4.99 (iTunes link), which in my opinion is fairly expensive, the app lets you chat with friends on Facebook Chat, ICQ, Gtalk, AIM, MySpace, Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger alike.

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There have been plenty of painful missed opportunities, but as first years go, this isn’t bad.

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IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for CEA Spoofing Vulnerability

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RT Session Fixation Vulnerability

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Asterisk RTP Comfort Noise Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Multiple Vendor Clientless SSL VPN Products Same Origin Policy Bypass Vulnerability

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Mahara Resume Blocktype Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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Mahara Admin Password Reset Security Bypass Vulnerability

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As we’ve noted, Chrome for Mac is getting very, very close to its official beta launch. The team is down to a mere 8 bugs to fix before it’s ready (and it looks like the list has been trimmed to 7 as of a few hours ago). This is great news for Mac users who want to try out the Chrome experience that PC users have had for well over a year now. But still, the product will be in beta, and it will be incomplete.

It’s been known for a while that Google would have to trim some features from the initial Chrome for Mac beta launch to get it out before self-imposed “end of the year” deadline. But what’s on the chopping block? A scan through the Chromium logs on Google Code seems to reveal what will and won’t be a go for Chrome for Mac beta.

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Since the last update almost a year ago when Gary won the right to appeal against extradition, the latest news in the Gary Mckinnon saga is that his extradition to the US for trial will be going ahead.
Even with his apparent medical condition of Ass Bu…

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With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between it and the earlier FreeBSD 7.2 release along with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the Linux side and then the OpenSolaris 2010.02 b127 snapshot on the Sun OS side.

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System76, the Ubuntu PC maker, continues to offer special holiday pricing on selected systems through Monday evening, November 30. Here’s a look at System76′s Ubuntu PC and notebook discounts, which are part of an ongoing Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales promotion, reports WorksWithU. Here are the details.

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New distros pop-up every day & try to be as FREE as possible, however when attempting to install a distribution on a new PC of a common next door user, you will probably find that you can’t avoid falling into these two proprietary sins..

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Harm reduction is a public health approach that stresses pragmatic solutions to social ills like substance abuse.

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The worship of free markets set off the economic meltdown.

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There’ve been a lot of big releases in the Linux distro world lately, and none bigger than OpenSUSE 11.2, the latest offering from Novell. They can be a controversial company in some parts of the FOSS community, but whatever your personal view, you can’t deny they’re also contributing to progress in many ways. They employ a lot of important Linux kernel developers for example. The last time I did a really in-depth review of OpenSUSE was 2 years ago with 10.2, though I did do a quick review of version 11 for Linux Planet. I decided it was high time to take a look at how things are developing in the SUSE world. So here’s how I got on.

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Early on in the lifetime of the KDE Community Forums, the staff launched regularly-held courses for people willing to help KDE called “Klassrooms”. For each of these courses, a mentor (usually a KDE contributor, but not limited to them) guided a group of “students” towards a simple, definite goal that would improve KDE, for example fixing simple bugs in an application. However, the courses were not limited to coding: documentation, promo and other important areas were handled as well.

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