Open source means freedom from 'anti-features'
(Feb 9, 2010, 14:03 UTC) (87 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "Proprietary vendors are using "anti-features", features that no user would ever want, to protect intellectual property, Benjamin “Mako” Hill, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the linux.conf.au open source conference last month."

GTalX - Google Voice Chat has arrived in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
(Feb 9, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (448 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ubuntu Geek: "Ever since I moved to Ubuntu, my only problem was that I couldn’t use GTalk in Ubuntu.Here comes the solution - GTalx. It works flawlessly on my Ubuntu 9.10 karmic running on Dell Inspiron 1525."

Top 10 Super Bowl tech ads
(Feb 9, 2010, 12:33 UTC) (463 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "What were the best Super Bowl ads from tech companies in years past? Wading through four decades' worth of Super Bowl ads was entertaining, educational (who knew that Exxon once had an office products division?)"

OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study
(Feb 9, 2010, 12:03 UTC) (585 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Good Gear Guide: "Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI)."

Add Cloud Storage to OpenOffice.org with SMECloud
(Feb 9, 2010, 10:33 UTC) (663 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Worldlabel: "Cloud computing is all the rage these days. But while the idea of using your browser to access your applications and documents sounds like a great idea on paper, in practice there are all kinds of reasons to stick to your desktop software."

10 Ways that Enterprises use Linux
(Feb 9, 2010, 09:03 UTC) (1054 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Daniweb: "The world's largest technical support, software and hardware companies use Linux on a daily basis for a variety of tasks and solutions. This post gives you an overview of all the ways in which large companies use Linux."

SECURITY: A sensation of wonder about technological developments
(Feb 9, 2010, 07:33 UTC) (647 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Too Much Information: "It's a common thing to admire the way someone solved what was previously a limitation. The funny thing is this can be true even when faced with things we normally consider evil, because we can see that the application of the technology is different from the way it was used."

HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight
(Feb 9, 2010, 06:03 UTC) (1087 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Alp Toker: "I’m glad to announce the first release of our fully managed Theora audio / video decoder implementation for the Silverlight platform! The Highgate media suite will bring installation-free support for HTML5 streaming video to an additional ~40% of web users overnight."

SourceForge turns off "blanket blocking"
(Feb 9, 2010, 04:33 UTC) (862 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The H Open: "SourceForge, the open source project hosting site, has announced that it has turned off the "blanket block" on access from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria."

Home, Events, and Ubuntu
(Feb 9, 2010, 03:03 UTC) (730 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Just Me, Amber: "I have been working with the SCaLE 8x coordinators, and the CA Loco Team for the Ubucon event at SCaLE. I am giving a talk at the WIOS event at SCaLE - A Year NTEU the Ubuntu Community and the FLOSS World."

Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun?
(Feb 9, 2010, 01:33 UTC) (2757 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld UK: "Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a big fan of OpenOffice.org, and that I think it has the potential to break through into the mainstream. Maybe it's already begun..."

Alexandria Project Chap. 4: Beware of Greeks bearing Trapdoors
(Feb 9, 2010, 00:33 UTC) (1037 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Standards Blog: "Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego comes under suspicion when the Library of Congress is hacked by a mysterious cracker with motives unknown and a taste for the bizarre; to protect himself, Frank had better get to the bottom of things"

The kernel column by Jon Masters #83
(Feb 9, 2010, 00:03 UTC) (1318 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux User and Developer: "As I’ve mentioned before, one of the longer-term goals of the kernel development community is to kill off the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)."

How to get information from the Netscaler using Python and Suds
(Feb 8, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (720 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Dynasty: "Recently I just started to use the Citrix Netscalers again ( Load Balancers ). Being the person that I am, I wanted a way to grab the information using the SOAP API."

Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline
(Feb 8, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (874 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Serverwatch: "Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in ~/.inputrc."

The KDE 4.3 System Settings - Part 3 - Computer Administration
(Feb 8, 2010, 22:33 UTC) (1036 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Raiden's Realm: "Welcome to part 3 of our overview of the KDE 4.3 System Settings panel, the replacement for the old control panel of KDE 3.5. Today we're going to look at the Computer Administration master section. This will be a key area for those wanting to administer their own section."

8 of the Best Free Linux Geometry Software
(Feb 8, 2010, 22:03 UTC) (1767 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 free high quality Linux interactive geometry software. We have included 2D and 3D software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest in this article for both students and teachers alike."

GNOME Boston Summit 2009
(Feb 8, 2010, 21:33 UTC) (1026 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The GNOME Journal: "GNOME Shell-- Jon McCann from Red Hat ran the first Shell session, on design. An amazing amount of progress had been made since the hackfast one year prior that spawned the Shell project, but some major tasks remained."

Sketchpad (beta) (HTML5 drawing program)
(Feb 8, 2010, 21:03 UTC) (1828 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Colorjack: "Sketchpad uses the little-known [canvas] tag to provide users and publishers with full control over the presentational qualities of their work. Directly accessing vector graphics, the [canvas] tag gives publishers real-access to their users’ display. The [canvas] tag will be available in HTML 5.0."

Cleaning Up The Linux Graphics Driver Stack
(Feb 8, 2010, 20:33 UTC) (1146 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "Yesterday Luc Verhaegen gave a talk at FOSDEM on reverse engineering a motherboard BIOS, but today we finally have X@FOSDEM for the last time. Luc has just begun his talk on unifying and simplifying the free software desktop's graphics driver stack."

Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh
(Feb 8, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (1728 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "When GNOME 2.0 was born, it left a lot of GNOME users out in the cold because it jettisoned the very features we loved. Eight years later, your editor takes another look at GNOME in the form of the Karmic Koala."

SECURITY: One Dad's Take: Why Windows Could be Worse Than Teen Dating
(Feb 8, 2010, 19:33 UTC) (2055 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT World: "Though most of the machines at home are currently Linux driven, there are a couple of Windows machines in the house that are used by my children for Software they Cannot Live Without."

Let your inner Video Director loose: "We're Linux" Video Contest 2010
(Feb 8, 2010, 19:03 UTC) (775 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Standards Blog: "As you may recall, the Linux Foundation last year ran a video contest that drew a lot of entries, many of which were not only entertaining, but had surprisingly high production values as well. Last year's invitation was to use the popular "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ad series as an inspiration, and you can see the winning videos here (all of last year's entries can be found here)."

PCLinuxOS 2010 is Shaping Up
(Feb 8, 2010, 18:33 UTC) (1377 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
PCLinuxOS: "The version label "2010" in that ftp URL caught my attention. Finally, PCLinuxOS is shaping up for a 2010 release!"

How To Reverse Engineer A Motherboard BIOS
(Feb 8, 2010, 18:03 UTC) (1474 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "Since being let go by Novell last year where he worked on the RadeonHD Linux graphics driver and X.Org support within SuSE Linux, Luc Verhaegen has continued work on his VIA Unichrome DDX driver as well as other X.Org code..."

Waste plenty of time with Frozen Bubble and gnubik
(Feb 8, 2010, 17:33 UTC) (1165 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ghacks: "This time around I will visit two games. One of these games is one of my all time favorite second sucker – Frozen Bubble. The other, gnubik, is sure to frustrate you for hours. Let’s take a look at these two gems."

Patent nonsense
(Feb 8, 2010, 17:03 UTC) (1079 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Economist: "Or what about those ludicrous business-process patents, like Amazon.com’s “one-click” patent or the “name-your-price” auction patent assigned to Priceline.com? Instead of stimulating innovation, such patents seem more about extracting “rents” from innocent bystanders going about their business."

13 Ways To Customize Ubuntu Netbook Remix For Better Usability
(Feb 8, 2010, 16:33 UTC) (1324 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
MakeTechEasier: "Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) is a modified version of Ubuntu specially for the netbooks. The latest version of UNR runs Ubuntu Karmic in the backend, but the interface has been heavily customized to make it looks/functions good in small screen."

Linux Enthusiasts Raise Over $33,000 to Help Save Lives
(Feb 8, 2010, 16:03 UTC) (582 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
SCOOP: "The LCA2010 conference is over, but the generosity of its delegates will leave a lasting impression on the Life Flight Trust."

Debian Linux on the Toshiba Libretto 100ct – Part 1 Installing the Operating System
(Feb 8, 2010, 15:33 UTC) (861 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Journal of Nathan Bibb: "I got this little Toshiba Libretto for myself for Christmas as a tinkering project, as I’ve mentioned previously. I like to tinker with computers, and I wanted a machine that I could use to experiment with a full installation of Linux."

5 open source office suites to watch
(Feb 8, 2010, 15:03 UTC) (2618 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
CIO: "As the name indicates, Simple Groupware was developed as an open source groupware suite, but we've included it here because of the increasing amount of office suite-like applications it contains, including an online spreadsheet."

Happy Camper
(Feb 8, 2010, 14:33 UTC) (1232 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: " I broke down and bought a Nexus One last week. I got the original G1 phone from google when it came out, and I hardly ever used it. Why? I generally hate phones..."

The KDE 4.3 System Settings - Part 2 - Personal + Network & Connectivity
(Feb 8, 2010, 14:03 UTC) (1077 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Raiden's Realm: "Welcome to part 2 of our overview of the KDE 4.3 System Settings panel, the replacement for the old control panel of KDE 3.5. Today we're going to look at two more master sections. Namely, Personal and Network & Connectivity. So sit back and enjoy."

Discuss application use-cases in Lucid UNE (Drop OpenOffice)
(Feb 8, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (1919 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ubuntu: "[asac] how about dropping OOO and evolution - we will probably do for the armel variant ... ?"

A newbie's guide to Fedora 12
(Feb 8, 2010, 12:33 UTC) (1395 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tux Radar: "Sometimes it's easy to forget that we all had to start somewhere with Linux. When you're not used to the way it works, or the kind of concepts involved, Linux can seem like a foreign language. If you're struggling with free software, or if you know someone who needs help making the switch to Linux, we hope this feature will help."

Google/HTC’s Nexus One is only $49 (in a manner of speaking)
(Feb 8, 2010, 12:03 UTC) (2389 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Gadgetopolis: "Would you like to get the Google/HTC Nexus One Superphone for a cool $49?"

Ubuntu 9.10 on Dell Latitude D820 Laptop
(Feb 8, 2010, 08:03 UTC) (2007 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open Source Ecology: "We got a 3 year old Dell Latitude D820 from Craigslist. With 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, and 1920×1200 screen resolution – that makes for an impressive system with Ubuntu 9.10 installed."

Managing Finances with Tonido Money
(Feb 8, 2010, 04:03 UTC) (1656 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Pro Magazine: "Based on the excellent Money Manager Ex, Tonido Money is part of the TonidoTonido personal cloud server solution."

Patent Office Grants EFF Request for Reexamination of Dangerous VOIP Patent
(Feb 8, 2010, 00:03 UTC) (1857 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has won reexamination of an illegitimate patent on voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) that could cripple the adoption of new VoIP technologies."

Ask the Wi-Fi Guru: Why Isn't My Linksys Router with DD-WRT Working?
(Feb 7, 2010, 20:02 UTC) (2850 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Wi-Fi Planet: "The good news, Melissa, is that you've done a great job of troubleshooting the problem. The bad news, of course, is that the problem still exists. Now what? Let's first take a step back."

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