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Stunning Wallapaper Clocks Installation in Ubuntu Made Easy
02/09/2010 
So for those who are wondering what these wallpaper clocks are all about, wallpaper clocks are wallpapers that show live date and time. And there are ... 
Pranksters Attach GPS Device To Google Street View Car
02/09/2010
Pranksters are using Google Maps to help Berliners track one of the camera-equipped vehicles Google has sent out to photograph Berlin's streets, after ...
A Blizzard of Motions in Limine in SCO v. Novell
02/09/2010
Motions in limine are flying in Utah like snowflakes in a winter storm, filed by both parties in SCO v. Novell. But there are a lot more from Novell t ...
FOSDEM 2010: Marketplace for Distros
02/09/2010
At FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, software that was declared dead was resurrected (Hurd), known combatants sat down at the same table (openSUSE, Fedora and ...
Testing and Debugging in Grok 1.0: Part 1
02/09/2010
In this article by Carlos de la Guardia, author of Grok 1.0 Web Development, we will start with a quick demonstration of automatic forms. We'll briefl ...
Android versus Linux?
02/09/2010
Is Android at odds with Linux after the removal of Android device drivers from the Linux source code tree or is this business as usual for the Linux c ...
Open-Source ATI R600/700 Mesa 3D Performance
02/09/2010
As we alluded to last week, we have been in the process of benchmarking many Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics cards using the open-source ATI ...
Ubuntu and SUSE: Targeting Red Hat's ISV Base?
02/09/2010
Two recent moves by Canonical and Novell, respectively, show promise as Ubuntu and SUSE Linux seek to compete more aggressively against Red Hat Enterp ...
How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Ubuntu 9.10
02/09/2010
This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff ...
The KDE 4.3 System Settings - Part 3 - Computer Administratio
02/09/2010
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 loo ...
X@FOSDEM 2010 Video Status Update
02/09/2010
For those waiting on our X@FOSDEM 2010 videos that we recorded, they still need to be uploaded. Each of the talks, which were less than an hour in len ...
Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline
02/09/2010
Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it ar ...
Top 10 areas where open source leads the way
02/09/2010
With job losses rising and belts being tightened across the country, now is the perfect time to look once again at the benefits of using open source s ...
Mozilla dropping 10.4 support with next Firefox release
02/09/2010
The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing d ...
Open source means freedom from'anti-features'
02/09/2010
Proprietary vendors are using"anti-features", features that no user would ever want, to protect intellectual property, BenjaminâMakoâ Hill, ...
Serious security problem on Ubuntu- Advise to upgrade your kernel
02/09/2010
The problem itself appear to be in the kernel from version 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10. 7.xx versions are not affected . This is a serious problem ...
Open Source Software - Rational or Risky Business?
02/09/2010
I received quite a few comments this past week following the publishing of California IT Policy Letter 10-01 which formally establishes"the use of Ope ...
When Linux Nerds Choose Mates from the Linux Herd...
02/09/2010
Monday, February 08, 2010 When Linux Nerds Choose Mates from the Windows Herd. Look...let's face this together. Dating can suck. Now when you are youn ...
Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work
02/09/2010
Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That's being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Orac ...
Open-Source ATI R600/700 Mesa 3D Performance
02/09/2010
As we alluded to last week, we have been in the process of benchmarking many Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics cards using the open-source ATI ...
There's Evergreen KMS Support& More To Test
02/09/2010
David Airlie has re-based his drm-radeon-testing tree and there's now a whole lot of new code and features that users can play with and test. The drm- ...
OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study
02/09/2010
Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the N ...
VMware Partner Exchange: Searching for Zimbra Clues
02/09/2010
More than 2,600 partners will converge at this weekâs VMware Partner Exchange conference in Las Vegas. Lots of news will surface at the conferenc ...
KDE.org Relaunched for Software Compilation 4.4
02/09/2010
The KDE web team is pleased to announce a major redesign of the KDE.org frontpage and buzz.kde.org, just in time for the pending release of our update ...
FOSDEM 2010: Andrew Tanenbaum Sets Reliability Before Performance
02/09/2010
Computer science veteran Andrew Tanenbaum presented the third version of his Minix operating system at the FOSDEM 2010 conference on February 6-7 in B ...
Reviews Of iPhone/iPod Synchronizing Applications For Linux
02/09/2010
All of these require a working setup with ifuse, gvfs, libimobiledevice (aka libiphone) etc as per our previous article. In today's article, StoneCut ...
KTorrent: KDEâs BitTorrent client
02/09/2010
Many people use BitTorrent clients to download popular movies, music, and television shows for free, although this practice is illegal in several coun ...
Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
02/09/2010
Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip [TPM] with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified governme ...
Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh
02/09/2010
Many eons ago, GNOME 1.4 still lived, and it was good. It was extremely configurable and hackable. You could use either Enlightenment or Sawfish as th ...
5 open source office suites to watch
02/09/2010
The Microsoft Office productivity suite has risen to become the dominant application of its type for business IT management. But there are open source ...
SourceForge Removes"Blanket" Block
02/09/2010
After just a few weeks, SourceForge has backed off its policy of imposing a blanket ban on all users trying to access the site from countries on the U ...
The kernel column by Jon Masters #83
02/09/2010
Last month many developers were scurrying to prepare for the 2.6.33 merge window. When they werenât doing that, here are a few of the items that ...
The Alexandria Project, Chap. 4: Beware of Greeks bearing Trapdoors
02/09/2010
Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego comes under suspicion when the Library of Congress is hacked by a mysterious cracker with motives un ...
Increase your internet speed with Namebench
02/09/2010
Increase your internet speed with Namebench. NameBench is a program that searches for the fastest DNS in your area. After the program is finished sear ...
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