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ReiserFS Dev Leads Cops to Wife's Body
07/08/2008 
Hans Reiser has led authorities to a body believed to be that of his estranged wife in the hills of Oakland, Calif. The area where the body was recove ... 
ASUS Releases Eee PC 901, 1000, 1000H
07/08/2008
This morning ASUS has announced the expansion of their Eee PC family with the introduction of three new models. These three new models use Intel's Ato ...
An Update On Generic GPU Video Decoding
07/08/2008
One of Google's Summer of Code projects this year is to bring hardware-based video acceleration to Linux with Gallium3D. The advantage of this design ...
Red Hat Replaces RHGB With Plymouth
07/08/2008
One of the features that was introduced with Fedora 9 was support for Kernel-based Mode-Setting, which at the time is limited to Intel's X driver. How ...
Will Alienware Ship Linux-Based PCs?
07/08/2008
Alienware, the PC manufacturer known for their high-end gaming notebooks and desktops, has been evaluating the business opportunity in providing a Lin ...
A case for text-based DVD rippers
07/08/2008
At a time when graphical DVD rippers and encoders propose to make the backing up of your movies just a click away, a text-based application may actual ...
Testing the Virtual Waters: The School of Second Life
07/08/2008
Washington State University bookkeepers scratched their heads this spring when David Cillay submitted an invoice, for about $50, for an island. It was ...
Protecting against evil code fragments with HTML Purifier
07/08/2008
HTML Purifier is a project that helps you ensure that HTML is valid and does not contain cross-site scripting attempts or other nasty attacks. With HT ...
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates Say
07/08/2008
The basic framework of the intellectual property (IP) regime aims toâclose down access to knowledgeâ rather than allowing its disseminat ...
How To Block Spammers/Hackers With mod_defensible On Apache2 (Debian Etch)
07/08/2008
mod_defensible is an Apache 2.x module intended to block spammers/hackers/script kiddies using DNSBL servers. It will look at the client IP and check ...
Tell Felton
07/08/2008
This is a new concept for anyone who's spent their computing life running Windows. We are going to introduce them to our world and that being so, I wo ...
How Should Mozilla Execute Its Vision?
07/08/2008
The announcement by the GNOME Foundation that it is appointing Stormy Peters as its Executive Director confirms a suspicion that I've harboured for a ...
Is Red Hat VP Attempting to Rally Investors?
07/08/2008
Tom McCallum, VP of investor relations at Red Hat, on July 7 wrote a blog that attempts to clarify Red Hat's recent quarterly results. Is McCallum try ...
Double Spacing In Awk, Perl and Shell on Linux and Unix
07/08/2008
A small tutorial on how to use awk, Perl and the shell to double space between lines. Hopefully this answers all requests for additional material :) ...
An Introduction to IRC on Linux for Beginners
07/08/2008
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for text-based internet chat created by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988. Ever since it was developed, IRC gained more ...
The Swiss Army Distro - Might Someone Finally Be Getting It?
07/08/2008
One of the things that's bothered me to no end for quite a while is the ridiculously huge number of Linux distributions out there. 350+ active or semi ...
A look at KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8
07/08/2008
One of the release goals of KOffice 2, is to make the package run on Windows and Mac OS X in addition to Linux. KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8 is the first relea ...
Microsoft says EU court's fine"excessive"
07/08/2008
Microsoft has told a European Union court that an antitrust fine of 899 million euros ($1.4 billion) against it is both excessive and disproportionate ...
Wine, Bordeaux ship
07/08/2008
The open source Wine program for running Windows applications in Linux shipped in final version 1.0 form, followed by the release of a commercial vers ...
Getting graphic with PHP
07/08/2008
Imagine creating Web-page graphics dynamically using just code. Creating and manipulating images is yours for the doing with the power of PHP. This tu ...
Automating the creation of slide shows in OpenOffice.org
07/08/2008
Why do you need an article on building slide shows in Impress? You don't, in one sense, because the application is simple enough for anyone who has ev ...
Training Tips for New Linux Users
07/08/2008
At my college, I have volunteered to teach faculty, staff, and students the advantages of using Linux. After doing it for a couple of years, I have co ...
Nouveau NV50 X-Video, EXA Comp. Support
07/08/2008
While Nouveau's Maarten Maathuis is busy working on NV50 kernel mode-setting support, Ben Skeggs has been working on a variety of 3D / video features ...
Looming IT talent shortage sidesteps FOSS folks
07/08/2008
A Gartner study from earlier this year suggests that a skills shortage will leave companies scrambling in vain to find qualified help. However, open s ...
Developers load Android onto Nokia device
07/08/2008
Developers have created an easy way to load Android, Google Inc.'s mobile phone operating system that is still in the works, on Nokia Corp.'s N810 ope ...
Statement by Yahoo Responding to Icahn Letter
07/08/2008
Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today issued the following statement in response to Carl Icahn's latest open letter to Yahoo! stockhol ...
Will Alienware Ship Linux-Based PCs?
07/08/2008
Alienware, the PC manufacturer known for their high-end gaming notebooks and desktops, has been evaluating the business opportunity in providing a Lin ...
The Difficulty Divide Redux: Linux vs. Windows, Part II
07/08/2008
Previously, I introduced my theory of the Difficulty Divide. Itâ??s a concept that Iâ??ve used for several years when talking about why I us ...
Book review:Blender 3D: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery
07/08/2008
You probably know the open source 3-D modeler Blender for its animation tools, which have brought audiences short films Elephants Dream and Big Buck B ...
Mass-Rename Files Using an Easy CLI Method
07/08/2008
You may find this useful to rename MP3 or image files in a directory, so they will all look the same. The following script will work on directories wi ...
RV770 Support Added To RadeonHD Driver
07/08/2008
The Novell developers behind the xf86-video-radeonhd driver have yet to receive their hardware samples from AMD for the Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon HD 48 ...
Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) ultra portable laptop piles the pressure on Microsoft
07/08/2008
Gary Richmond at Freesoftware Magazine looks at Acers' Aspire One, the leatest ultra portable laptop computer to feature GNU/Linus. It runs Linpus Lin ...
Viewing Hardware Specifications with"lshw"
07/08/2008
Sometimes, you can learn things by watching your Linux system perform an update. A few weeks ago, I was updating one of my Ubuntu systems, when I saw ...
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