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Tune into SA radio with Linux
07/18/2008 
With broadband speeds in South Africa improving at a steady pace (although still pricey) listening to commercial radio on PCs and laptops is becoming ... 
Is SCO finally dead?
07/18/2008
Even though SCO has suffered another legal defeat, the company looks like it has enough willpower, if not sense, to keep its legal losing streak going ...
An Open Source Seeing Eye Dog for Web Surfers
07/18/2008
Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost more than $1,000, so they're not exactly com ...
Check scanners add Linux support
07/18/2008
A vendor of digital check scanners has updated its closed Linux drivers, releasing drivers for recent versions of Red Hat and Ubuntu. Digital Check ca ...
Managing a Practice with Linux
07/18/2008
There have been several posts here about Linux in the law office, both as a server environment and as a workstation. My main concern with it on the de ...
Use xfs_fsr to keep your XFS filesystem optimal
07/18/2008
The XFS filesystem is known to give good performance when storing and accessing large files. The design of XFS is extent-based, meaning that the bytes ...
Develop iPhone Apps with Ruby and Eclipse Part 3
07/18/2008
Although Mobile Safari is more than adequate at rendering normal Web pages, many Web developers created versions of applications aimed at the iPhone.H ...
Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'
07/18/2008
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has labeled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a"bunch of masturbating monkeys", as part of a wider critique of what ...
Open source college revolution?
07/18/2008
Is the true open source revolution finally coming to college campuses this fall? Many universities are big users of open source, and Internet resource ...
General Policy And Mission Statements For"The Linux And Unix Menagerie" Web Log.
07/18/2008
Probably an extremely boring statement of our blog's mission and various in-place policies ;) ...
Proprietary software? Counsel objects
07/18/2008
Nathan Zale Dowlen objects to proprietary software, so when he opened his new law office, he outfitted it with Ubuntu Linux and open source software. ...
How good is open source support?
07/18/2008
The cheap answer isâas good as you make it.â The real answer is more complex. As our friend Big Money Matt notes today, open source vend ...
Linux Hater's Blog actually well worth reading
07/18/2008
Whatever your feelings are about Linux (or Windows, or OS X , or ...) you really should check out the Linux Hater's Blog. It's actually farther from a ...
Simple Approach to Linux Wireless
07/18/2008
Wireless connectivity on any Linux distribution that is not pre-bundled with existing hardware is a bit of a crapshoot. And yet I would be the first t ...
Where is GNU ?
07/18/2008
Well, the odds were good, but I know I never actually thought about it. Most people would recognize LAX as the three letter airport identifier for Los ...
10 Must-Have Linux Applications
07/18/2008
I have been using Linux in one capacity or another since I first downloaded a Red Hat ISO a number of years ago. What finally allowed me to go full-ti ...
Ubuntu Tweak Utility Review
07/18/2008
As a rule, I am generally leery about various user created"tweaking utilities" available for any OS, much less Linux. Not because I am afraid to trip ...
Is Selling Linux Evil?
07/18/2008
Not too ago, I stumbled onto a post that was created by a rather irate blogger who felt that Ubuntu was getting the shaft. Apparently someone had deci ...
Audio/Visual Synthesis: The New Arts, Part 2
07/18/2008
In this second part of my survey I focus on the tools that achieve this new synthesis of arts. Alas, due to space constraints I am unable to include a ...
Zmanda Open Source: Backup at One-tenth the Price?
07/18/2008
Linux redefined pricing in the operating system market. Now, Zmanda hopes to apply those same open source pricing pressures in the backup market while ...
Toy Soldiers
07/18/2008
It is interesting to watch the activities of JTC1/SC34 as they go through the motions of processing activities related to OOXML, long after any seriou ...
We donât want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer
07/18/2008
I hate to go all Bond villain on Mr. Ballmer, but the question of whether Microsoft talks to open source, about open source, or even engages open sour ...
SCO loses another round in Unix fight, must pay $2.55M to Novell
07/18/2008
At the beginning of its massive legal fight against Linux in 2003, The SCO Group Inc. imagined a day when companies like IBM, Novell Inc. and others w ...
Canonical, Openbravo, Set to Promote ERP for Ubuntu Linux
07/18/2008
Ubuntu Linux isnâ??t just for desktop users. That will be the key message when Canonical and Openbravo demonstrate open source ERP software on Ub ...
NVIDIA Updates Its Legacy Linux Drivers
07/18/2008
If you're using an older NVIDIA graphics card and haven't yet turned to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver, you may want to check out the latest NV ...
OpenXML: Finally the hidden agenda is emerging
07/18/2008
Since I participate in the Brazilian group that analyzed the OpenXML, I have the distinct impression that a hidden agenda have guided the decisions of ...
Sweet Home 3D: simple interior design
07/18/2008
Remodeling? Like free software? If you answer"yes" to both questions, try taking Sweet Home 3D for a spin. The open source, cross-platform 3-D interio ...
Install CentOS 5.X DomU at SNV93 Dom0 on boards with integrated NIC RTL8110SC/RTL8111B
07/18/2008
ASUS P5K Premium/WIFI, P5K3 Deluxe,P5K Deluxe P5E3 Deluxe,Abit IP35 Pro,Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6,MSI P35 Platinum have integrated on the board Realtek's NI ...
Linux 2.6.26 Kernel Benchmarks
07/18/2008
Over the weekend the Linux 2.6.26 kernel was released. This quarterly update to the Linux kernel introduced Kernel-based Virtual Machine improvements, ...
GIMP 2.5.2 Development Release
07/18/2008
The GIMP crew has been hard at work on their GIMP 2.4 replacement, which will be called GIMP 2.6. There's a number of new features already present wit ...
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