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Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue
07/19/2008 
Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four count ... 
Ubuntu hits new high in Linux boredom
07/19/2008
Last weekend a friend was moaning about endless problems with Windows XP on his desktop PC. We installed Ubuntu 7.04 on it. The problems went away. Th ...
Apple is not the real enemy of open source
07/19/2008
The real enemy of open source remains what it has always been. Not Apple Inc. The copyright industries. Music companies. Movie companies. TV companies ...
Dell is serious about Ubuntu: Launches first consumer Linux PCs
07/19/2008
Dell today flipped the switched and is now officially offering consumer desktop and notebook PCs with Ubuntu 8.04 pre-installed. Two notebooks and one ...
Queensland to investigate open source capability
07/19/2008
When a genre of software is estimated to account for 15 percent of the total revenue generated by a given sector of the IT industry and that total is ...
Xfce in Debian Lenny (and everywhere else)
07/19/2008
I've come to the conclusion that GNOME is not quite ready in Debian Lenny. A lot of strange things have been happening on my screen. There's the ghost ...
Major investor sides with Yahoo board
07/19/2008
Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors landed its first endorsement from a major institutional shareholder Friday, giving it momentum in the fight with inves ...
More Unix and Linux Humor - Know Your SysAdmin
07/19/2008
Some more Unix and Linux related laughs for the weekend. ...
Tough love: Linux needs more haters (Re Linux Haters Blog)
07/19/2008
The reasons that these screeds of hate work so well is that the author really knows what they're talking about. He or she is extremely knowledgeable a ...
Jump start your Web app deployment with a JumpBox
07/19/2008
Software installation, deployment, and configuration can be a headache and a time sink for systems administrators. To ease the process, JumpBox delive ...
Do we really have options?
07/19/2008
I was going to explore the new trend of green IT or perhaps talk about the morality of threatening or blackmailing (your choice) software companies in ...
OSCON: Linux Rocks in Mobile, Embedded Realm
07/19/2008
Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation says Linux is the platform of choice for the mobile and embedded platforms. Zemlin to presentâThe State of M ...
Open source should support Apple over Psystar
07/19/2008
Apple licenses tie you down and are written in a way that would have Einstein tearing his hair out. Open source licenses give you freedom and are writ ...
Linus Torvalds, Geek of the Week
07/19/2008
Linus Torvalds, an acknowledged godfather of the open-source movement, was just 21 when he changed the world by writing Linux Today, 17 years later, L ...
Explore your database with Talend Open Profiler
07/19/2008
Over time, organizations replicate, migrate, or add complexity within database systems, often times losing control of the quality of their data. When ...
Add encryption into Google Calendar with Firefox extensions
07/19/2008
Learn the tools and code needed to add encryption support for user data in one of the most popular online calendar applications. Building on the flexi ...
Dell Now Preinstalling Ubuntu Linux 8.04
07/19/2008
Dell's Ubuntu Linux PCs now come with the latest build of the operating system, version 8.04. That may not seem like news, but it's actually a signifi ...
KOffice Releases Ninth Alpha of KOffice 2.0
07/19/2008
The KOffice team announces the availability of the ninth alpha release of KOffice 2.0. With KDE4 becoming more stable by the week, KOffice development ...
Measuring Profits: Microsoft vs. Red Hat
07/19/2008
Will Linux and open source destroy Microsoft's profits? Before you answer that question, take a look at this quick Microsoft vs. Red Hat financial ana ...
Ruiz Out, Meyer In At AMD
07/19/2008
Hector Ruiz is out as chief executive at Advanced Micro Devices as the struggling chip maker on Thursday reported its seventh consecutive quarter in t ...
Encrypt The System Manually Upon Installation (Ubuntu 8.04)
07/19/2008
This tutorial describes how you can encrypt an Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) system right during the initial installation. ...
SCO and just desserts
07/19/2008
We love it when Batman defeats the Joker because we love to see the bad guys get their just desserts. But as enjoyable as it is seeing fictional villa ...
Linux can save us
07/19/2008
In case you haven't noticed, the economy is collapsing. You can't afford to drive anywhere, and, even if you could, you may not have a GM car to drive ...
AMD Phenom Gets Linux Thermal Driver
07/19/2008
While AMD's financial outlook has been bleak with it closing down 12% today, if you're a Linux user -- particularly one with a quad-core Phenom proces ...
JUNOS: Open, But Not Open Source
07/19/2008
What does it mean to release a network operating system every quarter for 10 years? At the heart of every networking device is an operating system tha ...
Aten CS1782 KVM DVI Switch
07/19/2008
Aten, have you ever heard of them? If you haven't, it's not because they are a newcomer to the market place, as they actually have been around for nea ...
Phoronix Test Suite 1.0.4 Released
07/19/2008
If you're looking at running some Linux benchmarks over the weekend, you'll want to check out the latest release of the Phoronix Test Suite. We've rel ...
Dell Now Shipping Ubuntu 8.04 LTS PCs
07/19/2008
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS had shipped back in April, but up until now owners of Dell PCs would have had to install this "Hardy Heron" update manually if they we ...
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