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MC5 – Motorcity is burning 1973 live

13 02 2009

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LOU REED – NEW YORK – LIVE

13 02 2009

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HP Lovecraft – At The Mountains Of Madness

13 02 2009

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Spirit – Mechanical World (video version 2)

13 02 2009

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Spirit – When I Touch You (1970)

13 02 2009

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How to Make a Linux Screencast

11 02 2009

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Linux HOWTO: Video Editing Magic with ffmpeg

11 02 2009

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Linux HOWTO: Secure Your Data with PGP, Part 2

11 02 2009

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Linux HOWTO: Secure Your Data with PGP, Part 1

11 02 2009

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Mastering IPTables

11 02 2009

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OMG! UBUNTU!: Docky Gains Panel Mode, Network Docklet & More November 23, 2009

Docky gained a sleek new panel mode and a network manager docklet in an update to users of the Docky PPA yesterday.

Chromium OS Source released November 19, 2009

I noticed that the source released happened during the webcast, so go get it now!Getting and building:http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os

Speaking UNIX: 10 great tools for any UNIX system November 19, 2009

The universe of UNIX® tools changes constantly. Here are 10 tools—some you may have overlooked and some new—to tinker with.

The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It's Coming Soon November 18, 2009

The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real.Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.

20 Essential Tips Every Ubuntu User Should Know November 18, 2009

We've compiled a list of the 20 most important skills that every Ubuntu user should have. These tips, ranging from basic GUI manipulation to advanced system recovery, are essential to your Ubuntu computing experience.

PDC09 - Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework November 17, 2009

Peter Galli reporting form PDC09 - Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here in Los Angeles, we announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that we are open sourcing the product and making it available under the Apache 2.0 license...

Google Could Double Web Speeds With SPDY Protocol November 16, 2009

Slowly but surely, we're getting an idea of what Google's Chrome OS will look like. We know that it will be Linux-based and that the primary interface will likely be the Chrome browser. Still, the search giant was not content to simply turn a Web browser into an operating system.

Linux Contractor Fired for Using Firefox/Linux November 16, 2009

This is a complicated story but one that must be told. I'm not sure there is anything that can be done about it except rage at the moon...

Lenovo returns to the Linux desktop November 14, 2009

Lenovo will soon be shipping an ARM Snapdragon-based netbook using Linux.

Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week!! November 13, 2009

Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall.

Slashdot: Linux

Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize?

An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though..." The suggestion has been bouncing around the Portland Linux community, where Torvalds lives. Is it wort […]

kdawson

Fedora 12 Package Installation Policy Tightened

AdamWill writes "After the controversy over Fedora 12's controversial package installation authentication policy, including our discussion this week, the package maintainers have agreed that the controversial policy will be tightened to require root authentication for trusted package installation. Please see the official announcement and the develo […]

kdawson

GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04

kai_hiwatari writes "It looks like the Ubuntu developers consider GIMP to be too powerful for a normal desktop user. They are removing it from the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04. Among the reasons cited are that the UI is too complex, it takes up room on the disc, and 'desktop users just want to edit photos and they can do that in F-Spot.''"R […]

Soulskill

US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption

Entropy98 writes "It seems that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center, known as C3, has replaced its '$8,000 Tableau/Dell server combination' with more efficient and much cheaper $300 PS3s. Each PS3 is capable of 4 million passwords per second, and C3 currently has 20 PS3s with plans to buy 40 more. Naturally this is o […]

timothy

Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges

eqisow writes "The new default policy for Fedora 12 allows local, unprivileged users to install signed packages without root access. This change apparently went mostly unnoticed until after the Fedora 12 GA release, at which point it sparked a mailing list thread that is, as of this writing, over 100 posts long."Read more of this story at Slashdot. […]

timothy

Fedora 12 Released

AdamWill writes "The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 12 today. With all the latest open source software and major improvements to graphics support, networking, virtualization and more, Fedora 12 is one of the most exciting releases so far. You can download it here. There's a one-page guide to the new release for those in […]

timothy

Free Software For All Russian Schools In Jeopardy

Glyn Moody writes "Last year, we discussed here a Russian plan to install free software in all its schools. Seems things aren't going so well. Funds for the project have been cut back, some of the free software discs already sent out were faulty, and — inevitably — Microsoft has agreed to a 'special price' for Windows XP used […]

kdawson

The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing

badger.foo writes "The Australian rickrolling of jailbroken iPhones only goes to prove that bad passwords are bad for you, Peter Hansteen points out, as he reports on the further exploits of the password-guessing Hail Mary Cloud (which we've discussed in the past). The article contains log data that could indicate that the cloud of distributed, pas […]

Soulskill

GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010

supersloshy writes "Contrary to popular opinion, GNOME 3 will not be released in March next year. It has been delayed until September 2010, six months later. According to the news message, this is because 'our community wants GNOME 3.0 to be fully working for users and why we believe September is more appropriate.' GNOME 3's main goal is […]

Soulskill

Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools

spongman writes "Microsoft's Senior Vice President, Developer Division, S. Somasegar has announced that Microsoft has acquired Teamprise from Sourcegear, LLC, and will be shipping it as part of the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release. Teamprise is an Eclipse plugin (and related tools) for connecting to Team Foundation Server, Microsoft's sourc […]

timothy

LinuxQuestions.org

C typedef notation. November 23, 2009

Hi all, I'm working with some legacy C code and am unsure about some notation I'm seeing. I essentially have the situation below, Code: --------- void func_A(stuff) { //Stuff

corp1126

Automatically Print Emails November 23, 2009

I would like an application that will automatically check my GMail account (via POP3 or IMAP or something), and automatically print the EMails out. I would like it to print the graphics too. Any ideas...

JustinKubicek

While script issue, "cannot create directory..." November 23, 2009

Hi, me again! The script below, is probably wrong. However I am learning at the moment. What I am hoping is to make new directories for potential new users, and I would like to copy the /etc/skel...

Karas

clfs PPL-0.10.2 error November 23, 2009

after configuring PPL and issuing the make command I keep getting this error /tools/lib/libgmp.so: undefined reference to `__gmpn_rsh1add_n' /tools/lib/libgmp.so: undefined reference to...

skeeters

Repairing Mandrake November 23, 2009

I have a Linux system that keeps rebooting, and it appears that some files are missing. How can I repair Mandrake 10 (I have the disks) to insure that the OS is not the problem wothout overwriting...

DaveOne

Subversion migration from Ubuntu 4 to Centos 5.2 November 23, 2009

Hi this is Kishore Kumar, I want to migrate my subversion server from Ubuntu 4 to Centos 5.2 Ubuntu version 4 with apache2 and subversion 1.3... how can i do this can any one help I have...

kishorerhce508

Wireless config in 11.2 November 23, 2009

I have just installed openSuSE 11.2 on a Gateway 450SX4 lpatop, and am having problems with getting my wireless connection to work properly. I have a Linksys WPC54G wireless card, which has a Broadcom...

swampdog2002

problem with mv and cp November 23, 2009

when I try to do mv *.txt /some/directory/ I get mv: invalid option -- 'd' Try `mv --help' for more information. Then when I try cp *.txt /some/directory/ I get

pgb205

ethernet bridge for a LAN (ubuntu) November 23, 2009

Hi - I have a problemo that is stumping me. I am trying to get a machine on a LAN to get to the internet. Seems quite like a standard problem, and its solution I presume involves an ethernet bridge....

andrews-mark

shorewall balance - problem to load some pages November 23, 2009

I have shorewall working with load balance with 2 isp´s, the balance is working but im having some problems to browse 2 specific web pages: www.globo.com and www.mercadolivre.com.br these 2 webpages...

brunomoss

Slashdot: Interviews

Ask Sam Ramji About the CodePlex Foundation

This week the Codeplex Foundation announced its first project, the ASP.NET Ajax Library Project, as part of its first sponsored gallery, the ASP.NET Gallery. The CodePlex Foundation is now two months old, and Foundation President Sam Ramji has agreed to answer questions about the Foundation, its first project, and overall progress to date. Usual Slashdot int […]

ScuttleMonkey

Blizzard Answers Your Questions and More

Last week we asked for interview questions to help supplement our face-to-face interviews at Blizzcon. Over the course of the two-day con we were able to sit down with StarCraft II's Dustin Browder, Diablo III's Leonard Boyarsky, WoW's J. Allen Brack, and Battle.net expert Rob Pardo to answer a few questions on each of the four major camps in […]

ScuttleMonkey

Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net

Well, Blizzcon 2009 is about to get underway (look for the big news from the keynote in a few hours) and given how fast it sold out I'm sure there are still many rabid fans interested in what Blizzard might have to say that don't want to shell out the $40 for Pay-Per-View access. So, to that end we have interviews scheduled tomorrow with the teams […]

ScuttleMonkey

Bethesda Speaks On Gamebryo Engine, Final Fallout 3 DLC

PsxMeUP writes "Game Observer conducted an interview with Ashley Cheng, Production Director at Bethesda. He answered questions about the Gamebryo engine, why they prefer it over other engines and the advantages it presented while making Fallout 3. Cheng also talks a bit about what inspired their designers while making Fallout 3 and what is in store for […]

Soulskill

Jazz Technical Lead Erich Gamma Answers Your Questions

Last week you asked Jazz technical lead Erich Gamma questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Here are his answers, along with many external links and places to continue the conversation if you are interested.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

ScuttleMonkey

Ask Jazz Technical Lead Dr. Erich Gamma

As IBM continues to build out Jazz, their community-oriented development site, technical lead Dr. Erich Gamma has offered to answer questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Among his many accomplishments, Erich worked with Kent Beck on the Java unit testing framework, JUnit, and was actively involved until JUnit 4. Dr. Gamma was also […]

ScuttleMonkey

CSIS Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin Answers Your Questions

Last week we solicited questions for US Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI), one of the chairs of the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission. Here are his answers — along with contact information for him if you want to continue the conversation.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Roblimo

Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans

US Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI) is one of the chairs of the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission that released a comprehensive 96-page report on Dec. 8 under the title, Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency. The aim of the Commission is to help the incoming administration balance "cyberspace" security needs with civil liberties. We'd like […]

Roblimo

Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From Blizzcon

Last week we asked you to submit questions for several Blizzard employees on a wide range of issues. Since we undertook the pilgrimage to Blizzcon in person this year, we decided to use the question ideas as a guide rather than an absolute, so that it could be a little more conversational in tone. Below we have included the responses from Chris Sigaty, lead […]

ScuttleMonkey

Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter

In just a few days, some of us will be making the trek to this year's Blizzcon event in Anaheim, CA. In addition to the interesting announcements, sneak peeks, and other distractions, we will be sitting down with several Blizzard employees to answer any questions you might have. So far we have scheduled some time with Chris Sigaty, lead producer on Star […]

ScuttleMonkey

HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials –

How To Upgrade From Fedora 11 To Fedora 12 (Desktop & Server) November 23, 2009

How To Upgrade From Fedora 11 To Fedora 12 (Desktop & Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 11 system to Fedora 12. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.

The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] November 22, 2009

The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a Fedora 12 server (x86_64) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, MyDNS namese […]

Low Cost SAN November 20, 2009

Low Cost SAN The objective of this document is to provide making of Low Cost SAN using FOSS tools.

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.2 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] November 19, 2009

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.2 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.2 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, MyDNS DNS server, Pureftpd FTP ser […]

How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Mandriva 2009.1 November 19, 2009

How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Mandriva 2009.1 This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on a Mandriva 2009.1 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uplo […]

How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Mandriva 2009.1 November 18, 2009

How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Mandriva 2009.1 This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on a Mandriva 2009.1 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded […]

The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.10 November 17, 2009

The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.10 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 9.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardwar […]

Creating A Jail With VNC Server On FreeBSD November 17, 2009

Creating A Jail With VNC Server On FreeBSD This article explains how you can run a VNC server from within a jail on FreeBSD.

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] November 16, 2009

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.1 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, MyDNS DNS server, Pureftpd FTP ser […]

How To Enable Networking In Xen Guests On Hetzner's DS Servers (Debian Etch) November 15, 2009

How To Enable Networking In Xen Guests On Hetzner's DS Servers (Debian Etch) This tutorial shows how you can enable networking in Xen guests (domU) on Hetzner's DS servers. With the DS servers, you can get a subnet of eight additional IPs (or more) - usually that subnet is different from the subnet that the server's main IP is from. The proble […]

LXer Linux News

Open Source Poses “Huge Risk” To Organisations

A chief information officer for engineering giant General Electric (GE) has said that open source software is only suited for internal “playground” applications and that businesses that use it for mission critical infrastructure are taking a huge risk. Responding to a question from eWEEK Europe UK on the first day of the Central and Eastern European IT Leade […]

Andrew Donoghue

Digium Seeks Even More Partners

Digium is expanding its partner program -- potentially engaging more consulting firms and resellers that want to embrace Asterisk, the open source IP PBX. Digium has been particularly active with a range of partners in recent months.

Array

Google Chrome OS: a threat to Windows 7?

It's interesting, for sure, but Google Chrome OS as a game changer? No way! Everything from assuming people will want another Apple-alike 'buy the hardware to get the OS' model to thinking the average user is ready to surrender a PC paradigm for a cloud-based existence is wide of the mark. Google would appear to have got this one about as wron […]

Davey Winder

Will Windows 7 Promote Linux Adoption?

It could happen. For the curious at heart, Linux is just around the corner for Windows 7 users.

Ken Hess

Polygon Modeling of a Handgun using Blender 3D 2.49

This article covers modeling by using concept drawings to create a base model in Blender, how to set up and configure a background image which is used to transform a mesh and use of tools such as Edge Loop tool, Face Loop Cut tool, and 3D Cursor as a tool.

Allan Brito

Jaguar outruns Roadrunner

Linux claims an even larger portion of the world's top supercomputers and IBM's Roadrunner gets run off its feet by a Jaguar.

Alastair Otter

Adium Themes in Pidgin [Ubuntu Karmic Koala How-to]

We've managed to use Adium themes in Pidgin on Ubuntu Jaunty and in Empathy (Ubuntu Karmic). But how about Pidgin and Ubuntu Karmic? That's pretty easy actually; here is what you need to do:

Array

digiKam and Kipi sprint

The developers of digiKam and the Kipi project came together in Essen, Germany on November 13-15 for the second coding sprint for KDE photography applications. With digiKam preparing for the 1.0 release shortly before Christmas, plans were discussed and work began already in feature branches for the following release. A lot of work was put into polishing Win […]

Marcel Wiesweg

Setup Ubuntu 9.10 Server PV DomU at Xen 3.4.1 Dom0 (2.6.31.6 pvops kernel) on top of Fedora 12

A brief description of Xen 3.4.1 and Libvirt 0.7.1-15 deployment to Fedora 12 follows bellow. Next step is install Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server in HVM DomU with ext4fs image via virt-install. Ubuntu Karmic PV DomU gets loaded via pygrub profile due to Xen Hypervisor has been built on F12 along with e2fsprogs-devel package, what allows to handle PV DomUs images […]

Boris Derzhavets

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.2 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]

This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.2 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, MyDNS DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, e […]

Falko Timme

johnboy’s slackware now

MC5 – Motorcity is burning 1973 live

LOU REED – NEW YORK – LIVE

HP Lovecraft – At The Mountains Of Madness

Spirit – Mechanical World (video version 2)

Spirit – When I Touch You (1970)

How to Make a Linux Screencast

Linux HOWTO: Video Editing Magic with ffmpeg

Linux HOWTO: Secure Your Data with PGP, Part 2

Linux HOWTO: Secure Your Data with PGP, Part 1

Mastering IPTables

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