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" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 1:33 PM" + "

" + "Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline" + "

" + "Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in ~/.inputrc. Most of the time the default settings will work perfectly well, but there are a few you may wish to try out that will make slight changes to the way that tab-completion behaves. Be sure to hit Ctrl-X, Ctrl-R after editing the file to re-read it and use the changes you\'ve made." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 1:03 PM" + "

" + "GTalX - Google Voice Chat has arrived in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)" + "

" + "Ubuntu Geek: \"Ever since I moved to Ubuntu, my only problem was that I couldn’t use GTalk in Ubuntu.Here comes the solution - GTalx. It works flawlessly on my Ubuntu 9.10 karmic running on Dell Inspiron 1525.\"" + "

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" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 12:49 PM" + "

" + "Top 10 areas where open source leads the way" + "

" + "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 software aside from the reported $60 billion a year savings on offer." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 12:33 PM" + "

" + "Top 10 Super Bowl tech ads" + "

" + "Computerworld: \"What were the best Super Bowl ads from tech companies in years past? Wading through four decades\' worth of Super Bowl ads was entertaining, educational (who knew that Exxon once had an office products division?)\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 12:22 PM" + "

" + "Mozilla dropping 10.4 support with next Firefox release" + "

" + "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 discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the project. The change will go into effect later this year when the browser\'s Gecko rendering engine makes the jump from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 12:03 PM" + "

" + "OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study" + "

" + "Good Gear Guide: \"Microsoft\'s XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI).\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 11:25 AM" + "

" + "Open source means freedom from \'anti-features\'" + "

" + "Proprietary vendors are using \"anti-features\", features that no user would ever want, to protect intellectual property, Benjamin “Mako” Hill, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the linux.conf.au open source conference last month. But IP protection is only one of several reasons vendors introduce such features into their products." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 10:33 AM" + "

" + "Add Cloud Storage to OpenOffice.org with SMECloud" + "

" + "Worldlabel: \"Cloud computing is all the rage these days. But while the idea of using your browser to access your applications and documents sounds like a great idea on paper, in practice there are all kinds of reasons to stick to your desktop software.\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 10:28 AM" + "

" + "Serious security problem on Ubuntu- Advise to upgrade your kernel" + "

" + "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 because it could allow full system access among others." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 9:30 AM" + "

" + "Open Source Software - Rational or Risky Business?" + "

" + "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 Open Source Software (OSS) in California state government as an acceptable practice.\" While many of my security colleagues offered words of caution following the announcement (and even a couple of \"are you crazy\" comments), most were pretty enthusiastic with remarks like, \"Finally, enlightenment\" and \"It\'s about time government joined the 21st centur..." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 9:03 AM" + "

" + "10 Ways that Enterprises use Linux" + "

" + "Daniweb: \"The world\'s largest technical support, software and hardware companies use Linux on a daily basis for a variety of tasks and solutions. This post gives you an overview of all the ways in which large companies use Linux.\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 8:38 AM" + "

" + "When Linux Nerds Choose Mates from the Linux Herd..." + "

" + "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 young, it\'s an adventure. One has relatively little \"baggage\", the emotional scars are few and the dating world is your oyster...so to speak. And you haven\'t even begun to think about their therapeutic value yet. Ah, youth... But then you find yourself at midlife, choosing from a large pool of potential crisis\'. So many to choose from. Maybe there is a..." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 8:13 AM" + "

" + "Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work" + "

" + "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. Oracle\'s acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project to think about the future of a11y efforts in GNOME." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 7:33 AM" + "

" + "A sensation of wonder about technological developments" + "

" + "Too Much Information: \"It\'s a common thing to admire the way someone solved what was previously a limitation. The funny thing is this can be true even when faced with things we normally consider evil, because we can see that the application of the technology is different from the way it was used.\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 7:16 AM" + "

" + "OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study" + "

" + "Microsoft\'s XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). The agency wants to start a debate over the report as part of its work on standards in the Norwegian government." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 6:58 AM" + "

" + "KDE.org Relaunched for Software Compilation 4.4" + "

" + "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 updated Workspace, Application and Development Platform compilation. The redesign is the result of many hours of work by artists, coders, writers and testers. Keep reading to gain some insight into the people and processes behind the retooling." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 6:34 AM" + "

" + "VMware Partner Exchange: Searching for Zimbra Clues" + "

" + "More than 2,600 partners will converge at this week’s VMware Partner Exchange conference in Las Vegas. Lots of news will surface at the conference. But I\'m looking behind the curtains for new clues involving VMware\'s strategy for Zimbra, the recently acquired open source email provider. Here\'s an update." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 6:03 AM" + "

" + "HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight" + "

" + "Alp Toker: \"I’m glad to announce the first release of our fully managed Theora audio / video decoder implementation for the Silverlight platform! The Highgate media suite will bring installation-free support for HTML5 streaming video to an additional ~40% of web users overnight.\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 5:37 AM" + "

" + "FOSDEM 2010: Andrew Tanenbaum Sets Reliability Before Performance" + "

" + "Computer science veteran Andrew Tanenbaum presented the third version of his Minix operating system at the FOSDEM 2010 conference on February 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 4:56 AM" + "

" + "Exetel stops disconnecting pirates" + "

" + "Exetel will stop blocking customer accounts linked to copyright infringement as a result of last week\'s failed lawsuit against Internet Service Provider (ISP) iiNet." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 4:40 AM" + "

" + "Reviews Of iPhone/iPod Synchronizing Applications For Linux" + "

" + "All of these require a working setup with ifuse, gvfs, libimobiledevice (aka libiphone) etc as per our previous article. In today\'s article, StoneCut reviews GTKpod, Rhythmbox, Banshee and Songbird and their current status regarding iPhone/iPod syncing." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 4:33 AM" + "

" + "SourceForge turns off \"blanket blocking\"" + "

" + "The H Open: \"SourceForge, the open source project hosting site, has announced that it has turned off the \"blanket block\" on access from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 4:14 AM" + "

" + "Telstra to sell Acer 3G laptops" + "

" + "Telstra has begun spruiking bundled broadband data plans with Acer laptops to its business customers." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 3:43 AM" + "

" + "KTorrent: KDE’s BitTorrent client" + "

" + "Many people use BitTorrent clients to download popular movies, music, and television shows for free, although this practice is illegal in several countries. But legal issues aside, distributing files through torrents is an excellent way to reduce server bandwidth and spread them quickly. For example, many Linux distributions will distribute their ISOs using torrents in addition to their server mirrors. BitTorrent makes distributing large files easy and fast because the files are hosted on users’..." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 3:07 AM" + "

" + "Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked" + "

" + "Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip [TPM] with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 3:03 AM" + "

" + "Home, Events, and Ubuntu" + "

" + "Just Me, Amber: \"I have been working with the SCaLE 8x coordinators, and the CA Loco Team for the Ubucon event at SCaLE. I am giving a talk at the WIOS event at SCaLE - A Year NTEU the Ubuntu Community and the FLOSS World.\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 2:45 AM" + "

" + "Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh" + "

" + "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 the window manager, and could customize it to your heart\'s content. It was even friendly to homegrown GTK+ hacks. And then tragedy struck: the GNOME maintainers decided that 1.4 needed a ground-up rewrite, and thus GNOME 2.0 was born." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 2:06 AM" + "

" + "5 open source office suites to watch" + "

" + "The Microsoft Office productivity suite has risen to become the dominant application of its type for business IT management. But there are open source office productivity suites available that may provide a suitable alternative to Office, depending on your requirements. Despite the scores of additional features found in products like Microsoft Office, most workers only need a simple word processor or spreadsheet to complete their day-to-day office tasks. If your staff are not “power users” then ..." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 1:33 AM" + "

" + "Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun?" + "

" + "Computerworld UK: \"Regular readers of this blog will know that I\'m a big fan of OpenOffice.org, and that I think it has the potential to break through into the mainstream. Maybe it\'s already begun...\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 1:08 AM" + "

" + "SourceForge Removes \"Blanket\" Block" + "

" + "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.S. \"banned\" list. Instead, it announced on Sunday that it\'s putting the decision in the hands of each project that hosts on the site. According to SourceForge\'s Lee Schlesinger, the company has no way of knowing which projects should or shouldn\'t trigger a block." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 12:42 AM" + "

" + "Startup links VMware with Amazon to create secure cloud storage" + "

" + "A storage startup called Nasuni is unveiling a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and connects customers to cloud platforms such as Amazon\'s Simple Storage Service, adding encryption to enhance security and several features to improve performance." + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 12:33 AM" + "

" + "Alexandria Project Chap. 4: Beware of Greeks bearing Trapdoors" + "

" + "Standards Blog: \"Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego comes under suspicion when the Library of Congress is hacked by a mysterious cracker with motives unknown and a taste for the bizarre; to protect himself, Frank had better get to the bottom of things\"" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 12:06 AM" + "

" + "The kernel column by Jon Masters #83" + "

" + "Last month many developers were scurrying to prepare for the 2.6.33 merge window. When they weren’t doing that, here are a few of the items that were under discussion, starting with the Big Kernel Lock…" + "

" + "Tue, Feb 9 2010 - 12:03 AM" + "

" + "The kernel column by Jon Masters #83" + "

" + "Linux User and Developer: \"As I’ve mentioned before, one of the longer-term goals of the kernel development community is to kill off the Big Kernel Lock (BKL).\"" + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 11:33 PM" + "

" + "How to get information from the Netscaler using Python and Suds" + "

" + "Linux Dynasty: \"Recently I just started to use the Citrix Netscalers again ( Load Balancers ). Being the person that I am, I wanted a way to grab the information using the SOAP API.\"" + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 11:13 PM" + "

" + "The Alexandria Project, Chap. 4: Beware of Greeks bearing Trapdoors" + "

" + "Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego comes under suspicion when the Library of Congress is hacked by a mysterious cracker with motives unknown and a taste for the bizarre. To protect himself, Frank had better get to the bottom of things - fast." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 11:08 PM" + "

" + "CA brings SOA security to open source JBoss" + "

" + "CA has announced its SiteMinder and SOA Security Manager products are now available for the open source JBoss middleware platform." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 11:03 PM" + "

" + "Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline" + "

" + "Serverwatch: \"Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in ~/.inputrc.\"" + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 10:33 PM" + "

" + "The KDE 4.3 System Settings - Part 3 - Computer Administration" + "

" + "Raiden\'s Realm: \"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 look at the Computer Administration master section. This will be a key area for those wanting to administer their own section.\"" + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 9:19 PM" + "

" + "After delays, Intel rolls out Tukwila chip" + "

" + "After about a year of delays, Intel today took the wrappers off its high-end Itanium processor - code-named Tukwila." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 8:51 PM" + "

" + "PayPal suspends personal payments to India" + "

" + "PayPal, an eBay company, has suspended personal payments to and from India and transfers to local banks in the country." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 8:43 PM" + "

" + "IBM launches eight-core Power7 processor, servers" + "

" + "IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 8:02 PM" + "

" + "Report: Google to make Gmail more social" + "

" + "Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an attempt to inject the Web mail service with social-networking capabilities popularized by Twitter and Facebook, according to The Wall Street Journal." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 7:45 PM" + "

" + "Oracle buys AmberPoint for SOA management" + "

" + "Oracle on Monday fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing Monday that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint. Terms were not disclosed." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 7:09 PM" + "

" + "OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study" + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 7:05 PM" + "

" + "Nokia targeted in US class action suit" + "

" + "A class action complaint against Nokia alleges the company committed securities fraud when describing its operations in 2008." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 5:52 PM" + "

" + "BlueLock\'s cloud services aim at large and small" + "

" + "BlueLock, a little-known cloud-computing services provider, is rolling out a suite of services aimed at a wide range of customers, it announced Monday." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 5:29 AM" + "

" + "Sex, lies and time-shifted YouTube videos" + "

" + "As if the whole John Edwards farce couldn\'t get any more ridiculous, now one of his ex-aides, Andrew Young, who also happens to be touting his tell-all book about Edwards, has announced that he \'found\' a video tape of, shall we say, a highly personal nature featuring Edwards and Rielle Hunter, Edwards\' infamous and now presumably ex-mistress and mother of one of his children." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 4:07 AM" + "

" + "World of Warcraft seeks reapproval in China gov\'t tangle" + "

" + "The China operator of World of Warcraft, one of the world\'s biggest online games, said Sunday it will seek new government approval for the game, dragging it further into a turf war between two Chinese regulatory agencies." + "

" + "Mon, Feb 8 2010 - 4:04 AM" + "

" + "Linux Conf raises $33,000 for charity" + "

" + "[[xref:http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/linux.conf.au|Linux.conf.au|Computerword :: Linux.conf.au]] may be over for another year, but the open source communityâs generosity will continue to have a lasting impact on New Zealandâs Life Flight Trust." + "

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