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DB2 Problems
Noel Davis looks at problems in DB2, SHOUTcast, nasm, Vilistextum, libtiff, wxGTK2, phpGroupWare, Vim, namazu2, and htmlheadline.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Use Your Digital Camera with Linux With the holidays over, it's time to pause, reflect, and clean up a bit. Why not download the photos from your digital camera? Don't worry, it's easy under Linux. Robert Bernier demonstrates the killer combination of gphoto2, ImageMagick, and digiKam. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Range-Keyed Queries Dan Tow, author of SQL Tuning, ran into a rather interesting dilemma on an Oracle mail group regarding a recurring class of SQL tuning problems. Dan presents the original single-row query problem and shows the route to the most viable solution. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Ten Tips for Building Your First High-Performance Cluster Been meaning to build your very first high-performance Linux cluster, but fear the trials and tribulations? Joseph D. Sloan, author of High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI, saves you the trouble with ten very helpful tips. Now you can get all of the cost effectiveness of high-performance clusters without all of the frustration. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Clever Tricks with MythTV Building your own personal video recorder means that you can avoid manufacturer- or broadcaster-enforced restrictions. That's not all, though. John Littler presents some clever ideas on what you can accomplish with a MythTV box, some free time, and a little work. [O'Reilly Network]
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Linux AMD64 Kernel Bug
Noel Davis looks at a Linux 2.4 kernel bug on AMD64 machines, problems in Samba, changepassword.cgi, MPlayer, the MIT Kerberos 5 administration library, logcheck, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Konqueror, Debian debmake, Xpdf, and xzgv.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Freedom, Innovation, and Convenience: The RMS Interview Since 1984, Richard M. Stallman has fought for software freedom as a coder, a project leader, and a philosopher. The GNU GPL and GNU/Linux projects are just two results of that work. Federico Biancuzzi recently interviewed rms about his views on freedom, the GNU project, and the Linux kernel and GNU/Linux distributions. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Excerpt from Linux Cookbook, Part 2 In the second part of this two-part series, Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, offers two more recipes, including tips on running different window managers simultaneously with Xnest and hosting multiple domains with Apache. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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J2SE Woes
Noel Davis looks at problems in the Java 2 Runtime Environment, wget, FreeBSD's procfs and linprocfs, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, AbiWord, Blogtorrent, scponly, rssh, and kfax.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Adding Permissions Using SELinux As an SELinux administrator, one of the most frequent SELinux policy customizations you're likely to perform is adding permissions to coax the security engine into accepting an operation. In today's excerpt from SELinux, author Bill McCarty considers an actual situation based on Fedora Core 2's SELinux implementation and shows how it's resolved. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Linux Music Blossoms with Rosegarden No kidding: many software geeks are also music geeks. It should be no surprise that free software music programs have started to rival their commercial counterparts. Howard Wen walks through Rosegarden, a Linux-based music sequencer and scoring package. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
The Watchful Eye of FAM If you've ever written code waiting for a file to appear or change, you've likely done the select/sleep loop dance. How'd you like to never again experience that? SGI's File Alteration Monitor API can help. Ethan McCallum demonstrates how to watch files and directories on Linux, Irix, and probably your other favorite, Unix. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Excerpt from Linux Cookbook, Part 1 Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, has three tasty recipes to share in this week's excerpt. Whether you want tips on installing a program for easy uninstall, killing user processes, or better logins without passwords, Carla poses the problems and offers solutions. Too bad not all recipes can be this clear, quick, and painless. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
True Stories of Knoppix Rescues A battle-hardened sysadmin shares his near-death tales ... of Knoppix rescue. Kyle Rankin, author of Knoppix Hacks, is a true Knoppix veteran with endless stories of broken systems and machines in distress. In this article, he shares a few of his favorites, complete with outcomes and weapons of choice. Not for the faint of heart. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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ELF Trouble
Noel Davis looks at problems in the Linux kernel, sudo, TWiki, phpBB, cscope, Cyrus IMAP, Bugzilla, ProZilla, unarj, libxml2, and fetch.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Feather Linux: The Swiss Army Knife of LiveCDs Bootable LiveCDs have made the lives of Linux dabblers easier. They're also good for administrators and people facing system recovery woes. Among LiveCDs, Feather Linux is a lean and powerful tool. KIVILCIM Hindistan demonstrates how it can make backing up and restoring partitions easy. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Advanced Linux Installations and Upgrades with Kickstart Unix is beautifully scriptable. That applies to installations and upgrades, too. Fedora's Kickstart utility can automate installing entire labs of computers, installing custom RPMs, and even upgrading old versions. Ethan McCallum explains advanced Kickstart techniques. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Media-Tool Trouble
Noel Davis looks at problems in libgd, mtink, zip, ruby, Samba, freeamp, Kaffeine and gxine, Portage, zgv, shadow, and BNC.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Trouble in iptables
Noel Davis looks at problems in Linux iptables, OpenSSL, PuTTY, rssh, Quake II Server, libmagick6, HP Serviceguard, Xpdf, FreeRadius, WVTFTPD, GNU tftp, and pppd.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
A Firm Foundation for the Linux Desktop Nearly every advance of Linux, open source, and free software on the desktop owes a debt to the X Window System. Too often, this debt goes unacknowledged. With the birth of X.org earlier this year, a foundational but once-stagnant project prepares to improve itself and its code to help free desktops everywhere. Andy Oram reports. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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mod_ssl Problems
Noel Davis looks at problems in mod_ssl, LibTIFF, mpg123, LessTif, the Cyrus SASL library, MySQL, CUPS, ProFTPD, and the Squid web proxy cache.
[O'Reilly Network]
PC Hacks for Linux PC Hacks author Jim Aspinwall handpicks two Linux-specific hacks to share from his new book. Whether Linux just won't boot or it isn't as zippy as you'd expect, help is merely a hack away. Jim will teach you how to recover your system's boot-ability as well as how to test and optimize Linux's settings for the best hard drive performance. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Storming the Microsoft Edifice In the battle for open source and open standards on user desktops, applications such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox are stealthily winning small skirmishes. Sam Hiser describes the situation in terms of Monty Python's "Trojan rabbit." [LinuxDevCenter.com]
A Day in the Life of Dave the Dollar In the world of Linux financial software, GnuCash stands out as a powerful but esoteric project. For users who never learned financial bookkeeping (and many who did), double-entry accounting is a difficult subject to master before using the program. As Breckin Loggins explains, though, it's much easier than it first appears. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Temporary-File Race Conditions
Noel Davis looks at a collection of temporary-file race conditions, and problems in Samba, GNU sharutils, JRun, Subversion, imlib, IBM AIX ctstrtcasd, YahooPOPs, and OpenOffice.org.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Devil Whiskey: From Fan-Made to Self-Made The golden age of computer RPGs saw classic 2D, party-based dungeon crawls in series such as Wizardry, Might and Magic, and The Bard's Tale. The recent open-source-friendly Devil Whiskey tries to pay homage to those days and find a way to compensate its developers at the same time. Howard Wen explores a modern classic in the making. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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New Apache
Noel Davis look at problems in Apache 2.x, GNU Radius, libXpm, CUPS, gdk-pixbug, cdrtools, SUS, and Webmin.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Defining the Linux Enterprise Linux users often call into question decisions by major vendors who increase innovation in the enterprise at the expense of the desktop. In this article, Tom Adelstein, coauthor of Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop, defines the market and discusses the business reasons why Linux companies pursue the enterprise market while limiting their initiatives for consumers. Tom also examines possible ways enterprise advances and the community can benefit consumer products. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
The Best Tips from the Great Linux Desktop Migration Contest What's the best way to move an organization to a Linux desktop? Here's a collection of the best tips we received from our Great Linux Desktop Migration contest. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Open Source and Free Documentation Licenses, Part 1: The GNU FDL The same principles that apply to open source licenses also apply to licenses for documentation and works other than software. In part one of a two-part series, Andrew St. Laurent looks at the first of three such licenses, the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL). He reviews the FDL section by section, and concludes with a look at some minor problems and ambiguities in definitions. Andrew is the author of Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. [ONLamp.com]
Improving Linux Driver Installation The availability and quality of hardware support has a huge effect on Linux adoption. With the Linux revolution fully under way, the philosophical underpinnings of the kernel's approach to device handling have come into question. Linus is unlikely to budge. As Jono Bacon explains, this leaves two new projects to bridge some of the gaps between philosophical purity and practical support. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Linux Kernel Exploitation
Noel Davis looks at problems in the Linux kernel, Oracle Database Server, Oracle Application Server, DB2 Universal Database, vpopmail, MIT Kerberos 5, cfengine, CDE libDtHelp, Anonymous CVS, Samba, the zlib library, Courier-IMAP, and Python.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Groklaw: Patent Questions About the CDDL "Because none of us can know our future for sure, and we never know when we'll be hit by a truck or a tsunami or something, I feel I need to explain the hole to you now..." [Source: Linux Today] informIT: Yellow Dog Linux for the Macintosh: Popping the Kernel "In this article, Larry Loeb looks at whether Linux (in general) is for you and whether Yellow Dog Linux (specifically) will do what you want and need..." [Source: Linux Today] LWN: European Software Patent Update "On 24 September 2003, after 19 months of consideration, the European Parliament voted on the software patent directive, and made substantial amendments to exclude patents on pure software and business methods..." [Source: Linux Today] NewsForge: How Beaverton, Ore. is Boosting Budding Open Source Businesses "...[T]he city of Beaverton--about 20 miles west of Portland in the so-called Silicon Forest--is ready to harness the openness backed by prominent local players and produce new ventures focused on open technology..." [Source: Linux Today] iTnews: Wanted: Volunteers to Translate Linux Documentation "Open-source provider Linspire is looking for volunteers to translate Linux applications into 78 different languages..." [Source: Linux Today] ZDNet UK: Novell's Linux Strategy Causes Customers Concern "Users of the networking company's Netware and GroupWise products are concerned about future support..." [Source: Linux Today] Law.com: The Real Price of Linux Software "As litigation between The SCO Group and IBM rages on and with SCO threatening to file suits against Linux users, businesses have become justifiably concerned over their use of open-source software..." [Source: Linux Today] internetnews.com: Looking For Open Source Work? So is Google. "If you've got an understanding of free and open source software licensing, project management skills and experience with Sourceforge.net, Google may be looking for you..." [Source: Linux Today] Builder UK: Microsoft Server Licence 'Shuts Out' Open Source "Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence--imposed on it by the EU--will shut the door on open source software such as Samba, say critics..." [Source: Linux Today] CNET News: MySQL Worm Hits Windows Systems "A worm that takes advantage of administrators' poor password choices has started spreading among database systems..." [Source: Linux Today] Ping Wales: What Is This Linux Thing? "Linux has been a very popular buzzword for the last few years, recently edging out ‘paradigm’ as the buzzword of choice in IT circles..." [Source: Linux Today] Heise Online: Qt 3.3.4 Removes Bugs, Qt 4 to Come Later "The Norwegian software company Trolltech has released a further bugfix update for the 3.3 series of the graphic C++ toolkit Qt..." [Source: Linux Today] |
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