Hacking the Linux Desktop, Part 2  In Part 1 of this two-part excerpt from Linux Desktop Hacks, we offered hacks on controlling desktop access. In this second installment, learn how to view Microsoft Word documents in a terminal and how to create an internet phone.   [LinuxDevCenter.com]

Constructing Services with J2EE  Web services are a popular means of deploying service-oriented applications, and the standards in J2EE 1.4 make it easier to develop services that are portable and interoperable. Debu Panda shows you how, and takes a look at how things will get easier in J2EE 5.0.   [ONJava.com]

Steve Turnidge: Turning Weed into Green  Go behind the scenes with the co-founder of Weedshare.com, the service that pays you--and the original artist--to share music. Driven by ex-Microsoft and Real Networks employees, Weed is totally legal, and even supports surround sound.   [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]

Features
Going Native, Part 3  Ronald Bourret, acknowledged XML database expert, concludes a three-part series that makes the case for native XML databases--this time focusing on schema evolution, web services, and hierarchical data.   [XML.com]

Developing for the Web with Ant, Part 2  In this second installment of a two-part excerpt from Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, Steve Holzner covers the tasks for deploying web apps with get, serverdeploy, and scp.   [ONJava.com]

XML Tourist
Canadian Broadcasting in XML  In this month's XML Tourist, John E. Simpson explores industry regulators' use of XML to exchange information about the Canadian broadcast spectrum.   [XML.com]

Ferreting Out Near-Identical Records in Access  Working with lists of contacts is a common database activity, but as a list grows, so do the chances for duplicate records. Ken Bluttman shows one technique for ferreting out these near-identical records in Access using the InStr function to find when one value in one field is inside the value of the same field in another record. Ken is the author of Access Hacks.   [WindowsDevCenter.com]

A Closer Look at Spotlight  Spotlight integration with Tiger and its apps tilts the scales back toward Safari, Address Book, iCal, and Mail for your core applications. Matthew Russell shows you how this intelligent technology enables you to find just about anything, anywhere, regardless of where you are at that moment.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Some Useful Scripts from Readers  Readers often offer the best advice for nagging problems. In this article, Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, shares reader scripts for remotely enabling Remote Desktop, and controlling a default printer in a roaming profile.   [WindowsDevCenter.com]

E3 2005: War of the Consoles ... Almost  E³ is the world's largest video game trade show, which means a lot of networking and deal brokering. However, E³ is also the first chance for the average gamer to get a sneak peek at the video games in development. In a hardcore gamer's world, the flashy and elaborate E³ exhibits are tantamount to a springtime Christmas morning. Stephen Cawood offers this report on E³ 2005.   [O'Reilly Network]

Building Web Parts, Part 1  Web sites today contain a wealth of information; so much that a poorly designed site can easily overwhelm users. To better help users cope, portal web sites today (such as MSN) often organize their data into discrete units that support a degree of personalization. In this first of three articles, Wei-Meng Lee discusses how to use Web Parts for user customization in your ASP.NET 2.0 web sites.   [ONDotnet.com]

Mapping the 802.11 Protocol  A trip to London and a bit of unique inspiration gave Matt Gast the ideas that would lead to the first draft of a visual map describing the relationship between the various components of the 802.11 standard and related security standards. Matt details the road he took to the final version of his 802.11 protocol map. Matt is the author of 802.11: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition.   [Wireless DevCenter]

An Introduction to Tiger Terminal  Now that you've had a chance to enjoy all of the GUI goodies in Mac OS X 10.4, you might be ready to check out what's happening with the Terminal app. This article will introduces you to Tiger's Terminal app and CLI (command-line interface).   [O'Reilly Network]

Security Alerts
Mozilla and Firefox Flaws  Noel Davis looks at problems in gzip, Mozilla and Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the FreeBSD kernel, Ethereal, TCPDump, libTIFF, Smail, Apache2's htdigest, and SCO UnixWare's chroot.   [LinuxDevCenter.com]

A Simpler Ajax Path  After years of hacks, tricks, and workarounds, there's finally a cross-browser, cross-platform way to communicate between client and server in web applications. Matthew Eernisse demonstrates how to send and receive structured data with XMLHttpRequest and shows off some tricks to make debugging and error handling easier.   [ONLamp.com]

Build a Wireless Gateway with Perl  Tired of programming and want to tackle some system administration? How about using Perl to manage the wireless gateway you've always meant to set up? Alptekin Cakircali shows off his AWLP project, which combines Linux and Perl to make a customizable wireless gateway out of an old PC.   [Perl.com]

OpenBSD 3.7: The Wizard of OS  Has it been six months already? OpenBSD 3.7 is ready to go as you read this. Federico Biancuzzi discusses the release with several core developers, touching on subjects such as Wi-Fi support, improved package tools, and the shipped versions of popular projects including Apache httpd, X.org, and gcc.   [ONLamp.com]

Hacking the Linux Desktop  Modifying stuff to suit individual desire is the credo of hackers everywhere. These two excerpts from Linux Desktop Hacks let you modify Linux to suit your desires: The first hack uses Virtual Network Computer (VNC) to access Windows and Mac OS X from your Linux desktop. The second shows how to lock down KDE with Kiosk mode, allowing you to control exactly what users can and can't change.   [LinuxDevCenter.com]

This Week in Perl 6, May 3, 2005 - May 17, 2005  Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs gaining object support, Parrot 0.2.0 released, and Perl 6 going through a reduction (though not in volume).   [Perl.com]

Wire Hibernate Transactions in Spring  The proper handling of transactions across multiple data stores, supporting multiple application flows, is the kind of heavy lifting J2EE servers were built for. But what if you're using the lighter-weight Spring framework? Binildas C. A. shows how you can wire Spring and Hibernate together to achieve the transaction support you desire.   [ONJava.com]

Review: Olympus DS-2 Stereo Voice Recorder  The world is filled with amazing sounds and ideas. Here's a pocket-size gadget that lets you capture them covertly--in full 44.1kHz digital stereo. It's a thumb drive, too.   [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]

Python and XML
Unicode Secrets  In his latest Python-XML column, Uche Ogbuji delves broadly and deeply into the world of Unicode, especially with regard to processing XML in Python.   [XML.com]

Consumer Camera Time-Lapse Movies  Pocket digicams are great for still photos, and some of them even record quality video. But you can push the envelope even further with these devices, such as by creating time-lapse movies. Here's how two photo novices created their first production.   [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]

Developing for the Web with Ant, Part 1  Developing for the Web is bread and butter for Ant developers. In part one of this two-part excerpt from Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, author Steve Holzner covers the tasks specifically designed for packaging web applications, including war, cab, ear, and jspc. And stay tuned for part two next week, which will cover the tasks for deploying web apps, including get, serverdeploy, and scp.   [ONJava.com]

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