Data Manipulation with Sprog
Sprog allows you to solve data manipulation problems by dragging and connecting various gears together to build a “machine.”
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Audio/Visual Synthesis For Linux: The New Art, Part 1
Dave Phillips does a little research into image and sound synthesis for artists.
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An Introduction to Gnome-Inform7 - part 2
Create your own interactive fiction with Gnome Inform 7.
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The Patient as the Platform
Health is personal. Health Care is not. The term is a euphemism for Condition Treatment, and it's not about patients. It's about systems, and most of those are both proprietary and closed.
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HOW-TOs
Validating an IP Address in a Bash Script
June 26th, 2008 by Mitch Frazier in
I've recently written about using bash arrays and bash regular expressions, so here's a more useful example of using them to test IP addresses for validity.
Creating chroot sftp Jails with Jailkit
June 19th, 2008 by Daniel Bartholomew in
One of the things I both love and hate about my job is getting assigned new projects. They can be about anything and everything. A few months back I was given an assignment to create some chroot jails for a group of customers so that they could securely upload files with sftp. The requirement was that the customers needed to be able to upload file, but in a secure and private way.
Bash Arrays
June 19th, 2008 by Mitch Frazier in
If you're used to a "standard" *NIX shell you may not be familiar with bash's array feature. Although not as powerful as similar constructs in the P languages (Perl, Python, and PHP) and others, they are often quite useful.
Product Review
OpenOffice.org Template Collections
June 9th, 2008 by Bruce Byfield in
Stubbornly, OpenOffice.org continues to ship with only a handful of templates. Despite the efforts of several sub-projects and individuals to change the situation, the standard OpenOffice.org download includes only a couple of slide show presentations and a few templates to accompany the wizards available in the file menu. This lack of templates is a serious handicap for many users, and often leaves a poor impression on new users who are accustomed to the selection of templates found in other office suites.
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Linux Product Insider: IronKey Secure Flash Drives
July 1st, 2008 by James Gray in
This "Linux Product Insider" features IronKey Secure Flash Drives, Jedox's Palo spreadsheet server, Tony Mullen's new Blender book, Hyperic's CloudStatus, Syuzi Pakhchyan's Fashioning Technology and Joel Spolsky's More Joel on Sofware.
Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel [Video]
June 27th, 2008 by LJ Staff in
Google Tech Talks brings us this presentation describing the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change.
Linux Product Insider: CrossOver Linux 7.0
June 23rd, 2008 by James Gray in
This "Linux Product Insider" features CrossOver Linux 7.0, Skype 4.0 beta, Scoofers Search Engine, BakBone Software's NetVault, MEN Micro's DC1 Rugged Display Computer and PostPath Server HA Edition v2.
Breaking News
| ISO Sets PDF as Default | 2 days 19 hours ago |
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| Barracuda Bites Back | 2 days 23 hours ago |
| Netgear Routes Open Source to the Router | 3 days 19 hours ago |
Blogs and Opinion
What happens after TV's mainframe era ends next February?
July 5th, 2008 by Doc Searls
Remember television? For most of its history, TV wasn't cable, satellite or YouTube. It was radio with low-res moving pictures.
Nicaragua Libre
July 5th, 2008 by Phil Hughes
They forgot to tell me but somewhere in my neighborhood Ubuntu Linux has moved in. With the number of seats they are talking about it is not "just a little town". Ok, I followed the link to his previous post and the town is Jalapa.
Time to school the FCC on what "free" really means
July 2nd, 2008 by Doc Searls
It's time to get ornery again with the FCC. Fortunately, they're asking for it, by soliciting comment on this FCC rulemaking proposal for "Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 1915-1920 MHz, 1995-2000 MHz, 2020-2025 MHz and 2175-2180 MHz Bands.
It's a chocolate-covered spider.
The Dawn of a Post-Gates, Post-Microsoft World
June 27th, 2008 by James Gray
The depth of Microsoft loathing among our clan is perhaps only second to our penguin loving. This loathing makes sense, given that Linux and open-source people are so fiercely merit driven, and great products have failed to end Microsoft's hegemony. But times they are a changin', for a post-Gates, post-Microsoft age has already begun.
Call For Articles - HPC (High Performance Computing)
June 27th, 2008 by Mitch Frazier
Does a system with dual Quad Core processors, 128GB of RAM, and a Tera-Byte RAID array seem pretty tame to you? Does writing a program with a dozen threads seem about as complex as an abacus to you? Does a database with a million records seem like something you'd put on a USB memory stick? Do you know who John Backus was? Are you cleared for ridiculous by the US Government?
Sherman Crank Up The WayBack Machine
June 27th, 2008 by Mitch Frazier
If you don't get the title, you're probably too young to get the rest of this. If you don't know who John Backus was or what his contribution to computer science was then you're also, probably, too young.
How Can We Harness the Firefox Effect?
June 26th, 2008 by Glyn Moody
Three things are striking about the recent launch of Firefox 3. First, the unanimity about the quality of the code: practically everyone thinks it's better in practically every respect. Secondly, the way in which the mainstream media covered its launch: it was treated as a normal, important tech story – gone are the days of supercilious anecdotes about those wacky, sandal-wearing free software anoraks. And finally – and perhaps most importantly - the scale and intensity of participation by the millions of people who have downloaded the software in the last week.
But the question has to be: what now? How can we harness that amazing spirit, to make the Firefox Effect permanent, not just a media event that comes around once every few years?
Nokia N800 for Geeks
June 24th, 2008 by Phil Hughes
Yeah, I know, the N810 is the "modern" system and, well, the N800 is too "consumer" for us geeks. Well, hype aside, I am seriously impressed with the N800. Here's why.
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From the Magazine
July 2008, #171
Heard of the Web? If not, read on. This month we talk with Matt Mullenweg about WordPress. If you want to get your hands dirty in Web code, take a look at the rest of our feature articles on WebKit, Dojo and OpenLaszlo.
In the rest of the issue, you'll find articles on OpenID, RDFa and Quanta Plus.
Kyle Rankin puts a new spin (as in "no" spin SSD) on hard drives and
also tells you how to migrate to that new disk (spinning or not).
Mick Bauer continues his series on customizing live CD's.
And, James Gray gives us a feel for the state of Linux in the enterprise.
After all that, you may need some TV time. If so, check out our review
on how to make that digital TV tuner card work in your Linux box.
