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By Carlie Fairchild 

Find Linux Journal on irc.freenode.net, #linuxjournal. Join us in the room any time for some quick help, support or witty banter. more>>

New Products

By James Gray 

Please send information about releases of Linux-related products to newproducts@linuxjournal.com or New Products c/o Linux Journal, PO Box 980985, Houston, TX 77098. Submissions are edited for length and content.

Wunderlist

By Shawn Powers 

I'm often compared to the Absent-Minded Professor. I take it as a great compliment, because in the movie, he's brilliant. Unfortunately, when people refer to me as him, it's the "absent-minded" part they're stressing—not the "professor" part. more>>

Gnuplot—the Grandfather of Graphing Utilities

By Joey Bernard 

In these columns, I have covered several different scientific packages for doing calculations in many different areas of research. I also have looked at various packages that handle graphical representation of these calculations. But, one package that I've never looked at before is gnuplot (http://www.gnuplot.info). more>>

Plex

Android Candy: Plex

By Shawn Powers 

Anyone with an iPhone probably is familiar with the AirVideo application. Basically, it's the combination of a server app that runs on your Windows or OS X machine, and it serves video over the network to an AirVideo application on your phone. It's extremely popular, and for a good reason—it works amazingly well. more>>

Database Integrity and Web Applications

By Reuven M. Lerner 

Want to improve the integrity of your data? Place constraints in the database, as well as in your application. more>>

Great Feedback!

By Shawn Powers 

The feedback I've gotten on my "Taming the Tablet" column in issue 226 has been amazing. Thanks to everyone who has sent me their tablet setup, their experiences, and their thanks. It makes writing my column feel more like a conversation than a lecture. :)

Shawn Powers at Trade Show

Upcoming Events: February 2013

By Carlie Fairchild 

Linux Journal is a proud media sponsor of several technical events in 2013. Below is a list of summits, conferences and trade shows in the month of February: more>>

N900 with a Slice of Raspberry Pi

By Kyle Rankin 

It may not come as a surprise to anyone who regularly reads my column that I tried to be first in line to order the Raspberry Pi. I mean, what's not to like in a $35, 700MHz, 256MB of RAM computer with HDMI out that runs Linux? In the end, I didn't make the first batch of 10,000, but I wasn't too far behind either. more>>

The Past, Present and Future of GIS: PostGIS 2.0 Is Here!

By Stefano Iacovella 

Extend PostgreSQL's capabilities with PostGIS 2.0 and discover all the magic of spatial databases. more>>

Watson Supercomputer logo

IBM's New SMB Cloud-making Machines

By Shawn Powers 

This week IBM released a bunch of new hardware, including 8 new Power Systems, 3 PureSystems models, and new storage technology. This is good news for small and medium businesses, because it means the same powerful hardware that powers Watson (http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/) is now available at prices designed to compete with commodity hardware from other vendors. more>>

Switching to Chrom(ium)

By Reuven Lerner 

For someone who works with, writes about and teaches cutting-edge technologies, I tend to be a bit of a laggard when adopting new ones. I upgrade my laptop and servers very conservatively. more>>

Introducing Grive

By Mehdi Amin 

Earlier this year, Google introduced its Google Drive cloud storage service. more>>

Native(ish) Netflix!

By Shawn Powers 

The folks over at http://www.iheartubuntu.com recently put up a challenge to the Linux community to get Netflix to work natively under our beloved OS. Thankfully, Erich Hoover stepped up to the challenge and patched the Wine Project in a way to allow Firefox/Silverlight to be installed and actually work with Netflix's DRM'd Silverlight! more>>

Leaving the Land of the Giants

By Doc Searls 

The next revolution will be personal. Just like the last three were. more>>

Android System Administration Utilities

By Jayson Broughton 

“Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant” Benjamin Disraeli 1867. Quite a fitting quote if I say so myself. When I started in systems administration back in the mid 90’s everything was done either remoted in from your desktop, a server, or you plugged a terminal into the back of the server. more>>

February 2013 Issue of Linux Journal: System Administration

By Shawn Powers 
Digital Duct Tape

I've had enough system administration jobs to know that companies tend to take drastically different approaches to how they handle technology. more>>

Scientific Visualization with NCL

By Joey Bernard 

Many of my previous articles have looked at software packages that do scientific calculations and generate scientific results. But, columns of numbers are nearly impossible to make sense of—at least, by regular human beings. So what can you do? The answer is visualization. more>>

New Products

By James Gray 

Please send information about releases of Linux-related products to newproducts@linuxjournal.com or New Products c/o Linux Journal, PO Box 980985, Houston, TX 77098. Submissions are edited for length and content.

Aaron Swartz

Picking Up Aaron Swartz's Dropped Flags

By Doc Searls 

My first quality time with Aaron Swartz was at the last Comdex, in the Fall of 2002. He had just turned 16, but looked about 10. His old Mac laptop featured a screen with no working backlight. Only he could read it, which he rationalized, with a smile, as a "security precaution." When I asked him about school, he said he had moved on. more>>

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