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Bash One-Liner Script To Produce Somewhat-Fancy Output Of Who's On Your Linux Or Unix Box
November 21, 2008 (8:00:00 AM) - 1 hour, 51 minutes ago
Today we're going to shoot out a quick one liner script that can come in handy from time to time. It doesn't fall under the "necessary" category (or, maybe not even the "useful" one ;), but it's nice to have for those times when you just don't feel like doing any extra typing or expending the effort required to separate the wheat from the chaff on a screen full of garbage output. That is, as I've always understood, one of the main reasons to script things out in the first place. The other reasons, like automation, efficiency, etc, are pretty much ignored here, even though we will be automating a repetitive action and that, by definition, will make our waste of company time more efficient. No matter how you look at them, automation and efficiency always seem to be a good thing ;)
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Good (Linux) Things on the Horizon
November 21, 2008 (6:00:00 AM) - 3 hours, 51 minutes ago
We seem to be in a particularly good period for Linux at the moment. We've recently gotten the Mandriva 2009.0 and Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex releases, and both of them seem to be very good. There will be a number of new releases coming in the next few weeks, as well:
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Ulteo unveils the first Open Source virtual desktop, providing businesses with quicker, cheaper deployment and easier applications management
November 21, 2008 (4:00:00 AM) - 5 hours, 51 minutes ago
Following its commitment to desktop virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop Infrastructure company, announced today that they were releasing the first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for enterprises. Delivering faster deployment times and ease of management for the IT department, this first release can be integrated easily into an existing professional Linux or Windows IT environment. The solution can be up and running in a few minutes, delivering rich desktop applications to corporate users.
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Bash Cable, Dish and Local TV Listings Script For Linux Or Unix
November 21, 2008 (2:00:00 AM) - 7 hours, 51 minutes ago
I'm beginning to think that this script should be put on my SourceForge page and maintained there. It's not that I mind doing these weekly updates, but I feel like I'm writing the same thing over and over again, where I could be offering you, the reader, more value by producing different scripts in its place. If you have a few seconds, please answer the short poll on the right hand side of the blog. If public opinion wants this project worked out on the blog, then so be it. If you're all getting sick of these updates, I can move this to my SourceForge page, as a project, and produce more original content for our Monday script posts.
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The Individualism of Open Source
November 21, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 9 hours, 51 minutes ago
When most people hear about open source software, they think of charity, altruism, and "free stuff." At a deeper level, however, the open source movement is often highly individualistic.
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"World's smallest humanoid robot" runs Linux
November 20, 2008 (11:00:00 PM) - 10 hours, 51 minutes ago
A popular talking toy robot from Tomy Corp. runs Linux on a PXA-270-based single-board computer (SBC) from Mobisense Systems. The 6.5-inch tall i-Sobot has been dubbed "the smallest humanoid robot in production" by Guinness World Records, says Tomy.
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VIA Publishes 2D/3D Documentation, Partners With OpenChrome
November 20, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 11 hours, 51 minutes ago
Earlier this year VIA announced they wanted to join the open-source bandwagon by establishing an open-source driver development initiative, releasing documentation and source-code, and to better engage with the Linux community at large. They have made a few small steps over the past few months, but today they have made their largest open-source contribution yet by releasing four programming documentation guides that cover the video, 2D, and 3D programming for their Chrome 9 graphics processor. In addition, they are now partnering with the community-spawned OpenChrome developers.
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Planning Extensions in TYPO3
November 20, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 12 hours, 21 minutes ago
In this article we will discuss why planning an extension is important and how to plan an extension. Planning issues related to web development are covered in depth in many specialized books. Here, we will cover planning only with regard to TYPO3 extensions.
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Screencasts on Linux Made Easy
November 20, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 12 hours, 51 minutes ago
Need to create a screencast to demonstrate an application feature or nifty software technique? The easiest way to do this is to install the recordMyDesktop screen recording utility and the gtk-recordMyDesktop graphical front-end to it.
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New Open Source Database Offerings from Ingres and Sun
November 20, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 13 hours, 21 minutes ago
This has been a big week on the open source database front. Yesterday, Ingres launched version 9.2 of its database, which you can download here. And today, Sun Microsystems announced the new version 5.1 of MySQL, with a near-final candidate release downloadable here, and a final version expected on December 6th.
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Passive Checks and NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor)
November 20, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 13 hours, 51 minutes ago
Nagios is a very powerful platform because it is easy to extend. A great feature that Nagios offers is the ability for third-party software or other Nagios instances to report information on the status of services or hosts. This way, Nagios does not need to schedule and run checks by itself, but other applications can report information as it is available to them. This means that your applications can send problem reports directly to Nagios, instead of just logging them. In this way, your applications can benefit from powerful notification systems as well as dependency tracking. In this article we will see how this mechanism can also be used to receive failure notifications from other services or machines—for example, SNMP traps.
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Jackalope Rising: Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 1 As Early As Tomorrow
November 20, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 14 hours, 21 minutes ago
The Ubuntu project says that the initial alpha release of Ubuntu 9.04 (the "Jaunty Jackalope") could be available for testing in less than twenty-four hours. Yes, that's a little less than a month after the current, stable version, "Intrepid Ibex" was finalized and formally released.
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How Low Can Public Open Source Companies Go?
November 20, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 14 hours, 51 minutes ago
While I remain in agreement with many observers who see the economic downturn as potentially very positive for open source, I have to wonder whether we're going to see some of the leadership open source companies swallowed up in all the financial carnage. Red Hat, Novell, and Sun Microsystems are all companies that I'd like to see continue their open source leadership without the meddling of huge corporate parents, but one has to wonder how cheap these companies can get in the public market before their independence is threatened.
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64-Bit Linux Adobe Flash Player: Surprisingly good
November 20, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 15 hours, 21 minutes ago
The first alpha release of the 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 is amazingly stable and fast.
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85% Of The Enterprises Use Open Source? Math Is Right But Needs To Show Work.
November 20, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 15 hours, 51 minutes ago
The Gartner numbers seem positive, and encouraging -- especially in light of the acknowledgement that the remaining 15% are planning to move toward more open source software in the near future. Then Gartner drops the bad news -- cases that Moody says don't end badly (they are usually remedied with a polite phone call) or even happen terribly frequently (12 or so cases a year) -- that 69% of companies have no formal method of evaluating and cataloging their open source applications, leaving them at risk of intellectual property liabilities.
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FashionYourFirefox: Mozilla's (Partial) Effort to Push Extensions
November 20, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 16 hours, 21 minutes ago
In an effort to coax more users to take advantage of the many extensions for its Firefox browser, Mozilla has just launched FashionYourFirefox.com. The site is divided up into categories, which cater to individual interests and "online lifestyles," according to Mozilla's announcement. The site looks like a good idea for extension novices, but I don't see some of my favorite extensions, and some of the categories have a pretty sparse number of extensions.
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Mozilla revenues hit $75 million -
November 20, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 16 hours, 51 minutes ago
Mozilla Chief Wrangler Mitchell Baker today reported Mozilla's financial position which shows 2007 revenues of $75 million up by 12 percent from 2006 revenues of $67 million. Though Mozilla is on the upswing, Baker's report shows some areas of potential future financial concerns.
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Boxee Media Center App Gets $4 Million in Funding
November 20, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 17 hours, 21 minutes ago
A few days ago, in a roundup of open source media center applications, I covered Boxee. It's an open source mashup of a sophisticated media center application that can run and organize videos, photos and more on the Mac, AppleTV, Windows (soon) and Linux, and a social networking application. I mentioned that it's one of the most compelling media center applications I've seen, and it appears I'm not alone. Boxee has announced that it has secured $4 million in first round funding, led by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. Here's why I think Boxee is going to become a household name.
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Ubuntu at the Crossroads of System Logs and Community Feedback
November 20, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 17 hours, 51 minutes ago
Jono Bacon, Ubuntu's community manager, has been hard at work nailing gelatin to the wall. Okay, not literally, but he's putting a lot of thought into how he can best determine the vitality, growth, needs and wants of the Ubuntu community and how they best mesh with, and give back to, the wider Linux and open source communities.
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Laid Off? Top Ways to Find Opportunities in Open Source
November 20, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 18 hours, 21 minutes ago
While it may seem illogical that making free contributions to free products is a good idea when the pink slip pops up, they make some good arguments for how it can improve both job and pay prospects. You'll find some good ways to improve your odds here.
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