Because of the recent power problems in California, many are turning to Solar Power to reduce the problems caused by power grid fluctuations, and to make money selling power back to Californian Utilities.

Freshmeat’s Nathan Hurst explains what goes into the decision-making process at this Open Source software repository. If you don’t do any coding, you may not know that many scripts and applications are rejected… and you may not have heard of ‘troll software.’

In an AskSlashdot posted today, the question of contacting responsible administrators of large Internet companies comes up. This can be a very important question to be addressed, especially if you’ve recently been attacked by a user of the service.

“REDSonic announces its presence at the Linux World Conference & Expo, New York, which is one of the most exciting and largest events for developers and users of the Linux Operating System.” You can read more on LinuxPR.

Slashdot is reporting on a German firm which will buy back OEM licences from you. This can be a great benefit, since one of the parts of the OEM Windows licence agreement stipulates that you cannot resell the licence.

John Gowin writes, “As long as I have been using Linux, I haven’t been able to find many HTML editors. In fact most of the hardcore Linux users that I know open up vi or emacs and start writing their code. For myself, memorizing HTML tags and writing them totally by hand is a little bit too intense. On the other hand, I’ve used some ‘WYSIWYG’ editors that have lots of bells and whistles and work great, but they also like to code their way, which isn’t always the way I want. That was the quandary I found myself in, until I stumbled upon Bluefish.
Bluefish is a remarkable HTML editor for GNU/Linux that allows pages to be created quickly and easily, and always gives the user access to the code directly. It requires GTK 1.2.x and the lmlib library. The latest release of Bluefish is version 0.6 and includes some great features.”
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Linuxworld invites you to design the LSB logo. “The winner will be announced on LinuxWorld.com and will become eligible for an award given at the August LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. Best of all, this logo will appear on every Linux product box that conforms to the LSB standard.“

Mayank writes “Eric Raymond, author of the popular Fetchmail utility, is one of the most dedicated Open Source advocates. In this book he looks at the development model of Linux, which overturned many of his pre-determined notions of how large and important software development projects should be handled. He compares the “cathedral” model of development followed by most of the commercial world with the “bazaar” model as followed by Linux developers. Also find some good insights into the future of software development in this book. Yes, this is probably the 1000th review of ESR’s “movement manifesto” (which came out in 1999), and yes, the review was obviously written in Word or another Microsoft-type word processor, but the book itself is still good, and if you are just learning about Open Source you should read it. Review at FreeOS.com.

ZDNet reports that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed new legal briefings in the US, claiming that DeCSS code, which allows the playing of DVDs under Linux, does, in fact, have legal uses. The MPAA filed suit against 2600 magazine, among others, for posting the DeCSS code. They won in court on the grounds that it was a violation of copyright law.

Linux World suggests that Linux may not be ready to dominate the desktop until USB manufacturers ship Linux drivers with their hardware.