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AbiWord Weekly News

Author: JT Smith

Abisource: “Still moving towards 0.9.0. Even though we didn’t see as much action this week as I had hoped, there were fixed quite a few bugs, some
features were polished, and Patrick Lam revealed he’s brewing on endnotes which may just get ready in time for 1.0.”

Category:

  • Open Source

PHP for designers

Author: JT Smith

pkej writes: “On developer.ez.noSteven A. Shaw has written a short tutorial for web masters who wants to learn minimal PHP to do simple customization of their eZ publish sites.”

People behind KDE: Martin Jones

Author: JT Smith

The Dot: “The moment has come for the last two interviews Tink has prepared for us before the great
summer break. The first interview features the KDE veteran Martin Jones, whose brain
children wander daily on the screens of our KDE boxes, in the form of screensavers. You
might also be enjoying his adorable little toy dubbed AMOR. Martin also speaks to us about his family and
his passion for Qt/Embedded. Enjoy!”

Category:

  • Open Source

A readonly filesystem on bootable CD

Author: JT Smith

LinuxSecurity: “Previous work to make a read-only mounting of root and /usr on a normal hard disk was working for Sparc and i386 in October 2000. With upgrades to
-current every now and then, I noticed that with my changes to tcpdump, /etc files, cg3 and cg6 drivers, dhclient-script, miscellaneous others — let alone the
*/conf/ files to hard-wire device numbers to disk and tape drives, that it was nearly impossible to keep up with the development changes.”

Category:

  • Linux

Real-time MP3 recording

Author: JT Smith

LinuxFocus: “This articles shows how to record music with Linux. In contradiction to the LinuxFocus tip of January 2001,
not the ‘expensive’ WAV-format is used. Instead, the much smaller mp3-format is directly recorded. 24
hour recordings in CD-quality become reality when using this format.”

Microsoft to shut down free e-mail newsletter service

Author: JT Smith

Salon: “Microsoft Corp. will shut down the free e-mail
newsletter service ListBot as it pushes to attract users to its paid
service.

In an e-mail sent to users Thursday evening, the Redmond-based
software giant, which bought ListBot as part of its a larger
acquisition in 1998, said the service would be shut down in August.”

Web security: Apache and mod_ssl

Author: JT Smith

Daemonnews: “As we covered in our last article, SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security) are the protocols used to add encryption and authentication to TCP/IP
and HTTP. Now comes the next step, adding SSL/TLS to an installed web server to take advantage of SSL/TLS. In this article we’ll cover the most popular open
source method; Adding mod_ssl to Apache.”

Category:

  • Linux

E-music services sing different tunes

Author: JT Smith

MSNBC: “The upcoming launch of the two virtual jukeboxes,
MusicNet and pressplay, by the major record labels is
undoubtedly a big deal for the music industry as it inches toward
digital distribution of songs. Yet few are expecting either one to
be an overnight success.”

Singing in the web… with Opera 5.0 for Linux

Author: JT Smith

LinuxFocus: “In a previous article, I said the Opera web browser hasn’t convinced me yet. The new 5.0 version for Linux
being an improvement, I changed my mind a bit. Here is a small review of one of the lightest web browser
available for Linux. You can get a free copy of Opera 5.0 from http://www.opera.com.”

Category:

  • Linux

Debian on the Dell Inspiron 4000

Author: JT Smith

DebianPlanet: “I received a very nice Dell Inspiron laptop for my 16th birthday, yep thats how old I
am.(I’ve been using Linux for about three years down and Debian GNU/Linux for
about one and a-half. This article describes the steps needed to get Debian
GNU/Linux working on such a system. I deliberately chose this particular notebook
system as there were many positive reports at linux-laptop.net. Most importantly a
large amount of the hardware on the system works within GNU/Linux.”

Category:

  • Linux