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Tutorial: Automating your Android Phone with SL4A

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:07:55 GMT

Back in Part 1 we learned how flexible and script-able Android is, and installed the SL4A scripting layer. Today Paul Ferrill teaches more about how to write custom Android scripts.

Ibm X-Force backs-off Google as major patch offender

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:44:20 GMT

September 2, 2010, 10:07 AM - Network World - IBM has overhauled its list of worst security patchers among software vendors, putting Microsoft at the top of its list and shifting Sun from No.

No Steam for Linux - Right Now

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:18:06 GMT

Despite some early teasing, it now seems Steam is not coming to Linux after all - at least for now. more>>

Open Source Insider: Is 2010 the year that "Desktop Linux" finally evolved?

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:39:21 GMT

Adrian Bridgwater blogs on open source in the enterprise. Some commentators have postulated the theory that 2010 really is the year that desktop Linux has come out of the shadows and started to fully evolve.

Samsung's Galaxy Whirls Into the Tablet Universe

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:55:04 GMT

Samsung has unveiled its much-discussed Galaxy Tab Android-powered tablet at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany. The device runs Android 2.2, has a seven-inch display, and focuses on connectivity and entertainment. It also enables video conferencing and can be used as a mobile phone.

SUSE Linux Enterprise for VMware

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:29:00 GMT

VMware and Novell have announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware, building on the companies' expanded partnership announced earlier in June of this year...

Qt and Layouts

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:21:47 GMT

When I first started with graphics - I plotted pixels onto the screen by calculating a memory address and then poking the corresponding value. Times have changed since then. more>>

Using a Bamboo Tablet with Ubuntu 10.04

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Are you a budding artist? Or are you already a professional graphic artist looking to expand the hardware you have to use? And are you hoping to shed the last remnants of either the Windows or Mac operating system? If any of these are true you might be looking at one of the many drawing tablets that can be connected, via USB, to your laptop or PC. These tablets make for a far superior graphic experience, giving the artist much more control over the cursor than with a standard mouse. Unfortunately tablets can quickly become a hurdle for Linux users. In some cases the installation is a snap; just plug in the tablet, install a simple application, and go. In other cases, the process can be a real nightmare.

Tutorial: Best Practices with sudo on Linux

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo.

The People Who Support Linux: At Work and at Home

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Chase Crum is a U.S. Army veteran, a Shriner, an IT infrastructure manager, and a member of The Linux Foundation. This certainly does not capture all that defines Chase, but it begins to illustrate where he derives his ideas about Linux, community and giving back. Chase also represents a growing majority of systems administrators and IT managers who are using Linux both at work and at home.

WebOS 2.0 Pushed to Developers

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:00 GMT

The latest version of Palm's mobile OS comes with a host of application development features.

Who Contributed The Most During X Server 1.9?

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Two years ago we compiled a list of the top contributors to the X Server over the years and that was followed by compiling a similar list of the developers behind Mesa. Tiago Vignatti has now compiled some statistics surrounding the top contributors to X.Org Server 1.9 and related X...

Sony's Shocking 'Other OS' Win and Suspect Distro Popularity Trends

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Despite the best hopes of many of us in the community, the man suing Sony over the removal of the "other OS" feature from its PS3 has apparently lost his case. The bad news is that the man won't get the money he had requested to compensate for an upgrade to his newly crippled PS3; the good news is that he reportedly wasn't forced to pay Sony's legal bill to boot.

MokaFive outs bare-metal PC hypervisor

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:33:14 GMT

Disappointed with the ridiculously skinny PC coverage offered by the XenClient bare-metal hypervisor just announced by Citrix Systems? Annoyed that VMware took its Client Virtualization Platform, also a so-called type 1 hypervisor for PCs, out behind the barn and gave it the Old Yeller ? Then MokaFive is cooking up something you might find useful.

Dell Studio 1747 Laptop: One Fatal Flaw Away from Linux Perfection

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:54:11 GMT

Dell's 17-inch Studio 1747 laptop is a beefy desktop replacement that ships with Windows 7. But how does it fare with Linux instead? A few days hands-on with the laptop shows that the machine is almost perfect, save for one fatal flaw.

ApacheCon NA 2010 registration opens

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:00:00 GMT

The Apache Software Foundation has announced that registration is now open for this year's ApacheCon North America conference taking place from the 1st to the 5th of November in Atlanta, Georgia...

You can make money with open source. Literally.

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:00:00 GMT

This is an old story--two years old, to be specific. But it was new to me when I heard it at LinuxCon, and it was new to a lot of others in the room too. And it was a great story, so I wanted to share it further. In 2008,...

Language agnostic web server Mongrel2 1.0 released

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:43:00 GMT

Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages...

Linux Server Monitoring with Bijk

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:28:45 GMT

How you can monitor your server and performs usage? With Bijk you get online 30 graphs about Load, CPU, memory, traffic, Apache, PostreSQL and others with Alerts.

VMware and Novell Deliver SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:18:52 GMT

The solution is designed to reduce IT complexity and accelerate the customer evolution to a fully virtualized datacenter.

HP netbooks get dual-core Atoms

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:09:55 GMT

HP has revamped two of its 10.1-inch netbooks to include Intel's recently announced, dual-core Atom N550 processor, along with optional Broadcom video accelerator chips.

Ohio LinuxFest Registration and Contest Deadline Extended

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:09:13 GMT

If you don't have an account yet, visit the registration page to sign up. If you already have an account, you may login here: Today's Big Story 27 good reasons to love Linux This week at LWN A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle Have something to say? LXer is read by around [who knows how many?] individuals each month, and is an excellent place ...

Tab tweaks land in Chrome Canary

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:47:04 GMT

Google adds a new labs feature to its bleeding-edge version of Chrome to make it easier for users to test features that are still in development, but at least partially ready for users to explore.

Tweak IE v1.0

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:11:33 GMT

Information Technology aid for Windows, Linux, and OS X users, solid SysAdmin advice, troubleshooting links, job assistance, and more for technology pros.

Using Spell Checking in Vim

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:22:17 GMT

Mark Twain has been quoted as saying that he respected a person who could spell a word more than one way. Unfortunately, Twain's enthusiasm for creative spelling isn't widely shared today, at least in the professional world. If you need a little help in the spelling department, but prefer the old school way of editing text, you can turn to Vim's spelling support.

As Predicted, OpenSolaris Board Disbands

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:18:35 GMT

When the OpenSolaris Governing Board issued their ultimatum to Oracle on July 12, few thought it would have the desired effect of saving OpenSolaris. The board sent a message that if Oracle didn't start to show some interest in OpenSolaris by August 23, they would disband and leave OpenSolaris without leadership and guidance. more>>

Burning Man: Ten Years of Communications Innovation

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:01:53 GMT

The OpenBTS-based cellular network at Burning Man has the power to change the world, says Network World .

Torvalds Causes Mob Scene at LinuxCon Brazil

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:57:10 GMT

"The Linux Foundation today kicked off its two-day debut of LinuxCon Brazil. Attendees got a rare opportunity to see both Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton on stage, together, and in person.

Unigine Announces Its OilRush Game For Linux

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:50:36 GMT

Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August,...

IBM ships 5.2GHz chip, its fastest yet

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:48:22 GMT

A chip in IBM's new zEnterprise System clocks in at 5.2GHz. The fastest IBM microprocessor to date is targeted at mainframes. It packs in four cores, plus a respectable helping of DRAM.

This was the year of desktop Linux

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:52:33 GMT

It's the compatibility between Chromium and Android, based on Linux, which I think gives the old mouse-and-keyboard upright posture desktop Linux yet-another chance.

Dual Boot openSUSE USB Stick Installer

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:56:33 GMT

In the latest round of upgrades and new installs of openSUSE around here I decided to take a different approach and use the network install and install from a USB stick rather than a DVD. While I was at it I decided that I'd try to make a dual boot installer that would allow me to install either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the latest openSUSE (version 11.3) from the same USB stick. more>>

'Patently Absurd' Lawsuits Proliferate Among Web Firms

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:47:45 GMT

Seven years ago, Eolas Technologies won a patent lawsuit against Microsoft Corp.

Cloud Computing Calms Open Source Warfare

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Cloud computing, technology delivered over the Internet, has become a hot area in the last few years. The technology marketplace moves at breakneck speeds, but it is still shocking when innovation almost completely wipes out squabbles like those over open source vs. proprietary software.

2 Smart Backup Apps Show You the Way to Go Home

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT

In my dumber days when I ran Microsoft Windows, I was more concerned with backup programs. After I moved into the Linux desktop, I became much less paranoid about system failures. The Linux environment just never crashed. That does not mean that I never make backup copies of my critical data files.

Archos releases five budget Android tablets

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:57:00 GMT

French vendor Archos is set on Android: At the IFA consumer electronics fair, the company presents a total of five mobile devices with Google's operating system - from a pocket model up to a 10.1-inch tablet PC...

Eight great virtual appliances for VMware, free for the downloading

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:09:00 GMT

The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances you'll find...

PostgreSQL 9.0's first release candidate arrives

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:06:00 GMT

The PostgreSQL developers have issued a first release candidate for version 9.0 of their open source database, integrating replication using "Hot Standby" and "Streaming Replication"...

2010 Linux Graphics Survey

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:53:54 GMT

For the past three years we have hosted an annual Linux Graphics Survey in which we ask tens of thousands of users each time their video card preferences, driver information, and other questions about their view of the Linux graphics stack. This year we are hosting the survey once again...

Huge spamming botnet injured but still alive

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:48:19 GMT

A botnet responsible for a significant amount of spam has been crippled but may reconstitute itself in a matter of weeks, according to vendor M86 Security.

Mesa 7.9 Planned For Release In September

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:42:50 GMT

Mesa 7.9 has shaped up to be one hell of a release with many new features and improvements throughout this open-source graphics software stack. For those that have been waiting for this to be officially released, there's good news and that is Mesa 7.9 should be released by the end...

KDE SC 4.5.1 released with various bug fixes

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:32:00 GMT

The KDE Project has released version 4.5.1 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), the first point update to the latest major release of the popular Linux and Unix desktop...

GitHub launches "Pull Requests 2.0"

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:32:00 GMT

New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub's hosted service...

Motorola Defy: Android 2.1 goes rugged with water, dust and scratch resistance

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Remeber the Motorola i1? Moto has just added its second rugged(ish) Android handset in the 3.7-inch Defy. It's dust-, scratch-, impact-, and water-resistant. It matches up to the IP67 durability spec and is expected in Europe in Q4 2010.Motorola Defy: Android 2.1 goes rugged with water, dust and scratch resistance...

Version 4 of Plone CMS released

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:22:00 GMT

The developers have released the final new version of the Python and Zope-based CMS. Among the advancements of Plone 4 are a new theme and an improved user and group management feature.

Open Standard, Insert Foot

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:38:24 GMT

Apple makes everyone's heads spin in confusion today. Jason Perlow Biography Jason Perlow Jason Perlow is a technologist with over two decades of experience with integrating large heterogeneous multi-vendor computing environments in Fortune 500 companies.