| Google Threatens to Close China Operations
January 13, 2010 at 8:51 AM
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| | Internetnews: "Citing security concerns and a lack of free speech, Google's chief counsel today made a stunning announcement that the company may cease operations entirely in China if it can't work out an agreement with the government there to operate an unfiltered site." 
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| Open source game console --- build your own games
January 13, 2010 at 6:32 AM
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| | Shanzai: "Based on Linux, the GP2X Wiz (nice name!) is a completely open multi-functional handheld entertainment device. The makers, GamePark Holding from Korea, say it’s different than other shanzhai video game consoles in that it uses a completely “open source” approach." 
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| Securely Encrypt Removable Media with Ubuntu
January 13, 2010 at 6:02 AM
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| | Packt: "In this tutorial by Christer Edwards, we will look at steps toward encrypting removable media such as USB thumb drives for secure management of personal data. This tutorial will walk the reader through seven steps required toward identifying, formatting and encrypting a removable disk for use as a secure partition" 
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| Using NVIDIA's VDPAU On Mobile Platforms
January 13, 2010 at 5:32 AM
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| | Phoronix: "We know that NVIDIA's Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) works very well for exposing PureVideo capabilities on Linux. We have benchmarked VDPAU and found it to perform very well in that under Linux it's possible to play HD videos with a $20 CPU and $30 GPU thanks to this video acceleration method." 
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| The C Programming Language
January 13, 2010 at 5:02 AM
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| | Bob Hobbs: "But at last I am going to defy the ban on speech about this thing. It was I who fled frantically out of C Recursion in the early morning hours of July 16, 1927, and whose frightened appeals for action brought on the whole reported episode." 
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| Apache mulls end of 1.3, 2.0 releases
January 13, 2010 at 4:32 AM
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| | TechWorld: "The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) may stop releasing new versions of the older 1.3 and 2.0 series of its flagship Web server product with most development now focused on the 2.2 series" 
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| Unreasonable Security Practices That Will Soon Be Even More Irrelevant
January 13, 2010 at 4:02 AM
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| | Enterprise IT Planet: "Layered defense is not reasonable. Go to any security site and you will read paper after paper about layered defense and how it's a great approach. I agree with the theory in the academic sense. It's harder to break into a vault that has four locks rather than one. But in reality, what if those four locks are made out of paper? " 
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| usb-creator: Booting From a USB Stick
January 13, 2010 at 3:32 AM
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| | Tip of the Trade: "Being able to boot from a USB stick can be very useful � whether to install a new distribution on a netbook, or to have your own portable distribution to carry round with you. Unfortunately, you can't just write an ISO file to a USB stick and have it be bootable, as you can with a CD or DAVE." 
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| Java vs. C++: The Performance Showdown
January 13, 2010 at 3:02 AM
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| | Gamelan.com: "Since the early days of the Java programming language, some have argued that Java's being an interpreted language has made it inferior to the likes of C and C++ in terms of performance." 
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| Linux's Future: Observations by a Linux user
January 13, 2010 at 2:32 AM
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| | Neowin: "Having been inspired by the Neowin original two-part article, "Microsoft's Future" by Max Majewski (part one and part two), I decided that a look at where Linux stands now, and what the future may hold for it." 
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| Another day, another SUSE/Moblin Linux netbook
January 13, 2010 at 2:02 AM
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| | Cyber Cynic: "As several people at the show reported, the one sample netbook that Samsung was showing still had a Windows key emblazoned on its keyboard. Whoops!" 
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| 6 of the Best Free Linux Desktop Search Engines
January 13, 2010 at 1:32 AM
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| | LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 6 desktop search engines at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of the software in action, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews." 
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| An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes
January 13, 2010 at 1:02 AM
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| | Developer.com: "Put on your favorite self-pitying emo music and get ready for some developer frustration. I'm running down the top 10 things I love to hate about Android." 
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| Mozilla tries to silence add-on developers' scream
January 13, 2010 at 12:47 AM
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| | The Register: "Mozilla has been forced to justify its decision to herd third party coders, whose add-ons sometimes break the Firefox user interface, away form the browser's components directory." 
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| Manage your business documents with Kraft
January 13, 2010 at 12:32 AM
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| | Ghacks: "Kraft is a software designed to help you write and manage the documents you use to run your business. It works with a MySQL backend, is designed for the KDE desktop (but will run in GNOME once all dependencies are met), and can even handle some calculations for you." 
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| Fedora 12 -- A 'Must Upgrade' and 'Strongly Consider' Distro
January 13, 2010 at 12:02 AM
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| | LinuxPlanet: "Fedora 12 is a great Linux distribution with an impeccable pedigree. While it might not be the best distribution to throw at a total newbie, it is technically solid and stable. Paul Ferrill reviews the latest Fedora release." 
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| Using Linux Text-Stream Filters ‘�� A Real-life Example
January 12, 2010 at 11:32 PM
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| | Begin Linux: "For me, the hardest part about teaching the LPI 101 course is teaching about text-stream filters. It's not that they're difficult to understand. It's just that showing the examples of how they work is easy, but showing examples of how they can be used in real life is a bit more challenging." 
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| USB 3.0: freakishly fast - maybe
January 12, 2010 at 10:32 PM
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| | Storage Bits: "You'll be hearing a lot about USB 3.0 this year. And well you should, because its potential is vast. But will system vendors step up to the plate to deliver all of USB 3's goodness?" 
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| Aruba Gets Into Wired Network Management
January 12, 2010 at 8:32 PM
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| | InternetNews: "When it comes to managing an enterprise network, should it matter whether a user is wired or wireless? For Aruba Networks, the answer is no." 
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| California blesses open source as 'acceptable'
January 12, 2010 at 7:02 PM
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| | The Open Road: "According to a policy letter (PDF) issued last week by California CIO Teri Takai, "the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in California state government [has now been formally established] as an acceptable practice."" 
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| iPhone Tethering on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
January 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM
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| | Ubuntugeek: "If you’re like me you have an iPhone and a portable computer running Ubuntu and you would like to have mobile internet without paying for an extra data plan from your carrier. Thanks to a few devoted individuals tethering the iPhone to Ubuntu is simple." 
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| Linux Can Do That
January 12, 2010 at 2:02 PM
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| | TechRepublic: "The clients we work with represent the majority of the real world. These are mom and pops to small businesses who’d rather spend their dollars on things OTHER than IT." 
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