13th May '08Today's Top Blog Posts on Linux
1. Review: Hardy Heron converts an Ubuntu skeptic
I have to disclose that I have never been a real fan of Ubuntu. I’ve tried it about every release and had more than my share of issues with it. Ubuntu 8.04 was released last month, and the first reviews mostly spoke of…
2. Modern CPUs are great. They have all sorts of advanced power
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Modern CPUs are great. They have all sorts of advanced power saving features, which is one of those nice cases where everyone can save money, gain performance and claim environmental credentials at the same time.…
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3. Rodrigo B de Oliveira: Towards Extensible Parsing
Almost four years ago the first feature request was entered into the boo issue tracker. There should be a way to extend the parser so it could recognize custom measurement unit literals such as 1kg and 2cm.Since then…
4. How Fresh is the CPAN?
I like numbers. They can mean a lot of things. Rather than continuing silly arguments over obfuscated and flawed measurements of “language popularity”, perhaps a better way of measuring the viability of a language or…
5. Thomas Vander Stichele: Pillow howto
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lazyweb, poll time!When you sleep, how do you use your pillow ?the middle part of the back of your head rests on the lower end of your pillow, your neck floats freely, your shoulder blades rest on the bedthe middle part…
6. John Meinel: This Week In Bazaar First Edition
This is the first in a mostly-every-week series of posts about whats been happening in the development world of the Bazaar distributed version control system. The series is co-authored by John Arbash-Meinel, one of the…
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7. Microsoft Windows now supports.. PAM!
If you are at all familiar with the UNIX or Linux world, you will know about the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) functionality. Essentially, PAM is a highly extensible login framework for authenticating and…
8. Bryan Clark: Searching for a new find
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It’s time to start looking into a new search method for Thunderbird. One of the major changes planned for Thunderbird is a new and improve search, but what does that mean?What do we have?First lets look at what we…
9. Ubuntu 8.04: Upgrade or clean install?
Which path should you follow? Should you take advantage of Ubuntu’s package manager and use it to upgrade your system to the latest 8.04 Hardy Heron release, or should you download a CD or DVD ISO image and do a clean…
10. Rich Burridge: Maker Faire 2008 - Part 4
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Two shots of a steampunk motorcycle and two electric bikes.There was a camera providing a stereoscopic 3D effect, so I took a couple pictures of myself.Grab your anaglyph glasses for best viewing.
11. Richard Hughes: BIOS Update for T61
If you are using a new T61 or T61p please check your bios version. You can do this using:lshal | grep system.firmware.versionIf you are not running 7LETB7WW, then you really need to update your BIOS to…
12. William Pitcock: redhat initrd considered harmful.
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Tried to switch a CentOS domU from the Debian kernel to pyGrub + CentOS kernel today. Here’s what I discovered:the redhat initrd sucksunsurprisingly, the debian initrd will not work with a redhat kernelmodifying the…
13. Thijs Kinkhorst: 16% is not that much
A survey has shown that 16% of youth doesn’t know why we’re celebrating the 5th of May. According to quality news show Editie NL, this is a worrying fact. Well, is it? I find it rather reassuring that appearently 84%…
14. OpenSolaris Arrives just to Die
OpenSolaris, Sun’s open-source take on its Solaris operating system, has finally arrived. Some people, like Jason Perlow at ZDNet think that this is great news and that Sun’s latest operating system will give Linux…
15. Stephan Hermann: Appologies ! But, no…
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First of all, my last article does not please anyone. Appologies for that.But living in a country, and living next to a country where in these days horrible things were happening, I think it’s our duty to help the…
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