Linux Gazette

News Bytes

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Howard Dyckoff
Contents:
News in General
Google's Honeycomb may influence Android 2.4
Intel Goes MeeGo
The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
IBM's Watson, DeepBlueQA, Wins on Jeopardy!
Conferences and Events
Software and Product News
Gemalto Launches One Time Password Application for Mobile Users

Henry's Techno-Musings: "The Wit and Wisdom of Chairman John"

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Henry Grebler

"... we'll have 4 weeks to move, beginning early October. We need to get as much gear racked by then as possible, so it can be switched off, the whole rack wheeled to the new server room, plugged in and switched on."

HAL: Part 2 My Favourite Aliases

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Henry Grebler

I began this series with HAL: Part 1 Preliminaries. I plan to discuss scripts and functions in other articles.

Book Review: Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Ben Okopnik

First things first: this book is not about Linux. What it is about, however, is the thing that for me is indistinguishable from Linux: a spirit of exploration, of curiosity, of getting your hands into an interesting, fascinatingly-complicated Thing and making it work - even if you have to assemble it piece by piece. This book is a terrific catalyst for igniting the imagination - and not only in kids, but in any adult with even a bit of curiosity.

The reason why I have switched to zsh - Part 2

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Anderson Silva and Matt Woodson

Last month, Matt and I decided to share with you why zsh is worth a try. Matt shared his .zshrc in the article, and we started to walk you through a few of the ‘goodies’ available under zsh. We concluded the first part of this zsh series by promising you we would tackle a few more zsh features this month. Well, here they are:

Playing around with IPv6 on Linux and Freenet6

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Anderson Silva

Earlier this month, ICANN announced that it had assigned the last remaining blocks of IPv4 available under its control. Essentially, this means that for regions without free addresses, it will no longer be possible to get new devices to directly connect to the Internet.

HelpDex

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Shane Collinge

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XKCD

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Randall Munroe

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More XKCD cartoons can be found here.

Doomed to Obscurity

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Pete Trbovich

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The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:37:49 -0500

By Ben Okopnik
"Measure Seven Times, Cut Once"
*Snap*, and Your Data is Gone
NOT an Apocryphal Story