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More on the LQ Radio Audio Improvements

Chatted with Doug Kaye from IT Conversations a little today about the audio quality of LQ Radio.  He had given me a few tips in the past, and I just purchased the same audio processor that he uses for ITC to use for LQ Radio.  I'll be using

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Open Source Venture Fund Unveiled

I mentioned Simula Labs in the latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast, but looking a little closer at the article, this is not exactly what I thought it was at first.  From the article: The business model Simula intends to set up with these planned ventures is very similar to that of

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Michael Dell Comments on Red Hat Investment

Looks like Michael Dell has commented on the Red Hat investment I blogged about a little while back.  From the article: Dell played down the investment, however, saying that while he meets with MSD's management once every couple of months, he is not personally involved in its investment

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James Turner and Dee-Ann LeBlanc Interviewed

Just posted an interview with James Turner and Dee-Ann LeBlanc, who recently stepped down from Sys-Con.  The levels came out much better this time and the content was very good.  We also have a BitTorrent tracker up now, which should help with the bandwidth issues.  I'd like to

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LQ Wiki Upgraded

The LQ Wiki has been upgraded.  Let us know if you notice any problems.  Remember - we are trying  to build the largest free general Linux knowledge base on the web and you can help.  All content is licensed under a creative commons license.  Thanks goes to david_ross once

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KDE + KHTML + Apple + Safari + Webcore - Know the facts!

I blogged about this here and we also discussed it a bit on the first LQ Radio show.  Here is some information that will hopefully clear things up.  Seems my first assertion, that this thing was being blown a bit out of proportion, is indeed true.  Good to see that

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LQ Radio Episode #1 Has Been Posted

I am proud to announce that the inaugural episode of the LQ Radio Show has been posted.  We had to work through a couple of technical issues, but overall I think the show came out quite well.  Thanks to Robin, John and Dave for agreeing to be the first panelists.

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An OpenLDAP Followup

After this post I received some feedback and also noticed this post asking why I though Red Hat was dropping support for OpenLDAP.  From a session I attended at FedoraCON, that was the idea I got.  Looking into it further, it seems this is untrue and that Red Hat will

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Safari vs. KHTML

This seems to be another case of the media playing something up way beyond what it is.  They sure do like a fight, don't they?  Some KDE/KHTML developers recently made comments about how they were unhappy with the way the Apple/KHTML relationship had worked out.  Next

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The Assault on Software Giant Microsoft II

The second part of this article has been posted.  Not as much info as the first piece, but still interesting.  The article outlines six "battles" that Microsoft must face: Sort out security, Get into the living room, Get them young, Go mobile, Serious software and Open source.  They

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Would Microsoft buy Red Hat?

To answer Doc's questions - No, I don't think Microsoft would buy Red Hat.  There are just too many obstacles.  The potential anti-trust issues involved would be one (Microsoft already has a near OS monopoly and then buys the leader in the Linux market?  The deal

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Sys-Con Taking Some Heat - Update

As a follow-up to this story, it looks like Maureen O'Gara will no longer be writing for sys-con.  In addition, old material is being removed from the sites.  Good to see that sys-con came to their senses and kudos to the LinuxWorld editors who chose to take a

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Sys-Con Taking Some Heat

...and deservedly so.  Seems they may even lose a couple of writers, which says a lot since writers for that mag aren't paid.  Why?  It's over Maureen O'Gara, who has recently posted an article about Pamela Jones of Groklaw containing home address, phone numbers

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Michael Dell, $100M and Red Hat

Looks like Michael Dell has pumped $100 Million into Red Hat.  The investment was made by MSD Capital LP in the form of $99.5 million worth of debentures that were converted into 3.89 million shares of RHAT.  Those shares are valued at roughly $43 million (it's

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Microsoft Funded Benchmark - Again

I don't know why these benchmarks keep getting publicity.  Yes, that claims Windows 2003 is easier to admin that RHEL 3 (which is now a full release old). Yes, it was sponsored by Microsoft.  Yes, it's the same company that did the much criticized Samba benchmark.

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Running kernel.org

KernelTrap has an in-depth look at what it takes to run kernel.org.  It's always interesting to get a behind the scenes look at what really goes into running a large site.  H. Peter Anvin, Nathan Laredo, Kees Cook and team do a fantastic job.  Kudos to them

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Interview with Mandriva (ex Mandrake) Linux Founder Gael Duval

Just posted an interview with Gael Duval over at LQ.  Some interesting topics covered IMHO.  Thanks again to Gael - he had the responses to the questions to me in about 24 hours, which is insane as I know he's quite busy. --jeremy

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Microsoft Reaches Out to Open-Source Community II

I've seen some people say that this is just a knee jerk reaction to Microsoft uncharacteristically missing their Wall Street projections.  While it's possible, I'd say it's fairly unlikely.  Microsoft traditionally doesn't do too many things in a knee jerk

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Microsoft Reaches Out to Open-Source Community

It appears that Microsoft is reaching out to the Open Source Community.  While my immediate response was something along the lines of "What are they up to now?", after reading the entire article and thinking about it for a bit - I think they may be genuinely interested.

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BPLUG Presentation II

The BPLUG presentation (mentioned here) went well (at least I think it did).  There were quite a few other presenters and I learned a bit from each of them, which is always good.  If you're in the area I'd recommend you check out the next meeting.

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Open Wallets for Open-Source Software

I mentioned this a while back, but that post focused more on acquisitions.  The trend is continuing and VC is now coming back to the Open Source space.  JBOSS recently got $10 Million and the articles reports that almost $150 Million was raised by Open Source companies in 2004.  Luckily,

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LQ Radio Interview #1 - Tom Adelstein and Sam Hiser

A little overdue, but LQ Radio is finally getting off the ground.  The first LQ Radio show should be available next month and the first LQ Radio interview has been posted.  The interview features Tom Adelstein and Sam Hiser.  We cover a variety of topics and I think the end

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Deception in Texarkana

It's unfortunate to see both the Open Source community and a small town taken advantage of like this.  Kudos to Robin 'roblimo', both for taking the time to do the reporting for that article and for having the patience and fortitude to be able to have

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BLUG Presentation

For any of you who may be in the area, I'll be presenting at the next Buffalo Professional Linux Users Group meeting.  The main topic I'll be covering is MySQL.  If you'll be in or around Buffalo next Thursday, make sure to stop by

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LinuxWorld Canada Keynote - Paul Tsaparis of HP

The second Keynote of the day was from HP Canada CEO Paul Tsaparis.  A large part of the keynote was a "Power of Linux" video, which was basically a testimonial from Dreamworks.  The video has some interesting bits, but was a little too pro vendor IMHO.  The video