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LinuxQuestions.org is a Sponsor of the Upcoming OSBC

As I announced first on the LQ Podcast, LQ is a sponsor of the upcoming OSBC.  The Open Source Business Conference is brought to you by IDG, which also puts on the LinuxWorld Expo.  The OSBC is in San Fransisco on Fed 14-15.  I haven't bought my plane

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What do the HoTMaiL Admins Think of the Windows Gui?

From this article: BF: Are there scaling reasons to think about the benefits of a command line for managing over a GUI, or are there other things to think about? PS: Our operations group never wants to rely on any sort of user interface. Everything has to be scriptable and

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First Draft of GPL Version 3 Released

The first draft of the GPL V3 was released earlier today.  I found this HTML diff of v2 vs. v3 useful for quickly seeing what has changed.  I am not a lawyer, and the GPL sure does contain a lot of legalese.  Of course, as a legal document that hopes

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An Answer from the Blogosphere

Gotta love the blogosphere.  I asked a question about full referrer info in Google Analytics a while back, and just noticed that someone linked back to my post with an answer  ...Or almost an answer that is.  While that is much closer than I was able to get on my

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Use of Linux at NASA

A different perspective on Linux use, from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.  Contrary to what you'll see almost anywhere else, they use and love Linux on the Desktop, but don't consider it viable for the server.  From the article: "Our personal

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Sun and Apple Almost Merged Three Times

So says the legendary Bill Joy in this Register article.  There are some definite similarities between the companies.  Both produce higher cost, slick products (note that for Apple slick means styling and for Sun slick means something different).  Both are California based companies with a focus on UNIX-related technologies.  Apple

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While on the Topic of Google

While on the topic of Google, I ran across this interesting read from Jason about his predictions for Google for 2006.  He was lucky enough to be backstage after the recent Google keynote at CES.  He foresees a calendar (which I think most people do) and an office suite, but

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Google Pack Released

Contrary to many of the rumors that were swirling, Google did not announce a cheap PC at CES.  What they did announce was the Google Pack.  Am I the only one this doesn't make sense to?  Let's put aside the "Google Pack is only available

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Linux/Unix Vulnerabilities Outnumber Microsoft Windows' 3 To 1

Or do they?  This is a fantastic example of numbers not meaning anything if you're just throwing something against the wall.  Actually, these numbers are less than useless, they're just plain silly.  The original stats are from the US-CERT site, but that fantastic headline came from

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You Never Forget Your First Web Server

A great post from Jeremy Zawodny about the first public web server he had.  I remember mine quite well also.  It was a dual PentiumPro 180 with a PR440FX Intel board and would become the first machine to run LQ.  I think I had the server online in 1999, although

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Dell vs. Microsoft II

A sort of follow up to this post.  It looks like Dell is standing strong in its decision to back Blue-ray (which it had a hand in creating) despite Microsoft pressure and incentives to back HD-DVD.  The Dell/Microsoft partnership definitely is not what it was just a few years

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BusinessWeek Looks at How Open Source Did in 2005

Here's a BusinessWeek article that looks at what they consider the five biggest Open Source events of 2005.  Not sure I agree with all of them, but it's always good to see the mainstream media report positively op Open Source.  I think one thing true about

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Infrastructure Upgrades at LQ

With the code upgrade at LQ recently completed, I decided to do some infrastructure upgrades that I had been putting off.  Two weeks ago I made the switch from PHP 4.4.x-> PHP 5.1.x and just now I made the change from Apache 1.3.x

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Dell Pre-Installing Firefox in UK?

Looks like there is a lot of speculation that Dell is preinstalling Firefox in the UK.  While that is fantastic for Firefox, it may not make a huge difference in actual acceptance numbers, since IE appears to be the default.  It will likely make a small difference though as some

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Creative Commons Needs Your Help

(Courtesy of Lawrence Lessig)  The Creative Commons needs your help.  In order to keep their tax free status, they apparently need a certain amount of donations to prove "public support".  The Creative Commons is a great cause and it's our license of choice for the LQ

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LinuxQuestions.org Reaches Two Million Posts and Two Hundred Thousand Members

Wow.  2,000,000 posts and 200,000 members.  We've certainly come a long way.  When I started LQ roughly six years ago, I had no idea it would grow to become what it has.  It's been a fun and interesting trip.  I'm happy

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LQ is a SCALE 4X Sponsor

LQ will once again be a SCALE sponsor - this time it's SCALE 4X.  I look forward to being able to attend the expo this year as last year it was held at the same time I was at a different conference.  Ilan has been great to work

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The LQ Code Upgrade is Live

Well, we've been working on it for the last 12 hours or so straight...but as of about noon LQST the new LQ is up and running.  A couple unforeseen issues arose, but they always do.  Things actually went a little smoother than I thought they would.  That

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Unpatched IE Flaw Is Worse Than Expected

It looks like a security hole that was reported many many month ago, but considered minor by Microsoft and therefore never corrected, turns out to be a remote arbitrary code execution flaw.  My question is why IE holes go uncorrected for this long - this isn't the first

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MySQL AB to Counter Oracle Buy of Innobase

Another issue that I've posted about before.  It looks like MySQL AB may be developing their own transactional database engine for MySQL. From the article: "Obviously because Oracle made that acquisition we are evaluating options to replace that functionality in some way," said Richard Mason, vice

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Microsoft to Open up Office Formats?

This is a topic I've covered quite a bit recently and one that I think is extremely important.  The main problem I see with this press release is the lack of details.  I've seen rumors that only the information to write will be included, which would

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New LQ Site is in Internal Beta

Been a long time coming, but the new LQ site is now in an internal sort of beta and the mods are having at at.  What's this mean if you're an LQ member that has been waiting for the upgrade?  We have set the tentative date

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OSDL and the Linux Kernel Community

I mentioned in a previous post that I hoped Greg's comments on OSDL technical management were just an anomaly or simple miscommunication.  Greg was kind enough to point out to me that this is unfortunately not the case. Currently they seem to be still ignoring us, as nothing

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Google is at it Again - Web Analytics II

Just a quick follow up to this post.  The product looks extremely cool and at the price (free) some of the competing vendors had to be quite concerned.  The WebSideStory stock fell almost 15% on the news, to give you an idea of the impact this is going to have.

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Birthday Memo leaked on Purpose?

Robert X. Cringely thinks the birthday memo may have been leaked on purpose.  Some of the reasons he gives really make sense.  Is Microsoft using this as a PR stunt meant to both entice Wall Street while painting Google as the bad guy (and itself as the good guy)?  Here&