Multimedia, HTPC and IT news, 03.02.2009

Linux

JavaScript Data Types

The JavaScript Chronicles: "This week we cover JavaScript Data Types. There (...)

Linux

Chaining Linux Commands Together

Linux: Newb To Pro: "Running commands one right after the other can be a te (...)

Linux

KDE On Windows Challenges Microsoft On Its Own Turf

LinuxHaxor: "KDE on windows is an audacious project aimed at porting all KD (...)

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Red Hat Calls For Papers For Upcoming Events

OStatic: "Red Hat issued a call for papers this week for its upcoming confe (...)

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Take a hard look at the command line

IT Toolbox: "Watching it boot up with some unknown messages scrolling up th (...)

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All About Linux Swap Part 2: Management

Idea Excursion: "If you're new to Linux and choose a guided installation wh (...)

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Midnight Commander wakes from deep sleep

Heise Online: "The Midnight Commander file manager developers have restarte (...)

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Four Completely Useless Linux Commands

The GeekStuff: "Like most of you, I’m a command line junkie. There ar (...)

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14 of the Best Free Linux Wiki Engines

LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is ava (...)

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Linux Community Begins Crafting Radio Ad

Blog of Helios: "It's been discussed to distraction...whether advertising L (...)

Multimedia

EA Scores on Superbowl Prediction (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

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Multimedia

Four at Four: Recall on Dividends (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

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Linux

The HeliOS Project Kicks off 2009 Hardware Drive

The Helios Project: "The HeliOS Project is looking for community members to (...)

Linux

Saving Flash Videos In Linux

The How-to Geek: "This can be done very easily because when you watch a vid (...)

Linux

Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin

HowtoForge "This guide shows how you can create USB startup disks (on your (...)

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Free Ubuntu book tops 150,000 downloads

Desktop Linux: "Keir Thomas informs us that his new Ubuntu book has been do (...)

Linux

Second netbook wave begins

LinuxDevices: "Asus is taking pre-orders for a netbook based on Intel's sec (...)

Linux

3 Apache/httpd Command-Line Options

Tip of the Trade: "You can do more with httpd than just stop/start/reload A (...)

Linux

Recovering from a Hard Drive Failure

Linux Journal: "Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, (...)

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Dell Offers Enterprise Linux Operating System for Thin Clients

Webwire press release: "Novell today announced that Dell will preload SUSE (...)

Linux

Out With The Slow, In With The Linux

TrainSignalTraining: "But if you want an operating system that is reliable, (...)

Multimedia

Corel Launches International Design Contest and Special Anniversary Edition to Mark 20 Years of Desi

OTTAWA----Corel Corporation today introduced an International Design Contes (...)

Hardware

IBM Plans 20-Fold Leap in Supercomputing

Sequoia will be the same size as IBM's Blue Gene/L but 40 times as powerful (...)

Hardware

Rambus Announces High Performance Mobile Memory

The litigious memory maker tries to bounce back with new memory aimed at hi (...)

Linux

Are You Smart Enough To Use Linux

Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Sure, we now have KDE, GNOME, XFCE, and other fancy (...)

Linux

FOSS Games and Gaming Survey

LinuxGames: "Are you a PC gamer? Do you play Free and Open Source games? - (...)

Linux

23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines

Computerworld: "...in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide (...)

Linux

Startcom Linux and SevenL Networks Joint Venture

Join The Revolution!: "SevenL approached StartCom a while ago and offered u (...)

Linux

Microsoft Pursues Digium Asterisk Partners

The VAR Guy: "Instead of ignoring open source conferences, Microsoft contin (...)

Linux

Learning to Use DNS Tools

BeginLinux: "There are 3 valuable tools that you can use from your desktop (...)

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IBM to build massive supercomputer for US government

Computerworld: "The U.S. government has hired IBM to build a supercomputer (...)

Linux

New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE

Slashdot: "Many sites are reporting that the next Sidekick LX 2009/Blade, f (...)

Linux

10 predictions for Linux and open source in 2009

TechGuides: "The year holds a great deal of promise for the Linux OS and o (...)

Linux

Interview with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux

DistroWatch: "To take an example from my own sphere of development - with g (...)

Linux

Using The Red Hat Rescue Environment

Linux Gazette: "There are several different rescue CDs out there, and they (...)

Linux

Making Slackware and Slackware Derivative Linux Distros Speak Your Language

O'Reilly Blogs: "Slackware and some Linux distributions based on Slackware (...)

Hardware

Rambus Unveils High-Performance Mobile Memory

The litigious memory maker tries to bounce back with new memory aimed at hi (...)