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Source: Linux Today dralnux: "If you forgot your mysql password and you have root access in your linux box, just follow this steps."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com "The easiest way to transfer data between systems is by using plain text files or common formats like comma-separated value (CSV) files. However, converting such files from Windows or Mac OS results in formatting differences for the newline characters and character encoding. This article explains why we have these problems and shows ways to solve them."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "The Linux kernel is what's known as a monolithic kernel, which means that the majority of the operating system functionality is called the kernel and runs in a privileged mode. This differs from a micro-kernel, which runs only basic functionality as the kernel (inter-process communication [IPC], scheduling, basic input/output [I/O], memory management) and pushes other functionality outside the privileged space (drivers, network stack, file systems). You'd think that Linux is then a very static kernel, but in fact it's quite the opposite. Linux can be dynamically altered at run time through the use of Linux kernel modules (LKMs)."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems as they perform functionally identical tasks."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "It used to be that finding a PC with pre-installed Linux was harder than finding a needle in a haystack. Now, though, all the major PC vendors are offering Linux-powered PCs."
Source: Linux Today the Register: "Sometime next year, Verizon will roll out a Linux OS as the "preferred operating system" for phones on its US wireless network. And that Linux OS is not Google Android."
Source: Linux Today APC Magazine: "Attendees at the annual techfest can land a substantial discount sitting for any of three open-source exams held by the Linux Professional Institute, the world’s premier Linux certification organisation. However, there’s been no word on any similar arrangement for Microsoft certification, despite Redmond once again paying top dollar to be listed among IDF’s Gold Sponsors."
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: "Another potential security pothole lies in some virtual machines' ability to "hide" from security departments since they are not always on. Thus, security network scans often miss insecure virtual servers since they must be up and running during the scan in order to be noticed."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "How’s this for ironic: Microsoft is actually spending some sponsorship dollars here at OSCON (Open Source Conference) 2008, but Apple is stealing the show — without spending a dime."
Source: Linux Today Tectonic: "Debian, arguably the most important Linux distribution, is readying to celebrate its 15th birthday on August 16."
Source: Linux Today derStandard: "Blizzard: There is still quite a large percentage of people using IE 6 and that is certainly holding back the web. But you are starting to see web developers getting more and more frustrated with IE6, and there already have been some major movements in this regard, like with Apple: Mobile.me does not support Internet Explorer 6 anymore "
Source: Linux Today Standards Blog: "Long time followers of the ODF-OOXML story will recall that there is a third editable, XML-based document format in the race to create the documentary record of history. That contender is called UOF - for Uniform Office Format, and it has been under development in China since 2002, although I first heard and wrote about it back in November of 2006. Last summer, UOF was adopted as a Chinese National Standard, and last Friday the first complete office suite based upon UOF was released. It's called Evermore Integrated Office 2009 (EIOffice 2009 for short), and here's the story."
Source: Linux Today Blog Critics: "Reason #13 - "Why does your Windows get slower day after day?" - We've already discussed this: It's because of the humongous amount of software available to Windows people, and that includes a huge amount of crapware. This isn't a problem in Linux because there just isn't a large enough installed base to make writing such software worth it to those who write it. i.e., Linux just isn't popular enough."
Source: Linux Today APC Magazine: "Firstly, when you're at Google, you feel like you're on a university canvas. But a private university, with lots and lots of cash. While the campus itself isn't 'shmick' (for instance, there's no grand foyer nor any marble desks to greet visitors) there is an air of expense and quality to it. But the quality seems to stem from the company's ethos, and all the staff that walk around smiling."
Source: Linux Today Legal World and Childhood Dreams: "Protest websites, as the name suggests, are those websites that point out some shortcoming about a service or product. They are typically formed by adding the words ‘sucks’ with the name of the service or product. This means that they use the name of that service and product also. It is not their trade mark. Are they entitled to use it?"
Source: Linux Today The Pwnie Awards: "The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is finally published. We've received some really good submissions and it was not an easy task to narrow them down to five nominees per category, but we hope that we've done a good job. The next step for the Pwnie Awards judges will gather in an undisclosed location prior to the award ceremony and vote on the winners."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: " "Linux supports more different types of devices than any other operating system ever has in the history of computing.""
Source: Linux Today ars Technica: "Blogger uncle_benji went over to Best Buy and purchased an HP dv6815nr for $599.99 plus tax. When he saw the Windows Vista EULA and the HP EULA, he decided he wanted to move to Linux."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: " For parents, a tool like Glubble can seem like the perfect answer to the problem of protecting kids from the unsavory elements of the Internet. But as I discovered through my use of Glubble, the questions surrounding the idea of Internet filtering don't come with easy answers."
Source: Linux Today Boycott Novell: "Microsoft shares fell sharply, just as they did in the previous quarter when profits fell and Microsoft was no longer able to pretend and conceal its pains. This marked the beginning of a stage where we are likely to see Microsoft’s estimates and forecasts lowered and then potentially missed again and again."
Source: Linux Today Internetnews: ""In particular Microsoft blazed this path of having a security lead someone who is within the development organization and whose primary responsibility is security and that's critical," West argued. "That's not happening in open source projects today.""
Source: Linux Today Practical Technology: "You’d think the electronics vendors who keep breaking the GPL by using the BusyBox Unix utilities would finally learn that they can’t get away with it. It doesn’t look like they have though. This time the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) is taking on Extreme Networks, a major network hardware provider."
Source: Linux Today SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Linux security may seem daunting, but there are a host of best practices to simplify the maze. Recently, Steve Grubb of Red Hat Inc. outlined some important security principles, including minimizing admin access, the increasing sophistication of SELinux and the importance of auditing systems."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to look at almost the exact opposite of what we've done in the past in our posts on security through obfuscation (the series being linked back to on the most recent page) and look at a freely available, and highly configurable, way to unmangle Perl code. The program (or, to be more exact, the Perl Module) that takes care of that for us is called Perl::Tidy "
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "One of the first questions that customers often ask is "What’s the difference between a mashup and the Web applications that we currently use in our enterprise today?" The difference has little to do with technology or the integration of systems. Instead, it reflects the ease with which the application can be created by users, how the application is intended to be used, and the lack of nonfunctional requirements (for example, reliability, availability, and performance) that need to be addressed after the mashup or Web application is deployed."
Source: Linux Today INL: IP Networking Lab: "The Internet architecture was designed in the 1970s as a small internetwork to serve the needs of researchers. For the last 30 years, the Internet continued to grow and we are now getting close to hitting the limits of the 32 bits IPv4 addressing space. During the last decade, the Internet Engineering Task Force has been designing IPv6 as a replacement for IPv4. Most of the initial benefits of IPv6 (security, QoS, autoconfiguration, ) have been ported to IPv4 and IPv6 deployment has been limited."
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