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Published the first day of every month. <br> Issue 152: July, 2008 en gazette@linuxgazette.net gazette@linuxgazette.net Copyright (c) 1996-2008 the Editors of Linux Gazette monthly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://linuxgazette.net/gx/2004/newlogo-blank-100-gold2.jpg http://www.linuxgazette.net/ 42 99 http://linuxgazette.net/152/lg_mail.html LG Staff Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br><strong>Gazette Matters</strong><br> LG server is down...<br> small request for the editor<br> <strong>Our Mailbag</strong><br> U.S. sanctions-compliant Linux<br> Spam Prevention by Enforcing Standards<br> Cron Sandbox<br> For users of RMAIL in Emacs, how do you deal with spam messages?...<br> Followup: Using Ubuntu 8.04 on Notebook?<br> Query on linux source code<br> C++'s cout and hexadecimal output<br> kernel header modification<br> BLOCKSIZE unset by default<br> Spammy Job Offer<br> You have 6 messages, 1 add friend request<br> How to refine a spam delete technique for beginners, emphasis on beginner.<br> Terence Timburwa added you as a friend on $$$$...<br> Apache -- Redirect if found this "Regex"<br> tcp.c and tcp_input inquiry<br> Searching for multiple strings/patterns with 'grep'<br> http://linuxgazette.net/152/lg_talkback.html LG Staff Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>Talkback:123/smith.html<br> Talkback:151/lg.tips.html<br> Talkback:151/melinte.html<br> Talkback:151/weiner.html (2)<br> Talkback:151/weiner.html<br> Talkback:151/lg_mail.html<br> Talkback:136/pfeiffer.html<br> http://linuxgazette.net/152/lg_tips.html LG Staff Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>2-cent tip: Checking HTTP servers<br> 2-cent tip: Speeding up Knoppix<br> 2-cent tip: Removing the comments out of a configuration file<br> http://linuxgazette.net/152/lg_bytes.html Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff</strong> <br> <br>Contents:<br> <strong>News in General</strong><br> Nokia on Open Cell Phone Systems<br> HP Open-sources AdvFS<br> Kernel Developers Sign up a Letter Against Closed-Source Drivers<br> Openmoko's Linux-basedcell phone started shipping<br> LinuxWorld Partners on Global Installfest for Schools<br> LinuxWorld to host Free Community Days at SF Expo<br> oCERT keeps Open Source Secure<br> Sun Breaks Into Top 5 on Supercomputer List<br> <strong>Conferences and Events</strong><br> <strong>Distro News</strong><br> openSUSE 11.0 is Out!<br> Kurumin NG 8.06<br> linuX-gamers Live DVD 0.9.3<br> NexentaCore Platform 1.0.1<br> ArtistX 0.5<br> StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.2<br> Canonical Showcases 'Ubuntu Netbook Remix'<br> <strong>Software and Product News</strong><br> Firefox 3<br> Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring<br> Wine 1.0<br> Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite v3 Professional Edition<br> Subversion 1.5 released<br> Red Hat's new oVirt Virtualization Platform<br> JBoss in the Cloud<br> Sun VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Downloads; Supports All MajorOSes<br> New Red Hat Middleware Architecture<br> Sun Announces Carrier Grade MySQL Cluster 6.3 at NXTcomm<br> http://linuxgazette.net/152/okopnik.html Ben Okopnik Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>Ben Okopnik</strong> <br> <p> Some months ago, Plat'Home sent us a press release detailing their new product, the Plat'Home Open Micro Server <a id="okopnik.html_1_back"></a><a href="#okopnik.html_1">[1]</a>. The writeup seemed promising - lots of keywords designed to ping a geek's heart, warm his kidneys, and titillate his imagination: </p> http://linuxgazette.net/152/oregan.html Jimmy O'Regan Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>Jimmy O'Regan</strong> <br> <p> <a href="http://www.apertium.org">Apertium</a> is an open source shallow-transfer machine translation (MT) system. In addition to the translation engine, it also provides tools for manipulating linguistic data, and translators designed to run using the engine. At the time of writing, there are stable bilingual translators available for English-Catalan, English-Spanish, Catalan-Spanish, Catalan-French, Spanish-Portuguese, Spanish-Galician, and French-Spanish; as well as monolingual translators that translate from Esperanto to Catalan and to Spanish, and from Romanian to Spanish. There are also a number of unstable translators in various stages of development. (A <a href="http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/List_of_language_pairs">list of language pairs</a>, updated daily, is available on the <a href="http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page">Apertium wiki</a>). </p> http://linuxgazette.net/152/prestia.html Joey Prestia Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>Joey Prestia</strong> <br> <p> Linux has the ability to use <em>access control lists</em> at the file level. This allows file owners and system administrators to define who has access and what level of access they have beyond the level of fliesystem permissions. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/152/ramanathan.html Muthaiah Ramanathan Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>Muthaiah Ramanathan</strong> <br> <p> Let me start with pointers to the two most valuable (in my personal view) resources that I constantly referred to prior to deciding which PCI wireless card would be the best fit for my home system running Fedora Core 5. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/152/srinivasan.html Pranesh Srinivasan Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>Pranesh Srinivasan</strong> <br> <p> This introduction is about the little things. Things that help ease everyday tasks but go a long way into making you a better user, editor, programmer - a better computer user. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/152/xkcd.html Randall Munroe Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>Randall Munroe</strong> <br> <p> <div class="cartoon"> <a href="misc/xkcd/exploits_of_a_mom.png"> <img alt="[cartoon]" title="Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory. " src="misc/xkcd/exploits_of_a_mom.png"><p>Click here to see the full-sized image</a> </div> More XKCD cartoons can be found <a href="http://xkcd.com">here</a>. <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-1204316-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> http://linuxgazette.net/152/collinge.html Shane Collinge Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>Shane Collinge</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/152/ecol.html Javier Malonda Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:25 -0500 By <strong>Javier Malonda</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p>