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4 New Debian Bugs
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[edit] Linux Today

Software as a Service a Winning Model for Hotspot Provider: Wi-Fi Planet: "Not that Sputnik has grown enormous or anything. It’s still a lean, mean entrepreneurial machine, with fewer than ten employees. But it evidently hasn’t just been flying in circles. LaDuke says Sputnik will start showing an operational profit before the end of this quarter. Not bad for a little start-up with a one-track mind." [?]
First dual-monitor LTSP 5 set-up?: LinuxDevices: "DisklessWorkstations says one of its thin clients now supports dual monitors, when used with LTSP 5 (Linux Terminal Server Project v5). The Troy, Michigan based thin client vendor claims to be the "first to release how to configure dual monitors using LTSP 5."" [?]
On the Linux Laptop the Bundle is All: Linux and Open Source: "Our review of the latest Linux laptop, the Asus EeePC 1000, has not begun auspiciously but with an important lesson. In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all." [?]
Open Source is About Belief in Code: Linux and Open Source: "You can read stories about doom and depression somewhere else today...There is something there that does not exist in the proprietary wreckage, something important. Code." [?]
Ubuntu's Balancing Act: Open Enterprise: "Once it emerged that Google ran on GNU/Linux, there could be no more argument about the latter's suitability for the enterprise. Similarly, MySQL's adoption by just about every Web 2.0 company meant that it, too, could no longer be dismissed as underpowered." [?]
The Lenovo S10 Netbook is Here, Count Me In: Defensive Computing: "The S10 is here, I ordered one yesterday and I'm psyched. The IdeaPad S10 is Lenovo's just-released entry in the Netbook market. "Netbook" is a new term that's applied to cheap small laptops that run either Windows XP Home Edition or Linux. No Vista or OS X here (neither is cheap)." [?]
eCryptfs: Single-File Encryption in Linux: DevX: "Yet many developers try to build their own cryptographic technology, which often gets them in trouble. A better approach is to employ tools that rely on proven cryptography techniques and algorithms. A great example of this approach is eCryptfs, a complete cryptographic file system for Linux that essentially is a robust implementation of mature cryptographic technology." [?]
Zimbra Collaboration Server, Keeping the Discussion Going: ServerWatch: "Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS) separates itself from the pack in several ways. First and foremost, it occupies a newly emerging niche of "commercial open source" products. That is, the base version of ZCS is open source software, free to acquire or modify." [?]
Life on the Cutting Edge - ArchLinux: The Smaller Bang: "After a few months of using it, I finally feel I am confident enough to write a piece about one of the best, and I MEAN best, linux distros ever, archlinux. This distro is rather unique, and several things in it make it the ideal distro for the intermediate level linux user." [?]
Does Hacking Closed Hardware Hinder Open Hardware?: O'Reilly: "Though open drivers exist for video cards produced by companies who produce binary-only drivers, I realized a fundamental point about my purchasing habits. I'm profoundly uncomfortable purchasing devices which, by default, do not provide the freedoms I desire." [?]
Bash Extended Globbing: Linux Journal: "A subtle point about pathname expansion that is not often understood is that it is done by bash and not by the operating system or by the program that is being run. The program never sees the wildcards, bash substitutes the expansion into the command line before running the program." [?]
A (New) Bash Script to Download Entire PicasaWeb Albums: Blue GNU: "Although Picasa is now available on GNU/Linux, it is still proprietary and, as such, unethical. One year ago, I wrote a simple Bash script that handles a very rapid download of entire PicasaWeb albums/galleries. During the last weeks, Google changed twice the format of the related Web pages and my script could not fetch any picture. Here is an updated script that does even more than the previous one." [?]
It's... Linux kernel 2.6.27: Linux Format: "Crank up your compiler -- kernel 2.6.27 has arrived, including (deep breath): a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for "pure" flash-based storage devices;" [?]
Debian Postpones Lenny, Calls for Help: Tectonic: "It seems the Debian team is battling "too many release critical bugs" to make Lenny viable. And now the team is calling for help from the community to squash the remainder of these bugs." [?]
Strange Ironies: Snake Bytes: "There have been a lot of strange ironies for me in the last week in the security world. Rather than expound on any one of them, I thought I'd take a stab at all of them all at once. So bear with me -- you're in for a ride." [?]

[edit] Linux Questions

Apache Configuration to forward to Tomcat: I setup an Apache server so that request for a java servlet or *.jsp will be passed to a Tomcat server running on the same box. I used the mod_jk Tomcat connector module for Apache to do this and it... [?]
Connecting to a wireless network in Knoppix 5.3.1 problems: Hi guys, this is my first post here!! Anyways, I've been playing around with Knoppix Live DVD and I really like it, unfortunately I can't get my wireless card to work, which I kind of need it to for... [?]
cpu frequency concerns: Toshiba Satellite M70 -DL4 cat /proc/cpuinfo: Code: --------- processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 [?]
Nha khoa : Microsofts Vista Problem: Microsoft keeps insisting that Windows Vista is a winner, but the questions keep mounting and Thursdays quarterly report only added to the doubts. Revenue from the companys so-called client... [?]
error on startup: hi, i am having a problem with my system's startup everytime on startup it takes a long time to desktop to come and it gives an message ---Quote--- *There was an error starting the GNOME Settings... [?]
who -T !!! NOTE: It shows who(individual id) is using what group id in which terminal: Any ideas! in case we can find, who changed a file on Linux. Case: ~if there is a shared userid for ex: giga and you all know its passwd, then how can I check who actually changed the file (when he... [?]
Virtual Box: Hi All, I have query about virtualisation on rhel5 with Virtual box. I have installed the Virtual box on rhel5, but I can't ping any of the station. Could you please suggest the key... [?]
Screen goes black after rebooting from enabling a driver for nvidia geforce 8200g: Hi yall. Im a brand new baby when it comes to linux. I've just installed ubuntu 8.04.1 (64 bit) on my hp g60-12ous notebook. I did a dual boot. Right now it has the preinstalled vista home premium... [?]
Cannot autostart a dbus appilication.: Hi all, I have a problem when I use dbus to program. I wrote a service file as below, [D-BUS Service] Name=test.signal.Type Exec=/usr/local/dbus listen and named it test.signal.Type.service, then... [?]
dlink wna-2330 recognizes ap in network manager, but not wifi radar, cant get online: Howdy. So I'm a newbie. A friend installed debian on my compaq armada m700, and configured my dlink wna2330 card, and was using it at his house, but I get it home and wifi radar sees nothing. Network... [?]
Just out of curiousity...: If someone were physically sitting at my machine and didn't know any passwords, couldn't they gain access to the entire file system simply by booting a live cd and mounting the drives? Maybe its a... [?]
How to use poll() with non-blocking sockets: I have this project where I have to implement a simple port scanner in C++ for Linux. The program should take as input a target IP address, beginning port number, and ending port number. After... [?]
Problems loading Creative Elite Pro Audio in Ubuntu: I am building a custom system with a quad 6600 Intel 45 board and have XP one HD and planning on having Ubuntu on the other. My Creative Elite Pro Audio card won't work with this linux version. Any... [?]
Block javascript animation in Firefox?: Does anyone know a way to get Firefox to block Javascript animation without breaking javascript completely??? I *can't stand* things moving on my screen while I am trying to read. Adblock, of course,... [?]
shorewall and Iax2: I am running asterisk and shorewall on the same serverand I need to get a providers iax2 protocol to be accept by the firewall and the asterisk box I can connect iax2 client phones just fine but for... [?]

[edit] Linux Pimp

Getting Flash to support the ESOUND (ESD) daemon: I have been using FreeNX lately to connect to a server in a thin-client scenario. It works very well, but I was frustrated by the fact that I couldn't get Flash audio, inside of Firefox to work properly. After a bit of Googling around, I came across a solution. [?]
The New York Times touts Linux: "LINUX runs the Google servers that manage billions of searches each day. It also runs the TiVo digital video recorder, the Motorola Razr cellphone and countless other electronic devices." Read more here. [?]
The Broadcom 1390 Wireless card under Fedora 7: I spent quite a while this weekend trying to get a Broadcom 1390 wireless controller connected to a wireless access point via WPA2 encryption under Fedora 7. Hindsight is always 20/20, so this is actually fairly easy to do as long as you know what to change. If you don't know what to change, however, you'll end up with a few more gray hairs after spending hours troubleshooting the connection. Let's begin... Just so you know the type of hardware I'm using, when I run an lspci|grep Network command in a terminal I get the following: 0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01) [?]
xmms-itouch RPM for Fedora 7: I compiled the xmms-itouch RPM earlier today for Fedora7, from the source RPM over at Dag Wieers. Even though there are quite a few newer audio players out there, such as Audacious and Amarok, I find myself always going to back XMMS. I think the main thing I really like about XMMS is how well is can handle very large playlists. I like the updated interface on Audacious, but it tends to choke when dealing with huge playlists. Anyhow, I have a Logitech Elite keyboard, and I like to make use of the media keys on it when I use XMMS, so in order to do so I compile the xmms-itouch plugin. If you'd like a pre-compiled version for X86_64 machines running Fedora 7, you can grab that xmms-itouch-0.1.2-5.rf.x86_64.rpm. *Note* If the plugin crashes on you, with the following error: Gdk-ERROR **: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) serial 7 error_code 10 request_code 33 minor_code 0 be sure to use the gnome-keybinding-properties application to remove any multimedia shortcuts you already have defined, such as "Volume Up" and "Volume Down". For some reason having these enabled caused the plugin to crash for me. I haven't quite debugged that yet, but if you have issues try that work-around. ----------------------------- Daniel, a fellow Linux aficionado, sent me the following information which could be quite helpful, so I thought I'd post it here: "A small addition: you can find out exactly which keys to disable in the gnome-keybinding-properties panel. First enter the keys you want to use in xmms-itouch config-screen and translate the keycodes (e.g. 234) to their hexadecimal value using gnome-calculator for example (scientific mode). Now you can enable the itouch plugin. You probably already know this, but maybe some readers find it useful and don't have to disable all their keyboard shortcuts." [?]
Fedora 7 X86_64 RPMs for Pidgin: I've compiled a Fedora 7 x86_64 RPM for Pidgin, which allows it to connect to the Openfire Jabber Server. Grab them if you need em: pidgin-2.0.2-4.x86_64.rpm and libpurple-2.0.2-4.x86_64.rpm [?]
32-bit versus 64-bit: Benchmarking: I'm running a number of servers using the standard release of Fedora, and was curious as to how much performance gain I would get by switching them over to the x86_64 version. After Googling around a bit, I a found a nice PDF that does a benchmark comparison of Ubuntu under x86_64 and the 32-bit flavor, performed by Artyom Tonkikh. You can download it here. Conclusion: It does appear that the performance boost afforded by the 64 bit version would be noticeable under most applications. I was kind of hoping it wouldn't, because now I have more work to do... [?]
Pidgin + OpenFire + Not Authorized: I posted a quick write up and some RPMs that help resolve the "Not Authorized" message that you can get when using Pidgin with the Openfire Jabber server under Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7. I had placed this article on the fedora.thelinuxpimp.com site originally, but I have now decided to fold that information back into this site instead, so it's no longer available. The crux of the matter, as far as I understand is that Java's CRAM-MD5 implementation and Cryus SASL's implementation (used by Fedora, and perhaps Ubuntu) differ slightly. In order to resolve the problem, I usually just rebuild the official source RPM provided by the Pidgin project. Here are the links to my i686 compiled RPMs for Fedora Core 7: pidgin-2.0.2-4.i686.rpm libpurple-2.0.2-4.i686.rpm [?]
Solaris could nudge Linux to GPL 3: "Linux leader Linus Torvalds has finally found something that could convince him that the forthcoming version 3 of the General Public License is worth adopting: open-source Solaris." Read more here. [?]
Who gets hurt by anti-piracy measures?: I own a retail copy of Office 2003 Professional that I am using on a single machine. I just swapped out the motherboard on this machine, so I had to re-validate the software. I initially had a faulty motherboard on this machine, so this is the second time I've swapped out the motherboard..so I can't re-activate over the Internet. When I did this two weeks ago, I started my effort to call Microsoft tech support and have them re-validate my software over the phone. I've called Microsoft now 12 times, and my legally purchased software that I am attempting to use on a single PC is still unusable at this time. I've been hung up on now 4 times, told to call back in 30 minutes 2 times, told to call back in 24 hours 3 times. I've spoken to managers who told me they would be calling me back and never did...this is the single worst tech support experience of my entire life..hands down. If I needed a better reason to hate Microsoft before, well..here it is. *Update*: 13 seems to be my lucky number, because I was finally able to get an Installation ID from Microsoft today that validated my copy of Office 2003. [?]
Xandros Linux Server First to Receive LSB Certification: "Xandros, the leading provider of intuitive end-to-end Linux desktop and server solutions and Windows and Linux cross-platform interoperability tools, today announced that Xandros Server 2.0 is the first product to be certified by the Linux Foundation through use of the LSB Distribution Testkit " Read more here. [?]
Create a Customized Live Linux CD: "Earlier this year, I was asked to find a bootable CD that would allow PCs in a special purpose lab, many of which had bad hard drives, to access our Citrix environment. Basically, we wanted to turn these PCs into thin clients to extend their life. I had been experimenting with Knoppix and decided it was time to try customizing my own Knoppix CD for use in the lab. Ultimately, the CD proved so useful that I created a bootable USB thumb drive from it for my own use -- mainly accessing Citrix and Windows Terminal Servers. In this article, I will provide step-by-step instructions on how to create a customized Knoppix CD and how to use that customized CD to create a bootable USB thumb drive." Read more here. [?]
Printing Giant Konica Minolta Business Technologies Joins Linux Foundation: "The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., a leader in document imaging innovation, has joined the Foundation and will participate in the OpenPrinting workgroup. Its contributions will help define standard APIs for printing and enable easier integration between desktops and printers for Linux users." Read more here. [?]
CentOS 5 review: "Last week, two years since its last major release, the CentOS project released version 5 of its enterprise-focused Linux distribution. I downloaded it and put it to the test, and found that CentOS 5 has maintained its tradition of robustness and reliability while adding new features like virtualization." Read more here. [?]
Ubuntu 7.04 released: "Three years after it burst onto the operating system scene, the Debian-based Ubuntu Linux has entered its sixth generation with the release of 7.04 dubbed "Feisty Fawn" globally Thursday." Read more here. [?]
Microsoft signs Samsung for Linux patent protection: "Microsoft and Samsung have signed a patent licensing deal that frees both firms from any intellectual property claims on their products. The agreement specifically covers the use of "certain Linux-based products" in Samsung devices, the companies said." Read more here. [?]
Cedega hits version 6: "TransGaming has announced version 6 of its Linux-based Windows game emulator software, Cedega, adding new features, functionality, and improved graphics and performance, as well as support for many new games including Bethesda's Oblivion." Read more here. [?]
Dell Linux set to shake up OS market: "Dell's recent decision to ship desktops pre-loaded with Linux will have major repercussions for the operating system and its progress onto the business desktop, according to an industry analyst." Read more here. [?]
Thunderbird 2.0rc1 released: "Mozilla on Friday posted release candidate code for the newest version of its e-mail client, Thunderbird 2.0, which emphasizes message organization and support for Windows Vista." Read more here. [?]
The story of Tux, the Linux penguin: "The Linux albatross just wouldn't sell. And the Linux platypus, well, who'd buy anything from him? Ah, but the Linux penguin, there's a bird that could really drive an industry." Read more here. [?]
Linux primed for Mobile Phone market: "In a new study, ABI Research forecasts that by 2012, more than 127 million devices will be enabled with a commercial Linux OS, up from 8.1 million in 2007." Read more here. [?]
What users want from Linux: "Enhanced system management capabilities, better security, support for third-party drivers and more unity among the various distributions top user wish lists when it comes to Linux." Read more here. [?]
Debian 4.0 released: "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development." Read more here. [?]
Linux Foundation updates Standards Base: "The Linux Foundation is updating the Linux Standards Base (LSB) and making it easier for Linux vendors and application developers to ensure compliance." Read more here. [?]
Top distro shootout: HardwareLogic has a shootout of three of the most popular Linux distros: Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu. Check out their brief comparison here to see how your favorite scored. [?]
Library of Congress looks to Linux: "The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America's history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats." Read more here. [?]

[edit] New Debian Bugs

[edit] New Debian Packages

libgammu4: libgammu4 [?]
libgammu4-dbg: libgammu4-dbg [?]
libgbf-1-2: libgbf-1-2 [?]
libgbf-1-2-dbg: libgbf-1-2-dbg [?]

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