● 04.30.10

● Links 30/4/2010: *Ubuntu 10.04 Release

Posted in News Roundup at 1:31 pm by Dr. Roy SchestowitzContentsGNU/LinuxGNU/Linux

Audiocasts

↺ Podcast Season 2 Episode 7
↺ The Linux Link Tech Show #351 4/28/10

Ballnux

↺ making of the openSUSE install video
↺ Working with Suse Studio : An exercise in online virtual appliance creation.

Applications

↺ Linux File Managers Roundup
↺ That split-second realization
↺ Linux screenshots made easy: Shutter & Screenie
↺ LogMeIn For Linux: Access Your LogMeIn Computers From A Linux Computer
↺ Online tool for converting video files

Proprietary

↺ Hulu Desktop for Linux Review

Instructionals

↺ Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Debian Lenny
↺ Collecting and analyzing Linux kernel crashes – crash
↺ Fix Window corruption with older ATI graphics cards in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
↺ How to copy Home directory to new hard drive
↺ Bash Associative Arrays
↺ Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Mandriva 2010.0
↺ How To create RPM from Source
↺ How to Configure USB 3G/3G + on Mandriva
↺ Using Nexpose Community Edition on Backtrack 4
↺ Sometimes you just have to start over with a document (OpenOffice Writer)
↺ Make your OpenOffice forms open with the focus in the first field
↺ Basic string searching in MySQL table columns
↺ DVB-S Live TV on FreeBSD with MythTV 0.23 and webcamd
↺ Disable Nepomuk (Desktop Search) on KDE 4.4.2 Kubuntu Lucid 10.04
↺ Automatically clean-up your trash on Linux
↺ Ubuntu One wasn’t working on my 10.04 box – how I got it going

Games

↺ How-to Become a Linux Gamer

Distributions

↺ An In-Depth Look at Gentoo Linux

USB

↺ 6 Linux Distros You Can Run Off Your Keychain
↺ A great way to install Ubuntu (and other distros)

Mandrake/Mandriva Family

↺ PclinuxOS2010 Gnome: The black pearl | Screenshots tour

Ubuntu

↺ Operation Lucid – Ubuntu in London
↺ Canonical releases Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS
↺ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
↺ Ubuntu 10.04 (“Lucid Lynx”)
↺ Ubuntu 10.04: Never a better time to switch
↺ What’s new in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
↺ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS gives Linux even more mainstream appeal
↺ Ubuntu’s Lucid Lynx: A (free) Mactastic experience
↺ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released
↺ Ubuntu 10.04 Start 0.4.8 Released; Now Supports Multiple Languages Thanks To You!
↺ Ubuntu Linux 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
↺ 10 things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
↺ Ubuntu 10.04 Post-Install Guide: What to do and try after installing Lucid Lynx!
↺ Top things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx
↺ Tyler on Ubuntu: Your Virtual desktops
↺ Two unusual signs
↺ Seven Reasons to Upgrade to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
↺ Full Circle: Issue 36 and a third anniversary!
↺ Lucid Release In pictures: Ubuntu Cupcakes
↺ Ubuntu: Matt Asay Discusses Canonical Revenue Strategy
↺ Want to use the Ubuntu Yahoo! Start Page? You still can!
↺ Canonical Launches Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop, Server Editions
↺ DisklessWorkstations.com Bundles Support for the Ubuntu Operating System with LTSP Thin Clients
↺ Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Will Get A Global Menu By Default
↺ Ubuntu 10.04 – Running before release, maybe schizophrenia is part of the deal
↺ Not enough Ubuntu postings?

Devices/Embedded

↺ Tomtom launches a GPS with third party app support

Android

↺ Garmin-Asus announces newest Android smartphone with Garmin navigation
↺ Vodafone launches its first, underwhelming Android handset (video)
↺ Acer Liquid E Confirmed On Rogers – Coming Soon
↺ Motorola Sells 2.3 Million Android Handsets in Quarter 1
↺ Motorola Backflip Now on Telus for $99.99

Sub-notebooks

↺ One Laptop per Child targets Middle East and E Africa

Free Software/Open Source

Events

↺ Open Source Conferences Are Big Businesses
↺ About the LFNW Videos

Mozilla

↺ Firefox powers research
↺ Account Manager coming to Firefox

Databases

↺ A Few Words About ‘NoSQL’ and Other Unstructured Databases

FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC

↺ The German Medal of Honour for founder of FSFE

Programming

↺ The Quality of Code is not strained…
↺ KXStitch delivers cross-stitch wizardry for Linux

Leftovers

↺ Comcast ‘wins’ Consumerist worst-company tournament

Security/Aggression

↺ Goldman Sachs Knows How to Get ‘Er Done!
↺ Huge drop in crimes solved by costly CCTV
↺ TfL signs £22.6m CCTV contract with Easynet
↺ NHS data revelations bode badly for NPfIT
↺ Is there a quota system for New Mexico’s state police?

Finance

↺ Republicans Allow Debate on Financial Overhaul
↺ Obama plans to nominate 3 Fed governors
↺ Obama nominates two for key administration posts
↺ Major source of money for big banks may get exemption from regs
↺ Greek’s debt troubles raise contagion worries
↺ To Save The Eurozone: $1 trillion, European Central Bank Reform, And A New Head for the IMF
↺ Frank Luntz Hasn’t Read 13 Bankers (And That’s A Good Thing)
↺ Goldman Sachs adds to its ranks of lobbyists
↺ Organized Labor Puts a Bull’s-Eye on Wall Street
↺ Ex-Goldman Trader Bought Major Stake in ACA, Shorted Subprime CDOs
↺ Goldman Not Talking Settlement, Yet
↺ In Goldman’s Defiance, a Hint of Truce
↺ How the SEC and Congress Can Bring Down Goldman Sachs and Expose the Financial Coup
↺ Goldman Sachs Crossed Ethical Lines in Selling CDOs, Levin Says
↺ Goldman Sachs deal in fraud case involved unsophisticated investors
↺ Goldman Trader ‘Hedging’ Means ‘Conflict’ to Senator
↺ Goldman Sachs, Goldfish Eat Their Young
↺ The Death of Goldman Sachs
↺ Comparing Goldman Sachs to a Casino Is an Insult to Casinos
↺ Wall Street Comparison Offends Las Vegas, Ensign Says
↺ Political Wisdom: Arizona, Goldman Sachs Stir the Pot
↺ Arizona’s new ‘papers, please’ law may hurt H-1B workers
↺ Self-Evaluations Pose New Concern After Goldman Sachs Hearing
↺ Fabulous Fab Shows Managers Oblivious to E-Mail Peril (Update1)
↺ Goldman Sachs banker facing fraud charges bags share of mega £3.2bn payout
↺ ‘Fabulous Fab’ Goldman Sachs exec Fabrice Tourre, Wall Street sext king, is a nervous weenie
↺ Accused Goldman Sachs Exec Crowed Of Pending ‘Collapse’ -SEC
↺ Goldman’s Viniar, Sen. Levin Agree: Don’t Say Securities ‘Crap’
↺ Goldman Case Is Just ‘the Beginning’ for Banks, Malmgren Says
↺ Goldman Armed Salespeople to Dump Bonds, E-mails Show
↺ Whitman Flips on Goldman Sachs
↺ Goldman Sachs’ Long Day In Washington
↺ Congress berates Goldman Sachs
↺ Enron law firm sues Goldman Sachs
↺ Goldman Sachs Suffers The Perils Of PR Spin
↺ What’s Next for Goldman Sachs?
↺ Probe: Goldman Eyed Profits from Housing Bust
↺ Viniar Says Firm Didn’t Negotiate With Treasury on AIG Payments
↺ Will their bite match their bark? Obama advisor rails against Goldman Sachs, but bill’s in limbo
↺ Bloomberg Scoop Has Implications for Geithner, Ex-Goldman Chair
↺ Wall Street Compensation Is Much More Complex Than It Needs To Be. Let’s Take Goldman For Example…
↺ Letter from Rep. Kaptur to the DOJ demanding a requesting investigation of Goldman
↺ Kendall Law Group Plans Class Action on Behalf of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Shareholders
↺ Gordon Duff: The Gop And Goldman Sachs, Economic Terrorism
↺ The devil in Goldman Sachs
↺ Goldman Sachs Said to Meet U.K. FSA Today Over Probe
↺ Dead money lives: Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein gets $2.8M richer – by testifying
↺ Goldman Death Fight May Explain Lloyd’s Words: Jonathan Weil
↺ Did Goldman’s Ex-Mortgage Guru Lie Under Oath?
↺ Criminal Probe into Goldman Sachs
↺ Goldman in Talks Over Fund Settlement: Report
↺ Legislators suggest fraud, request Goldman inquiry

Censorship/Privacy/Civil Rights

↺ Senators complain about Facebook privacy changes
↺ Timeline of Facebook privacy policy: from reasonable (2005) to apocalyptic (2010)

Internet/Net Neutrality/DRM

↺ Why Is Michael Geist In Favour Of Digital Rights Management/Technical Protection Measures?
↺ Canadian Politics, Copyright Law, Lawyers, WIPO, Etc.

Intellectual Monopolies

↺ U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Releases Latest Bogus Study Pushing For More Draconian IP Enforcement
↺ Feds celebrate Intellectual Property Day with more IP cops

Copyrights

↺ “Fair use” generates trillions in the US alone
↺ Copyright Defenders Don’t Realize That New ‘Fair Use’ Report Mocks Their Own Study
↺ Random House Cedes Some Digital Rights to Styron Heirs
↺ AFP Sues Photographer Whose Photographs It Used Without Permission
↺ Anti-Piracy Group Says: ‘Child Porn Is Great’ Since It Gets Politicians To Block File Sharing Sites
↺ RIAA Missing The Point About Record Store Day
↺ IFPI’s Latest Report On Music Sales Shows Growth In Some Markets
↺ In Shanghai, Hiding Bootlegs Before the World Visits
↺ The ethics of piracy
↺ Canadian Copyright Consultation Opposed By A Little Known Canadian Lawyer Richard Owens

ACTA

↺ Guest Post – ACTA Text Released: Impact On India and Other Developing Countries
↺ The tail wagging the dog

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