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Published the first day of every month. <br> Issue 172: March, 2010 en gazette@linuxgazette.net gazette@linuxgazette.net Copyright (c) 1996-2010 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/172/lg_mail.html LG Staff Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br><strong>Our Mailbag</strong><br> mbox selective deletion<br> Vocabulary lookup from the command line?<br> http://linuxgazette.net/172/lg_talkback.html LG Staff Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>Talkback:168/lg_tips.html<br> http://linuxgazette.net/172/lg_tips.html LG Staff Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>Two-cent Tip: Retrieving directory contents<br> Two-cent Tip: How big is that directory?<br> Two-cent tip: GRUB and inode sizes<br> Two-cent Tip: backgrounding the last stopped job without knowing its job ID<br> http://linuxgazette.net/172/lg_bytes.html Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff</strong> <br> <br>Contents:<br> <strong>News in General</strong><br> Red Hat Announces Fourth Annual Innovation Awards<br> Novell and LPI Partner on Linux Training and Certification<br> <strong>Conferences and Events</strong><br> <strong>Distro News</strong><br> RHEL 5.5 Beta Available<br> SimplyMEPIS 8.5 Beta5<br> Tiny Core Releases V2.8<br> FreeBSD 7.3 Expected March 2010<br> <strong>Software and Product News</strong><br> Ksplice "Abolishes the Reboot"<br> MariaDB Augments MySQL 5.1<br> Moonlight 3.0 Preview Now Available<br> OpenOffice.org 3.2 Faster, More Secure<br> New Release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g<br> GWOS Monitor Enterprise Release 6.1 Adds Ubuntu Support<br> http://linuxgazette.net/172/brownss.html Silas Brown Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Silas Brown</strong> <br> <p> When I accidentally dropped an old Windows Mobile PocketPC onto the floor at the exact moment it was writing to a memory card, the memory card's master FAT was corrupted and several directories disappeared from the root directory. Since it had not been backed up for some time, I connected the memory card to a Linux system for investigation. (At this point it is important not to actually mount the card. If you have an automounter, turn it off before connecting. You have to access it as a device, for example <tt>/dev/sdb1</tt>. To see which device it is, you can do <tt>ls /dev/sd*</tt> both before and after connecting it and see what appears. The following tools read from the device directly, or from an image of it copied using the <tt>dd</tt> command.) </p> http://linuxgazette.net/172/crosby.html Dafydd Crosby Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Dafydd Crosby</strong> <br> <p>This month in NGLG, I'm taking a look at a couple of 3D games that don't require too much horsepower, but are still fun diversions.</p> http://linuxgazette.net/172/dyckoff.html Howard Dyckoff Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Howard Dyckoff</strong> <br> <p> The Great Recession's impact continues to grow and there are fewer IT and Open Source conferences on the horizon. However, three upcoming events are worth mentioning - the annual RSA security confab at the beginning of March, the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), and EclipseCon. All three are in the SF Bay Area and you could spend a great month dropping in on all three venues. Of course, you will have to risk getting swabbed down by TSA agents to get there. Security first. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/172/grebler.html Henry Grebler Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Henry Grebler</strong> <br> <p> I met Justin when I was contracting to one of the world's biggest computer companies, OOTWBCC, building Solaris servers for one of Australia's biggest companies (OOABC). Justin is in EBR (Enterprise Backup and Recovery). (OOTWBCC is almost certainly the world's most prolific acronym generator (TWMPAG).) I was writing scripts to automate much of the install of EBR. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/172/peterson.html Ron Peterson Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Ron Peterson</strong> <br> <p> <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">RSyslog</a> extends and improves on the venerable syslogd service. It supports the standard configuration syntax of its predecessor, but offers a number of more advanced features. For example, you can construct advanced filtering expressions in addition to the simple and limiting facility.priority selectors. In addition to the usual log targets, you can also write to a number of different databases. In this article, I'm going to show you how to combine these features to capture specific information to a database. In addition, I'll show you how to use trigger functions to parse the log messages into a more structured format. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/172/silva.html Anderson Silva Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Anderson Silva</strong> <br> <p> I started writing this article one night in December when I was bored and looking for a game to play on Linux. I am not much of a computer gamer, so I am not really current with what is out there for games in the Open Source world. That night I stumbled across <a href=http://openarena.ws/ id=oz-t title=OpenArena>OpenArena</a>, which is "a network enabled multiplayer first person shooter based on the ioquake3 fork of the id tech 3 engine." [<a href=http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page id=gzg1 title=1>1</a>] </p> http://linuxgazette.net/172/collinge.html Shane Collinge Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Shane Collinge</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/172/doomed.html Pete Trbovich Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Pete Trbovich</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/172/lg_backpage.html Ben Okopnik Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:34:03 -0500 By <strong>Ben Okopnik</strong> <br> <br>Recent Events: A Look Inside LG<br> In the "This shouldn't be news to anyone" category, we have...<br> So, what's left in LG?<br>