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Published the first day of every month. <br> Issue 178: September, 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/178/lg_mail.html LG Staff Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br><strong>Our Mailbag</strong><br> SFLC vs. Westinghouse (Busybox GPL violation)<br> Load average vs CPUs<br> http://linuxgazette.net/178/lg_tips.html LG Staff Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>[2-cent Tip]: Counting your mail<br> [2-cent Tip]: Renumbering files<br> [2-cent Tip] typing command in bash shell with comfort<br> http://linuxgazette.net/178/lg_bytes.html Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff</strong> <br> <br>Contents:<br> <strong>News in General</strong><br> Oracle Sues Google Over Android JVM Clone<br> <strong>Conferences and Events</strong><br> <strong>Distro News</strong><br> Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS released<br> <strong>Software and Product News</strong><br> MongoDB 1.6 Released<br> http://linuxgazette.net/178/brownss.html Silas Brown Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>Silas Brown</strong> <br> <p>This is an article about basic video production in MPlayer. MPlayer has its own "edit decision list" facility, but that is limited to deleting scenes from an already-made movie; it cannot be used to take scenes from more than one source file and to sequence them in a different order, as is often needed in production. However, by running several MPlayer commands in succession you <em>can</em> do this on the command line, and you don't need particularly high-spec equipment or dexterous mouse skills or even eyesight to do it (some eyesight is a plus but you don't need much).</p> http://linuxgazette.net/178/dyckoff.html Howard Dyckoff Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>Howard Dyckoff</strong> <br> <p> You can still catch the end of VMworld 2010 US, which is also just weeks ahead of VMworld Europe in October. The conference theme is "Virtual Roads, Actual Clouds" and will feature more than 170 unique breakout sessions which focus on reducing IT complexity and enabling IT as a Service through virtualization and cloud computing. If that piques your techie interest, consider catching live and on-demand keynote presentations available via webcast at <a href="http://www.vmware.com/go/vmworld-general-sessions">http://www.vmware.com/go/vmworld-general-sessions</a>. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/178/grebler.html Henry Grebler Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>Henry Grebler</strong> <br> <p> Caller ID enabled me to answer the phone, "Hello, Home." </p> http://linuxgazette.net/178/okopnik.html Ben Okopnik Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>Ben Okopnik</strong> <br> <p> It's a well-known fact: if you've just bought a sky-blue Nissan Sentra with a spoiler, black-and-gold pinstripes, and whitewall tires, you're suddenly going to start seeing that exact car all over the place. It's as if everybody in the world read your mind, and shamelessly STOLE your brilliant idea of what's in style! Although before you start ranting about Those Idiots and using the top row of characters on your keyboard to describe them in detail, get this: <em>It's Not Them. It's You.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/178/silva.html Anderson Silva Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>Anderson Silva</strong> <br> <p>Let me start with a very basic question: why, oh why, would anybody want to run Windows on their Linux workstation? A web developer could argue that they need a way to test their applications on multiple versions of Internet Explorer. A system administrator could argue that they need a sandbox to test an email client like Outlook, or play around with integrating a Windows workstation into their network. In my case, I want a Windows virtual machine on my laptop because I want to be able to watch movies on Netflix. <img src="../gx/smile.png" alt=":-)" /> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/178/collinge.html Shane Collinge Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>Shane Collinge</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/178/ecol.html Javier Malonda Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>Javier Malonda</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/178/doomed.html Pete Trbovich Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>Pete Trbovich</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/178/lg_laundrette.html LG Staff Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:08:07 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>The Web is dead, apparently.<br> Interesting spam: in Irish!! 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