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Published the first day of every month. <br> Issue 171: February, 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/171/lg_mail.html LG Staff Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br><strong>Our Mailbag</strong><br> apertium-en-ca 0.8.99<br> apertium-ht-en 0.1.0<br> Creating appealing schemas and charts<br> Find what is created a given directory?<br> http://linuxgazette.net/171/lg_talkback.html LG Staff Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>Talkback:170/launderette.html<br> Talkback:170/lan.html<br> http://linuxgazette.net/171/lg_tips.html LG Staff Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>Two-cent Tip: efficient use of "-exec" in find<br> Two-cent Tip: creating scaled up/down image with ImageMagick<br> http://linuxgazette.net/171/lg_bytes.html Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff</strong> <br> <br>Contents:<br> <strong>News in General</strong><br> Linux.com Launches New Jobs Board<br> Google moves to ext4<br> Firefox Grows 40% in 2009, 3.5 now most Popular<br> European Commission Approves Oracle's Acquisition of Sun<br> <strong>Conferences and Events</strong><br> <strong>Distro News</strong><br> SimplyMEPIS 8.0.15 Update and 8.5 beta4 Released<br> <strong>Software and Product News</strong><br> Sun Microsystems Unveils Open Source Cloud Security Tools<br> Canonical Announces Bazaar Commercial Services<br> Canonical offers support program for Lotus Symphony<br> http://linuxgazette.net/171/grebler.html Henry Grebler Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Henry Grebler</strong> <br> <p> I am trying to compile a body of work on an overall theme that I call Taming Technology. (I have wrestled with several different names, but that is my title du jour.) The theme deals with troubleshooting, problem solving, problem avoidance, and analysis of technology failures. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/171/appaiah.html Kumar Appaiah Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Kumar Appaiah</strong> <br> <p> Ever since the start of the Internet, electronic mail has been a mainstay for communication. Even as new social networking phenomena such as online-friend connection databases and microblogging are taking communication on the Web by storm, e-mail still remains a preferred means of communication for both personal and official purposes, and is unlikely to fade away soon. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/171/crosby.html Dafydd Crosby Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Dafydd Crosby</strong> <br> <p>Many people have made the switch to Linux, and the question that has continued since the kernel hit 0.01 is "where are the games?"</p> http://linuxgazette.net/171/firefox.html Rick Moen Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Rick Moen</strong> <br> <p> Linux users tend, I've noticed, to complain about suckiness on the Web itself, and in their own Web browsers &mdash; browser bloat, sites going all-Flash, brain damage inherent in AJAX-oriented "Web 2.0" sites<a id="firefox.html_1_back"></a><a href="#firefox.html_1">[1]</a>, and death-by-JavaScript nightmares. However, the fact is: We've come a long way. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/171/nonstyleguide.html Rick Moen Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Rick Moen</strong> <br> <p> Here's all you probably want to know about <em>Linux Gazette's</em> copyediting staff &mdash; short version: there are a few of us, we disagree on many things, there are good and compelling reasons why we'll never agree, our job is to make your articles as good as possible while doing no harm, and we not only don't mind authors who disagree with our policies but think it's healthy and natural. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/171/pfeiffer.html Ren&eacute; Pfeiffer Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Ren&eacute; Pfeiffer</strong> <br> <p> Beginning in Spring 2009, I started seeing network problems at some customer sites: data transmissions would hang and time out; connections via OpenVPN links would work at first but time out as soon as more data was transmitted; VPN connections using UDP would not work at all (but would work magically when changing OpenVPN's port to 80/TCP). All these symptoms are usually tied to traffic shaping, problems with the maximum packet size (maximum transfer unit, MTU) or other issues usually found between the end-points of the transmission. But how do you test and record the performance of "your" Internet? </p> http://linuxgazette.net/171/silva.html Anderson Silva and Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Anderson Silva and Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner</strong> <br> <p> <a href="http://synergy2.sf.net/">Synergy</a> is an open source project that allows you to share a keyboard and a mouse among several different computers, each connected to some sort of monitor, without any extra hardware (e.g., KVM switches). Synergy runs over the network, and can be used with several different operating systems. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/171/collinge.html Shane Collinge Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Shane Collinge</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/171/xkcd.html Randall Munroe Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Randall Munroe</strong> <br> <p> <div class="cartoon1"> <a href="misc/xkcd/admin_mourning.png"> <img alt="[cartoon]" title="And every day it gets harder to fight the urge to su to the user and freak people out. " src="misc/xkcd/admin_mourning.png"> <br />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/171/doomed.html Pete Trbovich Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Pete Trbovich</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/171/lg_readers.html Kat Tanaka Okopnik and Ben Okopnik Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500 By <strong>Kat Tanaka Okopnik and Ben Okopnik</strong> <br> <br>Don't die, improvise<br> Why I hope that the Linux Gazette continues to publish<br> 1. The Linux Gazette provides original content.<br> 2. The Linux Gazette focuses on substance over style.<br> 3. The Linux Gazette is a serial publication.<br> 4. The accuracy of information at the Linux Gazette is well aboveaverage.<br> Write about it!<br> And who are our readers?<br>