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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By LG Staff
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apertium-ht-en 0.1.0
Creating appealing schemas and charts
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Talkback

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By LG Staff
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2-Cent Tips

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By LG Staff
Two-cent Tip: efficient use of "-exec" in find
Two-cent Tip: creating scaled up/down image with ImageMagick

News Bytes

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff
Contents:
News in General
Linux.com Launches New Jobs Board
Google moves to ext4
Firefox Grows 40% in 2009, 3.5 now most Popular
European Commission Approves Oracle's Acquisition of Sun
Conferences and Events
Distro News
SimplyMEPIS 8.0.15 Update and 8.5 beta4 Released
Software and Product News
Sun Microsystems Unveils Open Source Cloud Security Tools
Canonical Announces Bazaar Commercial Services
Canonical offers support program for Lotus Symphony

Taming Technology: The Case of the Vanishing Problem

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Henry Grebler

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.

Random signatures with Mutt

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Kumar Appaiah

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.

The Next Generation of Linux Games - Word War VI

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Dafydd Crosby

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?"

The Gentle Art of Firefox Tuning (and Taming)

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Rick Moen

Linux users tend, I've noticed, to complain about suckiness on the Web itself, and in their own Web browsers — browser bloat, sites going all-Flash, brain damage inherent in AJAX-oriented "Web 2.0" sites [1], and death-by-JavaScript nightmares. However, the fact is: We've come a long way.

Words, Words, Words

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Rick Moen

Here's all you probably want to know about Linux Gazette's copyediting staff — 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.

Bidirectionally Testing Network Connections

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By René Pfeiffer

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?

Sharing a keyboard and mouse with Synergy (Second Edition)

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Anderson Silva and Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner

Synergy 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.

HelpDex

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Shane Collinge

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XKCD

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Randall Munroe

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Doomed to Obscurity

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

By Pete Trbovich

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:45 -0500

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