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Journals RSS FeedsA real gift this holiday season...delete it. - Can I vent here for a moment about well meaning, but clearly out-of-the-loop, friends who seem to think everything on the Internet, especially when it comes to safety, is a real situation that needs our attention and should be sent to every mailing list they are on? read more ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com StudioDave Does A Hardware Review And Meets Ubuntu 8.10 -
A few months ago I started sensing the need for a replacement for my aging and ailing HP Omnibook 4150. That machine's audio capabilities were negligible even with external hardware, but it had been serviceable for writing articles and as a portable MIDI composition environment. Alas, after years of travel and abuse the Omnibook's hard drive gasped its last breath of life. I had no fear for my data, the drive had been backed up, but clearly the time had come to buy a new portable computer.
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... Keeping Linux Safe Since 1994 - Typeanalyzer says Linux Journal is one of The Guardians. That is,
The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done.
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... Black Friday - Shopping for Your Linux Loved Ones - Have a friend or family member who loves Linux? While you're shopping on this Black Friday, consider this shopping list of all things Tux.
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... What Does Open Source Taste Like? - For those of you familiar with twitter, the "microblogging" social-networking tool, you know that it can be a fun way to gather data from a large group of people. If you have a substantial enough group of followers, inevitably, a few are paying attention most of the time, and you will get a handful of interesting responses to almost any question.
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... Open Source and the frustrations at end-of-life, and beyond - Over the years, I have turned to Linux and the Open Source community for a number of solutions to obscure and difficult problems. And, rarely, has the community let me down. But the community, like software development in general, has limited resources and sometimes limited interest.
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... Save the Libraries ? With Open Source - For some in the world of free software, libraries are things that you call, rather than visit. But the places where books are stored ? especially those that make them freely available to the public ? are important repositories of the world's knowledge, of relevance to all. So coders too should care about them alongside the other kind, and should be concerned that there is a threat to their ability to provide ready access to knowledge they have created themselves. The good news is that open source can save them.
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... Use the date Command to Measure Elapsed Time -
When running bash scripts that take a long time to run
it's often useful to know how long it took for the script to run.
In addition to the overall run time, it's also often useful to
know how long certain parts of the script took to run.
The time command doesn't really help because it's meant
to time a single command, not a sequence of commands.
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... Technology and the reduction in privacy - As I was standing in the shower this morning, ruminating over the firings of several Verizon employees for snooping into President-Elect Obama?s phone records, I began to think about privacy and what it means and what it will evolve to mean in the coming days and years. After all I was in one of the most private places a person can be right?
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... Interrogating a Linux Machine -
The other day, a client called upon me to perform a hardware and software
inventory on all of the computers on his network. There weren't that many
machines to inventory, but we needed to gather quite a bit of information
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... Treasury Considers Mortgage Plan - The Treasury Department is considering a plan to revitalize the U.S. housing market by reducing mortgage rates for new loans to as low as 4.5%.
... Beige Book Shows Broad Weakness - A Fed report shows that U.S. economic activity has weakened even further, adding to this week's dismal financial news. (Report)
... Volatility Only Constant for Stocks - The Dow industrials ended another turbulent session up 2.1% at 8591.69 after moving in a range of nearly 400 points. Shares of banks and builders jumped.
... China Stability Plans Include Yuan - China pledged to use a range of means, including its currency, to ensure its banking and financial systems function well as it implements an stimulus package.
... Lufthansa May Buy Austrian Airlines - Lufthansa may buy Austrian Airlines, pushing the giant carrier further along one of the most ambitious acquisition sprees the industry has seen in years.
... Neuberger Team Wins Bid for Lehman Unit - A group of managers and senior employees of Lehman Brothers' Neuberger Berman asset-management unit won a bid to acquire a majority interest in the division.
... Citic Pacific Hit Is Bigger Than Seen - Shares in Citic Pacific fell sharply after the company disclosed larger losses than previously estimated.
... Carlyle to Cut 10% of Staff - Carlyle is cutting 10% of its staff, the first large U.S. private-equity firm to announce firmwide layoffs as the industry braces for leaner times.
... Adobe Plans to Cut 600 Jobs - Adobe cut its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings guidance and said it plans to cut 600 jobs, or about 9% of its world-wide work force.
... Service-Sector Activity Contracts - Service-sector activity in the U.S. dropped deeper into recession in November, as the ISM's overall index for nonmanufacturing activity slid to 37.3, from 44.4 in October.
... BlackBerry Sign-Ups Miss Target - Research in Motion became the latest smartphone maker to lower its outlook for the quarter, at a time of slumping demand and heightened competition in the market.
... Goldman Considers Online Bank - Goldman is weighing the launch of an Internet banking operation in an effort to broaden funding sources.
... Freeport Cuts Mine Output - Freeport cut projected copper production and sales for the next two years as it plans to halve estimated 2009 capital spending.
... Cyber Monday Sales Jump 15% - Aggressive discounts lured consumers on Cyber Monday, though online shoppers are spending less overall so far this holiday season.
... Three Bidders Chasing Lehman Unit - Three bidders are competing to buy Lehman Brothers' investment-management division after two new offers emerged for the business.
... SEC Approves New Credit-Rating Rules - The SEC voted to finalize rules intended to curb conflicts of interest and promote competition in the ratings business but postponed acting on other, more controversial changes.
... Firms Seek More Action to Unfreeze Lending - A range of companies are clamoring for more federal action to unlock credit markets, saying that recent moves to prop up the banking sector haven't done enough to jumpstart lending to businesses.
... Auto Union Open to Changes in Contract - UAW leaders will allow the Big Three to delay payments to a health-care trust and suspend the controversial jobs-bank program.
... Treasury Considers Mortgage Plan - The Treasury Department is considering a plan to revitalize the U.S. housing market by reducing mortgage rates for new loans to as low as 4.5%.
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