<b>The Linux Box: </b>"Statistically OpenOffice.org is used somewhere between 0.2% and 22% depending as to where you live. I am seeing more and more OOo use. My intention with this article is not to proselytize OOo, but instead to show some good ways to extend the use of OOo."
An alleged e-mail from Apple's Steve Jobs suggests big-name vendor may be pooling their support around H.264 for Web video, while Microsoft backs H.264 as well -- and joins in some Flash-bashing for good measure.
Detect the latest malware threats with the current reference update for <a href = "http://www.winplanet.com/file/11781.htm">Spybot Search and Destroy</a>
From growing your email list to creating an online community, a contest can be a valuable small business marketing tool. Strutta CEO, Ben Pickering, offers Web shop owners' tips for running online contests.
<b>Linux User and Developer:</b> "Like some of the alternative nettop computers we've reviewed over the past new months, the Zotac MAG can also attach to the VESA mount on the back of most monitors, meaning it takes up literally zero desk space."
HeidiSQL 4's Stored Routine Editor offers a user-friendly alternative to using a command-line interface to create and manage your stored procedures and functions. Today, we'll be learning how to take advantage of some useful native MySQL functions as well as use the editor to create our own custom functions.
This article - the sixth in this ongoing series - explores how to manually fail over a production database to its corresponding physical standby database, as well as reinstate a "failed" primary database to a physical standby.
The arrival of Intel's Nehalem-EX has pretty much signaled the end of Microsoft's support. High-end x86 servers now sport many features previously available only in Itanium.
<b>BBC News:</b> "Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff."
<b>HowtoForge: </b>"Nexenta is a project developing a debian user-land for the OpenSolaris kernel. This provides all of the advantages of apt as a package respoitory (based on the Ubuntu LTS apt repository, currently using 8.04) as well as the advantages of the ZFS filesystem."
<b>SiliconRepublic:</b> "Network software giant Novell has claimed it is the first Linux vendor to achieve 5,000 certified ISV applications and has increased its Linux market share against Red Hat, according to IDC."
It's ironic -- Sun took great pains to license its open source OS, OpenSolaris, and with it ZFS, under the ostensibly home-grown CDDL license. Now, with the plug pulled on Open Solaris, the future looks grim for the popular and highly regarded ZFS. Unless it can be absorbed into the Linux kernel that Sun carefully positioned it to avoid.
It's ironic -- Sun took great pains to license its open source OS, OpenSolaris, and with it ZFS, under the ostensibly home-grown CDDL license. Now, with the plug pulled on Open Solaris, the future looks grim for the popular and highly regarded ZFS. Unless it can be absorbed into the Linux kernel that Sun carefully positioned it to avoid.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told security experts and media that while many great ideas have been suggested, less talk and more action is needed to safeguard government and corporate networks.
<b>LWN.net:</b> "So, I'm now back and with some feedback to share. I'll first post (in this mail) a summary of the replies I got to this "poll" and later on a more general summary of what I did at UDS."
HP's newest inkjet is just a printer, no built-in copier/scanner, but it's a very nice printer, with wireless and double-sided printing standard. And its costs per page will put a smile on your face.
<b>Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris:</b> "Following bellow is build Xen Host on top Ubuntu 9.10 Server.It is based on direct clone via “hg” and build Xen 3.4.3-rc4 from xensource.com , applying Andrew Lyon’s 2.6.31 patch set V12..."