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Issue 168: November, 2009 en editor@linuxgazette.net editor@linuxgazette.net Copyright (c) 1996-2009 the Editors of Linux Gazette http://linuxgazette.net/gx/2004/newlogo-blank-100-gold2.jpg http://www.linuxgazette.net/ 42 99 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:21 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/lg_mail.html By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br><strong>Gazette Matters</strong><br> Garbage mails in TAG<br> <strong>Our Mailbag</strong><br> Disabling Gnome application sounds in KDE4<br> Efficient chmod/chown<br> Developing a small OS from a preinstalled Linux<br> Followup: Regarding How can Define congestion windows in Fedora<br> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:21 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/lg_talkback.html By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br>Talkback:167/okopnik.html<br> Talkback:128/saha.html<br> Talkback:160/okopnik.html<br> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:21 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/lg_tips.html By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br>2-cent tip - rpath<br> Two-cent Tip: bash script to create animated rotating mark<br> 2-cent Tip: Load Python modules at Startup<br> Two-cent Tip: Detexify<br> 2-cent Tip: Piping to GNU Plot from C<br> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:21 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/lg_bytes.html By <strong>Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff</strong> <br>Contents:<br> <strong>News in General</strong><br> Red Hat Urges Supreme Court to Exclude Patents to Software<br> Linux FoundationAnnounces Hardware Perks for Individual Members<br> Moblin 2 on new Netbooks<br> <strong>Conferences and Events</strong><br> <strong>Distro News</strong><br> Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop, Server and UNR Editions Released<br> Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition: Cloud Computing made Easier<br> OpenBSD 4.6 now out<br> Puppy Linux 4.3.1<br> Mandriva Linux 2010 RC2<br> openSUSE 11.2 RC1 available<br> Tiny Core Linux updated<br> <strong>Software and Product News</strong><br> JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA Goes Open Source<br> Dell Latitude Z-ltraPortable with Business Features<br> Smallest Wireless N USB Adapter Now Available from TRENDnet<br> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:21 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/brownss.html By <strong>Silas Brown</strong> <p> There are several reasons why you might have more than one website. For example, you might have an account on a fast server with limited quota, and another on a server that is slower but has more space, and you keep certain rarely-used files on the slower server. Or you might have an easy-to-remember dyndns alias pointing to your home server, but some pages on another server that has a better connection but a longer address. If this is the case, then it might be useful to set one of the servers to forward any requests for pages it can't find to the other server. Then you can use this first server in all the addresses you type, and if the page requested is on it, it will be returned, otherwise the browser will be automatically redirected to check the second server for the same page. (Don't set that second server to redirect back to the first or you'll have an infinite loop.) </p> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:21 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/dyckoff1.html By <strong>Howard Dyckoff</strong> <p> It's nearly time to retire 2009, yet many conferences for the Linux and open source community are just about to happen. A plethora will happen in the first week of November, so this preview may give you ideas for 2010. </p> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:21 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/nielsen.html By <strong>Mark Nielsen</strong> <p> MySQL Cluster has come a long way in the 4 years since I experimented with it. Compared to when I first got the cluster working on my home computer, I didn't have to change much get the latest version up and running. </p> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:22 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/silva.html By <strong>Anderson Silva and Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner</strong> <p> Remember how tabbed browsing revolutionized the web experience? GNU Screen can do the same for your experience in the command line. Screen allows you to manage several interactive shell instances within the same "window". By using different keyboard shortcuts, you can shuffle through the shell instances, access any of them directly, create new ones, kill old ones, and attach and detach existing ones. </p> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:22 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/collinge.html By <strong>Shane Collinge</strong> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:22 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/ecol.html By <strong>Javier Malonda</strong> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:22 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/xkcd.html By <strong>Randall Munroe</strong> <p> <div class="cartoon1"> <a href="misc/xkcd/command_line_fu.png"> <img alt="[cartoon]" title="When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex. " src="misc/xkcd/command_line_fu.png"><p>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> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:22 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/doomed.html By <strong>Pete Trbovich</strong> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:22 -0500 http://linuxgazette.net/168/lg_launderette.html By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br>From the Department of Pedantry<br> [OT] Meetup?<br> Power management by sonar<br> Meetup<br> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:33:22 -0500