Marc J. Rochkind wrote
the first edition of
Advanced UNIX Programming
in 1984. In this
installment of the Book
Rookery, he discusses
with Kevin Bedell the
second edition - a
complete revision that
benefits from his years
of post-B...
Spammers are making money
exploiting other people's
systems and no one is
immune. This article
examines the implications
for organizations and for
Linux caused by the
spam/virus convergence,
and details the level of
protection neces...
CyberLink
(www.gocyberlink.com),
the authors of the
well-known PowerDVD
player that comes with
many Microsoft Windows
machines that contain DVD
drives, is a company on a
mission: to advance the
technology of digital
video and audi...
Welcome to the third
installment of 'Guide to
Linux on the Business
Desktop.' Part 1 (Vol. 2,
issue 4) covered some of
the many Linux
distributions available,
and Part 2 (Vol. 2, issue
5) looked at some of the
major vendors' Linux
...
A funny thing has
happened to the computer
industry over the last
few years. The
traditional wisdom was
that there were two types
of companies. At one
extreme, there were
small, fast startups that
could maneuver nimbly and
rapidly...
The Associated Press
(AP), the world's oldest
and largest news agency,
offers a service that
allows news providers to
integrate AP online
content directly into
their Web sites. The
service, AP Hosted News,
is used by approximately
...
Companies today are
looking for potential
cost savings, and
outsourcing appears to be
the advantage needed to
get ahead. The short-term
gains are apparent: a
direct cost savings as
more expensive employees
are laid off. Commonly
o...
We received some great
news this past month. Our
own Dee-Ann LeBlanc,
known to regular readers
as the Gaming Industry
editor of LinuxWorld
Magazine, was selected a
winner of the 2003
Excellence in Technology
Journalism by the Public...
There has been some
controversy recently over
a Microsoft-commissioned
TCO (total cost of
ownership) study claiming
that the long-term cost
of Windows is lower than
that of Linux. It's time
to clear up the
confusion.
The explosion of
rack-mount cluster server
solutions in the last
five years has brought
significant innovation to
what has traditionally
been a grassroots-driven
industry. In 1998,
clusters made up a mere
2% of the Top 500
superco...
This article shows you
how to develop a
straightforward,
multiplatform application
for ripping CDs into the
Ogg Vorbis format. Follow
along to see how elegant
and quick it is to
develop using PyQt.
Previous notions of
limited scalability of
Linux were abruptly
changed last year by the
introduction of the SGI
Altix server, which
scaled up to 64
processors within a
single system image
(SSI). Today, large-scale
Linux servers wi...
It turns out that,
indeed, many MMORPGs
(Massively Multiplayer
Online Role Playing
Games) are running Linux
on their back ends.
Christian Berentsen, the
operations director of
Funcom (www.funcom.com)
kindly agreed to a
virtual tal...
Kevin Bedell caught up
with Rickford Grant,
author of Linux for
Non-Geeks, to ask him a
few questions about his
handy guide for Linux
newbies and those with
'command-line phobia.'
We know that many of our
readers work in smaller,
high-tech startups and
are trying to grow
businesses based on Linux
and open source software
(or are thinking about
it!). We thought this
article on helping
smaller companies like
...
It's fascinating that so
much has happened since
the last Samba Update. To
those of us close to the
action it seems that
development just
continues at a steady
pace. This edition of the
Samba Update update
reports on the roadmap
f...
While hypothetical case
studies are sometimes
interesting, nothing
beats examining a real
company offering a real
product. A few years ago,
our team sat down to
create our first product,
called eventSherpa. In
sharing our experience...
Providing continuous
service availability is a
crucial factor for many
industries, especially in
the telecommunication
sector. For instance,
people always expect to
hear a dial tone when
they pick up their
phones, and they always
...
At this point, Linux has
gone a long way toward
totally infiltrating
Microsoft's server
business. For databases,
Web servers, and file
servers, Linux competes
on an equal footing, if
not a superior one.
There's only one missing
...
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
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'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
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Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's
Because AJAX moves so
much application logic
from the server to the
client, it forces many
developers to master a
wider range of web
technologies than ever
before. T
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's 
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the 
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha