The Linux Foundation is launching a video contest and you can win yourself a trip to Tokyo next year to participate in the Linux Foundation Japan Linux Symposium Oct, 2009.
If you’ve been alive and aware of mass media over the last twelve months, you’ve probably seen television commercials from Apple and Microsoft touting their operating system. From Apple’s ubiquitous “I’m a Mac” to Jerry Seinfeld to Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” retort, operating system commercials have been flooding the airways. Except one OS has been notably absent — Linux.
You can upload your contest video here.
Mozilla has released software updates to fix at least 8 security vulnerabilities (3 critical bugs) in its Firefox software for the Windows, Linux, Mac and other platforms. You can now download Firefox version 3.0.5. This update has been rated as having important security impact.
The USB Overdrive is a device driver for Mac OS X that handles any USB mouse / trackball / joystick / gamepad and any Bluetooth mouse from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on a per-application basis. Some one posted a screen shot of USB Overdrive software. If you are a sensitive pirate you might feel guilty (found via Digg). Maybe it is a time to switch to Linux.
BASH for loop works nicely under UNIX / Linux / Windows and OS X while working on set of files. However, if you try to process a for loop on file name with spaces in them you are going to have some problem. for loop uses $IFS variable to determine what the field separators are. By default $IFS is set to the space character. There are multiple solutions to this problem.
Choosing the password is only the first step; you have got to remember it. You can not remember 100s of password at a time. However, with the help of a password manager, you can organize passwords, host names, and PIN codes.
Like most of you, I love using Firefox and explaining the advantages of Firefox to others who use other browsers. Unlike other browsers, Firefox has huge list of excellent add-ons that will satisfy almost all of your requirements in using a browser. Following are the list of 7 powerful Firefox password related add-ons that will make your life in managing passwords very safe, secure and easy under Mac OS X, Linux / UNIX and Windows operating system.
I’ve already written about tentakel tool and shell script hack to run a single command on multiple Linux / UNIX / BSD server. This is useful to save time and run UNIX commands on multiple machines. Linux.com has published an article about a new tool called pssh:
If you want to increase your productivity with SSH, you can try a tool that lets you run commands on more than one remote machine at the same time. Parallel ssh, Cluster SSH, and ClusterIt let you specify commands in a single terminal window and send them to a collection of remote machines where they can be executed.
Jim Zemlin is executive director of the Linux Foundation has posted some interesting information and very bold prediction about Linux desktop.
