Date: 10/27/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: web, linux

For the knowledge worker, those who need access to the Web with an e-mail client and office suite, we can offer good Linux alternatives

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974838/

Date: 10/27/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, software, web, linux

Note: This is commercial software, but I am not affiliated or paid for endorsing it.

A little bit ago I started using sshfs which is a open source system tool that mounts remote directories to a local directory via ssh (encrypted secure connection) and I thought it would be cool if there was something similar for the Windows world. After googling and asking a lot of people, the link below was the best I could find. Basically what it does is make a drive map to a remote ftp / sftp server and expose the files there to your machine. The only problem I have with it is the price $20+. It's not exactly cheap, but when your the only person in town with a really useful service, I guess you can set whatever price you want.

Why this is useful?
Before I would use Dream weaver to keep my files sync'd, even when I used 2+ other IDE's and file editing tools. It wasn't exactly perfect but it worked in a half-assed way. Now with webdrive, the files appear local to any tool (Komodo, php, eclipse, python) but when you change them, it updates the remote as well.

http://www.webdrive.com/

Otherwise, anyone know of something cheaper/similar?  The only other idea I had was to use sshfs on my linux server like so remote_files -> local_linux.sshfs -> remote_local.samba -> windows workstation.   If the last sentence didn't make sense, then just know that it would be tedious to do. 

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/365812.html

Date: 10/31/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

What makes people fear Oracle's move into open source is that its giving could be a dodge. There is an assumption they're going to fork Linux, that they're going to add something proprietary to the mix, as in the story of the old lady sticking razors in the apples.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/43717201/

Date: 11/03/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

If we're really talking open source, if no one is going to do a proprietary fork, take their customers and go home, everyone wins here. The market can now grow exponentially, grabbing customers who were previously suspicious, who would never consider Linux before.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/44398329/

Date: 11/09/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

The truth of the assertion is in a chart near the back of the report. It shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux next year, against 23% for Windows. The move is slower for larger enterprises, but the direction is clear.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/47132567/

Date: 11/10/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: html, web, linux, apache

I created a script a while ago that allowed users to upload files to a folder and then update the html page to show the new file and the description given via a form. The users now want to be able to delete items that they uploaded. Naturally this is months after I worked on the script and they want it done today (dammit).
I found a rather nice tool in w2box:
http://labs.beffa.org/w2box/
except I can not get it to work on my server for some reason. Has anyone worked with it? The creators have not responded to my ask for help yet. Is there another script out on the interwebs that allows for file upload, deletion and downloading that is easy to deal with on a Linux/Apache server?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/509439.html

Date: 11/10/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, web, linux, apache

I created a script a while ago that allowed users to upload files to a folder and then update the html page to show the new file and the description given via a form. The users now want to be able to delete items that they uploaded. Naturally this is months after I worked on the script and they want it done today (dammit).
I found a rather nice tool in w2box:
http://labs.beffa.org/w2box/
except I can not get it to work on my server for some reason. Has anyone worked with it? The creators have not responded to my ask for help yet. Is there another script out on the interwebs that allows for file upload, deletion and downloading that is easy to deal with on a Linux/Apache server?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/368139.html

Date: 11/11/06 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser, linux

Is there such a thing as a tool for synchronising my bookmarks between browsers and operating systems? I use Opera/Linux at home but Firefox/WinXP at work, and occassionally IE/Win2k (or XP) if I'm away from my PCs and have no other option.

[Cross-posted to browserfriendly]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/62339.html

Date: 11/13/06 (Apache)    Keywords: php, linux, apache

Настраиваю сервер Apache под Gentoo Linux. Поставил вручную php (emerge не сработало). На сервере команды типа php [file] выполняются, а вот в браузере нет.
Пытался прописывать AddType и Action, тогда говорит, что
The requested URL /usr/local/bin/php/index.php was not found on this server.

Интерпретатор здесь /usr/local/bin/php

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/35247.html

Date: 11/13/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Will Linux advance without gaming? Will desktop Linux ever reach the mass market without gaming? And will we ever see an open source game console?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/48771416/

Date: 11/20/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology, asp, linux, microsoft

Users are in an uproar but, according to Groklaw, the threat is real, at least in regards those Linux users who also use Microsoft's .Net. Such enterprises will only be able to use the "open source" aspects of Microsoft's technology if they also switch to SUSE.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/51728130/

Date: 11/20/06 (Code WTF)    Keywords: linux

Вот такой код в mm/slab.c, чудная особенность в том, что оно не скомпилируется с выключенным оптимизатором...

Т.к. символа __bad_size линкер не найдет, а на __always_inline компилятор (gcc 4.0.3) наплюет при выключенной оптимизации.

/*
 * This function must be completely optimized away if a constant is passed to
 * it.  Mostly the same as what is in linux/slab.h except it returns an index.
 */
static __always_inline int index_of(const size_t size)
{
        extern void __bad_size(void);

        if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
                int i = 0;

#define CACHE(x) \
        if (size <=x) \
                return i; \
        else \
                i++;
#include "linux/kmalloc_sizes.h"
#undef CACHE
                __bad_size();
        } else
                __bad_size();
        return 0;
}

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/code_wtf/59064.html

Date: 11/21/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: java, linux, microsoft

Most of you don't appear to take Ballmer's threat seriously. That's good. But does it make you more likely to seek a strategy in the future that takes you away from Microsoft, say through the use of GPL Java and Linux?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/52156548/

Date: 12/13/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, linux

"As a development model the GPL and other licenses offer the possibility of more rapidly creating network effects around software. Linux has extraordinary network effects. Open source can create a community of developers and users who in turn create features that make software more sustainable.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/60820649/

Date: 12/15/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

IBM has donated IAccessibility2, an API for giving the blind full access in Linux and Open Office, to the Free Standards Group. This is a big win for both abled and disabled users. Blind folks can now get the savings of open source, and a major impediment to government mandates of open source has been cleared.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/61898189/

Date: 12/15/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

The record of the case, and its intense discovery, may dissuade even Microsoft from challenging the legal position of Linux, given the court's demand that any such challenge must state precisely the code to be challenged and the basis of that challenge.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/61874810/

Date: 12/16/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Getting the word out on our great desktop Linux applications should be an important goal for 2007, and beyond.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/62337391/

Date: 12/17/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: php, programming, asp, sql, linux, google

Hi everyone,

I thought before I go any further I'd ask approval, and give a bit of a background on myself.

in 2000, I was working for blue chip clients as an asp programmer, and then discovered I had chronic Lyme disease, which I am currently under treatment for, but its left me with a six year gap in knowledge, Yes I've gone back to the Olde Faithfull Wrox books, MSDN etc for .net2 but I am finding so much has changed, I am fairly competent with C++ asp, VBscript and ECMA C# is completely new to me!

to get me back to programming I bought a 2nd user server, which is running 2k3 enterprise ed. and have a 2nd machine running mssql 2005, I installed Visual Studio Pro, and thought that a couple of the Starter kits would prove a good place to start, oh How wrong I have been!

Firstly: I tried theBeerHouse kit, hmmn, yes it runs on Localhost, but will the blasted thing run on a inbound connection Will it heck, I've trawled google for answers, worked arround issues, damn it I could have written the lot in asp quicker! or even as a Com+ application. I thought .net2 was supposed to be easier.

But alas I think not unless I am completely missing something, the last thing I want to do is learn PHP! I'd rather eat a linux computer first!!

So whats your advise for someone getting back into this, where did you start and if you have an indespensible book what is it?

Debate

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/80741.html

Date: 12/19/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

It's a six page file from Unisphere Research, created by the same folks who created the 5 Minute Briefing, indicating that, while small companies are moving off Windows, larger ones are moving off Solaris -- but nearly all the server moves are in the direction of Linux.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/63725873/

Date: 12/22/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: linux

Linux colorization of terminal output is very straining to the eye even for normal people and absolutely meaningless for color-blinds. I find it irritating as it makes it really hard to see, especially with the bad choice of colors like deep-blue on black. It you are in the same boat read on. Steps: 1. su as [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-turn-off-colorization-of-linux-terminals/