Date: 04/07/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

The Linux community is under attack again for the behavior of a few individuals. ZDNet UK talks to Laura DiDio, an analyst for the Yankee Group, who is complaining that she's been ridiculed and harassed by Linux users who don't like what she's had to say. "There's an extremist fringe of Linux loonies who hang [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=227

Date: 04/15/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

If your hardware vendor or free Linux application requires that you use a paid Linux distribution, is it still free?Paul Murphy says it's a scam, one IBM is perpetrating.  Specifically he points to Red Hat's server support license for enterprises, at $799 per processor. the impracticalities combine with the licensing requirement to render both the [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=238

Date: 04/16/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, web, linux, hosting, apache

I am currently hosting my web site with powweb, the problem is that I am outgrowing its feature set. I’m working on some applications that need the MySQL InnoDB table type, or at least would find it very useful. Does anyone know of a hosting provider that supports the following:

PHP 5.0x
MySQL 4.1.x With InnoDB
Apache (1.3 or 2.0 would be fine)

Ideally running linux or BSD

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/286793.html

Date: 04/17/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: linux

i'ma be building a new server soon (sempron 2300+, 256mb, 120gb) and am kinda stuck on which os to run. i've always been a big slackware linux fan, but am thinking a change of os might be nice. i've also tried openbsd, and liked it. what do you guys recommend?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/662176.html

Date: 04/18/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Is Linux becoming like Windows, so overwhelmed with features that it's bloated.Some people are starting to think so. There is support for so many features in the Linux 2.6 kernel that it may be getting so fat as to be unstable. (Just add one more feature. It's wafer-thin.) Andrew Morton of OSDL, who currently maintains [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=241

Date: 01/01/70 (Webmaster View)    Keywords: xml, linux

Opera 8 for Windows and Linux released.

New Features:

• Voice support.
• "Fit to window width" abolishes horizontal scrolling.
• Support for XmlHttpRequest.
• Easy access to useful features via a Start bar.
• Easy retrieval of closed pages and blocked pop-ups.

Comments

Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/browsers/opera_8_released

Date: 04/19/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

A couple articles I've come across today that I thought I might share in case people missed them.

I found both on Slashdot, not surprisingly.

The first is The Pros And Cons Of Firefox, by Fred Langa on InformationWeek. Although he makes some good points for either side of the debate, he does miss on key area. There may be as many bugs in Mozilla software as in Microsoft, the major difference is what is likely to happen when someone finds this vulnerability. I think Open Source/Linux supporters are more likely to create a patch and pass it on quickly.

The difference is that the people who know how to read and write the code for Linux operating systems are part of the open source community and there are likely far more of them than the ones who would take advantage of the bug for profit or whatever.

Not the same with Microsoft. Some people might alert them, but I think the ones looking for the vulnerabilities are the ones wanting to exploit them. Microsoft's code is not open source as everyone knows, so there is no intelligent user base checking the code to ferrett out these bugs and fix them quickly.

The second article was all about users. The full article is in the Boston Globe, but I only read the summary on Slashdot.

Users as Innovators - Why Open Source Works

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/273953.html

Date: 04/19/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, linux

Linux is a robust, scalable, modular operating system, which is extensible by anyone, and can interoperate with nearly anything. This is the power of open source. But there are other equally powerful, equally open technologies out there.The Internet is a robust, scaled transport protocol. WiFi offers inexpensive local networking. Link sensors with software under these standards [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=242

Date: 04/20/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: linux

I just bought one of the version 1 players. I am pretty pleased with the features.

I am trying to figure one thing out though...

I can drag and drop files in to the play list folder, but there is no actual playlist on the player.

I'd like to use this in Linux and not rely on a Windoze box with WMP.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/664492.html

Date: 04/20/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

It's called CHAOS, and it takes unused cycles from any PC on your network, then harnesses them for use by an application which needs them.It's a good example of a point made by several readers here the last few days, that adding new features to Linux simply makes Linux better, not more unwieldy. CHAOS uses [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=243

Date: 04/20/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: linux

In case anyone gets frightened by the last post, I've had no problem upgrading my Linux boxen to Opera 8. Redhat 9, Fedora 2 and 3 and Feather Linux(hard-drive install) all took Opera 8 just fine, kept the configs, registration and worked like a charm. The problems seem to be localized, so ... happy upgrading.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/opera_browser/31900.html

Date: 04/20/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Back in the early days, before the stock market collapsed upon itself and Caldera turned evil, one of the problems in promoting Linux was certification programs that would allow hiring managers to sort the wheat from the chaff when going through resumes. While certification programs are by no means perfect -- certification won't usually [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=244

Date: 04/21/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

Microsoft will support instances of Red Hat Linux in its Virtual Server and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). Joking that it hurts my eyes CEO Steve Ballmer watched Red Hat Linux running on an early version of Virtual Server Service Pack 1, due for release by year-end.Ballmer also showed MOM controlling Sun Solaris boxes, and admitted working [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=245

Date: 04/23/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, linux

Does anyone know if there's a way to export your mozilla (or firefox) preferences and extensions, similar to the way you can export adblock filters? I know there's a way to copy your preferences from one computer to another regarding the browser, but it'd be nice if there was a handy "packaged" way to do so (I'm trying to setup profiles on mac/linux with the browsers configured the same but it's taking damn near forever). Is there an extension or anything that can handle this? Or am I just being far too lazy? hehe

And if I'm being far too lazy, and someone explain how/where/which files I should be copying in the preferences to make everything the same?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/275377.html

Date: 04/23/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

Microsoft's Jim Allchin is out plugging "Longhorn," even though the OS isn't expected to be released for more than another year. Apparently, not content to copy features from the Mac OS and Linux, the new MS mantra ("It just works") is also borrowed from Apple's ad campaigns. In the Fortune piece, [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=249

Date: 04/27/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Kaboodle, an open source LAN manager, quietly hit its Release 1.0 milestone last week. For those looking for open source tools to use in the enterprise this is a big deal. There are versions under Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. The first two are possible because of WINE compatibility. At its heart this is actually a [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=255

Date: 04/28/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web, linux, hosting

I have a hosting company that runs Linux with PHP and MySQL through Plesk (a kind of server control panel) I can’t get into the control panel at work because I’m behind a firewall that blocks port 8443. I can, however use “my network places” in windows 200 to create an FTP connection to my server. The down side is: with FTP I can’t interface with the MySQL database… but, at least, I can upload and download files…Right?

Wrong.

This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. The files I upload using FTP on my home computer or Plesk at home can be accessed from the web by typing the URL, but they do not appear in windows FTP flooder for the site. Yes, I have refreshed and restarted and connected and disconnected. They just don’t show up.

I can copy a file in to the FTP folder in windows… and it returns no error and appears to have uploaded correctly. But, if I type in the URL for the file the server says “file not found” I believe the upload is not working because when I go home and look in FTP on the other side of the firewall the file is not there! But, it appears to be there in windows. It was even there the next day. What on earth is going on!

Moreover, if I use a web-based FTP like http://01ftp.com/index.php it will show be a different set of files depending on what side of the firewall I’m on.

I can’t turn the firewall off but I’d like to, at least, understand why this is happening.

Why didn’t windows return an error when the file failed to upload? What if that file had been important? How can it show the file in the FTP folder for my site when it’s not really there? I think that’s a pretty scary and unreliable thing for an OS to do!

I think this might have something to do with actve and passive FTP... I'm reading up on it now... but honestly I don't have a clue.

The firewall is Mcaffe desktop firewall, and it's centrally controlled so no way to shut it off without being some kind of evil little haXX0r.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/293012.html

Date: 04/28/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus, web, linux

Windows XP box. Latest service patches etc etc etc. Connected through linux gateway and firewall + nat ADSL to the net.

Network connectivity from windows to external addresses is flakey. Ok ish for web browsing (occasional "could not reach" / dns errors), but terminal connections drop out after about 30 seconds.

Local connections solid as a rock. Connections from any other machine to the internet (windows laptop and linux gateway) all ok. Maintaining any form of persistent external connectivity from the machine is impossible, but sessions have lasted for days from other machines (both linux and windows).

Thoughts?

I don't think it can be the network card because local connections are fine. I don't think it can be the gateway because connections to the outside from the gateway and from other machines are fine.

Virus? But I hardly use the machine, its behind two firewalls and not directly addressable. I only browse through firefox and don't download any dodgy stuff. I have virus scanned with AVG and found no problems, and I can't see any other obvious signs of infection - hosts file unmodified, nothing unexpected trying to estabish a network connection, spybot reports no malware, no porn links magically appearing on my desktop or anything.

Anyone got any ideas? I'm tempted to do a re-install to be safe, but I would really like to isolate the problem if I can.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/672448.html

Date: 04/27/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Kaboodle, an open source LAN manager, quietly hit its Release 1.0 milestone last week. For those looking for open source tools to use in the enterprise this is a big deal. There are versions under Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. The first two are possible because of WINE compatibility. At its heart this is actually a [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=255&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/23/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

Microsoft's Jim Allchin is out plugging "Longhorn," even though the OS isn't expected to be released for more than another year. Apparently, not content to copy features from the Mac OS and Linux, the new MS mantra ("It just works") is also borrowed from Apple's ad campaigns. In the Fortune piece, [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=249&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog