Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC’s former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked (or was supposed to work) on the backend.
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The Bipolar Lisp Programmer
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"Have you ever wondered how it could be that Lisp is so powerful, and yet C is so much more successful and ubiquitous? How is it that so many brilliant coders know Lisp, and yet we so rarely hear from any of them other than Paul Graham? This is a great article that tries to explain it: the bipolar Lisp programmer." -- «So what's the problem with Lisp?
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Terminator runs multiple GNOME terminals in the same window
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In a sense, the desktop is the best thing that ever happened to the command line. Because a virtual terminal runs in a graphical environment, it boasts all sorts of enhancements that the unadorned shell lacks -- everything from multiple tabs to easy selection of display fonts and background and foreground colors.
Read more »Adobe Introduces Flash Player 10 Beta with Linux Support
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Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.
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Git from the Bottom Up
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"John Wiegley recently wrote a great article about git called Git from the Bottom Up (pdf). I found it to be very helpful in clarifying how git works and that understanding makes git feel more accessible..." -- http://www.newartisans.com/blog_assets/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
Read more »Fedora 9 hits the streets
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The Fedora Project Tuesday said Fedora 9, a free, open source Linux operating system, is ready for download.
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Verizon, Mozilla join mobile Linux group
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Verizon Wireless is throwing its support behind mobile Linux, becoming the first U.S. operator to join the LiMo Foundation, a group developing mobile Linux technology.
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IPlist Protects Torrent Traffic in Linux
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Free IP-filtering application IPlist protects your BitTorrent downloads from third-party snoopers and blockers by controlling which IP addresses can and cannot connect to your system.
Read more »Welcome to the Linux Command Line Interface Desktop
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TuxTraining.com has covered numerous commandline applications but now it’s time to tie it all together. So Ctrl Alt F6 and get to that command line, because you don’t need no stinkin GUI.
Read more »Open Source Security Myths Dispelled
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The decision to deploy proprietary, rather than open source security solutions (OSS), is often influenced by some commonly held perceptions. Many IT professionals can’t seem to shake off the belief that OSS is inherently risky unreliable and complex. I am going to examine the most common of these perceptions to highlight how the facts are very often the exact opposite to what people believe.
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North-by-South Announces Close of Investment Round
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In short: there's an incredible free software movement happening in Latin America. To support this movement, North-by-South is a San Francisco-based business whose goal is to give businesses in Silicon Valley access to this pool of talent and to materially support the open source developers in Latin America.
Read more »Predictive text input with Soothsayer
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Soothsayer is a predictive text input system. Many folks reading that sentence will think of the word completion offered by mobile phones. Soothsayer is different from such mobile phone systems in that it tries to use context and other statistical information to offer predictions instead of just presenting a list of words that might match the first few letters you type.
Read more »Howto Install Truecrypt with GUI tool in Ubuntu Gutsy
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TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention.
Read more »Fix for OpenSSL/SSH/VPN Vulnerability in Ubuntu 7.04/7.10/8.04
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A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. This particularly affects the use of encryption keys in OpenSSH, OpenVPN
Read more »Embedded Linux Conference videos available
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Free Electrons has published an amazing multimedia re-cap of CELF's Embedded Linux Conference, which took place Apr. 14-18 in Mountain View, Calif. Featuring video transcripts, slides, and detailed notes from 22 talks, the article offers something for every Linux device developer or user.
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