Sun is donating the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 system to the OpenSolaris storage and Java.net communities to spur more cost-effective technologies and help solve digital archive and preservation challenges facing enterprises.

"We have talked about a pQuery before, which was a PHP port of jQuery. Now we have a new pQuery for the Perl community..." -- via use Perl; http://use.perl.org/articles/08/02/29/0512257.shtml

I need to / want to write ISO’s to CD’s from my Linux server, but since I don’t have an X-Manager like Gnome or KDE running, I need to find a way to write the CD’s from the command line with SSH. Luckely the server is right next to me, and it’s got a CDRW drive. It’s an old 24 speed Samsung CDRW, but that’s fine, it can still do the job well.

Even the most basic digital cameras can store a lot of useful information about photos in the EXIF format, including exposure time, aperture settings, focal length, and metering mode. The EXIF metadata can also contain the photo's geographical coordinates, which provide the exact position of where the photo was taken, but only few cameras on the market support this feature. However, you can add geographical information to your photos (i.e., geotag them) even if you don't have a fancy camera or GPS receiver using the Geotag tool. This nifty utility allows you to quickly geotag multiple photos in one go and do some other interesting things with them.

a library for retrieving facts from operating systems.A cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from operating systems. Supports multiple resolution mechanisms, any of which can be restricted to working only on certain operating systems or environments. Facter is especially useful for retrieving things like operating system names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SSH keys.

A group of former execs from a Microsoft messaging hosting partner are going to launch a Linux-based unified communications platform that will compete directly against Microsoft.

When you use the "rm" utility, you may think that you're deleting a file, but you're not. All you're doing is removing the file's index--or, inode number--from the hard drive. The file is still there, and can still be recovered, as long as you don't overwrite the space that it occupies with another file. (Even then, recovery experts still might be able to retrieve it.)

OpenLogic just announced that it had a good 2007. The company tripled its number of customers, and now counts three of the Fortune 10 as companies, with many more in the Fortune 500. Good for them. What is perhaps less appealing about the company's success is that it may be achieving its success at the expense of the projects that make it possible in the first place.