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Published the first day of every month. <br> Issue 153: August, 2008 en gazette@linuxgazette.net gazette@linuxgazette.net Copyright (c) 1996-2008 the Editors of Linux Gazette monthly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://linuxgazette.net/gx/2004/newlogo-blank-100-gold2.jpg http://www.linuxgazette.net/ 42 99 http://linuxgazette.net/153/lg_mail.html LG Staff Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br><strong>Still Searching</strong><br> Reg:Postfix mail redirection<br> Getting started with Linux & OLPC<br> <strong>Our Mailbag</strong><br> Averatec n40bers and sy0b3es<br> inquiry on tcpdump<br> [OT] Nagware from Google Translate<br> SMTP Auth Problem<br> Regular Expressions<br> What other existing RMAIL Emacs commands or techniques or mechanisms are useful for sorting out spam messages?...<br> kernel inquiry<br> Tool to populate a filesystem?<br> Multi-host install of FC6<br> Auto detect and mount SD Card<br> SCP Sensing Remote file presense<br> asking about MIB structure of SNMP agent running on various type of Solaris, HP-UX and Windows<br> is it possible to make CUPS daemons cooperate between themselves?<br> thanks for CUPS tips<br> Followup: US sanctions-compliant Linux<br> Searching for multiple strings/patterns with 'grep'<br> http://linuxgazette.net/153/lg_mail2.html LG Staff Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br><strong>Editor's Note</strong><br> Cuneiform OCR source available for linux<br> Playing With Sid : Apertium: Open source machine translation<br> Apertium-transfer-tool info request<br> [Apertium-stuff] Apertium-transfer-tool info request<br> http://linuxgazette.net/153/lg_talkback.html LG Staff Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>Talkback:116/okopnik.html<br> Talkback:107/pai.html<br> Talkback:152/lg_tips.html<br> Talkback:152/oregan.html<br> Talkback:116/herrmann.html<br> Talkback:116/okopnik.html - success!<br> http://linuxgazette.net/153/lg_tips.html LG Staff Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>2-cent Tip: Caching in the Shell<br> http://linuxgazette.net/153/lg_bytes.html Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff</strong> <br> <br>Contents:<br> <strong>News in General</strong><br> Xandros Buys Rival Linspire<br> Red Hat Voted "Greenest" Operating System<br> Kernel 2.6.26 Released with New Virtualization Support, KDB<br> <strong>Conferences and Events</strong><br> <strong>Distro News</strong><br> openSUSE 11.0 goes GA<br> Gentoo 2008.0 Released<br> Elyssa Mint, Xfce Community Edition RC1 BETA 025 Released <br> <strong>Software and Product News</strong><br> MindTouch Deki Wiki releases OSSw Enterprise Collaboration Platform<br> WINE 1.1.1 Released with Photoshop Improvements<br> Genuitec announces the general availability of Pulse 2.2<br> Skyway Builder CE now GA<br> New Canoo UltraLightClient for Faster Web Application Development<br> http://linuxgazette.net/153/bhaaluu.html bhaaluu Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>bhaaluu</strong> <br> <p> This tutorial is for users who are interested in making an MPEG1 video using GNU/Linux and Free Open Source Software. The process described is partly automated with bash shell scripts, but otherwise still relies on handcrafting the video frame by frame. You are expected to know how to <a href="http://linuxgazette.net/issue74/okopnik.html">compile and install files from source</a> code, use The Gimp, and use Audacity. The tutorial will describe when these tools are to be used. A total of six frames are used to make the video. One is a simple blank screen, filled with black. Two frames require using The Gimp's Text Tool. Three images are used as slides. The Gimp is used to scale those images to fit a specific image size. Audacity is used to edit sound for the video. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/153/kishore.html Kishore A Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>Kishore A</strong> <br> <p> When you conduct experiments in modern Physics, the equipment involved is often complicated, and difficult to control manually. Also, precise measurement of time, and fast and continuous measurement of physical quantities are often required. Consequently, such experiments are automated and computer-interfaced. This means that the scientist carries out the experiment by controlling the equipment using a computer.</p> http://linuxgazette.net/153/moen.html Rick Moen Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>Rick Moen</strong> <br> <p> <em>[RM note: This article is excerpted from the middle of a mailing list discussion, two weeks after the now-infamous <a href="http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1162">DNS security bug</a> emerged, and hours after security consulting firm Matasano Security's blog "Matasano Chargen" <a href="http://www.matasano.com/log/1105/regarding-the-post-on-chargen-earlier-today/">accidentally revealed</a> full details of how to exploit the hole</a></em>.] </p> http://linuxgazette.net/153/pfeiffer.html Ren&eacute; Pfeiffer Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>Ren&eacute; Pfeiffer</strong> <br> <p> Occasionally, I test filesystems. Especially since Ext4 was taken into the Linux kernel, I've set up a couple of partitions and used them for storing data. Sometimes, you don't want to copy existing data on new filesystems when testing. Why not use random data? Now, where is the tool for doing that? I asked The Answer Gang, and so got another excuse for coding a tool. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/153/prestia.html Joey Prestia Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>Joey Prestia</strong> <br> <p> Linux is a networking powerhouse. It can act as a DHCP server, a network router, a simple client, a gateway, a bridging firewall -- well, you get the idea. To accomplish these tasks - indeed, to make it to work at all - there are several key files that must be configured properly. That is the subject of this month's article. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/153/ziemann.html Dr. Volker Ziemann Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>Dr. Volker Ziemann</strong> <br> <p> Recently, I bought a new cellular phone (NOKIA E51), which is equipped with Bluetooth. I also had an unused Bluetooth dongle at home, which I'd never had any use for - it had come as a gimmick when I bought my stationary computer. The availability of these gadgets, however, triggered my curiosity and I started wondering whether they could be coerced into doing something useful. This turned out to be easy. In my day job, I frequently give presentations with laptop and beamer, and therefore started to work out how to use the phone as a remote control for my computer. </p> http://linuxgazette.net/153/ecol.html Javier Malonda Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>Javier Malonda</strong> <br> <p> <em>These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.</em> </p> http://linuxgazette.net/153/xkcd.html Randall Munroe Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>Randall Munroe</strong> <br> <p> <div class="cartoon1"> <a href="misc/xkcd/cautionary.png"> <img alt="[cartoon]" title="" src="misc/xkcd/cautionary.png"><p>Click here to see the full-sized image</a> </div> <div class="cartoon1"> <a href="misc/xkcd/road_rage.png"> <img alt="[cartoon]" title="" src="misc/xkcd/road_rage.png" width="75%" height="75%"><p>Click here to see the full-sized image</a> </div> More XKCD cartoons can be found <a href="http://xkcd.com">here</a>. <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-1204316-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> <br clear="all" /> http://linuxgazette.net/153/lg_launderette.html LG Staff Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:11:33 -0500 By <strong>LG Staff</strong> <br> <br>The last two Nine Inch Nails albums<br> Spam from "Moran Tawdry"<br>