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Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:15 -0500

By LG Staff
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Many thanks for your bash permission article
Crowdsource + open source to preserve US war documents
Problem with installing a local module
2-cent Tip: Octal permissions in "ls"
Odd system load situation, LG February 2011 (#183)
Duplicate LG mailing list reports
Talkback:183/lg_foolish.html
2D CAD DraftSight Now Available for Linux
Talkback:184/grebler1.html
LG - what's next?
SVN authentication
Padding a string in Perl
Talkback:184/lg_bytes.html
Stubborn or Fried Memory card?
The Cognitive Style of Unix
OMFG... G00G13'Z B33N H4XX0R3D!!!
Possible 2-cent tip: Opening files from the command line

News Bytes

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:15 -0500

By Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff
Contents:
News in General
71% of iPhone and Android Apps Violate Open Source Licenses
IronKey finds UK Organisations Fear Organised Cyber-crime
Conferences and Events
Distro News
Ubuntu 11.04 Goes Gold
Slackware 13.37 released
Yocto 1.0 and Carrier Grade Linux 5.0 Released
Software and Product News
VMware Delivers Cloud Foundry as an Open PaaS
New Version of Intel Atom CPU aimed at NetBooks and Tablets
SPLUNK 4.2 Features real-time alerting

Caps Lock

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:15 -0500

By Anonymous

Coming back again to Ubuggy in the text console, be sure you are relaxed and in tolerance mode.

PostgreSQL - import of large texts and dynamic content

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:15 -0500

By Anton Borisov

PostgreSQL is an enterprise-level database. It is an open-source software, competes by some features with products from Oracle, so it is no surpise that more and more projects delegate such important duties like data-mining and data handling to PostgreSQL. And what's more important, the architectural design for this database is extremely powerful and conforms to KISS principal very close, so it is really very fun to deal with PGSQL internal programming, as well as maintaining it.

Running Encyclopaedia Britannica on Linux

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:15 -0500

By Silas Brown

Encyclopaedia Britannica is a commercial encyclopedia and is therefore non-free, but old versions of the CDs and DVDs can often be purchased cheaply in second-hand markets. Of particular interest are the 2004 editions, as its publishers have made available an unofficial Linux support script for 2004 editions of Britannica (the Windows installer does not yet work on WINE). If you follow their instructions, you can expect to see the basic encyclopedia articles and images, but you might have a more difficult time with the Webster dictionary entries and some of the multimedia.

Away Mission - May/June 2011

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:15 -0500

By Howard Dyckoff

This is very full month, a Red Hat/MeeGo/Synergy month.

FreeBSD - An Intro for Linux Devotees

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:15 -0500

By Henry Grebler

Let's get the disclaimers out of the way quickly.

HelpDex

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:15 -0500

By Shane Collinge

These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling.

XKCD

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:15 -0500

By Randall Munroe

Click here to see the full-sized image

More XKCD cartoons can be found here.

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The Linux Launderette

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:50:16 -0500

By LG Staff
[Off-topic] Cultural notes
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