http://unix-linux.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for unix-linux en Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:50:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2678853 unknown@DZone.com This is just a rant (hopefully it will be regarded as pertinent and non-'laming') on why Windows users try Linux and return frustrated to Windows after several hours or days. I won't praise Linux and the way it works, I won't even compare and say 'here Linux is easier because ...', instead I have a few questions for all of you who blame Linux for not being and behaving like Windows. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:50:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2678853opinionunix-linuxWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2675359 unknown@DZone.com I'm on a Mac most of the time and TextMate will be pried out of my cold dead fingers. But when I'm on my Ubuntu box, glad to see there's a growing number of alternatives. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:37:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675359open sourcerubytoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670618 unknown@DZone.com Why NetBeans beats Eclipse and is perfect for Linux Development Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:45:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670618eclipseopen sourcetoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670583 unknown@DZone.com Although it's a rare Unix machine that doesn't run at least a couple of custom cronjobs it's an even more special snowflake that does them properly. Below are some of the more common problems I've seen and my thoughts on them. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:58:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670583how-totoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668927 unknown@DZone.com Since the 70’s, Vi is one of the programmer’s best friend. Nevermind you’re new to Vi or not, here’s a big list of 100 useful commands, organized by topic, which will make your coder life better. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:20:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668927Appleopen sourceunix-linuxWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668069 unknown@DZone.com I wanted to scrub any characters out of a string that were not alphanumeric. So, I wrote this function that uses a simple regular expression to detect the unwanted characters. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:28:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668069how-toopen sourcephpunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2665009 unknown@DZone.com Simple steps for getting the newest version of eclipse working on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:04:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2665009eclipsejavatoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2664434 unknown@DZone.com Since the beginning of time Java applications have been battered with complaints about startup time, memory footprint, performance and security. Recently Sun started to address some of the issues by introducing the Consumer JRE. However, Excelsior JET is a product which provides their own spin on solving these problems. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:47:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2664434javaSecurityunix-linuxWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661886 unknown@DZone.com There's an uneasy relationship between Linux and some of the bits that make it work on many computers - closed-source kernel modules. These modules - NVidia video card drivers are the most notorious example - add substantial, and sometimes critical, functionality to Linux without themselves being open source. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:09:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661886open sourcestandardsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2659754 unknown@DZone.com Here are five popular ways to capture desktop screencast for Linux Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:42:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2659754how-tounix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2659393 unknown@DZone.com Jython 2.5 is really, finally, unbelievably coming together. This is the next release of Jython, after last summer's 2.2. In a nutshell, we have completed all new language features using an Antlr parser, except for absolute imports. All bytecode generation work, now using an ASM backend, is done. Of course, there are many outstanding bugs. And Python is not just a language; we need to support fully the fact that "batteries are included". But let's look at where we are. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:31:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2659393javaNewsopen sourceunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2657727 unknown@DZone.com Datamation has a good collection of 75 Popular Open Source Desktop Downloads posted. The products in the list are categorized, and include business applications, operating systems, collaboration tools, and more. Even if you use a lot of open source applications, you'll probably find some new things to try, such as the K-Meleon and Galeon browsers. Here, below the fold, are a few more useful collections of tools and tips to try. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:51:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2657727open sourcetoolsunix-linuxweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2657504 unknown@DZone.com This tutorial explains how to set up PHPIDS on a web server with Apache2 and PHP5. PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple to use, well structured, fast and state-of-the-art security layer for your PHP based web application. The IDS neither strips, sanitizes nor filters any malicious input, it simply recognizes when an attacker tries to break your site and reacts in exactly the way you want it to. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:01:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2657504how-tophpSecurityunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2656982 unknown@DZone.com The article reviews 10 GTK applications which don't come with the GNOME desktop environment: GIMP, Banshee, Inkscape, Firefox, Deluge, XChat, OpenOffice, VLC, LinuxDC++ and Geany. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:46:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2656982reviewstoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654629 unknown@DZone.com Two of the most popular Linux browsers were unveiled this month after years of development -- the open source Firefox 3 and the proprietary Opera 9.5. Opera's launch a week before Firefox was like any other launch, unlike Firefox's much publicized world record attempt. But Opera 9.5 is no less revolutionary than Firefox, matching its open source rival feature for feature, from security-related enhancements to improved multilingual text rendering. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:43:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654629reviewstoolsunix-linuxweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2651481 unknown@DZone.com Index and search distributed (or local) logs with ease - a look at Splunk with a simple Ruby-based TCP logger. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:00:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2651481how-torubyserverunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2651117 unknown@DZone.com Most of you know that the road to open source Java has been a long and winding one. Today an important milestone was announced, and through the efforts of the OpenJDK community and Red Hat's IcedTea project the vision of a fully-compatible, truly free and open Java distribution has been realized. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:01:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2651117javaNewsopen sourceunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2649220 unknown@DZone.com The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road! Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:58:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2649220announcementopen sourceunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2647868 unknown@DZone.com Lately I’ve been trying to code an application which requires some form of natural handwriting recognition. Natural Handwriting is basically the way you write on your Tablet/Pocket PC/Palm/Mobile, either using a stylus on your touch-screen or on the desktop using mouse. And after looking at different options available for handwriting recognition, Windows beats every other operating system including Linux and Mac OSX hands down!! And sad because the application for which I’m developing this handwriting recognition module is a popular open-source kids software and mainly targeted towards Linux distros. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:57:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2647868open sourceunix-linuxusabilityWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2646570 unknown@DZone.com We’ve all done it, but nobody likes to admit it: You delete all files, and there’s no backup. Your momentary, calm puzzlement at rm’s cryptic response, and the subsequent silence of ls is followed by a tsunami of horror and disbelief as you look back through your command history to find that you accidentally added a space between “*” and the file extension. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:55:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2646570opiniontrendsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2641832 unknown@DZone.com Cron jobs are commands run by the unix program cron. There are a lot of uses out there for setting up crons with web applications. As webmasters, if we can harness the power of the cron application, we can use cron jobs to our advantage in a number of ways. Let’s get right into it. Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:47:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2641832serverunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2641050 unknown@DZone.com Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has hinted at the likelihood of an ultra-portable netbook pre-loaded with Ubuntu Remix in the very near future. Ubuntu Remix is the lightweight version of Ubuntu that Canonical announced last week. Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:35:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2641050announcementNewsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2637087 unknown@DZone.com If you're running Linux, BSD, or any *NIX style operating system chances are that CI server probably doesn't even have X running, so how are you to run your GUI tests? Xvfb is the answer. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:35:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2637087frameworkshow-tojavaunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2636401 unknown@DZone.com In this short podcast, Google's Nigel Kersten tells us how Google manages the configuration of its "many, many thousands" of Apple desktops, all with free, open source software. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:58:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2636401Appleopen sourcetoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2630485 unknown@DZone.com A walkthrough to recovering from most kinds of bad situations you can get into with Git, the revolutionary version control system. With cameos by ninjas and motocrosses! Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:42:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2630485methodologyopen sourceunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2630291 unknown@DZone.com Anybody who spends time trying new free software applications and distributions will soon notice that version numbering and labeling is next to meaningless. These days, versioning rarely gives an accurate idea of the state of development, except relative to other builds of the same project. It is simply a label that distinguishes one build from another. That's too bad, because a properly labeled release can give users a sense of how advanced the build actually is. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:41:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2630291open sourceopinionunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2627865 unknown@DZone.com Here is how I solved the 4th Google Treasure Hunt puzzle with pure Unix-Fu. Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:18:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2627865how-tounix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2624754 unknown@DZone.com Wired how-to. 
 Put together a decent linux box for less than $200. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:24:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2624754Hardwarehow-toopen sourceunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2624428 unknown@DZone.com How to synchronize folders in Unix with rsync Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:19:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2624428how-toNewsreviewsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2624379 unknown@DZone.com The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code management system from CVS to Subversion. At this point in time, FreeBSD's developers are making changes to the base system in the Subversion repository. We have a replication system in place that exports our work to the legacy CVS tree on a continuous basis. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:21:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2624379trendsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2622284 unknown@DZone.com A cute story to outline the reason services like Subversion exist and a handy tutorial on how to set up your own Subversion repository. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:59:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2622284how-toservertoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2620602 unknown@DZone.com This little problem of Eclipse 3.x on Ubuntu 7+ crashing once in awhile... wait, sorry, make that every few minutes... has been driving me nuts. The good news is a simple workaround exists: launching Eclipse from the command line. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:50:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2620602eclipsehow-tounix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2620362 unknown@DZone.com I am not a system administrator. However, I am a software engineer, and responsible for administrating systems. As technical director, it is also my responsibility to create policies. Knowing that systems can be compromised, I know a policy needs to be in place for protection. Not allowing all engineers to run constantly as the root or super user on a Linux box is a good place to start. What happens though when I do not heed the warning of my own policy? Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:03:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2620362methodologyopinionstandardsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2619754 unknown@DZone.com You can enjoy to the benefits of this powerful management tool for Windows in four 'clicks'. This easy Trac installer is also available for Linux and OS X. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:07:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2619754pythonserverunix-linuxWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2617111 unknown@DZone.com OpenSolaris 2008.5 promises better packaging and distribution. The push to to make OpenSolaris more easily accessible convinces this blogger to give Sun technology a 2nd look again. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:26:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2617111open sourceopinionunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2616617 unknown@DZone.com Six free security tools that all IT folks should know about and use. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:31:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2616617MicrosoftSecuritytoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2615678 unknown@DZone.com As a follow-up to Michael Stutz's excellent article, this article provides 10 more good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up! Sat, 31 May 2008 15:32:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2615678javaNewstoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2614794 unknown@DZone.com These days, business and free software co-exist with little friction. Although you still find some members of the free software community who automatically view business with suspicion, for the most part the community considers the multibillion dollar open source industry as a validation of its beliefs. Business and free software are so closely intertwined that kernel developers Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton are employed by the Linux Foundation, a non-profit consortium of corporations. But in recent months, this cooperation is showing signs of becoming strained. Sat, 31 May 2008 03:18:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2614794open sourceopinionunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2613322 unknown@DZone.com 30 useful PHP classes and components that you can use to test, develop and deploy your PHP applications. Fri, 30 May 2008 08:45:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2613322open sourcephptoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2612461 unknown@DZone.com If your backup files are too large to fit a CD or DVD or you need to E-Mail a 15MB file and that's way over your E-Mail provider's maximum, you can use these two commands to split your files and put them together again easily. Thu, 29 May 2008 21:41:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2612461how-toopen sourcetoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2612376 unknown@DZone.com Interested in trying out OpenSolaris 2008.05 on your MacBook? In the blog entry I walk you through the steps I took to get there. Thu, 29 May 2008 21:25:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2612376Applehow-tounix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2612045 unknown@DZone.com Every so often, you read on Slashdot, Digg, or some other techie news site that Linux is finally ready for the desktop. It's finally to the point that any end user could sit down at a computer and happily compute away. The applications are sufficiently sanitized and Windows-like that even Grandma can use them. I think it's fair to say that most of our previous conceptions of "ready for the desktop" are moot points. Thu, 29 May 2008 17:14:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2612045opinionunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2610244 unknown@DZone.com Shell Fu seems to have built up a reasonable list of command line tips and tricks. There are a few real gems here. Wed, 28 May 2008 16:54:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2610244how-toother languagesserverunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2610158 unknown@DZone.com Sprinkle is a new prototype tool that you can use to provision your servers/slices. Its declarative policy/state based approach for specifying how a remote system should be provisioned with intelligent logic to support dependencies, multiple installer types and remote installation is really compelling. Wed, 28 May 2008 16:19:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2610158open sourcerubyserverunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2610159 unknown@DZone.com If you're connecting to your database from remote clients, then it's high time you started encrypting! Otherwise, you have only yourself to blame if your data gets intercepted. Wed, 28 May 2008 16:03:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2610159databasehow-torubyunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2609002 unknown@DZone.com Your mileage may vary on this depending on your workload and application, but that is quite a nice boost for just adding two lines to a configuration file. Tue, 27 May 2008 22:22:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2609002how-totoolsunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2608633 unknown@DZone.com In this tutorial, I will describe the required steps for setting up a multi-node Hadoop cluster using the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) on Ubuntu Linux. Tue, 27 May 2008 17:19:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2608633databasehow-toopen sourceunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2607287 unknown@DZone.com In previous article Using Actionscript 3 to develop Adobe Flash Content On Linux(Chinese Version), we have tried to use Adobe Flex 3.0 SDK developed “hello actionscript 3″ under Linux successfully. Compared with Windows programmer, the debug for Linux programmer is more complex. Especially for these user only use the Adobe Flex 3.0 SDK, it is more difficult. But it doesn’t mean the weak function. On the contrary when you get used to Linux gdb (Flex 3.0 SDK fdg), you will find that it could following your own thinking to debugging program under Linux. Which different from the windows, you need to following the result of debugging program. Then, less nonsense. Let’s begin our travel of Debug under Linux immediately. Mon, 26 May 2008 21:43:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2607287flash-flexunix-linuxProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2607288 unknown@DZone.com Matz, the creator of Ruby, explains the problems Ruby faces in the "Vision for the future" Conference. Mon, 26 May 2008 21:38:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2607288open sourcerubyunix-linuxweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2605678 unknown@DZone.com If you are an experienced Linux user who misses a powerful command-line environment in Windows, you will enjoy Cygwin. Sun, 25 May 2008 19:34:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2605678Microsoftphptoolsunix-linuxProgramming