Submission + - Thunderbird must go (ittoolbox.com)
madgreek writes: "Read this article today on Linux Today. Mozilla is giving T'bird the boot.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2007073000935O PSWDV"
Submission + - Leverage DB2 Support for XML
IdaAshley writes: Learn how the new XML storage and query environment of DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows plays into the XML data model described in Part 1of this series. Part 2 focuses on how to exploit the improved database support for XML in your application architecture.
Submission + - Hypocrites
An anonymous reader writes: Linux is about penguins, not about beer.
Submission + - Dilbert On OpenSource 1
An anonymous reader writes: It appears that OpenSource is the topic of today's Dilbert strip.
http://dilbert.com/
Submission + - Still afraid of Open Source (ittoolbox.com)
madgreek writes: "Still getting a lot of resistance to open source at work. Show them this article.
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/s till-afraid-of-open-source-16645"
Submission + - openDesktop.org launched (opendesktop.org)
Frank writes: Today we launched openDesktop.org. openDesktop.org is the new head of our website network. It brings the contents and users of our websites together. Users and contributors of a free desktop can exchange applications and artwork, help each other, discuss new ideas and get to know other people. It shouldnt be important which desktop environment you prefer, which linux distribution you use or if you are a developer, an artist or a different contributor. Its only important that you help to push the free desktop.
We believe that together we can change the world and create a better desktop than the proprietary ones.
We also launched GTK-Apps.org and CLI-Apps.org to round off our website network.
Submission + - Kernel Developer Con Kolivas: Why I Quit? (apcmag.com)
Bryce R writes: "Con Kolivas is a prominent developer on the Linux kernel and strong proponent of Linux on the desktop. But recently, he left it all behind. Why?
In this interview with APCMag.com, Con gives insightful answers exploring the nature of the hardware and software market, the problems the Linux kernel must overcome for the desktop, and why despite all this he's now left it all behind."
Submission + - Google Paid Search Screwup? (google.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "Today I was initiating a search and hit enter too soon, with just "Linux" as the keyword. I was surprised to see as the top paid search result:
Linux
www.Sun.com Sun Solaris — The Most Advanced OS On The Planet. Learn Why!
Now, I am not a lawyer, but doesn't this constitute trademark dilution? Does Sun really believe this is going to harbor any good will for them in the OSS community?"
Submission + - Oracle Introduces Btrfs Filesystem for Linux (techsww.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Oracle recently introduced a new Checksumming Copy on Write Filesystem named Btrfs. According to Brtfs's home page,
"Linux has a wealth of filesystems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the large storage subsystems that are becoming common in today's data centers. Filesystems need to scale in their ability to address and manage large storage, and also in their ability to detect, repair and tolerate errors in the data stored on disk."
Btrfs is released under a GPL license and is currently under heavy development. Btrfs is not suitable for any uses other than benchmarking and review but this is certainly something we should look forward to in the future.
"Linux has a wealth of filesystems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the large storage subsystems that are becoming common in today's data centers. Filesystems need to scale in their ability to address and manage large storage, and also in their ability to detect, repair and tolerate errors in the data stored on disk."
Btrfs is released under a GPL license and is currently under heavy development. Btrfs is not suitable for any uses other than benchmarking and review but this is certainly something we should look forward to in the future.
Submission + - The most useful command line tools? (techtarget.com)
E. Stride writes: "Our readers and experts helped us create our first guide to the 50 most-used Linux command line tools. This wildly popular guide needs updating, so we asked our inner circle to pitch in again. We're looking for the most important-most used tools for the command line."
Submission + - PostgreSQL officially faster then MySQL (timetrex.com)
IpSo_ writes: Josh Berkus just posted on his blog :
"First, the bare facts: we just published 778.14 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard with the Spec performance publication organization."
He continued with: "No more "slow elephant." For ages a reputation of sluggish performance has dogged the PostgreSQL project, due to both unfavorable comparisons with MySQL back in 1998 and due to our ongoing lack of auto-configuration (yes, yes, I'm working on it!). This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL (720.56 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard), but almost as fast as Oracle (since the hardware platforms are different, it's hard to compare directly). This is something we've been saying for the last 2 years, and now we can prove it."
He continued with: "No more "slow elephant." For ages a reputation of sluggish performance has dogged the PostgreSQL project, due to both unfavorable comparisons with MySQL back in 1998 and due to our ongoing lack of auto-configuration (yes, yes, I'm working on it!). This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL (720.56 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard), but almost as fast as Oracle (since the hardware platforms are different, it's hard to compare directly). This is something we've been saying for the last 2 years, and now we can prove it."
Submission + - Recovering A Hosed HD... For Dummies 1
AC writes: If you have ever lost tens of gigabytes of data due to sudden hard drive failure (which, of course, typically happens the day before your backup solution was scheduled to be deployed), you are not alone in this. This article documents for the common good how to recover nearly everything off a badly broken drive thanks to a variety of tools ranging from a freezer to a small Python script.
Submission + - Piratebay (sort of) going down
muffen writes: It seems like the Swedish police came up with a new idea for blocking PirateBay, confirmed by the swedish police.
Basically, the Swedish police maintains a list of child pornography sites in Sweden, and on a voluntary basis, the ISP's in Sweden block access to the sites. This week, PirateBay will be part of the list so almost every ISP in Sweden will block access to said site.
Since the news leaked, the swedish police website has not been reachable and is suspected to be under a DoS attack. Furthermore, several sites in Sweden, most of them belonging to sport-clubs, have been hacked and the page replaced with the page you get if you are on the Swedish child pornography blocklist.
It should be noted that the people behind PirateBay hasn't argued against the child pornography claims (also, some links are to Swedish webpages, the links in the story are going via Systran for the English translation).
Basically, the Swedish police maintains a list of child pornography sites in Sweden, and on a voluntary basis, the ISP's in Sweden block access to the sites. This week, PirateBay will be part of the list so almost every ISP in Sweden will block access to said site.
Since the news leaked, the swedish police website has not been reachable and is suspected to be under a DoS attack. Furthermore, several sites in Sweden, most of them belonging to sport-clubs, have been hacked and the page replaced with the page you get if you are on the Swedish child pornography blocklist.
It should be noted that the people behind PirateBay hasn't argued against the child pornography claims (also, some links are to Swedish webpages, the links in the story are going via Systran for the English translation).
Submission + - Shared Nothing Parallel Prog vrs Multi Threading (oreilly.com)
* * Beatles-Beatles writes: "I am a firm believer in the shared nothing architecture. Multithreading is hard, with the standard way to solve concurrency problems being to add mutex protection around the non-thread-safe code. Those mutexes allow only one thread to access a particular resource at one time. So imagine your 32-core machine, running an application with 32 threads...
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/shared_n othing.html"
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/shared_
Submission + - Donald Michie killed in car crash 2
Silver Sloth writes: The British Observer newspaper — dead tree version so no URL — reports that Donald_Michie died yesterday in a car accident.
Whilst not a name that all will know, especially on a US centred site like /., Donald Michie was a major force in British computing working at Bletchley Park and founding the Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception at Edinburgh University.
Whilst not a name that all will know, especially on a US centred site like
