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Free Software Magazine: "A good starting point for learning is K N Kings popular book "C Programming: A modern approach", published by Norton, which has just reached its second edition and hence worthy of a new review."

LinuxPlanet: "LinuxPlanet Classics: With a few simple regular expressions you can quickly search your logfiles for problems, nasties, and even good news. These regexps are also useful for all kinds of text searches"

jonobacon@home: "This has been something on my mind for a long time - how can we see the great many interconnecting lines between different parts of community. In effort to make progress this area, I have worked closely with my team to build some metrics to understand our community."

cpdu: Cryptographic Data Utility Cryptographic Package Distribution Utility is a secure command line file encryption tool that allows for archiving encrypted files with secure memory allocation, zlib compression and base64 encoding it currently supports the following ciphers aes/rijndael: 256 bit key, 128 block twofish: 256 bit key, 128 block blowfish: 448 bit key, 64 block cast: 128 bit key, 64 block serpent: 256 bit key, 128 block tripledes: 168 bit key, 64 block aes is default...

LinuxPlanet: "Last week in our classic Networking 101 series we learned about Border Gateway Protocol, the networking protocol that powers the Internet. This week Charlie Schluting leads the dive into iBGP-- Internal Border Gateway Protocol-- to learn how to connect all those BGP routers together, and how to route between thousands of computers without going nuts."

Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM: "We seem to be in a particularly good period for Linux at the moment. We've recently gotten the Mandriva 2009.0 and Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex releases, and both of them seem to be very good. There will be a number of new releases coming in the next few weeks, as well:"

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to shoot out a quick one liner script that can come in handy from time to time. It doesn't fall under the "necessary" category (or, maybe not even the "useful" one ;), but it's nice to have for those times when you just don't feel like doing any extra typing or expending the effort required to separate the wheat from the chaff on a screen full of garbage output."

KOffice 2 Beta 3 has been released. Packages are available for Kubuntu Intrepid in the intrepid-backports archive.

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NASA: "NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth."

Linux Journal: "What happens frequently is that a less-than-reputable outfit will pack your e-junk onto a container and ship it off to a developing country with lax environmental and labor laws, where it will wreak havoc on the environment and poor people."

Slashdot: "This book seemed to have potential, particularly since the image of nerds has changed in recent times. Once objects of derision and schoolyard bullying, nerds are now acknowledged as having a place in society. The Lord of the Rings became a multi-million dollar movie trilogy, the internet is now used by an incredible number of people, and computer games are no longer seen as being 'just for kids.'"

Open...: "The key to a con is not that you trust the conman, but that he shows he trusts you. Conmen ply their trade by appearing fragile or needing help, by seeming vulnerable."

Linux Developer Network: "Yesterday, I caught wind of some good news. It was the kind of good news that is immediately good for me and ultimately good for Linux. It was announced by MLB Advanced Media, major league baseball's online division, that video on MLB.com would no longer be delivered via Microsoft's Silverlight format but instead with Adobe Flash technology."

LWN: "Today, just a few days short of the first anniversity of the project, the kerneloops.org database of oopses and warnings has passed the 100.000 stored oopses/warnings."

LWN: "When users asked about what was going on, the answer that came back was: "The short story is that we are in a protracted battle with some patent trolls. Google for Sisvel."

Builder.au: "If the future is in Microsoft's online services why isn't the company building native tools for Mac and Linux developers?"

Washington Post: "At about 4:30 p.m. Eastern time last Tuesday, the volume of junk e-mail arriving at inboxes around the world suddenly plummeted by about 65 percent...But when McColo was taken offline by its Internet providers, so too were all of the botnet control servers located there, security experts said."

A script for adding some Bulgarian Radio Stations, which have online streams. Basically this is Cool Streams amarok script with changed links. I took the idea from [url]http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Radio+France?content=93500[/url] , so thanks to madjar Most of the links in the script are from [url]http://predavatel.com[/url] How to install: 1. Unpack the archive. 2. Copy files to: /home/USER/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts or in Amarok: Tools --> Script Manager --> Instal...

[b]TouchFreeze[/b] docks in your system tray (KDE/Gnome) and disables button click events while typing. It's similar to ksynaptics if you know that but more simple. [i]Differences:[/i] [li]no configuration of the touch pad[/li] [li]ksynaptics ranks high on powertop[/li] [li]no additional dependencies but Qt4 [/li] Please read [url]http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/index.html[/url] for more information!

A GUI for ndiswrapper. Inspired by ndisgtk (thanks for it!) There are repositories now for Mandriva at http://rpmlinux.org/kndiswrapper (thanks to mapi) and rpm packages for SuSE Linux at http://packman.links2linux.de/package/kndiswrapper (tanks to Andrea Florio) I have uploaded a blank language file for 0.3.5.