Stefano Sasso

LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 8 PIM tools tools at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

Google ha annunciato il progetto “Wave in a Box”, una versione stand-alone e completamente funzionale di Google Wave, recentemente terminato dall’azienda. Al momento più di 200.000 linea di codice sono già state pubblicate per la documentazione del protocollo.

Il progetto Wave in a Box sarà composto da:

• Un server ed un client per la collaborazione realtime con lo stesso stile di Google Wave
• Supporto per conversazioni con thread
• Persistent store, implementato su MongoDB
• gadget, robot e data API support
• possibilità di importare i dati da wave.google.com
• configurazioni federate con più istanze di Wave in a Box

Il progetto non ha avrà tutte le funzionalità che oggi ha Google Wave, ma gli sviluppatori che metteranno mano ai sorgenti potranno espandere il software nella direzione che ritengono più opportuna. Purtroppo non è stata indicata una data per la pubblicazione dei sorgenti.

Via | GoogleWaveDev

Google Wave presto open source: wave in a box é stato pubblicato su ossblog alle 10:00 di venerdì 03 settembre 2010.

Le ferie estive sono finite quasi per tutti. Con qualche settimana di differenza a seconda della zona di provenienza, presto gli studenti torneranno a scuola e all’università. Qualcuno di loro, da quest’anno, dovrebbe imbattersi anche in Italia nell’uso sperimentale degli e-book al posto dei libri cartacei. E qui subentrano i problemi legati all’uso di software proprietari.

Non soltanto software, perché la maggioranza dei dispositivi per leggere gli e-book soffrono di «difetti di progettazione», usando un’espressione cara a Richard Stallman e alla Free Software Foundation. È questo il motivo che ha spinto LibrePlanet a tracciare gli istituti che fanno uso di dispositivi dotati di DRM. Presto diventerà un problema anche per l’Italia.

Nell’ambito della campagna Defective by Design della FSF, LibrePlanet invita a segnalare i dispositivi e le applicazioni per il DRM usate nelle scuole e nelle università. Partendo dall’istruzione obbligatoria, stando ai “proclami” i libri cartacei dovrebbero essere presto sostituiti dagli e-book. Non è dato sapere come, né quando, ma l’Italia sarà in prima linea.

Via | Graziano Sorbaioli

LibrePlanet combatte il DRM al rientro nelle scuole é stato pubblicato su ossblog alle 09:00 di venerdì 03 settembre 2010.

Linux Pro Magazine: "ApacheCon organizers have opened registration for ApacheCon 2010. The event is scheduled for November 3-5 at the Westin Peachtree hotel in Atlanta, Ga. The theme for this year's ApacheCon is "Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation.""

Wine-Reviews: "A couple weeks back I noticed the Wine-Doors project was down and on their front page they have a message "Very very broken and I don't have time to fix it""

Digitizor: "The Steam on Linux rumor is up and running again."

Enterprise Networking Planet: "That scruffy beard... those suspenders... that smug expression... You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"

Linux.com: "Chase Crum is a U.S. Army veteran, a Shriner, an IT infrastructure manager, and a member of The Linux Foundation. This certainly does not capture all that defines Chase, but it begins to illustrate where he derives his ideas about Linux, community and giving back."

Tech Source: "You may find our Python alarm clock too geeky or complicated, so I thought I should share with you an easier way to use your Linux desktop (particularly Ubuntu and other GNOME-based distributions) as alarm clock."

Serverwatch: "Microsoft used to be known as the Great Satan when it came to enterprise operating systems. Now it seems Oracle has taken over software hell."

Linux Devices: " Samsung Electronics announced its much-anticipated Android consumer tablet, due to ship in Europe in mid-September. The Samsung Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and offers a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, a three-megapixel camera..."

Standalone Sysadmin: "The other day, I caught a message that KSplice was available for Fedora. I thought I'd be a wiseguy and I replied �Yeah, great. Call me in 20 years when it's available for for RHEL�. Well, as several people pointed out, it turns out the joke is on me."

Linux Planet: "Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo."

Easy Linux CDs: "ArtistX is an Ubuntu GNU/Linux-based live DVD that includes a pretty big lineup of free multimedia applications. The most recent version, ArtistX 0.9 is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and features the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5, Compiz Fusion, Ubiquity Installer, and more."

IBM Developerworks: "Summary: Security always requires a multi-layered scheme. SSH is a good example of this. Methods range from simple sshd configuration through the use of PAM to specify who can use SSH, to application of port-knocking techniques, or to hide the fact that SSH access even exists."

Das U-Blog: "My last review of KDE 4.X was a bitter disappointment, as KDE 4.4 refused to work. Period. Follow the jump to see if this version of KDE works out any better."

Linux Journal: "When I first started with graphics - I plotted pixels onto the screen by calculating a memory address and then poking the corresponding value. Times have changed since then."

Phoronix: "Two years ago we compiled a list of the top contributors to the X Server over the years and that was followed by compiling a similar list of the developers behind Mesa. Tiago Vignatti has now compiled some statistics surrounding the top contributors to X.Org Server 1.9..."

EnterpriseMobileToday: "As the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices nears, the company has been telling those who will listen that one of its prime competitors' mobile operating system -- Google's Android -- is more costly than its own offering, even though the open source OS is free."

How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On OpenSUSE 11.3

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 11.3. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.