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Linux.com: "Nominations are now open for the Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. The winner could be someone you know, or someone whose work you admire, but don't mull over your recommendation too long -- entries must be submitted by September 30."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Sun Microsystems says its open source storage initiative is catching on, with registered members growing and more than 40 projects under way.

Tech Broiler: "...despite a small number of very vocal FOSS Community Whiners (FCWs) who have taken Novell to task for it in the past and accuse the company of compromising Open Source principles in the process, many folks -- read as “reasonable people who are oriented towards business solutions, fostering productive uses of technology and not mired in religious dogma" -- believe the alliance has made a positive impact on increasing Linux adoption in the enterprise."

Groklaw: "SCO Group Germany must check software updates of the nut/mother company message to read out"

Netstat -vat: "As Microsoft is set to pump up to $100 million more in Novell for Linux, it's important to note that Microsoft is not paying off Linux - it's actually making money from it."

Software Freedom Law Center: "The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS), today published a guide to effective compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and related licenses."

Bob Cares: "Phusion Passenger (mod_rails or mod_rack ) makes execution of Ruby web applications more easier on Apache webserver. It requires no maintenance from our part and minimal port management. It was designed keeping in mind performance, stability and security."

OStatic: "Nearly every open-source Web developer used Apache -- except for programmers using the Ruby on Rails framework, for whom Apache was a poor fit."

IBM Developerworks: "The GAE is a platform for creating Web applications. The biggest prerequisite for it is knowledge of Python, as this is the programming language used on it (currently, Python V2.5.2). For this series, it would be helpful to have some typical Web development skills (e.g., knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS)."

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is is a blatant exploitation of a post we did, not too long ago, where we put together a Thesaurus shell script. This time we're creating a shell script to emulate a full-function dictionary. The actual online source we draw from (Dictionary.com) deserves the credit for knowing what virtually every word in the English language means"

Linux Today Blog: "More hardware manufacturers than ever support Linux in some way- they supply binary drivers, or support and sponsor FOSS drivers. Even better, some actually admit it publicly. Though some still act like you want to peek up their skirts when you ask about Linux."

IBM Developerworks: "Bottlenecks with hosts, services, and networks can be costly. To ensure Service Level Agreement (SLA) guarantees, Ajax applications must be monitored remotely over the networks. In this article, learn how to quickly install and start Nagios, an open source host, service, and network monitoring program, and discover how it can help."

HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how you can set up a FreeRadius (1.1.7) server with Wifi authentication and accounting in conjunction with MySQL & web management with Daloradius on Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS) This howto should work for a newbie."

UbuntuGeek: "atftp is Multi-threaded TFTP server implementing all options... Atftpd also supports multicast protocol known as mtftp, defined in the PXE specification. The server supports being started from inetd as well as in daemon mode using init scripts."

Phoronix: "How does this feature work though on Linux and does it deliver similar performance gains to their Windows driver? Today we have a full rundown on ATI CrossFire for Linux along with benchmarks from the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870."

The X Window System is a magnificent platform for many uses, but using it to run an application over a slow network is nearly impossible. This is an introduction to NX, a technology that makes remote applications fly even over commodity internet. read more

SCO was taken to court again in Germany, by one of the companies that got an injunction years ago, Heise is reporting, and now it must pay a fine to the company, Thinking Objects Software GmbH. Three companies took SCO Germany to court back then, and this is one of the three. I'll show you a computer translation first of the headline in Heise. It is perfection: SCO Group Germany must check software updates of the nut/mother company message to read out Sounds like a job for ELIZA. I'll try to explain what I understand the article to be saying, but if you have a better translation, please provide it. SCO was enjoined from making certain claims in Germany, and it signed an agreement in 2003 not to say them there, because its alternate choice was to have to prove them immediately, so it chose silence. As a result, SCO can't say in Germany that Linux violates SCO's IP or that end users could be liable for violations of SCO's intellectual property or that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX. Unless it can prove it. Good luck with that. SCO hasn't been successful proving that anywhere, so it can't say that in Germany. But the US website makes such claims, which were apparently shown in Germany too. Naughty, naughty. It seems that SCO pled the "we didn't see what the US was doing when it updated the page" defense, but it was told that it used that excuse once before, so now it must pay a fine to the complaining company. Here's an incident that happened in 2007, to refresh your memory. And here's a 2003 offense, for which SCO was ordered to pay a 10,000 EU fine. Are they incorrigible? Well. Let's leave that to God. However, the Heise report indicates that they are at least repeat offenders.

If you use Nagios to monitor your system and run openSUSE on a remote server the bash script presented here will check for online updates and is designed to be run by Nagios so that the result will appear on the Nagios service-detail page. read more

Microsoft will buy and resell up to another $100 million in Novell SUSE Linux support vouchers, continuing a cross-licensing deal the two companies made two years ago.

Most of the attorneys who are listed as being involved in SCO v. AutoZone have been told that by the court they are in violation of Special Order 109, which is a requirement to participate in the electronic filing system. They are instructed to go to the US District Court for the District of Nevada website and sign up. It sounds quite alarming, the way it's worded, but trust me, they don't drag them out at dawn and shoot them for this or disbar anyone. It's just the wording of the notice, which is standard. You can find Special Order 109 [PDF], In re: AUTHORIZATION FOR CONVERSION TO CASE MANAGEMENT/ELECTRONIC CASE FILING, here. It's local to Nevada, but it's part of the federal court system switch to digitalization. The Clerk of the Court is responsible to keep the official record, and so there has to be a way to identify when an attorney is who he says, when a document is filed. So this is what it refers to, that they need passwords and such. It also represents their consent to being served electronically.