+ Linux Gazette +

An e-zine dedicated to making Linux just a little bit more fun. Published the first day of every month.
Issue 151: June, 2008 ...

Last Update: Tue Jun 3 18:46:25 2008

+ Mailbag + By LG Staff Gazette Matters lang="utf-8" makes Firefox use an ugly font Linux Gazette Indonesia Our Mailbag [...] of Open Source Recent Debian SSH vulnerability Networking Problem on Hardy Heron Followup: Sendmail and capacity

+ Talkback + By LG Staff Talkback:108/okopnik.html Talkback:143/sephton.html Talkback:150/kapil.html ...

+ 2-Cent Tips + By LG Staff 2-cent Tip: Perl Search Directory Function 2-cent Tip: Compiz-Fusion 2-cent Tip: make script command ...

+ News Bytes + By Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff Contents: News in General Wind River joins forces with Intel on [...] Player 10 beta released for Linux Melas v0.10.0 Traffic Control Sun Unveils New Quad-Core AMD Opteron Systems

+ Deividson on Databases: Triggers + By Deividson Luiz Okopnik Triggers are pieces of code executed automatically when a certain action happens. That action can [...] having different options and uses (validating data, allowing or disallowing data manipulations, changing other data, etc.).

+ gDesklets: Beauty with a Purpose + By Maxin B. John gDesklets provides a bunch of easy-to-use yet eye-pleasing applications for the GNU/Linux desktop. [...] needs. Since gDesklets is known to work on KDE and XFCE, along with GNOME, it can provide an enchanting look to the Linux Desktop.

+ Monitoring Function Calls + By Aurelian Melinte There are tools to monitor the system calls an application makes, but how about monitoring your own [...] the returned value is? This article presents a proof-of-concept tool to achieve this without modifying the application's code.

+ Using Crontab + By Joey Prestia Crontab is a very useful command used to run unattended scheduled tasks, which can decrease administrative [...] be very useful. But most commonly used is crontab, because it is more versatile, and can be customized to run at any time interval.

+ USB thumb drive RAID + By January Weiner I have a database that I'm working on, and sometimes I need to work on it on my laptop. However, the [...] drive, and not so much the CPU. What I needed was a fast external hard drive. Anyway, I always wanted to play with a RAID system.

+ XKCD + By Randall Munroe Click here to see the full-sized image More XKCD cartoons can be found here . _uacct = [...] More XKCD cartoons can be found here . _uacct = "UA-1204316-1"; urchinTracker(); '; digg_topic = 'linux_unix';

+ HelpDex + By Shane Collinge These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling. ...

+ The Linux Launderette + By LG Staff 2-cent tips: convert the collection of your mp3 files into ogg sic semper spammasaurus Issue 150 ...