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<b>Datamation:</b> "A Chinese official has blasted Google's decision to offer unfiltered Web content to its citizens on the mainland, calling the move "totally wrong" and saying it violates Google's written agreement to abide by Chinese laws."
<b>Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio:</b> "Old MegaDrive/Genesis games can provide hours of fun on even modest PCs. In this article we take a look at some of the emulators that are available for Ubuntu."
Tip of the Trade: VirtualBox makes it easy to set up and run virtual machines on your own desktop. It is not perfect, however, and by default, the guest VM is invisible to the host or any other machines on the network. Here's an easy way to relay instructions to it.
<b>Desktop Linux:</b> "IBM, Canonical, and Simmtronics announced they will market an Intel Atom-based netbook in emerging markets. The Simmbook will be preloaded with the cloud-oriented IBM Client for Smart Work Linux distro, based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and will first be made available in Africa for just $190."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "One of the most beautiful aspects of LinuxLand is that, in its chaos, a wild creativity can spawn sweet and enduring projects. One of those projects, Compiz Fusion, was sparky enough to help me enter LinuxLand which in turn helped me build a hardware company."
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "Thus Canonical is implementing the cloud in its context. The DRM-free songs in MP3 format with a bitrate of at least 256 kbits/second are not loaded on the local machine, but in the Ubuntu One cloud."
The blank check IT security enjoyed has been pulled off the table as businesses reassess how much they spend to stay safe. Need some data on the mood? McAfee reports nearly three-quarters of SMBs have cut security spending, even though 71 percent believe a serious attack would put them out of business.
Searching for text within a database can be like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Users depend on the database administrator to solve complex text search requirements. Do you respond with clever methods such as LIKE, regular expressions and function-based indexes? Is there something more available to you and your users?
Hewlett-Packard debuts new products and a unified communications alliance with Microsoft as part of a renewed effort to win over more of the SMB market.
<b>Packt:</b> "From the point we started our scene, we haven't tried any test renders yet to see how our underwater environment looks and I know you're all so eager to try and press that RENDER button (so am I), but let's make sure that we don't waste a second of our time by rendering something that's not worth the button press at all."
<b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "When we think of free operating systems we tend to think overwhelmingly of the big hitters (all GNU/Linux) like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva and then of those niche distros that have been designed for low end systems or for specialist purposes like security and forensics. But Oranges are not the only fruit"
Virtually Speaking: Will enterprises cross Cloud.com bridge to a cloud computing infrastructure. It's betting the bank they will. And it's not the only one looking to make money by simplifying the path to the cloud.
<b>Groklaw:</b> "When IBM said that TurboHercules was a member of organizations Microsoft is a member of, it was particularly talking about OpenMainframe.org. It's an organization that seems dedicated to attacking IBM's mainframe business. It describes its purpose like this:"
Tapas Pal shows you how to encrypt your SQL Server database for a pre-existing, business critical web application using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), a new full database encryption technique introduced in SQL Server 2008.
<b>KernelTrap:</b> "We had the choice of either reverting all the anon-vma scalability improvements, or finding out exactly what caused the regression and fixing it. And we got pretty close to the point where I was going to just revert it all"