<b>The Register:</b> "Dell has told a Linux-loving Reg reader that he can't receive a refund on the copy of Windows 7 that shipped with his new Dell netbook because it was bundled with the machine for "free""
<b>Wild Webmink:</b> "Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean). I am a few months short of my 10th anniversary there..."
Remember when every business needed a web site, but few knew why? Those days are back, only this time it's all about mobile apps. Here are some tips to get you started, particularly if resources are scarce.
<b>OS News: </b>"The [street-smart] people at MPEG-LA have made sure that from the moment we use a camera or camcorder to shoot an mpeg2 or h.264 video, we owe them royalties, even if the final video distributed was not encoded using their codecs."
Oracle Database's ADR Command Interpreter is a great for the new XML logs but let's not forget about the old style logs as ADRCI can do a few things with them as well. Read on to learn more...
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "Keeping your system clean can be a time-consuming affair, unless you use specialized tools like BleachBit (thanks to Nick Lord for the pointer). With just a few mouse clicks, this nifty little utility can help you to purge all the junk produced by the system and installed applications."
<b>Really Linux:</b> "In this article, Andrea explores some of the most recent Linux job postings and determines that Linux is a very good niche to be in during these economically strange times."
<b>Linux Planet:</B> "Take a small box. Add a 64-bit CPU, two SATA hard drives, a Compact Flash slot, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and quiet operation, and what do you have? The VIA M'SERV mini-server. Could this be the perfect Linux box?"
Marcin Policht examines SQL Server Integration Services' component, Derived Column Transformation,and how its usefulness is enhanced by its ability to implement fairly elaborate mathematical, logical, and string operations.
<b>The H Open:</b> "Known as "Goddard", Fedora 13 not only boasts a current software selection and a modernised design, it also offers an extensive range of technological improvements."
New cloud-based payments platform provides payments processing environment that allows SMBs to accept payments from Web, phone, terminal, mobile and scanner.
<b>The Open Road:</b> "Novell, once the king of the software world, is like that. Over the years it has built up a broad portfolio of software (with associated revenue streams) in repeated attempts to regain its glory days. That portfolio now stifles its ability to focus on other areas with the most promise."
<b>Desktop Linux Reviews:</b> "The .iso file of Puppy Linux 5.0 weighs in at an incredibly petite 128 MB. It's much, much smaller than all of the usual desktop heavyweight distros. But don't let its small size fool you, Puppy Linux 5.0 is anything but an also-ran in terms of functionality and usability."
<b>developerWorks: </b>"Whether you are monitoring your network to identify performance issues, debugging an application, or have found an application on your network that you do not recognize, occasionally you need to look deep into the protocols being used on your UNIX network to understand what they are doing."
<b>Linux Journal:</b> "After a recent O/S version upgrade (to openSUSE 11.2) I noticed that bash started being a bit more intelligent when I did something stupid: it started giving me a useful error message..."