<b>Michael Geist:</b> "Public pressure has helped make ACTA marginally better, but the release of text confirms many of the fears regarding the substance of the treaty."
<b>ars Technica:</b> "Microsoft is going on the offensive against Google, accusing the search giant of creating a browser that does not respect user privacy. The company posted a video, embedded below, on TechNet Edge with the following description: "Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make..."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "Ubuntu developers invented Upstart as a replacement for the hoary old SysV init system, with the aim of meeting the complex demands of booting modern Linux systems. Upstart is being adopted by Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE. Akkana Peck introduces us to this Ubuntu success story."
OS Round Up: Despite the strength of backers Intel and Nokia, Meego has already fallen prey to a common open source server pitfall -- a moronic name. Can it overcome its nomenclature handicap and help make Linux the OS of choice for mobile computing?
<b>Standards Blog:</b> "The President of the United States was treating himself to an early breakfast of bacon and eggs. Why not? If a Commander in Chief couldn't ignore his doctor's orders on his 70th birthday, why bother to have the job at all?"
<b>Open Enterprise:</b> "That's good, but it's also a challenge, because the free software used in such products may not always be compliant with all the licences it is released under – notably the GNU GPL."
A viewer asks for one tool to manage disparate contacts, FedEx fails big time and entrepreneurial coach, Noah St. John helps you get your foot off the brake.
Security researchers identify threat of social engineering scheme that could aim to trick users into launch actions from PDF files that could trigger arbitrary code execution.
LinuxCon 2009 represented the Linux Foundation's first big-tent technical conference. Did it deliver on its promise to innovate, or will OSCON remain at the top of the open source conference heap?
Emery Fletcher wonders if Microsoft has not emulated the IBM of old a bit too well, becoming a slow, bloated engine of intimidation, rather than a lean mean innovator.
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "I work on a project on which I regularly want to grep the directory tree for a particular word but without including the cvs/ and doc/ directories. Happily, grep has an exclude-dir option to do just this:"
Going virtual isn't going to make your life easier overnight; but even if it does introduce its own challenges, the benefits outweigh the outweigh the learning curve and shift in admin focus.
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "Opera is finally making with the snapshots for 10.50 on Linux, but is it really as fast as they claim? Opera’s upcoming release gets a shakedown this week, and the results might surprise you."