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Ebook Publishing Using Linux Tools

By Doug.Roberts | May 10, 2011
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Digital books, aka “ebooks” are going to change the publishing world just as iTunes and digital music have changed the music industry more>>

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Converting Office Documents

By Johan Thelin | Apr 21, 2011

Now and then, office-type documents need to be converted. The latex users have always been able to produce a variety of formats from the command line, but for the OpenOffice/LibreOffice users, manual labor has been the solution. That changes with unoconv. Now you can convert to most file formats directly from the command line. more>>

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Booting Bare Hardware

By Johan Thelin | Apr 05, 2011

Booting a computer is always more complex than one wants to think. On the PC side, it looks as if BIOS finally is retired and replaced by EFI (I wonder which was the last OS to use BIOS for anything that just loading a secondary bootloader). On Mac, EFI has been around for a while. On embedded Linux systems, however, u-boot has been a big player for a long time. more>>

Trying a Cute Approach to Android

By Johan Thelin | Mar 29, 2011

Amidst all the chaos surrounding the Qt project, the power of open source software has shown itself. The Romanian developer Bogdan Vatra has ported Qt to Android. To avoid trademark conflicts, the result was named Necessitas. more>>

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Are Your Licenses Compliant?

By David Lane | Mar 23, 2011

If you work with Open Source software every day, you probably do not think for a moment about license compliance. In fact, if you are not an IT manager or professional intellectual property lawyer, you might not even think about it at all. Until you get the phone call. more>>

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Quickie Conference Report: Day One - SCALE 9x

By Bill Childers | Feb 26, 2011

Yesterday marked the opening of the Southern California Linux Expo, otherwise known as SCALE. SCALE's venue this year is the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, just a stone's throw from LAX Airport. SCALE opened strong with lots of technical content, much of it about the "DevOps" movement and how you can bring its benefits to your place of business. more>>

Applying xargs

By Johan Thelin | Feb 23, 2011

There are some commands that turn out to be more useful than first meets the eye. In my opinion, xargs is one of those commands. It takes the standard input and uses it to build a command line. It's nothing fancy, but it's very handy in some situations. more>>

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CUPS and Sun

By Johan Thelin | Feb 08, 2011

I recently spent some time getting one of my long term projects built. For quite some time I've had an old desktop computer serve as my printer server. As this machine is kind of loud, I've turned it off when not using it. This led to some client machines not appreciating the printer becoming available at the wrong time. more>>

QEMU vs. VirtualBox

By Doug.Roberts | Jan 14, 2011

Why is it that the U.S. Government always releases a slew of RFPs just before Thanksgiving?  I’ve been swamped working on proposals since the third week of November, but we got the last one submitted just before Christmas so it’s back to normal (or what passes for normal around here) for a while.

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Behind the Cloud Redux

By David Lane | Jan 04, 2011

Cloud computing is the hot buzz phrase. more>>

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Why Hulu Plus Sucks, and Why You Should Use It Anyway

By Shawn Powers | Dec 16, 2010

Hulu Plus is the subscription based big brother to Hulu's free video streaming platform. It costs $7.99 a month, and really does open up the catalog of available titles. In fact, for subscribers, there are many shows that have the complete catalog of episodes from every season. (The Office, Family Guy, and many others) more>>

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The Move To Linux - Encrypted Disk Issues

By David Lane | Dec 03, 2010

One of the standards that has become normal in the US federal sector is the requirement that all mobile devices, such as laptops, have encrypted drives. This was a direct result of a number of laptop thefts earlier in the decade that resulted in the supposed leaking of personal information. more>>

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