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When you download linux files or programs, for example Real Player, what do you open the files with????? 

I just auto hid my menu bar on my linux mint 9 and now I can not get it to come back up. I am not able to locate anything on this problem online and would appriciate any advice if someone knows how to fix this.

I recently set my menu to auto hide and now am not able to get it to come up at all. I have linux mint 9 and have really not put anything on it yet. I have tried to locate some of the information online and was not able to find anything for this problem.

Why does my monitor keep going black, forcing me to reboot?

I have been using Linux distros for about two years on a laptop, but unfortunately I had to sell it and I ended up buying a $50 used Dell PC on ebay. The problem is, after installing Linux Mint as a second boot option (XP being the first), I have found that the screen will go black and flash back and forth between the white text on black background that I would normally see on system startup and a simple black screen. Even if I switch over to the console the flickering continues. This is not just a Mint problem, as I have also tried Ubuntu, PCLOS, Sabayon, AntiX, and Zenwalk on this PC with similar results. There are only some minor variations; for example, Zenwalk flashed big blocks of color on my screen instead of going black. Once this happens, ctrl-alt-backspace is my only way out. With the exception of PCLOS, this never happens at boot. It will happen at some random time, maybe 10-20 minutes after. With PCLOS I couldn't boot at all, it just said "monitor out of range".

My XP installation is fine though. It is running at 1280x800 resolution with a refresh rate of 75. Mint boots into a 1680x1050 resolution with a refresh rate of 59.9, so I changed Mint's resolution to 1280x800 and the refresh rate to 74.9 to see if that would help. It looked pretty bad, plus the screen ended up going black after about 10 minutes anyway.

My graphics card is an Intel 82845G and my monitor is a 20" Sceptre LCD. I'm currently using Mint 9 LXDE.

Linux and BT HomeHub2

Help! I cant get my Acer netbook to connect wirelessly to my BT HomeHub2, works fine on the ethernet - BT are about as much use as a chocolate teapot

Somebody explain Please

Ok I am new to the computer world. What is Linux? Explain in terms that I can understand. I am not a computer person.

PLEASE HELP WITH DOWNLOAD ERROR: "COULD NOT OPEN FILE BECAUSE ASSOCIATED HELPER APPLICATION DOES NOT EXIST. CHANGE THE ASSOCIATION IN YOUR PREFERENCES" HOW DO I DO THIS?

I was born before TV!  How do I fix this.  I keep getting this message when I try to download certain ATTACHMENTS    " Download error "- "could not be opened because associated helper application does not exist.  CHANGE THE ASSOCIATION IN YOUR PREFERENCES" 

I cannot get my audigy ES1731 sound card to work with Ubuntu 10.04 can anyone help.................please - from our friends at Linux Answers
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in my office one server is there that ip is 192.168.1.50 but i dont no paswd for that . but i want who are all accessing with ip address . is it possible ?? is there any commands for that??

in my office one server is there that ip is 192.168.1.50 but i dont no root paswd for that . but i want 2 know . who are all accessing 192.168.1.50 server. with ip address . is it possible ?? is there any commands for that??

I use a Broadcom802.11b/gWLAN for my HP mini's wireless does the ubuntu netbook OS drivers work with it??? - from our friends at Linux Answers
~Created Sat Jul 31 10:48:20 2010

I couldn't install the drivers for the wirelsess in the USB trial. I have an HP mini and need the wireless feature. Do any of you know if the hard ware is compatible with the Ubuntu drivers??? - from our friends at Linux Answers
~Created Sat Jul 31 10:48:20 2010

GNOME 3.0 Delayed Until March 2011
Julie188 writes "GNOME 3.0 was scheduled to be released in September but during the developers conference, GUADEC 2010 in Den Haag, the organization had to face facts: the much ballyhooed GNOME Shell really wasn't ready. The Shell is supposed to bring 'a whole new user experience to the desktop.' So now, in September, what users will see is GNOME 2.32, distributed as a new stable release. Next target date for 3.0: March 2011."

FreeBSD 8.1 Released
hsn and other readers pointed out that FreeBSD 8.1 has been released. "This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: zfsloader added; zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14; NFSv4 ACL support in UFS and ZFS; support added to cp(1), find(1), getfacl(1), mv(1), and setfacl(1) utilities; UltraSPARC IV/IV+, SPARC64 V support; SMP support in PowerPC G5; BIND 9.6.2-P2..." ... and much more. See the release notes summary and the details.

A Quick Look At KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1
dmbkiwi writes "The latest in the 4.x series of the KDE Software Compilation is due to be released in early August 2010. With the first beta of this release recently unleashed, I thought I'd download the openSuse packages and see what 4.5's got in store for us."

Sneak Preview For Coming KDE SC 4.5
omlx writes "KDE SC 4.5 is in feature freeze right now. Therefore, I decided to share some early screenshots with you. In general there are no major changes; it's all about polishing and fixing bugs. There are a lot of under-the-hood changes in libs, which as end users we cannot see. KDE SC will be released in August 2010." Note: you can also try out a beta of the release now, if you'd like.

OpenBSD 4.7 Released
An anonymous reader writes "The release of OpenBSD 4.7 was announced today. Included in this release are support for more wireless cards, the loongson platform, pf improvements, many midlayer filesystem improvements including a new dynamic buffer cache, dynamic VFS name cache rewrite and NFS client stability fixes, routing daemon improvements including the new MPLS label distribution protocol daemon (ldpd) and over 5,800 packages. Please help support the project by ordering your copy today!"

OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up
badger.foo writes "The OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are up. That means the release is done, sent off to CD production, and snapshots will turn -current again. Order now and you more likely than not will have your CD set, T-shirt or other cool stuff before the official release date. You get the chance to support the most important free software project on the planet, and get your hands on some cool playables and wearables early. The release page is still being filled in, but the changelog has detailed information about the goodies in this release."

PC-BSD 8.0 Release Focuses On Desktop Use
donadony writes "Last Monday PC-BSD 8.0 was released. PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD and uses KDE as its default desktop environment. PC-BSD is designed to make BSD much easier for desktop use. The 8.0 release includes support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64 and improvements in the USB subsystem. The PC-BSD team has also developed a friendly package manager system with a simple-to-use GUI tool (see the screenshots tour). For a full list of changes, refer to the changelog."

Benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux
An anonymous reader writes "The Debian Squeeze release is going to be accompanied by a first-rate kFreeBSD port and now early benchmarks of this port have started coming out using daily install images. The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project is marrying the FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland and glibc while making most of the Debian repository packages available for kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64. The first Debian GNU/kFreeBSD benchmarks compare the performance of it to Debian GNU/Linux with the 2.6.30 kernel while the rest of the packages are the same. Results are shown for both i386 and x86_64 flavors. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD may be running well, but it has a lot of catching up to do in terms of speed against Linux."

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux
dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets
An anonymous reader writes "Two weeks ago, The Daily WTF's Alex Papadimoulis announced Bad Code Offsets, a join venture between many big names in the software development community (including StackOverflow's Jeff Atwood and Jon Skeet and SourceGear's Eric Sink). The premise is that you can offset bad code by purchasing Bad Code Offsets (much in the same way a carbon-footprint is offset). The profits are donated to Free Software projects which work to eliminate bad code, such as the Apache Foundation and FreeBSD. The first cheques were sent out earlier today." Hopefully, they work better than carbon offsets, actually.

Serious Remote FreeBSD Exploit Posted, Patched
Trailrunner7 writes "A researcher has published an explanation of a new flaw in FreeBSD that allows a remote attacker to take control of a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability could give an attacker root access to the FreeBSD machine, and the FreeBSD developers have published a patch for the flaw early Tuesday. The vulnerability lies in run-time link-editor and, if exploited, gives an attacker the ability to run arbitrary code. The researcher, Kingcope, has posted an explanation of the flaw on the Full Disclosure mailing list. In a message to FreeBSD users, Colin Percival, the project's security officer, said that because of the severity of the flaw and the fact that exploit code already is available, he felt it was necessary to post the patch as soon as possible, without even publishing a security advisory."

FreeBSD 8.0 Released
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights: Xen DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection, TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS v13, a new USB stack, multicast updates including IGMPv3, vimage — a new virtualization container, Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 and others, trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control), and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the x86-64 platform. The GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to 2.26.3, KDE to 4.3.1, and Firefox to 3.5.5. There is also an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes in FreeBSD 8.0, including a screenshot tour, upgrade instructions are posted here. You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread the word by tweeting and blogging about the drive and release."

OpenBSD 4.6 Released
pgilman writes "The release of OpenBSD 4.6 was announced today. Highlights of the new release include a new privilege-separated smtpd; numerous improvements to packet filtering, software RAID, routing daemons, and the TCP stack; a new installer; and lots more. Grab a CD set or download from a mirror, and please support the project (which also brings you OpenSSH and lots of other great free software) if you can."

Apple's Grand Central Dispatch Ported To FreeBSD
bonch writes "Apple's Grand Central Dispatch, which was recently open sourced, has been ported to FreeBSD and is planned to be included by default in FreeBSD 8.1. Also known as libdispatch, the API allows the use of function-based callbacks but will also support blocks if built using FreeBSD's clang compiler package. There's already discussion of modifying BSD's system tools to use the new technology." The port was originally unveiled last month at the 2009 Developer Summit in Cambridge. Slides from that presentation are available via the Dev Summit wiki.

Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status
Reader tail.man points out this press release from Debian which says that the port of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel will be given equal footing alongside Debian's several other release ports, starting with the release of Squeeze. Excerpting from this release: "The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386 processor architectures are now release architectures. Severe bugs on these architectures will be considered release critical the same way as bugs on other architectures like armel or i386 are. If a particular package does not build or work properly on such an architecture this problem is considered release-critical. Debian's main motivation for the inclusion of the FreeBSD kernel into the official release process is the opportunity to offer to its users a broader choice of kernels and also include a kernel that provides features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS drivers in the mainline kernel with full support."

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Ctypes for Perl: Intro and API spec
Hello, good evening and welcome.For the next few months I will be using this blog to help document and publicise my "Ctypes for Perl" project. The project is being carried out for TPF under the auspices of the Google Summer of Code programme, and mentored by Reini Urban. What's a ctypes? 'ctypes' is the Foreign Function Interface (FFI) library distributed with the Python core. It basically allows native C libraries to be called easily from Python; for module authors, it allows the wrapping of C libraries in pure Python.This is obviously a powerful concept. Imagine a world where Perl module authors didn't need to use XS, and module consumers don't need to have a correctly configured compiler set up on their system. This is the purpose of the project: to create an easy, cross-platform, pure-Perl interface to native C libraries. Implementations ctypes is based on libffi. It's small, supports a wide range of systems, and has a very liberal license. It's been distributed with GCC for a number of years, used by gcj for interfacing between interpreted and compiled code.From what I can gather, Python set the trend in dynamic languages using libffi. Looking at the success of the Python module, developers at Mozilla chose libffi to develop ctypes.jsm. Ruby-FFI uses it too, so there's plenty of prior art which will hopefully help me out.The FFI problem hasn't been ignored in the Perl world. There's FFI.pm, the biggest disadvantage of which in my view is being built on libffcall, a library analogous to libffi but under the GPL (I don't think libffi was around at the time FFI.pm was written). It also sets out to provide a 'low-level' interface. P5NCI, on the other hand, is all about the lovely interfaces, but only allows up to four arguments passed to C functions, and doesn't yet support passing in pointers. C::Dynalib provides similar functionality to the other two modules; click here for the latest updates on its development. It's worth pointing out that none of these modules worked out of the box on Strawberry 5.10.1.My proposed API rolls in features of several of the above implementations, particularly P5NCI and FFI.pm. I have indeed copied and pasted swathes from their POD pages (So what? Wanna fight about it?). I plan to also mimic C::DynaLib's acceptance of both positional & named parameters; examples are omitted below for succinctness. 1. Functional use Ptypes; # FFI.pm's interface of Absolute Freedom... my $addr = (address of a C function) my $signature = (function signature) my $ret = Ptypes::call($addr, $signature, ...); # Keeping things where you can see them... my $library_path = Ptypes::find_lib( 'mathtastic' ); my $library = Ptypes::load_lib( $library_path ); my $double_func = Ptypes::load_func( $library, 'double_double', 'dd' ); my $ret = $double_func->( 1.0 ); # Supplying a Perl callback... $ret = Ptypes::call($addr, $signature, $subref, ...) 2. Objectionable use Ptypes; my $lib = Ptypes->new( library => 'mathtastic' [, package => 'MyPackage' ] ); my $double_func = $lib->load_function( 'double_double', 'dd' ); my $ret = $double_func->( 1.0 ); # Exposing funcs directly in Perl namespaces... $lib->install_function( 'double_int', 'ii' [, 'perl_sub_name', 'AnotherPackage' ] ); my $ret = AnotherPackage::double_int( 1 ); # or simply... package AnotherPackage; my $ret = double_int( 3 ); All fairly self-explanatory, perhaps apart from arguments like 'ii' or 'dd' - these strings describe return values and arguments for C functions in the same notation used by pack. In addition to the above, the module may provide mechanisms for manipulating C data types directly from Perl ($c = new Ptypes::char). To start off with though there'll be a fairly straight-forward / 'stupid' translation based on seeing what kind of data's in your SV*, for initial experimentation.There's also some exciting stuff to do with GCC::TranslationUnit to tell you about, but details of that will wait till later. For now, I have some questions for you, the community: How d'you like the API proposal above? Anything you'd add? Take out?How does 'Ptypes' take you as a name for this malarky? Y'know, like ctypes, but for Perl. 'FFI' is already taken after all...Don't want to gush here, but I'm so chuffed* to be working on this. I'm already learning loads, and I think it will save a lot of blood, sweat & tears for module authors and users in the future. I want to thank rurban for his guidance & help so far, and dukeleto and others for organising the The Perl Foundation's participation in GSoC and letting me participate!I like to work log, so follow @doubious_code on Twitter to get far more information than you want about this project. I hope to be blogging pretty regularly too.* For American-speakers, 'chuffed' is kinda equivalent to 'stoked'

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News: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #29
colomon writes "On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce theMay 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #29 "Erlangen". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org./ The tarball for the May 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named after a Perl Mongers group. The May 2010 release is code named "Erlangen" in recognition of Erlangen.pm and the Perl 6 talk that Moritz Lenz, one of our core developers, gave this month. Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring with this release include: * Lexical classes and roles were implemented. Additionally, anonymous classes which were never quite right in alpha are now implemented more correctly, and anonymous roles are also supported. * Basic support for named enumerations of the form 'enum Weekday ' has been restored. * First cut of use Foo:from and eval('foo', :lang); needs Blizkost[1] to be installed to work. * Numeric / Real roles much closer to the spec now. * As always, many additional small features and bug fixes make working with Rakudo more pleasant. * Rakudo now passes 32,347 spectests. We estimate that there are about 39,500 tests in the test suite, so Rakudo passes about 82% of all tests. For a more detailed list of changes see "docs/ChangeLog". The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on parrot, the Perl 6 test suite and the specification. The following people contributed to this release: Solomon Foster, Moritz Lenz, Jonathan Worthington, Martin Berends, chromatic, Carl Masak, snarkyboojum, Stefan O'Rear, Reini Urban, Jonathan Scott Duff, takadonet, Christoph Otto, isBEKaml, ash_, bubaflub, Jimmy Zhuo, Peter Lobsinger and Patrick Abi Salloum If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. The next release of Rakudo (#30) is scheduled for June 17, 2010. A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2010 is available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month. Have fun! [1] http://github.com/jnthn/blizkost"

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Perl 5.12.1 now available
"Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze. Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs what we might call ice-oneis only one of several types of ice. Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four ... And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again, "that there were one form, which we will call ice-ninea crystal as hard as this deskwith a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred- and-thirty degrees."                                                                           -- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle It gives me great pleasure to announce Perl 5.12.1, the second stable release of Perl 5.12. You can download Perl 5.12.1 from your favorite CPAN mirror or from: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.1/ SHA1 digests for this release are: 75a8a17cec15d68c6bb959b0aa9879d2ded6f90d perl-5.12.1.tar.bz2 83b99f08379782dc06594a85eeb279edc5b0ca44 perl-5.12.1.tar.gz This release contains minor bug fixes and updates of several core modules, as well as minor documentation updates. It should be fully backward compatible with Perl 5.12.0. Perl 5.12.1 is a recommended upgrade for all users of Perl 5.12. You can find a full list of changes in the file "perl5121delta.pod" located in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web at: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.1/pod/perl5121delta.pod Perl 5.12.1 represents approximately four weeks of development since Perl 5.12.0 and contains approximately 4,000 lines of changes across 142 files from 28 authors. Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.12.1: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Chris Williams, chromatic, Craig A. Berry, David Golden, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, Frank Wiegand, Gene Sullivan, Goro Fuji, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois, Jesse Vincent, Josh ben Jore, Karl Williamson, Leon Brocard, Michael Schwern, Nga Tang Chan, Nicholas Clark, Niko Tyni, Philippe Bruhat, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Ricardo Signes, Steffen Mueller, Todd Rinaldo, Vincent Pit and Zefram. We expect to release Perl 5.12.2 in mid-August 2010, followed by Perl 5.12.3 in mid-November. The next major release of Perl 5, 5.14.0 should appear in spring 2011.

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YAPC::NA::2010 Schedule Out; Call for 2011 Venue
kid51 writes "In case you haven't heard ... The schedule for presentations at YAPC::NA::2010 in Columbus Ohio has been announced. And the call for a venue for YAPC::NA::2011 is also out now."

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Perl 5.12.0 is now available
'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why your cat grins like that?' 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!' She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:-- 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know that cats COULD grin.' 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.' -- Lewis Carroll, /Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/On behalf of Perl's development team, It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.12.0.Perl 5.12.0 represents approximately two years of development since version 5.10.0 and contains over 750,000 lines of changes across over 3,000 files from over 200 authors and committers.SHA-1 signatures for this release: f533687077e2da113b48a6c5e578f4a206fbf173 perl-5.12.0.tar.bz2 5341e60d099fdda71bc33b2a36e417fc0926518f perl-5.12.0.tar.gz You can download this release from your nearest CPAN mirror or from: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.0/

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Call for venue for YAPC::Europe 2011
BooK writes "While YAPC::Europe 2010 preparations are well underway in Pisa, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to look for suitable sites for the 2011 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe::2011 should send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org. This should be followed by a complete application. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2010. For details on how to prepare your complete application, consider the examples of previous conferences. If your proposal is selected, it will be added to the others on this page (you will have the opportunity to remove private information first). Be certain to include contact information (including telephone numbers) for at least two members of the group. You may also direct any questions to the aforementioned email address. A decision on the location will be publicly announced at the start of the Pisa conference. Looking forward to your submissions,  Philippe Bruhat (BooK)  on behalf of the YAPC::Europe Venue Committee"

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BioPerl and the Google Summer of Code
(original post here) In addition to The Perl Foundation being accepted into GSoC 2010, BioPerl is now also part of the Google Summer of Code! The Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which also includes BioPython, BioRuby, and others, has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code for 2010. We are actively looking for students interested in OBF-related bioinformatics projects; new ideas are welcome. Project ideas and other details can be found here: Main OBF GSoC page BioPerl-specific projects This isn't the first year BioPerl has been part of GSoC. A successful project was recently published by 2008 GSoC student Mira Han for developing a phyloXML parser for BioPerl.

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Nordic Perl Workshop 2010
Steinn E. Sigurdarson writes "This years Nordic Perl Workshop takes place the first weekend of May in Reykjavík, Iceland. This is the first time the event is held in Iceland, but hopefully not the last. Registration and more details are available on the workshop website."

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Call for Papers: 12th German Perl Workshop 2010
mhx writes "GPW 12.0 — ”Modern Perl“ The 12th German Perl Workshop will be hosted from June 7th to 9th 2010 in Schorndorf near Stuttgart. The workshop is targeted towards all experienced and beginning Perl developers. Obviously, the workshop is only as good as its talks — your talks. We are interested in all talks about Perl itself or about Perl related topics, and especially talks that would apply to this year's motto “Modern Perl“. The submission deadline for your 5, 20 or 40 minute talks has been extended until March 5th, 2010.     http://conferences.yapceurope.org/gpw2010 The German Perl Workshop is a yearly held conference with mostly german-speaking users and developers of the Perl programming language. The main focus of the workshop held by the Deutscher Perl-Workshop GbR and the Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart (WRS) is ”Modern Perl“. The CPAN modules Catalyst, Moose and DBIx::Class are playing major roles: Catalyst as a flexible web framework, Moose with its postmodern object system for Perl and DBIx::Class as a layer between applications and databases."

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YAPC Europe Foundation financial reports published
BooK writes "The YAPC Europe Foundation's treasurer has put all the Foundation's financial reports (from 2004 to present) online. For those not interested in the gory details of "what has YEF been doing with the money it got from donations", there's also a global picture. This information is made public because YEF gets its funding from the Perl community, which has a right to know what's done with its money, and also in the hope that it will make the YAPC Europe Foundation's purpose clearer to everyone."

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Heads up! OpenBSD now supports multi-byte characters!

On July 27th, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) added support for the multi-byte characters in the OpenBSD libc. Thanks to the work of the people involved in its development, the OpenBSD C library now supports the Unicode character encoding scheme UTF-8. Read on for the full commit message, some words from Stefan about what needs to be tested and how to do so:

[c2k10] (Part 5)

In all of my interviews at c2k10, there were many things that kept coming up over and over again. One of those things was the release of 2.7 in June of 2000 and 2.8 in November. It was a period when many of the developers, tedu@ included, started to use OpenBSD. There is a reason for these two releases being so popular and a tipping point, so to speak, that attracted many thereafter.

[c2k10] The Hackathon BBQ (Part 4) - June 25 - July 3, 2010, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

With almost two days of hacking under their belts, everyone was instructed to make their way to Bob Beck's (beck@) house for the traditional BBQ event and Swedish beer hurling festivities. The food was fantastic and the camaraderie undeniable.

Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.8-BETA

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has tagged 4.8-BETA (see here and here). Snapshots should be available soon for testing, check the mirrors for availability. Read below for the full commit messages:

Ubuntu Empire Strikes Back

The old "Ubuntu doesn't contribute back" argument cropped up again when Dave Neary released a report of the talk he gave at GUADEC on the contributions made to the GNOME desktop environment. He found that Red Hat and Novell contributed the most and that Ubuntu and Mandriva (primarily a KDE distribution) was among the lowest. more>>

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Linux Journal Insider - September 2010

Linux Journal Insider - September 2010 by Linux Journal

Linux Journal Insider is your monthly peek at what to expect from the new issue of Linux Journal, before it even hits the newsstands. This month we discuss web development! Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin give you the inside scoop on topics and articles. Feel free to listen right here in your browser with the fancy embedded audio player, or subscribe to the FEED with your favorite podcast software. Either way, we hope you enjoy it! more>>

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:42:27 2010

Where do you find Linux?

Spotlight on Linux: SimplyMEPIS 8.5.x

SimplyMEPIS is a simply wonderful distribution. It was the first to offer a complete out of the box experience all tied up in a pretty package. It would be fair to say that it was probably the inspiration for many of the easy-to-use distributions available today. more>>

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:42:27 2010

Going fast with DWM

Prettier Fonts Coming Your Way

Bash Co-Processes

OpenOffice.org 3.3 Definitely On Its Way

Using Linux To Create a Music Blog

Saxophone? Check. Digital recorder? Check. Camera? Check. Ready to rock & roll. Or do some blues. A bit of jazz? How about some Zydeco. Honky Tonk?

We'll see when we get to the Second Street Brewery this Wednesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That's when the weekly open mic session kicks off at 7:00pm, led by Case Tanner and his house band. more>>

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:42:27 2010

India's $35 Tablet- The Everything Killer

BSD Certification Group awards first certified BSD Associates
The BSDA certification was officially launched in February. The candidates took the proctored exams at the SCALE, FOSDEM, or Linux-Tage Chemnitz conferences.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010

BSDA "Associate" sysadmin course to be taught in DFW Texas
BSD Unix system administration course focusing on the BSD Certification Group's BSDA (BSD "Associate") Certification exam objectives will be taught April 22 - 25, 2008, in Fort Worth, Texas, USA by Puget Sound Technology.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010

The Best of FreeBSD Basics book published
Dru Lavigne's book, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, was recently published by Reed Media Services.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010

Answers from Matt Dillon about DragonFly's virtual kernel
Dillon recently implemented his vision of a virtual kernel in DragonFly. This article is is just questions and answers about it.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010

Contributors for Admin Book Needed
A collaborative, short-term open source authoring project to quickly write a book covering the basics from the 2005 BSDA Certification Requirements Document was recently started.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010

Pkgsrc on non-NetBSD interview
This article contains interviews with five pkgsrc packaging system users (non committers) who use pkgsrc on non-NetBSD systems.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010

iXsystems acquires PC-BSD
iXsystems announced this week its acquisition of PC-BSD, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010

NetBSD's Bugathons
NetBSD held two "bugathons" which brought together several developers and non-committers together on two weekends to resolve hundreds of problem reports.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010

NewsForge: EuroBSDCon 2005 (highlights)
Another review of EuroBSDCon 2005.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010

ONLamp: Building Binary PC-BSD Packages
This article shows how to make entirely self-contained PC-BSD packages.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Sat Jul 31 11:33:26 2010