Last month I was threatened with police intervention after taking pictures of my two-year-old. Why? We were in what you might think of as analogous to an outdoor mall. It’s a former industrial complex that’s listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Today the area has been revitalized with restaurants and office space, a large greenspace in the middle, and an attractive manmade river and waterfall. Despite there being no signs to indicate such, security informed me that the owners of the space have prohibited photography in order to “protect the intellectual property of the architecture.”
by Anderson Silva and Steve ‘Ashcrow’ Milner
Synergy is an open source project that allows you to share a keyboard and a mouse among several different computers, each connected to some sort of monitor, without any extra hardware (i.e. KVM switches). Synergy runs over the network and can be used with several different operating systems. » Read more
In this week’s Creative Commons Artist Spotlight, we interview French artist Philippe Mangold about his CC-licensed work available at Jamendo.com.
Uli Drepper is a Red Hat developer and the lead contributor and maintainer of the GNU C Library (glibc). Watch the first, second, third, and fourth videos in this series.
This is the fifth and final installment in our talks with Uli series. In this episode, Uli takes on the task of explaining what system administrators can do to help prevent exploits much like the ones mentioned in previous episodes.
More specifically, Uli brings up what admins aren’t doing and goes into some depth about ASLR, security policies, and the importance of enabling SELinux.
We hope you’ve enjoyed this five-part series with Ulrich Drepper, and as always, we’ve included an unedited version of the interview as a podcast.
In the comments, we’d love to hear what you’ve thought of the series and if you’d like to see more similar content in the future.
Today more than 15,000 bloggers are participating in Blog Action Day, an initiative that asks bloggers to post on one topic en masse on the same day each year. The 2007 topic is the environment, and open source bloggers are joining in. » Read more
Contributed by Eugene Teo
Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
This tutorial explores a few simple techniques to improve a portrait using GIMP. In particular, you’ll see a couple of new features introduced in the new GIMP 2.4, the Healing Tool and the Red Eye Removal filter. » Read more
By and large, most Red Hat Linux systems will have Bash as the default shell. Bash is a darn great shell, but this article is about another equally great shell, called Z-Shell, that has most of the attributes of Bash, but in some cases goes the extra mile to give you the flexibility to customize your shell more than Bash allows.
This article is somewhat advanced, but if you’re very patient, with some effort, you will do just fine. Remember to make small changes, test them, and then make more small changes, test, and repeat. » Read more
