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• — Microsoft's Internet Driving Licence: stupid, unworkable and unenforceable

     (Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:47)

  Barely a day goes by when you switch on your computer, plug into the web and come across yet another deranged scheme to restrict freedom in the name of security, safety or morality. RIAA, DMCA, RIPA, Pallidium computing, the list almost seems to grow exponentially. So, some guys got together in a dark room, brainstormed and came up with yet another ruse to curtail access to and use of the internet. Relax, this one won’t fly. Trust me. But the sheer audacity of it! Even the bovine docility of Windows users wouldn’t stomach this one (or would they?)—and here’s the irony. Read the full article at Freesoftware Magazine.

• — Two front ends for Clamav

     (Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:47)

  Clamav is the most popular free anti virus program for Linux environment.( Of course it scans for widows virus) However, clam is a command line utility and you need some skills for manipulating is properly. There are several graphical front ends for clam av which can make your life easy. The most popular among them are clamtk and Klamav.

• — Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Lenny

     (Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:47)

  Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine.

• — Operating Systems and Market Share Statistics

     (Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:47)

  Operating systems market share is something that is hard to judge. There are lots of numbers out there provided by lots of different people. Which figures are you to believe and which ones should you take in with a grain of salt?

• — Can free software drive the fourth paradigm?

     (Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:47)

  The biggest science story to hit the mainstream media in the last year was of course the big switch on at CERN. What made it such a great story for me was not just the sheer and audacious enormity of the enterprise or the humbling nobility of the colossal experiment but the story behind the story. That story was the absolutely central role of free software philosophy at the heart of everything CERN was (and is) doing. Despite the false start, CERN’s search for the Higgs Boson has got into its stride. The same cannot be said for the car crash that is climate science, which may have inflicted terminal damage on the reputation of science. I believe the rigorous application of free software methodology in conjunction with the Fourth Paradigm may save it. Read the full article at Freesoftware Magazine.