Got ya! Okay this is not on a open tirade on how goofy folks are it is about a movie, no a great movie. If you have not heard about it and it has been around for a while I have a small write up later, however here is a link to watch it free online one that you will learn from. Just Click Here to watch the movie and here is the info on it.

Originally released in February 2004 in one theater in Yelm, Washington, What the BLEEP Do We Know!? went on to become the fifth highest grossing documentary in the United States, with ticket sales of $12 Million.

Shunned by all movie distributors, the producers set about distributing and marketing the movie themselves in a “proof of concept” strategy to show theater owners there was indeed a market for spiritually oriented films that catered to audiences’ intelligence, not their lowest common denominator.

Although rejected by every major film festival (Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, Cannes, etc…), What the BLEEP did get entered in five smaller festivals, and won in every one. This, along with the grass roots, word-of-mouth campaign, kept the film in theaters for weeks and months on end. After five months of surprising box office numbers, the film attracted the attention of Samuel Goldwyn Films, and the producers entered into a distribution deal. The word-of-mouth buzz continued and the film showed real staying power (it played in one theater in Phoenix for 40+ consecutive weeks).

Thanks to Raven for the Link! Sorry almost forgot that.

In a recent blog entry, kernel hacker Greg Kroah-Hartman offered the services of the Linux kernel community to create free Linux device drivers for companies. Recently, Kroah-Hartman revealed on his blog that companies are taking him up on the community’s offer.

Source: linux-watch

This tutorial describes how to set up an audio streaming server with Icecast2. In order that Icecast2 can stream audio to listeners we install Ices2. Ices2 is a program that sends audio data to an Icecast2 server to broadcast to clients. Ices2 can either read audio data from disk (Ogg Vorbis files), or sample live audio from a sound card and encode it on the fly. In this article we will let Ices2 read .ogg files from the local hard disk.

Source: Run Your Own Webradio Station With Icecast2 And Ices2

Open source projects have had a significant impact in areas such as operating systems (Linux), databases (MySQL), web applications (Apache), and development tools (Eclipse). However, they have been slower in reaching other areas where open standards and community involvement can make an equally positive impact. Given the new focus on automation for enterprise network infrastructures, network inventory and configuration management is one such area ripe for hosting a vibrant open source community.

Source: Open Source Network Configuration Management

I’m old enough to have a long memory, but young enough that it does not yet resemble Swiss cheese. So, despite having consumed certain, uh, chemicals, on more than one occasion, I actually still can recall more than a few things — one of which was the promise of open standards. Once the industry migrated to IP Telephony, we were told, buyers would be living in a new world — one where they could mix and match phones and other system components. Prices would fall; life would be good.

Source: Getting Over the Love-Hate Dynamic With Open Standards

When something goes wrong with your Linux-based system, you can try to diagnose it yourself with the many troubleshooting tools bundled with the operating system. Knowing about these tools, and how to effectively use them, can help you overcome many…

Source: CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101