First, blogs moved from personal platforms to corporate tools. Now, wouldn’t it be great to put social networking to work in your organization? Elgg is an open source application for creating social networks. It can be customized with themes and extended with plugins to work with other social networks or plug into an organization’s existing wiki and forum boards. It lets users collaborate on projects within organizations or share notes within a university.

Source: Roll your own social network with Elgg

DRM infested content will never be as easy to share and manage as unprotected content, no matter what. This is one of the most fundamental flaws of DRM: unprotected content has better value than protected content. Where there is a margin, there is profit; where there is profit there is a market; where there’s a market there are suppliers. DVD Jon is not the problem, he is the inevitable consequence.

 

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Source: DRM is (almost) dead

Linux console, in contrast with the Windows command shell, is an extremely powerful user tool, which allows to perform virtually any operation on the system. What differenciates a Linux console from a Windows command line? What is the “real terminal” and what is the emulator for? And finally, why use the console if there is GUI? In the article I’ll try to answer all these questions.

 

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Source: The Power of Linux Console

Well I hope that all you folks out there have gotten up and to work and school and where ever on time this morning. Here everything is right on time,except for me and I think that I am still on normal time and as you can see I am posting a little later than normal. And for those of you that either forgot or changed your clocks the wrong way, you are really running late so stop reading this and get to work. See you all tomorrow and I promise I will be back on time or at least that is the game plan,  Baldy

Skype has come up with a new way to make money from its 171 million users: allow them to offer and charge for services either provided or initiated via Skype phone and video calls; handle the payments; take a hefty commission; hang on the cash for four months.

You will not find those details in Skype’s press release announcing the service, Skype Prime. And so far I have not been able to find a figure for the commission anywhere on the Skype Prime web page, but one of the postings in the comment section suggested the commission was 30 percent. The terms and conditions did confirm that the deadline for payment was four months after payment had been received.

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I have used BigBrother and Nagios for a long time to troubleshoot network problems, and I was happy with them — until Zabbix came along. Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution for servers, network services, and network devices. It’s easier to use and provides more functionality than Nagios or BigBrother.

 

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Source: Zabbix: State-of-the-art network monitoring

Bourne Again Shell offers a lot of power, flexibility and fun. Many new Unix users do not realize the flexibility of the shell environment; indeed; many new Unix users regard the shell as primitive and too restricted: nothing could be further from the truth. With very little time investment a new Unix user can learn how not to just make their work environment in the shell more productive but even a little fun.

Source: Colors and Prompts in Bash