Summer Schedule.
We meet each first Thursday on the month at 7 p.m. at Dooley's Pub,
We are NOT meeting this week. Next meeting is 03-SEP-09.

VMware buying SpringSource for $420 million.
Business software maker VMware Inc has agreed to buy privately held SpringSource for $420 million, its biggest-ever acquisition, to beef up a portfolio of programs that help companies run data centers. more... and VMware buys SpringSource for US$420M and VMware: $420 Million SpringSource Deal Pressures Red Hat.

Ohio LinuxFest 2009 Sept 25-26.
It’s only a little more than a month from now, the seventh Ohio LinuxFest. This year we will be celebrating 40 years of Unix! If you haven’t heard, we are very excited and proud to have Doug McIlroy give a key note address this year. Doug was the head of research department at Bell Laboratories where Unix was invented and is credited for the inventing Unix pipes as well as writing many of the Unix tools we still use in some form today. more...

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again.
Wired looks at the use of Flash cookies implemented by Adobe's browser plugin. "Several services even use the surreptitious data storage to reinstate traditional cookies that a user deleted, which is called ‘re-spawning’ in homage to video games where zombies come back to life even after being 'killed,' more...

Red Hat celebrates its 10-year IPO anniversary.
Ten years ago today, on August 11, 1999, Red Hat saw its shares triple in an initial public offering that ushered in a new era of commercial open-source prosperity. Iain Gray, then a Sun employee and now Red Hat's vice president of Global Support, writes nostalgically: "I remember sitting in the Sun office in UK watching the stock skyrocket, thinking the world had gone mad." more...

One billion Firefoxes.
Let me give you an Internet history lesson. Five-years ago, unless you were one of die-hard Netscape Navigator users or a handful of Opera users, your Web browser choices were Internet Explorer or... ah... Internet Explorer. more... and Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Blows Version 3.5 Out Of The Water.

Microsoft acknowledges competition from Canonical and Red Hat.
Microsoft's latest 10K filing with the SEC sees the company officially acknowledging that it faces competition from Linux vendors on the client side of its business, namely desktop Windows. Citing Canonical and Red Hat as "competing commercial software products", alongside Apple's products, Microsoft acknowledges that partners such as Hewlett-Packard and Intel have been "actively working with alternative Linux-based operating systems" more... and Ballmer: We're cheaper than Apple! (but not Linux).

XML Patent for Microsoft.
The core of US Patent 7,571,169 which Microsoft was granted on August 4th refers to – "A word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML". more... and Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US.

Apache updates to 2.2.13 for security.
A new Apache HTTP server release is out, fixing at least 4 security issues in the popular open source web server. None of the fixed security issues look like show stoppers to me. more...

Misc.
F-Spot 0.6.0 is out!
Apple: iPhone jailbreaking could knock out transmission towers.
Perl6 Slated for Release by Spring 2010.
Review Update: Moblin 2.0 keeps getting better.
EFF on the RealDVD decision.
FreePBX 3.0 Debuts.

How To Tips.

How To Install LTSP on Ubuntu 9.04.
How To Download and convert Youtube videos with Elltube.
How To Run 32-bit Apps in 64-bit Linux.
How To Check your webserver for vulnerabilities Nikto a website scanner.
How To Use Wireshark to track your network behavior.
How To Videoconference Linux and Windows with Ekiga.

See you next Thursday 7 P.M. at Dooley's Pub, 442 Water Street, Eau Claire, WI.

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