Ubuntu Tips n Tricks

Monday, October 5, 2009

Weekly Ten (10-5-2009)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:14 AM PDT

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Why Google isn't evil
If knowledge is power, the Google revolution has empowered us all. Never in human history have so many people had access to so much knowledge, made relevant and ordered to their needs.
More @ TechRadar

2. Email: The Variable Reinforcement Machine
How often do you check your email per day? Does checking your email make you more productive or less productive? Oh, sure, we delude ourselves into thinking we're being extra-productive by obsessively checking and responding to our email, but in reality we're attending too frequently to our own desire for gratification and sabotaging our own productivity in the process.
More @ CodingHorror

3. Mark Shuttleworth's Community Has No Women
A few people took Mark Shuttleworth to task in their blogs for making exclusionary and sexist comments in his keynote at last week's LinuxCon. Such as Open Letter to Mark Shuttleworth, A followup on the Shuttleworth incident, and On Keynotes and Apologies Mr. Shuttleworth has remained silent when asked for comment, saying only to watch the video and judge for ourselves.
More @ LinuxToday

4. Growing algae with an Arduino

More @ HackaDay

5. Twitter may come and go, but newspapers are here to stay
Remember when Twitter was huge? Yes, that was a couple of months ago. The cover of Time magazine said Twitter "will change the way we live." Then I read this week that Twitter was dead.
More @ NevadaAppeal

6. Flash Player Inches Closer to Smartphones
Adobe Systems' Flash Player is getting closer to appearing on smartphones, with Research in Motion adding its BlackBerry to the list of devices that will run the software. Apple's elusive iPhone remains out of reach, however.
More @ PCWorld

7. How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Ubuntu 9.04

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Ubuntu 9.04. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
More @ HowtoForge

8. Deja Vu: Apple Sues Someone Because Their Logo Looks Like Fruit

More @ Gizmodo

9. 20 Years of Moving Atoms, One by One
Sometimes genius looks like an elegant equation written in chalk on a blackboard. Sometimes it's a hodgepodge of wires, canisters and aluminum-foil-wrapped hoses, all held together by shiny bolts.
More @ Wired.com

10. The Habit Change Cheatsheet: 29 Ways to Successfully Ingrain a Behavior

Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the day, a trammeled existence fettered by the slow accretion of our previous actions. But habits can be changed, as difficult as that may seem sometimes.
More @ Zenhabits