Ubuntu Tips n Tricks

Weekly Ten (3-01-2010)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 03:29 AM PST

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

1. Canada beats the U.S.A., and Twitter beats the New York Times

I just logged back on to my computer a little bit ago after spending most of the day playing tennis, reading a book and taking a long nap. Apparently I missed a hockey game?
More @ TechFlash

2. Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
A minor-league pitcher in his younger days, Richard Armbruster kept playing baseball recreationally into his 70s, until his right hip started bothering him. Last February he went to a St. Louis hospital for what was to be a routine hip replacement.
More @ NYTimes

3. Serious threat to the web in Italy
In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police.
More @ Googleblog

4. Oscilloscope doubles as a serial terminal

More @ HackaDay

5. Open Source vs. the White Supremacists
A man who claims to be the head of the Aryan Nations says he wants to move their national headquarters into my little hometown in Eastern Oregon. This is alarming news, because we don't care to have organized crime, hatred, and intolerance invade our little community. He thinks we share his values and won't mind.
More @ LinuxToday

6. Internet overtakes print in news consumption among Americans

The Internet has surpassed newspapers as a primary way for Americans to get news, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That makes the Internet the third most popular news platform overall, with many connected users taking advantage of nontraditional consumption methods such as social media postings, personalized news feeds, and getting their news on-the-go.
More @ ArsTechnica

7. Amazon frantically phoned publishers as Steve Jobs unveiled iPad

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was still standing on stage addressing an auditorium full of media reps last month when higher-ups at Amazon began phoning publishers in an effort to extract details on the deals they were given to supply content on the new iPad device he was touting.
More @ AppleInsider

8. Inhabitat's Week in Green: Solar cars, solar boats, solar... gold?

More @ Engadget

9. Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.10

This document describes how to install a Proftpd 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. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup.
More @ HowtoForge

10. 10 Interesting Places to Visit with Google Earth
There can be little doubt that technology has changed they way we see our world, and Google Earth is a perfect example. This wonderful tool can be downloaded free of charge from earth.google.com and lets you see the world as never before, zooming about the globe at will. But there's a lot more that Google Earth can do besides just show you your house (and who hasn't looked up their house on Google Earth)?
More @ Listverse