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Subject: Adventures in Self-Publishing, Chap. 8: Designing the Interior of your Book
Last week we talked about how to design covers for books - eBooks, soft cover books and hard cover books. But how about the interior of your magnum opus?
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20120127063807652
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20120127063807652
This week we look at how to hire a security genius, the advantages of using HTML5 and how Agile adds more discipline to the development process.
http://blog.ness.com/spl/bid/74289/5-Links-for-Developers-and-IT-Pros-1-27-12
http://blog.ness.com/spl/bid/74289/5-Links-for-Developers-and-IT-Pros-1-27-12
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Interlaced Support For Intel's Linux Graphics Driver
Daniel Vetter of Intel has published a new patch-set to enable interlaced support within their DRM kernel driver...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0OTI
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0OTI
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Chrome and Chromium: small golden rules to get the perfect browser !
bet that when you turn on your PC, one of the first programs that you start is your Browser .Indeed, many say that the browser that we have installed in our computer show a part of us! There is, therefore, who prefer Opera: a browser elegant and very particular, for those who prefer the aesthetics at the practicality, there are those who, following the mass chose the Firefox browser, which has won a great battle against IE in a recent past. And finally there are those who prefer the speed, stability and efficiency, and they choose Google Chrome or Chromium !
http://linuxaria.com/article/chrome-and-chromium-small-golden-rules-to-get-the-perfect-browser?lang=en
http://linuxaria.com/article/chrome-and-chromium-small-golden-rules-to-get-the-perfect-browser?lang=en
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Beets Music Tagger: Command Line Tool To Fix Metadata And Organize Your Music Library
Beets is a cross-platform command line music tagger and organizer which you can use to "get your music collection right once and for all". It can improve your music collection metadata by using MusicBrainz, download cover art for all your albums, reorganize your music files, fix filenames and more.
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/beets-command-line-tool-to-fix-music.html
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/beets-command-line-tool-to-fix-music.html
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Privacy Clashes with Data Collection Capability in Cloud
As Google proposed a controversial new privacy policy, the EU proposed radical new data protection rules of its own and both illustrated the growing clash between data collection and privacy in the cloud.
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mobile-cloud-view/privacy-clashes-with-data-collection-capability-in-cloud/
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mobile-cloud-view/privacy-clashes-with-data-collection-capability-in-cloud/
A glimpse at the results of a real life attack on a real life MySQL server, and the emotional end result of the damage caused.
http://thomasaknight.com/blog.php?id=22
http://thomasaknight.com/blog.php?id=22
Let's have a look at Unity Heads-Up Display (HUD). By now, I'm sure most readers will have seen the screenshot of HUD and the old Machintosh, and some may have read or heard the expression WIMP for the first time. And you've most likely read at least one article under headings such as Ubuntu replaces menus with HUD. Of course, this is only the media being paid-per-click. It isn't true. In fact, it is the opposite of the truth. In all the official statements, it has been made explicit that the HUD is an addition to the menus and not a replacement. The news media, of course, will never let facts get in the way.
http://www.muktware.com/articles/3244/ubuntus-hud-explained-why-its-great-idea
http://www.muktware.com/articles/3244/ubuntus-hud-explained-why-its-great-idea
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: How Ubuntu 12.04 Is Trying To Drop Power Usage
After illustrating Linux power regressions and other problems for months, with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS developers at Canonical are finally taking a serious look at Linux power management and how it can be bettered...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0OTU
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0OTU
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: How to make GNOME Shell look like Ice Cream Sandwich
This guide describes how to make your GNOME Shell look like Android Ice Cream Sandwich by using Holo theme with GNOME Tweak Tool.
http://www.my-guides.net/en/guides/linux/295-how-to-make-gnome-shell-look-like-ice-cream-sandwich
http://www.my-guides.net/en/guides/linux/295-how-to-make-gnome-shell-look-like-ice-cream-sandwich
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Meet Spark, First Linux Tablet Running KDE Plasma Active
Aaron J. Seigo, from KDE Plasma Active development team has revealed a tablet which could be the first device to come with Plasma Active pre-installed. Named 'Spark', the tablet features an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware and comes with open content and services market.
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/01/meet-spark-first-linux-tablet-running.html
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/01/meet-spark-first-linux-tablet-running.html
Welcome to the 184th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Linux-Weekly-Issue-184-249173.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Linux-Weekly-Issue-184-249173.shtml
Listen up ZDNet readers, Cellrox has the Android-based solution for your conversion to a BYOD model.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/consumerization/cellrox-your-byod-solution-had-me-at-shalom/174?tag=mantle_skin;content
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/consumerization/cellrox-your-byod-solution-had-me-at-shalom/174?tag=mantle_skin;content
The KDE Telepathy team has made the first beta release of the new KDE Instant Messaging suite. This 0.3 release coincides with the release of KDE Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.8.KDE Telepathy (click for larger)read more
http://dot.kde.org/2012/01/28/kde-telepathy-releases-first-beta-version
http://dot.kde.org/2012/01/28/kde-telepathy-releases-first-beta-version
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Redirect all (TCP) traffic through transparent socks5 proxy in Linux
SOCKet Secure (SOCKS) is an Internet protocol that routes network packets between a client and server through a proxy server. SOCKS5 additionally provides authentication so only authorized users may access a server. Practically, a SOCKS server will proxy TCP connections to an arbitrary IP address as well as providing a means for UDP packets to be forwarded.As SOCKS (as it was already marked above) transfers all data from a client to a server, nothing adding from itself, from the point of view of a web-server, a socks proxy is a client. Therefore anonymity of this type of proxy servers is really always absolute.In this article we’ll see how to use redsocks to achieve a SOCKS proxy.
http://linuxaria.com/article/redirect-all-tcp-traffic-through-transparent-socks5-proxy-in-linux?lang=en
http://linuxaria.com/article/redirect-all-tcp-traffic-through-transparent-socks5-proxy-in-linux?lang=en
During his talk last week at the SCALE 10x LA event, Chris Mason of Oracle mentioned that an error-fixing Btrfs fsck tool will be ready by next month. He mentioned a hard deadline of 14 February for this btrfs.fsck tool capable of fixing file-system errors because it must be ready for the next releases of Oracle Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Chris confirmed that Oracle will be supporting Btrfs in their Linux distribution, which is derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux code-base.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0ODU
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0ODU
Committed to the kernel repository for the open-source Nouveau driver for providing reverse-engineered NVIDIA hardware is now the initial GPU core/memory re-clocking support...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA1MDA
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA1MDA
Keith Packard released X.Org Server 1.12 RC2 in time for weekend testing. At the same time, Apple's Jeremy Huddleston released the X.Org Server 1.11.4 stable version...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0OTg
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0OTg
Patches have landed so that the Wayland Display Server can now handle surface transformations. Separately, there's also an easy-to-understand guide for using the Qt 5.0 tool-kit with Wayland...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0OTk
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0OTk
While Mesa/Gallium3D is still a ways off from fully supporting the Unigine Engine's advanced OpenGL 3/4 renderer with decent frame-rates, there is work both by Mesa and the Unigine Corp developers to better this open-source graphics support...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA1MDE
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA1MDE