There may be the situation that you have to monitor a MySQL server remotely. There are some linux tools to do performance and query monitoring locally, and these tools can also used to monitor remotely - but only unencrypted! Also often MySQL is only listening on the loopback interface, so it is even not reachable remotely over the net (which is very good seen from the security viewpoint). But there is an easy solution in the Linux world.
http://www.howtoforge.com/remote-mysql-performance-and-query-monitoring
http://www.howtoforge.com/remote-mysql-performance-and-query-monitoring
How much time do I spend turning this laptop on each time? I don't know about you, but my company laptop takes about 5-10 minutes to boot. That is not only because of MS Windows XP, which was installed God knows when and then never properly "cleaned up" of the inevitable mess. That is more to do with all the corporate applications that start with Windows. All those antivirus, screenshot tools, internal communicators, remote access tools and so on. What is the solution when you're on-the-run?
http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/11/linux-for-business-traveller.html
http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/11/linux-for-business-traveller.html
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Subject: Watch Mozilla show off the Firefox OS Gaia UI, Marketplace and more
Since first being announced back in July 2011, Mozilla has slowly but steadily revealed new details of its upcoming mobile operating system, Firefox OS (formerly Boot to Gecko). Now, a few months after giving a Firefox OS introductory talk in Brazil, Mozilla has decided to share both the videos and the slides from presentations by Andreas Gal, Mozilla’s Director of Research, and Philipp von Weitershausen, one of Firefox OS’ lead engineers.
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/11/10/developers-watch-mozillas-firefox-os-presentations-on-the-gaia-ui-firefox-marketplace-and-more/
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/11/10/developers-watch-mozillas-firefox-os-presentations-on-the-gaia-ui-firefox-marketplace-and-more/
Along with the release of the new Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet on Tuesday and the rollout of updates to Android 4.2 to several existing Nexus devices, Google has also pushed the source code for the new Jelly Bean flavour of its mobile operating system to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). In a post on the Android Developers Blog, the company detailed the features in the latest Android version, which also brings with it a new SDK revision (API level 17).
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-open-sources-Android-4-2-1749662.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-open-sources-Android-4-2-1749662.html/from/rss
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Subject: Dual-boot Mint 13 MATE/Cinnamon and Windows 8 on UEFI hardware
So, using the computer I assembled using an ASRock motherboard, and the same hard drive, I made my first attempt to set up a dual-boot system between Windows8 Pro and Linux Mint 13 on a computer with UEFI firmware, and on a single hard disk drive (HDD).
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/14/dual-boot-mint-13-matecinnamon-and-windows-8-on-uefi-hardware/
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/14/dual-boot-mint-13-matecinnamon-and-windows-8-on-uefi-hardware/
Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) version 0.14 is out. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. Notable user-visible changes include: Tor upgrade to 0.2.3.24-rc, enable stream isolation; upgrade Iceweasel to 10.0.10esr, with anonymity enhancing patches from the TorBrowser applied; fix Iceweasel's file associations No longer should you be prompted to open a PDF in the GIMP; hardware support - upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.32, support more than 4 GB of RAM, support more than one CPU core; fix memory wiping at shutdown; gpgApplet can now handle public key cryptography; add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
http://chrishaney.com/?linux&release=Tails%200.14
http://chrishaney.com/?linux&release=Tails%200.14
Gnumeric is a lightweight spreadsheet program that is fast and feature complete. Much like its chief open source competitors OpenOffice and LibreOffice, its graphical user interface is nothing fancy. What it lacks in colorful design or exciting visual menu displays, however, it surpasses with its format flexibility and easy operation.
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/76605.html
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/76605.html
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Subject: Survey: How Important is Newcomer Experience in Free, Open Source Software Projects?
Free, open source software projects have relied on a wide array of strategies and procedures to attract new contributors. Retaining newcomers and having them become valued sustainable contributors is a much more delicate challenge. What a person experiences when he or she is a project newcomer seems to have an important impact on the kind of contributor this person will become within a project. There has been little research about what it takes to provide a greater newcomer experience to ensure that projects keep getting quality contributors. This is what I am trying to find out in my PhD thesis.
http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/666038-survey-how-important-is-newcomer-experience-in-free-open-source-software-projects/
http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/666038-survey-how-important-is-newcomer-experience-in-free-open-source-software-projects/
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Subject: Distance (Nitronic Rush spiritual succesor) fully funded and coming to Linux!
Distance the futuristic arcade racing game that will come to Linux has been fully funded on Kickstarter!
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?threads/distance-nitronic-rush-spiritual-succesor-fully-funded.1155/
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?threads/distance-nitronic-rush-spiritual-succesor-fully-funded.1155/
Unity 4, the latest version of the popular multi-platform game engine tech, is finally out and now includes Linux deployment previews
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/unity-4-released-supports-linux
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/unity-4-released-supports-linux
Have you ever heard the following? "Welcome to the team! Here's a list of 15 applications to install, the instructions are in the team room, somewhere. See you in a week!" Or: "What do you mean it broke production, it runs fine on my machine?" Or: "Why is this working on her machine and his machine, but not my machine?" Development environments are becoming more complex, with more moving parts and tricky dependencies. Virtualization has been a huge boon for the IT industry in saving costs, increasing flexibility and maintaining control over complex environments. Rather than focusing on virtualization on the delivery side, let's look at how you can provide that flexibility and control to developers to manage multiple development environments easily using Vagrant.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-vagrant
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-vagrant
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Subject: Google engineers open source book scanner design
Engineers from Google's Books team have released the design plans for a comparatively reasonably priced book scanner under an open source licence on Google Code. The Verge reports that the engineers developed a prototype during the "20 per cent time" that Google allocates to its employees for personal projects. Built using a scanner, a vacuum cleaner and various other components, the Linear Book Scanner can automatically digitise entire books.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-engineers-open-source-book-scanner-design-1750059.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-engineers-open-source-book-scanner-design-1750059.html/from/rss
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Subject: 94 Percent of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Run Linux
It's already no secret that Linux tends to dominate as the operating system of choice on the world's fastest supercomputers, but the release on Monday of the 40th edition of the twice-yearly Top500 List of the world’s top supercomputers made that connection more clear than ever.
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/high-performance/147-high-performance/666669-94-percent-of-the-worlds-top-500-supercomputers-run-linux-/
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/high-performance/147-high-performance/666669-94-percent-of-the-worlds-top-500-supercomputers-run-linux-/
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Subject: If You Read Just One Article About The Patent Mess, Make It This One
Steven Levy has always been a great writer covering the tech industry, but his article [url=http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/ff-steven-levy-the-patent-problem/all/]on "the patent problem" for Wired is a must read[/url], even if you're familiar with these stories. He does a great job illustrating just how screwed up the patent system is, focusing on a few key trolls, and pulling in some important information and data to support the anecdotal claims. Much of the story is about Mitchell Medina, who took a ridiculous patent that came from an idea about scanning medical documents into electronic format, and turned it into a belief that he held a patent on which practically every website infringed. You really should read the whole thing, but a few tidbits: first off, Medina and the two other people named on the patent never actually could build a working product.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121114/03170321042/if-you-read-just-one-article-about-patent-mess-make-it-this-one.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121114/03170321042/if-you-read-just-one-article-about-patent-mess-make-it-this-one.shtml
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Subject: Open Letter to fellow ex-Microsoftie Steven Sinofsky
Congratulations on leaving Microsoft. Unless you have bills to pay, you won’t regret it. I left at the end of 2004, and have since learned of a vast and amazing — but still flawed – world of computing out there. For example, I discovered that we should already have cars that (optionally) drive us around and computers that talk to us. Linux on the desktop is powerful and rich but failing because of several strategic mistakes. Google claims to be a friend of Linux and free software, but most of their interesting AI code is locked up. Programming should be a part of basic math literacy for every child. The biotechnology world is proprietary like Microsoft, which is stunting progress in new medicines.
http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=3040
http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=3040
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Subject: Update: CyanogenMod says owner hijacked domain, demanded $10,000
Android enthusiasts trying to reach CyanogenMod.com, the website for the popular community-maintained firmware of the same name, will find themselves staring at a blank filler site as of today. As has been detailed in a blog post up on the new [url=http://www.cyanogenmod.org/]CyanogenMod.org[/url], the owner of the original domain (one Ahmet Deveci) name shut the site down after he was discovered impersonating CyanogenMod founder Steve "Cyanogen" Kondik for the purpose of cutting referral deals with other sites.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/owner-of-cyanogenmod-com-hijacks-domain-demands-10000/
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/owner-of-cyanogenmod-com-hijacks-domain-demands-10000/
What I especially like about the whole desktop is that every aspect is clean, uncluttered and very intuitive to use. This is definitely one distribution to keep an eye on.
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/14/elementary-os-luna-preview/
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/14/elementary-os-luna-preview/
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Subject: Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On OpenSUSE 12.2
This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on OpenSUSE 12.2. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.
http://www.howtoforge.com/serving-cgi-scripts-with-nginx-on-opensuse-12.2
http://www.howtoforge.com/serving-cgi-scripts-with-nginx-on-opensuse-12.2
After exactly five months of work, Skype is happy to announce today, November 15, that Skype 4.1 for Linux operating systems has been released and it is now available for download.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Skype-4-1-for-Linux-Has-Been-Released-307100.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Skype-4-1-for-Linux-Has-Been-Released-307100.shtml