Tech Broiler: "His morning double espresso with frothed skim milk and mocha is already waiting for him, thanks to his new Korean-made LG RoboCafe, which brews and extracts a perfect crema every time using pre-portioned, mess-free nitrogen-sealed pods imported from Brazil."

LinuxPlanet: "Networks don't work without addresses: Whenever you are sending something, you need to specify where it should go and where it came from. To be an effective network engineer or administrator, you need to understand IP addresses backward and forward: you need to be able to think on your feet. If something breaks, likely as not some address assignment has been screwed up. And spotting the problem quickly is likely to be the difference between being the hero, or the guy who "takes a long time to fix the problem.""

Denver Post: "Just four days after escaping a federal minimum-security work camp, "Spam King" Eddie Davidson shot his wife and child and wounded a teen-age girl before turning the gun on himself."

Linux.com: "The tenth annual Ottawa Linux Symposium kicked off Wednesday in Canada's capital, just a few blocks from the country's parliament building, in a conference centre in the midst of being torn down. The symposium started with the traditional State of the Kernel address, this year by Matthew Wilcox. Among the dozens of talks and plenaries held the first day was kernel wireless maintainer John Linville's Tux on the Air: the State of Linux Wireless Networking."

Referenced CVEs: CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803, CVE-2008-2807, CVE-2008-2809, CVE-2008-2811Description: 
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-629-1 July 25, 2008
mozilla-thunderbird, thunderbird vulnerabilities
CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2802,
CVE-2008-2803, CVE-2008-2807, CVE-2008-2809, CVE-2008-2811
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu

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nerdyH writes "The Debian project's maintainer, Luke Claes, announced in an email Saturday that he will freeze the 'testing' or 'Lenny' tree, in preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux in ... September! The freeze means that open source software developers have only a couple more days to package any applications that they want to be included in the next release of Debian — and by extension, in the inner sanctum source lists of distributions such as Ubuntu that are based on it.

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Linux Haxor: "Despite coming from a very rich and early history, linux OS consumer market share is less than 1%; and the community more divided than ever. What are we doing wrong?"

Resolved Bugs452598 - CVE-2008-2799 Firefox javascript arbitrary code execution452709 - CVE-2008-2807 Firefox .properties memory leak452204 - CVE-2008-2785 mozilla: CSS reference counter overflow (ZDI-CAN-349)452597 - CVE-2008-2798 Firefox malformed web content flaws

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Resolved Bugs454575 - null pointer dereference BUG in tulip driver453699 - kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:72! when running rsync test suite on reiserfs430916 - Wrong sata module probe order prevents hard disk detection on Toshiba S100

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Resolved Bugs449345 - CVE-2008-1447 implement source UDP port randomization (CERT VU#800113)This fixes the same security bug that other resolvers have been hit
with dealing with random source port numbers. The libval library
contained within the DNSSEC-Tools package has the same issue.
Although DNSSEC will protect against the issue, since most zones
aren't signed any applications linked to the 1.4 version of the
library are vulnerable.

Linux Today Blog: "Way back in the very olden days, or so the story goes, Richard M. Stallman was motivated to launch the Free Software movement because of something that afflicts us to this day- crappy binary-only printer drivers. How's that for innovation? 38 years later and we still have sucky printer drivers..."

TechWare Labs: "You undoubtedly notice that, although the functionality seems to overall be similar (with a few minor exceptions), everything seems to use a different name and/or is in a different place. If you've explored more than one distribution, this may even seem to be the case between Linux distributions. I'll be covering the more mainstream desktop environments, as well as suggested programs to replace the ones you've come to rely on in Windows."

Cats Who Code: "To be honest, I never really liked Human, Ubuntu’s default theme, and seems that many other people don’t. Happilly, on GNU/Linux systems it is easy to customize everything, even the buttons aspect or the windows borders. Here’s a list of 30 Gnome themes of all styles, from the Windows XP look-a-like to the very original skin, to enhance your Ubuntu experience."

Washington Post: "After the wikipedia, the wikicar. "eCars - Now!" is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year."

DevX: "License alone doesn't determine open source. The degree and ease of individual participation in the development process are equally important determining factors."

IT Toolbox: "LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It's not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don't tightly integrate every component. Instead, we tried to make all components independent, and each of them can be used independently with few dependencies."

LXer: "The GNU/Linux operating system is blessed to have sound partition management tools like GParted which are very easy to use. However, when it comes to the management of 'virtual partitions' known as volumes, things are quite different. There is Linx Volume Management, or LVM in short, however, it can almost only be used from the command line. Also, it doesn't integrate software RAID - except for striping. I was quite optimistic when I started using volume management some four years ago, but not anymore. Let me explain why I'm disappointed."

The US National Public Radio organization has
announced
the launch of an open API for sharing news content.
"This launch represents one of the first comprehensive Open APIs introduced by a major national media organization. It is also the latest step in NPR’s multifaceted digital media strategy, which has included expansion of the NPR.org site, NPR Podcasts, the NPR Music destination site and NPR Mobile on-demand services."

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Bill Snyder examines what appears to be an open source job market boom, as evidenced by a recent O'Reilly Report. According to the study, 5 to 15 percent of all IT openings call for open source software skills, and with overall IT job cuts expected for 2009, 'the recession may be pushing budget-strapped IT execs to examine low-cost alternatives to commercial software,' Snyder writes. But are enterprises truly shifting to open source, or are they simply seeking to augment the work of staff already steeped in proprietary software?

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InternetNews: "While MySQL is helping Sun to better understand the broader open source community approach, a side effect is that it is actually been beneficial to MySQL's development as well."