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Linux Journal Weekly News Notes -- July 18th
This Week's List Sponsor: Open Innovation Conference
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Open Innovation: a Celebration of Innovation in Software, July
31-August 1, Santa Clara Marriott
Open Innovation brings together leading thinkers, developers,
investors and entrepreneurs to explore the issues and opportunities
for new software directions and debate the business models needed to
support growth. Conference sessions and topics include: Market
Interests are Best Served by Open Innovation; Incremental Maturity or
Accelerated Innovation; Global Direction for Open Source; the Human
Interface; and much more.
For more information, including a full list of topics and speakers,
and registration, visit the conference web site:
http://www.openinnovation.org.
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Feature Links of the Week
Hardware Review: Lexmark Optra E312 Laser Printer:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/linux_review/0050.html -- With so
many options available, Bob van der Poel offers the criteria he used
to select his new printer. He's satisfied with the performance of this
Lexmark model in his home office.
Review: a Linux Programming Book for Beginners:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/linux_review/0049.html -- Not
everyone is ready to dive head-first into the depths of Linux
programming. If you're a beginner or know someone who is, Ibrahim says
that this book makes a fine learning tool.
Geek Link of the Week
The Black Hat Conference in Vegas:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/tradeshow/0036.html -- Vegas was
overrun with geeks again last week, as both the Black Hat Conference
and DEFCON drew security hounds from all over. Brenno caught some of
Black Hat and reports that between short sessions and inadequate
material, the conference was better last year.
Readers' Choice Awards
Be heard [or read, rather]! No prizes, just the satisfaction of making
your opinion known by participating in the Linux Journal Readers'
Choice Awards. Let us know your preferred database, programming
beverage [and language], text editor, architecture and more. Go to our
survey page :
http://www.linuxjournal.com/rc2001 today and choose your favorites!
Tech Tip of the Week
"xterm" isn't a very helpful window bar title for an xterm. You can
put extra information in the title bar, however, with escape
sequences. For example, this repeats your shell prompt both in the
title bar and the command line:
export PS1="\[\033]0;$PS1\007\]$PS1"
For more xterm title bar customization, see the Bash Prompt HOWTO :
http://www.shelluser.net/~giles/bashprompt/howto/xterm-title-bar-manip
ulations.html by Giles Orr.
By the Way . . .
LINUX LUNACY: A Geek Cruise in the Caribbean, coproduced by Linux
Journal, October 21-28, 2001. Oodles of Very Famous Linux Geeks. See
the Geek Cruises web site:
http://www.geekcruises.com for details.
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