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Welcome, readers, to the Linux newsletter. This sometimes narrowly named
weekly e-mail covers new articles and discussions about open source use,
administration, development, and advocacy. True to form, here are the new
articles from ONLamp.com this week.
A couple of years ago, Joey Hess admitted something shocking: he keeps his
home directory under version control. Whenever he sets up a new account
on a new machine, he can check out his favorite configuration files.
Whenever he makes a change, he checks it in and has it available
everywhere else, immediately. Of course, back in the wilds of the last
century, he used CVS. Now he's moved on. Find out more in "Keeping Your
Life in Subversion":
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html
If your idea of making your Linux life easier doesn't include setting up
version control, perhaps Robert Bernier's account of using his digital
camera under Linux will have more appeal. There's far more than just plug
it in and turn it on (though that's possible too)--how about generating
thumbnail images and galleries? Read more in "Use Your Digital Camera with
Linux":
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/01/06/digicam.html
One of the fundamental concepts of computing is information theory. Maybe
that gives you bad memories of studying statistics, but one of the reasons
people still talk about them is because they're still useful. Paul
Meagher demonstrates PHP statistical programming by computing the entropy
(or information content over a distribution) of web server access logs.
If you're considering data mining or statistical programming, read more in
"Calculating Entropy for Data Mining":
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2005/01/06/entropy.html
Dan Tow, author of "SQL Tuning," recently came across an odd class of
query that needed special tuning. While searching for rows that matched a
range of IP addresses, he noticed that the optimizer gave poor results.
He's devised a strategy for improving the performance of these
"Range-Keyed Queries":
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/01/06/rangekeyed_1.html
In this week's weblogs, Preston Gralla gives five resolutions for
Microsoft in 2005:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6152
Derrick Story wishes for a way to leave his computer at home while doing
digital photography:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6161
Kevin Shockey explains the pie metaphor for dealing with management:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6166
Rael Dornfest grumbles about warning messages in place of fixes:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6167
Timothy M. O'Brien points to a good Creative Commons-related discussion on
CSPAN:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6171
Nitesh Dhanjani praises TiVo 7.1's inclusion of a web server:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6175
This week's Open Source Project of the Week is Daisy, a two-part content
management system:
http://osdir.com/Downloads+index-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-751-ttitle-Daisy.phtml
That's this week's newsletter. Come back next week to learn more about
FreeBSD commands for Linux users.
Until then,
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O'Reilly Network
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ONLamp.com and Linux Devcenter Top Five Articles Last Week
1. Use Your Digital Camera with Linux
With the holidays over, it's time to pause, reflect, and clean up a bit.
Why not download the photos from your digital camera? Don't worry, it's
easy under Linux. Robert Bernier demonstrates the killer combination of
gphoto2, ImageMagick, and digiKam.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/01/06/digicam.html
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2. Keeping Your Life in Subversion
Revision control is great for collaborative projects and distributed
projects. How well does it work for individuals? According to Joey Hess,
fantastically. He's kept his home directory under revision control for
years--here's how he does it with Subversion.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html
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3. Clever Tricks with MythTV
Building your own personal video recorder means that you can avoid
manufacturer- or broadcaster-enforced restrictions. That's not all,
though. John Littler presents some clever ideas on what you can accomplish
with a MythTV box, some free time, and a little work.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/29/mythtv_hacks.html
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4. Freedom, Innovation, and Convenience: The RMS Interview
Since 1984, Richard M. Stallman has fought for software freedom as a
coder, a project leader, and a philosopher. The GNU GPL and GNU/Linux
projects are just two results of that work. Federico Biancuzzi recently
interviewed rms about his views on freedom, the GNU project, and the Linux
kernel and GNU/Linux distributions.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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5. Speeding up Linux Using hdparm
Instantly double the I/O performance of your disks or, in some cases, show
6 to 10 times your existing throughput!
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html
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