Linux GazetteAn e-zine dedicated to making Linux just a little bit more fun. Published the first day of every month. <br> Issue 151: June, 2008Monitoring Function Calls- June 5, 2008 By Aurelian Melinte There are tools to monitor the system calls an application makes, but how about monitoring your own written functions - inside the program itself What if we want to check when a function is entered, which arguments is the function called with, when the function exits, and what the returned value is This article presents a proof-of-concept tool to achieve this without modifying the application's code.http://linuxgazette.net/151/melinte.html gDesklets: Beauty with a Purpose- June 5, 2008 By Maxin B. John gDesklets provides a bunch of easy-to-use yet eye-pleasing applications for the GNULinux desktop. Mini-applications called desklets can be developed and executed for the desktop to meet specific needs. Since gDesklets is known to work on KDE and XFCE, along with GNOME, it can provide an enchanting look to the Linux Desktop.http://linuxgazette.net/151/john.html XKCD- June 5, 2008 By Randall Munroe Click here to see the full-sized image More XKCD cartoons can be found here. '; digg_topic = 'linux_unix';http://linuxgazette.net/151/xkcd.html Deividson on Databases: Triggers- June 5, 2008 By Deividson Luiz Okopnik Triggers are pieces of code executed automatically when a certain action happens. That action can be any kind of data manipulation (insertion, update, or deletion). It can also be executed before or after the actual data manipulation, having different options and uses (validating data, allowing or disallowing data manipulations, changing other data, etc.).http://linuxgazette.net/151/dokopnik.html Using Crontab- June 5, 2008 By Joey Prestia Crontab is a very useful command used to run unattended scheduled tasks, which can decrease administrative time. There are also two similar commands: anacron and at. Anacron is for scheduling commands that do not require the computer to be on at all times; Anacron uses day-, week-, and month-type intervals. The "at" command runs a task once, at a set time, and can also be very useful. But most commonly used is crontab, because it is more versatile, and can be customized to.http://linuxgazette.net/151/prestia.html News Bytes- June 5, 2008 By Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff Contents: News in General Wind River joins forces with Intel on Auto Linux First Moonlight Release NetBeans Community Links to PHP Community with NetBeans Early Access for PHP Ubuntu Live 2008 Canceled OpenSolaris goes LiveCD HP and Novell offer Migration Program for HP Identity Management Customers Concordia Project To Tackle Security Policy & Standards at Burton CatalystConference in June Conferences and Events Legislation and More...http://linuxgazette.net/151/lg_bytes.html Mailbag- June 5, 2008 By LG StaffGazette Matters lang="utf-8" makes Firefox use an ugly font Linux Gazette Indonesia Our Mailbag Using Ubuntu 8.04 on Notebook "Open Invention Network" Interesting presentation about the economics of Open Source Recent Debian SSH vulnerability Networking Problem on Hardy Heron Followup: Sendmail and capacityhttp://linuxgazette.net/151/lg_mail.html 2-Cent Tips- June 5, 2008 By LG Staff2-cent Tip: Perl Search Directory Function 2-cent Tip: Compiz-Fusion 2-cent Tip: make script command logs without escape character 2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammershttp://linuxgazette.net/151/lg_tips.html USB thumb drive RAID- June 5, 2008 By January Weiner I have a database that I'm working on, and sometimes I need to work on it on my laptop. However, the database is really demanding, and it is just too slow on my laptop's hard disk. I quickly found out that the limitation was the speed of the hard drive, and not so much the CPU. What I needed was a fast external hard drive. Anyway, I always wanted to play with a RAID system.http://linuxgazette.net/151/weiner.html Talkback- June 5, 2008 By LG StaffTalkback:108okopnik.html Talkback:143sephton.html Talkback:150kapil.html Talkback:136pfeiffer.html Talkback:150howell.html Talkback:150melinte.html Talkback:150lg_tips.htmlhttp://linuxgazette.net/151/lg_talkback.html |