Linux

Basically, I'm not going to write all this again, but this is one more of these ugly things Microsoft does that makes me sick about them.

There is an interesting article (with plenty of links, but I haven't investigated it fully so I don't know about the real sources of all this - probably not much usable legally) on "Boycott Novell", a website apparently talking about the underground conspiracies of the mighty against Linux. http://boycottnovell.com.nyud.net:8080/2009/01/30/microsoft-intel-anti-linux/ I thought it would be nice to share. We learn about anti-Linux actions,  Gartner reports alteration, etc.

Wow... this is great news for us. Mike Melanson, the developer of the Linux version of the Flash plugin, just announced on his blog that Flash plugin 10 beta 2 will start supporting V4L2! For Dokeos, this means that we will now be able to use the video recording of our little webcams directly from Linux. This is probably the great news of the day...

2008-10-11 update

I'm just finishing an hour of testing here.

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/151).

Every UNIX/Linux operating system uses a set of libraries called the Name Service Switch (which is part of the LibC of the system) to resolve its names, be it for userids to login names or IP addresses to hostnames resolution, or whatever and the opposite. This library is meant to make the use of NIS, LDAP, etc… transparent to the program that will use it in the end.

This article is incomplete and was first written in June 2006
for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/340).

It could happen that you badly need to use a newer kernel module than what is present on your existing Linux kernel (2.6.x), but you do not want to upgrade the whole kernel or rebuild it from scratch, because:

• you cannot or don't want to reboot afterwards
• you don't have the original source anymore (and your kernel was patched) or you don't want to download and install them, but you do have the kernel headers handy
• o

I've been pretty busy the latest couple of days developing the new videoconference tool to improve its CSS configuration. It's scheduled to be in production with Dokeos 1.8.5, but so far the main bits have been put together in a one-on-one mode only. I thought giving a little preview might be of some interest.

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A new version of this article has been compiled here to cover
version 10 of the Flash plugin which reportedly
supports V4L2 in its second beta version!

Mike Melanson, the (only?) developer assigned by Adobe to the Linux port of the Flash client, has announced on his blog t

This article was first written in February 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/328).

Extract from the Linux CIFS Client homepage: The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version 1.0 or later. Popular servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.

This article was first written in January 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/322).

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is meant to be a reference on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy. It enables:

• software to predict the location of installed files and directories, and
• users to predict the location of installed files and directories.

Achieving this by:

• specifying guiding principles for each area of the filesystem,