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pOperating systems drive devices. Linux is driven by open-source imperatives. So, naturally, Linux's kernel developers have a problem with closed-source kernel modules. And, just as naturally, they've hacked up a statement they hope will discourage the closed and encourage the open./p pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/keeping-kernel-klean"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=oAtnWY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=oAtnWY" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=JRRTM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=JRRTM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=9GIFm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=9GIFm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=CoJSm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=CoJSm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=A3bum"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=A3bum" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=dBHWM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=dBHWM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=nfjVM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=nfjVM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=JeOUM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=JeOUM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=3OFrM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=3OFrM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/419776310" height="1" width="1"/
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p Years ago one of Linux's finest audio software developers suggested that I should keep a watchful eye on the Windows/Mac music software scene. I took that suggestion to heart and joined a variety of Windows/Mac-centric lists and forums. I've been able to run many Windows/Mac music programs under the Wine emulator, so my participation has gone beyond mere lurking. /p pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/discovery-vsti-analog-synthesis-linux"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=oaEmDi"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=oaEmDi" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=NxMHM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=NxMHM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=aJxzm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=aJxzm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=9JHKm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=9JHKm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=l6g7m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=l6g7m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=BcBAM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=BcBAM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=1KJMM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=1KJMM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=FwlBM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=FwlBM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=v6xTM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=v6xTM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/419606717" height="1" width="1"/
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pPart of an ongoing series of on open-source geographic information system (GIS) programs, this article offers an introduction to uDig GIS. uDig is for GIS users of all levels, from beginners to advanced. /p pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/udig-gis-first-look"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=IwHXBq"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=IwHXBq" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=nq1HM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=nq1HM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=7y84m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=7y84m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=ONamm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=ONamm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=ISGFm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=ISGFm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=ZFEsM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=ZFEsM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=2TaqM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=2TaqM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=ibzyM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=ibzyM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=qe5XM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=qe5XM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/416918314" height="1" width="1"/
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pThe October 9, 2008 edition of citeLinux Journal Live!/cite Associate Editor, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin, "Hack and /" columnist and author of citeKnoppix Hacks/cite, citeLinux Multimedia Hacks/cite, citeKnoppix Pocket Reference/cite and others, discuss Linux distributions./p pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/linux-journal-live-oct-9-2008"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=fnuXdG"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=fnuXdG" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=fCmHM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=fCmHM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=zHbym"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=zHbym" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=C8a9m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=C8a9m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=GLdfm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=GLdfm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=RGLfM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=RGLfM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=xQFtM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=xQFtM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=tmp6M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=tmp6M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=sXC6M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=sXC6M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/416318765" height="1" width="1"/
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No matter what else you may think of Hugo Chávez (probably bad if you get your information from the U.S.pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/venezuela-gets-it"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=cmLoiN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=cmLoiN" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=ruW6M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=ruW6M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=YlLZm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=YlLZm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=dNwam"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=dNwam" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=ViL9m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=ViL9m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=PpLNM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=PpLNM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=or89M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=or89M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=U8LJM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=U8LJM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=9OSQM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=9OSQM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/415870916" height="1" width="1"/
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peBay is not going through the happiest of times. Not only has it found it necessary to make 1000 people – 10% of its workforce – a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/10/06/after-cutting-10-of-its-workforce-ebay-goes-shopping" /redundant/a, it has had to a href="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20081002/tc_afp/uschinaitinternettelecomprivacyskypeebay_081002172630"own up/a to a serious breach of trust with its Internet telephony program, Skype./p pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/why-ebay-should-open-source-skype"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=bZUq1z"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=bZUq1z" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=1ZsUM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=1ZsUM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=prSKm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=prSKm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=Q4zxm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=Q4zxm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=TOr7m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=TOr7m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=9KVaM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=9KVaM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=UECeM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=UECeM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=MUE3M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=MUE3M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=bYrLM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=bYrLM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/415671840" height="1" width="1"/
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p Wildcards in bash are referred to as empathname expansion/em. Pathname expansion is also sometimes referred to as a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)"globbing/a. Pathname expansion "expands" the "*", "?", and "[...]" syntaxes when you type them as part of a command, for example: pre $ ls *.jpg # List all JPEG files $ ls ?.jpg # List Jpa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-extended-globbing"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=ned5Zj"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=ned5Zj" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=69w2M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=69w2M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=k7fnm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=k7fnm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=1zHGm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=1zHGm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=THP9m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=THP9m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=DtWgM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=DtWgM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=b6wJM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=b6wJM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=FNv4M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=FNv4M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=P82AM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=P82AM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/415037009" height="1" width="1"/
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pAs if you didn't have enough to worry about, with the stock market crashing and all your savings going south . . . U.S. CERT issued a warning about a new browser exploit called "bclickjacking/b". Worst of all, it even affects Linux browsers. Yikes! Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO of WhiteHat Security, U.S. CERT said, "emClickjacking gives an attacker the ability to trick a user into clicking on something only barely or momentarily noticeable. Therefore, if a user clicks on a Web page, they may actually be clicking on content from another page./em" /p pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/clickjacking-noooooooooo"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=a6FfIG"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=a6FfIG" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=2GcyM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=2GcyM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=ad90m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=ad90m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=79Gym"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=79Gym" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=NGWSm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=NGWSm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=X18NM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=X18NM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=2NUCM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=2NUCM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=WVwAM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=WVwAM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=10OFM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=10OFM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/415025893" height="1" width="1"/
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pHaving recently installed a new version of Linux I thought I'd see how progress on Compiz, the compositing window manager, was going. I tried it first on a system with an ATI video card and was met with a wonderful blank screen. Since I really didn't want to spend a bunch of time trying to figure out what was going on I just put things back to normal and got X working again./p pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/compiz-killed-my-video-card"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=xNzCUw"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=xNzCUw" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=kGXgM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=kGXgM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=1TAIm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=1TAIm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=lvNgm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=lvNgm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=GnJdm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=GnJdm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=0OWSM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=0OWSM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=f62tM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=f62tM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=Fah0M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=Fah0M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=4OzBM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=4OzBM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/414037752" height="1" width="1"/
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p"The Green Penguin" is a new blog devoted to ‘green’ IT related to Linux (though at times loosely). This week´s topic is about Google and General Electric´s recently announced plan to promote a ‘smart’ electric power grid and thus encourage greater use of renewable energy. /p pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/green-penguin-going-green-google"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=DH0Aoh"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=DH0Aoh" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=0tbSM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=0tbSM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=yjsOm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=yjsOm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=afYmm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=afYmm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=x3Uam"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=x3Uam" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=7rTcM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=7rTcM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=rHpJM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=rHpJM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=IGjtM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=IGjtM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=H9wHM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=H9wHM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/413951586" height="1" width="1"/
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pI respect a href="http://www.stallman.org/"Richard Stallman/a for the same reason I respect gravity. The man is a force of nature. He is like the iron core of the Earth: fixed, central, essential. So, when I read a story like quot;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman"Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman/aquot;, which ran in the a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"Guardian/a last week, I take notice. And I'm not alone. A search on Google for ema href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=enamp;q=stallman+%22cloud+computing%22amp;btnG=Google+Searchamp;aq=famp;oq="stallman quot;cloud computingquot;/a/em brings up 142,000 results./p pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/stallman-vs-clouds"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=LXewMQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=LXewMQ" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=4zWBM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=4zWBM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=AIZUm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=AIZUm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=bm8om"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=bm8om" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=FF1zm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=FF1zm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=rrxAM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=rrxAM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=3RJSM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=3RJSM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=YRt5M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=YRt5M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=P9TrM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=P9TrM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/413019687" height="1" width="1"/
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p This article, and the one to follow, are based on a Software Development class I taught a few years ago. The students in this class were non-programmers who had been hired to receive bug reports for a compiler product. As Analysts, they had to understand the software compilation process in some detail, even though some of them had never written a single line of code.pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/examining-compilation-process-part-1"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=dOdpnz"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=dOdpnz" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=S9ioM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=S9ioM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=E8Fom"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=E8Fom" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=o5Kem"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=o5Kem" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=8hqJm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=8hqJm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=5dxZM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=5dxZM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=Po1tM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=Po1tM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=8OAlM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=8OAlM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?a=vhTaM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/linuxjournalcom?i=vhTaM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linuxjournalcom/~4/412912902" height="1" width="1"/
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When your laptop battery is about to give up the ghost, you are probably thinking of the typical three alternatives. The most obvious, of course, is "wow, what a great justification for buying a new laptop". With laptop prices falling and no such luck with battery prices, this almost makes sense. But, most of us will probably just bite the bullet and buy a new battery.pa href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/rebuilding-laptop-battery"read more/a/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?a=M4KLyp"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/linuxjournalcom?i=M4KLyp" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class=