I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and really enjoying it since I have more programs to choose from then I have had with other versions of Linux.
If you have not tried Ubuntu in a while then you may find it worth while to take another look at this O.S.

HTC Legend is the brand new style statement from the house of HTC. It functioning is based on Android 2.1 operating system, supported by recently out HTC desire as a smaller alternative.

DisklessWorkstations.com is providing bundled support for Ubuntu Linux with some of their thin client packages.

Yesterday a 20 line shell script caught a race condition in one of software I work on. Our best engineers looked at the problem, a vendor case was filed, and there was thoughts of automatically restarted the application to fix the issue at hand.

In the end, a 20 line shell script to strace for file operations continuously provided the needed visibility into the issue at hand.

Update: The shell script.

The shell script itself, though trivial, is owned by the company I work for, but the basic concept was as follows:

#!/bin/bash

nixcraft has a link on how to read a file line by line. The method is a great way to read a file, but there some trouble spots I thought I would point out.

In the script, the special variable IFS is set:

# set the Internal Field Separator to a pipe symbol
IFS='|'

The tells the read command to split “cyberciti.biz|74.86.48.99″ into “cyberciti.biz” and “74.86.48.99″ and thus fill both the domain and ip variables here:

Today I want to discuss splitting strings into tokens or “words”. I previously discussed how to do this with the IFS variable and promised a more in depth discussion. Today, I will make the case on WHY to use IFS to split strings as opposed to using a subshell combined with awk or cut.

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Pictures and video of the ZMP Linux based Robocar. I think I don't know anybody who wouldn't want one.
I'm just curious if they can make it transport my groceries from the supermarket.

If you have no clue what the title is about:

The story is about encrypting the part of your disk where you keep personal data, keeping the key to the encryption on a flash disk (usb stick). And if you have it inserted while logging in it will automatically decrypt the disk! If not you get a normal home partition where you shouldn't keep any sensitive data.
Great tutorial.
"Anyone that carries confidential data around on their laptop has probably considered encryption at some point or other.