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Link: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gacl

Google's chrome was recently released (not for linux though...yet) and Linux Journal has a very interesting article on this.

My fave part was this

When Deutsche Telekom's (NYSE: DT) T-Mobile launches the first Android handset next Wednesday, the Android app store will be fully stocked with its own user-friendly applications. Google hosted a programming competition with a total of $10 million in prizes to ensure that there would be top-notch applications available on Day One. The Android team wants a "vibrant third-party developer community," and here's the kicker — all of the app store revenue will be passed on to the developers. Google keeps nothing. (Apple takes 30% of all revenue from its App Store offerings; developers get the other 70%.)

orly? I keep 100% Where do I sign?

Message to Google: I for one welcome my new innerweb overloards!

I like Appletalk. It's just got a more polished feel to it than samba, NFS or other networked storage protocols (when on a Mac anyway). For years I've been running netatalk file servers and seed routers from custom versions for early Solaris 2.6 through current builds running on OpenBSD. Installing and using netatalk on Linux is easy.
Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install netatalk ; /etc/init.d/netatalk start
Mandriva: urpmi netatalk ; service netatalk start
RHEL/CentOS: yum install netatalk ; service netatalk start

OpenBSD is a little bit different in that you need to make a new kernel because by default OpenBSD has the netatalk option turned off. Luckily it's easy to fix and in no time (well ok quite a bit of time) you will be running a stable and secure file server for your mac's. If you've ever seen a windows share become filled with cryptic viruses you know that using alternative protocols when you can is a life-saver.

Step 1: Fetch the system sources.
cd /usr ; cvs -danoncvs@anoncvs.openbsd.org:/cvs checkout -P -rOPENBSD_4_3 src
This will take quite a while.

Step 2: Edit kernel config
cd /usr/src/sys/conf Using your editor of choice open the file called 'GENERIC'. Locate and uncomment the following line: #option NETATALK # AppleTalk

Step 3: Compile the new kernel
cd /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/config ; config GENERIC ; cd ../compile/GENERIC ; make depend ; make ; make install
At this point you will want to reboot so your new kernel will be active.

-sidenote: before you reboot I'd recomend setting up your PKG_PATH environment variable so that installing packages is easier.
echo "PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`machines -a`/">>/root/.profile
echo "export PKG_PATH">>/root/.profile

Step 4:Install & Launch netatalk
pkg_add -i netatalk ; /etc/netatalk/rc.atalk

add /etc/netatalk/rc.atalk to your /etc/rc.local file so it will start up at boot. Now you will be able to authenticate as any non-root user.

Link: http://people.cornell.edu/pages/elz1/clocktower/DrSeuss.html

I absolutely love this.

A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer - (Sometimes called what if Dr Suess wrote technical manuals, but this is incorrect).

Bits Bytes Chips Clocks 
Bits in bytes on chips in box. 
Bytes with bits and chips with clocks. 
Chips in box on ether-docks.

Chips with bits come. Chips with bytes come. 
Chips with bits and bytes and clocks come.

Look, sir. Look, sir. read the book, sir. 
Let's do tricks with bits and bytes, sir. 
Let's do tricks with chips and clocks, sir.

First, I'll make a quick trick bit stack. 
Then I'll make a quick trick byte stack. 
You can make a quick trick chip stack. 
You can make a quick trick clock stack.

And here's a new trick on the scene. 
Bits in bytes for your machine. 
Bytes in words to fill your screen.

Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir. 
Try to say this by the clock, sir.

Clocks on chips tick. 
Clocks on chips tock. 
Eight byte bits tick. 
Eight bit bytes tock. 
Clocks on chips with eight bit bytes tick. 
Chips with clocks and eight byte bits tock.

Here's an easy game to play. 
Here's an easy thing to say....

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, 
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, 
and the address of the memory
makes your floppy disk abort 
then the socket packet pocket
has an error to report!

If your cursor finds a menu item
followed by a dash, 
and the double-clicking icon
puts your window in the trash, 
and your data is corrupted cause
the index doesn't hash, 
then your situation's hopeless,
and your system's gunna crash.

You can't say this? What a shame, sir! 
We'll find you another game, sir.

If the label on the cable
on the table at your house 
says the network is connected
to the button on your mouse, 
but your packets want to tunnel
on another protocol, 
that's repeatedly rejected
by the printer down the hall, 
and your screen is all distorted
by the side-effects of gauss, 
so your icons in the window
are as wavy as a souse, 
then you may as well reboot
and go out with a bang, 
cause as sure as I'm a poet,
the sucker's gunna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's
getting sloppy on the disk, 
and the microcode instructions
cause unnecessary risc, 
then you have to flash your memory
and you'll want to RAM your ROM. 
quickly turn off your computer
and be sure to tell your mom!

Author: Gene Zeigler

Shipping tomorrow the new AmigaOS comes bundled with the Sam440 PPC motherboard. A little on the pricey side for a 667Mhz PPC-based system, but without the overhead of Windows or Mac OS maybe the slower CPU isn't a big deal? (pssst Acube, send me one I'll review it and I promise I will post a favorable review *wink*)

http://www.acube-systems.biz/eng/news.php

Quick Tips

• Skip file system checks on boot: touch /fastboot
• Set the system so users cannot log in: touch /etc/nologin
• Set the custom nologin message: echo "message to send" > /etc/nologin.txt
• Set certain users to be able to log in even with nologin: set ignorenologin boolean in the users login class. (this is included in the 'staff' group.
• Set log in's to be less verbose (so scripts don't get so much feedback): touch .hushlogin in the users home.

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