http://blog.ro-design.net Despre linux, web, femei, masini, jucarii, povesti sau o altfel de realitate Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:48:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Often, even if we do catch a virus, it's not so difficult to eradicate it using installed anti-virus—but if your system has been crippled, try using Linux to scan the drive for viruses instead. As any Linux veteran knows, one of Linux's greatest uses is fixing unbootable drives—recovering files, deleting ... http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/14/use-linux-to-scan-unusable-windows-drives-for-viruses.html The trial between the SCO Group and Novell over the question of whether or not the copyrights to Unix were sold together with the Unix distribution rights has taken another turn. As many SCO witnesses gave hearsay evidence during the oral hearing at the Court of Appeals, Novell filed a ... http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/14/sco-vs-linux-from-the-court-of-appeals-to-the-supreme-court.html "With Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) so far our first impressions aren't good. 10.04 booted to the "Install" prompt from a LiveCD in 4 minutes and 23 seconds, compared to a solid 40 seconds on Debian Squeeze ("testing" repository)" http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/14/current-ubuntu-1004-review.html Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never ... http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/14/how-to-compile-the-linux-kernel.html There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article is intended to help you pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level. Although this article ... http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/14/essential-guide-to-picking-an-open-source-operating-system.html One of the great advantages of the OpenDocument format is that it is simply a zip file. You can unzip it with any archiver and take a look at the contents (which is a set of XML documents and associated data), change it, re-zip it and you have a new ... http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/14/how-to-correctly-create-odf-documents-using-zip.html Ubuntu has caught on for the desktop but what about in the world of servers? I think you're about to see a shift in the balance among the "big three" server distros. http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/14/ubuntu-server-the-linux-os-dark-horse.html Medical imaging is an essential, non-invasive, routine activity performed by radiographers and radiologic technologists. It is a discipline of the health profession which involves using technology to capture images of the human body. http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/14/7-of-the-best-free-linux-medical-imaging-software.html The Linux Foundation has announced sessions for its Collaboration Summit, scheduled for Apr. 14-16 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. This year's event features a full-day workgroup on MeeGo, as well as discussions of Linux topics including toolchain, cloud computing, printing, filesystems, ISV porting, and open source compliance. http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/13/linux-summit-dissects-meego-2.html Social networking and voting site Digg is rewriting its underlying software infrastructure in an effort to improve performance and scalability. Part of that effort involves moving away from the MySQL database that has helped to power Digg since its creation. In MySQL's place, Digg is going with an open source ... http://blog.ro-design.net/index.php/2010/03/13/digg-moves-from-mysql-to-nosql.html