Solaris Is Dead. Long Live Linux.

Christopher Smart | Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

We are all waiting to see just exactly what Oracle will do with the late Sun’s assets. Now we are starting to see some of the picture loud and clear.

Linux has certainly revolutionized the computer industry. What was once the domain of expensive, proprietary Unix systems now belongs to our favorite operating system. With big players like IBM making the decision to support Linux, it has effectively killed off its proprietary competition. Google’s entire network runs on Linux, as does the majority of the Internet.

In the year 2000, Linux accounted for little over 5% of the world’s super computers. Who had majority market share? Proprietary Unix at 90%.

Less than a decade later those numbers are completely reversed. That’s right, folks. Today, Linux owns just shy of 90% market share, with Unix having fallen to a mere 5%.

Twitterbuilding.com—Stealing Your Passwords One Tweet at a Time

by Robert McArdle (Senior Malware Researcher)  |  January 14^th, 2010  |  3:10 pm (UTC-7)  

I, like many others, am a big fan of Twitter, although I’m fairly ruthless about pruning those I follow. Most of the people I follow are either other security professionals or close friends and they normally Tweet content that I am genuinely interested in. The first hint of someone going to the dark side, e.g.,

In McDonalds—should I get a cheeseburger or a big mac?
4 minutes ago from iPhone by InaneTwit

So confused—must decide soon—1 person in front of me in Q!
3 minutes ago from iPhone by InaneTwit

I got the cheeseburger!
2 minutes ago from iPhone by InaneTwit

… and I will ruthlessly remove them.

Internet & Sharing

Once you share something on the Internet, you share it to every single person in the world.. And that can’t be undone. So be wise..

Vacancies at Elnusa! Hurry!! (Deadline: March 7th, 2010)

We are currently seeking for highly qualified candidates to fill the following position :
1.	Admin Staff
2.	ADMINISTRATOR
3.	AUDITOR-OFFICER
4.	COMPLETION SPECIALIST
5.	Desktop Support
6.	DRILLER (INDONESIAN)
7.	GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
8.	HYDRAULIC WORKOVER SUPERINTENDENT
9.	HYDRAULIC WORKOVER SUPERVISOR
10.	INTERNSHIP – HRD
11.	MARKETING MANAGER
12.	NETWORK & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
13.	PUMP OPERATOR
14.	QUALITY ASSURANCE
15.	SAP ABAP SUPPORT (PROGRAMMER)
16.	SAP FICO
17.	WIRELINE SLICKLINE OPERATOR
18.	WIRELINE SLICKLINE CHIEF OPERATOR

Source: www.elnusa.co.id

The Difference Between Rich and Poor People

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the father asked his son:

"How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."

"Did you see how poor people live?"
"Oh yeah…"

"So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?"
"I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them."

The boy’s father was speechless. Then his son added:

"Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are."

 

Isn’t perspective a wonderful thing?

Makes you wonder what would happen if we all give thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about  what we don’t have.
Appreciate every single thing you have!

 

Source: Internet

It’s Important To Have Friends

Here is one extreme example the "beauty" of friendship. But I am not suggesting you to have "that kind" of friendship, literally. Poorly, it has been such a "custom" in our world, though..

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Source: Internet

US Copyright Lobby: FOSS “Weakens Software Industry”

posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Feb 2010 22:23 UTC

 

The world is slowly and surely going crazy. I’m sure of it now. The US copyright lobby has officially gone totally and utterly nuts. Get this: they are trying to lobby the US government to equate encouraging the use of Free and open source software to undermining intellectual property rights, and to weakening the software industry. I wish I was making this stuff up.

The International Intellectual Property Alliance is an umbrella group for organisations like the RIAA and the MPAA, but it also covers publishing, television, and software. It’s one of those organisations you don’t hear about often, who operate rather silently in the background, lobbying for their poisonous cause to the US government.

What the IIPA is currently lobbying for defies all logic. They want the US Trade Representative to place countries like Brazil, India, and Indonesia on the Special 301 list, which is a list of countries that do not, according to mostly the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the IIPA, do enough to protect intellectual property rights.

Now, why should these countries be placed on this Special 301 list? Hold on to your Debian t-shirt, because it’s all about Free and open source software. The governments of the countries the IIPA wants to add have one thing in common: they’ve used or are encouraging the adoption of Free and open source software, which, according to the IIPA, "weakens the software industry" and "fails to build respect for intellectual property rights".

Job Opportunities at Canonical!

If you are looking for an open source job at a great company, make sure you check out the available jobs at Canonical (the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu project). There are 34 opportunities open. Here’s the list I took from http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/:

Ubuntu Platform
    * Embedded Linux QA Engineer (2x)
    * Embedded Linux Media Framework Engineer
    * Ubuntu ARM Kernel Developer (3x)
    * ARM Linux Graphics Specialist
    * ARM Linux Hardware Enablement Specialist
    * ARM Linux Platform Kernel Specialist
    * ARM Linux Power Management Engineer
    * Hardware Enablement Project Manager
    * Ubuntu Desktop Sound Engineer
    * Ubuntu Desktop Engineer – GTK
    * Ubuntu Desktop Display and Input Engineer – Xorg
    * Ubuntu Desktop Display and Input Engineer (Network)
    * Ubuntu QA Engineer
    * HW Certification Engineer
    * Ubuntu Mobile and Desktop Engineer

Quick Tip: Use xkill to Terminate Misbehaving Linux Applications

Don’t you just hate it when an application in your (graphical) Linux distro stops working properly and you can’t close it? Fortunately, there are a few different ways to terminate the misbehaving application, including the kill and killall commands. But my favorite method of stopping a stuck graphical application is to use the xkill utility.

Here are the steps to kill that annoying misbehaving application:

1. Press Alt+F2 (to open the Run Application window)
2. Type xkill, and click Run (or press Enter button on your keyboard).
3. Point the cursor to the application you want to terminate, and click on it (using the left mouse-button).

This should kill the selected application. Easy, eh?

(Dmitri Popov) 

Source: Linux Magazine

Introduction to IT – Final Marks

Here’s the final marks of "Introduction to IT" subject at Informatics Management – Vocational Program of Universitas Brawijaya, for this semester (Odd-2009/2010).