Or as they say in Spanish: año nuevo, vida nueva. Well, or not. My new year started the 1st December actually, when I got my engineering degree, but I’ll talk about the project some other day.

Today I’d like to talk about my new job at Netrunner, where I started some days after my graduation.

There I have been working on a KCM module to configure your GTK2/3. To do so, I took Chakra’s kcm and reworked it a little to behave like I wanted to. Now that we’re here, big thanks to the Chakra crowd, specially Manuel Tortosa and José Antonio Sánchez, who let me fiddle with their project.

Read the full thing at http://www.proli.net/2012/01/02/new-year-new-life/

In my article detailing the command line utilities available for configuring and troubleshooting network properties on Windows and Linux, I mentioned some Linux tools that, while still included and functional in many Linux distributions, are actually considered deprecated and therefore should be phased out in favor of more modern replacements.

Specifically, the deprecated Linux networking commands in question are: arp, ifconfig, iptunnel, iwconfig, nameif, netstat, and route.

Read the full thing at https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/

Recently I had a personal project I wanted to implement that involved setting up a multi-user Linux server for myself and some of my friends, where the applications we wanted to run required some form of shell access. This presented an interesting predicament: since the particular people using this system were very technically knowledgeable, how could I prevent them from hacking and gaining root access to the server from their shell?

Read the full thing at http://metanautics.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/secure-multi-user-linux-shells-with-jailkit/

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We're at the Brick Twithouse in Petaluma with Pieter Hintjens where we talk about ZeroMQ, which makes socketing and messaging easier.

View the full thing at http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/195

More than a month ago I was the first to write about the CoreBreach racing game coming to Linux. Well, there's some more interesting news to deliver today.

Besides being a racing game and not yet-another-first-person-shooter for Linux, what also made the CoreBreach Linux port interesting is that it's originally a Mac OS X title and for still using the Apple APIs on Linux they took advantage of GNUstep in porting this Objective-C 2.0 game to Linux. The game also has custom 3D rendering engine.

Read the full thing at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAzMTg

I’ve had an off/on relationship with Vim for the past many years.

Before, I never felt like we understood each other properly. Vim is almost useless without plugins and some essential settings in .vimrc, but fiddling with all the knobs and installing all the plugins that I thought I needed was a process that in the end stretched out from few hours to weeks, months even; and it the end it just caused frustration instead of making me a happier coder.

Read the full thing at http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2011/12/vim-revisited/

We the Cacti Group are proud to release the following:

Cacti 0.8.7i
Spine 0.8.7i
Cacti 0.8.7i with Plugin Architecture version 3.1


Note with this release we are no longer making people patch Cacti to use the Plugin Architecture. We did the work for you and now provide a completely patched release of Cacti with Plugin Architecture version 3.1.

HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community.

HP plans to continue to be active in the development and support of webOS. By combining the innovative webOS platform with the development power of the open source community, there is the opportunity to significantly improve applications and web services for the next generation of devices.

Read the full thing at http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news

Earlier today I wrote about how it turns out that the Tablet OS (2.0.0 beta or later) actually recognizes Python as a direct "entry point" for apps, as it does for apps built using AIR or the Native SDK (WebWorks apps use the AIR entry point at this time).

With the original crude launcher, we'd developed a small set of experiments and demonstration scripts, which you had to copy over the network to "documents/scripts", with the bbxrun.py file sitting above to let you select which one to run.

Read the full thing at http://peterhansen.ca/blog/bbx-python-self-contained-demo-app.html

KDE Telepathy is a suite of applications which together form an instant-messaging client allowing you to talk on Jabber, Gmail, Facebookm, MSN and much more. KDE Telepathy stands out from previous instant messaging clients by being able to integrate into the KDE workspace and plasma, as well as being able to be used like a traditional IM application.

Read the full thing at http://www.sharpley.org.uk/node/25