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trueRavi2006-08-22T08:21:00+05:302006-08-22T07:15:12Z2006-08-22T07:15:12Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115623091233955245Shouldn't this be reason enough to opt for an Open Source development model?In a traditional software development model, the client asks for one thing and is delivered something else not to say anything about the galloping costs involved as is rightly illustrated by the cartoon below.
Fig : Traditional software development model (original link)
Shouldn't it be reason enough to take a long hard look at the development model of open source software instead of sticking tofalseRavi2006-08-22T08:02:00+05:302006-08-21T23:18:22Z2006-08-20T19:41:24Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115610288466101185Disk Encryption Tools for Linux and benchmark result of a couple of themConsider this scenario... Your computer running Linux somehow ran into a hardware glitch and had to be hauled to the neighborhood Computer service center. And you are asked to leave the machine at the service center and come back after a couple of days so that the technician can have a good look at it. But you are a bit worried because the harddisk contains the blue prints of the most secretfalseRavi2006-08-18T09:02:00+05:302006-08-20T03:45:37Z2006-08-18T17:30:32Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115592223220573866Interview with Fedora Project Leader Mark SpevackFedora project leader Mark Spevack gave an interview to slashdot where he answers questions about Fedora and what significant part it will play in the future of Linux. He is asked about the worst aspect of Fedora, enabling NTFS support in future versions of Fedora, comparison of Fedora with Ubuntu and many other interesting questions which surprisingly, he tackles and answers in a very honest andfalseRavi2006-08-15T08:30:00+05:302006-08-22T05:53:01Z2006-08-15T10:31:35Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115563789569865227Is the word Ubuntu in "Ubuntu Linux" over-hyped ? Decide for yourselves.Recently I read an article lambasting or rather dissecting the role that Ubuntu has played in the Linux community and according to the author of the article titled - Ubuntu vs. Debian: What Canonical Doesn't Want You To Know , it boils down to clever marketing on the part of Ubuntu folks or in other words marketing gimmicks. In fact I see this growing dissent towards this distribution in differentfalseRavi2006-08-14T08:11:00+05:302006-08-14T08:51:16Z2006-08-14T08:51:16Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115554547647145277Book Review: Web Design in a Nutshell - A Desktop Quick Reference (3rd Edition)Anybody who has had anything to do with the World Wide Web would surely have at one point of time or the other taken a pause to marvel at its rapid growth and the technologies that have spurred the growth. The most abundant and widely used part of the world wide web are websites which allow anybody with access to a web browser and an internet connection to view and share information.
ThefalseRavi2006-08-11T08:00:00+05:302006-08-19T13:35:46Z2006-08-11T12:09:00Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115529814042736810Simplifying data extraction using Linux text utilitiesI remember, the first time I was introduced to Unix - Yes my first experience with a POSIX OS was with Unix, more specifically SCO Unix and not Linux - the instructor told us that the real power of Unix was in its accomplishment of complex tasks by splitting them into smaller tasks which inturn are split into even smaller tasks and then assigned to different utilities. And the output from thesefalseRavi2006-08-09T21:10:00+05:302006-08-09T17:26:42Z2006-08-09T17:26:42Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115514440219840842Bruce Perens voted off the board of SPIThe latest buzz as far as Open Source is concerned is that Bruce Perens - the very same who played (is playing) a significant role in the open source movement and gave us the definition of Open source has been voted off the board of SPI. This is what Mr Perens himselves had to say about the matter.
I missed oh, 8 out of 12 board meetings due to being on airplanes (doing stuff for Open Source) andfalseRavi2006-08-06T08:00:00+05:302006-08-06T03:05:05Z2006-08-04T18:20:21Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115471562196109445Building a Personal Firewall in FreeBSD using FirewallBuilderWhether it be a production grade server or a home computer, as long as it is connected to the outside world, running a firewall is unavoidable. GNU/Linux comes with its own firewall called iptables (netfilter). And there are a number of front-ends available such as Firestarter which make maintaining a firewall childs play especially on the desktop. In the past, I have published articles explainingfalseRavi2006-08-05T08:00:00+05:302006-08-06T05:03:25Z2006-08-04T18:03:09Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115471458912299280An Interview with the KDevelop Team MembersAsk me which is the most user friendly programming IDE available for Linux platform and I will without a pause tell you that it is KDevelop. True, you have got a plethora of IDEs and editors from the ubiquitous Vi (clones) to those which are meant for coding in a particular language such as bluefish. And then there is the GTK(+) GUI user interface builder in Glade. But when it comes to seamlessfalseRavi2006-08-04T08:00:00+05:302006-08-13T02:07:34Z2006-08-04T07:03:04Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693232.post-115467498422216070Host a personal diary on your PC using WordPressA couple of months back, I did something really interesting. I downloaded the WordPress content management suite from the wordpress.org site and installed it on my machine. The installation as such was a simple affair of unpacking the WordPress files in the desired location - I unpacked it in the '/var/www/' location - and in no time I had a robust blog hosted on my PC. The prerequisites forfalse