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Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins

: From recovering a root password to running a VNC session through an SSH tunnel,here are the slick moves that'll make your fellow admins say "wow.
[in developerWorks : Linux : Technical library]

Siggraph: Pixar animation software to get boost on Windows supercomputers

At Siggraph 2008, Pixar Animation Studios said an upgrade of its RenderMan animation software will run on Microsoft's HPC Server 2008 operating system and 64-bit Windows Vista.

[in Computerworld Linux News]

Are “Instant On” Notebooks the Future?

ZDNet: "It will allow users to have near-instant access to a Linux-based environment that offers email, calendar, attachments, contacts (yes, these are going to have to be cloud computing-based since you’re not going to want to have to reenter the same data more than once) and a web browser, all without ever needing to boot into the main operating system."

[in Linux Today]

Are “Instant On” Notebooks the Future?

[in Linux Today]

Updated mail/getmail to 4.8.3 [schmonz 2008-08-13]

[in NetBSD - Fresh Packages]

Google Sees Massive Spam Spike

Internet News: "Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it's apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can't scale. That's the accusation being leveled by Google, which today revealed some surprising new spam figures."

[in Linux Today]

Google Sees Massive Spam Spike

[in Linux Today]

Zikula 1.0.2 (Default branch)

Zikula is a PHP-based Web application framework for easily building and maintaining Web sites. It can easily be extended with third party add-on modules and become a powerful community, portal, business, blogging platform, and more. It has user management, third party extension management, site search, themes and templating, an AJAX framework, multi-language support, cache control, short URLs, permission control, and much more.
[in Freshmeat]

OpenVRML 0.17.8 (Default branch)

OpenVRML is a VRML and X3D browser plug-in and C++ toolkit for incorporating VRML support into applications. OpenVRML provides VRML97 and Classic VRML X3D parsers, a runtime, and an OpenGL renderer as C++ libraries. The renderer is fully separate from the runtime library so that users can also provide their own renderer.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
An initialization problem in openvrml-xembed was fixed.
[in Freshmeat]

OfflineIMAP 6.0.3 (Default branch)

OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify email reading. It allows you to read the same mailbox from multiple computers and ensures that your changes will be automatically reflected on all computers. You can use various mail clients to read a single box or read mail while offline with full synchronization when you reconnect. You can read IMAP mail with readers that lack IMAP support (same goes for SSL). OfflineIMAP's multithreaded synchronization algorithm performs between 10 and 60 times faster than many mail readers' internal IMAP support, and it can be used even with mail readers that support IMAP already. There are five available user interface modules, including scripted execution, an interactive terminal interface, and GUI interfaces.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes compatibility with Python 2.4. New configuration options permit compatibility with German Google Mail.
[in Freshmeat]