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Greetings, Linux newsletter subscribers. (If that doesn't describe you,
you accidentally logged into someone else's account.) This weekly
mailing, usually sent on Mondays, at least in the Pacific Time Zone when
holidays do not interfere, lets you know about all of the lovely
information the O'Reilly Network has published about the use, development,
administration, and philosophy of free and open source software in the
past week.

Here goes.

KIVILCIM Hindistan recently migrated to a new laptop and promptly destroyed
his partition table. Flailing around with false laziness taught him the true
value of true laziness. Here's a real-life tale of Knoppix rescue and a
cautionary tale about troubleshooting software and installation problems:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2006/08/31/lessons-of-knoppix-recovery.html>

In the future, the mixture of powerful web applications with smart,
client-side interfaces may prove useful. Communicating over HTTP may
allow client apps to be smaller and smarter. To demonstrate this
principle, Jack Herrington mixed a PHP server script with an XAML-based
application to demonstrate the power and ease of both sides. (It should
be possible to replace the XAML with any open client and widget set too.)
Here's how it works:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/08/29/building-photo-uploaders-with-xaml.html

In this week's "Distributing the Future" podcast, Tim O'Reilly and Chad
Dickerson and Irwin Gross discuss who owns your data, while Roger
Magoulas, head of O'Reilly Research, shares his technology radar:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/08/28/distributing-the-future.html

In weblogs this week, Andy Oram announced the TPF-sponsored Chicago
Perl Hackathon:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/announcing_the_chicago_perl_ha.html

Sam Smith and Dave Cross reported on YAPC::Europe:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/yapceurope.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/yapceu_2006_day_1.html

Jason Cole brought up the obviousness argument with regard to software patents:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/patently_obvious.html

Bruno Pedro pondered using the entire Web as a data storage location:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/unfolding_the_web.html

Your editor explained the theory of roles in Perl 6 and OO design:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/roles_composable_units_of_obje.html

Andy Oram found the Mac OS X interface inconsistent and confusing:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/how_the_macintosh_interface_di.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the previous week in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_1.html

Jeremy Jones found a nice bit of humor related to Python's enterprise unreadiness:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/python_not_ready_for_the_enter.html

Robert Cooper recommended Sun consider the GPL for Java:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/the_gpl_and_java.html

M. David Peterson promoted the usefulness of functional programming in a
concurrent environment:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/09/on_define_fulst_list_lambda_cl.html

pat eyler reviewed RubyConf in Michigan:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/08/rubyconfmi_in_review.html

... and interviewed Gregory Brown:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/08/interviewing_gregory_brown.html

Mike Loukides rehashed the domain-specific languages debate:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/08/dsls_rehashed_again.html

Steve Mallett promoted Mac OS X's fonts over Linux's fonts:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/overheard_linux_fonts.html

That's it for this week. Come back next week for ideas about unit testing
your documentation and, in following weeks, a comprehensive look at the
death, undeath, or life of NetBSD.

It hasn't decided yet which it is,
- c

chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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