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Make TV Awesome with Bluecop - A few weeks back, I was whining that although Doctor Who was available on Amazon Prime streaming, I didn't have any way to watch it on my television. Thankfully, my friend Richard Servello pointed me to the bluecop repo for XBMC. Not only does bluecop support Amazon Prime streaming, but it also has add-ons for Hulu and countless other network-video-streaming collections. ...

Hack and / - Password Cracking with GPUs, Part I: the Setup - Bitcoin mining is so last year. Put your expensive GPU to use cracking passwords. When the Bitcoin mining craze hit its peak, I felt the tug to join this new community and make some easy money. I wasn't drawn only by the money; the concepts behind Bitcoin mining intrigued me, in particular the new use of graphics processors (GPUs). With a moderately expensive video card, you could bring in...

An Introduction to Application Development with Catalyst and Perl - Catalyst is the latest in the evolution of open-source Web development frameworks. Written in modern Perl and inspired by many of the projects that came before it, including Ruby on Rails, Catalyst is elegant, powerful and refined. It's a great choice for creating any Web-based application from the simple to the very complex. ...

Cryptocurrency: Your Total Cost Is 01001010010 - Most people have heard of gold. Most people are familiar with dollars. For a handful of geeky folks, however, the currency they hope will become a global standard is digital. Whether it's a problem or not, the currency you use on a day-to-day basis is tied to the government. more>> ...

HTML5 for Audio Applications - HTML5 lets you play music through compliant browsers—no "cloud" required. more>> ...

May 2012 Issue of Linux Journal: Programming - Rubies, Pythons and Perls! It may sound like a new Indiana Jones movie or possibly a cheesy platform-style video game from the 1990s, but the title of this column actually refers to our focus this month—programming! Not that there's anything wrong with daring adventures in remote locations, it's just that all the red tape can be overwhelming....

Three Ways to Web Server Concurrency - Multiprocessing, multithreading and evented I/O: the trade-offs in Web servers. A Web server needs to support concurrency. The server should service clients in a timely, fair manner to ensure that no client starves because some other client causes the server to hang. Multiprocessing and multithreading, and hybrids of these, are traditional ways to achieve concurrency. Node.js represents another way, one b...

Tales From the Server Room: Zoning Out - Sometimes events and equipment conspire against you and your team to cause a problem. Occasionally, however, it's lack of understanding or foresight that can turn around and bite you. Unfortunately, this is a tale of where we failed to spot all the possible things that might go wrong. more>> ...

Mercurial - Revision Control Approximated - A short while ago, an article appeared in Linux Journal implying Git was the be-all and end-all of source code revision control systems ("Git—Revision Control Perfected" by Henry Van Styn, August 2011). more>> ...

New Products -  New products for April. ...

Science the GNU Way, Part I - In my past several articles, I've looked at various packages to do all kinds of science. Sometimes, however, there just isn't a tool to solve a particular problem. That's the great thing about science. There is always something new to discover and study. But, this means it's up to you to develop the software tools you need to do your analysis. more>> ...

Complexity, Uptime and the End of the World - Poorly implemented monitoring systems can drive an administrator crazy. At best, they are distracting. At worst, they'll keep whoever is on pager duty up for nights at a time. This article discusses the best practices for designing systems that will keep your systems up and stay quiet when nothing is wrong. more>> ...

Blue Drop Awards Celebrate Achievements in Open Source Web Development - The first ever Blue Drop Awards for excellence in Drupal development were announced yesterday. Organized and led by Ben Finklea of Volacci, the awards were both a community effort to celebrate the great work of Drupal Developers, and also a vehicle for Drupal and open source evangelism. more>> ...

MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3 - Comparing Command-Line Interfaces - Don't be afraid of using your chosen database's command-line client. more>> ...

Non-Linux FOSS: TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt is a fully open-source tool for encrypting data. That data can be on a completely encrypted hard drive, or just an encrypted image file. Thankfully, the encryption works the same regardless of your platform, so Windows and OS X users can share encrypted files between computers. more>> ...

Facebook's IPO Sputters - Facebook shares struggled to stay above their $38 IPO price, as Wall Street bankers stepped in to prevent the newly minted stock from ending its first day with an embarrassing loss....

For Gupta Trial, Tension and Tips - Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta say he was estranged from convicted hedge-fund mogul Raj Rajaratnam at the time of some alleged tips. Prosecutors say the friendship broke down much later....

Dow Swoons for Sixth Day - A day billed as Facebook's coming-out party ended up marking a much gloomier event: the stock market's worst week in six months....

GM to Forgo Pricey Super Bowl Ads - General Motors has decided it won't advertise in the next Super Bowl, balking at steep ad rates as the auto maker overhauls its global marketing operations....

Winnebago Gets Offer - Winnebago Industries received a $322 million takeover offer from a private-equity firm that wants to bring foreign car and truck assembly to the recreational vehicles maker. ...

Dewey Moves Closer to Bankruptcy Filing - Dewey & LeBoeuf is readying a possible bankruptcy-protection filing for sometime in the next several weeks, a move that would initiate official liquidation of the beleaguered New York law firm....

China: Solar-Panel Tariff May Backfire - China unleashed a storm of protest criticizing the U.S. decision to impose a 31% antidumping tariff on Chinese solar-panel makers....

MF Global Trustee Collects $168 Million - J.P. Morgan agreed to hand over $168 million to a bankruptcy trustee representing customers of MF Global....

Chesapeake Cuts Pay, Jet Travel for Board - Chesapeake Energy said board members will take a 20% pay cut and no longer have personal use of company aircraft, the latest move by the embattled natural-gas company to placate critics....

Repsol Cancels Argentine LNG Shipments - Spain's Repsol is canceling 10 LNG shipments to an Argentine public energy company that it says isn't honoring the supply contract....

Megabus to Expand Into Texas, California After Coach Deal - Megabus plans to expand its network of U.S. intercity coach services by 50%, purchasing assets from a rival to push into Texas and California. ...

Judge to Rule in AMR Labor Trial by Late June - American Airlines will have to wait longer than previously expected for a bankruptcy judge's decision on whether the carrier can impose new labor contracts....