Monthly Archives: December 2010
Some Open Source Gaming Platforms and Games You Should Check Out!
A common misconception is that gaming and open source never seem to gel. Linux users are generally desktop publishers and programmers but hardly ever...
Wings 3D and the GIMP: UV Mapping and Texturing the Airplane
This article continues from the previous one in which we dealt with modelling an airplane. Here we look at UV mapping -- making a 2D...
Technology To Aid the Disabled
Using free software, an easy-to-program framework and inexpensive computer tools, Arun Mehta from Delhi has designed a communication system for a child suffering from...
Sintel, the Movie: Open Source Goes to Hollywood
Sintel, the fourth open movie from the Blender Foundation, is out. Building on the success of its previous open movie projects, this release has...
Fedora 14 Review: I’m Smiling About Laughlin
I was initially a KDE user, but for a long time, I've been using GNOME on Ubuntu. This is because there has always been...
‘Microsoft’s Working Towards Establishing a Long-term Community Connection’
"Microsoft is open to openness," says Vijay Rajagopalan, principal architect in Microsoft's interoperability team. The LINUX For You team caught up with him to...
Moodle Helps a Business School Overcome Administrative Challenges
Over the past several years, the Inmantec Business School, Ghaziabad, faced problems related to information flow from departments to students, faculty members, department staff...
Turbo Charge Python Apps with Speed, Part 2
In an earlier article, we tried out some of the tools to turbo-charge mainly CPU-bound Python programs, without modifying the source code too often....
Secure Upload Methods in PHP
Here's how to deal with file upload attacks against sites developed in PHP, and how to write more secure code to prevent these attacks.
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Device Drivers, Part 2: Writing Your First Linux Driver in the Classroom
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, deals with the concept of dynamically loading drivers, first writing a Linux...
