Weekly Ten (10-06-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:


1. Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts
Two and a half years ago, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne penned an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, warning that widespread stock manipulation schemes - including abusive naked short selling - were threatening the health of America's financial markets. But it wasn't published.
More @ TheRegister

2. Elive The Age Of Enlightenment
ELIVE is a live Linux CD showcasing the Enlightenment window manager/desktop shell. The Belgian project's slogan, "Where Debian Meets Enlightenment", provides us with an early hint that here is a Linux distribution built on very strong, very deep foundations.
More @ Raiden's Realm

3. Clean energy 2030
The energy team at Google has been crunching the numbers to see how we could greatly reduce fossil fuel use by 2030. Our analysis, led by Jeffery Greenblatt, suggests a potential path to weaning the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity generation by 2030 (with some remaining use of natural gas as well as nuclear), and cutting oil use for cars by 40%.
More @ Googleblog

4. Another IKEA linux cluster

More @ HackaDay

5. Don't Buy Antivirus Software, Vendor Says
Trend Micro's consumer security product manager has recommend people not to buy antivirus products, including his own. But there is a method to his madness, he assures.
More @ PCWorld.com

6. The Perfect Server - CentOS 4.7 Server
This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 4.7 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of CentOS 4.7, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well.
More @ HowtoForge

7. SEC investigating false report on Steve Jobs heart attack
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it's investigating whether a false report that Apple chief executive Steve Jobs suffered a heart attack was published in a effort to manipulate the company's stock price.
More @ AppleInsider

8. WowWee's Rovio gets reviewed: it's one awesome robotic sentry

More @ Engadget

9. Linux turns 17
Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago today. it began...
More @ LinuxJournal

10. Have You Found Your One True Love?
Three years ago, I wrote the book, How To Find Your One True Love.
More @ BoSanchez

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