Issue #126 / May 2011

• CyanogenMod-7 Brings Android Mods Up to Date
• PhpStorm 2.0 IDE Released

Friends are all about friendship – names and appearances typically don’t play any role at all. Sys admin Charly’s friend the Terminator is a convincing example.

Although you give up control of the underlying infrastructure when you use cloud computing, you can still maintain some control over security.

Firewalls often block shell access for remote users on a corporate network or at an Internet cafe. Luckily, tools like PHP Shell and Shell in a Box put the shell in a browser window.

Open source in the news, at events around the globe, and now delivered in convenient flyer form.

The Jeopardy game is over, and Watson, the supercomputer built and pro­grammed by IBM, won hands down. But, maddog tackles an item in the “Open Source Operating Systems” category.

Linux is a wonderful and underrated audio production platform, with great applications for every audio task. MuseScore and LilyPond bring elegance and sophistication to score writing, and Chordii is a wonderfully simple guitar sheet-music maker.