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SlateBook x2: Tegra 4-powered Android hybrid

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The Tegra 4-powered SlateBook x2 running Android Jelly Bean (4.2.2) is the latest split-personality portable computer from HP. Detailed hardware specs have not be made available, but we do know that if will have an IPS panel with a screen resolution of 1920×1200, USB and HDMI ports. read more...
permapage | score:9953 | -finid, May 16, 2013

ROSA Desktop Fresh LXDE alpha preview

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Since this release is the first alpha edition, it is not feature complete, but some important components are already in place, while some others have yet to be implemented. A short list of the main features that are already in place follows read more...
permapage | score:9906 | -finid, May 13, 2013

Tutorial: Build a Debian 7 Server

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This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Wheezy server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers nginx (instead of Apache), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier). read more...
mail this link | permapage | score:9898 | -falko, May 13, 2013

Apache OpenOffice: Help pick a new logo

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The six entries are shown below. If you did not participate in the original survey, this is your chance to have an input. I did not participate in the original survey, but if I did, the order that these images are shown below shows how I would have rated them, from highest to lowest. read more...
permapage | score:9865 | -finid, May 12, 2013

A backdoor in all Internet products and services?

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Now they want to step it up a notch and compel popular Internet companies and social networks like Facebook and Google to give law enforcement agencies real time monitoring capabilities of all online communication. read more...
permapage | score:9853 | -finid, May 3, 2013

Windows 8: The most important reason to switch to Linux

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Since we don’t have the political clout to bribe (lobby) our elected officials to break the unholy alliance between Microsoft and hardware vendors, educating Windows users on the benefits of using Linux is the best we can do – for now. read more...
permapage | score:9847 | -finid, May 2, 2013

Improve Ubuntu Laptop Power Management

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With each release cycle the Linux kernel and the distributions implement new improvements in terms of laptop power management. Therefore even plain standard installations can show quite good results.Additional possibilities to save battery power are easily found on the web with the search engine of your choice. But selecting the right solutions for your particular hardware and Linux flavour from the myriad of wikis, blogs and forums is much more difficult and often requires advanced Linux knowledge on behalf of the user. read more...
mail this link | permapage | score:9838 | -gg234, May 8, 2013

ARM-based EMB-2500: Like Raspberry Pi, but much better

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With the EMB-2500, SATA storage connectivity has come to an ITX form-factor, single-board SoC computer. read more...
permapage | score:9831 | -finid, April 30, 2013

CoolShip Android all-in-keyboard computer

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But this one is unlike other Android units. It’s not in a USB stick, but in a keyboard with most of the connectivity of a standard desktop or notebook computer. read more...
permapage | score:9830 | -finid, February 26, 2013

The Debate OS Project

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Today I ran across another open-source Kickstarter project that I thought was worth sharing. The project, called Debate OS, is an Ubuntu spin focused on providing a debate environment for high school and college students. read more...
permapage | score:9714 | -aweber, December 15, 2011

Google Reader axed. Is FeedBurner next?

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Parts of the FeedBurner service have already been eliminated. For example, the FeedBurner API and AdSense for Feeds have been retired. read more...
permapage | score:9713 | -finid, March 30, 2013

Infotainment systems: The next generation

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Just thought I share a video about the Parrot ASTEROID Smart, a vehicular infotainment systems device from Parrot, a technology outfit based in Paris, France that makes wireless devices and applications. read more...
permapage | score:9711 | -finid, April 4, 2013

The Coming HTML 5 Revolution in Linux

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I have spent the last couple of weeks working on a very ambitious C++ program. The program is a software model of a mechanical engineering system. I have never undertaken a more challenging or more rewarding computer programming project. As I spent hour after hour poring over the code, I began to realize why everyone is making such a fuss about HTML 5. read more...
permapage | score:9700 | -aweber, December 13, 2011

Riak Cloud Storage released under Apache 2 license

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Riak CS offers a highly available, fault-tolerant storage, with support for large objects (up to 5 GB) and multipart uploading, an API and authentication system that is S3-compatible, multi-tenancy and per-user reporting. read more...
permapage | score:9693 | -finid, March 29, 2013

Pissed Off Penguins: A Free Game Project

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Kris Occhipinti is currently in the middle of creating a 2D game using the Blender 3D game engine. The game, called Pissed Off Penguins, looks similar to the popular “Angry Birds” game most of you have likely heard about. I wanted to outline this open-source project and expose some of the unique techniques Kris is using to both fund this project and create the game itself. read more...
permapage | score:9667 | -aweber, December 11, 2011

Install Apache2, PHP5, MySQL on CentOS 5.7

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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.7 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. read more...
permapage | score:9666 | -falko, December 11, 2011

Tutorial: Replace Windows with Pinguy OS 11.10

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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Pinguy OS 11.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. read more...
permapage | score:9626 | -falko, December 14, 2011

Kali Linux is now available for download

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With Kali, the distribution’s developers made the switch from an Ubuntu base to a Debian base. So, Kali is a Debian-based distribution for security gurus or those aspiring to be. read more...
permapage | score:9614 | -finid, March 30, 2013

Tutorial: Use Amazon Cloudfront To Speed Up Wordpress Based Site

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A typical WordPress blog contains a mix of static stuff such as images, javascript, style sheets and dynamic content such as posts, pages and comments posted by users. You can speed up your blog by serving static content via content delivery network such as Akamai, Edgecast and so on. The big boys of CDN business also offered the solution to accelerate dynamic content to improve the performance and reliability of the blog. However, solutions offered by big and traditional CDNs are expensive. Amazon cloudfront recently started to serving dynamic content at lowered price. In this blog post, I will explain:

1. How to serve your entire blog using cloudfront.
2. DNS settings.
3. WordPress settings.
4. Documenting limitations of cloudfront.
5. Documenting performance improvements. read more...
mail this link | permapage | score:9589 | -nixcraft, March 7, 2013

Ubuntu 10.10 Screenshots

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The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Maverick Meerkat Beta is the beta release of Ubuntu 10.10, bringing with it new features for the next version of Ubuntu. This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process, Desktop, applications read more...
permapage | score:9524 | -gg234, September 7, 2010
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