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The Samsung Z smartphone unveiled in June as the first Tizen phone, was a no-show at its launch event in Russia, and Samsung offered no revised ship date. After Samsung’s early June announcement of the first Tizen phone — the Samsung Z — we thought we were finally done writing “Tizen phone delayed again” updates. … Leggi tutto

Leaked benchmarks show Via’s 64-bit Isaiah II edging out AMD’s Kabini and trouncing Intel’s Atom Z3770, amid speculation it may run both x86 and ARM code. The benchmarks show the processor soundly beating the quad-core, 2.4GHz Intel Atom Z3770 (Bay Trail-T) tablet system-on-chip while edging out a 2GHz, quad-core AMD Athlon 5350 “Kabini” SoC.In the … Leggi tutto

Sprint has launched the “LivePro,” an Android-based, ZTE-built DLP projector and 3G/4G mobile hotspot shareable by eight WiFi-users, with a 4-inch display. ZTE showed off the LivePro at January’s CES show as its “Projector Hotspot“, and it’s now coming to the U.S. via Sprint under the LivePro name. On July 11, Sprint will begin selling … Leggi tutto

1: Include end user testing and acceptance in your QA 2: Use good test data 3: Have great specifications 4: Document 5: Include security and governance requirements in your app specification 6: Use standard application programming interfaces 7: Build apps with reusable objects and routines 8: Perform a thorough integration test 9: Don’t forget stress … Leggi tutto

While OpenStreetMap offers great mapping data, its community-driven approach may not be enough to unseat Google Maps.

AMD has just published a massive patch-set for the Linux kernel that finally implements a HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) in open-source. The set of 83 patches implement a Linux HSA driver for Radeon family GPUs and serves too as a sample driver for other HSA-compatible devices Heterogeneous System Architecture has been talked up for a … Leggi tutto

Motion is a nice lightweight, yet capable application for operating surveillance cameras on Linux. It works with any Linux-supported video camera, including all V4L Webcams, many IP cameras, Axis cameras, and it controls pan and tilt functions.

In late 2011, a lively discussion (we enjoy lively discussions here in Germany) among the IT managers of the publicly-funded research universities in Northrhine-Westfalia (NRW), Germany’s most populous federal state, started over a set of interrelated topics: ·         Endorsement or ban of public cloud services at universities: Since commercial, consumer-grade cloud services like Google Mail and Google … Leggi tutto

CentOS 7 is here The CentOS Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 7 for x86_64, including images for docker, and various cloud providers. There are many fundamental changes in this release, compared to previous releases of CentOS. Notably the inclusion of systemd, Gnome3, and a default filesystem of XFS. For more … Leggi tutto

After years of development, RedHat finally released the next major version of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v7. The new major version of RedHat Enterprise Linux provides a large number of new features and improvements including: Linux Kernel v3.10 XFS as the default file system LVM-snapshots for XFS and EXT4 Support for Linux Containers RedHat Enterprise … Leggi tutto

If you understand English, you already understand Python. Python is now the most popular introductory language at American colleges, a recent Association for Computing Machinery study reports. In an analysis of the top 39 computer science departments as ranked by U.S. News in 2014, the general-purpose programming language has replaced Java as the budding computer … Leggi tutto

It’s been a wild ride with the $35 Raspberry Pi®. Last month, sales of the Raspberry Pi topped three million. And, if you didn’t already know, the Raspberry Pi makes a near perfect platform for your very own VoIP PBX. It’s less than a ONE HOUR project!

Get the most out of your SSD in Linux – here’s what you need to know.

The new OSX will be released this fall but a Mac OSX Yosemite beta is already available online.

Create forms easily with Drupal’s Webform module  

Can Google’s Rebel Alliance of Android and Chrome OS finally dent Microsoft’s Windows Evil Empire? I expect we’ll see this desktop operating system war start in late 2014.

Canonical has worked hard to integrate Ubuntu Linux with IBM’s POWER8 servers to strengthen its OpenStack cloud and Big Data position.

Why would anyone want to search things on the Internet via a terminal?

Want a small office/home office cloud to call your own? OwnCloud may be all the cloud you need.

Install Ajenti (A Web Based Control Panel) for Managing Linux Server

E’ possibile installare Ubuntu for Devices 14.04 in alcuni modelli di Galaxy Nexus: Device Android Image Name Android Driver Name Nexus 4 occam mako Nexus 7 2013 WiFi razor flo Nexus 10 mantaray manta  

In contrast to the fanfare associated with Firefox 29 and its new interface, Firefox 30 delivers security fixes and incremental feature updates.

IP network bandwidth is set to explode over the next five years, according to Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast. UHDTV potrà arrivare fino a 7680 × 4320 pixel

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux distribution. 

While EXT4 didn’t see any exciting changes for the Linux 3.16 merge window, the XFS and Btrfs file-systems are continuing to receive a great deal of upstream improvements.

Linux mini-drones jump, flip, climb, and fly

Eighteen German universities will deploy the ownCloud open source file syncing and sharing platform for building private clouds.

E’ possibile avviare un computer Linux mediante la scheda di rete e sfruttando un server di rete FTP – NSF.

How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux

OpenELEC is an embedded operating system built specifically to run XBMC, the open source entertainment media hub. The idea behind OpenELEC is to allow people to use their Home Theatre PC (HTPC) like any other device you might have attached to your TV, like a DVD player or Sky box. Instead of having to manage … Leggi tutto

SSH, the Secure Shell SSH is one of the protocols of the TCP/IP protocol suite found at the application layer (Layer 7) of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) network model. Officially specified in RFC 4251 (and later, several other RFCs) SSH functions in a way that is similar to telnet but is far more robust and … Leggi tutto

ClusterSSH controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands to be interactively run on multiple servers over an ssh connection.  

autossh – Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels   FEATURES autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. The idea is from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel), but implemented in C. The author’s view is that it is not as … Leggi tutto

The Ubuntu for Android project was launched in early 2012 with the aim to merge Android Mobile and Ubuntu Linux desktop. According to Canonical, the project has been shelved for now and is not under active development.

XBee radios can now record and output multiple channels of digital and analog data without using microcontrollers. The latest firmware (version 10A1) supports up to seven channels of analog input, nine channels of digital I/O and two channels of analog (pulse-width modulation) output. These will be great for creating small sensor modules or miniature output … Leggi tutto

The linux ip command is similar to ifconfig, but more powerful and is intended to be a replacement for it. With ip you have the advantage of performing several network administration tasks with only one command. ifconfig is one of the deprecated command within net-tools that has not been maintained for many years. The functionalities … Leggi tutto

The Wine development release 1.7.18 is now available. What’s new in this release: – Improved OLE Accessible Object support. – Window sizing improvements in the Mac driver. – Fixes for various memory issues found by Valgrind. – A few more MSHTML functions. – Some DirectDraw cleanups. – Various bug fixes.

Systemd is a system management daemon designed to to replace the init system inherited from UNIX System V and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating systems. If a system uses systemd it means that it will be the first process to execute in user space during the Linux startup process.

Monitor System Resources And Processes Using Atop

How To Install And Use Flush BitTorrent Client In Linux

Firefox 29 Is Now Available In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

OpenBSD 5.5

What’s LXC? Userspace tools for the Linux kernel containers LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers. Features Current LXC uses the following kernel features to contain processes: Kernel namespaces (ipc, uts, mount, … Leggi tutto

GNOME 3.13.1

  Building an Arduino Pest Repeller on Linux // CritterScare.ino. Plays scary sound effects // when a deer or other freeloader comes within // 24 inches of the sonar rangefinder #include <FatReader.h> #include <SdReader.h> #include <avr/pgmspace.h> #include “WaveUtil.h” #include “WaveHC.h” SdReader card; FatVolume vol; FatReader root; FatReader f; WaveHC wave; // declare functions; function bodies … Leggi tutto

Lo sviluppo di pagine per la consultazione mediante browser web sta evolvendo con straordinaria dinamicità. Il mondo java e js offre node.js costruito su strumenti Google e che permette di creare pagine web con particolare attenzione per i dispositivi mobili. Ma anche il tradizionale ambiente di sviluppo PHP è evoluto raggiungendo la composizione visuale. WordPress … Leggi tutto

Personally, I think it’d be interesting to see a browser that uses QML/JavaScript instead of HTML/JavaScript. What do you think?  

Tibco Acquires Jaspersoft for $185 Million