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Wink announced Relay, an Android-based smart light switch and home automation hub featuring a 4.3-inch touchscreen, proximity sensors, and voice messaging.  

The XPrize Foundation, best known for its spaceflight challenges, has announced an earthly focus: Creating an open-source application that can teach a child to read, write, and perform arithmetic without a teacher.

What does it take to get a major seller of cloud-based media to support Linux? Apparently, implementing Linux support on your own, then waiting two years for the vendor to catch up—or so the recent news that Netflix plans official support Linux (or at least Ubuntu) suggests.

Whether you’re moving to a paperless lifestyle, need to scan a document to back it up or email it, want to scan an old photo, or whatever reason you have for making the physical electronic, a scanner comes in handy. In fact, a scanner is essential. First up, Simple Scan. Next up, gscan2pdf. Finally, The … Leggi tutto

One of the tools we’ve leaned on heavily in some of our lab testing of software privacy and security is Kali Linux. The Debian-based operating system comes packaged with a collection of penetration testing and network monitoring tools curated and developed by the security training company Offensive Security.

Keeping, maintaining and analyzing logs (i.e., accounts of events that have happened during a certain period of time or are currently happening) are among the most basic and essential tasks of a Linux system administrator. In case of user management, examining user logon and logout logs (both failed and successful) can alert us about any … Leggi tutto

The Debian developers decided a while ago that they were going to adopt Xfce instead of GNOME as the default desktop, but that doesn’t mean that users won’t be able to find all the GNOME packages in the repositories.

There are many myths about open source software (OSS) and perhaps the most common is this: open source and profit are mutually exclusive. Surely there are those who believe that all software should be open and free, but they are a minority (not dissimilar to art purists).

The Ubuntu project announced a stable build for Ubuntu Touch phones, a week after Meizu tipped an Ubuntu version of the Meizu MX4 phone due in December.

Like it or not, systemd is here to stay, so we might as well know what to do with it. Linus Torvalds and others on Linux’s systemd

Mezzanine is a powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform. Built using the Django framework, Mezzanine provides a simple yet highly extensible architecture that encourages diving in and hacking on the code. Mezzanine is BSD licensed and supported by a diverse and active community.

As the Django docs say, one should install pytz and ensure that the MySQL server has the time_zone tables loaded with data.

Gigolo is a frontend to easily manage connections to local and remote filesystems using GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount a remote filesystem and manage bookmarks of such.  

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 released and CentOS version 7 newly unveiled, now is a good time to cover systemd, the replacement for legacy System V (SysV) startup scripts and runlevels.

PDF Mod is a simple application for modifying PDF documents. You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject, author, and keywords, and combine documents via drag and drop.

How many of you failed to connect to WiFi network in Linux? Did you bumped into issues like the followings in different forums, discussion page, blogs? I am sure everyone did at some point. Following list shows just the results from Page 1 of a Google search result with “Unable to connect to WiFi network … Leggi tutto

Ellison will become CTO and executive chairman of Oracle.

Microsoft is hard at work on Windows 9 in a desperate attempt to recover from the Windows 8 debacle that angered many users and generated a ton of media criticism.

Logitech’s Home Hub, the central controller, turns any smartphone or tablet into a universal remote for connected home devices.

A big, developer-centric update completes the overhaul started in iOS 7.

GNU/Linux is winning pretty much everywhere these days – well, aside from the desktop. On supercomputers, mobiles and embedded devices it dominates completely, but in the world of enterprise computing, where it has certainly done well, there’s room for it to take further market share. How might it do that? One of the huge advantages … Leggi tutto

La casa di Redmond ha comunicato che terrà un ‘Evento Windows’ a San Francisco il 30 settembre

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is a good example for virtual desktops By Silviu Stahie on September 17th, 2014 09:36 GMT The Windows 9 OS will finally get a very coveted feature, multiple desktops, but the Microsoft developers are still pretty far away from what you can get on Linux.

TrueCrypt will stay alive, thanks to devotees who are forking the encryption program’s code. ‘Cleaned up’ code will get a new name, CipherShed, and a different open source license.

Digia has spun off a subsidiary called “The Qt Company” to unify Qt’s commercial and open source efforts, and debuted a low-cost plan for mobile developers.

Google plans tests in New Mexico using solar-powered unmanned aircraft.  

On Tuesday, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJMVC) voted unanimously to impose new rules that would prohibit Tesla, as a manufacturer, from selling directly to consumers. Instead, the commission said that Tesla would have to sell its cars through a franchised dealer—a situation that the electric car maker has repeatedly rejected. New Jersey is … Leggi tutto

As we reported last week, iCloud previously did not use two-factor authentication to help protect backup data or the Find My iPhone service. This meant that the accounts of victims of social engineering attacks or those who used passwords based on personal data could be harvested of their backup data—allowing the attacker to gain access … Leggi tutto

Linux creator Linus Torvalds is well-known for his strong opinions on many technical things. But when it comes to systemd, the init system that has caused a fair degree of angst in the Linux world, Torvalds is neutral.

Password reuse is not a fictional issue; it’s a clear and present danger.

Raspberry Pi rimane la scheda ARM al costo più basso possibile, con la miglior documentazione pensabile, stile inglese. La versione B+ apporta dei miglioramenti ad alcune pesanti lacune, per esempio l’erogazione di corrente attraverso le porte USB. Il costo di poco superiore ai 30 € la rende realmente popolare, soprattutto per l’apprendimento, ambito nel quale, … Leggi tutto

Only one-third of the world is online, which leaves about 4.8 billion people unplugged with no way to access the Web. A lot of work needs to be done on the ISP side, but people in these poorer countries will need devices, too. We’ve got a $35 Firefox OS phone; what do you want to … Leggi tutto

In today’s Android roundup: Google releases the first Android apps for Chrome OS. Plus: Should LibreOffice pay for Android development? And how to improve Android to fight off the challenge of the iPhone 6.

The Document Foundation’s tender for the development of an Android implementation of LibreOffice begs serious questions, namely: Can an influx of cash into open source code creation succeed, and how do pay-for-code plays from nonprofit foundations affect the ethics and work ethic of today’s open source community?

After writing earlier this week about a new AMD Catalyst driver paving the way for X Server 1.16 in Ubuntu 14.10, the updated packages have officially landed within the Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn” archive.

So I should probably have delayed this until Wednesday for sentimental reasons: that will be 23 years since I uploaded the 0.01 source tree. But I’m not an overly sentimental person, so screw that. I’m doing my normal Sunday release. And as I mentioned in the rc4 notes, the previous rc was pretty small, possibly … Leggi tutto

Here’s a big shout-out to “ISO Master” and Andrew Smith. I had an old Mac Mini that simply absolutely would not install any of the newer Linux distributions, because they now support that abomination called EFI – and while EFI tries to be a “better BIOS”, it’s actually worse in just about all respects. (Honesty … Leggi tutto

Il creatore di Linux ha introdotto molte questioni fondamentali. Fra tutte evidenziamo quelle che introducono  i delicatissimi passaggi che portano a superare i concetti di distribuzioni e pacchetti, come oggi siamo oggi abituati a conoscere nel mondo Linux, specialmente per il  desktop, ovvero di non utilizzare “shared library” per “basic applications for real users” purchè … Leggi tutto

    Processor [ARM]: Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 (8084) (4x Krait 450 cores @ up to 2.5GHz) Adreno 420 GPU @ 500MHz Hexagon QDSP6 V5A (600MHz) 2x ISPs for up to 55-megapixel stereoscopic 3D Memory: 3GB PoP LPDDR3 RAM 16GB of eMMC 5.0 flash, expandable to 64GB Wireless: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi (2.4GHz/5GHz) for 600Mbps throughput Bluetooth 4.1 … Leggi tutto

… a circuit that would fully discharge each of the batteries while measuring how much energy it produced (displayed in Joules and in Watt-Hours.

It pushes drive density using shingled magnetic recording, pressurized helium.

It has been a full seven months since AMD released detailed information about its Opteron A1100 server CPU, and twenty two months since announcement. Today, at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, CA, AMD revealed the final pieces about its ARM powered server strategy headlining the A1100. 

“Tor is free software for enabling online anonymity and resisting censorship. It is designed to make it possible for users to surf the Internet anonymously, so their activities and location can’t be discovered by government agencies, corporations, or anyone else”. More information @ Tor & Wikipedia. 

There’s now an accelerating trend of businesses adopting strategies reflective of the open source way—creating new value through development of some kind of purpose-driven community committed to open exchange and collaboration, prototype-driven solutions, and “the best ideas win.”

Create a low-cost in-car computer using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi sits in the centre console of his Ford Focus, wired to the display of an Xtrons DVD player (optional) as well as two TFT screens in the rear headrests. Control is via a Xenta wireless keyboard with mouse touchpad, while a smartphone can be … Leggi tutto

Car entertainment products, car accessories and car electronics.

Desktop workloads and server workloads have different needs. Why address them in the same distribution?          

À la carte pricing may not be a pipe dream, at least for local broadcast TV.   … A group called TVfreedom.org that represents local broadcasters and other organizations today criticized the American Cable Association (ACA) for supporting Local Choice.  …

Systemd is the controversy that just won’t die.

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. Despite its name, LLVM has little to do with traditional virtual machines, though it does provide helpful libraries that can be used to build them. The name “LLVM” itself is not an acronym; it is the full name of the project.