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Odroid hacker board jumps to faster octacore SoC
The Odroid project launched an “Odroid-XU3″ open source SBC based on Samsung’s HMP-ready Exynos5422, which mixes four Cortex-A15 and four Cortex-A7 cores. Processor — Samsung Exynos5422 Octa SoC: CPUs — 4x ARM Cortex-A15 cores @ 2.0GHz + 4x Cortex-A7 cores @ 1.4GHz GPU — Mali-T628 MP6 (OpenGL ES 3.0 / 2.0 / 1.1 and OpenCL … Leggi tutto
AMB-IH61T3 (Mini-ITX)
AMB-IH61T3 (Mini-ITX) Intel H61 with CoreTM i7/ i5/ i3 Mini-ITX Motherboard, DDR3-1333/1066 SDRAM, 2 x VGA, 2 x GbE LAN, 10 x COM, 8 x USB, 1 x PCI-E x16, 1 x Mini PCIe
First Tizen phone postponed indefinitely
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
Will Via’s 64-bit Isaiah II run both x86 and ARM code?
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
Android DLP projector doubles as a mobile hotspot
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
10 ways to supercharge your applications
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
Is OpenStreetMap the next Linux or OpenOffice?
While OpenStreetMap offers great mapping data, its community-driven approach may not be enough to unseat Google Maps.
AMD Publishes Open-Source Linux HSA Kernel Driver
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
How to Operate Linux Spycams With Motion
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.
Building an Inter-University Private Cloud with Open Source ownCloud
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
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
CentOS 6.5 vs. CentOS 7.0 NAS Performance Comparison
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
Why Python Makes A Great First Programming Language
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
The Definitive VoIP Quickstart Guide: Incredible PBX for the Raspberry Pi
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!
How To Optimize Linux For SSDs
Get the most out of your SSD in Linux – here’s what you need to know.
Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite beta vs 10.7.5 vs Ubuntu 14.04 on Macbook Air 2011
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
Create forms easily with Drupal’s Webform module
Windows wars? The Android and Chrome OS Alliance
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 Supporting IBM POWER8 for Ubuntu Cloud, Big Data
Canonical has worked hard to integrate Ubuntu Linux with IBM’s POWER8 servers to strengthen its OpenStack cloud and Big Data position.
How to access popular search engines from the command line on Linux
Why would anyone want to search things on the Internet via a terminal?
OwnCloud 7 beta released
Want a small office/home office cloud to call your own? OwnCloud may be all the cloud you need.
Ajenti for managing Linux server
Install Ajenti (A Web Based Control Panel) for Managing Linux Server
Ubuntu for Devices 14.04
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
Firefox 30 Delivers 7 Security Fixes, Other Changes
In contrast to the fanfare associated with Firefox 29 and its new interface, Firefox 30 delivers security fixes and incremental feature updates.
UHD TV to Drive Networking Bandwidth in Zettabyte Era
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 Containers and the Future Cloud
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.
XFS & Btrfs For Linux 3.16 Bring New Features
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
Linux mini-drones jump, flip, climb, and fly
ownCloud Private Cloud Platform Wins in Education Market
Eighteen German universities will deploy the ownCloud open source file syncing and sharing platform for building private clouds.
Computer Linux senza memorie di massa.
E’ possibile avviare un computer Linux mediante la scheda di rete e sfruttando un server di rete FTP – NSF.
Monaco ha sostituito 15.000 computer adottando Linux
How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux
OpenELEC 4.0
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, 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
Cluster SSH – Cluster Admin Via SSH
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
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
Canonical stops ‘Ubuntu for Android’ development
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 Direct I/O with ADC
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
Start Practising Linux ip command and Avoid the Habit of Using ifconfig
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
WinHQ development release 1.7.18
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
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.
Linux Basics: Monitor System Resources And Processes Using Atop
Monitor System Resources And Processes Using Atop
How To Install And Use Flush BitTorrent Client In Linux
How To Install And Use Flush BitTorrent Client In Linux
Firefox 29 Is Now Available In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Firefox 29 Is Now Available In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
OpenBSD 5.5
OpenBSD 5.5
LXC – Linux Containers
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
GNOME 3.13.1
Building an Arduino Pest Repeller on Linux
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
PHP Framework
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