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Attack tools can be used against a broad range of electric grids around the world.

Ecocapsule is a self-sustainable smart house powered solely by solar and wind energy. It allows you to live off-the-grid, with the luxury of a hotel room. Ecocapsule is your design way to independent housing. It can serve as a cottage, pop-up hotel or even as a charging station for electric cars. We have engineered the … Leggi tutto

The monthly stable update of the OpenELEC embedded Linux entertainment operating system for Raspberry Pi and other supported single-board computers has arrived, and it is now available for download or update.

As expected, Wireshark 2.2.7 updates the protocol support for the Bazaar, SoulSeek, BT ATT, BT L2CAP, openSAFETY, DHCP, Netsync, DICOM, SMB, OSITP, DNP3, QUAKEWORLD, DNS, DOF, SIGCOMP, DWARF, RTCP, ICMP, IEEE 802.11, IPv6, XOT, Radiotap, ISUP, ROS, LTE RRC, Netflow, MSNIP, and RGMP protocols.

Upgrading your BIOS can seem tricky for free software users, but it doesn’t have to be.

Gravit is a free vector graphic creation tool developed with a more intuitive workflow to suit the needs of both beginner, designers and professionals alike. The company is of the notion that “anyone can make designs for free, anywhere and anytime”.

Versione 0.01 PostgreSQL è Object-relational Database System OpenSource. Alla fine degli anni 70 alcuni ricercatori della Berkley University, California, iniziarono a sviluppare il database relazionale University Ingres. Il nome divenne Postgres, contrazione di Post Ingres. I principali database, quali Ingres, Informix, Sybase e SQL Server, sono derivazioni dirette od indirette del progetto nato e cresciuto … Leggi tutto

Versione 0.02 Le applicazioni IoT sono diverse. Questo articolo  introduce un’applicazione molto particolare. Il mondo anglosassone e tedesco hanno una nuova tendenza: utilizzare dei trailer di appoggio per le attività sportive ed il divertimento. Chi fa trekking, per esempio, può trovare molto utile avere una base di appoggio per poter cambiarsi, trovare ristoro o semplicemente … Leggi tutto

We are sensing distance all the time and have an rgb LED to indicate whether to keep coming, slow down, stop, or go back. A button is used to store the current distance as the desired parking distance.

RuneAudio describes itself as “free and open-source software that turns embedded hardware into Hi-Fi music players.” By installing RuneAudio on a Raspberry Pi, you transform it into a Hi-Fi media center capable of playing music from multiple sources.

Open source software was the star of the show for a local production of Les Mis.

The Open Lighting Architecture is a framework for lighting control information. It supports a range of protocols and over a dozen USB devices. It can run as a standalone service, which is useful for converting signals between protocols, or alternatively using the OLA API, it can be used as the backend for lighting control software. … Leggi tutto

Bob Metcalfe presented his networking model, now known as Ethernet on May 22, 1973 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

In this article we’ll look at three new components for amplifying and processing audio signals.

Revisione 0.6 I dispositivi IoT si appoggiano a server e servizi IoT attraverso internet, che in breve denominiamo Centro Servizi IoT. Le proposte strutturali per allestire Centri Servizi IoT sono molteplici. Spesso troviamo proposte di comunicare con il protocollo REST2, sostanzialmente HTTP . Molti progetti prevedono l’utilizzo di schede Arduino connesse a Raspberry Pi come … Leggi tutto

After nearly a year and a half with an uncertain future, Mozilla tells Thunderbird it can stay and that its future is now certain — in a most uncertain way. You might remember, back in December, 2015, Mozilla put Thunderbird up for adoption, saying it considered the popular email client too draining, both in terms … Leggi tutto

How did Netflix’s in-house engineers adapt to the sea change inherent in open source collaboration? How would Netflix’s in-house engineers adapt to this sea change? Communicate regularly Share the roadmap Build trust and accountability Clear communication, a consistent vision, and team trust were critical to the success of this endeavor. Netflix understands leaders of open … Leggi tutto

“Model of storing data in cloud and delivering parts of it via on-demand caching at the edge is something everyone takes for granted today,” one AFS creator says

In this guide, I will be explaining how to use FFmpeg multimedia framework to do various audio and video transcoding, conversion operations with examples. Just in case, you haven’t installed FFmpeg already, refer the following guide.

We’re reasonably certain this wasn’t written by the hand of any god. Then again, we haven’t personally met any gods, so how would we know? All we know for sure is that as some good book almost said, “The truth shall make you chuckle.”

BOSTON — OpenStack has long billed itself as an integration engine enabling organizations to plug into different technologies. At the OpenStack Summit here, Mark Collier, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, explained and demonstrated in a keynote address why it’s important to embrace composable and cloud native infrastructure. “Composable means built to work together with … Leggi tutto

BOSTON — OpenStack started off as a cloud technology project and has evolved steadily over the last few years. In a marathon two and a half hour set of keynotes on the first day of the OpenStack Summit here, the OpenStack Foundation and the vendors and companies that use it talked about how they are … Leggi tutto

BOSTON—The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is now being used to help train the next generation of cyber-warriors. At the OpenStack Summit here May 8, officers from the U.S. Army Cyber School explained how they are using OpenStack to train soldiers to fight in the cyber-domain.

BOSTON—Using public cloud and proprietary software represents a “silent vulnerability” to millions of users around the world, according to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth reveals the reason for recent changes with the powerhouse Ubuntu Linux company were to prepare it for an IPO. IPO An initial public offering, or IPO, is the first sale of a corporation’s common shares to investors on a public stock exchange. The main purpose of an IPO is to raise … Leggi tutto

Developed since 2007, and with roots going back to 2002, Orx is an engine for C, C++, or Objective-C developers to create top performance 2D games. There are two sides to this little engine. One side is the clean code of the API, developed entirely in C, but with an object-orientated design. The other side … Leggi tutto

Qubes OS is a security-oriented operating system (OS). The OS is the software that runs all the other programs on a computer. Some examples of popular OSes are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. Qubes is free and open-source software (FOSS). This means that everyone is free to use, copy, and change the … Leggi tutto

Whonix is a desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy. Whonix mitigates the threat of common attack vectors while maintaining usability. Online anonymity is realized via fail-safe, automatic, and desktop-wide use of the Tor network. A heavily reconfigured Debian base is run inside multiple virtual machines, providing a substantial layer of protection from … Leggi tutto

The OpenStack Summit 2017 event kicked off today in Boston, MA, and Canonical’s CEO Mark Shuttleworth was there to discuss the upcoming plans for Ubuntu on the desktop, cloud computing, and IoT (Internet of Things).

Since Linus Torvalds developed the Linux kernel, there has been an explosion of distributions that can be categorized into several broad classes. The ecosystem is truly expansive.

The Debian Project announced today Debian GNU/Linux 8.8, the most advanced stable version of the Jessie series, which brings corrections for numerous packages and various of the security flaws discovered and patched since the release of the Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 maintenance update back in mid-January 2017.

E’ stato aggiunto il nuovo comando: file num_to_barchart  <filename>  <email> legge i dati numerici dal file file_name, crea il file PDF contenente tali dati e lo invia in allegato alla email all’email_address. Lo strumento utilizzato per la creazione del file di report è ReportLab. Il report è costituito da tre parti: un logo, un testo … Leggi tutto

Germain automaker Daimler indicates that it’s betting much of its future on Linux by investing in two Linux projects.

This project from Austin, Texas-based civil engineer and hobbyist Grady Hillhouse uses a moisture sensor and a solenoid valve to automatically water plants when the soil gets dry.  

Samba 4.6 has been released today as the new stable series of the popular and open-source re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol for providing fast file and print services on UNIX-like systems.

MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/”Internet of Things” connectivity protocol. It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium.

The Asus Tinker Board is a new ARM-based single-board computer (SBC) which stands out from the crowd. It’s tiny, affordable, with strong performance, and targeted at the DIY/hobbyist market. Essentially a complete PC — motherboard, CPU, GPU, system memory and more — all in one package, it is priced at £54.99. Specifications Processor Rockchip RK3288 … Leggi tutto

Wireshark 2.2.5 is now out as the latest and most advanced version of the open-source and multi-platform application used by numerous network administrators around the globe for network analysis, development, troubleshooting, and education purposes.

here is a look at the new features of the Linux 4.11 kernel that I have been covering through closely watching the Git repository and mailing list over the past two weeks.

systemd 233 comes four months after the release of the previous version, namely systemd 232, and it’s a major update that adds over 70 improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features. First of, it looks like all the Python scripts that ship with systemd now require Python 3 to be installed on … Leggi tutto

The real worry about Google showing SHA-1 encryption is crackable, as pointed out by Peter Gutmann, a cryptography expert at the at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, is “with long-term document signing and certificates”. But, what about the distributed version control system Git code repositories? Linus Torvalds, Linux and Git’s inventor, doesn’t see any … Leggi tutto

Today, on the fifth anniversary of the release of the original Raspberry Pi, the Foundation has released Pi Zero W, a Pi Zero with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, for $10. The latest addition to the Raspberry Pi family has the same specifications as the original Pi Zero: 1GHz single-core ARMv6 CPU (BCM2835) VideoCore IV GPU, … Leggi tutto

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Canonical announced several more takers for its IoT-oriented Ubuntu Core distribution. When Dell unveiled its compact, $399-and-up Edge Gateway 3000 series of Intel Atom-driven IoT gateways, Canonical revealed that the devices will be available with Ubuntu Core when they ship in early summer.