Information freedom for open source users.
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In this tip, Juliet Kemp shows how to use xclip for copy-and-paste on the Linux command line– without using the mouse.
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sheepweevil writes “IBM just released Milepost GCC, ‘the world’s first open source machine learning compiler.’ The compiler analyses the software and determines which code optimizations will be most effective during compilation using machine learning techniques. Experiments carried out with the compiler achieved an average 18% performance improvement. The compiler is expected to significantly reduce time-to-market of new software, because lengthy manual optimization can now be carried out by the compiler. A new code tuning website has been launched to coincide with the compiler release. The website features collaborative performance tuning and sharing of interesting optimization cases.”
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Data are all around servers. To name a few, file server, email server, LDAP server, web server, DNS server and these are just a few essential servers that make up part of IT section of your company. ERP, CRM, financial projection system, database server, accounting & payroll system are the example of business application. Imagine, [...]
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Freebsd – Backup & restore for disaster recovery
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DataPipe had the most reliable hosting company site in June 2009. The company’s site responded without fail to every request made by Netcraft’s performance collectors throughout the month.
This is DataPipe’s second appearance at the top so far this year
FreeBSD is taking the top 2 places
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DataPipe most reliable web hoster – June 2009
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Firefox 3.5 is now available in the FreeBSD ports (/usr/ports/www/firefox35/).
There are some issues with HTML5 and video
On Windows I still prefer Google Chrome as it’s faster and uses less resources. Just waiting for the extenstions to come.
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Firefox 3.5 Released
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I have been a subscriber since issue no 1, and I’m looking forward to many more issues. Karolina, the editor of BSD Magazine, has send round the following email:
I am sure most of you already heard that BSD magazine is going to be closed, due to much lower benefits than expected and the economy in general…
There is [...]
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Andrew Tridgell has published a patch that could make the Linux implementation of the FAT filesystem impervious to Microsoft patent claims of the kind that forced a settlement from TomTom. The patch alters the VFAT code so that it does not generate both short and long filenames, says Tridgell. The Microsoft FAT patent claims lay at the heart of its lawsuit against Dutch personal navigation device (PND) vendor TomTom earlier this year, which resulted in a TomTom settlement in late March.
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The Month Of Twitter Bugs has begun with the publication of a flaw in a URL shortening service often used in conjunction with the microblogging service.…
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Microsoft’s, shall we say, cautious engagement with open-source could mean frameworks like Spring and Hibernate are the next projects tuned to Windows.…
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While both Red Hat and Canonical/Ubuntu are offering cloud services, Canonical is not providing a certification program like Red Hat is for vendors. While Red Hat sees value in certification, Canonical does not. “At this time, we believe there is limited user value for certifying a public cloud provider which has already delivered a considerable brand for operational excellence in public cloud provision,” Simon Wardley, head of Canonical’s cloud strategy said.
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APOP Protocol Insecure MD5 Hash Weakness
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Stable kernels 2.6.30.1, 2.6.29.6, and 2.6.27.26 have been released by the stable
team. Each contains quite a number of patches (111, 35, and 32
respectively) all over the tree, some with security implications. The
2.6.29.6 release comes with an important note: “This is the last
release of the 2.6.29 kernel series. All users are strongly suggested to
move to the 2.6.30 release series at this time.”
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This is the 10th year I have been writing regularly in some fashion about hacking around with Open Source systems and software. So to get things started first off a quick digest recapping the history of how this “thing” came to be, some of the great stuff along the way that resulted and of course the most important thing about the site….
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meketrefi writes “It’s been quite a while since I got interested in the idea of using html (instead of .doc. or .odf) as a standard for saving documents — including the more official ones like academic papers. The problem is using HTML to create pages with a stable size that would deal with bibliographical references, page breaks, different printers, etc. Does anyone think it is possible to develop a decent tag like ‘div,’ but called ‘page,’ specially for this? Something that would make no use of CSS? Maybe something with attributes as follows: {page size=”A4″ borders=”2.5cm,2.5cm,2cm,2cm” page_numbering=”bottomleft,startfrom0″} — You get the idea… { /page} I guess you would not be able to tell when the page would be full, so the browser would have to be in charge of breaking the content into multiple pages when needed. Bibliographical references would probably need a special tag as well, positioned inside the tag …” Is this such a crazy idea? What would you advise?
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Apple and Microsoft have millions to finance their marketing campaigns. GNU/Linux on the other hand is a totally different story.
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InternetNews: “Is there a silver lining in the cloud for Linux vendors? This week, two of the largest Linux vendors each announced new initiatives to provide commercial services for cloud customers”
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Linux is famous for uptime, but even it has to reboot when a new kernel vulnerability is fixed. Or does it? Now there’s Ksplice, technology that applies patches directly into the running kernel. And thanks to their free Uptrack service it’s free for users of Ubuntu!
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Psystar, the Florida-based Hackintosher that’s been giving Apple fits for over a year, refuses to die.…
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Android smartphones are sending waves of excitement through the mobile community that they are a serious contender to knock iPhone off its smartphone perch. But, are they really a threat or have they already missed the boat?
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The US Justice Department has confirmed its antitrust probe into Google’s $125m book-scanning settlement with American authors and publishers, indicating that the ongoing investigation is an important one.…
