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Gnu Song, cut and modified by Gusions

August 7th, 2009 admin No comments

My Stallmanizzazione process is completed, after passing a gnewsense, of which you speak in a few hours I was immersed in gnu song.Ebbene it I saw a video where good Richard sings the song of the gnu, and I just downloaded, cropped and adjusted with audacity.La song is available in free download, under gpl and of course in. ogg

Richard Stallman Free software Song

Richard Stallman Free Software Song Download ..read more

E ‘come openmamba 1.1

August 6th, 2009 admin No comments

After several months of refinements has released version 1.1 of openmamba GNU / Linux. Here’s the official announcement:

E ‘disponibile per il download la versione 1.1 di openmamba milestone1.

This is a maintenance release of version 1.0 with Support for the latest hardware platforms and fixes improve the usability and stability of the system.

This version includes:

- All software updates made available since to openmamba 1.0

- Kernel 2.6.28.10 with ..read more

Yandex made his «ICQ»

August 6th, 2009 admin No comments

Delivered the Pwnie Awards 2009

August 5th, 2009 admin No comments

Pwnie Awards are a sort of Oscar in the field of ‘information security that reward both the errors of software vendors, and discoveries of bugs and vulnerabilities more critical by the researchers.

The name derives from the word “own” (note the word own), typical of the hacker slang, which has the meaning of compromise or control.

These are annual awards that take place, after three years, at the conference

Brando has a USB stick-shaped bulb

August 4th, 2009 admin No comments

Brando after having submitted the HD Media Player Docking Station and RF Entertainment Slim returns to one of his famous horses battle, USB keys, for proposing precisely this Bulb USB Flash Drive, a nice flash drive shaped mò of a bulb.

The tool is available in denominations of 2, 4 and 8 GB, supports the operating systems Windows XP and Vista, Linux 2.4, MAC OSX and above, and weighs just under 27 grams, if you are interested you can find here ..read more

Compiling new Kernel 2.6.x

August 3rd, 2009 admin No comments

Below are listed with a brief explanation of the steps needed to compile the basis of a new 2.6.x kernel series, specifically, the distro is Slackware reference.

NB: No matter the distro, the commands you are always the same, as the following example.

Different kernels are available from the Link Officer in the format you want.

Get the kernel chosen:

~ $ Wget linux-2.6.30.tar.bz2

Move the sources in the generic reference to the kernel sources / usr / src /:

~ $ Su Password: ~ # Cp linux-2.6.30.tar.bz2 ..read more

Dispute between Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds

August 3rd, 2009 admin No comments

TTY subsystem that is causing problems for some user space applications. This regression is checked out by correcting other problems still present in TTY. Applications like is working the problem for many days and it seems that when the only way that is inevitable to require user space applications to change their behavior. In practice, the regression is not readily fixabile.

did not hesitate to answer:

I’m working to fix the problem. I spent a lot ..read more

Intel cut the bridges with the past: UXA and DRI2 in driver 2.8

August 3rd, 2009 admin No comments

Let the owners of Intel cards that have the proverbial sweat seven shirts to get decent performance with the latest distributions made: the colossus of processors (and others) has made available a still in hiding.

Directions for use: xf86-video-intel 2.8.0 requires a version of X Server 1.6 and later to deliver the best in the presence of very recent kernel (the changelog talks about the Linux-2.6.31) with kernel-modesetting active.

How to install Google Android on PC

August 2nd, 2009 admin No comments

Google Android is an operating system based on Linux and designed for devices such as mobile-phone or G1 ‘HTC Hero and is in fact an attempt of Google to challenge the other devices of high level such as the famous Apple iPhone .

But in the light of the fact that Android is based on Linux and that is the next market launch also Netbook “Android powered, maybe someone would volunteer to ask whether this interesting operating system if it were not for ..read more

Restore GRUB after installing Windows

August 1st, 2009 admin 2 comments

In a Dual-Boot Windows / Linux that happens, if you install windows after I installed our linux GRUB is “delete” and is therefore not possible to access the linux operating system installed on our system. The scenario could be similar to the following:

The partition / dev/sda1 is our Windows + data partition, / dev/sda5 is our root and / dev/sda6 is the swap partition.

We need to restore GRUB boot a live cd of any linux distribution, start the terminal and ..read more

Quarrel between Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox

July 31st, 2009 admin No comments

After a confrontation with Linus Torvalds, the famous kernel hacker Alan Cox has decided to stop developing code for the Linux TTY subsystem.

The debate arose from a patch of Cox TTY system and as a result prevented the proper functioning of “kdesu” using an approach that Alan wrong. Linus replied by saying that we can not allow the normal applications no longer work due to the kernel.

In my opinion, the situation could be clarified in a ..read more

Free Blender 3dMagix renamed and sold at $ 47

July 31st, 2009 admin No comments

It ’sad to see people who abuse the free software

A product called 3DMagix, is sold for $ 47 claiming to Blender, the popular free program modeling, rigging, animation, compositing and rendering of three-dimensional images.! But Blender is free, open source and downloadable for free from the official website of Blender The thing is not new after all, even with OO, QCad, Gimp, etc. etc. have had a similar phenomenon. Going to see the official website ..read more

Eaglemode

July 31st, 2009 admin No comments

Author: Luca De Marini

Today I would like to talk about Eaglemode, an interesting, to say the least, Zui (Zoomable User Interface).

Until now, the vast majority of desktop environments, both for Linux and other OS to have used only the normal UI (User Interface), which are easy to find the classic elements which we are all accustomed to a desktop, windows Some icon here and there, and so on.

Some elements of Zui were first implemented ..read more

Remote vulnerability in BIND, DNS at risk

July 30th, 2009 admin No comments

‘Internet System Consortium (ISC), maker of software, which released a report which explained the danger of a leak detected .

Suffice update remotely to crash BIND, causing the unexpected closure of the demon. To be affected are all versions of DNS servers, which work by master of one or more areas, and is not limited to instances of BIND that have the automatic update feature enabled. This means that the majority of DNS using BIND are in great danger. ..read more

Google Chrome (Chromium NOT) on Ubuntu: Benchmark and Setup

July 29th, 2009 admin No comments

Benchmark

Chrome is still incomplete, Buggiano and without plugins, though it is a splinter! In the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark is almost seven times faster than Firefox 3.0.12! Cavolo 7 times! And only trevolte faster than Firefox 3.5.1:

Firefox 3.0.12: 2065.4ms + / - 1.9% Firefox 3.5.1: 908.8ms + / - 1.6% Chrome 3.0.195.1: 314.2ms + / - 2.9%

I conclude that the benchmark with less theoretically objective, the V8 Benchmark Suite - version ..read more

NuviPhone debut in the mobile-mediaplayer navisat-served

July 29th, 2009 admin No comments

The mix between the mobile phone, navigator and multimedia player that has created great hype around him has, among other things, a camera with 3 Mpixel sensor and a touch screen 3.5 inches.

The debut of the first Nuviphone happen with the Linux-based, in August, followed by M20 in September, while there are still clear indications about the price of two or, with respect to the model equipped with Windows, when this will be equipped with the new release ..read more

Microsoft improves the performance of Linux

July 29th, 2009 admin No comments

Microsoft improves the performance of Linux

2009 was an important year for the field, many innovations, many improvements … ..

After the criticism of recent years Microsoft has finally decided to make available to the system open-source some drivers to improve performance.

But this was not just liked, but in a certain sense, Microsoft has been forced to donate 20mila lines of code to the Linux community because according to the license last year ..read more

Company Kingston has released 256 GB

July 28th, 2009 admin No comments

The U.S. company Kingston Technology start selling the world’s first capacity of 256 GB. In comparison to the USB-drive Kingston DataTraveler 300 is placed content 10 single Blu-ray-discs 365 CD-ROM capacity of 700 MB each, 54 DVD-movie volume to 4.7 GB 51 thousands of digital photos with a resolution of 10 MP, about 50 thousand MP3-File, 26 thousand audiobooks, 290 hours of video, approximately 195 thousand text documents in the format of Microsoft Word, reported on the official website of ..read more

Microsoft replies to the charge of breach of the GPL

July 27th, 2009 admin No comments

is not slow to arrive, on the other hand should move with extreme speed and accuracy, before the degeneration chatter:

The main reason why we have taken this decision in this case is why ..read more

EasyLXDE, a derivative of Debian official who does not know Linux

July 25th, 2009 admin No comments

Debian developers are undertaking an interesting project this year: Easy Debian LXDE. This is a ..read more

Performance of Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora and Mandriva in comparison

July 25th, 2009 admin No comments

Phoronix has compared the

Oracle will kill OpenSolaris?

July 24th, 2009 admin 1 comment

The Sun's acquisition by Oracle could erase all of the dream of a distribution dedicated to the Solaris desktop systems: according to (Oracle Enterprise Linux) and ..read more

Critical flaw sweeps Reader, Acrobat and Flash

July 24th, 2009 admin No comments

Applications Acrobat, Flash Player and Adobe Reader are at the mercy of a new critical flaw. Online reports on the presence of the bugs have multiplied over the last few hours later all 'identification of PDF files and Flash movies in specially modified for harm to systems on which they are played. Given l 'extreme ..read more

Microsoft, the GPL is not a free choice

July 24th, 2009 admin No comments

In recent days Microsoft has taken an unprecedented step towards the open source world by releasing two drivers license GNU General Public License (version 2). 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, ..read more

Launchpad is Open Source

July 23rd, 2009 admin No comments

has announced the official blog of the company issuing source platform Launchpad. Mark Shuttleworth himself Launchpad ..read more

Start a physical hard disk as virtual machine with VMware

July 22nd, 2009 admin No comments

Your old computer has suddenly stopped working and no more signs of life?

In this case probably was a break down the power supply (as happens in most cases with old computers) and all things considered, there is also good way: imagine if a rupture were to have been 's hard disk with the consequent loss of all your data!

If a failure of this type represents an opportunity to buy a new computer, there is still the problem of ..read more

Microsoft releases Linux driver under the GPL

July 21st, 2009 admin No comments

Microsoft has announced the release of the source code of three drivers for Linux, all strictly licensed GPLv2. ..read more

Nmap 5.0 has arrived

July 21st, 2009 admin No comments

Nmap, the network security scanner more popular, we have presented in this article, is renewed ..read more

OS Chrome, the Google Operating System

July 18th, 2009 admin No comments

Shake up the world of computing and especially for the software house. Recently, the shock announcement from Google, which has formalized the development of new operating system that has the code name Google Chrome OS.

Google has finally released information on Chrome OS, just to avoid any speculation about potential features of the operating system. To talk about this project, however, have so many gurus in ..read more

Known specifications netbook from Manli

July 15th, 2009 admin No comments

Company Manli, already showing his new series netbukov iii M3 at Computex Taipei 2009, presented the full specifications of this family.

So, previously know for a fact that netbuk Manli M3 is a compact model that has a mass of about 1.25 kg and is equipped with large LCD-screen 10.2 “with rear LED-backlit and