Yahoo's Geo-Aware App Knows Where You Are
August 14, 2008
Portal giant launches location-aware feature for site owners and promises privacy control will stay with the user.
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
Pardus 2008: A Touch of Refinement
August 14, 2008
Linux.com: “Pardus is a GNU/Linux distribution funded and developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Pardus has its own unique installer, package manager, configuration wizard, and control panel. This originality, and the developers’ attention to detail, make Pardus worth a look.”
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
Wine-Doors for Linux Reviewed
August 14, 2008
Mad Penguin: “I’m Playing Shockwave Games Easily On My Linux Box! I have tried endless times to successfully play Shockwave games via various Wine releases. As luck would have it, I’ve always had more success with Wine proper than with Crossover Office, but thanks to Wine-Doors, I was able to select Firefox 2.0 for Windows, install it, install Shockwave and unlike every time previously, it worked and worked well.”
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
A Hands-on Look at Vyatta Community Edition 4 Networking Software
August 14, 2008
Linux.com: “Vyatta can turn any 32-bit x86 machine with at least one network interface into a network appliance that handles routing, firewall, and VPN tasks. The company released Vyatta Community Edition 4 in April, with improved scalability and feature enhancements. Large enterprises now have a low-cost alternative to proprietary hardware like the Cisco 7200.”
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
Review: Bash Cookbook
August 14, 2008
Slashdot: “Bash Cookbook is by no means for the feint of heart. It seems that the book is meant for intermediate and above users of Bash. However, the first several chapters do a significant job of over viewing basic concepts of Bash navigation and combing simple commands. The book quickly changes gears to complex statements on how to get things done in Bash.”
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
Beef up the Find Command in Firefox
August 14, 2008
IBM Developerworks: “This article presents tools and code needed to add your own text-searching interface to Firefox. With a Greasemonkey user script and some custom algorithms, you’ll be able to add grep -v functionality to text searches — that is, highlighting a first search term where a second one is not located nearby.”
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
New computing cluster explores data-intensive computing
August 12, 2008
The University of Illinois has joined a collaboration between Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Yahoo! and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) that aims to explore data-intensive computing.
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
MIT boffins promote solar-fuel cell combo
August 12, 2008
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have combined solar and fuel cell technologies to create what is being hailed as a clean energy breakthrough..
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
Intel reveals first Larrabee details
August 12, 2008
Chipmaker provides glimpse of next-generation multi-core architecture.
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
Child porn filters to cut Aussie broadband speeds
August 12, 2008
The Federal Government is distancing itself from some results in this week’s ISP-level content filtering study, as industry criticism mounts over the test methodology.
Article taken by RSS feed.
Read more
