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| While Android Wear shows some flashes of brilliance in delivering actionable notifications to your wrist, the OS is still pretty rough around the edges. Ideally, Google will get around to adding features and fixing questionable design decisions in the coming months and years. But in the meantime, a handful of third-party tweaks can make Android Wear just a bit better. Here's what we'd ultimately like to see from Google's wearable OS, along with some improvements you can make today: Get alerts when you forget your phone Find My Phone helps prevent the awkwardness of leaving the house with your watch on your wrist, but your phone on the table. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here |
| The now-familiar knock seemingly started when the very first Googley laptop rolled off the line. "Sure, Chromebooks are nice, but they can't run Photoshop." Well, that just isn't true anymore. Nor are many other Chromebook myths. From Photoshop to Office and beyond, here are five powerful things you might be surprised to learn you can do with a Chromebook. 1. Edit images with Adobe PhotoshopAdobe and Google recently announced they'd be making Photoshop available as a streaming Chrome app. This means Photoshop will work on Chrome OS, and even in Chrome on desktop Linux! To do this, the Windows version of Chrome will run on Adobe's servers and be streamed to your Chrome web browser. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here |
| I've taken to calling oversized tablet/all-in-one PC hybrids such as Dell's XPS 18 "tabletop tablets," and the XPS is the crème de la crème of that category. It's just the right size and weight to move easily around the house, it's equipped with a gorgeous 18.4-inch touchscreen display, and it comes with a charging stand for those times you want it to remain stationary. But as much as I like the XPS 18, it's not perfect. The configuration I prefer—with a nimble Intel Core i74510U processor, 8MB of DDR3L/1600 memory, and a speedy 256GB SSD—costs a pretty penny: $1500, to be exact. Dell offers three less-expensive models (same display, but with slower processors, less memory, mechanical hard drives—and in one case—no charging stand), but I'm sure they don't deliver the same kick. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here |
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| StorPool is a software defined storage solution targeted at cloud application and infrastructure providers. The software runs on a cluster of commodity servers, aggregating the internal storage of those servers into a shared volume. The solution, for now, is only compatible with Linux based systems. For many online application or cloud providers this should not be an issue. What makes the StorPool solution unique is the flexibility that permeates every aspect of the product. For example, many converged solutions require a lockstep addition of storage and compute. Each time you need to add capacity or processing power you have to buy both, in the form of another server, fully loaded. Most data centers, especially service providers, don't scale that way. There are times when they need to scale just the compute aspects of their infrastructures and others where they simply need more storage. StorPool customers can use a converged infrastructure when the data center needs both compute and storage resources. But, if one is needed more than the other, the organization can add dedicated storage nodes or dedicated clients (hosts with no storage). This ability to mix and match between converged, dedicated compute or dedicated storage is rare. Read more at Storage Switzerland. |
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| Elementary OS is a new style Linux distro that wraps its own sophisticated desktop design around a solid Ubuntu core. This distro first appeared in 2011. Its developers released the second major version, Elementary OS Luna, last year. The latest weeks-old beta release of what will be the third major... |
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| This tutorial is the second part of the introduction to Linux command-line. In the first chapter I tried to make a brief introduction to the shell and the basic ways of moving around. Here I will talk about several useful commands, which may be needed on a day to day basis if you're working with the shell.
Working with Files and DirectoriesCreating DirectoriesThe command to create new directories (also called folders) is mkdir. For example, to create a directory called booksinside your home directory, you would issue the following command: mkdir books Renaming FilesIn Linux, renaming a file is done via the mvcommand, which stands for 'move'. The general format of the command is: mv SOURCE DESTINATION So, if for example you would like to rename the directory created previously, books to mybooks2, you would issue the following command: mv books mybooks2 Copying FilesThe command for copying files and directories is cp. For example, to copy the file /etc/network/interfaces to you home directory you could write the following: cp /etc/network/interfaces /home/USER Make sure to replace USER with your username. Or, if we keep in mind that ~is automatically expanded into the home directory of the current user: cp /etc/network/interfaces ~ And if your current working directory is already your home directory (e.g. /home/USER): cp /etc/network/interfaces . The character .expands into the current directory. See the first chapter to see more details on this. You could even use environment variables, which expand into a certain string. In the following example, the variable $HOME holds the path to your home directory: cp /etc/network/interfaces $HOME You may have noticed that if you copy a file to a path that ends in a directory (e.g. /home/USER), the file will be copied inside the respective directory, it will not delete nor replace it. You can copy more than one file at a time, the last argument being the directory where you want the files to be copied: cp myfile1 myfile2 myfile3 ~/books This command will copy myfile1, myfile2 and myfile3 from the current working directory into the booksfolder, located inside your home path. Copying DirectoriesDirectories can be copied in the same fashion as files, only this time we will use the -r switch. This tells the cpcommand to copy directories recursively, meaning all the sub-folders and files of the specified directory. cp -r Documents ~/books This command will copy the Documents folder from the current directory inside the booksdirectory located in your home path. Creating FilesTo create empty files, you can use the touchcommand. In a later chapter I will discuss on how to create and edit or modify text files with various editors. touch myfile Removing FilesTo delete a file, you would use the rmcommand: rm myfile To delete a directory, you will also need the -rswitch: rm -r mybooks Adding UsersAdding a New UserThe command is adduser which is a user-friendly wrapper for the useraddcommand. More on administrating users and groups in a later chapter. Other CommandsView the Current Date and TimeUse the datecommand for displaying the date and time: $ date Thu Oct 2 16:32:58 EEST 2014 In addition, you can use format specifiers to display the date and time differently. For example, you could use the %Y (year), %b (abbreviated month name), %d (number of the day, two digits), %H (hour, 24-hour format), %M (minute), %S (second): $ date +"%Y %b %d %H:%M:%S" 2014 Oct 02 16:58:44 To change the date and time, use the --setswitch: sudo date +"%H%M" --set="1656" The above command will change the hour and minute to 16:56. CalendarThe calcommand will display an ASCII calendar of the current month, and will highlight the current day:  Show Your UsernameThe whoami command will print the username currently logged in. Additionally, you can use the echo $USERcommand, which will use the $USER environment variable to echo (print) its value:  Print System InformationFor this we will use the uname command with the -aswitch, to show all the information available: $ uname -a Linux mint 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:31:42 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux This shows the kernel version, the date and processor architecture. Except for uname, there are two other commands which print hardware information, lspci which prints all the PCI devices, and inxi, which is a script usually available on Linux Mint systems. $ inxi CPU~Dual core Intel Celeron CPU G530 (-MCP-) clocked at 1600.000 Mhz Kernel~3.13.0-24-generic i686 Up~2 days Mem~824.3/3721.2MB HDD~500.1GB(68.9% used) Procs~189 Client~Shell inxi~1.8.4 inxidisplays extended information about the CPU, kernel, memory, hard-disk space and so on. Show UptimeThe uptimecommand is used to print for how long the system has been running: $ uptime 17:21:25 up 2 days, 21:02, 7 users, load average: 0.28, 0.21, 0.21 Print TextThe echocommand is used to output text: $ echo "Hello, world!" Hello, world! You can use the echo -ecommand to interpret special characters (like in C): $ echo -e "Hello,\t world\!\n\n" Hello, world\! Here we used a horizontal tab (\t), and two newlines at the end (\n). Notice how the !character is escaped too. Searching for CommandsCommands and programs usually reside inside the /bin, /sbin and /usr/bin directories. To search for a command in such standard locations, use whereis: $ whereis cal cal: /usr/bin/cal /usr/bin/X11/cal /usr/share/man/man1/cal.1.gz To search for a command in all the possible locations in your $PATH, use which: $ which cfgr.sh /floydb/debconf/scripts/cfgr.sh Environment variables such as $HOME, $USER or $PATH are variables which will be expanded (replaced) by the shell with the string that they hold. For example, the $PATH variable contains all the locations in which commands reside, separated by the : character. Try echo $PATH to see it. Show File TypesUse the typecommand for this: $ file track01.ogg track01.ogg: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 44100 Hz, ~192000 bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.1.0 RC1) $ file cover.png cover.png: PNG image data, 320 x 317, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced Getting HelpUsually commands have a manual page, so for any command you could use man COMMANDto read a detailed help about what it does and how to use it. The manual page lists all the parameters you can pass to the command. Once you've opened a manual page, you can navigate through it via the arrows, Ctrl+P or Ctrl+N to read the previous and respectively, next line, or Q to quit and close the manual page and return to the shell. Commands usually have a -h or --help parameter, which will display a short description on what the command does and a compact list of parameters that it takes. More on getting help in a following chapter. |
| The list of major corporations getting involved with open source communities is persistently growing, a trend evidenced by the rapidly expanding financial backing of open source foundations like the Linux Foundation. Samsung is one of these companies through its Open Source Group which was established in February of 2013. It's... |
| It is a little known fact that you can use the Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) algorithm to secure your user accounts in Linux systems. |
| Last month we announced the Linux Foundation Certified Engineer and Sys Admin exams that you can take anytime, anywhere through your computer. We created this program because we know Linux talent exists everywhere and we want everyone to be able to showcase that talent through a performance-based, challenging exam that focuses on what you do everyday as a Sys Admin. |
| GamingOnLinux: The day has landed folks. Borderlands 2 is now officially available for Linux and it brings us some excellent FPS action. |
| NVIDIA on Tuesday released an updated Linux x86/x86_64/ARM graphics driver in their 340.xx long-lived branch... |
| OMGUbuntu: Following on from last month's update to Geary and Shotwell the non-profit software outfit Yorba is back, this time with a new release of their California calendaring application. |
| While Ubuntu 14.10 on the desktop isn't using Mir by default, Mir 0.8.0 is being prepared for release by Canonical and it has a number of interesting changes... |
| One of the final changes that went into the mainline kernel repository before the 3.17-rc7 release was this fix from Mikhail Efremov. It affects some low-level code within the virtual filesystem layer that manages name changes in the dentry structure — the structure that handles the mapping between file names... |
| OMGUbuntu: Things are about to get tricky for anyone needing to use Adobe's own PDF reader application on Linux, as the company has pulled the software from download. |
| The Xen Project has published a security advisory that could affect millions of virtualized servers running in Amazon's cloud and other public hosting services. |
| About a quarter of Rackspace's 200,000-plus customers were impacted when the cloud provider had to patch a flaw in the Xen hypervisor. |
| Mike Perham: Two years ago today I released Sidekiq Pro, my commercial extension to Sidekiq, as an experiment to see if I could make OSS development financially viable for individual developers. |
| SMPlayer is a powerful video player for Linux and Windows, based on MPlayer, with countless features and options. Together with VLC, I believe there is no match for it when it comes to movie players. In this article I will overview the main things that make SMPlayer stand out of the crowd, putting it on the top of the video playback applications list. SMPlayer is written in Qt 4.8 and uses MPlayer2 for video playback. Personally I have only words of praise for this player, which is why I decided to write this review. So let's proceed and see what the most important features of SMPlayer are. SMPlayer 14.9 Review – One of the Best Movie Players for Linux |
| Guerrilla SOA redux? PwC consultants recommend lighter, simpler, faster services to keep up with business demands. |
| The OPNFV will be a project at the Linux Foundation to create an open-source reference platform for NFV. |
| Arduino Arduino, maker of the open source hardware platform of the same name, is teaming up with a startup called Sharebot to sell a 3D printer for about $1,000. Announced today, Materia 101 will be demonstrated at the Maker Faire in Rome this weekend. An on-sale date has not been revealed. |
| The New Stack: Josh McKenty, founder of Piston and an early architect of what became OpenStack, announced today that he's leaving the company he started to take on a new role at Pivotal. |
| The streaming stick market is apparently heating up. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all have entrants in this space, and if a new Kickstarter appeal succeeds, there will soon be a Firefox OS stick getting in on the action. |
| Facebook. It's one of the world's most well-known tech companies and on the forefront of open source technology. Just take a look their portfolio of over 200 open source projects on GitHub. In this interview with James Pearce, head of Open Source at Facebook, I speak with him prior to... |
| Johnny Hughes has announced the release of CentOS 5.11, the distribution's final release in the 5.x branch. |
| Storm, a real-time framework for dealing with Big Data, has become an Apache top level project. |
| Scribbleton is a very infant -- as in alpha -- release of an innovative note-taking app for Linux that provides cross-platform access with Windows and Apple computers. It creates a personal wiki for storing everything from quick notes to detailed checklists to outlines. It creates links between pages in Scribbleton. |
| eBay and PayPal are both on the OpenStack bandwagon. The PayPal spin-off will highlight how easy or difficult it will be to break up an OpenStack private cloud. |
| I had believed that VMware took part in the OpenStack community because it was dragged there by its customers. Boy, I was wrong. VMware's Dan Wendlandt helps set me straight. |
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| It's no secret that Fedora has had a challenging time sticking to their release schedules for a long time. With taking care of blocker bugs, Fedora Linux releases tend to frequently slip -- with Fedora 21 it's about two months behind schedule and we're just past the alpha stage. By... |
| Baseline: If you want to move ahead in your career, it's important to command a skill that will enable you to write your own ticket in terms of job opportunities. |
| Openness at Microsft Blog: Microsoft has participated in the Linux community for several years now, contributing drivers for Hyper-V to the Linux kernel source code base, and then working with Linux distribution partners to incorporate those drivers into their distros. We've had great results in running a variety of Linux distros as a guest OS on Hyper-V and as a VM in Microsoft Azure, and our collaboration with SUSE... |
| Earlier this month NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 as their highest-end offerings based on their Maxwell architecture. Since the GTX 750 series debut I have been anxious to see Maxwell succeed Kepler in the high-end space and finally last week I got hands on time with... |
| The Linux Foundation today is announcing a new Collaborative Project, Open Platform for NFV, or OPNFV. It involves nearly 40 companies and has largely been driven by end users like AT&T, China Mobile, NTT DOCOMO, Telecom Italia and Vodafone, among others. Together this community aims to build a carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform to accelerate Network Function Virtualization. |
| It has been announced on Wednesday, that a serious vulnerability has been found in the bash program installed on Linux, Unix and MacOSX systems. Because this bug is a hidden open-door to your system, hackers can gain access to your system from the internet, a run programs completely taking over the system. This is a serious problem, that if not handled quickly, and properly, will cause serious damage to your computer and Internet infrastructures since most of the computers servicing the Internet are running a Linux or Unix OS. Heed these warnings. Read these links thoroughly and make sure you update your Linux, Unix and MacOS X systems with the latest patch for bash. Start patching immediately. http://www.zdnet.com/shellshock-better-bash-patches-now-available-7000034115/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/bug-in-bash-shell-creates-big-security-hole-on-anything-with-nix-in-it/ |
| Both Web-based software and Linux software offer significant costs savings. Is one actually better in the long term? |
| Daily Dot: Is this how the mainstream finally begins to win back its online privacy? |
| The new systems ramp up ARM's competition with Intel and give data centers greater compute choices. |
| The Eclipse IoT community is helping Java developers to connect and manage devices in an IoT solution by delivering an Open IoT Stack for Java. |
| The year was 1987, and as Fox drove cross-country to his new home, the tapes held a software program called Bash, a tool for the UNIX operating system he had written and tagged with a license that let anyone use the code and even redistribute it to others. |
| System administrators who spent last week making sure their computers are patched against Shellshock, a critical vulnerability in the Bash Unix command-line interpreter, will have to install a new patch that addresses additional attack vectors. |
| Last year, the web optimization network CloudFlare promised it would double SSL usage on the web in 2014 — and last night, the company made good on its promise. Overnight, CloudFlare deployed its Universal SSL feature, offering free SSL encryption to any site that opted in. All told, that meant... |
| The new vulnerability in the Bash shell is the worst we've seen in many years. No software on critical systems can be assumed as safe. |
| Everywhere you turn these days you hear the term "open" in networking. The idea of openness in networking has come a long way in the past year and it's now considered the de facto standard way that we'll achieve interoperability and innovation. |
| Ted Unangst has posted an update on LibreSSL development. "Joel and I have been working on a replacement API for OpenSSL, appropriately entitled ressl. Reimagined SSL is how I think of it. Our goals are consistency and simplicity. In particular, we answer the question 'What would the user like to... |
