Even people who don't live and die by their mobile phones sometimes need to send SMS messages. Did you know you can do that from your computer? Likewise, it's easier to clean your mobile phone of all the numbers you've not been dialing in the last few years using a mouse, rather than navigating repeatedly through the phone's menu system. Here are some Linux tools that can help you manage your cell phone.
Russian OS is to be installed on every school computer in Russia by 2009. Furthermore, every pupil will get the opportunity to operate the applied software produced in Russia, Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication stated at a press conference. Experts and market participants consider the terms within which software is to be developed quite reasonable. According to Mr. Reiman, that might significantly reduce Russian dependence on foreign software.
In January 2007, two of us (professor Joel Adams and student Tim Brom) decided to build a personal, portable Beowulf cluster. Like a personal computer, the cost had to be low -- our budget was $2500 -- and its size had to be small enough to sit on a person's desk. Joel and Tim named their system Microwulf, which has broken the $100/GFLOP barrier for double precision, and is remarkably efficient by several measures. You may also want to take a look at the Value Cluster project for more information on $2500 clusters.As of August 2007, the price to construct the cluster with the same hardware would be $1,255.80
Sun intends to hook us on OpenSolaris like they hooked us on Java... They plan to serve it in both caffeinated and decaffeinated blends... Read more
I personally don't think they can beat Linux however with the rising popularity, and heaps of experience gained from industry, they will become one of the big players. What is your opinion?
Five of the eight Ubuntu community servers were compromised and used to attack other systems. The servers were shut down to deal with the compromise and are now back online. Canonical, the sponsor and manufacturer of Ubuntu, states the breach was due to more than 15 unpatched web applications running in parallel on the systems, out of date server software being used and the systems using unencrypted FTP.reported on SANS... read full article.
Check this out... this is hilarious. Some guy was able to validate Ubuntu as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows. Makes one wonder of the greater things to come from this software giant in the future.
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