Monthly Archives: August 2009

Read the following stories on 2009-08-31

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Arun

What underwear says about the economy – http://bit.ly/9OYoF # Skype Trojan can log VoIP conversations – http://bit.ly/zBxo1 # AT&T has chutzpah! – http://bit.ly/14C30Q # First stages of Chrome OS integration appear in Google Chrome – http://tinyurl.com/lasow8 # More screenshots of … Continue reading →

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Linux kernel 2.6.31 supports USB 3.0

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Arun

You  might have read my post about USB 3.0 support in Linux. Though USB 3.0 is not yet out, the Linux kernel to be released during Labor day (September 7th) will support USB 3.0, according to The H-online. Changes to … Continue reading →

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Defence spends $1.7m on ultimate Linux flight simulator

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Arun

IT News reports that The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has revealed its latest flight simulator runs on Suse Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers and uses an open source graphics platform. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation’s (DSTO) Air Operations Simulation … Continue reading →

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Read the following stories on 2009-08-28

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Arun

Novell's Linux revenue soars 22 percent – http://bit.ly/4Qz5K #

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Read the following stories on 2009-08-27

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Arun

Bill Gates got mad at 8 F*ing BASIC, but he created products that are 16,000 and 32,000 F*ing BASIC – http://tinyurl.com/madgates # Airlines suck. Better to drive than fly – http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/08/26/usairways.baggage.fees/index.html # Rocking new Linux based phone from Nokia – … Continue reading →

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Read the following stories on 2009-08-26

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Arun

FSF launches campaign against Window 7 and propreitary software – http://www.fsf.org/news/windows-7-sins # Nokia betting on Linux in iPhone battle – http://bit.ly/dz2eZ # Racist Microsoft? – http://bit.ly/sVX5B # Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors – http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/15reasons.asp #

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Firefox crashes in Ubuntu while trying to watch Youtube in fullscreen

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Arun

I had this problem only with Nvidia cards. I didn’t have this issue with ATI card in my laptop. Whenever I clicked the fullscreen box in youtube, firefox would crash. After I surfed through Ubuntu forum, I found a solution. … Continue reading →

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Racist Microsoft?

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Arun

A photo on Microsoft’s website (Microsoft.com) shows three people (one Asian, one Black and one White) sitting around the conference table, but the company’s Polish website replaced the black guy’s face with that of a white man. The rest of … Continue reading →

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Read the following stories on 2009-08-25

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Arun

Windows 7: Bad For Netbook Battery Life – http://bit.ly/akX7e # Linux saves the day … again – http://www.itwire.com/content/view/27176/1141/ # Ownership of Unix copyright headed to trial – http://bit.ly/48s9Mj #fb #

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Read the following stories on 2009-08-21

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Arun

Tech giants (suckers) unite against Google – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8200624.stm #

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