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Use your Android phone as remote control for Ubuntu Linux PCs
Tesla is a open source media player remote control App for Android phones that can interact and control music and video players on Linux distributions like Ubuntu. Tesla needs wifi connection to work. It currently supports Rythmbox, Totem, VLC and … Continue reading
NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes with Ubuntu and Open Source
A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has slashed its server requirements by a factor of almost 50, despite a government deal mandating the use of Microsoft software in all schools.New Zealand government is a sucker … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, News, Ubuntu
Tagged Albany, Mandriva, Microsoft, New Zealand, Ubuntu, Windows
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Using your Google Calendar as Windows desktop background
If you want to see your Google calendar schedule when you boot and login to your desktop, here is a simple way to make your Google calendar as desktop background. Go to your calendar, click on the the arrow next … Continue reading
Google Chrome (beta) for Linux available now
Google has released a beta version of Google Chrome for Linux. The beta version comes after a long delay in introducing it in Linux while Windows has seen couple of versions released already. Google acknowledges that most engineers use Linux … Continue reading
Linux takes 90 percent of top 500 super computer for November
90% of the top 500 supercomputers run on Linux. Only 1% runs on Windows based. The rest are used by Unix or something else. You might have read my earlier post in June which stated that 472 of the top … Continue reading
Linux in netbooks surge globally
LinuxWorld reports: Nearly one-third of the 35 million netbooks on track to ship this year will come with some variant of the free, open-source operating system, ABI Research said. The exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows, said Jeff … Continue reading
Save the internet by banning Windows OS
I just read this interesting article in PC World on how Windows based computers are responsible for internet attacks, especially DDoS. Some of the examples include latest attack on Twitter, attacks on South Korean and American websites in July etc. … Continue reading
Controlling your computer with hand gesture – available for Linux too
Taiwan’s publicly funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) developed a software that lets users control their computer with simple hand gesture. All you need is a webcam and Air Cursor software. ITRI developed the software to work with common computer … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Cursor, Hand Gesture, ITRI, Linux, Taiwan, Webcam, Windows
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472 of the top 500 super computers use Linux
According to a news article in Betanews (last but 2 paragraph), 472 out of the top 500 supercomputers run Linux. Only 5 of the top 500 uses Windows and the fastest one with Windows is at #15. Interesting and good … Continue reading
IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems
The Wall Street Journal reports: International Business Machines Corp. is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., people familiar with the matter said, a combination that would bolster IBM’s heft on the Internet, in software and in finance and telecommunications … Continue reading
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Tagged IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystem, The Wall Street Journal, Windows
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