Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 10:46 PM EDT |
Xfce 4.10, the Sane Linux Desktop --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, September 04 2012 @ 10:53 PM EDT |
Ubuntu 12.04 – How to Install the Xubuntu
Desktop
Installing Xubuntu Desktop is like having installed
Xubuntu originally.
It will install the desktop and all the
applications that make up Xubuntu.
It does not remove any applications
that are part of Ubuntu.
This is great - the ease of use - the
clear feel - the speed!
--- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 12:23 AM EDT |
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409261,00.asp
"The iPhone 4S lost ground to Samsung's Galaxy S III last
month, marking the first time that the Apple smartphone was
not the top-selling smartphone in the U.S. since its launch,
according to Tuesday data from Canaccord Genuity."[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 02:07 AM EDT |
"Called ProgeTiiger, the new initiative aims to turn
children from avid consumers of technology (which they
naturally are; try giving a 5-year-old an iPad sometime)
into developers of technology (which they are not; see
downward-spiraling computer science university degree
program enrollment stats).
ProgreTiiger education will start with students in the first
grade, which starts around the age of 7 or 8 for Estonians.
The compsci education will continue through a student’s
final years of public school, around age 16."
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/04/estonia-code-academy/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 04:20 AM EDT |
Cambridge University is offering a free guide to creating a
simple OS for the device called "Baking Pi".
It's part of a course for new students of the institution's
computer lab (who each get a Pi as part of their tuition),
but the guide and a tutorial series are free to the public,
as well. Programming experience is not required "if you are
smart and persistent," but it will certainly be easier if
you have some, according to the Pi website.
The campus, which is the seat of the Raspberry Pi
Foundation, certainly has a vested interest in getting new
coders to the board.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/05/cambridge-university-
raspberry-pi-guide/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 09:00 AM EDT |
Seven Questions on
Patents
I only got 4 right. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- I got 5 right - Authored by: artp on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 02:14 PM EDT
- I only got 3 n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 03:03 AM EDT
- Re: I only got 3 - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 04:49 AM EDT
- Re: I only got 3 - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 10:41 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 09:57 AM EDT |
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- Working link - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 10:05 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 11:19 AM EDT |
http://www.ceo.com/legal/infographic-patent-wars/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 05:51 PM EDT |
If Croesus attacks he will destroy a great empire. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: uchuha on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 01:29 AM EDT |
The Wikimedia Foundation published this article on the Wikipedia village pump today about a
suit
which seeks declaratory relief from Internet Brands for a
new travel wiki
which the foundation seems ready to host.
The back-story is that nearly
all active Wikitravel
community members have become frustrated to the breaking
point at the low level of service from their current hosting
provider,
Internet Brands, and so have petitioned WMF to
start a new travel wiki to which
the community can migrate.
IB have responded by suing two community
members.
From the article it would appear that WMF feel these
suits are
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 04:17 AM EDT |
Rhode Island Superior Court Associate Justice
Judith Savage's
decision in State of Rhode Island v.
Michael Patino is a bold and
interesting one, because
the status of text messages in criminal investigations
remains unsettled in the US.
Savage wrote "this Court finds
that it is
objectively reasonable for people to expect the
contents of their electronic
text messages to remain
private, especially vis-à-vis law
enforcement."
[...]
Savage reasoned that cell phone contents are
deserving of
Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches
and
seizures because people generally keep them on their
person at all times. "Text
messages are often raw,
unvarnished, and immediate; revealing the most intimate
of
thoughts and emotions to those who are expected to guard
them from
publication," she wrote, further stating that the
court "does not find that the
remote possibility that an
unintended party will receive a text message due to
his or
her possession of another person‘s cell phone is sufficient
to destroy
an objective expectation of privacy in such a
message."
[...]
Savage
herself noted that the US Supreme Court has declined
to provide guidance to
lower courts. "Even the United States
Supreme Court has struggled with the
legal challenges raised
by emerging technology, most especially in the realm of
cellular phones and their contents," she wrote. "Indeed, in
City of Ontario
[California] v. Quon [a case decided
in 2010], the parties asked the high
court to decide whether
text messages should be afforded Fourth Amendment
privacy
protection. But the Supreme Court declined, choosing instead
to decide
the case on narrower grounds and allow this
question to percolate in the lower
courts."
[...]
The state of Rhode Island is expected to appeal Savage's
decision.
Jon Brodkin, ars technica[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 08:01 AM EDT |
BBC Now where have
we heard tricks like that before? Could it have been a certain failing software
company in Redmond? Did they not even fake a video deposition in a court
case? Obvioulsy Nokia are now utterly infected with the all-pervasive
Billness. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 08:50 AM EDT |
This is an introductory overview post for the
Linux Graphics Stack,
and how it currently all fits
together.
I initially wrote it for myself
after having
conversations with people like Owen Taylor, Ray Strode and
Adam
Jackson about this stack. I had to go back to them
every month or so and learn
the stuff from the ground up all
over again, as I had forgotten every single
piece. I asked
them for a good high-level overview document so I could stop
bothering them. They didn’t know of any. I started this one.
It has been
reviewed by Adam Jackson and David Airlie, both
of whom work on this exact
stack.
Also, I want to point out that a large amount of this stack
applies
only to the free software drivers. That means that a
lot of what you read here
may not apply for the AMD Catalyst
and NVidia proprietary drivers. They may
have their own
implementations of OpenGL, or an internal fork of mesa. I’m
describing the stack that comes with the free radeon,
nouveau and Intel
drivers.
http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/06/the-linux-graphics-
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 10:49 AM EDT |
"As live streaming video surges in popularity, so are
copyright “bots” —
automated systems that match content
against a database of reference files of
copyrighted
material. These systems can block streaming video in real
time,
while it is still being broadcast, leading to
potentially worrying implications
for freedom of speech"
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