Comparison of Windows XP and Linux/Sugar On the OLPC XO
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITgriffjon writes “OLPCNews has a comparison of Windows XP to the Sugar/Linux OS on the One Laptop Per Child XO-1, based on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential video, touching on video recording, power usage, boot times, and mesh networking. An interesting, if saddening, read.”
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How Dell Is Making Ubuntu Linux More Attractive
On Ubuntu systems with ATI or NIVDIA graphics, Dell also now supports HDMI output. Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company hopes to steal a page from Apple's playbook and change how it works with hardware makers in an attempt to duplicate its rival's success.
Amazon Explains Why S3 Went Down
Angostura writes "Amazon has provided a decent write-up of the problems that caused its S3 storage service to fail for around 8 hours last Sunday. It providers a timeline of events, the immediate action take to fix it (they pulled the big red switch) and what the company is doing to prevent re-occurrence.
Tweaking Solid State Drive Performance On Linux
perlow writes "While expensive and shouldn't be used exclusively for primary storage, Solid State Drives perform exceedingly well for things like MySQL databases, provided you tweak your kernel, BIOS, and filesystems accordingly. Here's a few tips to exact excellent performance out of your new $500-$900 on a Linux system."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
More Skype Back Door Speculation.
An anonymous reader writes "According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception of IP based services held on 25th June, high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on Skype conversations."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
More Skype Back Door Speculation
An anonymous reader writes "According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception of IP based services held on 25th June, high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on Skype conversations."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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DB Connect With XML
Package: DB Connect with XML Summary: Generate XML documents MySQL query results Groups: Databases, PHP 5, XML Author: Venkatesh balakumar Description: This class can be used to create XML documents from data returned by MySQL queries. It can connect to a given MySQL database host and execute a given SQL query.
Extensible Template
It will have a plug-in system as Smart has, but it'll take me some time. Natively, the class has only 1 block tag and 4 simple tag defined. The block tag is
VIA Releases 800 Pages Of Documentation For Linux
This is another step in VIA's strategy to support the development of Free and Open Source drivers under Linux, which comes pre-installed on VIA products such as the Sylvania NetBook, HP Mini-Note, 15.4" gBook, gPC, CloudBook, Zonbu, and VIA OpenBook.
Ivy League Computer Science Curricula Exposed
As a computer science student both questions are very important to me, so I decided to answer them for myself and build a website to share what I found. I was able to find the required reading for hundreds of courses at Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and Berkeley; along with some other institutions.
Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion?
I've pretty much convinced myself that subversion can do the job. I like it. But what about integrated issue tracking? Version control without issue tracking is only half a solution. The TortoiseSVN docs say a little about bugzilla and not much else.