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Emoji, the cute Ideograms that are now part of Unicode are now used fairly widely in messaging, especially on mobile devices. However, if you receive a message from someone with an Emoji on it, or view a page online what uses Emoji, the majority OF Emoji appear as a Unicode fallback symbol.

The best Chromebook is also, easily, the most expensive Chromebook. For some people, though, it's worth the money.

Need to restart your Pi after a system lock-up? Ease strain on the mains connector – install a reset switch!

Aaeon’s rugged, fanless “Boxer-6614″ box-PC runs Linux on a quad- or dual-core Celeron SoC, and offers 8GB RAM, HDMI and VGA, dual GbE, and dual mini-PCIe. According to Aaeon, the Boxer-6614 is a vastly improved upgrade to the Boxer-6613, also called the AEC-6613. Indeed, while that system ran on an Intel Atom D2550, which still […]

As you may be aware, Docker container technology has emerged as a viable lightweight alternative to full-blown virtualization. There are a growing number of use cases of Docker that the industry adopted in different contexts, for example, enabling rapid build environment, simplifying configuration of your infrastructure, isolating applications in multi-tenant environment, and so on.

Some open source texts need to be as accessible, powerful, efficient, and fault-free as a GNU/Linux server. read more

MPI stands for Message passing interface. An implementation of MPI such as MPICH" or OpenMPI is used to create a platform to write parallel programs in a distributed system such as a Linux cluster with distributed memory. Generally the platform built allows programming in C using the MPI standard. So in order to run Parallel programs in this environment in python, we need to make use of a module called MPI4py which means "MPI for Python". This module provides standard functions to do tasks such as get the rank of processors, send and receive messages/ data from various nodes in the clusters.

Maria Leandro discusses how she uses Fedora with Open Source graphics software for photography and graphic design.

Visual Studio build system heads for Linux and Mac. Microsoft’s build engine, MSBuild, has been published as open source on GitHub and will be ported to Linux and the Mac.

Battle your friends in augmented reality using PiPanther, the 3D-printed tank with customisable plugins

Open Source in Education A collection of articles from educators, students, advocates, parents, and more who are implementing open source in education and working toward a more open knowledge base for everyone. I recently read God in the Machine, an interesting and provocative book by Dr. Anne Foerst. In it, she talks about golems and how these mythical creatures are brought to life by humans to do good. At about the same time as I was reading this book, I began helping at an after-school coding program at a local library where we use Scratch and MakeyMakey to teach students how to built Lego robots. read more

At first glance, you might not think that the latest set of OpenSSL security patches are that important. Sure, there's a dozen of them and two are serious, but are they really that bad? Yes, actually they're not just bad, they're awful.

New additions and updates to Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.1 include: GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.9.2, Eclipse 4.4.1 with support for Java 8 and updated versions of Eclipse CDT (8.5), Eclipse Linux Tools (3.1), Eclipse Mylyn (3.14), and Eclipse Egit/Jgit (3.6.1) Numerous additional updated packages, including GDB 7.8.2, elfutils 0.161, memstomp 0.1.5, SystemTap 2.6, Valgrind 3.10.1, Dyninst 8.2.1, and ltrace 0.7.91.

When the National Security Agency’s ANT division catalog of surveillance tools was disclosed among the myriad of Snowden revelations, its desire to implant malware into the BIOS of targeted machines was unquestionable. While there’s little evidence of BIOS bootkits in the wild, the ANT catalog and the recent disclosure of the Equation Group’s cyberespionage platform, in particular module NLS_933W.DLL that reprograms firmware from most major vendors, leave little doubt that attacks against hardware are leaving the realm of academics and white hats.

One of the new offerings with the Fedora 22 release is a Vagrant box for the Atomic host. While we’re a few months away from the final release, we have an alpha out last week and test candidates for Fedora...

Android Lollipop introduced a whole new design paradigm, called Material Design. It encourages the use of bolder colors, flatter UI elements, and smoother animations. Android Lollipop introduces corresponding new APIs to help developers implement the Material Design guidelines, and two of these UI widgets are RecyclerView and CardView. The RecyclerView is designed to replace the […]Continue reading... The post How to use RecyclerView and CardView on Android Lollipop appeared first on Xmodulo. No related FAQ.

Spies will target IT staff with access to infrastructure and information, says NSA whistleblower in a video-link interview at CeBIT in Hannover.

Last Thanksgiving, I took some time off from work and was looking for a fun project to work on during my downtime. I decided to check out Raspberry Pi. After a quick search on Amazon, I ordered the CanaKit Raspberry Pi B+ Ultimate Starter Kit. read more

Want the newest developer tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or 7? The beta's ready for you now.

MSBuild, the build platform for Microsoft's Visual Studio toolset and the .Net Platform, is now open source, marking the software giant's latest embrace of the open source movement... MSBuild, the build platform for Microsoft's Visual Studio toolset and the .Net Platform, is now open source, marking the software giant's latest embrace of the open source movement.