Showing headlines posted by bob

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.

SSH is a Swiss Army knife and Hogwart's magic wand all rolled into one simple command-line tool. As often as we use it, we sometimes forget that even our encrypted friend can be secured more than it is by default. For a full list of options to turn on and off, simply type man sshd_config to read the man page for the configuration file.

Neptune launched a WiGig-connected “Neptune Suite” on Indiegogo, comprising an Android smartwatch, a barebones phone and tablet, and a keyboard and TV dongle. Neptune, which launched the full-featured, Android-based Neptune Pine smartwatch last year, tipped a Neptune Duo product in February that was to comprise an autonomous smartwatch that controlled a “dumb” smartphone. The Duo […]

The previous tutorials demonstrated how we can turn a CentOS box into a BGP router and filter BGP prefixes using Quagga. Now that we understand basic BGP configuration, we will examine in this tutorial how we can perform more advanced traffic engineering on Quagga.

Pebble OS-based smart watches are social creatures. Let’s teach Flappy Tux to get in touch with Android smartphones.

'A man is not dead while his name is still spoken' The death of Sir Terry Pratchett last week left many fans bereft, but some canny geeks have devised a system to ensure his name lives on in everyday web traffic.

Increased diversity is crucial to the future of open source. A range of contributors from varying backgrounds brings broader experience to the table, which makes for healthier projects — and ultimately better software.

Seafile is a OpenSource cloud storage software. It offers file sharing and syncing for individual users and groups, it provides client side encryption and easy access from mobile devices. This tutorial describes the steps to install Seafile on Ubuntu 14.04.

Built on top of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, UberStudent 4.1 "Epicurus" is a customized distribution designed for secondary and post-secondary education. A blurb on the UberStudent website describes the distribution as "Red Hat for education." I was intrigued by this claim and wondered if some customization on top of Ubuntu could really do for education what Red Hat does for enterprise. So I gave UberStudent a try and was very impressed with what I found. read more

Touted as being "the world's fastest desk-side deep learning machine", Nvidia Digits DevBox was unveiled by the firm's CEO and co-founder, Jen-Hsun Huang, who said the device is a powered by four Titan X GPUs, the firm's new graphics card which was also unveiled at the show today. DevBox comes with Ubuntu 14.04 pre-installed.

In true leftist style, Stallman called it the GNU Manifesto. It was published in March 1985 in Dr Dobb's Journal of Software Tools, a venerable technology publication that shut shop in December last year after 38 years of publishing. It encapsulated a desire to create a free operating system, for use by all, one that the users could control. This desire grew out of the fact that UNIX source code was not being released after A. T. & T. was broken up and the the anti-trust decree under which it was operating became void. Stallman was not inspired by the path proprietary software development was taking.

HSA Foundation rolls out 1.0 spec to grab devs' attention An effort to tightly knit together graphics chips, processors and other hardware to boost things like video search on your desktop has taken a step forward.… Rogers said Linux kernel patches to allow the operating system to support HSA 1.0 have already been submitted and are available from kernel.org.

OSU demonstrated its speedy, bipedal ATRIAS robot withstanding a barrage of kicks and dodgeballs. ATRIAS runs on ROS and a real-time Xenomai Linux kernel. Researchers at Oregon State University’s Dynamic Robotics Laboratory have demonstrated their Linux-driven ATRIAS robot withstanding a considerable beating while keeping its cool. OSU recently posted videos of its unusual torture testing […]

Diversity of different types of Linux distributions continues to be a source of strength

The Timesys LinuxLink tool suite now supports Freescale’s i.MX6 SoloX SoC, including support for Freescale’s MQX RTOS that runs on the SoC’s Cortex-M4 MCU.

There's more bad news surrounding the HTTPS-crippling FREAK vulnerability that came to light two weeks ago. A recently completed scan of the Internet revealed 10 percent of servers that support the underlying transport layer security protocol remain susceptible.