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Akademy Wednesday and Thursday Wrapup

  • KDE.news; By Jonathan Riddell (Posted by bob on Sep 11, 2014 8:27 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Video; Groups: KDE
Akademy continues with hacking and BoF meetings. This wrapup meeting video covers sessions from Wednesday and Thursday including accessibility, release team, user information reporting, KDE applications websites, KDevelop and share-like-connect.

Non-Linux FOSS: AutoHotkey

Text expansion and hotkey automation are the sort of things you don't realize you need until you try them. Those of you who ever have played with system settings in order to change the function of a keystroke on your system understand the value of custom hotkeys.

Not appy with your Chromebook? Now it can run Android apps

  • The Register; By Neil McAllister (Posted by bob on Sep 11, 2014 6:32 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Android, Linux
In an effort to bridge the gap between its two mobile platforms, Google has released a beta version of a technology that allows Chrome OS users to run Android apps on their desktops.…

A global shift to open source at the university

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 11, 2014 12:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
You've probably heard of MIT's OpenCourseWare program by now; or at least, you will have heard that some universities are offering versions of their courses online for free. But what does that even mean? That anybody with an Internet connection can now get a Bachelor's degree from MIT? The answer is still, more or less, "it's complicated." read more

Can open hardware revive the lost art of tinkering?

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 11, 2014 10:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
When's the last time you tinkered with something? Maybe it was someone else's code, maybe it was a project you found on a forum. Were you curious enough to dive in, or did you just toss the idea to the wayside? read more

Monstrous TiVo DVR has six tuners, holds 24TB

TiVo announced a Linux-based “TiVo Mega” DVR with 24TB of storage — enough for 4,000 hours of HD video — plus six tuners and streaming to mobile devices. Over the years, TiVo boxes have grown smaller, with relatively large digital video recorders such as the circa 2011 Premiere Q slimming down to more recent product […]

How to use Twitter in a Linux terminal with Rainbow Stream

  • Xmodulo (Posted by bob on Sep 11, 2014 5:12 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
There are many native Twitter clients available on Linux platforms, be it a GUI-based client (e.g., Birdie, Choqok, Gwibber, Turpial) or a terminal-based counterpart (e.g., t or TTYtter client). In the world of open-source software, such diversity is the norm, and the freedom of choice is what we all cherish in Linux. For those Linux […]Continue reading... The post How to use Twitter in a Linux terminal with Rainbow Stream appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to access popular search engines from the command line on Linux

diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development

Sometimes a new piece of code turns out to be more useful than its author suspected. Alejandra Morales recently came out with the Cryogenic Project as part of his Master's thesis, supervised by Christian Grothoff. The idea was to reduce energy consumption by scheduling input/output operations in batches.

Millions of Gmail accounts hacked, was yours one of them?

  • fusion.net; By Fidel Martinez (Posted by bob on Sep 10, 2014 4:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security
Time to change your password again. A database containing nearly 5 million Gmail user accounts and passwords was leaked on Bitcoin Security, a popular Russian website devoted to the cryptocurrency.

Open data in education starts to show real traction

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 10, 2014 11:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
At the Open Education Working Group we are interested in all aspects of open education, from Open Education Resources (OERs) and new learning and teaching practices, to open source tools and open licenses. read more

Akademy Tuesday Wrapup

  • KDE.news (Posted by bob on Sep 10, 2014 10:36 AM EDT)
  • Groups: KDE; Story Type: News Story
Akademy is in full swing here in Brno in the Czech Republic. The days are now filled with BoF sessions to discuss given topics and make decisions in person much faster than would be possible online. Here is the wrapup session from Tuesday which covered the outcomes from sessions on Solid, Plasma Media Centre, Inqlude, UI design, Frameworks and more. (Apologies for the rotation, YouTube says it is working on fixing it.)

How to harden Apache web server with mod_security and mod_evasive on CentOS

Web server security is a vast subject, and different people have different preferences and opinions as to what the best tools and techniques are to harden a particular web server. With Apache web server, a great majority of experts -if not all- agree that mod_security and mod_evasive are two very important modules that can protect […]Continue reading... The post How to harden Apache web server with mod_security and mod_evasive on CentOS appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to set up MailScanner, Clam Antivirus and SpamAssassin in CentOS mail server How to set up a transparent HTTPS filtering proxy on CentOS How to secure a LAMP server on CentOS or RHEL How to set up a secure Apache webserver on Ubuntu How to set up RainLoop webmail in Ubuntu server

Red Hat: 2014:1166-01: jakarta-commons-httpclient: Important Advisory

Updated jakarta-commons-httpclient packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact.

6 questions to accelerate open source in non-tech companies

There’s now an accelerating trend of businesses adopting strategies reflective of the open source way—creating new value through development of some kind of purpose-driven community committed to open exchange and collaboration, prototype-driven solutions, and "the best ideas win."

VR headset mixes Oculus firmware and Android phablet

Samsung and Oculus have joined forces on a 3DOF “Gear VR” virtual reality headset with 96° FOV that uses a 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 4 as a computer and display.

Quad-core Cortex-A15 SoC features 6MB on-chip RAM

TI has launched a Linux-friendly, 1.4GHz quad-core Cortex-A15 AM5K2Ex Keystone II SoC, that runs at under 10W and offers 10GbE switches and 6MB on-chip RAM.

Flock 2014 survey results and responses

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Sep 9, 2014 7:13 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
We took a post-Flock survey of attendees to get some feedback on what you like and what we could do better next year. Most of those offering feedback, 71%, were […]

How to run your own Git server with GitlabHQ on Ubuntu 14.04

  • HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials - Linux (Posted by bob on Sep 9, 2014 5:19 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu, Linux; Story Type: News Story
How to run your own Git server with GitlabHQ on Ubuntu 14.04 This document describes how to install and configure Git and GitHub. These are great tools to manage and administer a whole host of Git repositories and the associated permissions. So, these remain true blessings for users writing open source software, however, when writing a closed source software may not be comfortable in trusting the code to a third party server. To gain the much-needed flexibility and control on stuff like Github/BitBucket without hosting the git repositories on servers that lie external to the control of users, GitLab remains a Godsend!

Former Red Hat executive Brian Stevens lands at Google

The mystery's over. Red Hat's Brian Stevens is now Google's VP of Cloud Platforms.

The personality of a Linux-loving teen

  • Opensource.com (Posted by bob on Sep 9, 2014 12:06 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
At my public library job I work in Takoma Park, Maryland, I talk with several hundred youth every week. I try to boost their curiosity, guide them in their wonderings and steer them to interesting and useful web sites. I try to point them in a direction where they'll encounter creative fulfillment and career success, while at the same time finding a meaningful role for themselves in this world. read more

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