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Trigger keyboard and mouse actions with your voice and xdotool

Some of us take keyboard and mouse input for granted: You type a character on the keyboard, and it appears in your window, or you type a string of characters, press Return, and some action happens—either locally or at a networked distance. What else is there to expect? But what if you don't have or cannot use a keyboard or mouse, or you want to put a keystroke into one window and have it do something in a different window on a different desktop? Or, perhaps, you want to create a window, resize it, pull up a browser in that window, navigate to a URL, then tab through a number of links in the web page and click one—all without a keyboard or mouse, using your voice through a speech recognizer. This approach calls for keyboard and mouse emulation.

Surviving Fixed-Everything IT Projects

Using fixed-price contracts for a contract may seem to limit risk, but it mostly costs more and produces less satisfactory results.

Dungeons of Dredmor coming to Linux!

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Sep 5, 2011 11:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
One of my current favourite indie games (and the only Rogue-like I actually like!), Dungeons of Dredmor is still officially coming to Linux!

BackBox Linux 2 penetration testing distribution released

The BackBox development team has released version 2.0 of its penetration testing distribution. According to the developers, the latest release has a new look and feel, as well as a significant performance boost over previous versions.

Bitfighter multi-player Indie game, needs you.

  • Linuxaria (Posted by linuxaria on Sep 5, 2011 8:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Bitfighter is a free multi-player 2-D space combat game with Robotron-like controls. It’s a team-based strategy game featuring retro vector graphics and customizable ships. It’s fast, fun, and frenetic. Bitfighter centers around creating and playing levels made by others. This is done by players hosting servers.

Roccat Linux Support Keeps Coming

Roccat, the European manufacturer of various gaming peripherals like keyboards and mice, actually has rather good Linux support for their hardware.

HP plucks webOS team out of departing PC division

HP evidently sees a brighter future for its webOS platform after moving the team into the Office of Strategy and Technology (OS&T) as it figures out what to do with the software. The other half of the business HP acquired from Palm – the hardware element – will continue to reside in its Personal Systems Group that will likely be spun out once the globocorp has considered all the options on the table.

This week at LWN: LinuxCon: x86 platform drivers

With his characteristically dry British humor, Matthew Garrett outlined the current situation with x86 platform drivers at LinuxCon. These drivers are needed to handle various "extra" hardware devices, like special keys, backlight control, extended battery information, fans, and so on. There are a wide range of control mechanisms that hardware vendors use for these devices, and, even when the controller hardware is the same, different vendors will choose different mechanisms to talk to the devices. It is a complicated situation that seems to require humor—and perhaps alcohol—to master.

Linux development temporarily moves to GitHub

Tux Linus Torvalds has published the fifth release candidate of Linux 3.1. As the main server for kernel.org is not completely back up and running after the break-in that was made public last week, Torvalds uploaded the git repository with the mainline Linux sources to GitHub.

15 Must Have Android Games

  • Tech Drive-in; By Manuel Jose (Posted by kiterunner on Sep 5, 2011 3:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Android is growing at a stupendous rate and so is Android Market. Number is applications in Android Market is nearing 300,000 now and the rate of growth is only increasing. Trying to pick the very best of Android games from that enormous list is tough. I will try to give it my best shot anyway. Here are the games I enjoy playing in my Android 2.3.3 powered Galaxy S2.

Reminder: Ubuntu App Developer Week Starts Today

Ubuntu App Developer Week starts today at 1600 UTC. Find out more about the schedule of events and how you can join in

The VAR Guy: Does Sold Mean Sold Out?

Several times a month while looking for updates for our Facebook and Twitter feeds, I run across articles by an unknown writer who pens a blog called The VAR Guy. He’s usually Linux and FOSS friendly, but not always. If you don’t know, VAR stands for “value-added reseller,” so sometimes he can understandably turn downright proprietary – right when you least expect it. Mostly, however, he’s pretty fair, or as fair as you can expect someone to be who would profit by getting you to sign up for long term vendor lock-in.

Sapphire Pure Platinum A75

While Sapphire Technology is a brand more commonly associated with graphics cards than motherboards, after having great experiences with the Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra motherboard, we accepted their offer to look at the Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 motherboard. The Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 is a motherboard for AMD Fusion "Llano" APUs and packs quite a number of features. Here's how the Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 works under Linux.

How To Upgrade VMware ESXi 3.5 To 4.1 Update 1 (Free Version)

  • HowtoForge; By Kyle Hartigan (Posted by falko on Sep 5, 2011 8:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
In this guide I will show you how to upgrade VMWare ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.1 Update 1 (Free Version) without going through the pain of reinstalling your host server and then restoring your VMs.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 04-Sept-2011

LXer Feature: 05-Sept-2011

The latest installment of the LXer Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

Open Source: Live Migration of Mandriva to Mageia

  • The ERACC Web Log; By Gene Alexander (Posted by eracc on Sep 5, 2011 12:05 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
I took the plunge to migrate my personal / business desktop PC from Mandriva 2010.2 to Mageia 1 today (Sunday, 4 September 2011). I used the instructions from this page: Migrate from Mandriva Linux. ...

SSH: Tips And Tricks You Need to Know

  • linux-news.org; By Linux-news.org (Posted by linuxaria on Sep 4, 2011 11:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
SSH is one of the most widely used protocols for connecting to remote shells. While there are numerous SSH clients the most-used still remains OpenSSH’s ssh. There is a plethora of tips and tricks that can be used to make your experience even better than it already is. Read on to discover some of the best tweaks to your favorite SSH client.

How to delete DigiNotar CA certificate from Firefox

  • LinuxBSDos.com; By finid (Posted by finid on Sep 4, 2011 9:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
DigiNotar B.V., a unit of VASCO Data Security International, Inc., is an Internet Trust Service Provider based in the Netherlands. Part of their business involves issuing digital certificates. DigiNotar’s security system was compromised and they failed to notify everybody they were supposed to. A result of that breach is that fake certificates were issued – in DigiNotar’s name – for Mozilla and some others. The extent of the damage is so bad that The Mozilla Foundation revoked certificates issued by DigiNotar. If updates have not been issued yet, delete DigiNotar from the list of Certificate Authorities. Here’s how to do it.

Texas Instruments Has New Open-Source Driver

While Texas Instruments released an open-source driver last year for the Linux kernel within the DRM area (the TILER driver), it didn't make it into the mainline tree for the lack of open-source user-space applications/drivers that could take advantage of it, i.e. the usual ARM graphics mess. Yesterday, however, Texas Instruments released a new open-source DRM driver for their OMAP platforms.

Why the Desktop Mode is necessary on Linux-based tablets?

  • Sola's blog (Posted by sola on Sep 4, 2011 7:15 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux, Ubuntu
Many have predicted, that tablets will replace netbooks completely. While I cannot agree with this absolute statement, I admit that tablets serve a set of use-cases better than netbooks. The touch-interface and low power-consumption of tablets make content consumption more comfortable (e.g. no heating, no fan-noise, longer battery runtime, less weight to lug around…etc). That said, there are areas where tablets just cannot give enough. For example, any kind of work which requires more serious input while being mobile. The problem of efficient input can be solved with accessories like a bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Usually, when you prepare your tablet for extra-home journeys, you buy a case which also hosts the keyboard.

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