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One of the most recent Raspberry Pi accessories is the tiny Pi Camera board – a small PCB with a camera sensor mounted to it that connects to the Pi. It connects directly to the Raspberry Pi board to save USB slots, however this does not make it exactly plug and play, so you’ll need to do some extra set-up on your Raspberry Pi to get it to work.

I recently announced a call to action for GNOME 3.10 Test Day for Fedora 20 on Facebook and I got a response that caused me to think about how everyone from the general public to developers submit and fix bugs for an open source project. This was the interaction..

MySQL is used due its simplicity and to be a default in some platforms as Wordpress. Apply 10 best pratices to configure your MySQL instance against invasions and protect your data and your server.

One operating system (OS) support often exploited to run performance-critical applications on multi-core processors is so-called “processor affinity” or “CPU pinning”. This is an OS-specific feature that “binds” a running process or program to particular CPU core(s). This tutorial describes how to run a program or process on specific CPU cores on Linux.

New software tools and a developer confab highlight Samsung's push to offer something different from all the other Android device makers. Think multiscreen.

Lubuntu 13.10 is based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment; PCManFM - a fast and lightweight file manager; Openbox -a fast and extensible default windows manager of LXDE; LightDM using a simple GTK+ greeter; Firefox as the new web browser for Lubuntu 13.10; based on Ubuntu 13.10. Improvements since Lubuntu 13.04: new version of PCManFM and libfm (1.1.0) including a built-in search utility; artwork improvements, including new wallpapers, community wallpapers and new icons; removed Catfish since PCManFM has its own search utility; fixed a very old bug causing GNOME MPlayer to crash with some CPUs; several fixes for the GPicView image viewer.

Well folks Left 4 Dead 2 now has a Linux icon and it's beta tag completely removed, this follows some essential fixes they did.

This short tutorial shows how to load Ubuntu 13.10 on a USB key from Windows 7 or 8 or any Linux distribution, and use it to install the distribution on any computer. B

Linux 3.0 was first released in July of 2011 and become the first 3 release after Linus Torvalds decided that Linux 2.6.40 was too big a number. The Long Term Linux kernel title, means that the 3.0.x cycle has a longer life than typical kernels. Long Term Linux kernel can live two years or more and currently the leading edge of long term kernels is the 3.10 kernel.

The first development release towards GNOME Notes 3.12, a nice and simple application designed to create, view, and edit notes on the GNOME 3.12 desktop environment, has been announced on October 27, 2013.

When you are tasked with monitoring network traffic on the local network, you can consider many different options to do it, depending on the scale/traffic of the local network, monitoring platforms/interface, types of backend database, etc. In this tutorial, I will describe how to set up a web-based network traffic monitoring system on Linux by using ntopng.

The primary difficulty of cyber security isn't technology -- it's policy. The Internet mirrors real-world society, which makes security policy online as complicated as it is in the real world. Protecting critical infrastructure against cyber-attack is just one of cyberspace's many security challenges, so it's important to understand them all before any one of them can be solved.

Two new platformers are now on Steam for you lovely lovely people to enjoy, both rated well and should be worth a look!

A path vulnerability in X2Go Server may allow remote execution of arbitrary code.

It is fair to say that the Raspberry Pi is a success. I love them, you love them, the whole world loves them. It has reminded the rest of the computing world that the UK - and Cambridge especially - has a proud computing heritage.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GnuTLS, the worst of which could lead to Denial of Service.

A free, open-source, image editor, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has been a go-to tool for Linux users for years, but has a reputation for being hard to use and lacking many of Photoshop’s features. The reality has changed dramatically over the last couple years. GIMP now has a very competent user interface, as well as an extensive and powerful set of features.

pmake uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for symlink attacks.

People tell me I am paranoid about backups, but hey I admit it – I am! No traumas with lost data for me. In recent years I have moved everything to VPS servers. However, my independent streak still makes me distrustful of these ‘cloud’ suppliers, and one of them let me down with an outage of 20 hours when their edge router died and they had no redundancy – and this was one of those who claimed fanatical support. Ha!

The Google Chrome Security Team discovered two issues (a race condition and a use-after-free issue) in the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library.