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Android-Based Portable Wireless Remote Control Setup for Nikon DSLR Cameras

  • Scribbles and Snaps; By Dmitri Popov (Posted by dmpop on Feb 6, 2013 2:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Install the DSLR Dashboard app on your Android device, and you can use it to control a Nikon DSLR camera via a USB connection. But in certain situations, tethering the Android device to a camera using a cable is not ideal. This is where DSLR Dashboard’s wireless functionality can come in rather handy.

Site plagiarizes blog posts, then files DMCA takedown on originals

A dizzying story that involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats came to light via a DMCA takedown notice today. Retraction Watch, a site that followed (among many other issues) the implosion of a Duke cancer researcher's career, found all of its articles on the topic pulled by WordPress, its host. The reason? A small site based in India apparently copied all of the posts, claimed them as their own, then filed a DMCA takedown notice to get the originals pulled from their source. As of now, the originals are still missing as their actual owners seek to have them restored.

John Carmack would be stunned by mainstream Linux gaming support

  • MyGaming News; By james Etherington-Smith (Posted by MyBroadband on Feb 6, 2013 12:48 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Games, Linux
id Software’s venerable code magician John Carmack has taken to Reddit to discuss the prospects of Linux support for mainstream games. Carmack said “I don’t think that a good business case can be made for officially supporting Linux for mainstream games today.”

Deployment of Kippo SSH Honeypot on Ubuntu Linux

Do you feel that someone is attempting to access you server? To find out, you can deploy a honeypot within your system to help you ease your paranoia by either confirming or dismissing your initial believe. As an example you can start the Kippo SSH honeypot, which allows you to monitor brute-force attempts, collect up today exploits and malware. Kippo also automatically records hacker's shell session, which you can replay to explore various hacking techniques and later use this gathered knowledge to harden your production server. Another reason why to install a honeypot is to take away an attention from your production server. In this tutorial we will show how to deploy a Kippo SSH honeypot on the Ubuntu server.

EFF to defend against troll with “podcasting patent”—granted in 2012

Patent trolls have gone after some pretty ridiculous things recently. Online shopping carts, scanners, Windows Phone tiles, and yes, rejecting a call and sending it to voicemail. On Tuesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that it’s now gearing up to tackle the latest completely absurd troll, who claims to have invented podcasting.

Cisco Invests In Piston Cloud, OpenStack; Hedges Parallels Bet?

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) has invested in Piston Cloud Computing, which develops an OpenStack distribution for private enterprise clouds. The investment comes only a few weeks after Cisco pumped money into Parallels, which develops cloud automation software. Is Cisco hedging its cloud bets? Sort of.

Counter Strike Source is now on Linux!

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 6, 2013 10:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
So it looks like Valve is furthering the push for their games and next up could be Counter Strike Source!

Piston Cloud Raises $8 Million for OpenStack IaaS Distribution

Piston Cloud Computing, which promotes an OpenStack distribution to enterprise customers, has raised $8 million in series B funding from Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Data Collective and Swisscom Ventures join Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad and True Ventures as principal investors. The big question: Is a channel program on the way?

Top Linux and open-source programs survey results

LinuxQuestions, a leading Linux fan and user support site, has just completed its annual members choice survey to see which Linux distributions and open-source programs are the most popular and the results may surprise you.

Calligra 2.6: Features, Usability, Bugfixes

  • KDE.news - Got the Dot? (Posted by tracyanne on Feb 6, 2013 7:49 AM EDT)
  • Groups: KDE; Story Type: News Story
Dot Categories: ApplicationsThe Calligra team has announced the release of version 2.6 of the Calligra Suite, Calligra Active and the Calligra Office Engine. This version provides new features, substantial usability polishing, and bugfixes. Calligra is seeing a lot of development, so many new features are mentioned in the announcement, and the applications are becoming more and more mature. This is the second major update after the initial release of Calligra in April last year.

KDE 4.10 Officially Released With Many Changes

KDE 4.10 was officially released today as the latest bi-annual update to this popular open-source project with the Plasma desktop shell at its core...

Two-year-old phone receives 15-month-old software update

For anyone still using a Thunderbolt, it's nice that the phone is being updated at all rather than being fated to run Gingerbread forever, as has been the case for so many other phones. But the Thunderbolt's update still sums up pretty much everything that's wrong with the Android ecosystem's ever-worsening software fragmentation problems:

The Video Acceleration State On Linux GPU Drivers

As I have written in Phoronix articles many times before, my particular recommendation for those HTPC users or anyone just watching many movies/videos on their Linux desktop is to use NVIDIA GeForce GPUs with the proprietary driver. NVIDIA VDPAU is widely-supported and tends to "just work" on any modern Linux distribution, the binary driver, and all popular Linux multimedia software like XBMC, VLC, and MPlayer. NVIDIA's Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix does a very good job at offloading the video decode work to the graphics hardware rather than the CPU. Even a very low-end GeForce GPU can get the job done.

Steam's January 2013 hardware survey is on, Linux is growing

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 6, 2013 4:20 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
So the next instalment of the Steam hardware survey has landed and it's looking good for Linux so far!

EasyRE System Recovery Disc Review + Giveaway

  • MakeTechEasier; By Miguel Leiva-Gomez (Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 6, 2013 3:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
If you ever find yourself in a situation in which your computer doesn’t start, and you’ve already tried the “Last Known Good Configuration” option and it doesn’t work, what else can you do? SystemDiscs has a solution that might actually take you away from your frustrations with an automatic repair application called Easy Recovery Essentials (EasyRE, in short). This is a great software that allows you to repair your Windows and backup your files even if you can’t boot into Windows, and we have a giveaway too. Read on for more detail.

OpenStreetMap gets a new map editor

MapBox has launched an alpha version of the new web-based map editor for the OpenStreetMap collaborative mapping project. The new editor is called the iD editor and is built using JavaScript and the D3.js data visualisation library. Development was funded as part of a grant by the Knight Foundation, announced in September, to develop new tools for the OpenStreetMap project. iD will eventually replace the OpenStreetMap project's current editor, Potlatch 2. In contrast to its predecessor, iD does not depend on Flash to run. The new editor was developed in conjunction with Richard Fairhurst, the original author of Potlatch 2.

Free VLC Remote control for iphone / ipad with easy Ubuntu host configuration

Looking for a fee fully featured VLC remote control for iphone and ipad that works perfectly with Ubuntu as host, with no advertising? The Remote Control for VLC by Sybu Data does exactly that. The design philosophy was to create an application that is easy to use with a simplistic yet functional User Interface, that is free and does not serve advertisements.

CDW to offer enterprise Chromebook support

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Feb 6, 2013 12:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Say hello to Chromebook in the corporate office as multi-billion dollar technology services company CDW offers Chromebooks and Chromebook support and management to its corporate customers.

Awesome Window Manager Default Themes

Awesome Window Manager offers three simple themes for users that need a change. Here you can get a brief look at the default themes, along with instructions to sample them for yourself. Although style choices may be limited, this is one of the most efficient window managers available.

4.10 Release of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsThe KDE Community is proud to announce the 4.10 releases of KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. This release combines the latest technologies along with many improvements to bring users the premier collection of Free Software for home and professional use. Special thanks to the KDE Quality Team for managing a comprehensive testing program for this release. Their work greatly assisted developers and played a key role in maintaining quality and stability. The highlights of the release are presented below.

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