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UPnP stands for Universal Plug and Play. It is a set of computer network protocols which enables devices on a home network to be aware of each other and access selected services. This collection of protocols with the appropriate software offers a very easy method of sharing media on your network as it features automatic discovery and supports zero-configuration.

Bruce Perens looks a bit disoriented as he comes into the hotel lobby, looking for me. "Anyone here called Sam?" he calls out. The tiredness is evident on his face after the long haul from the US to Australia.

LibreOffice is an open source Office Suite, an excellent alternative to MS Office. If offers a number of features and the added functionalities in the form of extensions. Here are some of the useful extensions for LibreOffice.

This guide describes how to search songs on Grooveshark through Unity Dash by using the Grooveshark Scope for Ubuntu.

GNU/Linux is not more support on ARM based windows 8 devices. If you purchase any hardware, you should free to choose your operating system and install on it. So if you want to run GNU/Linux on ARM based devices than forget it. From this decision of Microsoft, it seems that they are preparing for war with GNU/Linux operating system.

Genesi currently offers two products with the EFIKA mx51 ARM board. They are the SmartTop and the SmartBook. I own one of their SmartBook models and today I would like to do a comprehensive overview of the device.

Why a recent Supreme Court decision may spur challenges to e-privacy laws.

Super Flexible File Synchronizer is a cloud backup and synchronization tool that supports FTP, SSH, WebDAV, Amazon S3, and Google Docs. The application is cross-platform, but only the Linux version is free of cost (though it's proprietary).

So, you have Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10 and have no interest in using the default mail client (Evolution or Thunderbird respectively), but instead you'd rather have integrated access to your Gmail account? It's actually a pretty simple thing to accomplish with a great little notifier called gm-notify.

The notion of being able to fork a project is core to open source. It's also potentially a bad thing in some cases as it can lead to fragmentation of a user base and compatibility issues.

I started a new graduate assistant position this week at Illinois State University. I will be doing a variety of tasks in this position and some of them involve work on the computer. The operating system on the computer I will be working on? You guessed it - Windows 7.

It's Friday, the week went pretty well. Friday's going well too - until a customer calls letting you know that their XenServer VM crashed and is not up yet. You soon find out that you have to manually run fsck on it because it won't boot. fsck is a utility that checks and repairs filesystems. Basically what you will have to do is attach the storage from that VM on another VM that can see the same storage. Use this guide to get it done.

Razor-qt is a brand new desktop environment based on Qt framework, the same development framework that KDE is based on. Though it is still in its infancy and, therefore, not as feature-complete as KDE or other well known desktop environments, it has a bright future ahead of it. And from what I have seen so far, it could be taking KDE and the rest to the cleaners in the very near future. Compared to KDE, one thing it has going for it right now, is that it is fast. How fast? Very.

The threat to general purpose computing goes beyond legislation. As I see it, we have at least four major threats to general purpose computing - legislation, cloud computing, computing appliances, and consumer indifference.

The congressman who wrote SOPA violated CC licensing by not giving attribution for a photo used on his site. The site starts off with "Thanks for visiting my site", so it appears to be his. The domain is a "people for" type of title, so the domain appears third party even though the content indicates it is the congressman's site. There's also a missing period on the top of the site at the end of the above quoted sentence, so maybe the grammar police will get the site taken down even though photographer DJ Schulte can't yet use SOPA to have it taken down.

Yesterday we did a Linux hangout on Google+. Mike Weber demonstrated how to setup an FTP server on CentOS 6 and answered several questions on the topic. If you have questions or an idea for a hangout please leave a comment down below.

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Bitwig is an international music software company based in Berlin. The team includes many veterans who worked on Ableton Live, a popular software for professional music creation. Bitwig has now released Bitwig Studio, a multi-platform professional music-creation system and Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for production, performance and DJing and unlike Ableton Live, it will have a Linux version.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced last evening, January 12th, that the first maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 is available for download and all users should upgrade to it.

A post by Kevinjohn Gallagher on "no longer recommending WordPress" to his clients has gotten a bit of traction lately. While there's legitimate criticism to be leveled at WordPress, Gallagher's isn't (for the most part) it. If you're approaching WordPress with the expectation that it's the be-all and end-all of content management systems (CMSes) you're going to be sorely disappointed. And frankly, I hope WordPress never tries to fit the ridiculous list of requirements that Gallagher tries to saddle it with.