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Adventures in Self-Publishing, Chap. 6: Profiling, Researching, Interviewing and Selecting a POD
For the last several weeks we've looked at how the various types of PODs differ in their business models and in the services they offer. We've also looked at the importance of ensuring that your goals align as well as possible with the POD you eventually select. This week we'll use that background to construct a decision tree and question list you can use to find the POD that's best for you. I'll also suggest (from painful experience) how you can avoid some of the problems I've encountered.
MLK and Open Source: 2 Degrees of Separation
Monday, January 16, 2012 is Martin Luther King Day, and in honor of that occasion I present to you a story of King's two degrees of separation from open source, specifically NASA's new open source code site.
The Mystery of KDE Activities
No feature defines the KDE 4 release series more than Activities. At the same time, no feature is so little understood -- Fedora even has a package for removing the desktop toolkit, which provides mouse access to Activities. But, when you take the time to learn about Activities, you'll find them a natural extension of the desktop metaphor that just might help you to work more efficiently. Activities are a super-set of Virtual Desktops. They don't replace Virtual Desktops -- in fact, each Activity can have its own set of Virtual Desktops if you choose. Instead, Activities are alternative desktops, each of which can have its own wallpaper, icons, and widgets.
Linux Foundation tips 2012 schedule, sends LinuxCon to San Diego
The Linux Foundation posted a calendar of its 2012 conferences. These include the Linux Kernel Summit, which will be held Aug. 26-28 in San Diego, where it will be co-located with the larger LinuxCon North America event and the Linux Plumbers Conference, both held Aug. 29-31.
Review: Razor-Qt 0.4.0 (via Ubuntu Razor-Qt Remix)
In some specific spots, it's still quite rough around the edges, but if those problem areas are judiciously avoided, considering how new it is, it's a great lightweight KDE-esque environment.
How To: Create Custom Quick Lists in Ubuntu 11.10
If you are using Ubuntu's default user interface Unity, then you are probably familiar with Quick Lists. They are those handy menus that pop up when you right-click on an icon on the Launcher on the left of the screen, giving you options like Keep in Launcher or Quit. Some apps give you more options, but wouldn't it be nice if you could change those options, or better yet... make your own custom Launcher?
Plug Computer takes on education with Marvell SMILE Plug micro server
Marvell announced an education platform combining its Plug Computer, Arch Linux, and software developed in collaboration with Stanford University. The SMILE Plug micro server runs on a 2GHz Marvell Armada 300 processor, sets up a secure Wi-Fi cloud for up to 60 students, and provides a & Classroom 3.0& connected, secure, interactive learning environment....
Intel's educational PC gets dual cores, 12-hour battery
Intel announced the fifth generation of its reference platform for education-focused portable PCs. The Classmate now features a dual-core Atom N2600 processor, delivering battery life of up to 12 hours, plus optional capacitive multitouch functionality, according to the company....
A crude imitation of khanacademy's video lectures using GNU/Linux
The following offers a description--prefaced by a narrative about whence came my inspiration--of a rather kludgy GNU/Linux solution I cobbled together for enhancing my on-line lectures with a video element. I am far from being technically adept as a GNU/Linux user, having only lately in my 11 years of GNU/Linux use become reasonably proficient at administering my own small stock of GNU/Linux machines and my small LAN. Despite a lack of anything that could really pass as expertise in this field, I want to offer this description for two reasons: 1) it may be of help to others who are equally inexpert as I am and who wish to do something like what I've done; and 2) perhaps those who are more technically adept will weigh in and offer corrections, point out alternative applications, make suggestions for improving what I've come up with, or all of the above. It is with these caveats that I offer a description of my humble and rather unsophisticated attempts.
Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices
Nor will users have the choice to simply disable secure boot, as they will on non-ARM systems: "Disabling Secure [Boot] MUST NOT be possible on ARM systems."
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Comes to Dell Cloud
SUSE proudly announced yesterday, January 11th, that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is now available to all Dell customers, on Dell Cloud, the brand-new VMware software-based cloud offering from Dell.
January 2012 Issue Of The PCLinuxOS Magazine
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the January 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.
Fuduntu : funny name but interesting distro has been released version 2012.1
Fedora + Ubuntu = Fuduntu. Fuduntu is originally forked from Fedora and lies between Fedora and Ubuntu. It gives very aesthetic pleasure to end-users and easy to use. It uses Linux kernel 3.1.6 and contain many packages in-built. It comes with GNOME desktop environment.
US Looks to Cloud for Cost Savings
The US government is going to the cloud in a big way hoping to reap savings through data center consolidation, and you would be wise to watch and learn from its experience.
HOWTO: Bodhi Linux on Genesi Smartbook
I mentioned a short while ago that Genesi had become a Bodhi affiliate. They sent me one of their Smartbooks to get hacking at and today I would like to share my first batch of public files for it. The following is a short HOWTO for getting a Debian Wheezy file system with the Bodhi Enlightenment desktop running on your Genesi Smartbook.
Learning Linux Commands: top
System monitoring is an important aspect of any more-or-less advanced Linux user, because there comes a time when you want to know what is taking precious resources or simply how much it does take. And despite what some people think, this is not applicable only to server systems. Desktop applications go haywire too, and you find your system slowed down to a crawl because some "rogue" app decided to eat up all your memory. For enterprise users there are lots of potent free or commercial solutions for monitoring, but for the old-school Linux user and/or someone that prefers to keep it simple, there is always top(1).If you're somewhat familiar with the command line, you will probably benefit more from this article, but that doesn't mean GUI-centric users won't.
Simply SimplyMEPIS 11.0
The general impression which SimplyMEPIS 11.0 left on me during Live USB run was it is rather boring. Yes, from my personal point of view, it is “just another Debian spin”.
High-quality scientific graphics with MathGL: An interview with Alexey Balakin
This week we have for you an interview with Alexey Balakin the lead developer of MathGL a library to render high-quality scientific graphics and manage big data arrays. Do not miss the video!
Microsoft now paid royalties on 70% of US Android smartphones
LG has become the latest in a long line of Android handset vendors to sign a patent licensing agreement with Microsoft.
Microsoft, LG Strike Android Patent Deal
Microsoft said the deal with LG means that 70% of Android-based smartphones sold in the U.S. are now covered by its licensing program. "We are proud of the continued success of our program in resolving the IP issues surrounding Android and Chrome OS," said Gutierrez.
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