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So, as usual, I've no wrote in this space for a long time, but today, as my daughter sleeps like a baby (10 months :P), I've got the time for some writings.. So since my last post, I've acquired a new 13" laptop to replace the good old asus eee 701, I needed a small, fast and good pc for some of my engineering work.

You might’ve read the news that net neutrality rules are set to become law on November 20th. Of course, how “neutral” the net becomes depends on whether you’re connecting the old fashioned way, by a wire running into your house, or through the gee whiz magic of wireless service. The wireless providers get a break because evidently they aren’t charging enough already or something.

Nokia is developing a new Linux-based & Meltemi& operating systems to replace Symbian on its feature phones, according to the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, more details have emerged on the Linux Foundation's MeeGo-derived Tizen project, which also gained a bit of industry support beyond co-sponsors Intel and Samsung.

Minecraft 1.9 pre release part 2 is out. The 1.9 release is really shaping up to be something awesome, new monsters, new graphical effects (note to self buy better notebook since the mrs is hogging the pc...I hope she doesn't read that bit!) and much much more!

A study by Distimo, an analysis firm that watches the AppStore market found that a strategy of providing free or low-cost apps, then charging for fuller functionality accounted for significant income for developers -- and developers may want to pay attention to that.

Oh boy, here we go again. Phoronix has yet another article proclaiming that the Linux Kernel has a "power regression" again. Those Kernel developer losers aren't doing ANYTHING about it either! Oh the HUMANITY!

The definition for the term hacker is as elusive as those who earn the moniker. Find out from the accepted source what a hacker really is.

PiTiVi Video Editor has just reached version 0.15 bringing in new features and fixes. This is last PiTiVi release based on tradition engine. PiTiVi 2.0 will be based on GES (GStreamer Editing Services) and will bring better performance and stability to this popular video editor.

GNOME 3.2 was officially released yesterday with all those cool features which I'm sure you've all been waiting for. Let's take a look at what's new:

In the early chapters, the book is very explicit about how to set up your Eclipse project and which files to edit. The author takes no chances that the reader is unfamiliar with the environment, and spells everything out in perfect detail. Normally, I prefer printed books to electronic, but this is one case where an e-book would've been handy-- for code copying purposes. I spent my learning time dutifully typing in the author's suggestions, though, and was rewarded with properly running examples each time.

A client for the popular Ubuntu One online storage service from Canonical is now available for download for the Windows platform.

When the Federal Communications Commission last week issued its final network neutrality rules and said they would go into effect at the end of November, lawsuits against the policy could finally begin. Verizon and Metro PCS, both wireless carriers, had already made clear their intention to sue and were widely expected to be the first to do so. Instead, they were beaten to court by the activist group Free Press—one of the strongest supporters of network neutrality.

With the release of LucidWorks 2.0, Lucid Imagination is making it easier for enterprise customers to install and manage open source search tools Apache Lucene and Solr and to manage data from a variety of sources including Hadoop and Amazone EC2.

Minus is a free service that lets you share files easily with your friends and family. Its goal is to make file sharing as simple as possible by allowing users to upload and share their files from anywhere, be it mobile, desktop, or web. Applications for this service are available across all platforms including Linux. Furthermore, Minus also works on popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome. Here’s a quick review of the Linux version of the application.

The free software world moves rapidly, but every individual project also moves at its own pace and rhythm. Consequently, it is easy to get behind on the news. Here is a look at the state of the art in the open source desktop publishing (DTP) arena for fall 2011.

Windows 8 currently boasts the same hardware requirements as Windows 7. Don’t believe it. Microsoft has never been accurate with its hardware specifications yet.

This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.7 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

Ubuntu One personal cloud system for synchronize, share, store and stream you files over the web. Now Ubuntu One Client is available to install on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Following bellow is attempt to reproduce Hans de Goede blog entry at http://planet.spice-space.org/ ([1]) on Ubuntu 11.10 just to fix bug with Windows 7 KVM after set up Spice&KVM Server via PPA “Qemu-kvm-0.15.0+noroms(spice enabled), Spice Server&Client 0.9.1, Spice-Gtk-0.7-2(via Debian)” ([2]).

Now that GNOME 3.2 has been released, the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment will see the light of day in about six months from now, and it will bring many new features and improvements.