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Maluvia Haseltine

Puppy Linux - 3 views

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shared by Maluvia Haseltine on 30 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Maluvia Haseltine on 30 Jan 10
     
    Links to all the current Puppy Linux sites Great Resource!
Yi Wang

In the Beginning was the Command Line - 0 views

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shared by Yi Wang on 13 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Like the Earth's biosphere, the technosphere is very thin compared to what is above and what is below.
    • Yi Wang
      Yi Wang on 13 Jan 11
       
      beautiful visualization
  • fossilization process
  • temporal arbitrage.
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  • Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they could crush Microsoft in a year or two.
  • But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it.
  • lip service
  • How badly we want it can be measured by the size of Bill Gates's fortune.
  • When TCP/IP was invented, running it was an honor reserved for Serious Computers--mainframes and high-powered minicomputers used in technical and commercial settings--and so the protocol is engineered around the assumption that every computer using it is a serious machine, capable of doing many things at once. Not to put too fine a point on it, a Unix machine.
  • Young Americans who leave their great big homogeneous country and visit some other part of the world typically go through several stages of culture shock: first, dumb wide-eyed astonishment. Then a tentative engagement with the new country's manners, cuisine, public transit systems and toilets, leading to a brief period of fatuous confidence that they are instant experts on the new country. As the visit wears on, homesickness begins to set in, and the traveler begins to appreciate, for the first time, how much he or she took for granted at home. At the same time it begins to seem obvious that many of one's own cultures and traditions are essentially arbitrary, and could have been different; driving on the right side of the road, for example. When the traveler returns home and takes stock of the experience, he or she may have learned a good deal more about America than about the country they went to visit.
  • We like plain dealings and straightforward transactions in America.
  • This would simply not be worth the effort, and so "wc" would never be written as an independent program at all. Instead users would have to wait for a word count feature to appear in a commercial software package.
Marco Castellani

Ubuntu Wayland: Shuttleworth's post-Mac makeover * Channel Register - 6 views

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shared by Marco Castellani on 27 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • What Ubuntu seems to aiming for is a unified UI across devices - mobile, tablets, netbooks, laptop and yes, the good old desktop dinosaur.
  • Shuttleworth seems to have a clear vision in mind for Ubuntu's future. As with Apple, some will love to come along for the ride, others will scoff, but one thing is for sure - the future of Ubuntu will not be boring.
Marc Lijour

Linux Is on the Rise For Business - PCWorld Business Center - 1 views

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shared by Marc Lijour on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • according to a report released Tuesday by the Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. With data from an invited pool of more than 1900 respondents, the survey found that 76 percent of the world's largest organizations plan to add more Linux servers over the next 12 months. By contrast, only 41 percent plan to add Windows servers, while 44 percent say they will be decreasing or maintaining the same number of Windows machines over the next year.
  • Large companies are planning to increase their reliance on Linux over the next five years
  • Looking out over five years, the difference is even more marked: A full 79 percent plan to add Linux servers over that time, while only 21 percent will add new Windows servers.
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  • To understand Linux trends among the world's largest companies and government organizations, Yeoman and The Linux Foundation focused in particular on responses from a subset of close to 400 respondents representing organizations with annual revenues of $500 million or more or greater than 500 employees.
  • Sixty-six percent of the planned Linux deployments mentioned by respondents are for brand-new applications or services, while 37 percent are migrations from Windows, the survey found.
  • "We are seeing more migration at Microsoft's expense than the industry analysis might lead you to believe," McPherson noted.
  • Since Linux is free, sales-linked estimates tend to underestimate its adoption considerably.
  • this survey involves some sample bias
  • the data isn't tied to server sales the way so much industry data is
  • a full 60 percent of respondents said they're planning to use Linux for more mission-critical workloads than they have in the past
  • Lack of vendor lock-in and openness of the code were other frequently cited drivers
  • long-term viability of the platform
  • choice of software and hardware
  • n cloud contexts, meanwhile, Linux led far and away, with 70 percent naming it as their primary platform, compared with 18 percent citing Windows and 11 citing Unix
  • Marc Lijour on 26 Jan 11
     
    according to a report released Tuesday by the Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. With data from an invited pool of more than 1900 respondents, the survey found that 76 percent of the world's largest organizations plan to add more Linux servers over the next 12 months. By contrast, only 41 percent plan to add Windows servers, while 44 percent say they will be decreasing or maintaining the same number of Windows machines over the next year.
Marc Lijour

Linux Skills Are Hot on Improving IT Hiring Front - PCWorld Business Center - 2 views

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shared by Marc Lijour on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • the fewest job cuts in a year since 2000
  • according to global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which on Monday reported that employers announced plans to cut only 46,825 IT jobs during 2010--a full 73 percent fewer than the 174,629 technology job cuts in 2009.
  • Forrester Research predicts that 2011 IT spending will increase 7.5 percent in the U.S. and 7.1 percent globally,
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  • skills in the open source operating system are in particular demand, according to Dice.
  • postings seeking Linux knowledge have increased a full 47 percent over last year
  • Windows-related postings, by comparison, have increased by only 40 percent.
  • large enterprises are increasingly turning to Linux for mission-critical applications
  • Linux professionals also tend to get a significant salary premium of as much as 10 percent over other IT workers, Dice reported last year.
liza cainz

Help Gurus Offers Microsoft Tech Support - 1 views

Help Gurus offers Microsoft Tech Support for customers who are using windows application on their computers. They can give you quality technical support for Microsoft office applications, like Exce...

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Marc Lijour

An anthropologist's view of an open source community | opensource.com - 3 views

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shared by Marc Lijour on 02 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Diana noted that while 75% of the survey respondents in the study agreed that the contributors make up a community, she was more curious what the other 25% thought
  • "Setting up a login, setting up an SSL key, and contributing was a little daunting at first. That process could be simplified," said one interviewee.
  • High on the list of reasons were learning for the joy of learning and collaborating with interesting and smart people. Motivations for personal gain, like networking or career benefits, were low on the list.
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  • Mainly I contribute just to make it work for me.
Marc Lijour

HP to Put Linux in Printers and PC's: It's the End of an Era for Windows | Linux.com - 6 views

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shared by Marc Lijour on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • the worlds largest PC supplier is indicating that they are going to ship PC’s without Windows
  • HP announced that it is going to ship WebOS not only in phones, tablets and printers, but in PC’s as well
  • Perhaps this really IS the year of the Linux desktop.
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  • Linux is the underpinning technology for nearly every sector of the market in every form of computing.
  • analysts predict will be a $30B market for tablets by 2012
  • Linux because it supports more architectures and more devices than any other OS and is freely available and is able to be custom-branded
  • Marc Lijour on 11 Feb 11
     
    the worlds largest PC supplier is indicating that they are going to ship PC's without Windows
Marc Lijour

The official web site of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala - 0 views

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shared by Marc Lijour on 03 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The Director of IT@School, K. Anvar Sadath said, "Building collaboration and sharing practices are essential factors for the well being of societies and proprietary software often deny that."
  • The Kerala IT Education Department believes that sharing is an important virtue. However, sharing a proprietary software would be a violation of the End User License Agreement (EULA).
  • Thinking about the massive cost involved in setting up the IT infrastructure based on Windows, it was better to have the OS and applications realigned for Linux and other free software.
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  • Enabling Linux and FOSS based education in 2,738 high schools brought along its own set of challenges. In the first phase, over 40,000 teachers had to be trained for over 90 hours on Linux based systems.
  • Creating a single curriculum based on GNU/Linux was another issue to counter because there were many distributions of the OS
  • the Free Software Foundation of India suggested developing a custom distribution for IT@School and eventually created the distribution with funding from the Kerala State IT Mission
  • IT@School has managed to get concession on broadband rate for all schools
  • Resources which are available under GPL and Creative Commons can straight away be customised to their requirements. This builds innovation and networking without much financial burden
  • wants Kerala to become a FOSS destination. With 90% literacy rate
Syntacticsinc SEO

Syntactics Move to New Office to Better Serve Clients - 1 views

I was looking for the old office of Syntactics Inc. to get thorough internet marketing for my business through search engine optimization and other SEO Philippines techniques. After learning that t...

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joey potter

I Need Computer Technical Help Now - 2 views

"I have no time to wait". That is what I muttered when my computer suddenly went on a blue screen. I had a project and I needed to pass it on time. But with my computer on trouble, I would not make...

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seth kutcher

Two Thumbs Up For Computer Assistance Services - 3 views

I am so happy for the computer assistance that Computer Assistance Online gave me. They provided me with precise and fast solutions to my computer problem. Their computer specialists really know wh...

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helen troy

Get Rid of Computer Freezing - 1 views

I badly need computer help. I am a graphic artist and I always use my PC for my graphic design layouts and other major graphic work. But, that is so obvious, is it not? Anyway, my computer recently...

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Yi Wang

Castle: Reinventing Storage for Big Data: OSCON 2011 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 25 - ... - 0 views

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Castle storage file system linux

shared by Yi Wang on 28 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • The standard Linux storage stack wasn’t designed for write-heavy big data workloads, nor is it well-suited to modern hardware: large, slow SATA disks, SSDs or many cores. Castle, an open-source project, is a ground-up overhauling of RAID, file systems, and the POSIX interface. It is released under the GPL and runs as part of the Linux kernel. Our target is 1 million random inserts per second to disk on a $1,000 commodity box, and we’re nearly there. Castle is also the core of the Acunu Data Platform, which delivers up to 100x higher performance for applications written for Cassandra and other tools.
seth kutcher

My Husband Is Happy With Their PC Repair Services - 1 views

My husband was so frustrated the other night because his laptop was not working properly. I told him to calm down and we will call Remote PC Repair Now. I told them they are the expert when it come...

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Maria Babae

Get Rid of Computer Freezing - 1 views

I badly need computer help.I am a graphic artist and I always use my PC for my graphic design layouts and other major graphic work. But, that is so obvious, is it not Anyway, my computer recently b...

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Maria Babae

Computer Technical Help Now's Services - 1 views

Do you want all out computer troubleshooting and other helpful services? Computer Technical Help Now is here to serve you. We offer the best computer services that will surely satisfy your needs. ...

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James Stewart

Thank Doctor Cleanduct for the Cleaner Air We Breathe - 2 views

I have a sister who is suffering from asthma. So when she visited my house she was so happy because she said she can breathe easily. So I told her it was because I had my HVAC system cleaned regula...

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shalani mujer

PC Technical Support's Great Contribution - 1 views

Our Daycare Center has computers that are specially made for children's use. Each unit has child-friendly and educational games that will surely be enjoyed by the children. It is a good thing that ...

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