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China military site draws hackers

Jeebizz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:24:46 GMT

"The Chinese military defence website was subjected to 2.3 million hacking attempts in its first month online according to officials..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8367880.stm

Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning'

Jeebizz — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:15:25 GMT

"Cyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report."

"Compiled by security firm McAfee, it bases its conclusion on analysis of recent net-based attacks. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8363175.stm

China joins supercomputer elite

Jeebizz — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:32:49 GMT

"China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8362825.stm

Who says Linux is difficult?

DavidMcCann — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:17:17 GMT

A new computer has just been launched in the UK, with Linux Mint installed and a custom menu. It's being marketed for the middle aged and elderly who have never owned a computer because they found them too complicated!

http://www.discount-age.co.uk/simplicity_computers/

Microsoft awarded a patent for SUDO - sort of...

roystonlodge — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:52:19 GMT

Thought people might be interested in this bizarre piece of patent news:

Microsoft has been awarded a patent for software it calls a "rights elevator", but which others are interpreting as simply another way of saying SUDO.

Click here to read the article on ZDNet

Click here to read another article, this time on Groklaw

Click here for the actual patent, from the Patent Office website

Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

Jeebizz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:15:21 GMT

"The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading "in the wild" in Australia."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8349905.stm

Leeenux Linux v1.3 - distribution for eee netbooks - released today

spiralciric — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:12:18 GMT

Leeenux Linux is UNR based distro mainly made for 7" netbooks. v1.2 had 1700 downloads in one week.
v1.3 is faster and bugs are fixed from the previous version.
To see the independent reviews go here <1> and here <2>
And to see the official website: www.leeenux-linux.com

Internet addresses will internationalised

Jeebizz — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:24:35 GMT

"The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8333194.stm

Canonical Matures Linux-based Netbook OS

dragonslayer48dx — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:38:53 GMT

Canonical on Thursday updated its Linux distribution for netbooks, simplifying the interface and adding new programs that the company says will make it easier for users to access and use Web content.

The Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix is designed to run basic Web and office applications typically used on netbooks. Netbooks are cheap and lightweight laptops characterized by limited computing resources and small screen sizes.

The OS, codenamed Karmic Koala, centralizes applications and bookmarks under a single interface to quickly access programs and Web sites. The new version has a "newer, simpler, more beautiful interface" and is easy to install on the popular netbook models, Canonical said in a statement.

Canonical is offering versions of the OS with a variety of desktop environments, including Gnome, KDE and XFCE. These environments, built on top of the Linux kernel, have unique graphical user interfaces and integrated software.

Read full story.

[INFO] Nouvelix Linux for Internet Cafe

novelist_kesunyian — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:17:14 GMT

I just share information about new linux distribution : Nouvelix Linux
this spesific for Internet Cafe Bussinese

you can free download at www.nouvelix.co.tv

Nouvelix is LIVE CD distro and can be tried before it is installed to the hard disk, thus beginners can learn to advance easily without worrying about losing their old data. Nouvelix can also be installed to Flashdisk considering ISO file size is only 355mb or 50% smaller and more efficient than the general size distribution of 700MB

Nouvelix using the default KDE 3.5 modified like windows XP desktop which have konqueror as a file manager (explorer) that support all network protocols such as http, ftp. Smb, imap, ldap, nfs, NNTP, pop3, smtp and others. KDE also has a view that is userfriendly and community support kde-look.org and could install a good themes to attract visitors cafe. And one more Novelix provide 3D desktop (compiz) and virtualbox

Nouvelix also as a server, both servers billing (CCL) or other servers such as DHCP server, FTP server, SSH server, SMB servers and DNS servers etc.. There is also a graphical firewall (Guardog) and Bluetooth wireless utilities.

Nouvelix have many Internet applications such as mozilla firefox, konqueror, opera, pidgin, gyach (webcam support and plugins are complete), Kopete xchat, mIRC (usually in the windows) is run with wine, GFTP, Kmail, Bitorrent Client and others

Most cafes use a P3 processor and RAM 256, then from the very heavy if you are running Openoffice and finally I decided to use the Office Nouvelix gnumeric, abiword, and kpresent. Openoffice can be installed in the normal way as pkgtool or installpkg and run normally if necessary. There are also Gimp to edit images.

Multimedia applications are also many XMMS, Xine, Kplayer, Mplayer, CDPlayer, Avidemux (Video Converter) and other

Biased BBC review.

rich_c — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:26:48 GMT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technolog...th_ubuntu.html

The bit about installing Wine to use Spotify being too much bother sums up the whole article for me. He couldn't be bothered to do a fair, thorough review.

What's even better is on the Technology page, the link is called '24 hours with Ubuntu' but it's just above 'A week with Windows 7'...

Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone

Jeebizz — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:11:38 GMT

"Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, has said that it is suing its US rival Apple for infringing patents..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8321058.stm

Windows 7 Review (Not Linux but interesting read)

Dubious Dave — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:18:07 GMT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews

Notice how W7 is copying features of Linux/Mac. Also, the author states their is no real reason to switch to W7. Without saying it, he could be summarized as stating W7 is a polished Vista.