Comparison of Python virtual machines
Polish Linux: "In this article I'm going to go through some details about what is going on under the hood when you run a Python program, as well how those details have changed over the years in different python's implementations ranging from original CPython (Python implementation in C) all the way to the newest implementations like PyPy."
Sparkle GeForce 9500GT 1GB
Phoronix: "We've checked out ATI's Radeon HD 4550 low-end graphics card already and found it to be a nice solution for Linux users on a budget, but how does NVIDIA's competitor contend? In this review we are looking at the NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT from Sparkle."
Where to Find Royalty-Free Cliparts for OpenOffice.org?
Free Your Media: "Open source office suite needs some decent open and royalty-free cliparts. This tutorial presents valuable clipart repositories and an extension which enables direct downloading of graphics into the OpenOffice.org documents."
Linux Dedicated server
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Stop Complaint and Begin to Contribute the Patch
17Lamp.net: "The thread became the hot in some forums in China. Many replies encourage this student to keep it on and expect him to win more achievement. But there is a few of replies complain it's no worth celebration, They complained this student only patch one very small bug."
Android: Not So Open After All?
InformationWeek: "Google caught wind of it, and pulled a move eerily similar to what Apple has done in the past with the iPhone. Google issued an over-the-air firmware update that buttoned Android back up."
This One Is For The LOLZ
Ubuntu Tutorials: "Its hilarious sometimes what you find trolling identi.ca and twitter. If you're up for some lolz install the "sl" package..."
Stupefying Linux and Unix Humor
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "This ones a "stupid humor" type of page (just what the doctor ordered when you've thought yourself into a migraine headache ;) from a few years back. It's from site called Computer Stupidities in their Stupid Tech Support section. It's a collection of a ton of experiences folks have either written in about, or the editors have made up (hard to tell, but, then again... does it matter?)"
Ubuntu from your flash drive - easier than ever before
As you have probably noticed, new versions have arrived of Ubuntu, Xubuntu and other derivatives. One of the most exciting new features has received far less publicity than it deserves - the ability to "install" it onto your USB flash drive with just a few clicks. The advantages are obvious: just plug your flash drive into a computer and run your favourite operating system. What's more, everything you do â€" installing applications, saving documents, editing preferences â€" will be saved to your flash drive and will be available to you every time you run it! The best news is that it's astoundingly easy: all it takes is a few clicks.
Java ME on Android
"Each new software platform, including Android, at the beginning is struggling with a small number of the available applications. This is why Google spent $10 million trying to attract developers to their Android Developer Challenge before G1 phone release. Taking advantage of an opportunity to run large number of existing Java ME applications may determine a significant value for the Android platform. This is also occasion for developers to reduce cost preparing mobile software for a smaller number of platforms at the same time. MicroEmulator, which is pure Java implementation of Java ME API's in Java SE, seems to be very well suited for the Android."
Is Smolt the Key to Counting Linux Users?
Smolt is a opt-in hardware profiler developed by Fedora Project and now adopted by OpenSUSE and in consideration by Ubuntu as well. While originally developed for understanding commonly used hardware, InternetNews looks at the potential for Smolt to be a tool to count Linux users. "Smolt could also potentially be a tool for counting the total number of users for a given platform, though that's not its ideal use case. The Linux Foundation's Ts'o noted that Smolt probably wound not be that great for counting Linux users as a whole. Fedora's Frields agreed, noting that Smolt is probably not as good for counting users as it is for counting proportional use of hardware across the user base. 'We prefer to count users with other methods, which we document on our wiki openly and transparently,' Frields said."
Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight
Locus Magazine: "Why does all this copyright reform stuff matter, anyway? What's at stake? Everything. "
Lazy Linux: 11 Secrets forLazy Cluster Admins
Cluster means different things to different people. In the context of this article, cluster is best defined as scale-out -- scale-out clusters generally have a lot of the same type of components like Web farms, render farms, and high performance computing (HPC) systems. Administrators will tell you that with scale-out clusters any change, no matter how small, must be repeated up to hundreds of thousands of times; the laziest of admins have mastered techniques of scale-out management so that regardless of the number of nodes, the effort is the same. In this article, the authors peer into the minds of the laziest Linux® admins on Earth and divulge their secrets.
Worst. Bug. Ever.
There's a bug in Android that crosses over from the realm of serious into self-parody: "It turns out the bug in Android I wrote about yesterday was worse than we thought. When the phone booted it started up a command shell as root and sent every keystroke you ever typed on the keyboard from then on to that shell. Thus every word you typed, in addition to going to the foreground application would be silently and invisibly interpreted as a command and executed with superuser privileges. Wow !"
Red Hat and AMD migrate VMs across CPUs between different vendors
Red Hat and AMD have just done the so-called impossible, and demonstrated VM live migration across CPU architectures. Not only that, they have demonstrated it across CPU vendors. "If you look at the video here ,you will see that they did it. Live migration while streaming HD video isn't all that bad a trick mind you, but doing it between a Barcelona, Shanghai and Intel box is. 36 more of these, and we will be in great shape." Only a few months ago during VMworld, Intel and VMware claimed that this was impossible. Looking at the initial reaction , VMware is quite irked by this accomplishment by Red Hat using KVM technology and they are pointing to stability concerns. Red Hat has been a heavy contributor to KVM and acquired Qumranet, the original developers of KVM a while back. This move by Red Hat helps commodotis and consolidate hardware better benefiting customers.
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