Archive for November, 2012
Friday, November 30th, 2012
10 reasons to choose Ubuntu 12.10 over Windows 8
From PC World. Ubuntu is a widely popular open-source Linux distribution with eight years of maturity under its belt, and more than 20 million users. Of the roughly 5 percent of desktop OSs accounted for by Linux, at least one survey suggests that about half are Ubuntu. (Windows, meanwhile, accounts for about 84 percent.) The […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
Linux brings over €10 million savings for Munich
Over €10 million (approximately £8 million or $12.8 million) has been saved by the city of Munich, thanks to its development and use of the city’s own Linux platform. The calculation of savings follows a question by the city council’s independent Free Voters (Freie Wähler) group, Read More. Urge your city to save money from taxes, its […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
Apple may use the ARM processor for its MacBook
Apple may be considering switching from Intel processors to ARM chips used in iPhones and iPads for its range of Mac personal computers, said a media report. Published in Bloomberg, the report cited three anonymous sources who said Apple believes that the processors used in its mobile devices will be robust enough to power its […]
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Sunday, November 11th, 2012
Disabling reverse (natural) scrolling in Ubuntu 12.10
After installing Ubuntu 12.10, the first thing I wanted to do, was to disable reverse scrolling – you scroll down and it scrolls up! This is also called natural scrolling by Apple. Don’t know what is natural about it 🙂 but may be natural for Apple users. Open the terminal and edit this file using […]
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
Netflix open sources their cloud monitoring tool
At Netflix we need to be able to quickly query and analyze our AWS resources with widely varying search criteria. For instance, if we see a host with an EC2 hostname that is causing problems on one of our API servers then we need to find out what that host is and what team is […]
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
HTC One X upgraded to One X+
HTC has upgraded the One X with One X+ It now has a 1.7 GHZ quad-core processor 64 GB Memory 2100 mAh battery to give you upto 50% more usage If you are using HTC One X, then there is not much for you. If you are planning on buying the HTC One X, you […]
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
Samsung Nexus 10 tablet beats iPad4
Google Nexus range has announced the Nexus 10 which beats the iPad 4 in display resolution, where is what is cool: Dual Core 1.7 GHz processor vs iPads 1.4 GHz Dual Core 2GB RAM vs 1GB on ipad 4 Display resolution: 2560X1600 300 PPI vs 264PPI of iPad 10″ Display vs iPad’s 9.7″ Weight 603gms […]
