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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Thursday, October 4th, 2012
Marvell Plug gets a SMILE
Developed in conjunction with the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment (SMILE) program, the SMILE Plug is a cloud computing server that supports a wide array of SMILE learning applications. the SMILE Plug creates a micro-cloud within a classroom that is controlled by the instructor, creating a secure, private, and robust classroom connection for up to […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2012
HP Releases Two Beta Versions of Open-Source WebOS
Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source webOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu Linux desktop, and one for the “OpenEmbedded” development environment, intended to help developers port webOS to new devices. The August Edition, as the webOS team calls the latest release on the project website, consists of […]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
What users are saying about open clouds
Market research firm IDC says that data from a new survey shows that “open cloud is key for 72 percent of customers.” Read More.
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
The State Of Linux — How Even Apple Is Going Open Source
Apple — one of the most closed companies in the world — is actually using lot of open source and software. Licensing information in the Apple iPhone proves this. Go to the legal section on the iPhone and it cites Linux Kernel developer Ted Ts’o for his code. Linux Suse is there, too. Zemlin made […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
OpenStack could be the Linux of the cloud
OpenStack has the potential to become as widely used in cloud computing as Linux in servers, according to Rackspace’s chief executive Lanham Napier. Napier noted that OpenStack has more code contributors than Linux did when it started: it had 206 code contributors by its 84th week, whereas Linux took 615 weeks to get to that […]
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
XBMC coming to Android
XBMC Media Center is a very popular free and open source cross platform media player application that is developed by the XBMC Foundation. Being an open source application, XBMC media center software is available for multiple operating-systems and hardware platforms. It has been a popular alternative to Windows Media Centre and likes, and now the […]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2012
Eight features Windows 8 borrowed from Linux
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal!” — Pablo Picasso said it. So did T.S. Eliot. And, more recently, Steve Jobs. Let’s face it: If something makes sense and succeeds, it gets imitated. Though Windows 8 and Linux distributions differ greatly from each other in design, ideology and — last but not least — their primary […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Open Source solution to Microsoft Azure
Build on VMWare CloudFoundry, IronFoundry offers .NET support in the Cloud. Cloud Foundry is VMWare’s PaaS solution which is open sourced. Tier 3 (the company behind IronFoundry) has take the code and added support for .NET.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Why OpenStack is important
OpenStack is the future of Cloud computing. Founded by NASA and Rackspace it aims to provide a fully scalable open source cloud infrastructure. This can be deployed to build a public cloud or your own private cloud. Here are the reasons why I believe OpenStack will be successful. Its completely Open Source, hence it is […]
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
After free online courseware now MIT is offering free online leaning
After the success of Open Courseware, MIT is planning to launch free online learning courses. MIT Open Courseware is now 10 years old, wow! The online course will be called MITx. It will not earn you an MIT degree however it will still give you a certificate of completion. The course will be free, the […]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
LibreOffice coming to Android, iOS and to the Web
At the LibreOffice Conference, they announced that they will be releasing versions for Android and iOS. They also plan to release an online version which you could host on your own as well to offer web based office suite. This would a boon to companies wanting to offer Google Docs but want it hosted in […]
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Quicktext for Thunderbird 7
I have been using Quicktext as an addon for Thunderbird for a while now and find it very useful. Recently I upgraded to Thunderbird 7 with Ubuntu 11.10. The Quicktext download doesn’t work beyond version 6. So I modified it to work with Thunderbird 7. It has been working well for me, if you want […]
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
HP should open source webOS
Looks like HP is going to kill webOS. HP webOS as a part of the Palm acquisition. I sometimes wonder why did HP acquire Palm in the first place?  anyways,  webOS is the new operating system which Palm decided to ditch their OS kernel use Linux as their kernel as Linux has mult-tasking. Since webOS is […]
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Patents hoarders are the new age mafia
[amazon_link id=”0470339454″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Earlier Microsoft sued Android phone makers, now Oracle is suing Google for Android. Patents were to protect innovators instead its being used to stop innovation. The big old daddies of the IT industry are going after the new companies. The old ones have nothing new to innovate. Thy are too comfortable […]
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Get an Open PC
What is special about the Open-PC? Hardware and Software is selected by the Linux Community The PC is preconfigured and easy to use by everybody Telephone and Email support is included. Only free software is used, including the drivers Only fully documented hardware is used There are different manufacturers who build and sell the Open-PCs […]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
LibreOffice 3.3 offers more than OpenOffice
After Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, OpenOffice was forked to create LibreOffice. Since LibreOffice is derived from OpenOffice, they have all the feature of OpenOffice plus more. Here is full list of features and few useful ones: Import SVG pictures* into Draw and edit them interactively. Import MS Works, Lotus WordPro and Wordperfect files. Presentation view extension bundled […]
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
50 Open Source Applications for Sci-Tech Education
This article has a nice list of 50 open source applications for science education. Open Source: Astronomy and Space Exploration 1. Celestia A perennial favorite, Celestia allows users to view the night skies from any point on earth at any time or to see how the sky would look from any point in the known universe. […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
ASUS RT-N16 wireless gigabit router with DDWRT rocks
When I was looking at getting a new wireless router, I started looking at what users had to say about their experience. The first user reviews said the ASUS RT-N16 Wireless-N Gigabit Router is an excellent hardware with poor software. So it suggested to flash the firmware with DD-WRT. So I decided to get this […]
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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Bringing internet to the difficult terrains
AirJaldi is an organisation which has pioneered the art of creating mesh WiFi networks. They have managed to reach Internet to the hills in Dharamshala, where connectivity is a challenge. Here is a full writeup about them. Some interesting quotes 🙂 The open-source community has also dabbled extensively in it, creating a suite of free software. Most […]
