Sunday, December 5th, 2010
London Stock Exchange smashes world record trade speed with Linux
The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times. The 126 microsecond speed is “twice as fast†as its main international competitors, the London Stock Exchange said. BATS Europe and Chi-X, two dedicated electronic rivals to the LSE, are reported to have an […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Nginx gives Apache a run for its web requests
Nginx (pronounced as engine-X) is beating Apache as a web server in terms of performance. Its being used by WordPress, Hulu and SourceForge. As per recent Netcraft survey, its already the number 3 web server after Apache and Microsoft with 6.62 percent marketshare. In a test carried out by Linux Journal, Nginx beat Apache by […]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Impressive 3d slide transations for OpenOffice presentations
If you want to jazz up your open office presentation, you can install openoffice OpenGL transition library to get very cool 3D transition effects. On Ubuntu, just install this package openoffice.org-ogltrans Now you will have these additional slide transitions which you can use. You would find these at the end of the list of slide […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
A replacement for X finally!
The good old X Server is finally getting a replacement. Wayland will provide a replacement but can co-exists along side X Server for compatibility and features. It will also reduce the complexity today where for 3D effect, we are running Compiz. The X architecture has been around for a decades now. It has gone through […]
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
50 Awesome Open Source Apps
Came across this interesting list of: 50 Awesome Open Source Apps You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of Note: Most of the apps are Windows based..
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
The new Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Malsow’s 5 Hierarchy of needs is commonly know to people, this was updated to 8 a while back. 1. Biological and Physiological needs – air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep, etc. 2. Safety needs – protection from elements, security, order, law, limits, stability, etc. 3. Belongingness and Love needs – work group, family, affection, […]
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Google Sues the United States: Department of Interiors
The US Department of the Interior is looking for a mailing solution for its 88,000 employees. Their tender asks for “Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite-Federal (BPOS-Federal)”. They justify by saying: “Based on extensive market research, the Department determined that although many companies can provide messaging services in general, they either cannot provide services that address […]
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Running torrent downloads on a remote computer
If you are planning to run torrent on a remote computer which you want to control using a browser, then TorrentFlux is for you. It allows multiple users to use one system as a torrent server. I am running TorrentFlux on the Plug Computer, it works well. Its also easy to use and manage. Its […]
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
PDF presentations using PDFCube
While looking for presentation tools, I came across PDF Cube. To use this, you need to convert your presentations into PDF. OpenOffice.org already has this feature of exporting your presentations as PDFs. You also need to install this utility. On Ubuntu its already there in the repository, for other Operating system you can download it. […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Broadcom plays good samaritan by Open Sourcing their WiFi chipset drivers
Broadcom which until now refused to open their Wi-Fi drivers, has released their Linux WiFi Drivers under Open Source. This is great for Linux users, as Broadcom was one of the few chipsets for which there were no open source drivers. While you could use Windows drivers on Linux using NDIS wrapper, it had its […]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
98 percent use Open Source
98 percent of people surveyed out of a total of 75,000 users, confirm that they use Open Source. If you still fall under the 2 percent that doesn’t, please do the honours of telling us why. In fact 48 percent says there is no reason not to use Open Source. Reason for using Open Source: […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
WordPress scaling new heights
WordPress is scaling new heights! For those who came in late, WordPress is the best blogging platform and it open source. You can either use their free blog service at wordpress.com or download WordPress and setup your blog on your own domain. WordPress Vital Stats: WordPress 2.9: 10.3 Million Downloads WordPress 3.0: The recently released […]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
BtrFS to butter your files
BtrFS is the newest filesystem for Linux. Its is likely to replace ext4 at some point of time. Ubuntu 10.10 will include this in October this year. Here is what is interesting about it. Compression on the fly. If you remember Stacker days when you could double your disk space without buying a new disk, […]
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Graphical Network Monitoring tool
If you want to figure out where all your bandwidth is getting used, without bothering with Networking, protocols and IP addresses try Etherape. Etherape provides an easy to understand graph of all your network traffic in real time. This is how it works. It shows all your IPs/computers on your network. The more the traffic […]
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Open CourseWare
For a while now, many of the leading institutes of the world have released all their courseware under and open license. Which means anyone can download them and use them. OpenCourseWare Consortium has a list of all courseware and institutes that are participating. Some of the well known institutes: IIM Bangalore MIT UC Berkeley And […]
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Open Source is winning in mobile phones
Not sure, how many people already know or realise that most of the cellphones sold today are based on Open Source. Android is the fastest growing Operating System for phones is based on Linux. Nokia’s N900 platform runs Linux too. Palm’s (now acquired by HP) WebOS is based on Linux too. Symbian the most popular […]
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Buffalo Technology embraces opensource firmware
Buffalo Technology which makes good WiFi routers has decided to use open source firmware. Instead of their own firmware, they are going to be using DD-WRT instead. DD-WRT is open source and has host of features, which are normally not found in WiFi Routers. DD-WRT also has open firmware for many other routers too. Her […]
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Banks users Ubuntu to prevent online frauds
McLaughlin, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and CIO of CNL Bank is sending Ubuntu bootable live CD to its customesr, this disks will boot into Ubuntu, start Firefox and go straight to the banking website. He believes that desktop computers running Windows are highly vulnerable and this is the best option available. Read the […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Mozilla Thunderbird 3 rocks
I have been using Thunderbird 2 for more than 2 years now, I recently upgraded to Thunderbird 3 and found it very well designed. Here is what I liked: Has an attachment reminder, so if you write “please see the attached… ” and then forgot to attach, it reminds you. Neat! Tabbed emails. Used to […]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
New Plug Computer 3.0
After clocking 10,000 + Units of the Plug Computer, Marvell is releasing Plug Computer 3.0. For those who came in late, Plug is a small lower powered computer which can do those nightly downloads, uploads, data captures, image captures from web cams and more. What new? 2.0 GHz 1 Watt power consumption Gigabit Ethernet Wifi […]
