SSV has added optional WiFi and GSM/GPRS networking to a small industrial PC targeting M2M (machine-to-machine) applications. The Com/PC is available with a Pentium M or Geode processor, runs Linux or Windows, and targets remote maintenance, tank field monitoring, telemetry, and POS/vending machine applications.
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Linux: Debugging With "git bisect"
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Following up to a bug report against the 2.6.22 kernel, Andrew Morton and Linus Torvalds offered some tips on how to debug kernel problems. Andrew first pointed to netconsole.txt for instructions on setting up a netconsole, "when the machine has stalled, see if you can get a task trace with ALT-SYSRQ-t.
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Migrating to Linux in the Enterprise Using Vendor-independent Formats
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In order for a migration to be successful, one needs to be familiar with native Linux applications, and the data needs to be stored in a format that is independent from just a single application.
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Support Open Source: Seduce A Woman Today
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...that contributing to open source is a form of philanthropy, ostensibly helping others more than ourselves, but that it's a similar "costly signal" to show the strength of our genes--"I have commit access, therefore you should marry me".
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Virtualization: A New Reality for Corporate IT
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In this day and age, most of us have a computer powerful enough to handle most of the applications we need and use. Making sure you have the right hardware, the right drivers and an application compatible with your operating system can be a challenge. In a corporate environment, invariably there is a diversity of hardware and users with different requirements.
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coLinux - Cooperative Linux Short Review
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The problem is, for me, and many other developers, administrators or just normal users, that if you want to use applications from different OS, you have to reboot and boot into the other OS. Sometimes, when you, for example, just want to do a quick test of newly compiled application, and go back to work, it is very inconvenient and time consuming.
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Installing Gobuntu 7.10 - Linux For Free People
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Gobuntu is a just like Kubuntu or Xubuntu, a flavor of the Ubuntu distribution that has a very strict set of restrictions on the licenses of code and content.
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The Best Game in Town
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In October 2006, Terra Soft announced its plan to build the world's first supercomputing cluster using the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), which utilizes the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux operating system. The idea emerged when Sony Computer Entertainment came knocking on Terra Soft's door, interested in showing that the PS3 is more than merely a game box.
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An interview with Jeremy Allison of Samba
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Forget software politics for a minute -- what does the new Samba licensing mean for the version you're actually running, and for the distribution that packages it for you? Samba maintainer Jeremy Allison explains.
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Firefox gains at IE's expense in Europe
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Mozilla's Web browser, Firefox, has gained on average an extra 3.1 percent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French Web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor.
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"Owning" a Trademark - The SugarCRM et al License Debate
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There is a discussion going on at SugarCRM's forum page, "Why the Sugar license is mad, bad and may be dangerous" -- part of a much larger discussion that Matt Aslett captures well in this article on the current state of such non-OSI-approved licenses -- that reminded me that I've been meaning to explain something to you about trademarks.
Read more »Enabling Beryl On A PCLinuxOS 2007 Desktop
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This tutorial shows how you can enable Beryl on a PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With Beryl you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube.
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Shred tip: Securely remove multiple files so no one can recover file again
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Shred utility overwrites a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it if needed. The idea is pretty simple as it overwrites the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. By default file is overwritten 25 times.
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Open Source Filtering Solutions and the Spam Problem
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Let us face it, modern e-mail communication relying on SMTP is fundamentally broken - there is no sender authentication. There are lot of countermeasures in form of filtering and add-on authentication, but neither of them are proved to be 100% successful (that is 100% hit ratio with 0% of false positives).
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Four Surprises In the Linux Market
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The VAR Guy is packing his bags and plans to attend Ubuntu LIVE July 22 in Portland, Oregon. While prepping for the event, he spotted four key developments in the Linux market — including a possible surprise announcement from Hewlett-Packard Co.
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