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Banshee 1.5.5 Released With Grid View, YouTube Plugin And Gapless Playback

LXer Linux News — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:12:46 +0000

Like we told you a few days ago, Banshee 1.5.5 (aka 1.6 RC1) got a very nice new YouTube extension but the new version also brings some other new features like Grid View and Gapeless Playback:

Jetway NC96 NC96-510-LF

LXer Linux News — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:12:45 +0000

Late last year we reviewed the Jetway NC92 Atom IPC motherboard that was a nice Mini ITX board with an Intel Atom N230 processor. A few weeks after that, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the new Pineview processors were shown off. The Atom N400 and D510 Pineview CPUs are only a moderate upgrade from the very common Diamondville Atoms, but the newer Atoms are beginning to work their way into more nettops and netbooks. Jetway is one of the vendors that was quick to design a new IPC motherboard that bears the Intel Atom D510 dual-core processor with Intel GMA 3150 graphics and the NM10 Express Chipset.

Regional Nagios Server Setup

LXer Linux News — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:12:12 +0000

The major goal of the regional server is to distribute the results of all service checks to the central server. The regional Nagios machines must use OCSP and OCHP in order to send the proper updates to the central server. This tutorial shows you how to set one up.

A Review of Verizon’s One-on-One Droid Training

LXer Linux News — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:10:17 +0000

Here is an account of my experience receiving training from Verizon on my Droid phone. Generally speaking, the training session went very well, but scheduling the training was a real annoyance.

Health check: Mandriva

LXer Linux News — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:10:16 +0000

Mandriva began life in July 1998 as Linux Mandrake in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands...

VPS.NET to Offer CloudLinux OS

LXer Linux News — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:09:45 +0000

CloudLinux Inc., a software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, has announced that VPS.NET, a leader in the cloud hosting arena, will begin to offer CloudLinux as one of its standard Linux Operating Systems (OS) on all of its VPS cloud offerings. VPS.NET is an elastic cloud hosting provider offering instant scalable Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions. By leveraging its Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) technology, the CloudLinux OS allows VPS.NET to deliver increased performance and flexibility to its suite of secure cloud service offerings.

First Fedora 13 Linux Alpha Shows Promise

Linux Today — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:02:14 +0000

Netstat -vat: "The first alpha milestone of the Fedora 13 Linux distribution is now available and it's loaded with a number of innovative features."

William Shatner Takes On Social Networking

timothy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:22:00 +0000

nut writes "Everybody's favourite actor, author and starship captain is bringing some new ideas to the world of social networking. Myouterspace.com is, in the Captain's own words, '...a Sci Fi Social Network for those with a passion for the arts.' Facebook and Myspace should be worried. Sign up now. Go on, you know you want to."

Survey of MySQL Storage Engines

Linux Today — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:03:01 +0000

Database Journal: "MySQL has an interesting architecture that sets it apart from some other enterprise database systems. It allows you to plug in different modules to handle storage. What that means to end users is that it is quite flexible, offering an interesting array of different storage engines with different features, strengths, and tradeoffs."

Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs

timothy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:38:00 +0000

MikeChino writes "A group of scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have devised a way to encode a visible-frequency wireless signal in light emitted by plain old desklamps and other light fixtures. The team was able to achieve a record-setting data download rate of 230 megabits per second, and they expect to be able to double that speed in the near future. While the regular radio-frequency Wi-Fi most of us use currently is perfectly fine, it does have its flaws — it has a limited bandwidth that confines it to a certain spectrum and if you've ever had someone leech off of your connection, you know that it also leaks through walls. LED wireless signals would theoretically have none of these downsides."