Softpedia: “Canonical, the company behind the very popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, recognizes the potential of the emerging market and has partnered with Intel and Eucalyptus to promote its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) offering as part of Intel’s Cloud Builder program.”
code prole writes “With two upcoming trips to Germany, and no readily available Internet (WiFi or otherwise) in the location where we’ll be staying, I’m looking for a no-contract USB stick and pre-paid data plan. Vodafone has a huge selection of USB sticks but has proven to be unresponsive to questions about data plans. And the US-based T-Mobile Help Center was clueless about getting the device in Europe and using it there. Hopefully the Slashdot community has some suggestions. Any duds to avoid?”
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The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization, announced that its affiliate organization LPI-Spain ) had partnered with Proyecto Universidad Empresa (PUE) to promote LPI certification and training within Spain’s public schools. PUE is Spain’s leading agency in the development of IT training and certification and provides academic programs for such major IT organizations as Microsoft, Cisco and Sun.
harryjohnston writes “The Register points out that the takedown of a significant number of Zeus command-and-control servers, which we discussed earlier, was a short-lived victory, as about one-third of the affected servers were back on the net in less than 48 hours.” Adds itwbennet: “Just hours after network connectivity to Troyak was severed the ISP peered with a new upstream Internet service provider named Ya. The next step will be to ‘de-peer’ Troyak from its new service provider, either an ISP named Nassist or its upstream provider, Hurricane Electric, said a researcher familiar with the matter. ‘We have taken some of their territory, they are trying to out flank us,’ the researcher said via IM. ‘We are going to win this one — we have ‘em boxed in.’”
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For a few years I have been trying to create a “distributed cluster storage system” (see below) on standard Linux hardware. I have been unsuccessful. I have looked into buying one and they do exist, but are so expensive I can’t afford one. They also are designed for much larger enterprises and have tons of features I don’t want or need. I am hoping the Linux community can help me create this low cost “distributed cluster storage system” which I think other small businesses could use. Please help me solve this so we can publish the solution to the open source community.
10 Things: “Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels. You might be violating one of them without even knowing.”
Ex-Sun open source veteran Simon Phipps has been elected to the board of directors at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) group. Phipps confirmed in a blog post today that he would start his new role on 1 April. On Monday he quit Oracle-owned Sun, where – prior to Larry Ellison’s acquisition of the database firm – he had worked for nearly a decade. His resignation marked the latest in a long line of big guns at Sun who have left the firm following Oracle’s $7bn takeover.
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:
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.
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.