A few weeks ago was the Ubuntu laptop Satchbook of rocking at my guest. Unfortunately, the time is currently a bit short with me, from there, you had to wait a little longer on the report and the other is the post in my blog about the device is slightly shorter. Does not matter, because the Linux community, there is the contribution that I've written for the Linux User 11/2011 to read fully online. Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe even a quick tip for those who are about to update their Ubuntu system, or have already gone through this work. Alin Andrei from WebUpd8 blog has its managers PPA Y donated a function that can be especially after upgrading to the new Ubuntu version useful. During the upgrade so any additional repositories be disabled. Read the rest of this entry »

Buyer of the former Humble bundles will surely have already found the corresponding mail in your mail box. The Humble Bundle comes in again for another round! This time it is again a special “bundle” because you can only buy one game Frozen Synapse. But who pays more than the current Average, who gets the games of Frozenbyte bundles on top for free. Read the rest of this entry »

About the Kraftfuttermischwerk I've encountered a few days ago at this time-lapse video. Taken from the ISS, we see how America passes under the camera. You can see the lights of big cities, you can recognize as storm clouds to bring the lights and then finally as the sun rises again. The whole video, I find it incredibly impressive and beautiful. Read the rest of this entry »

A few days ago I told you so, reports that the Linux Counter has a new owner who wants the project of the Census Linux push back a bit. To easily transfer the data from its system to the counter, there was always a script, but this required an executable mail server on the system. Installed something which very few users of a desktop Linux have or want to install. Read the rest of this entry »

The biggest hook on the HP touchpad and WebOS is the lack of applications. For iOS and Android, there are tens of thousands of programs in the corresponding “app stores”. The HP App Catalog, however, prevails while the other hand, not emptiness, but the selection is not huge. Especially for German speaking users lack the killer apps such as the ZDF Tagessschau app or library. Read the rest of this entry »

The Linux Counter is under counter.li.org actually already old hat. The project has been trying since 1993 all Linux systems in the world to count. Unfortunately, however, a rather tedious task because you must enter its systems there by hand. The Linux Counter is therefore more of a voluntary census as a real counter. Read the rest of this entry »

There are cases in which you want your own Linux system can send messages. An example would be cron, which can send in case of problems, status messages. Or you have a Web server installed on the mail using the PHP function mails to be sent, etc., but specially set up heavy chunks as Postfix, Sendmail and Co. Read the rest of this entry »

The Cable Gate Despatches contain probably also a few interesting details “vs. FOSS. Microsoft “conflict. Allow a message to the American Embassy in Venezuela from 2006 to the plans of the government of Venezuela only free software in government, education and government-sponsored enterprises, the author gives price, as well Microsoft was able to convince local decision makers, but the smear per based on proprietary software. Read the rest of this entry »

Did you know that one with a FRITZ! simply record all traffic that can run on the box? To do this you just need to go http://fritz.box/html/capture.html, you log on and start recording at the desired network interface. The result is then stored as tcpdump on the local hard disk and can be opened directly in Wireshark for example. Read the rest of this entry »