BNC4Free by TechVision
TechVision IRC Bouncers started in 2007 by Daniel Crowther (spacemud) and Norek Jones (Russell), providing free BNC`s for IRC users. For more information on the Policy`s and Network listings, please visit bnc4free.info
To sign-up for a free BNC account, join #bnc4free @ irc.makaiwell.com and ask there. (Read the Policy`s carefully, then fill up the ‘Request’ form on the website).
You will be only given one BNC account. Need more bounces? Then please donate, view the Donations page.
For newbies.
What is BNC?
Bouncer, often abbreviated as ‘BNC’, is used to relay traffic and connections in computer networks, much like a proxy. Using a bouncer allows a user to hide the original source of the user’s connection, providing privacy as well as the ability to route traffic through a specific location.
Is it psyBNC?
No. TechVision uses ZNC v0.062, an advanced IRC bouncer with many advance features, modules and comes with a web-interface, so that the admins can add/remove/edit users and global settings and non admins can edit their own user settings.
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Tags: BNC4Free, Free BNC, TechVision, ZNC
SouthEast LinuxFest
The SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Free & Open Source software. It is part educational conference, and part social gathering. Like Linux itself, it is shared with attendees of all skill levels to communicate tips, ideas, and to benefit all who use Linux/Free and Open Source Software. LinuxFest is the place to learn, to make new friends, to network with new business partners, and most importantly, to have fun!
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Ubuntu 8.10 is linux familly that has been rank 1 on distro watch, because it is fancied by linux lover. Beside that, It has beautiful desktop with compiz fusion and many distribution like Kubuntu8.10, Xubuntu8.10, and Edubuntu8.10. In Ubuntu 8.10 repository, Kubuntu8.10, Edubuntu8.10, and Xubuntu 8.10 are provide in it. To enjoy the ubuntu distribution, you must have ubuntu DVD repository that registered in sources.list or you are able to use internet repository.
Following the installation of Ubuntu distribution:
1. Kubuntu8.10 is famous with KDE Desktop that is very cosset user and user friendly
$ sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
After the installation finished, please restart your computer. to enable Kubuntu 8.10 Desktop, please change your mode session is KDE at login.
$ sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
After the installation finished, please restart your computer. To enable Xubuntu 8.10 Desktop, please change your mode session when login.
3. Installation Edubuntu Desktop through Ubuntu8.10
$ sudo apt-get install edubuntu-desktop
After the installation finished, please restart your computer. to enable Edubuntu 8.10 Desktop, please change your mode session when login.
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Tags: Kubuntu8.10, Ubuntu8.10
Windows 7: External Hard Drive
Good news, netbook users: There’s a reasonably easy way to install the Windows 7 Release Candidate, even if you don’t have an external DVD drive.
As you may recall from yesterday, Windows 7 gets downloaded as an ISO file and then extracted to a DVD for installation. But netbooks lack DVD drives, meaning you need to find a workaround.
My preferred method is installing Windows 7 from an external hard drive. You need one with about 5GB of free space. The process, which takes a little less than an hour, goes like this:
1. Download the Windows 7 Release Candidate (32-bit) from Microsoft.
2. Connect your external hard drive to your PC (not your netbook). Ideally it should be empty, as it’s going to get littered with Windows 7 installer files, but that’s not crucial. You just need to make sure it has at least 5GB of available space.
3. In Vista: Click Start, type computer management, then press Enter. In XP: Head to the Control Panel, open Administrative Tools, and then open Computer Management.
4. Click Disk Management, then find your external hard drive in the list on the right (in the upper pane). Right-click the drive and choose Mark Partition as Active. Approve whatever warnings Windows issues.
5. Now you need to extract the Windows 7 ISO file to your drive. I used the trial version of Undisker for this, but any number of utilities will do the job (including Nero, MagicISO, WinZip, etc.). If you go with Undisker, click File, Open, navigate to the folder containing your ISO, then open it. Click Image, Extract To, then navigate to the root folder of your external hard drive. Click Extract and wait a few minutes for the process to finish.
6. Safely remove your external drive, then plug it into your netbook and power up. It may be necessary to venture into the BIOS to change the boot order so that USB drives are detected first, but many netbooks let you bring up a boot menu by hitting a function key. On my Acer Aspire One, for instance, a tap of F12 during the POST screen lets me choose my desired boot drive.
7. Assuming the USB drive boots correctly, the Windows 7 installer should start right up. Follow all the prompts and you’re on your way.
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Tags: External Hard Drive, Windows 7
Moblin 2.0
“Moblin 2.0, is a stripped-down distribution of Linux optimised for smaller screens on netbooks and mobile Internet devices (MIDs). Intel has fine-tuned Moblin for netbooks based on Atom chips with a simple user interface and improved power-saving features.
“Most netbooks today ship with Intel’s Atom chip but run the Windows XP operating system, which Microsoft ships for low-cost laptops. But Intel wants to ensure that every “ounce” of technology – including Moblin – put into Atom is optimised for size and power consumption, said Doug Fisher, vice president and general manager of the software and services group at Intel.”
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Windows 7 out this Christmas?
At the Microsoft TechEd conference now taking place in Los Angeles, Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte said: “”We’re tracking well to deliver Windows 7 in time for holiday availability based on the groundswell of feedback we received from the partner ecosystem, customers and through our own internal testing from pre-beta to now,” reports the Wall Street Journal. (Reuters also has the story.)
Previous statements have been limited to “within three years of Vista” — and that was held back so as to miss the Christmas shopping season. (Not every PC manufacturer would have been able to ship before Christmas, which was seen as not providing a level playing field. However, Microsoft did make Vista available to businesses in November 2006.)
Veghte also said that “large customers including Del Monte Foods and window maker Pella Corp planned to deploy Windows 7 early”. Companies typically wait until the first Service Pack appears after 12-18 months, since this provides some assurance that major bugs have been shaken out.
Windows watchers have long assumed that Windows 7 will ship this year, with some estimates much earlier than others. That’s reasonable based on the quality of the public beta code and the fact that Microsoft has said there will only be one RC (release candidate) version, not two or three.
Microsoft, however, always repeats the “ship when ready” mantra, partly because the final stages are beyond its control. It depends on the PC manufacturers to sort out their own Windows 7 installations and get PCs into the retail channels.
The next important date to be announced will be the “Windows 7 free” date: Microsoft tells customers that it will provide a “free” (plus shipping costs) upgrade to Windows 7 for anyone who buys a PC after a certain date, to encourage them to buy rather than wait.
Frankly, it should make that date now. In fact, it would be a great idea to offer Windows 7 to everyone who ever bought a Vista PC, but it’s not going to happen. It would enrage the shareholders who are hoping Windows 7 will kick off an upgrade cycle that is going to boost the Windows Client division’s declining profits.
Update: Microsoft can do RC to RTM in two months, and OEMs can do RTM to the shelves in two months, so the earliest date for Windows 7 would be around September 1. If Microsoft assumed three months instead of two (because it’s not rushing) then it could still make November 1. That makes the date Acer gave — October 23 — plausible. It could be earlier, but Ed Bott tells me the US holiday shopping season starts by November 1, so it probably won’t be later. Unless something goes wrong.
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If you have $40,000, what would you buy? A new car? Kick-ass home entertainment system? Or an expensive 1GB iPod Shuffle? Well, in case you are super rich, somewhat nuts and have else to worry about, I guess then the diamond studded iPod Shuffle designed by jeweler Thomas Heyerdahl may be just perfect for you.
The blinged out iPod is an Apple music player that originally sells for about $50 but Heyerdahl amazingly transformed it into the most expensive MP3 player. The iDiamond iPod features 18 karat of pink and white gold set with 430 diamonds.
The iDiamond is based on a special design by Norwegian jeweler Heyerdahl and was already auctioned off to a British businessman for GBP 20,000. On a positive note: Proceeds went to charity.
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Tags: $40.000 iDiamond Apple iPod Shuffle, Apple iPod, cool mp3 players
The Optimus Maximus Keyboard, is probably the most expensive keyboard in the world. It features an OLED (organic light emitting diode) screen in each key (yes, EACH key). Each key is fully programmable, you can insert a photo, a symbol a solid color, or anything you like! plus, you can programm each key to do a certain function (like open a specific program or start the email application). It really is an imppressive piece of computer engineering. Designed by Art Lebedev, the Optimus Maximus Keyboard is truly for the geek inside you.
Click here for a demo or visit the official website at www.artlebedev.com
Price: US$1,589.99
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Tags: Expensive Keyboard, Optimus Maximus
1: Ext 4 file system
Yes, it’s still in development, and it’s probably not wise to use on production systems, but what ext4 promises will be a real boon to enterprise-level computing (especially on the server end). With the ext4 file system, you will find support for volumes up to 1 exabyte and files sizes up to 16 terabytes. The ext4 file system also replaces traditional block mapping with extents. An extent is a range of single, contiguous physical blocks, which will improve performance for large files as well as reduce fragmentation. Another ext4 feature that will be of interest for enterprise-level needs is that it breaks the 32,000 subdirectory barrier found in ext3. With ext4, a directory can now hold 64,000 subdirectories. Finally, ext4 employs checksums to improve the reliability of journals. Not only will this improve reliability, it will also avoid disk I/O during the journaling process, providing a slight boost to performance.
2: GNOME 2.26.1
This is the first update to the 2.26 release of GNOME, and the bug fixes are aplenty. Most notable fixes for the desktop are for GNOME Desktop Core, Nautilus (file manager), Brasero (CD Burning suite), Evolution (groupware suite), GNOME Panel, Glib, and gtk+. After about a week’s worth of use, I can safely say this is probably the most stable, useful GNOME I have experienced. It was also helpful that Ubuntu did a bit of tweaking to the standard GNOME menu layout. Many of the changes won’t be immediately apparent, but will be noticed over time as you use various features. One nice improvement is placing the logout button outside the menu system and making it a panel button. Now logging out, restarting, or shutting down is as simple as a button click. Another outstanding new feature is MAPI support in Evolution.
3: Speed
Ubuntu 9.04 shows a marked improvement in both the boot process and the desktop. The biggest improvement is with the boot process. I have noticed the boot process of machines running 9.04 cut at least in half. The desktop has also enjoyed a boost in speed, with applications starting up in a fraction of their usual times. Most notable are startup times for OpenOffice and Firefox.
4: Cleanup Janitor
This new feature allows users to remove junk from their system to save space. Cleanup Janitor cleans up packages that were installed to meet dependencies but that are no longer needed, packages that are no longer supported, and configuration tweaks that are missing from the system. This utility will automatically find anything on your system that is not needed and give you the option to either remove it or fix it. You will find that a fresh installation won’t have much cruft (if any). But Cleanup Janitor will become useful over time when applications leave enough behind to pile up and take up space.
5: Nautilus encryption
This is one outstanding feature that was built into the Nautilus file manager. From within any directory (that you have permissions to act upon), you can right-click a file (or directory) and you will see two new menu entries: Encrypt and Sign. Of course, you’ll have to have a key generated to use either of these menu entries. Fortunately for those users new to encryption, an outstanding GUI for that very purpose is included with Ubuntu 9.04. Once a key is generated, a user can encrypt and/or sign directories and files with a simple right-click from within Nautilus.
6: Xorg 1.6
With the inclusion of 1.6, more video cards will find support from Ubuntu. ATI video cards will enjoy EXA acceleration by default, R6xx and R7xx cards will have 2D support, R5xx cards will have 3D support, and an updated (albeit proprietary) fglrx driver offers R6xx/R7xx 3D support. NVidia cards will no longer need to install a proprietary driver, thanks to the Nouveau drivers. Much time has been put into reverse engineering these drivers so that users of NVidia can enjoy outstanding performance and features while still enjoying open source drivers. You will also find much improved multi-monitor support.
7: Notifications and system messages
One of the nits to be picked in past releases was that notifications and system messages seemed to be done by many people, which lead to an inconsistent feel. Ubuntu now has a unified notification system. This system combines the notifications of all applications into a single interface. This also includes new, unified icons for notifications. This will keep the notification area much cleaner than prior releases.
8: Native ARM support
This is going to be a real boon for those who own or plan to release mid to low-end ARM-based netbooks. It’s especially interesting since Freescale is planning the release of an ARM-based sub-$200 netbook within the year. You may have an ARM-based PC or netbook lying around just waiting to be given new life. If so, Ubuntu 9.04 is what you need. If you don’t have an ARM-based netbook handy, rest assured that soon, ARM-based netbooks will hit the shelves. When they do, you’ll be ready with Ubuntu.
9: Better menu layout
I mentioned this briefly, but it deserves much more attention. One of the issues that can hinder a good user experience on a desktop is intuitive menus. GNOME has come a long way with this, but it needed a little help from Ubuntu. Now the default GNOME menu system makes perfect sense. Everything is not only where you think it should be, it’s all easy to navigate. Even some of the OpenOffice components are split out of the Office menu (one example is OpenOffice Draw, now on the Graphics menu.) I was never a huge GNOME fan, but I have to say with regard to menu layout, it’s the best of the best.
10: Better wireless support
Much of this comes thanks to the 2.6.28 kernel, where a more feature-rich wireless stack has been worked in. The wireless in the kernel also has a farther reaching support for wireless devices. Thankfully, this will translate to fewer users having to install drivers to get their wireless NICs and cards to work.
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Tags: 10 reasons, Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu One: Future of Ubuntu?
This service looks very similar to what other popular online storage service like dropbox already does, except that Ubuntu One (pro service) is more expensive than Dropbox and the fact that dropbox client already supports Linux very well that it makes little sense to use Ubuntu One as an online storage service.
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