Nvidia announced a few days ago, on its forum, a new version of its proprietary driver for the Nvidia graphics cards. Nvidia 195.36.24 adds support for new GPUs, and fixes a few issues. But the most important thing is that Nvidia 195.36.24 has support for X Server 1.8.
Read more »New Nvidia Video Driver for Linux Supports X Server 1.8
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Say Cheese: Building a Photo App for Your Android Device
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Learn how to snap a picture and display it in your application
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Did Ubuntu 10.04 Achieve Its Ten Second Boot Goal?
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Canonical expressed their plans to achieve a ten-second boot time in June of last year for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, with their reference system being a Dell Mini 9 netbook. In February, we last checked on Ubuntu's boot performance and found it close, but not quite there yet, but did they end up hitting this goal for the final release of the Lucid Lynx?
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Cross Compiling Options
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What is your strategy on cross compilation toolchains? Here we explore a few options...
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What Do You Want From NVIDIA's Next Driver?
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With NVIDIA having released a stable 195.xx Linux driver and are working on a second stable update that's due out in the coming days, the bulk of the driver development work is now focused on their next major driver series. This next major driver release from NVIDIA is the 256.xx series, but what are you hoping it will bring forth?
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Recover Data Like a Forensics Expert Using an Ubuntu Live CD
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Plenty of utilities can recover deleted files, but what if you can't boot your computer, or the whole drive has been formatted? Here's how to dig deep and recover the most elusive deleted files, or even whole partitions.
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OpenSSH 5.5 brings minor improvements
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The new of version of OpenSSH is primarily a bug fix version and improves support for a number of platforms
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Stop brute force attacks with iptables
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This technique, use iptables to block a particular IP, that has passed the threshold of a certain number of connections in a given period of time. This only uses IPtables and not DenyHost nor Fail2Ban
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The Ultimate Tar Command Tutorial with 10 Practical Examples
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On Unix platform, tar command is the primary archiving utility. Understanding various tar command options will help you master the archive file manipulation.
Read more »Using graphical su in Fedora
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There are times that I would like to open an app as root user without having to use the command line in order to do that. I learned of a nice app in the Fedora repos called beesu and I will show you how to set up a menu entry to be able to use this nice app.
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Free NVIDIA Fermi Cards To Open-Source Developers
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Prior to launching their next-generation graphics processors, NVIDIA dropped their obfuscated open-source driver and have said they will not provide any open-source support at all for their GeForce GTX 400 "Fermi" series as they just recommended their customers use the X.Org VESA driver until they can install the official binary Linux driver.
Read more »View, Control, Instruct with iTalc
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If you work in an educational or training environment where you instruct users on the ins and outs of using computers, or you need to be able to (for whatever reason) control the PC user's use of a machine, the tools available are often quite expensive or quite difficult to use. Neither is the case in the Linux environment, where tools like iTalc are available.
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Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Ubuntu 9.10
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This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails.
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Squeak 4.1 features improved UI
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The latest 4.1 release of the Squeak implementation of the Smalltalk language and environment features several fundamental improvements, particularly to the UI and integrates Cog’s closure implementation
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JSF implementation Apache MyFaces 2.0 released
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The popular Apache implementation of Java virtualisation technology JavaServer Faces introduces Facelets and for the first time includes a JavaScript library as a fixed component of the technology
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