With the recent explosion of cloud computing services , developers now have more opportunities than ever to take advantage of enterprise-scale computing platforms. However, most cloud computing services, such as Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), have unique and incompatible APIs. This has provided a challenge for organizations wanting to develop in-house applications that can later be seamlessly...
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Google will announce more information about Chrome OS at a press event that starts at 10:00am PST. Google will offer "an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology, and launch plans for next year. Speakers will include Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director for Google Chrome...
With the FreeBSD 8.0 release now available, we reached out to NVIDIA to find out the status of their 64-bit BSD display driver, now that this operating system carries the necessary mmap extension support in their 64-bit kernel for their proprietary graphics driver to function. Andy Ritger, who heads the user-space side of NVIDIA's UNIX Graphics Driver team and was previously interviewed by Phoronix,...
As you probably already know, I run a company called Callisto.fm with a couple of other guys. We're always looking for ways to make the process of submitting feeds to Callisto as easy as possible. It's easy enough to just copy and paste a podcast's RSS feed into our suggestion box, but sometimes a podcaster only provides the iTunes link. Having an iTunes link to the podcast helps if a) you have iTunes...
I 'd like to make / file system backup but the problem is there are other file systems mounted under / such as: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/nfs /iscsi /boot /var I'd like to skip all other file systems mounted at / and only make backup of local / and not /boot, /var, /iscsi, and /mnt/cdrom etc. How do I force tar to use a single file system under Linux / UNIX / BSD operating systems? Answer to " Linux /...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the UNIX® operating system with the launch of the UNIX License Plate World Tour photo contest and the chance to win a free laptop. As the owner of the UNIX trademark, The...
When you tell a user decision maker that thing X will work better for some job than thing Y, are you an educator or an advocate? Think you know? try it with specifics: "Linux is better than Windows for web services." Education or advocacy? that is indeed the question - and it's not just words words words - this kind of thing has real consequences, for your company, for your career - and for...
Image via Wikipedia With the value of data and information increasing day by day, data loss has become the greatest menace to any size of businesses. If your business data center or the storage system have ever faced any type of data loss disaster, you might quickly realized how precious the data lost is. The conditions become worse, when you come to know how much it will cost you to hire a data recovery...
The range of computer operating systems has greatly expanded in the last decade. You can now find Linux—the same operating system that runs Ubuntu desktops and Google’s web servers—running on phones, routers, televisions, DVR’s…even gas station terminals. Likewise, a smaller, but mostly complete, version of Mac OS X is running not just on plain ol' Macs, but on iPhones...
I know there are plenty of back up/synchronization packages for the Mac, and I know Time Machine is awesome. But as I have a Linux/FreeBSD background, I wanted to do it my way. And none of the software I tried was able to do it my way :-). So the command line seemed to be a good solution. My office Windows machine has plenty of disk space on it, and it is rarely used. It was an ideal system (with not...
Yesterday one of the goslings used a Windows computer to hook into one of my Macs. The reason was that the Mac’s Unix operating system ran certain tools needed for some mobile software development. I would have skinned the cat a different way, but he is younger than I, much younger. I thought of this [...]
google chrome os, google chrome os download beta, chrome os download, google chrome, google chrome operating system download : Tags Google finally launched its long awaited Chrome Operating System . The operating system was detailed at a press conference . The new operating system brings a dramatically different look and perspective to the market and just may give Microsoft and OS X some tough competition...
Lots of folks have switched to Mac, its the most commonly used laptop in the Bay Area now. Sometimes people give me flack for using it, but I'll tell you why I use a Mac laptop: It just works! When going to a client site, a conference, or just a cafe, there is nothing more embarrassing than spending 20 minutes trying to get your l337 *NIX laptop to connect to wireless or properly DHCP or work with...
In Linux and other Unix-like operating system, you can detect and repair hard drive errors using fsck command. This command runs in 5 phases. In the first phase, it checks data blocks and their size while in second phase file and directory pathnames are checked. In the remaining three phases, the connectivity, file reference counts and the cylinder groups are examined respectively. If in the second...
A KVM Switch is used to work on two or more computers using a single keyboard, mouse and monitor. Working on simple plug and play functionality, a user can connect the switch via USB/PS2 and VGA cables to the computer. Control can then be switched using buttons on the device or through keyboard commands. Depending upon the model of the switch being used, anywhere from 2 to 32 computers may be connected....
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