01.31
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There was a new release of the program data backup to restore the operating system after an unexpected fall of Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-10. The program is very useful for the experimenters and beginners as it allows you to quickly recover data. Here are a few changes and improvements have concerned this release:
- This update is mainly affected GNU / Linux operating systems. This release is based on Debian Sid repository on January 27, 2012
- linux-kernel 3.2.1-2.
- Version partclone 0.2.45.
- Version of Syslinux 4.0.5.
- Improved implementation of osc-update-syslinux. Only when the files that need to be updated are in the “syslinux-i” will work.
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01.31
12
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On Saturday, January 28, one of the developers of KDE Aaron Seigo on his blog announced the imminent release to the market a new Tablet PC, Spark, which will be pre-production environment Plasma Active.
The computer will run Linux, the hardware is modest, but adequate:
- 1GHz processor AMLogic presumably AML8726-M Cortex-A9
- Mali-400 graphics card
- 512 MB of RAM
- 4 GB of internal memory
- capacitive multi-touch display 800×480
- WiFi
- Slot for SD-cards
- two USB-ports
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01.31
12
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At the end of last year there was an attack by sorting on WPS.
Wireless Protected Setup (WPS) – a standard that was designed to simplify setup a secure wireless network and connect it to devices. In one embodiment, the device is connected to a wireless network uses 8-digit number called a PIN-ohm and generated an access point, which must be entered on the device. As standard, this method should be maintained for WPS certified device to fail.
The danger is that the device can access the wireless network with WPS enabled without the administrator / owner of the network.
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01.30
12
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The Bundeswehr is financing the open-source application “APP-6 Maker mobile symbol Edition” for Android-powered devices that can combine with the military users of the Allied Procedural Publication Standard (APP, version 6) NATO corresponding Kennzeichnugssymbole with geographic information systems.
As the open-source portal Joinup the European Commission reported , should become familiar with the APP-6 Maker Mobile Icon Edition information that is relevant to organizational and military contexts, display in a uniform and standardized representation, while the concept of point of Interests (interesting points) followed. The POIs can be used in the application in an OASIS ebXML repository managed and deployed.
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01.30
12
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EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL-based provider of database systems, has introduced its services to complement an enhanced version of PostgreSQL for the cloud.
EnterpriseDB has been providing products and services in March 2004 based on the free database PostgreSQL for business use. Includes not only the basic version of PostgreSQL binaries and an installation program, the company offers an expanded version as “Postgres Plus Standard Server” and “Postgres Plus Advanced Server.” The latter is particularly suited to large customers with a correspondingly large databases and high performance requirements.
The trend toward cloud now also joins EnterpriseDB and Postgres Plus database published as a cloud database for the Amazon cloud and HP Cloud Compute. For the database to service, will use the customer directly, without need to first set up laboriously.
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01.30
12
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The tool collection hardware Locality (Hwloc), system components such as processor cores and cache is mapped in version 1.4 available with new features.
The new version under the heading of “ multi-node topologies , “with an interface and tools to investigate not only individual computers, but entire cluster and map. There are Linux and Solaris, the new attributes “CPUModel” and “CPUTYPE” for socket objects. Advanced features help computing on NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA.
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01.30
12
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Today, after more than two years of development, released a new version of LispWorks 6.1 – implementation and development environment for Common Lisp.
The most significant changes:
- API for accessing environment (augment-environment etc)
- High-quality rendering on all platforms, including anti-aliasing
- Native printing support in GTK +
- support various methods of multi-language input
- support recording formats: JPEG, PNG, TIFF
- Drag’n'drop improvement in GTK +
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01.30
12
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The development team The Battle for Wesnoth is pleased to present to all fans of the trolls and orcs new stable branch of this wonderful fantasy strategy – tBfW 1.10.
What’s new:
- For the players
- Thanks to the Google Summer of Code 2010 and 2011 created a new planning board (whiteboard), which helps to plan the battle arrows, as in history books. It allows you to visualize the plan of hiring, an attack move. You can also share the plans with the Allies.
- Added a few new terrain types, and many others are completely redrawn or updated, including volcanoes, water animation, new decorations, and completely repainted the meadows, the battlefield is now a much nicer (Hussars of the crisis, be silent!).
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01.30
12
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The Debian Project is the fourth update of the stable branch of Debian 6.0 Squeeze. As usual, the update is presented in the main vulnerabilities, along with the elimination of some serious problems.
Keep in mind that this update is not a new version of the distribution, and changes only in some packages. This means that you should not discard existing media (CD or DVD), but only enough to upgrade in the usual way after installation. Also recall that for systems with limited access to the network available disk images that contain a complete set of updated packages since the release of Debian 6.0.0.
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01.30
12
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As you know, Microsoft has more than two years ago launched a cloud platform Azure . Many customers have complained about the inability to run in a virtual machine operating system platform GNU / Linux. As a company, constantly thinking about their users, Microsoft first allowed the image to download Linux, then.
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