Our editorial team and content monitors almost immediately noticed a flood of livid Twitter messages about the ban and attempted to restore the broadcast. Unfortunately, we were not able to lift the ban before the broadcast ended. We had many unhappy viewers as a result, and for that I am truly sorry.
via Hugo Awards: An apology and explanation | The Ustream Blog.
In data prepared for USA Today, Vonage, an Internet phone company, says the number of voice-mail messages left on user accounts was down 8 percent in July from a year ago.
Checking voice mail seems to be an even a bigger chore than leaving a voice message. Retrieved voicemail fell 14 percent among Vonage users in the same period.
When setting up the Master Boot Record, you need to enter appropriate partition information. In this example, Grub is in the first partition on the first hard drive, which is (hd0,0) in Grub. Change this to whatever partition Grub is in.
After getting the Grub prompt, type:
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
via Set Up the Master Boot Record.
This has been sitting as draft since August 5 and works in setting the MBR on a hard drive and since things like this can be easily forgotten, it has become a reference. Even Testdisk couldn’t write the MBR correctly when I tried to transfer a Fedora14 VM onto a real hard drive. After setting the MBR and getting it to boot the network and graphic interfaces required manual intervention. I’m not convinced transferring a virtual image to a physical image is much of a time saver.
Note: Not all installations have grub installed by default. The command to get the grub prompt is /sbin/grub run as root.
The University of Cambridge has released a free 12-step online course on building a basic operating system for the Raspberry Pi.
The course, Baking Pi – Operating Systems Development, is aimed at students of 16 and over with some prior programming experience, “although younger readers may still find some of it accessible, particularly with assistance”.
via Cambridge offers free online Raspberry Pi course | News | PC Pro.
The Baking Pi course was compiled by student Alex Chadwick, and is just one of a growing series of tutorials by students working as summer interns at the university.
In this document we only discuss main Linux problems and deficiencies while everyone should keep in mind that there are areas where Linux has excelled other OSes (excellent package management, usually excellent stability, no widely circulating viruses/malware, complete system reinstallation is not required, free as a beer).
This is not a Windows vs. Linux comparison however sometimes I make comparisons to Windows or MacOS as the point of reference (after all their market penetration is in an order of magnitude higher).
via Main Linux problems or Why Linux is not (yet) Ready for the Desktop, 2012 edition.
App.net currently embodies a hierarchical vision, where a single top-level provider delivers the infrastructure everyone shares. This is quite unlike StatusNet, which embodies a federated vision of social data networking. If you want to run your own private instance of StatusNet you can — it’s open source, after all. Then if you want to join up with the rest of the planet, you can federate with other instances, creating a meshed data bus with many connection pathways. By contrast, App.net appears to want to maintain a commercial control point on the market it hopes to create.
via App.net’s crowdfunders: Taken for a ride? | Open Source Software – InfoWorld.
So what does App.net have going for it? A proof-of-concept Twitter clone, for sure. A torrent of great ideas, certainly. And $500,000 that’s been given as a gift? Definitely. But its main asset is 10,000 people who want an open infrastructure for digital CB enough to risk $50 to see if it works out. That initial user base is worth at least as much as the money and will be a hard taskmaster.
And then there’s this.
Competing in the prestigious Formula Student 2012 challenge, a 16-man strong team of next-generation engineers from Group T have unveiled the world’s first race car created in great part through 3D Printing:
via The Areion by Formula Group T: The World’s First 3D Printed Race Car | Materialise.
Byzantium is a live Linux distribution that delivers easy-to-use, secure, and robust mesh networking
via Project Byzantium.
Unlike most mesh implementations, a Byzantium Mesh requires no specialized equipment that may not be easy to get during an emergency, just an x86 computer with at least one 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless interface.
This is the story of Cablevision, the companies that followed in its wake, and how we got to the strange place where wasting resources on thousands of tiny antennas made you legal—but where using one antenna broke the law.
via Why Johnny can’t stream: How video copyright went insane | Ars Technica.