The result of this is the display server doesn’t matter much to applications because we have pretty good toolkits that already hide all this information from us. And it doesn’t matter much to drivers as they’re providing much the same operations to anything that uses them (i.e. buffer management and passing shaders around).
via Bob’s development blog: Why the display server doesn’t matter.
William Plummer, a senior Huawei executive in the United States, said the company had no idea it was an N.S.A. target, adding that in his personal opinion, “The irony is that exactly what they are doing to us is what they have always charged that the Chinese are doing through us.”
via N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat – NYTimes.com.
Tor, the most popular anonymizing network on the Internet, gained over 10,000 new users this week in Turkey alone as protesters fought back against a government ban on Twitter.
via As Turkey bans Twitter, Tor usage skyrockets – Patrick Howell O’Neill | The Daily Dot.
Users can download the Tor program at TorProject.org.
In case you think you’ve read that wrong, I’ll summarise: a World War II-themed game that depicts fighting between two countries that actually fought in WWII breaks the rules. And apparently Drive on Moscow, Panzer Corps, and every single one of Hunted Cow’s other Tank Battle games don’t.
via Apple rejects Tank Battle 1942 for depicting Germans & Russians as “enemies” UPDATED.
Yes, there are definite reasons why the vi/vim editing model is just superior to any other out there. And you don’t need to be a Unix whiz to use it, either: vim is available for free for almost any platform out there, and there are plug-ins to get the functionality inside all major IDEs.
via Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?.
If you want to research vi/vim editing some more, here are some useful references:
- Learn why I got started
- Use my graphical cheat sheet and tutorial to learn vi/vim editing
- The awesome “vi lovers” home page
- Learn Jonathan McPherson’s hints for effective editing with vim
And of course:
In a four-launch scenario, the lander would precede the crew to the moon. The first two launches would be a moon injection stage followed by a lunar lander. These two vehicles would rendezvous in Earth’s orbit before the moon injection stage would send the lander ahead to the moon. The next two Falcon launches would carry a second moon injection stage and then the crew in their capsule/service module. After a similar boost in a moon-injection stage, they would meet up with the lander in lunar orbit.
The rest of the mission would be like the Apollo mission — Americans on the moon, once again taking giant leaps for mankind.
via How to return to the moon in just four years | Fox News.
The video below will walk through the process of setting up and installing Prosody, a lightweight Lua-based instant messaging server application. We’ll be using Ubuntu 12.04 for our server, though Prosody is a cross-platform application and will run on Windows, OS X, and a number of different Linuxes. Strap in, grab your server, and let’s roll!
via How to set up your own private instant messaging server | Ars Technica.
BGP traffic hijacking is on the rise, according to internet performance metrics analyst firm Renesys, which last year noted that over a period of two months, around 1500 IP address blocks were rerouted. Several were in Australia.
via Google DNS servers suffer brief traffic hijack – Telco/ISP – Technology – News – iTnews.com.au.
At one point Viacom, the cable powerhouse that owns networks such as MTV and Comedy Central, had been seeking $1 billion in damages from Google. But no money traded hands in the settlement, according to people familiar with the transaction.
via It’s Over! Viacom and Google Settle YouTube Lawsuit. | Re/code.
I’ve collected 50 UNIX / Linux sysadmin related tutorials that we’ve posted so far. This is lot of reading. Bookmark this article for your future reference and read it whenever you get free time.