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The VIA ARTiGO, a Pico-ITX build kit from VIA (for those who don't know Pico-ITX , please check this WikiPedia link ) , makes the possibilities of low power, small form-factor computing. The Artigo comes with just about everything you need to build an energy efficient computer based on the VIA C7 processor except a 2.5-inch hard drive (IDE for this version) and a DDR2 533MHz SO-DIMM memory stick (up to 1GB, with a recommended density of 2Rx16). shown here is also the back of the unit showing the rather simple and straightforward nature of the Artigo. Just a video, LAN, and screen connectivity appear here. I wish they had put 2 USB ports on the rear so the front of the Artigo wouldn’t be so cluttered with USB cables and that would allow for the keyboard and mouse to be connected via the rear for a nice clean desktop setup. VIA does provide a circular cutout right near the power jack to install optional included cables that extend the functionality and versatility of the unit, inclu...

The term netbook was re-introduced by Intel in February 2008 to describe a category of small-sized, low-cost, light weight, lean function subnotebooks optimized for Internet access and core computing functions (e.g., word processing) — either directly from applications installed on the netbook itself or indirectly, via cloud computing. More than 50 million Netbooks are expected to be in widespread circulation by 2011. Netbooks (or sub-notebooks as they may be known) typically come with an 7-inch to 10-inch screen. Netbooks are "small laptops that are designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet. And they cost about $250, making Netbooks a potentially disruptive and high volume market segment. Even though Netbooks won’t be confused with full-featured laptops, my hunch is that tons of people around the world will be attracted to a low-cost machine that plugs them in. The Netbook will expand the global PC market. By how much is a matter of conjecture." Similarl...

Some of Richard Stallman quotes : * Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone. * People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that. * I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. * People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. * You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi is the text editor of the beast. * Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents; any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. * Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but...

I read the below quotes h3r3 , and I wanted to share them with everyone 1. "To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software." -Richard M. Stallman 2. “Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.” -Linus Torvalds 3. “Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.” -Richard M. Stallman 4. “Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat.” -Linus Torvalds 5. “If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punishe...

Jerome my friend from Philippine sent some interesting pics on Software Freedom Day 2008 and OLPC Group. The pics show most about OLCP and Sugar Operating System See below More on SFD in Philippine is h3r3

Toshiba formally launched its entry into the Small, Cheap Computer Trend, following Dell's lead and equipping the Linux version with Ubuntu 8.04. The NB100 is an 8.9in model - the display resolution is 1024 x 600 - and powered by Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270. Depending on the version you choose, it'll come with 512MB or 1GB of memory and up to 120GB of hard drive capacity. There's a 0.3-megapixel webcam, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and the usual complement of USB, VGA, audio and Ethernet ports. The NB100 is an 8.9in model - the display resolution is 1024 x 600 - and powered by Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270. Depending on the version you choose, it'll come with 512MB or 1GB of memory and up to 120GB of hard drive capacity. There's a 0.3-megapixel webcam, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and the usual complement of USB, VGA, audio and Ethernet ports.

Samsung has announced its entry into the Small, Cheap Computer segment, following Asus,Toshiba,Dell,HP unveiling with a stylish SCC of its own. Samsung's NC10 is fitted with a 10.2in, 1024 x 600 display that it stressed was a "non-gloss" panel, perhaps to distinguish it from Acer's shiny Aspire One screen, which the Samsung SCC rather resembles. The Korean company confirmed the NC10 will ship with Windows XP, 1GB of 533MHz DDR 2 memory and a choice of 80, 120 or 160GB of hard drive storage. Samsung didn't say whether there will be a Linux version, either initially or, as other SCC vendors have done, later once the XP version is out. There's no SSD option, apparently, either - ironic, perhaps, given Samsung's keenness on the technology and the fact it's one of the world's biggest Flash producers. Samsung said the NC10 will come with a three-cell battery that's good for up to 3.5 hours' runtime. But an optional six-cell power pack will take ...

Orange bundles free HP laptops with HSDPA deals Orange has bundled a trio of HP Compaq laptops and USB HSDPA 3G modems with new business-oriented mobile broadband airtime packages. The bundles are based around the Compaq 6735s, 6730s and 6730b, espectively tethered to £35-, £40- and £45-a-month subscriptions. Contracts run for two years for a total expenditure of £840, £960 and £1080, respectively. The 6730b typically costs around £750 on its own. The 6735s is based on a 2GHz AMD Sempron CPU - the others come with Intel Core 2 Duos, respectively a 1.8GHz T5670 and a 2.26GHz P8400. Orange said they all come with 2GB of memory. The AMD-based machine has a 120GB hard drive - the other two both have 160GB HDDs. All three machines have 15.4in displays. The 6730b doesn't come with a USB modem because its HSDPA link is embedded into the laptop. The airtime packages chuck in "unlimited" monthly HSDPA usage - in practice, that means up to 5GB of data transfers per month. Whatever ...

What's new in this release (see below for details): - Substantial JavaScript implementation. - Partial support for layered windows. - Support for Unicode file export in Regedit. - Proper exception handling in widl-generated code. - Asynchronous requests and cookies support in WinHTTP. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.1.5.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.5.tar.bz2 Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: http://www.winehq.org/site/download You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/site/git for details.

Google Audio Indexing is a new technology from Google (gaudi) that allows users to search and watch videos from various YouTube channels. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken. Google Audio Indexing (gaudi) uses speech technology to transform spoken words into text and leverages the Google indexing technology to return the best results to the user. The returned videos are ranked based -- among other things -- on the spoken content, the metadata, the freshness. Google periodically crawl the YouTube political channels for new content. As soon as a new video is uploaded to YouTube, it is processed by our system and made available in our index for people to search. Google uses his own speech recognition system (called GAudi, for Google Audio Indexing), which powers both Google Audio Indexing and the Google Elections Video Search gadget. Google Audio Indexing Group is h3r3 Goog...

If you're reading this in Africa, you're one of a few who can. With just 50 million web users across the continent, as few as 5% of Africans access the Internet, a rate far lower than in Asia, Europe or the Americas. In only a handful of African countries do more than 1% of the population use broadband services. (Among OECD countries, broadband penetration averages 18%.) And those services that exist don't come cheap. Broadband costs more in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else in the world: consumers in the region spent an average of $366 each month for speedier Internet access in 2006, according to the World Bank. Users in India, meanwhile, paid just $44. But large-scale efforts to connect the continent are picking up speed. On Sept. 9, O3b Networks — a Channel Islands-based telecoms company backed by Google, HSBC and U.S. cable TV operator Liberty Global — unveiled plans to offer cheap, high-speed Internet access via satellite to developing regions like Africa by the en...

Yes, it is true the above pic is the real size of the projector, things are changing. The unit is able to display images and video at a resolution of up to 640 x 480 pixels. Nonetheless, a VGA connector allows users to plug the MPro 110 into a laptop. It’s also compatible with connections from a range of portable devices, including digital cameras and the iPhone. In a dark room, it could project a big enough image to be the ultimate cheap-o home theater. The projector will sell for a mere $359. It doesn’t have a speaker, so you’ll have to get that separately. But really, how good could a microscopic speaker jammed into this thing sound, anyway? The standalone projector goes on sale September 30. In a year or so, 3M hopes to squeeze it into cellphones. Reference Link is h3r3

Lenovo - the Chinese vendor- will continue to sell Linux-based client machines through its channel organisation, and this is where the majority of Linux orders were coming from anyway. he operation has been shipping Linux on client PCs since 2000. A Lenovo spokesman told ComputerWorld that its commitment to Linux had not changed. It’s just its commitment to letting customers express their commitment to Linux that’s changed, presumably. The spokesman said online sales of Linux-based machines were just not hitting the numbers. However, it will continue to certify Novell and Red Hat’s flavours on its kit, and plans to extend this to Ubuntu. Lenovo’s move can be written off as simply a rejigging of sales channels. However, it is still one in the eye for Linux on the desktop acolytes. In this instance though, Lenovo built it, and they didn’t come. Not over the web anyway. -;(

The Government of Malaysia announced its plan to deploy OpenOffice in schools across the country. This movement will cover around 300,000 PCs. Under this initiative, around 467 schools in the country will use open source office suite from coming January 2009. Some 100 schools in the state are already using OpenOffice.. The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) is implementing the project. MAMPU is a government agency that was set up to study the feasibility of implementing open source software in the public sector. According to some of case studies mentioned by Khairil Yusof, a MAMPU spokesperson, the staff were able to build their skills and knowledge due to the wealth of free information and tutorials associated with open source technologies available on the Internet. According to MAMPU, overall, 281 agencies nationwide have adopted open source software. Reference URL is h3r3

As the title Tells, Google just revealed a new search feature in NewsPapers. Link for Google Newspapers search is h3r3 Marisa Mayer Unveils Google Newspapers Search is b3l0w Picture is Courtesy of SomeWhatFrank on Flickr

A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous. The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the "IP Traceback" drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback proposal. Members of Q6/17 have declined to release key documents, and meetings are closed to the public. The potential for eroding Internet users' right to remain anonymous, which is protected by law in the United States and recognized in international law by groups such as the Council of Europe, has alarmed some technologists and privacy advocates. Also affected may be services such as the Tor anonymizing network. "What's distressing is that it doesn't appear that there's been any real consideration of how this type of capability could be misused,...

Nmap 4.75 has almost 100 significant improvements since 4.68. Some of these improvements are: o While Nmap stands for "Network Mapper", it hasn't been able to actually draw you a map of the network--until now! Visit http://nmap.org/book/zenmap- topology.html for details and pretty pictures of Zenmap's new Scan Topology system. o I spent much of this summer scanning tens of millions of IPs on the Internet (plus collecting data contributed by some enterprises) to determine the most commonly open ports. Nmap now uses that empirical data to scan more effectively. And there is much more, from hundreds of new OS detection fingerprints to many new Nmap Scripting Engine scripts and libraries. I had no idea how many people still used Windows 2000 until 4.68 came out broken on that platform and I was flooded with email! That is fixed now. And its just one of many bug fixes and performance improvements in this release. Remember that we had 7 Google SoC students wor...

Ink-Media started to roll it's affordable/reliable/fully fledged laptops, Ink-Media new laptop will change the market trend as well as consumer. Ink-Media delivers very reliable small sized laptop with big hard drives and good cpu , plus WIFI, Bluetooth,Network,Card Reader and so on. Ink-Media is getting active in signing partnerships and agreement with their preferred partners all over the globe to ensure that their affordable laptop will reach every child and every person on earth that they can reac. Ink-Media just Signed corporate agreement with Loxely PLC Thailand. I see Ink-Media laptop is much more powerful than the other laptops of the same form factor due to many measures they took during their intensive Research and Development.

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The New Ubuntu Man Page Repository contains nearly 300,000 HTML viewable manpages included in Ubuntu releases (Dapper, Feisty, Gutsy, Hardy, Intrepid) and across all of (main, universe, restricted, multiverse) and across all languages where manpages are available. It is automatically updated daily. The site also hosts the gzipped manpages too. Link is h3r3 http://manpages.ubuntu.com

"Poky Linux" and Matchbox developer (Matchbox is a lightweight window manager for X11 (aka, the "X Window System"), that has seen wide adoption in Linux devices, For example, Nokia uses Matchbox in the Maemo stack it maintains for its Linux-based N810, N800, and 770 web tablets ). OpenedHand announced that it has been acquired by Intel Corp. The U.K.-based embedded Linux services team will join the Intel Open Source Technology Center, and will focus on Moblin development for mobile Internet devices and other mobile devices. As per OpenedHand , Intel will continue to support open source projects led by OpenedHand staff, including Clutter and Matchbox, "and in most cases, will accelerate these projects as they become an integral part of Moblin," says the new Intel unit. OpenedHand contributions will now be made available from the Intel Software Network's open source site . OpenedHand also maintains the free GNOME-based Poky Linux distribution for mobi...

Wind River announced it will acquire a Korean developer of Linux mobile GUI stacks. The $16 million acquisition of privately-held Mizi Research will bring Wind River "world-class mobile expertise" and will "accelerate its mobile services presence in Asia Pacific," says the company. Founded in 1999, Mizi was among the first wave of companies attempting to commercialize embedded Linux. Today, it has 65 employees, and its Mizi mobile stack is integrated in 20 commercialized consumer electronics products, says Wind River. Mizi is known primarily for its Prizm lightweight Linux-compatible stack, pictured above. Rev'd to Prizm 3.0 in May 2007, Prizm incorporates its own small-footprint, embedded graphics stack. This makes it a bit less customizable than GTK-based heavy stacks, but able to run faster on less expensive hardware. Prizm is supplied as an SDK (software development kit) based on an Eclipse 3.0 GUI framework. It supports both Linux and Windows development ho...

China Unicom is distributing a Samsung Electronics phone that runs a mobile Linux stack from Mizi Research, a company that will soon be acquired by Wind River. Samsung's "Olympics" phone, also called the SCH-i859, is equipped with a Marvell PXA300 processor and a 2.8-inch touchscreen. Phone is customized to access a Wireless Olympic Works (WOW) network, developed in conjunction with integrator Atos Origin. WOW is said to provide realtime schedules, results, weather information, email, and instant messaging to Olympic officials. Aimed at the Chinese market and sold under Samsung's "Anycall" brand, the dual-network CDMA/GSM/GPRS SCH-i858 operates at both 900MHz and 1800MHz. The SCH-i859's 624MHz Marvell Monahan-L PXA300 is accompanied by 128MB ROM and 64MB SDRAM, and the touchscreen offers 65K colors and 320 x 240 resolution, says Samsung. Additional features include a 3-megapixel camera, USB, Bluetooth, and a MicroSD slot. Aimed at the Chinese market and...

Once Google Browser "Chrome" launched, I had this question about the privacy in it. When installing it , I never been asked for license agreement or EULA. I remembered Google Accelerator, which was a windows software that speeds up your internet connection, This product died -or at least this is how i see it - and now with Google Chrome, another concern on privacy and behavior analysis. We all know the Google is the biggest Marketing Agency on earth planet, they always talk about advertisement on TV ,how they not targeted advertisement. Ads on TV to ppl that are not interested in it ! So, Google wants TV advertisement to be targeting user interest and watching pattern - like YouTube , Google Video -. and now, They looking for Surfing behavior as much as they went before on Search behavior which is prooven in Google Trends and analysis of search per country and keyboard. Read about Google Chrome Technology as Google Presents it h3r3 Google Chrome Download link is h3r3

Maemo Community Council election is started and the Election is processed via e-voting mechanism, the mail of the announcement is below The election of the inaugural Maemo Community Council is now open. Voting will run from September 3rd (today) until September 10th 2008, 23:59. As a member of the Maemo community, you are elligible to vote in this election. To vote, please go to http://maemo.org/vote/ and follow the instructions there. When instructed to do so, enter the following details: E-mail: Vote token: The election has 4 steps - first, you must identify yourself using the voting token above. Then select your preferred candidate. A third step will show you your choice, and ask you to confirm. Finally, after confirming your choice, a unique identifier will be given to you which will allow you to verify after the election that your vote was counted correctly. To ensure anonymity, no link will be kept between this token and your identifiers, so please keep this token safe. Once you...