Archive for February, 2010

News: Google Allowed Energy Generate Own Electricity

The Company’s largest internet provider in the United States, Google is allowed to build their own power plants to be used to provide electricity supply for their data centers.

Energy Regulatory Commission in the U.S. (FERC) has given approval to Google to have their own electricity supply. But in tersbeut agreement, FERC cautioned not to abuse the Google deal. Continue Reading »

Browser: Opera Will Be The threat of Safari on the iPhone

Opera fulfill his promise to introduce a special browsers running on the iPhone in the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in 2010. Not just showing off, Opera also claimed that his engine faster browser than Safari.

In a demonstrainya, Opera shows that Opera Mini can support each other with the Apple iPhone. Even the ‘arrogant’, Opera claims that its products are six times faster than Apple’s own browser besutan, namely Safari. Continue Reading »

Release: Wine 1.1.39 Released!

Two weeks have passed since the release of Wine 1.1.38 and so now the 1.1.39 release is available to provide more fixes and improvements. This bi-weekly development update delivers on support for registry symbolic links, many MSI fixes, build process improvements, MSXML clean-ups and fixes, many MSHTML improvements, and various bug-fixes. Continue Reading »

News: Ubuntu 10.04 May Backport More Kernel DRM

The decision to stick with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel rather than the soon to be released Linux 2.6.33 kernel for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS that will be released in April is leading to a few more headaches for those involved with packing X.Org and the graphics components for the Lucid Lynx release. Continue Reading »

Gadgets: HTC Desire, will Replace Nexus One

Google Nexus One will soon become the king stepped down Android phone. Because, HTC Desire ready to replace the Nexus One in the midst Android-based smartphone.

The claim made by HTC is not without cause, the article practically Desire duplication of Nexus One. However, Taiwanese vendors are going to add more great Desire of the specification rather than Nexus One. one of them, Desire is equipped with a multitouch features, Flash Lite 4, and the latest technology made by HTC UI, namely Sense. Continue Reading »

Release: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 Released!

Milestone 2 is part of the milestones where we track new releases in the open source universe and test the building of our various distribution images with them. While milestone 1 introduced various pre-release versions of free and open source projects (KDE 4.4 RC1, OpenOffice 3.2 Beta4 or VirtualBox 3.1 beta 1) into our development distribution openSUSE Factory, this milestone is characterized by final releases of those projects. We are also preparing everything to switch to GCC 4.5.0 as the default compiler. Currently our staging version of Factory already builds with it and our compiler people document/fix the most serious issues. They aim at milestone 3 for the switch.

Check the release announcement to read about the detailed changes that happened in the various areas.

ICANN: 77% Information Domain 'Wrong'

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) disclose the information submitted by the applicant’s domain name when registering a domain name wrong. as much as 75 percent of the domain providing false information and not true.

As reported by ITPro, Thursday (17/2/2010), ICANN released the data on the accuracy of WHOIS information (registrant, name servers). From the sample approximately 1419 domain names only 23 percent of it actually can be traced accurately and that domain owner. Continue Reading »

Basic Ocean dive Use Google Earth

Google Earth users can now “surf” the ocean floor in front of the screen thanks to the extra features in the service. Google has released a new plugin to map the ocean floor exploration can be seen through the application.

There are seven basic theme of ocean exploration is provided in Google Earth today. For Google Earth visitors who enjoyed life under the sea, they are now spoiled with a complete tour of the famous Oceanographer narrative National Geographic, Sylvia Earle. Continue Reading »

News: Microsoft to patch 17-year-old computer bug

A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update. The February update for Windows will close the loophole that dates from the time of the DOS operating system. First appearing in Windows NT 3.1, the vulnerability has been carried over into almost every version of Windows that has appeared since.

The monthly security update will also tackle a further 25 holes in Windows, five of which are rated as “critical”.

Read more details available at news.bbc.co.uk

Release: Linux Mint 8 Released!

The Linux Mint team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’ KDE Community edition. The KDE Community edition aims to provide a version of Linux Mint which uses the KDE desktop. This edition is based on Kubuntu 9.10, Linux 2.6.31, X.Org 7.4 and it comes with the latest KDE 4.3.4 and Amarok 2.2.1. Featured improvements in this release: OEM installation, possibility to ignore updates, multiple selection in Software Manager. Software Manager’s graphical interface is now easier to use and it shows more content. The layout was changed and by putting the screenshots in the corner of the application you can now see more software and more reviews at once. You don’t need to manually refresh Software Manager anymore. When new data is available you get notified by Update Manager.

Read more details at release announcement, release notes and what’s new pages for further details.