Free software is simply software that respects our freedom — our freedom to learn and understand the software we are using. Free software is designed to free the user from restrictions put in place by proprietary software, and so using free software lets you join a global community of people who are making the political and ethical assertion of our rights to learn and to share what we learn with others.
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Is Linux right choice for my business...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Why #vim? vi editor
#BlockChains newt generation
Never before has any open source project generated as much attention on the international stage as Bitcoin.
But Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency platform void of allegiance to any nation or financial institution, is just the first of an expanding and more sophisticated class of open source blockchains expected to revolutionize the exchange of all digital assets -- money, real estate, music and intellectual property -- in future commerce.
The Bitcoin Foundation continues to develop its peer-to-peer payment network under an MIT license. The value of Bitcoins has fluctuated up and down, and while some naysayers have already pronounced its death, backers saw an upswing after Brexit.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Howdy, #Ubuntu on Windows! How Fast Is It?
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Open-source Microsoft protocol aims to be a programming standard
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Too Cute for Their Own Good, Robots Get Self-Defense Instincts
Robot designers are developing robots that appear non-threatening, but can take action when humans attracted to their cuteness interfere with the performance of their functions, such as guarding or patrolling a location. When one such machine, the egg-shaped K5 from Knightscope, is cornered by curious crowds, it stops moving until they lose interest and walk away, or emits a shriek when they become too intrusive. The face of the K5 incorporates security-patrol operations such as surveillance cameras, thermal and ultrasonic sensors, and a navigation laser. The creation of robots such as the K5 is patterned on tests conducted to document the conditions of robot abuse in places such as Osaka, Japan, where a machine designed to help seniors buy groceries was frequently targeted and damaged by children, despite vocalized cries for help. In another case, a hitchhiking robot with a friendly face deployed along roads to test human dependence was found destroyed in Philadelphia last summer. Designers say they are attempting to create more approachable robots partly to counter the prevailing view of destructive machines presented by movies. "Because of all the doomsday scenarios people imagine with robots, their makers have to insert some cuteness," says Google's Golden Krishna.
Friday, June 10, 2016
Thursday, June 2, 2016
How to Install and Use the Linux Bash Shell on Windows 10
Windows 10’s Bash Shell
Thursday, April 28, 2016
DARPA Is Looking for the Perfect Encryption App, and It's Willing to Pay
The Pentagon's blue-sky research program is looking for someone to create the ultimate hacker-proof messaging app. The "secure messaging and transaction platform" would use the standard encryption and security features of current messaging apps such as Signal, but also would use a decentralized Blockchain-like backbone structure that would be more resilient to surveillance and cyberattacks. The goal of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is "a secure messaging system that can provide repudiation or deniability, perfect forward and backward secrecy, time to live/self delete for messages, one-time eyes-only messages, a decentralized infrastructure to be resilient to cyberattacks, and ease of use for individuals in less than ideal situations," according to a recent notice for proposals. DARPA wants "a public wall anyone can monitor or post messages on, but only correct people can decrypt," says Frederic Jacobs, an independent security researcher. He notes one problem with this approach is the structure would have higher latency and be harder to deploy at scale. DARPA's effort also suggests the rise of encryption apps is inevitable.
Announcing OpenIoT Summit Europe, alongside ELC Europe - October 11-13, Berlin
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Open source alternatives to Google Reader
How to automate your home with openHAB
Friday, April 22, 2016
For A Free Digital Society - Richard M. Stallman
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 | ZDNet
According to sources at Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, and Microsoft, you'll soon be able to run Ubuntu on Windows 10.
This will be more than just running the Bash shell on Windows 10. After all, thanks to programs such as Cygwin or MSYS utilities, hardcore Unix users have long been able to run the popular Bash command line interface (CLI) on Windows.
With this new addition, Ubuntu users will be able to run Ubuntu simultaneously with Windows. This will not be in a virtual machine, but as an integrated part of Windows 10.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
NLinux: Nvidia Apparently Making A New Linux Distro For Gamers
http://fossbytes.com/nlinux-nvidia-working-distribution-linux-gamers/
Linux for gamers? By Nvidia. ...
Friday, February 19, 2016
How to make sense of any mess
Friday, January 29, 2016
Tips for locking down data and protecting privacy
Privacy on the Internet is… well, let's just say it's complicated. This article, analyze a few open source tools and concepts that might be used to increase privacy on the Internet for yourself. Some of the tips you will find useful, others you will discard, and still others you might use in conjunction with other policies to construct your own privacy model.
The concept of privacy is a difficult thing to pin down. It gets muddled up with other big ideas, like anonymity and secrecy and even criminal activity. Whatever "privacy" means to you and whatever you might associate it with, most people agree that we have a right to it, if not necessarily online or in public, then at least on some level.
That means that some portion of our computing life should also have the privilege of being private. How far that extends differs from one person to another. For one person, an implied guarantee of privacy is sufficient (a website wouldn't require a password if it didn't intend to keep user data private, right?), whereas another might prefer to use aliases for online interactions and nameless spending accounts that cannot be traced back to the real world.
Another thing that differs from one person to another is the price they are willing to personally "pay" for privacy. It's a balancing act, after all. Is "mostly" private good enough for you? Or are you willing to invest more time and effort into ensuring that your information and information about you is concealed no matter what?
Monday, January 18, 2016
Open Broadcaster Software : Free, open source software for live streaming and recording
- Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC.
- Support for Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) and NVENC.
- Unlimited number of scenes and sources.
- Live RTMP streaming to Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox and more.
- File output to MP4 or FLV.
- GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming.
- DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc).
- Windows 8 high speed monitor capture support.
- Bilinear or lanczos3 resampling.
Chromebook sales surpassed 51% in the K-12 market
For the first time, Chromebook sales surpassed 51% in the K-12 market nationwide in the third quarter, according to a recent report by market researcher Futuresource Consulting. The surge reflects a fundamental shift in how American schools are buying tech in bulk and assessing students online, placing an emphasis on low-cost, easy-to-manage machines.
"It's a tidal wave: Chrome is the clear U.S. market leader now," says Mike Fisher, associate director of education technology at Futuresource. He says districts are drawn to the Chromebook’s Web-based operating system, ease of use, IT manageability and $200 to $300 price range.
Chromebooks -- laptops running Google's Chrome OS as their operating systems -- made significant strides, year over year. Chromebooks' market share jumped to 51% from 40%. Apple products, mostly iPads but also laptops and Mac desktops, declined to 24% from 32%. Windows-based machines remained steady at 23%.
Winning students at an early age is considered crucial for tech companies in the approximately $15 billion K-12 market in the U.S.
Honest business
Any honest business model is built without a legal monopoly in any case. Make money, good for you. But you don't get to do so with a monopoly that cuts down on my rights, especially not with blatant lying.
U.S. Proposes Spending $4 Billion on Self-Driving Cars
The Obama administration on Thursday promised to accelerate regulatory guidelines for driverless cars and make an investment in research to commercialize them. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said, "we are bullish on autonomous vehicles" at the North American International Auto Show. He pledged the government will remove obstacles to their development, as well as setting further guidelines within six months concerning functions the vehicles must perform to be deemed safe. Foxx said the president's proposed budget for the next fiscal year will include $4 billion to underwrite research projects and infrastructure improvements associated with driverless cars. He cited autonomous vehicles' potential to reduce traffic accidents and improve road safety. Executives at Google and other firms developing the technology welcomed the announcement. "It takes real collaboration with our regulators so this is done right and done safely," notes General Motors' Mark Reuss. Foxx said the government is authorized to permit limited deployment of 2,500 driverless vehicles by a lone company for a two-year period, and he called on firms to solicit interpretations of existing federal vehicle standards from regulators for new technologies under development. Foxx also emphasized liability issues and other matters related to autonomous cars the government must address over the next six months.
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Friday, January 15, 2016
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Open Source lebanese Movenemt on FaceBook
The Observer Pattern Using Java 8
Learn about the observer pattern using modern Java: What it is, specializations, common naming conventions, and more!
The Observer Pattern, or the Publish-Subscribe (Pub-Sub) Pattern, is a classic design pattern codified by the Gang of Four (GoF) Design Patterns book in 1994 (pg. 293-313). Although this pattern has quite a long and storied history, it is still applicable in a wide range of contexts and scenarios, and has even become an integral part in the Standard Java Library. While there are numerous useful articles on the topic of the Observer Pattern, and its implementation in Java, many focus on the strict implementation of the pattern in Java, rather than on the idiosyncrasies and common issues developers using the Observer Pattern in Java will experience.
Friday, January 8, 2016
Open source alternatives to Mint and Quicken for personal finance | Opensource.com
https://opensource.com/life/16/1/3-open-source-personal-finance-tools-linux
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