Enlightenment Terminal Allows Video Playback, PDF Viewing
by Peter Reutemann
"The E17 Enlightenment project has released a new version of its
Terminology terminal emulator. With Terminology 0.3 comes several
fancy features, including the ability to preview video files, images,
and PDF files from within the terminal. There's new escape sequences,
inline video playback, and other features to this terminal emulator
that's only built on EFL and libc."
-- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/27/1217241
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 2 months
Spanish Open Source Group Files Complaint Over Microsoft Use of UEFI Secure Boot
by Peter Reutemann
"Hispalinux, which represents Spanish Open Source developers and
users, has filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European
Commission. 14 pages of grief cited Windows 8 as an 'obstruction
mechanism' calling UEFI Secure Boot a 'de facto technological jail for
computer booting systems... making Microsoft's Windows platform less
neutral than ever.' On March 6 of 2012 the Commission fined Microsoft
561 million Euros for failing to offer users a choice of web browser,
and there was also a 2004 ruling which found the company had abused
its market position by tying Windows Media Player to Windows itself.
Relations appear to remain more tense towards Windows in Europe, so
there may be some hope of making UEFI more Linux-friendly. UEFI has
been implicated in the death of Samsung laptops running Linux."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/03/26/2226246/spanish-open-source-g...
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 2 months
DOS Emulation Arrives For the Raspberry Pi
by Peter Reutemann
"Homebrew Coder Pate has released a DOS Emulator for the Raspberry Pi.
Originally released for the Nintendo DS and Android, the emulator
currently can emulate a CPU: 80486 processor, including the protected
mode features (for running DOS4GW games) but without virtual memory
support. The emulation runs at a speed around that of a 20MHz 80486
(which equals a 40MHz 80386) machine. It has support for Super VGA
graphics, Soundblaster 2.0, Memory, USB keyboard and mouse. Perfect
for playing old classics such as Doom, Duke Nukem 3D and Theme Park."
-- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/26/1256210/dos-emulation-arrives-for...
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 2 months
Fwd: Google Alert - linux
by Michael McDonald
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply(a)google.com>
Date: 27 March 2013 07:52
Subject: Google Alert - linux
To: mikencolleen(a)gmail.com
Live Twitter Q&A Thursday with Adapteva CEO on the $99 Linux Supercomputer
Linux.com (blog)
Back in October Adapteva wrapped up a successful Kickstarter campaign to
build a Raspberry Pi-inspired $99 Linux supercomputer. Next month the
company expects the first Parallela boards to be in production -- just in
time to show off at The Linux ...
<http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/711034-live-twit...>
7 years, 2 months
ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot
The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today:
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!Special General Meeting
A draft of the revised charter will be tabled, this will reduce the quorum to the smaller of 5 members or 50% of the general membership, and reduce the size of the committee to 4.
Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Time: 7:30pm onwards
7 years, 2 months
Too Perfect a Mirror
by Peter Reutemann
"Jeff Mitchell writes on his blog about what almost became 'The Great
KDE Disaster Of 2013.' It all started as simple update of the root git
server and ended up with a corrupt git repository automatically
mirrored to every mirror and deleting every copy of most KDE
repositories. It ends by discussing what the problem is with git
--mirror and how you can avoid similar problems in the future."
-- source: http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/03/24/1252237/too-perfect-a-mirror
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 2 months
