A Hacker's Replacement for GMail
by Peter Reutemann
"I reluctantly switched to GMail about six months ago, after using
many so-called “replacements for GMail” (the last of which was
Fastmail).
...
Over the past several months, I gradually put together a mail system
that provides all the required features, as well as the three bonuses
(encryption, easy programmatic access, and phone whitelisting). I’m
describing it as a “Hacker’s Replacement for GMail” as opposed to just
a “Replacement for GMail” because it involves a good deal of
familiarity with Unix (or at least, to set up and debug the whole
system it did. Perhaps following along is easier)."
-- source: http://dbpmail.net/essays/2013-06-29-hackers-replacement-for-gmail.html
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 11 months
wlug meeting tomorrow
by Peter Reutemann
Hi there
We have a WLUG meeting tomorrow night!
We will be mainly working on the WLUG website (archived wiki, elgg
upgrade, CiviCRM).
To make this interesting to other members, work will be done on via
projector. You might learn a thing or two. :-)
When?
Monday, June 24, 7.30pm
Where?
University of Waikato, MS4.G.02
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map/?MS4
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 11 months
World's First Tizen Tablet
by Peter Reutemann
"Japanese firm Systena Corp. has announced what appears to be the
world's first Tizen-based tablet, and the first Tizen product of any
kind. The unnamed Systena Tizen tablet offers high-end features
including a 1.4GHz, quad-core Cortex-A9 system-on-chip, 2GB of RAM,
32GB of flash, a 10.1-inch 1920 x 1200-pixel display, 2-megapixel
rear-facing and 0.3-megapixel front-facing cameras, and a microSD slot
— specs that approach those of the most powerful Android tablets
currently on the market. Japanese carrier and major Tizen backer NTT
DoCoMo will sell the device, according to a report by TizenExperts.
Last month at the Tizen Developers Conference, NTT DoCoMo and Orange
promised Tizen smartphone launches in 2013, presumably using upcoming
Samsung Tizen phones, but mentioned nothing about tablets."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/06/27/2225257
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 11 months
Canonical To Ship Mir Display Server In Ubuntu 13.10
by Peter Reutemann
"Canonical has announced today that they intend to ship the Mir
Display Server by default in Ubuntu 13.10, rather than Ubuntu 14.04 as
originally planned. They moved ahead their Mir adoption since the code
is materializing and they want Mir/XMir widely tested prior to the
Ubuntu 14.04 Long-Term Support release. Mir in Ubuntu 13.10 will be
using the XMir X11 compatibility layer to run the Unity 7 desktop and
there will be fallback support for running an X.Org Server if the
graphics drivers don't support Mir."
-- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/27/1627241
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 11 months
New KDE screen management tool ready for widespread use
by Peter Reutemann
"Blue Systems developer Àlex Fiestas has announced that the open
source KScreen management tool has seen its first stable release. With
version 1.0, the screen management utility is now considered by its
developers to be ready for general use and planning for the features
of KScreen 1.1 is already under way, according to Fiestas. KScreen is
designed to bring next generation screen management to the KDE
desktop."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1895373
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 11 months
PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD
by Peter Reutemann
"This discovery comes nicely alongside the celebration of FreeBSD's
20th birthday, for all the UNIX nerds. The operating system powering
the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a Sony spin of FreeBSD 9.0.
It's not a huge surprise FreeBSD is being used over Linux, in part due
to the more liberal licensing. The PlayStation 4 is x86-64 based now
rather than Cell-based, which makes it easier to use FreeBSD. BSDs in
general currently lack manufacturer supported full-feature AMD
graphics driver, which leads to the conclusion that Sony and AMD have
likely co-developed a discrete driver for the PS4. Some pictures of
the development kit boot loader (GRUB) have been published too."
-- source: http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/06/24/000250
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 11 months
wlug meeting tonight
by Peter Reutemann
Hi there
We have a WLUG meeting tonight!
We will be mainly working on the WLUG website (archived wiki, elgg
upgrade, CiviCRM).
To make this interesting to other members, work will be done on via
projector. You might learn a thing or two. :-)
When?
tonight, 7.30pm
Where?
University of Waikato, MS4.G.02
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map/?MS4
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
6 years, 11 months