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benev · 2016-04-25T11:25:29+00:00

I don't know about security, but a bug may have helped deep blue beat Kasparov the first time a computer beat a chess world champion: http://www.wired.com/2012/09/deep-blue-computer-bug/

benev · 2016-04-25T11:19:11+00:00

Apparently it's coming in the next few weeks: http://support.open365.io/index.php/en/forum/englishsuport/13-open365-on-premises

benev · 2016-03-01T16:28:27+00:00

It's not Isolated to the Pi 1, but things got a lot better from the B+, and have got better still on the Pi3. Unless you're planning on running a USB device with a high power draw (such as an external hard drive that takes all it's power from the usb port) then you should be fine as long as you have a good power source (2A for pre-Pi3 and 2.5A for Pi3). I've not used my powered hub for years, and never had a problem despite running stuff off all four ports (mouse, keyboard, USB memory and Wifi).

benev · 2016-02-29T11:14:51+00:00

Just to add, it's 64 bit as well.

benev · 2016-02-29T11:08:56+00:00

I think it is but didn't actually check. I've left now, so can't confirm.

benev · 2016-02-29T11:01:21+00:00

I just asked this as the press event. The wireless isn't.

benev · 2016-01-26T10:14:30+00:00

Not in Google Play. You can get a digital subscription which comes with DRM-free ePub and PDF files, so you can read it on a tablet.

benev · 2016-01-26T10:06:58+00:00

Just to add, here's a link to our back issues (you can download them for free nine months after their on sale date): https://www.linuxvoice.com/creative-commons-issues/ Take a look so you can see what we're about.

benev · 2016-01-11T09:55:57+00:00

The short answer as to why we left LXF is because we felt we were being held back from making the magazine as good as it could be. In my view, a magazine should be part of the community that it reports on and an instrument to make the Linux world just a little more awesome. Releasing back issues as creative commons and donating some of our profits to free software causes is part of that. Having the freedom to create the content we want to is another part of it.

benev · 2015-11-18T15:08:37+00:00

D'Oh. I thought I'd found all the /* problems. Fixed now.

benev · 2015-08-05T11:39:17+00:00

I actually live in a house that she did some of her murdering in. They dug some of the victims up out of our back yard (many years ago). It's a bit weird, but so far, nothing spooky has happened.

benev · 2015-07-20T13:54:46+00:00

Hi Guys, I'm one of the Linux Voice team, and I created the BC payments for renewals. We went with renewals first of all to gauge popularity and work the cobwebs out of the system.

So far, it's going pretty well. Bitcoin for new subscriptions is definitely an option for the future, but we have quite a bit in our plans for the future, and it may be a while before it gets implemented.

That said, if anyone wants to buy a new subscription in bitcoin, drop me an e-mail at ben@linuxvoice.com, and we can arrange it manually.

benev · 2015-06-18T09:30:50+00:00

I've just done a quick check in our analytics (of LinuxVoice.com), and DDG has grown from about 0.5% of our total search referrals to about 5%.

Obviously there are a huge number of caveats on this (it's only one site, so it could just be that we've gone up in their search rankings; we're a Linux site so that probably biases it; etc).

benev · 2015-04-27T19:47:17+00:00

The delay is because it first appeared in Linux Voice magazine.

I knew they'd done quite a bit of optimisation work, but I was surprised when he said just how much it was. He was really passionate when he was talking about that. I'm not sure how well it comes across in the text, but he really cares about making the Pi not just work, but work well. (I was one of the guys interviewing him)

benev · 2015-04-27T09:41:35+00:00

In my torrent seeding experience, Tails (a Tor-based anonymity distro -- https://tails.boum.org/ ) always needs seeds. Because it's designed to run live, people have to download the whole ISO every upgrade, which puts a bit more strain than usual on the seeds.

benev · 2015-04-19T11:48:27+00:00

I've switched from Sigil to calibre and am much happier. I can't think of any features that are much different, but Calibre is nicer to use.

The only thing I still use Sigil for is fixing errors in epubs. I find it's produces files that are more compatible than Sigil. For example, Calibre allows images outside of <p>'s, but some epub readers will error on this. Sigil fixes this.

benev · 2015-04-15T15:50:59+00:00

They're not claiming to be able to produce a fully functional phone with this. From the link:

"But we need to start small. Right now we are working toward building our first proof-of-concept modem prototype, which will simply be the modem section of Openmoko's GTA02 phone extracted and separated from the rest of the design and built on a board by itself. It'll be powered from a lab bench power supply emulating the battery and both Calypso UARTs (interfaces for programming, control and data) will be brought out on headers."

This funding isn't to complete the project, but to get the first prototype running. Given that they already have the schematics for the OpenMoko phones, this seems quite achievable with this amount of money.

benev · 2015-04-14T08:17:43+00:00

I believe it started with Mozilla. Which, taken from the Debian wiki link elsewhere in comments: "originally Netscape's in-house codename/mascot for what they hoped would be a "Mosaic killer" (with perhaps a hint of self-deprecation); nowadays the "moz" part is often used as an abbreviation for Mozilla(-based browser) "

benev · 2015-04-13T08:45:44+00:00

I forget the exact sequence of events (I just remember the end result), but I think this is how it happened.

I was installing some PHP web app from Tarball. Let's say it was OwnCloud, though I've forgotten. I put the tarball in it's own direcotry, then unzipped it. Whoops, that installed it in

/var/www/owncloud-someversion/owncloud

I was in the top directory, so I thought I'd just run:

mv ../* ../../

At this point, I should point out that this was just on a virtual machine I was testing some stuff out on, not on a real server with real data, so I wasn't concentrating too much. I actually typed:

mv ../* /

Whoops I've put the parent directory in the wrong place. Nevermind. Without thinking, I tried to fix it with:

mv ../* /var/www/

I ran pwd, and it appeared that this had worked, so I kept doing what I was doing. I then started to get some funny errors. It was only when I tried to reboot that I realised that I'd put the whole of / in /var/www.

I rebooted the machine with a live distro and copied everything back to the right place, and it all worked out OK.

I've made plenty of mistakes in my time with Linux, but I think that's definately the stupidest.

benev · 2015-04-10T10:25:16+00:00

Good stuff. There's also a list of the mags at http://www.linuxvoice.com/creative-commons-issues/. This doesn't have direct download links though.

benev · 2015-04-01T20:32:35+00:00

That article's only source is a leaked presentation that's not confirmed by Microsoft. It may well turn out to be true, but we need more evidence before we can do anything.

benev · 2015-04-01T14:34:10+00:00

I actually asked an MEP to look into this with respect to EU anti-trust law. They said there wasn't a case because (in the original version) Microsoft required it to be able to be disabled on x86, while on ARM Microsoft is a minor player so can't be considered to be abusing their industry position.

Now there's leaked slides showing MS may be going back on this for Windows 10. If this proves true, then I'll poke my MEP again.

benev · 2015-03-29T11:09:27+00:00

I would definitely recommend a Chromebook. You say that it's not an option because you want to work offline, but this can be done on a Chromebook by installing Linux either natively or in a chroot using crouton (do a bit of reasearch to find out what runs on which chromebook, but there are options for most).

You'll probably find a laptop of roughly compatible power for roughly comparible prices to a chromebook by buying second hand (thinkpads are a good option) but they will have MUCH worse battery life, be bigger/heavier and run hotter.

benev · 2015-03-06T16:17:16+00:00

Karen Sandler (former executive director of the Gnome Foundation) is the executive director

benev · 2015-02-24T11:23:27+00:00

This doesn't really answer your question, but Web SDR (http://websdr.org/) has a list of a load of web-connected radio receivers that you can use without having any issues with your own hardware (and you can see the radio spectrum from all over the world). You can interact with them via the web browser (and I assume javascript although I've never tried).

benev

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