A Self-Destruct Option For Linux Disk Encryption

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January 7, 2014

The security-minded Kali Linux distribution has proposed a feature of adding “emergency self-destruction of LUKS” to their cryptsetup package when doing full-disk encrypted Linux installations…

Roku TV Unveiled at CES

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Muktware

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January 7, 2014

Roku plans to release six TVs this fall featuring the company’s Smart TV platform built-in.

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LLVM 3.4 Released

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LWN

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January 7, 2014

Version 3.4 of the LLVM compiler suite is out. “This is a big new release with a lot of features. Clang now supports all of the features in the current working draft of the upcoming C++ standard, provisionally named C++1y. The static analyzer has greatly improved C++ support, produces fewer false positives and catches more bugs. Clang also includes a few new capabilities: 1) a tool called ‘clang-format’ which can be used in an IDE or text editor to auto-format your code according to builtin styles, and 2) a new (experimental!) driver designed for drop-in compatibility with Visual Studio on Windows.” See the release notes for more information.

Imagination Announces New Series 6 Architecture GPUs

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Phoronix

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January 7, 2014

Imagination Technologies, a brand opposed by many Linux users due to their often troublesome Linux graphics drivers provided by many Imagination PowerVR licensees, is out at CES this week with new Series 6 architecture graphics processors…

Video Interview with GitHub Co-Founder Scott Chacon on a Future Beyond Code

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OpenSource.com

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January 7, 2014

GitHub has become the de facto repository for open source projects. So, we were excited for the opportunity to sit down with GitHub’s co-founder and CIO Scott Chacon during the All Things Open Conference in Raleigh, NC.

In this interview, Opensource.com Community Manager Jason Hibbets asks Scott about how he got started at GitHub and what’s important about the culture there. Scott also talks about how the staff at GitHub finds out about cool projects on the site and where he sees GitHub going beyond code in the future.

Here’s the complete interview:

Using rsync to Synchronize a Local and Remote Directory

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The Linux Foundation

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January 7, 2014

Recently I had moved my blog from WordPress to a custom python script that generates static HTML pages. After generating files I need to copy them to my web servers. While it is easy enough to FTP or SCP the files from my local machine to the remote web servers. I am looking for a little more elegant and automated solution. For that reason I have chosen to use the rsync command.

What is rsync

In the simplest terms rsync is a tool that copies files from one place to another.

In a more detailed explanation rsync does more than just copy files, it will read the source and destination directories and only copy the files that are new or updated. This makes rsync perfect for copying my HTML files; as not every file will be changed.

6 Reasons Why Shadow IT is Emerging from the Shadows

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ZDNet

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January 7, 2014

Guess who the biggest users of shadow IT are? IT employees themselves!

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Dtrx – An Intelligent Archive Extraction (tar, zip, cpio, rpm, deb, rar) Tool for Linux

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Tecmint

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January 7, 2014

All of us might have faced a situation at some point of time or the other while using Linux tar.gz, tar.bz2, tbz commands. So many archive types, so many commands to remember… Well, not any-more, thanks to dtrx tool. 18 Tar Commands to Create and Extract Archives in Linux How to Open, Extract…

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Mozilla Expands Its Firefox OS Partners, Platforms

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January 7, 2014

Besides VIA partnering with Mozilla for Firefox OS support, which is already controversial given VIA’s notorious reputation among Linux enthusiasts for their failed open-source efforts of the past, Mozilla has also announced new partnerships at CES and outlooks for bringing Firefox OS to new platforms…

Boston Moves 76K City Employees to Google Apps

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ZDNet

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January 7, 2014

Every Boston city employee from police officers to public school teachers now have a Google Apps account.

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