Traditional mobile phone carriers love to play games with syncing phones to PCs. But it’s a new game now with Android—There are many ways to sync your Droid phone with your Linux PC, all easy and using standard Linux applications. Paul Ferrill shows us how.
IBM Tivoli Foundations are IT service management solutions designed and priced for mid-sized organizations. Tivoli Foundations solution components are easy to deploy for improved time to value and return on investment, and are built on the Lotus Foundations core platform, which provides advanced disaster recovery, hands-off protection and automated disk back-up for Foundations servers.
Want the ability to print preview in Chrome? We’ll have to wait, because it’s one of the features that didn’t make the Chrome 6 cut.
Intel announced a couple years ago that it was working on a new set of vector extensions as a superset of SSE, Advanced Vector Extensions or AVX. Now Paul Taylor is reporting that it will get its official debut at IDF in San Francisco this fall
The new set increases the size of SIMD vector registers from 128-bit to 256-bit, adds 12 new instructions as well as allowing instructions to have three operands instead of just two. This actually means that code execution efficiency should go up a bit, as well as providing some nifty floating-point juggling that will accelerate multimedia operations considerably, according to Intel. AVX is also said to cater to CPU parallelism and power efficiency – two driving forces of today’s CPU development. Increasing the scalability of parallel computing apps – something that will definitely appeal to the HPC crowd.
We love Linux, and want to make it easier for others to do so, too. This first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Linux includes our favorite apps that get things done and make your desktop great.
Commercial Linux distributor Canonical has won the buzzword bingo for the week by putting Ubuntu, cloud, and appliance in the same sentence in announcing a partnership with IBM. It’s meant to bring the latter company’s DB2 databases to the latest Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition Linux.…
System76 has updated its Linux-based netbook to the Atom N455 processor as well as making it thinner and lighter. The Ubuntu 10.04 version of the 10.1-inch Starling NetBook offers more memory (2GB), a larger standard hard drive (250GB), faster Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), and is available in a school-focused & EduBook& version….
As voting procedure is not yet defined we can’t give a date on voting yet. To read what this Srategy discussion is all about you’re invited to go here and especially see the difference between strategy and activity . For a summary of the discussions already happened Pavol and Andreas put them here.
If you happen to have followed the path of speech recognition software over the years, you know that it’s been a rocky road. Pundits ranging from Ray Kurzweil to Bill Gates, have, at various times, proclaimed speech recognition to be the wave of the computing future, but you probably rely on mice, keyboards and pointing devices to interact with computers more than microphones. Today, there is an interesting query posted on Slashdot, asking whether there is any free, open source software in this area. Well is there?
Speech recognition software has gotten better over the years, but the problem with it remains that it’s in the neighborhood of 90 percent accurate–if you train the software to get used to your inflections–and that’s not good enough for some people. It is good enough for some, though. I know some journalists who do all their transcriptions with Dragon’s proprietary software, or with IBM’s ViaVoice. But what are the open source alternatives?
With more and more businesses and organizations using and developing open source software–which can, among other things, be a big opportunity for cost savings–the need for knowledge about open source licenses and compliance is elevated. On the compliance front, the issues can become quite complicated, because many organizations are using open source components that they may or may not have high levels of awareness about. Fossbazaar has a good story out on resources for compliance, and we’ve provided many posts with information on compliance and licenses here at OStatic.
Fossbazaar’s collection of compliance resources begins with the Free Software Foundation, which we’ve covered on a regular basis. It’s a great resource for learning about where boundaries lie in open source, licenses and more.
