Alienware Announces an Oculus Rift Bundle, and the First OLED Gaming Laptop

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January 8, 2016

Good news keeps coming for gamers at CES. Comparing virtual reality’s anticipated growth to the rise of PC gaming nearly 20 years ago, Alienware founder Frank Azor said Thursday that the company would bundle the Oculus Rift with an Alienware X51 gaming desktop at a reduced cost to consumers.

With Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey at his side, Azor said customers who ordered the bundle would receive the x51 system, valued at $1,200, plus the Rift for $1,600 total. That amounts to a $200 discount on the Rift.

Postfix Monitoring with Mailgraph on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Falko Timme

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January 8, 2016

This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mail server with Mailgraph. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix (e.g. using amavisd-new in the ISPConfig perfect server tutorials). These graphs can be accessed with a browser.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Might Get the Option of Updating Firmware Directly from the OS

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Softpedia

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January 8, 2016

One of the most interesting features that are going to land for GNOME is called fwupd, and it should be available in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as well. This will only happen if fwupd and GNOME Software land.

Discussions about fwupd and all the benefits that it could bring have been going on for some time. This new method is the result of a collaboration between GNOME and Dell developers. In theory, if this manages to get enough attention from the community and vendors. The current situation is not really working for Linux users…

2016 Will Be About Big Data, NFV, Containers, VR, Security: IEEE

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eWeek

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January 8, 2016

From 5G to NFV, the IEEE Computer Society predicts nine top tech trends to watch in 2016.

The not-so-distant tech future is one that is mobile, highly connected and smart, and in many ways, it’s all about the data—storing it, retrieving it, moving it, accessing it, securing it and analyzing it. According to the IEEE Computer Society, many of the key advancements and trends that will unfold in technology in 2016 will be around those themes, from network-functions virtualization (NFV) and 5G wireless connectivity to nonvolatile memory containers and data science. There also will be strides made in other emerging areas, from virtual reality to advanced machine learning.

PINE A64, First 64-bit Mini PC That Costs $15, Raises 30 Times the Money Needed

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January 8, 2016

pine-a64 PINE A64 is a new, first 64-bit expandable Quad-Core board that can be used as a regular PC, a media center, server, and pretty much everything else. Its makers are now looking for funding on Kickstarter and they are having a lot of success.

There are numerous small PC boards out there like the Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, Odroid, Arduino, BeagleBoard, and so on. It’s getting difficult to keep track of them all, but one thing we do know for sure. None of them is using a 64-bit process, but that’s about to change with PINE A64.

Hackery setting up RDO Kilo on CentOS 7.2 with Mongodb && Nagios up and running

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Boris Derzhavets

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January 8, 2016

I have noticed several questions (ask.openstack.org,stackoverflow.com )
regarding mentioned ongoing issue with mongodb-server and nagios when
installing RDO Kilo 2015.1.1 on CentOS 7.2 via packstack. At the moment
I see a hack provided bellow which might be applied as pre-installation step
or a fix after initial packstack crash. Bug submitted to bugzilla.redhat.com

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How Students Can Get Started Contributing to Open Source Software

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OpenSource.com

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January 8, 2016

EDUCATION doodles As a student, getting involved in open source is a great way to improve your programming skills. From my experience, it can even help kickstart your career. But where do you begin? And how do you get involved?

I started my open source journey during my high school days when I had a lot more free time on my hands (and lived on IRC). It was through that experience that I learned how to contribute to open source through communication media like IRC and Usenet. Open source has grown since those olden days,…

New SLOTH Attack Can Reduce the Security of TLS and SSH Protocols

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Softpedia

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January 8, 2016

new-sloth-attack Cryptography is having a bad week, and after details of the HTTPS Bicycle Attack surfaced a few days ago, a new attack type called SLOTH has weakened trust in encryption even more.

Presented at the Real World Cryptography Conference in Stanford, USA, the SLOTH attack has the capability to weaken encryption power in various protocols like TLS, SSH, and IPsec. The issue resides in our old friends MD5 and SHA-1…

HowTo: Compile And Run a C/C++ Code In Linux

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Vivek Gite

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January 8, 2016

I am a new Linux user and student who used to write C or C++ programs on MS-Windows. Now, I am using Ubuntu Linux. How can I compile a C or C++ program on Linux operating systems using bash Terminal application?

Amazon Jumps Into the Computer Chip Business

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eWeek

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January 8, 2016

Amazon is getting into the computer chip business through its Annapurna Labs subsidiary that it bought last year.

Annapurna officials this week announced that the company is offering a line of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) and associated technologies that system makers and service providers can use in such devices as home gateways, WiFi routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices for everything from video streaming and secure storage to application virtualization and the Internet of things (IoT). Annapurna’s Alpine processors are based on ARM’s 32-bit ARMv7 and 64-bit ARMv8 architectures…