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Make TV Awesome with Bluecop

jwalker — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:56:26 +0000

A few weeks back, I was whining that although Doctor
Who was available
on Amazon Prime streaming, I didn’t have any way to watch it on my
television. Thankfully, my friend Richard Servello pointed me to
the bluecop repo for XBMC. Not only does bluecop support Amazon Prime
streaming, but it also has add-ons for Hulu and countless other
network-video-streaming collections.
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Android Hackers Honing Skills In Russia

jwalker — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:08:43 +0000

MikeatWired writes “The malware business growing around Google Android — now the leading smartphone operating system — is still in its infancy. Today, many of the apps built to steal money from Android users originate from Russia and China, so criminal gangs there have become cyber-trailblazers. Sophos and Symantec on Wednesday released their latest Android malware discoveries written in Russian. While the language narrows the number of potential victims, the social-engineering tactics used to get Android users to install the malware is universal. The gang tracked by Sophos is using fake antivirus scanners, while Symantec is tracking cybercriminals using mobile websites to offer bogus versions of popular games. Sophos says the criminals are like other entrepreneurs launching startups. They’re starting in Russia, but have far greater ambitions. ‘I don’t think we can say that they’re necessarily using it as a testing ground — think of it more as a local business that as it grows may gain multinational ambitions,’ Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said in an email interview on Wednesday. The cyber scam tracked by Sophos was reported this week by GFI Lab, which discovered links to the bogus antivirus software on Twitter. Sophos dug deeper and found that the .ru domains pointed to the same Internet protocol address hosted in Ukraine.”

Mandriva Returning to Community

realyworkshoes — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:11:07 +0000

In a blog post today Mandriva COO Jean-Manuel Croset announced that the new strategy going forward will be to let “the distribution evolve in and under the caring responsibility of the community.” Mandriva SA will, of course, be a part of this entity. Croset continues by saying that “a workgroup of community representatives is..

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Hola!

jwalker — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:52:54 +0000

Might as well make mistakes on the first post.

Lurked long enough
Can Contribute
Formatting tests

This may indent.

Or this might

test
again

Editor mode is useful.

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Delayed HTC EVO 4G LTE Might Finally Get Here May 23

monclerukkidsale — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:12:25 +0000

HTC’s One X and EVO 4G LTE are both held up in customs right now. Patent trouble. But according to updates folks who preordered the Sprint phone, the EVO 4G LTE has a tentative date of May 23.

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Broadcast Industry Wades In On Dish Network’s Hopper

jwalker — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:27:44 +0000

gollum123 writes “As with past technological threats, network executives are closing ranks against a Dish Network device that undermines the broadcast business model. The disruptive technology at hand is an ad-eraser, embedded in new digital video recorders sold by Charles W. Ergen’s Dish Network, one of the nation’s top distributors of TV programming. Turn it on, and all the ads recorded on most prime-time network shows are automatically skipped, no channel-flipping or fast-forwarding necessary. Some reviewers have already called the feature, called the Auto Hop, a dream come true for consumers. But for broadcasters and advertisers, it is an attack on an entrenched television business model, and it must be strangled, lest it spread elsewhere.”

Marten Mickos: Eucalyptus Opens Up Under Agile Model

sqcquelprliford — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:26:47 +0000

As part of our ongoing focus on open source cloud, we talked with Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos about the commoditization of hypervisors, what’s driving his company’s growth and its plans to release Eucalyptus 3.1 soon, marking the company’s shift to a much more open development model. The interview is presented in two parts

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Hybrid Computing’s Radical Growth

AlferezSuzann883 — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:57:33 +0000

Our GTC 2012 coverage continues as Dan Olds examines the growth of the CUDA environment from 150,000 downloads in 2007 to 1.5 million today: More importantly, there are 35 NVIDIA-fueled hybrid supercomputers on the Top500 list today. The NDUT Tianhe-1A system, with 14,300 CPUs and 7,100 NVIDIA GPUs, held..

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2012 Linux Foundation T-shirt Contest: Inspired by Linux

jeremyscottcoshoes — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:00 +0000

So much has happened recently in the Linux community to be inspired by. This is my second month as the Digital Content Editor for Linux.com and as a newbie member I’ve already met so many amazing people and seen so many significant milestones pass just since I started. – With the Linux Foundation’s Annual Development Report we learned that more than 7,800 developers from almost 800 different companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since tracking began in 2005.

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LXer: Ubuntu Plans For Linux x32 ABI Support

jwalker — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:50:29 +0000

Published at LXer:

With the x32 ABI for Linux finally coming together, Ubuntu developers are making plans to support this interesting ABI in the future…