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ShareTweet System: Linux 2.6.34.10-0.2-default i686, openSUSE 11.3 Not sure what is going on here. I copied my .inf & .sys files from the install disc to a folder on the system. I used ndiswrapper to install the .inf file. That part went through successfully. When I checked my network hardware in Yast2 it says missing ...

ShareTweet If you use a dedicated e-reader to read Linux Journal every month, chances are you want to read other material on it as well. Thanks to a free service called Instapaper, if you have an e-reader like the Linux-powered Kindle, you can take your favorite Web articles with you on the go, even if ...

When you provision virtual machines, you try to ensure that they have the storage that they need. ...

Several smartphone vendors have undermined Android's security model with their pre-installed apps. The apps pass on privileges to other apps without requesting user confirmation, and this can be exploited by attackers.. ...

ShareTweet An anonymous reader writes “If you used Ticketmaster’s website to buy tickets between October 21, 1999 and October 19, 2011, you’re in for a windfall. Well, a $ 1.50 per ticket order windfall. Because of a proposed class action settlement, Ticketmaster is being forced to credit $ 1.50 per ticket order (up to 17 ...

ShareTweet Published at LXer: Wnotes allow you to stick Post-It ™ type notes nearly anywhere on your Linux desktop portably, using your existing desktop configuration. They’re simple to install and use, and designed to co-exist with as many graphical programs as possible, even other note programs. Read More… LinuxQuestions.org ...

ShareTweet adeelarshad82 writes “The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime happens to the first Quad-Core Android Tablet, which also makes it the fastest and most powerful tablet. The secret ingredient is Nvidia’s five-core Tegra 3 chipset, including four cores which work together at up to 1.4GHz each and a ‘companion core’ which runs alone. When tested ...

ShareTweet wasimkadak writes “One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet, and — since last year — the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week their response was published, and it was crystal clear. Not only will downloading for personal use stay completely legal, ...

ShareTweet I recntly purchased LAVA 720G data card [in for form a USB dongle]. After attaching card to the laptop I tried the following: Code: [sudeep@myhost ~]$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID ...

The concept of a user-driven FAQ or question-and-answer service has been around for years already, but it has really taken off recently with the success of commercial sites like StackOverflow and Quora. ...

If you need some snippets or codes to run for ever, but not more that one instance, you need to rapidly check the code, or script and if it has died! It's the time to run it again. To be sure of... ...

ShareTweet The votes are in, the tallies are counted, the hanging chads have been evaluated, and we have our winners. This year holds a few surprises, a couple dominant players and as much open source as you can handle. We don’t encourage gambling here at Linux Journal, but if you had an office pool going ...

For the new version of the Low-Level Virtual Machine, the developers decided to remove "some old baggage" which had built up in previous versions... ...

If you routinely use multiple computers, it can be a challenge to keep your data files organized and to manage multiple login IDs. OpenSSH can help you with those tasks ...

Back in February of this year, Mozilla announced its new rapid release cycle for the Firefox browser, and, sure enough, new versions have been arriving at rate so quick that some users have complained. We heard from lots of users who were unhappy with aspects of Firefox 4, for example, as seen here. ...

If you're feeling a little adventurous this weekend, the first alpha is out for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 release. Code-named Precise Pangolin , the alpha release contains software updates and (likely) some exciting bugs that you can help squash. ...

ShareTweet An anonymous reader writes “AT&T has issued a scathing letter in response to the FCC’s decision to release a staff report on its findings surrounding AT&T’s planned $ 39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA. ‘We expected that the AT&T-T-Mobile transaction would receive careful, considered, and fair analysis,’ Jim Cicconi, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President ...

ShareTweet The Mint project released the final Linux Mint 12 (“Lisa”), which offers “MGSE” extensions to GNOME 3.2 that let users create a more GNOME 2.3x-like environment. Based on Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux 3.0, Linux Mint 12 features upgrades to Firefox 7.0, LibreOffice 3.4.3 and Thunderbird 7.0.1. DesktopLinux.com ...

Behind every successful business, there's Linux and open source. That might be an exaggeration, but it's not an exaggeration to say that Linux and open source are at the core of FlickStream. ...

Improvements include a redesigned programming environment for the Arduino microcontroller platform with support for the R3 board variants, various GUI improvements, and changes to the standard classes and libraries... ...