Moving a city to Linux would save it over €11 million.

"The Munich city authority migrated around 14,800 of the 15,000 or so PCs on its network to LiMux, its own Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, exceeding its initial goal of migrating 12,000 desktops."
... and this would save it over €11 million. You can read more about this here.

News about google : Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available

The last newsletter from Google comes with ...

Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available with a 99.95% monthly SLA and 24x7 support. We've eliminated maintenance windows with live migration, cut prices by 10%, added support for Red Hat, SUSE, FreeBSD, or any Linux variant you want, and introduced new 16-core instances.

Google Compute Engine is Generally Available (GA), offering virtual machines that are performant, scalable, reliable, and offer industry-leading security features like encryption of data at rest.
Also, the Compute Engine supported two of the most popular Linux distributions, Debian and Centos and support for SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (in Limited Preview) and FreeBSD.

Using SOHO LASCO C3 instrument from helioviewer website I saw the comet C/2012 S1 ISON.
I make one python script to take this image using sunpy ... (see here)

Using Codenvy with Google App Engine – testing with default python project .

Today I tested Codenvy with Google App Engine.
Is easy to make all settings ... I test it default project from Codenvy.
Is working very well.
See more in this tutorial.

Fix adobe player – play 1080p or 480p YouTube videos with HTML 5 .

If your browser don't play the Youtube videos then this is fix now ...

Just load this page on YouTube and click on the join button on it.

In the bottom of each video from youtube will see the HTML 5 button.

Now if you press this button the youtube video will start in HTML 5 without using flash player.

Very good for linux users.

... new tutorials

Today I make tow new tutorials. You can read it from:

Rename multiple files by cutting first part , the end or in middle of name under Linux – part 001.

Create android application using Codenvy and run it with Manymo – Android emulator.

Now I working again ...

News: NVIDIA Linux Drivers 331.17 (beta) with OpenGL 4.4

NVIDIA comes with a new set of graphics drivers in beta version for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
This release - R331.17 is an OpenGL 4.4 driver and the same the same number of extensions than R331.13: 292 OpenGL + 28 GLX.
Also, support for the following GPUs:

• Quadro K510M 
• Quadro K610M 
• Quadro K1100M 
• Quadro K2100M 
• Quadro K3100M 
• Quadro K4100M 
• Quadro K5100M 
• GeForce 705A 
• GeForce GT 730A

Read more about this release nvidia devtalk forum.