News: NASA migrates from Windows to Linux

According to the article written by Lawrence Latif, N.A.S.A. will replace the Windows XP with Linux :
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) will remove Microsoft Windows from its onboard laptops and run Linux exclusively.
The main reason can be :
...NASA has been using Linux on its missions for some time, including on its Mars Curosity rover, suggesting that the delay in shifting over to Linux on ISS was more to do with porting legacy applications from Windows.
Read more about this here.

Testing upload images on google account.

When you upload many images under your google account the time is longer and refresing of upload gui is slow.

You can test your user interface to see how MiB is uploading to google server.

See the next linux command.

$ watch -d 'ifconfig | grep MiB | grep "TX bytes"'

And result is something like this:

Every 2.0s: ifconfig | grep MiB | grep "TX bytes" Thu May  2 22:44:09 2013

          RX bytes:15625675 (14.9 MiB)  TX bytes:184506104 (175.9 MiB)

The new Blender 2.67 release will come with ...

The new Blender 2.67 release note can be used now with this new features:

Compositing Nodes

Cycles Rendering

Motion Tracker

Paint System Refactoring

Changes for Usability, tools, interface

FreeStyle - NPR Render

3D Printing Toolset

You can download a release candidate build for testing here .