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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Linux cool gadget checking spelling and gramar .

This gadget that vibrates when you make mistakes in legibility, spelling and gramar uses Linux to run the programs on its chip.

The gadget recognizes all writing movements and lets you know with an unmistakable vibration when you’ve made a mistake.

You can pre-order and once the first pens are available then you will purchase your Lernstift gadget.

Read more here.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

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)

Saturday, April 27, 2013

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 .

Linux binaries for Synfig version 0.64.0 the latest candidate 3

The team of Synfig told us about the latest candidate:

For those who impatient about the upcoming release, we providing a testing linux binaries with the most features inside!
Please check out this forum thread, install and test.
Note: Yes, the version in package number still says 0.63.05, but it doesn't really matter, believe us.
I got this error with my old fedora distro:
synfigstudio: symbol lookup error: /opt/synfig/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: pixman_image_composite32

The new AMD Catalyst - Linux x86 and x86_64

AMD has released a new graphics proprietary driver for Linux.

The new feature of Catalyst 13.4 for Linux supports all Radeon HD 5000/6000/7000 videocards.

You can download Catalyst 13.4 for Linux from here.

The new Catalyst 13.4 for Linux is an OpenGL 4.2 - GL_VERSION: 4.0.12217 Core Profile Context 12.104 driver.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

New Intel HTML5 Development Environment on my Fedora.

Intel has launched a developer platform to make it super-easy to create apps based on HTML5.

You can use the Intel XDK to build HTML5 web applications or for all of the major App Stores.

The new environment is available free of licensing fees and other costs.

Also you need to install Google Chrome first if you it's not already on your laptop or desktop.

I test it on my Fedora linux distro and it's working well.