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HyRax1 has posted another one of his Ubuntu how-to guides. This one shows you how to make a bootable USB stick version of the Ubuntu Hardy LiveCD. Scenario: You have a PC that you want to install Ubuntu to or needs rescue and you don't have a LiveCD handy, or perhaps the PC doesn't have a working CD drive or even a CD drive at all! Solution: If the PC supports booting from USB devices, then why not have a USB-bootable version of the Ubuntu LiveCD? We can dub this "Ubuntu LiveUSB".
Freewaregenius have reviewed Wubi, a simplified method of getting Ubuntu running on a PC with an existing Windows installation. Wubi is an Ubuntu Linux installer designed to be run from within a Windows environment in order to create a dual booting Windows/Ubuntu machine. Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer and is open source.
Falls noticed a Flickr user commenting on his new Dell Vostro 1310 and its abnormal keyboard layout. They keys are all there. Shift, \|, Z, X... its just that the left shift is too big, forcing everything over too far. The Z has to be between the A and S... look on ANY other keyboard and that's where it sits. This is not a US/UK layout issue, just a general monumental flaw.
Several CBDs in New South Wales will no longer be getting the free wireless Internet that Premier Morris Iemma announced in late 2006. "Rather than just jumping in and committing funds and having it fail, like has occurred in Chicago, Houston, San Fransisco, we were more careful to just test to see whether there really was a need for this type of technology to be introduced," he said. "What we actually found is those schemes have not actually delivered on the objective they thought they would."
Fifteen years ago on April 30 CERN announced that the World Wide Web could be used by everyone, and Tim Berners-Lee believes "we have only started to explore the possibilities." "What's exciting is that people are building new social systems, new systems of review, new systems of governance," he said. "My hope is that those will produce... new ways of working together effectively and fairly which we can use globally to manage ourselves as a planet."
Another anniversary is that of SPAM, with the first batch of e-mails being sent thirty years ago today. The first spam message was the product of a more innocent time. Thuerk sent the ad for a new computer model from his own email address, and had a co-worker type in all of the addresses by hand, says Brad Templeton, an internet pioneer, now chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Continuing with the Internet-related topics is a Lateline interview with Hew Griffiths - "the man US authorities say was the 'elder in the highest echelons of the underground internet piracy community'." At the time Australian Hew Griffiths was unemployed and living with his father on the NSW Central Coast. Yet according to the US Department of Justice he was the leader of an organised crime group robbing American software companies of tens of millions of dollars.
AnandTech have posted part 1 in a series which documents their HTPC build. You don't have to guess that I view the PC as the center of the digital home, it's the best home for media in my opinion and it continues to deliver the most responsive user experience. While the idea of a PC (or PC-like device) in every room of your house isn't quite as fleshed out as I'd like it to be, a Home Theater PC (HTPC) is easily a reality today.
Ars Technica have a couple of interesting articles - "PS3's Cell CPU tops high-performance computing benchmark" and "Holographic storage, 150GB discs finally coming to market."
If you have a Windows Mobile device and like the iPhone's user interface, keep an eye out for the iSwish and iZoom beta release due out this month. iSwish: With this project we not only skin a windows mobile device but we implement all the cool interface stuff. It is also has full summerboard support for all the great themes people have created. iZoom: At a very low level the multiple touches of a normal touch screen device (i.e. not the iPhone) are masked. Our development team thinks we can make inferences from the data and simulate multi-touch.
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