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No, this isn’t an April Fools’ Day joke. Elon Musk has actually released a rap song on the tragically-killed gorilla ‘Harambe’ who became a popular meme later on. He uploaded the autotuned rap song on SoundCloud this weekend under a fictional rap label “Emo G” (the name is too bad even for a fake label) […]
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Last month, Apple laid off almost 190 employees working in its ‘self-driving’ car project called Titan. Earlier in January, they restructured 200 people working on the same project. It led to the speculation that the self-driving car from the tech giant will never see the light of day. However, the recent hiring of former Tesla […]
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Are you bored of lame April Fools’ Day pranks? If yes, here is a cool Easter Egg for you on Google Maps. You can now play the legendary game ‘Snake’ in the Maps app. Just hit the menu button on the top left corner of the Google Maps screen. Select the option ‘Play Snake’ and you are […]
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After a few months of silence, the Gentoo-based Sabayon Linux operating system has finally received a new release with up-to-date images that bring not only updated components from the Gentoo Linux repositories, but also new features and much-needed improvements.
Linux Lite project manager Jerry Bezencon announced today the final release of the Linux Lite 4.4 operating system, which brings various enhancements and updated components. 
Ubuntu MATE leader Martin Wimpress announced the release of the beta version of the Ubuntu MATE 18.04 operating system for the tiny Raspberry Pi single-board computers.
LVFS makes it easy to update firmware on Linux for hardware from the likes of Logitech, Lenovo and Intel. Now the service is celebrating a major milestone.
This post, Stats Show the Linux Vendor Firmware Service is a Super Success, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
The Indian music label T-series now has the most subscribed channel on YouTube. The news comes after a long going cat and mouse chase with the Swedish YouTuber Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (aka PewDiePie). At the time of writing, T-Series had 92,019,496 subscribers, and PewDiePie had 91,918,147, making the former ahead by 101,349. And to achieve that mark, it has taken a lot […]
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened up in an op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post and expressed his views regarding the content available on the internet and the dire need to regulate it. Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook has too much power over speech and it is time that government bodies must intervene to make […]
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It's always better to learn from someone else's mistakes than from your own. This weekend we feature Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers as they tell stories from their years as systems administrators. It's a win-win: you get to learn from their experiences, and they get to make snide comments to each other.
by Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers
I was suffering, badly. We had just finished an all-night switch migration on our production Storage Area Network while I was hacking up a lung fighting walking pneumonia. Even though I did my part of the all-nighter from home, I was exhausted. So when my pager went off at 9am that morning, allowing me a mere four hours of sleep, I was treading dangerously close to zombie territory...
by Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers
Sometimes events and equipment conspire against you and your team to cause a problem. Occasionally, however, it's lack of understanding or foresight that can turn around and bite you. Unfortunately, this is a tale of where we failed to spot all the possible things that might go wrong.
by Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers
I was now at the next phase of troubleshooting: prayer. Somewhere around this time, I had my big breakthrough...
by Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers
As much as I love working with Linux and configuring software, one major part of being a sysadmin that always has appealed to me is working with actual hardware. There's something about working with tangible, physical servers that gives my job an extra dimension and grounds it from what might otherwise be a completely abstract job even further disconnected from reality. On top of all that, when you get a large shipment of servers, and you view the servers at your company as your servers, there is a similar anticipation and excitement when you open a server box as when you open Christmas presents at home. This story so happens to start during the Christmas season...
While we were all waiting for the Apple AirPower to finally hit the markets, Apple has officially canceled it, and we won’t get to get our hands on the much-awaited charging mat. In an official statement to TechCrunch, the Cupertino major has suggested that it killed AirPower as the device was unable to attain high […]
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After several ‘Unite the Right rallies,’ violence in Charlottesville and the Christchurch terrorist attack in New Zealand, Facebook finally took action. The social media platform banned ‘White Nationalist’ and ‘White Separatist’ content on its platform. Prior to this, only the ‘White Supremacy’ or content related to it was banned. In an official Facebook Newsroom post […]
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The beta release of 2019’s first Ubuntu release is finally here in the form of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo Beta. In its official blog post, the Ubuntu Team has announced the release for Desktop, Server, and Cloud devices. The release date for stable version is April 18th, 2019. It goes without saying that the 19.04 […]
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Top 5 Reasons Why Linux Mint Is Better. In this video why I think Linux Mint is better. Not saying Linux Mint the best distro, I’m saying that it’s often times better than that “other” OS most people are using. I also think it’s better than some other distros out there. In future videos, I’ll be offering the same Linux distro insights on why I think the distro I’m featuring is better than its alternatives and why.
# Linux Mint is a community project. Instead of owing favors to large corporations, Linux Mint is free to take the path its developers believe is best.
# Linux Mint puts the newbie user first. No matter what development turns Linux Mint has taken over the years or who Mint has appealed to, Linux Mint has always put the newer Linux user first.
# Linux Mint is always fine tuning the Mint tools and other elements of the layout. Linux Mint always seems to take what’s working best and then works to make it even better.
# Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS. Being based on Ubuntu LTS (long term support) means a longer release cycle and often times, a less buggy release overall.
Continue reading Top 5 Reasons Why Linux Mint Is Better at Freedom Penguin.
Top 5 Reasons Why Linux Mint Is Better. In this video why I think Linux Mint is better. Not saying Linux Mint the best distro, I’m saying that it’s often times better than that “other” OS most people are using. I also think it’s better than some other distros out there. In future videos, I’ll be offering the same Linux distro insights on why I think the distro I’m featuring is better than its alternatives and why.
# Linux Mint is a community project. Instead of owing favors to large corporations, Linux Mint is free to take the path its developers believe is best.
# Linux Mint puts the newbie user first. No matter what development turns Linux Mint has taken over the years or who Mint has appealed to, Linux Mint has always put the newer Linux user first.
# Linux Mint is always fine tuning the Mint tools and other elements of the layout. Linux Mint always seems to take what’s working best and then works to make it even better.
# Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS. Being based on Ubuntu LTS (long term support) means a longer release cycle and often times, a less buggy release overall.
Continue reading Top 5 Reasons Why Linux Mint Is Better at Freedom Penguin.
According to a new report by Piunikaweb, some OnePlus smartphones are downloading GPS data over insecure HTTP sites. It is suggested that OnePlus engineers were able to override the standard AOSP (Android Open Source Project) policies and install the debug build of gps.conf into OnePlus’s OxygenOS operating system. This led to the forceful enablement of […]
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News briefs for March 29, 2019.
The Ubuntu team announced the beta pre-release of the Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" Desktop, Server and Cloud products. The beta release also includes images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu. Note that "The beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 19.04 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on April 18th, 2019." To upgrade to the beta from Ubuntu 18.10, follow the instructions here And to download the images, go here.
New artwork is coming for Mageia 7. The Mageia blog announced that the voting has concluded they are beginning to integrate the new artwork into Mageia 7 in preparation for its release. You can see the winning photographs here.
Zorin recently announced the release of the next major version of the OS: Zorin OS 15 beta. From the Zorin Blog: "Every aspect of the user experience has been re-considered and refined in this new release, from how apps are installed, to how you get work done, to how it interacts with the devices around you. The result is a desktop experience that combines the most powerful desktop technology with the most user-friendly design." Note that this is a pre-release and not recommended for use on production machines. You can download the beta here.
vChain recently released CodeNotary, a "global, de-centralized, blockchain secured" alternative to code-signing certificates. CTO and co-founder of vChain writes, "We at vChain, created CodeNotary to protect your hard work, increase user confidence and trust without spending a fortune. If you provide non-commercial software we provide a life-long free license of CodeNotary." See these two articles "vcn command line for vChain CodeNotary to sign code and more" and "With CodeNotary, you never have to pay for code signing certificates again" for more details. Non-commercial project owners and developers can get an "all-time" free license here
The deadline to submit a proposal for a talk at OpenSource Summit and Embedded Linux Conference is April 2, 2019. The two events will be held in San Diego, California, August 21–23, 2019. For OpenSource Summit proposals, go here, and for the Embedded Linux Conference, go here.
Learn how the leiningen utility can help you manage your Clojure projects.
This article is a gentle introduction to the Clojure Functional Programming language that is based on LISP, uses the Java JVM and has a handy REPL. And, as Clojure is based on LISP, be prepared to see lots of parentheses!
You can install Clojure on a Debian Linux machine by executing the following command as root or using sudo:
# apt-get install clojure
Finding the version of Clojure you are using is as simple as executing one of the following commands inside the Clojure REPL, which you can enter by running clojure:
# clojure
Clojure 1.8.0
user=> *clojure-version*
{:major 1, :minor 8, :incremental 0, :qualifier nil}
user=> (clojure-version)
"1.8.0"
user=> (println *clojure-version*)
{:major 1, :minor 8, :incremental 0, :qualifier nil}
nil
The first command gets you into the Clojure REPL, which displays the user=> prompt and waits for user input. The remaining three commands that should be executed within the Clojure REPL will generate the same output, which, in this example, shows that Clojure version 1.8.0 is being used. So, if you're following along, congratulations! You have just run your first Clojure code!
The first thing you should do after getting Clojure is to install a very handy utility named leiningen, which is the easiest way to use and manage Clojure projects on your Linux machine. Follow the instructions at leiningen.org or use your favourite package manager to install leiningen on your Linux machine. Additionally, if you are using Clojure all the time and working with large Clojure projects, tools like Jenkins and Semaphore will automate your build and test phases and save you lots of time.
After installing leiningen, use the lein command (which is the name of the executable file for the leiningen package) to create a new project named hw:
$ lein new hw
Generating a project called hw based on the 'default' template.
The default template is intended for library projects,
not applications. To see other templates (app, plugin, etc),
try `lein help new`.
The preceding command will create a new directory named hw that will contain files and other directories. You'll need to make some changes to some of the project files in order to execute the project. First, you'll need to edit the project.clj that can be found inside the hw directory and make it as follows:
Apart from the various types of notches being included in smartphones for a bezel-less display, sliders and pop-up camera designs also do the deed. Soon, we might see a new design, taking a new approach to the concept with the launch of the OPPO Reno smartphone, in the forthcoming range by OPPO. According to a leaked image, the OPPO Reno smartphone […]
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The news of an upcoming home connectivity device from Nvidia was recently leaked online. The story was reported by Keith May from Wccftech, while he was in Caltrain. At the station, he spotted a guy with an ‘NV’ (Nvidia) badge working on a presentation for a venture named ‘Nvidia Project R.O.N.’ And from the looks […]
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It seems like Dark Mode is the much-needed element on any app these days, and the ones who love this, might like this news! After a not-so-dark mode on its web and Android versions, Twitter is now bringing an actual one to iOS users. iOS users will now be able to switch to the dark mode, […]
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After proposing new legislation that could lead to Russia having its own internet, the Russian authorities have now issued a notice to 10 VPN providers to restrict access to websites that are banned by the country’s laws. The notice issued by Roskomnadzor, the communications watchdog of Russia, mentions that if VPN providers fail to block the […]
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Nintendo Switch Online – the online multiplayer service for Switch, now comes bundled with your Twitch Subscription. Amazon, which owns Twitch, already enrolls people on Twitch Prime with its Prime subscription. Amazon will not immediately roll out the full 1-year subscription for Nintendo Switch. The first three months will be free and you will need […]
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The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has filed charges against Facebook for allowing discrimination against certain demographics in housing ads. HUD says that Facebook violated the Fair Housing Act by offering options to advertisers that let them exclude groups listed as protected classes in the Fair Housing Act. Just a week ago, Facebook adjusted […]
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Download the beta of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo and help test the next major update of the Linux-based operating system due for release in April.
This post, Ubuntu 19.04 Beta is Now Available to Download, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
