Iceweasel/Firefox 10.0 now in the Debian Mozilla APT Archive
My Debian Squeeze system uses the Debian Mozilla APT Archive to bring newer versions of Iceweasel (aka Firefox) and Icedove (aka Thunderbird) than are available in the stock releases. An update today brought Iceweasel/Firefox 10.0 into my system. The Firefox release pace has been extremely fast lately, and it’s nice to get the latest releases packaged up for Debian.
Compare And Synchronize Folders With FreeFileSync
FreeFileSync is a muti-platform folder comparison and synchronization tool that comes with some very useful features like support for multiple folder pairs, binary files support, can create "batch files" which can be used to automate folder synchronization and others.
Coreboot Is Set To Start Booting Laptops
This weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM along with many interesting X.Org discussions and laying out the plans for Wayland 1.0, the Coreboot project has an exciting announcement: showing off the first mainstream laptop with Coreboot support.
The FebruRY 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the February 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.
Openmoko smartphone reborn as hackable GTA04
German manufacturer Golden Delicious has begun shipping a hackable open source smartphone that runs a variety of Linux software, including a newly optimized Openmoko distro. The Openmoko GTA04 is available as a finished phone or as a board that slips into earlier Openmoko Neo Freerunner GTA01 and GTA02 cases, providing an 800MHz Texas Instruments DM3730 processor and a full range of sensors and wireless features….
Yet again on outlining with nano
I really do have things other than outlining with nano to write about. Really I do. For example, there’s the project of installing the Tinycore distribution on some older machines in our computer lab to write about–something I did about a month ago and about which I’ve already started an article. But I’ve gone on kind of a jag with this nano project lately, and it’s complex and foreign enough to me that if I don’t record it now, I’m liable to forget important details. So, you’re forced to endure another installment on it. 
SODIMM-sized Cortex-A8 module sports CAN bus, onboard flash
EMAC announced a SODIMM-sized computer-on-module (COM) that runs Linux 2.6 or Windows CE 6.0 on a 600MHz TI ARM Cortex-A8 processor and can be purchased with a carrier board. The SoM-3517M offers up to 512MB of RAM, 1GB of NAND flash and 4GB of onboard eMMC flash, and I/O including Ethernet, four serial ports, three USB 2.0 ports, and CAN bus….
Laptop overheating, causing thermal shutdown during prolonged, CPU-intensive tasks
I’ve had my Lenovo G555 laptop (AMD Athlon II at 2.1 GHz) for nearly two years, and recently I’ve been experiencing thermal shutdowns while running prolonged, CPU-intensive tasks in Debian Squeeze. Perhaps ironically but probably totally explainable, watching Flash video is not one of these tasks. I can watch Flash-delivered content in Hulu all night, and the Lenovo is fine.
Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL/SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.2)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I’ll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV and SquirrelMail.