Archiving Images with an Open Source Scanning Robot
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Project Gado is developing an inexpensive, open source, autonomous archival scanning robot. The goal? To create a tool that will allow small archives and museums digitize holdings at a low cost and help preserve important documents and pictures. In the process of developing the Gado, the ambitious project is also helping preserve the Afro-American Newspapers photo collection.
Founded in 2010, Project Gado is an effort to create an affordable, open source archival scanning robot for digitizing photographs. The Gado 1, a proof-of-concept machine built on Python and Arduino, scanned more than a thousand photos, and now the project is into Phase 2.
Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
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The developers behind the GNOME project have announced GNOME 3.4, a new version of the desktop environment. The update brings several significant new features and a number of design and usability improvements.
GNOME is an open source software stack that provides a desktop shell, applications, and development frameworks that are commonly used on the Linux platform. It is the default desktop environment in Fedora and several other Linux distributions. It’s released every six months on a time-based development cycle.
Red Hat family tree
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An interesting look back at the history of Red Hat Linux and it’s derivatives:
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Scientific Linux, the Great Distro With the Wrong Name
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Scientific Linux is an unknown gem, one of the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones. The name works against it because it’s not for scientists; rather it’s maintained by science organizations. Let’s kick the tires on the latest release and see what makes it special.
Telkom lines update
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Telkom has repaired our voice lines and as of 08:00 this morning we have been able to take calls again.
Internet access is working via our backup wireless link.
Urgent: DcData Telkom lines offline
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We are experiencing a Telkom outage in our area that has resulted in a loss voice and data connectivity to our support office.
Please use the following contact details to reach DcData:
Garth Lancaster: 0781417916
Neil Wilson: 0837877424
David Wilson: 0824147413
What’s the best Linux server for you?
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Whatever your size, there’s a distribution that fits
When it comes to clothes, I’m a normal guy. I just want to walk into a store, grab something that fits, buy it (What, try it on? Are you kidding!?), and head home. Well, that’s what I want to do. I’ve learned over the years that just because something should fit doesn’t mean that it will fit. It’s the same with Linux servers. Sure, they’re all built on the same code base and can run the same applications, but one may fit you perfectly while another may make you look like a clown.
So, how can you tell which is which? Well, let’s start with that basic question you should bring to any computing decision: “What is it that you really want to do?”
Samsung Has G2D Driver, Virtual Display For Linux 3.4
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Besides the DRM work already piling up for Linux 3.4, there’s more. The Samsung developers responsible for the Exynos graphics driver have sent in their “-next” pull request, which brings several new features, including the basis of 2D acceleration for this open-source ARM graphics driver. There’s also a virtual display driver that could be used for handling wireless displays.
PHP 5.4 Release Brings Many Changes
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PHP 5.4.0 was officially released today as a major advancement over the PHP 5.3 code-base.
Among the many improvements to PHP 5.4 is support for language traits, a shortened array syntax, a built-in web-server, compatibility changes, and many other improvements.
ClearOS 6.2 Moves A Step Closer To Release
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While all the major RHEL derivatives are now up to version 6.2 in par with upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux (see the RHEL vs. Oracle vs. CentOS vs. Scientific Linux benchmarks), ClearOS is still in beta for its 6.2 milestone.
ClearOS, which formerly was known as ClarkConnect, is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS. While ClarkConnect was known for being a web-based gateway/network server, since the ClearOS 6.1 release it’s been a full RHEL-based OS as well.
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