HP Holds Navy Network ‘Hostage’ for $3.3 Billion

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Someday, somehow, the U.S. Navy would like to run its networks — maybe even own its computers again. After 10 years and nearly $10 billion, many sailors are tired of leasing their PCs, and relying on a private contractor to operate most of their data systems. Troops are sick of getting stuck with inboxes that hold 150 times less than a Gmail account, and local networks that go down for days while Microsoft Office 2007 gets installed … in 2010. But the Navy just can’t quit its tangled relationship with Hewlett-Packard. The admirals and the firm recently signed another $3.3 billion no-bid contract that begins Oct. 1st. It’s a final, five-year deal, both sides promise, to let the Navy gently wean itself from its reliance on HP. But that’s what they said the last time, and the time before that.

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LBK Post Linux Mint 9 offers new software manager

Linux Mint 9 offers New Software Manager, 

Backup Tool

The Linux Mint team has released the final version of Linux Mint 9 ("Isadora"), based on Ubuntu 10.04. Linux Mint 9 features a new software manager with 30,000 packages, a new backup tool, and menu and interface improvements, says the team.

Link: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6529740932.html?kc=rss

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/29hez5l

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Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month

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From PHORONIX:

Prior to the emergence of Btrfs as a viable next-generation Linux file-system, Sun's ZFS file-system was sought after for Linux due to its advanced feature-set and capabilities compared to EXT3 and other open-source file-systems at the time.

While ZFS support has worked its way into OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and other operating systems, ZFS had not been ported to Linux as its source-code is distributed under the CDDL license, which is incompatible with the GNU GPL barring it from integration into the mainline Linux kernel.

Next month, however, a working ZFS module for the Linux kernel without a dependence on FUSE will be publicly released.

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Link: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_linux_coming&num=1

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LBK POST Bossie Awards 2010:

 
The Best Open Source Software of the Year

InfoWorld's Test Center picks the top open source platforms,

 middleware, applications, and application development tools


In 2010, the choices aren't any easier, and now there are many, many more packages available. Sourceforge.net claims more than 310,000 projects and GitHub more than 1 million. Before going much further, let us apologize profusely for not sorting through the millions of projects to find all of the very best.

Link: http://infoworld.com/d/open-source/bossie-awards-2010-the-best-open-source-software-the-year-115

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LBK Post Dangerous Security Flaw Patched in Linux

From:

Dangerous Security Flaw Patched in Linux

A critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that gives attackers access to root via X server  has been patched by Linus Torvalds. Meanwhile, kernel developer James Morris reports on the first-annual Linux Security Summit (LSS), which covered topics including usability, hardening the kernel, and API standardization.

Link: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7769860706.html?kc=rss

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Linux 2.6.35 Arrives Bearing 
Network, Multicore Gifts

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 2.6.35 kernel, adding improvements to multicore support, network scalability, memory management, power management, and Btrfs file-system I/O. 

Meanwhile, we take a peek at Linux 2.6.36, and note Linux Journal's history of the Linux Kernel, Slackware, Debian, and some 450 other distros.


Link: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3718896071.html?kc=rss

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LBK Post Passwords Quickly Hacked With PC Graphics Cards

Georgia Tech researchers find that high-end, readily available graphics processing units are powerful enough to easily crack secret codes.

Link: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226700303

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Passwords with fewer than 12 characters can be quickly brute-force decoded using a PC graphics processing unit (GPU) that costs just a few hundred dollars, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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SSL Still Having Problems:

EFF Warns of Untrustworthy SSL, 

Undetectable Surveillance

 

 

 

 

Link:  http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/65069

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SSL Labs: Researching the technology 

that protects the Internet

 
Link: http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1476

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7-Character Passwords Soon to be 

 

Hopelessly Inadequate

 

 
Link: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9747

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LBK Post On Running Lucid Puppy Linux in VirtualBox

Lucid Puppy Linux Running in Sun's Virtual Box

LBK Post Click! Photography Changes Everything

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Friday on Smithsonian Spotlight they "Focused" on 

the Importance of Photographs. 

The Program was called: Click! 

Link:  http://click.si.edu/

Link: http://photography.si.edu/

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LBK Interesting Tech Topics

A Sticker Makes Solar Panels Work Better

A startup's polymer sticker increases power output by 10 percent, and can be applied to panels that are already installed.

The power output of solar panels can be boosted by 10 percent 

just by applying a big transparent sticker to the front. 

Developed by a small startup called Genie Lens Technologies, the sticker is a polymer film embossed with microstructures that bend incoming sunlight. The result: the active materials in the panels absorb more light, 
and convert more of it into electricity.

Link:  http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/25963/

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LBK Post Boot and Run Linux from USB

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Bring your Favorite Portable Linux Desktop 

with you wherever you go

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Popular Universal USB Installer – Easy as 1 2 3

Popular MultiBoot USB Boot Multiple ISO Files from USB

Link: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Link 2: http://pcsplace.com/linux/boot-into-linux-using-your-usb-thumb-drive/

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LBK Post Monster Cables Go Wireless?

Monster Cables Go Wireless?

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Link:  http://www.blackweb20.com/2010/06/24/monster-cables-goes-wireless/

Monster® ClarityHD Precision Micro Bluetooth Speaker 100

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Apple Butter 
IS my New Blog.

Link is Here:

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LBK Post JQuery Goodies

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JQuery Labs

Link: http://www.jquerylabs.com/

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JQuery Goodies Like IconDock

Link: http://icon.cat/wiki/IconDock_En#Download_older_versions

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LBK Post Linux New Block Party

High Availability With the Linux 

Distributed Replicated Block Device

The 2.6.33 Linux kernel has introduced a useful 

new service called the DRBD - 

Distributed Replicated Block Device. 

This service mirrors an entire block device to another networked

 host during run time, permitting the development of

 high-availability clusters for block data. 

Link: 

http://www.osnews.com/story/23653/High_Availability_With_the_Linux_Distributed_Replicated_Block_Device

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Speaking UNIX: Get to Know Ksplice
Give Reboots the Boot

Link: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-spunix_ksplice/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07Ksplicedth-AIX


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LBK Logitech Alert HD Security Camera

Logitech Alert HD Security Camera

Logitech Alert Digital Video Security System

Link 1 Photos: http://www.engadget.com/photos/logitech-alert-digital-video-security-system/#3228905

Link 2 Details: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/03/logitech-announces-alert-series-of-high-def-security-cameras-we/

 

 

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Solar Tsunami to Strike Earth Tonight

The Sun's surface erupted early Sunday morning, blasting tons of plasma into interplanetary space -- directly towards the Earth.

That wall of ionized atoms should hit the planet tonight, say scientists, creating a geomagnetic storm and a spectacular light show and possibly threatening satellites in orbit.

"This eruption is directed right at us and is expected to get here 

early in the day on Aug. 4th," said

Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. 

 

"It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time."

Link:  http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/03/spectacular-northern-lights-signals-sun-waking/

 
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Other Sci/Tech News on Google Page


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BBC

1. Urgent Spacewalks to Fix ISS pump
    Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10851525

CNET

2. Amazon Has 70-80 percent e-book Market
    Link:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20012381-82.html

Information Week

3. Microsoft Patches Windows Shell Vulnerability
    Link:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500161subSection=Vulnerabilities+and+threats

 
Bloomberg Businessweek

4. Google App Inventor for Android
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http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-08-02/hands-on-google-app-inventor-for-android.html

USA Today

5. Star Craft II sales Top 1.5 million in First 48 hours
    Link: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2010/08/starcraft-ii-sales-top-15-million-in-first-48-hours/1

 

 

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Possible OpenSolaris Fork in the Wind

OpenSolaris Fork ?

Announcement Tomorrow.

Link: http://www.osnews.com/story/23634/Possible_OpenSolaris_Fork_

"A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have 

been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, 

and we're just about ready to fully disclose our work to, and  

invite the general participation of, the general public." 

 

They have a website, 

 

Illumos Webpage: http://www.illumos.org/projects/site/wiki/Announcement

 

and 

 

they're going to be hosting a conference call on August 3.

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OpenSolaris Governing Board Threatens 

to Shoot Itself In The Head

Link: http://www.osnews.com/story/23551/OpenSolaris_Governing_Board_Threatens_to_Shoot_Itself_In_The_Head

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