Linux By Knight: November 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

LBK Post 049 Five Best Free and Open Source Data Mining Software

From TechSource:

5 of the Best Free and Open Source

Data Mining Software

Link: http://www.junauza.com/2010/11/free-data-mining-software.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/278y368

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Saturday, November 27, 2010

LBK Post 048 Six More of the Best Free Linux Monitoring Tools

Link: http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20101118163040955/Monitoring-Extra.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2bh5ah5

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Monday, November 22, 2010

LBK Post 047 Dealing with the Graphene Band Gap

And No, It has Nothing to Do with the Delay in Getting the Beatles on iTunes.

Check Out: Damaging Graphene to

Create a Band Gap

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene offers a lot of interesting potential

applications for nanoelectronics," Florian Banhart tells

PhysOrg.com, "but there is no band gap. This is a well-known problem. Without the band gap, switching as needed in electronic devices is difficult."

Link: http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-graphene-band-gap.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2cynocj

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Sunday, November 21, 2010

LBK Post 046 A Bouquet of Letters For Algernon and the CIA Kryptos in the Times

Maybe It's Not The Rubicon Code Hidden in The NYT Crosswords, But You Can Work UP to That.

That Link IS at the Very Bottom

This One Sits in Front of the CIA

And It Still Hasn't Been Cracked

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/20/us/code.html?ref=us

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2abwoyd

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AMC/Rubicon NYT Crossword Link:
http://blogs.amctv.com/rubicon/2010/08/rubicon-crossword-puzzle.php
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Just a little Sunday Times Fun

From Wingman.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

LBK Post 045 How to Choose a Partition Scheme for Your Linux PC

From http://www.howtogeek.com

How to Choose a Partition Scheme for Your Linux PC

Image by dmyhung

Afraid of the dreaded “p” word? You’re not alone. Partitions can get complicated, so here’s an explanation of what they are, how they’re used, and a simple template to use for your own Linux installation.

Link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/35676/how-to-choose-a-partition-scheme-for-your-linux-pc/

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/3yoavny

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LBK Post 044 Even A Little Light At Night Could Be Depressing

From http://www.lockergnome.com

Light At Night Could Be Depressing

Exposure to even dim light at night is enough to cause physical changes in the brains of hamsters that may be associated with depression, a new study shows.

Researchers found that female Siberian hamsters exposed to dim light every night for eight weeks showed significant changes in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

This is the first time researchers have found that light at night, by itself, may be linked to changes in the hippocampus.

Link: http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2010/11/17/light-at-night-causes-changes-in-brain-linked-to-depression/

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2bb9t4r

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

LBK Post 042 Open Kinect Says: Whose Your Linux Daddy Microsoft?

Kinect Hacker Hector Shows Redmond Who's Daddy

Link: http://www.acrossad.org/node/74

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CBS News Sunday Morning and
http://www.npr.org Reminds Us
That Trudeau's 'Doonesbury' Turns 40.

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Link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130815184
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

LBK Post 041 From My Virtualized Peppermint Fortress, I Can See Laughlin...

The Fedora Project announced

the Fedora 14 Final Release,

adding Amazon EC2 support

Fedora also features faster boot-times and JPEG downloads, the MeeGo for Netbooks UI stack, improved debugging, and a new "Spice" virtualization desktop framework, says the project.

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What Is EC2?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

Link: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

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Link: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7089889820.html?kc=rss

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2erh8oh

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Monday, November 8, 2010

LBK Post 040 Ubuntu Going For Some Unity

Ubuntu To Abandon X11

For Unity Desktop

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From: http://www.h-online.com

On a post on his blog, Ubuntu founder
Mark Shuttleworth has said that, in the medium term,
the Ubuntu project plans to switch to a new graphics system.

In about a year's time, Wayland, a lean, OpenGL-based graphics
and window system, is to replace the X Server and the X Window system.

According to Shuttleworth, X11 isn't set up to deliver the
user experience the project intends to create
by switching to the Unity desktop.

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