Linux by Knight Post 046 Steve Jobs on Text Books and Backpacks

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Apple Introduces Technology that Makes School Textbooks Obsolete by Switching to the iPad January 25th, 2012 Posted in Steve Jobs Blog Posts.

Apple wants students to stop lugging around backpacks full of heavy textbooks and to switch to the iPad instead.

On Thursday the company introduced three free pieces of software revolving around education. It released iBooks 2, a new version of its electronic bookstore, where students can now download textbooks; iBooks Author, a Macintosh program for creating textbooks and other books; and iTunes U, an app for instructors to create digital curriculums and share course materials with students.


From:  http://stevejobsnow.net

Link:  http://stevejobsnow.net/apple-introduces-technology-that-makes-school-textbooks-obsolete-by-switching-to-ipad/    

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     WOZ  has a Different Take on BackPacks...

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Just Wow: Steve Wozniak's Backpack Crammed Full of Gadgets

This is what Steve Wozniak carries around in his 50 pound backpack that's reportedly made him shorter over the years.

Link:  http://dvice.com/archives/2012/07/just-wow-steve.php   

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/6nwyjqm 

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Linux by Knight Post 045 Plextor Launches Affordable SSDs with Non-Declining Performance.

From:   http://www.xbitlabs.com

Link:

 http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20120711192253_Plextor_Launches_Affordable_SSDs_with_Non_Declining_Performance.html

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7ba5cpr  

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7 Quick Tricks for Ubuntu and 

Other Linux Desktops

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Link:  http://www.howtogeek.com/118751/7-quick-tricks-for-ubuntu-and-other-linux-desktops/  

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/6qf95zz

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Linux by Knight Post 044 Convert MS Word Docs to e-Books for Free

The Smashwords e-book-publishing service transforms Word's DOC files into the EPUB, MOBI, and other e-book formats, but only if  you shun text boxes, tables, and other common formatting elements in the file, as the handy Smashwords guide explains.   





From:  http://howto.cnet.com

Link:  http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57465201-285/convert-ms-word-docs-to-e-books-for-free/   

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/bumdfbo  

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Getting More INFO On:   How to Use Microsoft Word to 

Create an Ebook

Link:  http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/253618/how_to_use_microsoft_word_to_create_an_ebook.html 

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Linux by Knight Post 43 Pentagon's Zombie Satellite Program Comes to Life

From:  http://www.wired.com

The Pentagon’s intergalactic black-magic plot 

is getting ready to raise the dead.

Dead satellites, that is. Last year, Darpa, the military’s blue-sky research agency, kicked off a program designed to harvest parts from unused communications satellites still orbiting the Earth, and then turn those bits and pieces — antennas in particular — into an array that operates as a low-cost “communications farm” for troops on the ground

Link:  http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/darpa-phoenix-2/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7udnpry

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Linux by Knight Post 042 Twisted Light Wifi Creates Connectivity Fast Lane 2,4 Terabit Per Second

From:  http://www.forextv.com

The internet is about to get the equivalent of an express lane as a result of new wireless technology developed by American and Israeli scientists.  High-speed wireless transmission of up to 2.5 terabits per second may be possible by what is being called "twisted, vortex beams."  It is essentially a new wifi protocol that uses light beams more efficiently that what is currently in use.

Link:  http://www.forextv.com/forex-news-story/twisted-light-wifi-creates-connectivity-fast-lane-2-4-terabit-per-second  

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/76qof2e

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Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror

Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s&feature=youtube_gdata_player



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Linux by Knight Post 046 Unity alternatives - the many desktops of Ubuntu

From:  http://www.h-online.com

GNOME Shell and Cinnamon

KDE, Xfce and LXDE

Ubuntu's Unity is far from the only desktop environment available for the distribution. For users who want to stay with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but prefer another desktop environment, there are plenty of alternatives to try.

Link:  http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Unity-alternatives-the-many-desktops-of-Ubuntu-1614860.html

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Linux by Knight Post 045 Flame's Crypto Attack May have Needed $200,000 Worth of Compute Power

A cluster of 200 PlayStation 3 consoles used in 2008 to find a cryptographic collision in the MD5 algorithm.

Alex Sotirov

From:  http://arstechnica.com





The cryptographic attack that Flame engineers used to hijack Microsoft's Windows Update process was so computationally demanding, it would have required the equivalent of $200,000 worth of computing time from Amazon's EC2 Web service for most people to carry it out.

Link:  http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-crypto-attack-may-have-needed-massive-compute-power/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29  

Yeah, Even Linux Links can be Over-The-Top...

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TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/89byk3q

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