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Well, Google is considering to deploy data centres necessary to operate their search engine on barges powering and cooling computers…Sounds strangely? Just read below!Related PostsGoogle phone (GPhone) rumorsXen cluster on Debian for newbiesGoogle is 9 years old nowgOS: operating system with Google AppsSync Google Reader with Liferea

Hi-tech fraud gangs plan to exploit the US' s slow uptake of chip and pin technology by using cloned credit cards to fund wide scale shopping sprees here.

Filed under: wireless hacks, news, security hacksA federal grand jury in Boston has charged eleven people with the theft of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers from retail stores. What makes this case interesting is that, although the defendants stole the data from retail establishments, they did so without ever having to leave their cars; they stole the numbers while wardriving. While the report doesn't make it clear whether the targeted networks used weak encryption or were simply unsecured, it's obvious that the security of your data is still not a top priority for many companies.

Terminator 0.9, an application that allow you to have multiple terminal within the same window, is getting close to be released. FeatureFreeze has been started since a couple of weeks.The bugs opened against terminator milestone 0.9 are being closed.A big bunch of new features and enhancements come shipped with this new release.A package is available from Launchpad PPA. You can grab the .deb there. Feedback to terminator bug tracker on launchpad are welcome.

transmission, a lightweight bittorrent client version 1.22 was released on the 14th of June 2008.A .deb package is available for Ubuntu Hardy i386 and amd64 from the debuntu repository.read more

As it was planned Fedora 9 (codename "Sulphur") is released today. As for me it wasn't such expected as Ubuntu Hardy Heron but it is still very important event in Open Source world. So, here is the list of new features in this version of RedHat sponsored Linux distribution: [...]

Filed under: newsIt's true, as much as [Will] and I like being a scrappy two person shop with a 'never say die' attitude, and penchant for fist pounding after successful compiles, we need more people (MOAR even). We're looking for a few more contributors to help out with the daily posting, digging up the extra obscure, and especially the how-tos we've started to get back into.

Terminator gives the possibility of having multiples terminal within the same window.As such, it makes it easier to handle multiple terminal sessions as for instance, working in one console and monitoring another one without constantly switching from a window to another.read more

After a number of years in development Linux Test Drive is becoming a reality, from the page:LTD is a project that has been in development for the last three years. LTD allows the user to determine which distribution best fits their needs utilizing the Linux Distribution Chooser, and then once that is determined, give the user the ability to "test drive" that distribution directly over the Internet, without the need to download. We are currently taking pre-beta registrations for the LTD system.read more

Intel Organizes Seminar On Multi-Core Programming In Mumbai at Leela. Intel organized this seminar for developers, so that they could make a paradigm shift towards programming for Multi-Core processors. James Reinders mentioned 1-2-3 recommendations that developers can do today to use multi-core processors. James talked 8 key rules for multicore...

pidgin 2.2.0 has made its way out, this release incorporate improvements from Google Summer of Code 2007 and bug fixes.read more

Well, I don't like to bring this message, but I guess I have to. I simply do not have the time to keep this blog updated anymore. You probably already expected something like that, seeing that there haven't been any posts for over two months... Anyway, the site will stay online so the knowledge that's already on it will not be lost, and all revenue will still be donated to the good cause. Maybe I will find the time to write in a vacation somewhere, but I'm not sure. Thanks to all the readers for their comments and support, thanks to Youmakemusic.com for hosting this website, and thanks to God for blessing me so much, both on this site and for the rest of my life.

It has been almost a month since the last time i´ve posted something here.People have mail me asking if this site had died. Well here´s the answer.

Ubuntu as released a page with official screencasts. Little tutorial videos to help the users achieve some simple tasks that may appear problematic in the beginning, or not, for the newbies.

There’s finally a Ubuntu package for wine-doors version 0.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ZTV82OmKo.Original source (bigger video).This is not recent news but i thought that was relevant to include it on this site. This could also be posted earlyer but some technical problems regarding putting resized youtube videos on this site has prevented me to talk about this first.

If there is one plugin that I was missing from gaim since I use pidgin, this was gaim-libnotify. Gaim libnotify pops-up small notification messages when you receive a message or when somebody logs in or out.read more

Pidgin, the new name of Gaim as released its version 2.0.0.Pidgin 2.0.0 is already available for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I have backported it to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.read more

Today, subtitleeditor 0.20.0alpha1 was released.This new release come with a bunch of new features.read more

Today, Thu Apr 19 15:18:16 BST 2007, Ubuntu 7.04 codenamed Feisty Fawn has been released as stable.read more