http://ubuntuforums.org – I got a HP laptop with ATI Radeon 4500 HD mobility series. I installed ubuntu 12.04, but noticed that the OS recognized my graphics as VESA: M92. Is this normal becuase i read somewhere that VESA: M92 doesn't give out the full performance of the graphics card. If so can I install a new driver that performs better? (Hardware)
Email this pagehttp://askubuntu.com – Hardware: 13" MacBook Pro 5,5 (Summer 2009), GeForce 9400M. OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 AMD64 My hardware and OS are similar to what some others with this problem had, but what worked for them doesn't work for me. Unfortunately, with the nvidia driver, the brightness controls (F1 and F2) do not work - no feedback at all. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Sokikom, a new startup that wants to help K-12 teachers motivate students to learn using games, is announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding, half of which comes in the form of a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (a research branch within the U.S. Department of Education) and the other half comes in the form of angel funding from former Intel Chairman and CEO Dr. (IT news)
Email this pagehttps://bbs.archlinux.org – Tried: ACPI=noirq" (made no difference)Tried:rmmod nvidiamodprobe nvidiastartx(Didnt start up)Tried uninstalling nvidia & installing nouveau instead.:Didn't boot & startup hanged - had to add nomodeset in order to get to the commandline. So it looks like the nvidia driver is working in some respects. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://www.thevarguy.com – Linux fans in Europe have reason to celebrate this week with Dell’s announcement that its “Sputnik” XPS 13 laptop powered by Ubuntu, which the company released in the United States in December 2012, is now available on the other side of the ocean as well. As a bonus, Dell has added some hardware upgrades to the laptop for all markets. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://news.softpedia.com – Git, a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency, is now at version 1.8.2 RC0. According to the developer, Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning-fast performance. It's considered similar to the SCM ... (read more) (General)
Email this pagehttp://www.thevarguy.com – If you’re a Linux user, and if you like tablets, it’s hard to say whether these are the best of times or the worst of times. While some initiatives to put Linux on tablets appear to be making steady progress, other open source projects in this vein have stagnated or disappeared. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://www.thevarguy.com – VMware (NYSE: VMW) has bought Virsto Software, a software developer specializing in storage optimization in virtual environments, a move VMware said will advance its development of storage technologies and fits with its software-defined data center strategy. Neither company disclosed terms of the agreement, which is expected to close sometime in the first quarter of this year. Virsto’s technology (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://unix.stackexchange.com – As I've just learned with CentOS, not all linuxes are created equally. CentOS seems to be so obsessed with stability & security that it almost never updates an rpm. This is not meant as an insult. I'm sure there's another linux that always wants to be cutting edge, sacrificing stability & security. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://serverfault.com – I have installed XAMPP on my Mac. I know that XAMPP is tuned for very slow desktop and as I have almost 3 million records which I need to join. I have to change something. My tables are MyISAM. As everybody suggests I should have a look at key_buffer_size. However, I'm not sure if my configuration is correct. (HowTos)
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