With Google’s announcement today that 3 become one when it comes to storage space, and its all Google Drive now rather than Google+, gMail and Drive. I got to thinking in to what Google could add to Plus to expand it and take it to places Facebook can’t even imagine going.
This tutorial will show you how to set up a serial console on a Linux system, and connect to it via a null modem cable. This is quite useful if your Linux server is in a headless configuration no keyboard or monitor, as it allows you to easily get a console on the system if there are any problems with it especially network problems, when SSH is not available. In the end, the GRUB menu will appear over the serial link, as will the bootup messages output when booting the system. Im using Debian Etch on the server and Ubuntu Edgy on my client, although this should work on any Linux
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on using a Chromebook to develop on a cloud platform. Its based on a Digital Ocean remote server and like most people who wish to attach to the command line interface on a remote server I use SSH. It’s an encrypted connection over the network/internet from end to end. However being a cloud server I was wondering if it was possible to secure this a little bit more?
A chat with a friend on the way into work provided me with a solution.
I recently wrote a post about using a cloud based VPS for doing development work on, it was pointed out to me in a Google+ conversation that this could be done equally as well with the Crouton installer.
Its true that most of the posts i’ve found on the internet cover running the default installer which will get you a Unity Shell Ubuntu 12.04 LTS i386 install. I’ve also covered in a different post that it’s possible to get the latest Ubuntu 13.04 Raring running with a few command line tweaks to the crouton installer.
The github Readme File (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton) has a really good readme which explains how its possible to really do much more with this excellent script.
I’ve had my Nokia Lumia 920 since November 2012 and I chose the phone because i was fedup with just how staid and old Android was feeling, and an iPhone was old hat. WP8 was the new kid on the block and I wanted to give it a go..
So what are my thoughts on the Phone, the OS and the Apps?
Generally speaking I have nothing bad to say about the phone or the OS expect for two small bugs i’ve had over the past few months. so lets cover off the bad stuff first and then move to the highlights..
Storing your data in the cloud is a no brainer for most poeple, its an obvious place to store it and why not, however if services like dropbox have taught us one thing about this new web based storage, its that it is not 100% safe. So how can we use these services AND be a bit safer? Simple, easy and free is the answer, well file encryption is the answer actually, but is is those three things.
I found this on the web and it is really good at what it does, its free, and its cross platform as well..
Mark Shuttleworth has the potential of being this Generations Steve Jobs and he is planning on doing to Ubuntu what Jobs did for Apple. He seems to be taking that think different philosophy Jobs had with Apple and applying it to the Linux Distribution he sponsors Ubuntu.
Back in the day when you wanted to stream some video on the internet you installed RealPlayer, the real plugin was the go to guy for live and normal video streams, it was ubiquitous as todays alternative Flash Player is. Somewhere in the mide 2000′s flash took over as being the default delivery mechinism for streaming media over the internet, potentially helped by sites like Youtube using it.
There were other plugins for your browser, Quicktime was favored by Apple and for a Long time Microsofts choice was MPayer.
All of these technologies have one thing in common, you need to install a plugin within your browser to make use of them, without a plugin you would simply recieve a box telling you something was there, but you can’t play it. This makes the standard web browser a very kludgy thing with all these bolt ons and plugins needing to be installed.
If you think that hackers are spotty geeks in bedrooms at 3am in the morning grabbing your credit card details you;ve only got a small piece of the picture. Hacking is also state sponsered and its the new battleground. While we still have soldiers putting their lives on the line for Queen and country every day, in some circles this is seen as nothing more than show. true warefare is being fought every day in cyberspace over secrets and information. The new power..
Apple are, if the tech blogsphere is to be understood correctly, on the very of a radical new Sir Jonny Ive inspired revamp of the IOS interface, moving away from using pictures of calendars and phones, and stitching around the edges of apps and bringing the OS Interface into the world which has radical, but accepted interfaces such as Windows 8 (Which Ive himself has lauded publically)
Being a few months in with my Acer C7 Chromebook as my only laptop i’ve very pleased with what it does, I do have the Crouton Ubuntu chroot installed and upgraded the device to 16Gb of Ram, however there is one core thing I miss with this setup. VMWare/Virtualbox. I find i’m often building virtual machines, usually Ubuntu to test bsh scripts or build LAMP Environments to test some PHP out with. That isn’t something i’m able to do even on the CHROOT Ubuntu environment.
All however is not lost, and i’ve found a way to get round this..
is this the next stage in the Personal computer revolution or your worst distopian nightmare?
With Ubuntu’s new release out this week, i wanted to share with you how to get this working in a chroot environment alongside ChromeOS on the Acer C7.
It’s pretty clear that people like Microsoft Office, its the default first thing most businesses install on a Windows Desktop once the updates are done, the lack of something which replicates Microsoft Office on the Linux platform is also a hotly contested argument. While it’s arguable that LibreOffice is more than a drop in replacement for Microsoft Office if you have learnt how a word processor works, and not how Word works, it does look a bit old hat now.
