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The Tao Te Ching, believed to have been written by the sage Lao Tzu in the 6th century BCE, is among the most widely translated texts in existence. read more

In this article, I'll share my technique for leveraging open source contributions to stand out as a great candidate for a job in the technology field. read more

Fonts, like any other digital asset on your computer, come with their own rules for licensing. When selecting a font, the decision process involves more than choosing between serif and sans serif: understanding how the font is licensed matters too. Though typographers need to be concerned with their rights to modify and extend a given font, even you as an end user should be asking yourself some questions. Do you have permission to use a font in commercial work, or in a public work at all? Can you even share that font with another person? read more

Remember the Nokia devices acquisition? That went well. Not Analysis Microsoft is acquiring Xamarin, a move which goes to the heart of the company's new mobile strategy.…

Create your own Wearable Tech glove that places control at your fingertips

Phytec has spun a Linux-supported, 50 x 41mm PhyCore-i.MX7 COM with -40 to 85°C support, also available as part of a sandwich-style PhyBoard-i.MX7 Zeta SBC. NXP’s low-power, Cortex-A7 based i.MX7 system-on-chip, which includes a Cortex-M4 MCU for real-time processing and motor control, appears to be heading for the same popularity as the i.MX6. Size matters […]

You've done it: you've taken your own personal utility, library, or web application and placed it on GitHub as free and open source software for all the world to see. Maybe you wrote this software to fill a personal need, or maybe you've always hoped that it would reach more people. One thing's certain: it's always been yours, and yours alone—but the moment you pushed that code for the first time, your baby left the nest. What comes next is up to you. read more

This tutorial shows the installation of the latest PostgreSQL 9.5 version on Ubuntu. We will use the official repository from postgresql.org, so you can update your server easily in future and get direct updates and patches from the database vendor. The steps have been tested with Ubuntu versions from 12.04 until 15.10.

Learn how to query databases and manipulate data by using basic SQL commands. You can use the material in this tutorial to study for the LPI 102 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or to learn for fun.

Embrace, extend, eat Microsoft has bought its long-time partner Xamarin for an undisclosed sum.…

My open source story began during my first year of college when I joined Mozilla's Firefox Student Ambassadors (FSA) program.

AMD launched 3rd Gen, dual-core, G-Series SoCs with 6-15W TDPs, DDR4 and 4Kx2K support, and R-Series pin compatibility, plus an entry-level G-Series LX SoC. The lines between AMD’s Embedded G-Series and its higher end R-Series system-on-chips continue to blur with a new line of 3rd Generation G-Series SoCs that offers pin compatibility with the “Merlin Falcon” R-Series SoC announced last October.

Redmond updates official guide If you don't know how to control the information Windows 10 sends back about you to Microsoft, the Redmond giant has updated its guide on how to do so.…

This is the last article in a four-part series on the current state of 3D printing. In the first part, I gave an overall introduction to differences in 3D printing since I wrote my original articles on 3D printing three years ago. The second piece focused on advances in 3D printing hardware, and the third column covered 3D printing software.

One of the major issues with the Zika virus is that so little is known about it. That means that a lot of research has to be done very quickly. The Zika virus is at the heart of a global health emergency. It became a global health emergency after outbreaks began in 2015, and has possible links to birth defects. When the virus was first discovered in the late forties, human infections had been observed as early as 1952 according to Wikipedia. read more

Fedora Workstation comes with the GNOME desktop by default. GNOME brings their users a rich experience with a complete set of applications. This includes applications for music and video players, text editors, PDF viewers, and even a Weather and Maps... Continue Reading →

Use Debian Live System tools to learn how to spin a new Debian system customised for you

Samsung’s Tizen-based “Connect Auto” hooks into your car’s telematics system to offer driving analysis, alerts, and an LTE hotspot for in-car WiFi. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung announced an automotive accessory that runs Tizen Linux, and offers real-time alerts, driving analytics, hotspot services, and more. Samsung Connect Auto connects to the OBD II […]

Spam is an annoyance and there's a multitude of ways to counteract it. However spammers also get smarter and try to bypass filters and stuff. In addition, ICANN has lately approved a great mean gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), like .biz, .info etc. Some of those gTLDs are, in my opinion, exclusive used by spammers. Lately, I have gotten a lot of spam from the .xyz gTLD. So the question was, how to block email coming from such domains using that gTLD.

Docker, the most popular container technology, gets ready for enterprise deployment.