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The Arduino Yun has been unveiled as the first of a family of wifi products that combine Arduino with Linux by using a system on a chip running Linino, a customized version of OpenWRT.

It uses KVM and supports Debian and CentOS Linux running on Google platform. Google Compute Engine offers a RESTful API for managing resources such as disk, images, and instances.

Pyocr is an optical character recognition tool wrapper for python. That is, it helps using OCR tools from Python.

Soon after logging, the problems, started to appear. 1 - I needed to install python 2 - I needed to install TCL.

OpenGEODE is a tiny open-source SDL editor that is developed for the purpose of providing an easy to use and free state machine editor and Ada code generator to the TASTE toolchain from the European Space Agency, running in combination with ESA's ASN.1 "Space Certifiable" ASN.1 compiler.

Curious to see what all the ElasticSearch hubbub is about? Wanna see it in action without a lot of elbow grease? Then look no further, friend - in less than 60 seconds, I'll show you how to install ElasticSearch on an AWS AMI .

This preface to the highly-anticipated 3rd edition of Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition contains Stephen Rago's current Introduction, his Introduction from the 2nd edition, and also W. Richard Stevens' original Introduction from the 1st edition.

After three Nights of Xubuntu, the Xubuntu team is able to present you a quick overview of some of the planned features and improvements for Xubuntu 13.10. Enjoy! On the software side, apt-offline will be included in our default installation after a few cycles of preparing and writing documentation for it.

The table must have Hash key named `path` and Range key named `name` 3. Define environment variables for AWS key - `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` and `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`. At the moment only the configuration by environment variables is supported.

In just a few weeks, on June 7, IBM's DB2 will mark the 30th anniversary of its launch - which cemented the relational database's role as a cornerstone of the enterprise for many.

If you've ever dreamed of working directly with Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Ted T'so or any of the other Linux luminaries, you could work your way up through the ranks of kernel developers submitting patches and fixing bugs.

Although Google is offering a limited set of developer tools for Glass - and more are on the way - the company doesn't want to stop hackers from tinkering even further.

In an interesting new Outercurve Foundation blog post from Penn State professor Clark Asay, he discusses "the tactic of patenting open source software to guard against patent trolls and the weaponization of corporate patent portfolios...gaining momentum in the FOSS community." Depending on who you talk to, the practice of patenting open source ... (more)

Highlights : New API : * inserttext, objtimeout, guitimeout, getcellsize, getcellvalue, getobjectnameatcoords, getcombovalue, getaccesskey in Python client * doubleClick, doubleClickRow, onWindowCreate, getCellSize, getComboValue, appUnderTest, getAccessKey in Java client * getcellsize, getcellvalue in Ruby client * GetCellSize, GetComboValue, ... (more)

TYPO3's default search extension called "Indexed Search" is fine for small web sites, but if your web site is bigger , it is getting very slow.

SSH offers a highly secure channel for remote administration of servers. However, if you face an audit for regulatory or business requirements, such as Visa/Mastercard PCI, you need to be aware of some potential authentication related short-comings that may cause headaches in an audit.

LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc.

Many free software fans, if they were like me, breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Android operating system hit the market.

One thing's for sure, just about everyone, animals included, loves to take self-portraits for Facebook or other social networks.

That seemed to turn around this week when Canadian Web Hosting announced that it plans to launch a public cloud using OpenStack this summer .