Music fans have now purchased and downloaded more than five billion songs from the iTunes Store. The number one music retailer in the U.S., iTunes features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs. And iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies every day, making it the world’s most popular online movie store, as well.
Июнь 2008
Creating DVD subtitles using Linux tools
30.06.2008Managing the PlayStation 3 Wi-Fi Network
30.06.2008LinucksGirl writes “In this article Terra Soft show you how to configure and encrypt, step-by-step, the built-in Wi-Fi network that comes with the Cell Broadband Engine-based Sony PlayStation 3. And, as a little bonus, get 16 quick steps that explain how to switch from a wireless network back to a wired network on the PS3.”
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Google Maps v2.0.2.0 for Palm OS Released
30.06.2008
As foretold, Google has released a new version of its Google Maps for Mobile application for Palm OS devices today. The most anticipated new feature, the “My Location” service is only compatible with the AT&T and Verizon Cento at this time. The Sprint Centro will be made compatible via a software maintenance release expected sometime later this summer.
Palm OS Treo devices are apparently not compatible with the new feature and Palm has no plans to release and update for these devices. Google’s blog post states “older Palm models such as the Treos don’t have the APIs needed to get the cell tower data, so My Location is not available on these models.”
First Apple Retail Store in Australia opens in Sydney on Thursday, June 19
30.06.2008On Thursday, June 19, the Apple Retail Store, Sydney — the first Apple store in Australia — opens its doors for the first time. With two floors dedicated to the Mac and iPod and a third to training and the world’s largest Genius Bar, “this breathtaking new store will be the ultimate place for the people of Sydney to shop, learn and be inspired,” says Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of Retail.
Beating Comcast’s Sandvine On Linux With Iptables
30.06.2008HiroDeckard writes “Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do tcp packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users. This practice may be a thing of the past as it’s been found a simple rule in the Linux firewall, iptables, can simply just block their reset packets, returning your BitTorrent back to normal speeds and allowing you to once again connect to all your seeds and peer. If blocking the tcp packet resets becomes a common practice, on and off of Linux, it’ll be interesting to see the next move in the cat-and-mouse game between customers and service providers, and who controls that bandwidth.”
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Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies?
30.06.2008Piranhaa”I currently use an IPTV box that runs software by Minerva Networks. When you ssh into the box, you are greeted with a BusyBox v1.00 (ash) shell. It’s clearly running a flavor of Linux (uname -apm outputs: Linux minerva_10_0_3_99 2.4.30-tango2-2.7.144.0 #29 Wed Mar 16 16:16:16 CET 2005 mips unknown). However, when you look at their Web site there is no publicly available source code. Since the GPL in both BusyBox and the Linux kernel require that anyone using and distributing the binaries of this software make source available to everyone, what would one do in order to enforce this? I’ve personally emailed Minerva and left voicemails with no reply.”
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Prior Art In Barracuda-Trend Micro Lawsuit
30.06.2008Joe Barr writes “Bruce Byfield reports at Linux.com that a Swedish developer, Goran Fransson, has ‘given a deposition in the Barracuda-Trend Micro case that appears to seriously undermine Trend Micro’s patent on gateway virus scanning.’ Gransson has resurrected a product (still in its shrinkwrap) sold by Ten Four, the company he worked for at the time, to prove that it provided gateway virus scanning in January 1995. Trend Micro’s patent application was filed in September of that year. If you were — or worked for — a Ten Four customer during 1995, you might be able to help Barracuda prove that Trend Micro’s patent omits prior art.” We discussed this important patent case when it was filed in January. (Slashdot and Linux.com share a corporate overlord.)
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Google Maps My Location Feature Available Tomorrow
30.06.2008
Palm has sent out a press release today jointly announcing the new unlocked GSM Centro as well as a new version of Google Maps with the My Location feature enabled. The “My Location” functionality on Palm OS will only be compatible with the Palm Centro according to Palm.
Google’s My Location feature is a GPS SatNav like feature for Google Maps Mobile that automatically displays your approximate location. It works by triangulating your position based on the feedback from nearby cell towers that you are connected to. The feature originally debuted in beta for Windows Mobile devices late last year, and Palm pledged to support it on “newer Palm phones.”
Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) Now GPL
30.06.2008melios writes “In a move that could help boost the scalability of Linux for grids and other advanced 64-bit multiprocessor applications, HP has released its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community. Source code, design documentation, and test suites for AdvFS are available on SourceForge.”
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