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Public access to scientific research endorsed by White House
February 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The White House responded last week to the petition: Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research. It was posted to the We the People petition site and got 65,704 signatures (the minimum required is 25,000).
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A time for action: One student’s commitment to free and open access
February 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.—Aaron Swartz
I have been a PhD student for less than two years. On the other hand, for six years, I have been a member of the free culture movement, which emphasizes the importance of access to and openness of technology and information.
Recently, I’ve been frustrated… sad… angry. Just over a year ago, a friend and fellow member of the free culture community, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, committed suicide. He was 22. Just one week ago, an acquaintance, a friend of many close friends, and—really—a role model, just one year older than myself and networked with many institutions and individuals I have come to work with and/or admire (such as MIT, the Berkman Center, the EFF, Creative Commons; frankly, there are too many individual people to list) committed suicide. Aaron Swartz was admired for his bravery to stand up for his ideals, and the work he put into the world demonstrated no less than exactly those ideals. I followed his actions with awe and complete understanding.
Episciences Project to create arXiv open access journals
January 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Mathenaticians from a French research institute are planning to use linking to create virtual journals containing freely published articles from Cornell Universitiy’s arXiv server, providing further competition for academic publishers
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Calls for internet law reform and open access after activist suicide
January 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
US law on computer crime should be reformed says the EFF, as the death of Aaron Swartz shows the law to be overly punitive and broad. Open access advocates are memorialising Swartz by releasing and collating academic papers using the #pdftribute hashtag
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Ford announces OpenXC SDK; Android apps can now easily access sensor data
January 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Inside any new car are a plethora of sensors and microprocessors, crunching away at data to control the various systems in the vehicle. Announced today at CES 2103, Ford's new OpenXC platform will allow Android developers to have an easy way to gather that data and put it to work.
Billed as a combination of Arduino and Android, OpenXC uses tools people already know to help design after-market accessories and software. Right now there are parts and an SDK component that allow developers to plug into the OBD-II port and send signals via USB or Bluetooth that any Android device running software with the OpenXC library can read and understand. This is all done over a CAN bus to stay isolated from the vehicle electronics, so your $ 20,000 car won't be damaged,
There has always been expensive and OEM solutions for folks who want to access vehicle data, but with today's news Ford is making it accessible to folks without a giant bucket of money to spend. It will be interesting to see what folks can come up with using Ford's new tools. See the full press release after the break, and hit the link below for more information.
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Splashtop Linux Streamer Offers Useful Streaming, Remote Access with Ubuntu
November 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Splashtop, which is especially well-known to many people for its history of letting users run a lightweight version of Linux alongside other operating systems, has a new spin on streaming with Slashtop Streamer for Linux. Splashtop Streamer is an audio-video streaming server, enabling remote access to a computer from an Android device (tablet/phone) or an iOS device (iPad/iPhone/iPod). You can connect within a Local Area Network or through a cross-network or Internet connection. You can use Splashtop Streamer for Linux in conjunction with Splashtop 2 to connect to a remote computer running Ubuntu to use Linux applications and access their data.
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Hackers obtained access to FreeBSD servers
November 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Unauthorised access has been detected on two of the FreeBSD project’s servers. Whether manipulated software was distributed remains unclear
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Git 1.8.0 can access Windows and GNOME keyrings
October 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The latest version of the distributed version control system Git adds several new features and options to the open source package, including the ability to access keyrings under Windows and GNOME
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Access And Sync Google Drive Using InSync Under Ubuntu/Linux Mint
August 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
InSync is a new application, still in its beta stage, that allows users to synchronize their data stored in their Google Drive accounts under Ubuntu using the Nautilus file manager.
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How To Access Virtualbox Shared Folder From Ubuntu 12.04 Guest Machine
June 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Do you want to access shared folders on the host machine from the guest machine? On This tutorial is going to show you how to access virtualBox shared folder/directory from Ubuntu 12.04 as Guest Machine. on this case I’m using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as host machine and Ubuntu 12.04 as the guest OS.
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Bumblebee Ubuntu 12.04 Workaround [Cannot access secondary GPU - error: XORG NVIDIA(0): No display devices found for this X screen]
April 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I’ve recently got a Dell XPS L702X laptop and I was trying to get Nvidia Optimus GPU switching to work in Ubuntu 12.04, through Bumblebee but when running “optirun”, I was getting this error:
[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU – error: XORG NVIDIA(0): No display devices found for this X screen.
After trying various different solutions available on the Bumblebee wiki and other websites, I’ve finally found one that worked, so I though I’d share it with you, in case you encounter the same issue as me.
Note: this has only been tested with Dell XPS L702X and may or may not work for other laptops.
Get Bumblebee working in Ubuntu 12.04 (tested on Dell XPS L702X)
1. Firstly, install Bumblebeeif it’s not already installed. If you’ve messed with the Bumblebee config files, it’s probably best to revert them to their default values – you can do this by purging and then installing Bumblebee back:
sudo apt-get purge bumblebeesudo apt-get install bumblebee2. Now, to apply the workaround for getting Bumblebee to work:
You can see if you have the “nvidia-current” or “nvidia-current-updates” driver installed by searching for “nvidia-current” in in Synaptic.
If you are using the nvidia-current driver, copy/paste the following code in a terminal, as a single command (select all the code and paste it):
echo 'Section "ServerLayout"Identifier "Layout0"Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"EndSection Section "Device"Identifier "Device1"Driver "nvidia"VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"Option "NoLogo" "true"Option "UseEDID" "true"Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"EndSection' | sudo tee /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-current-latitude-e6530.confIf you’re using the nvidia-current-updates driver, copy/paste the following code in a terminal window, as a single command:
echo 'Section "ServerLayout"Identifier "Layout0"Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"EndSection Section "Device"Identifier "Device1"Driver "nvidia"VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"Option "NoLogo" "true"Option "UseEDID" "true"Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"EndSection' | sudo tee /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-current-updates-latitude-e6530.conf
After you’re done, restart your computer and run “optirun glxspheres” in a terminal to see if Bumblebee / Nvidia Optimus is working correctly – you shouldn’t see the error anymore and instead, something like this should be displayed:
andrei@andrei-desktop:~$ optirun glxspheresPolygons in scene: 62464Visual ID of window: 0x21Context is DirectOpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 555M/PCIe/SSE2108.341661 frames/sec - 120.909294 Mpixels/sec115.823392 frames/sec - 129.258905 Mpixels/sec118.948088 frames/sec - 132.746066 Mpixels/sec118.903546 frames/sec - 132.696357 Mpixels/sec119.179362 frames/sec - 133.004168 Mpixels/secAnd obviously, glxspheres should start and the framerate should be singnificantly better than running “glxspheres” without “optirun”.
Thanks to lucazade @ Ubuntuforums for the Bumblebee Ubuntu 12.04 workaround; image via geeky-gadgets.com
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