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Intel Will Power Smart Phones Next Year

The Giant in the microprocessor manufacturer across the world has announced that major smartphone manufacturers across the the world will use Intel processors in their upcomming Smart Phones next year. Already Intel is providing microprocessors to mobile manufacturing companies like Nokia and LG. Along with Nokia and LG, Intel may look towards other giant Smart Phone makers like Apple, Blackbery, HTC etc. Nokia and Intel tied their hands...

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Father of Social Networking worms comes to Linux and Mac OS X via Java

The Bad On social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, if someone says to you that  ”Is it you in this video?”, be warned, because in reality, it leads to a fake Youtube page with a thumbnail which when clicked checks you OS version, downloads a Java applet called jnana.tsa on linux and exploits a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in outdated versions of Java. Once installed on a computer, the worm hijacks the social...

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New Look For UBUNTU

. . . . Ubuntu has posted a page on its new branding, representing a significant change of look for the distribution. No more brown. “The new style of Ubuntu is driven by the theme “Light”. They have developed a comprehensive set of visual guidelines and treatments that reflect that style, and are updating key assets like the logo accordingly. The new theme takes effect in 10.04 LTS and will define our look and feel for...

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Ubuntu 10.04 supports iPhone and iPod Touch out-of-the-box

For there to be any chance of “the year of Linux on the desktop” ever becoming a reality, certain things have to happen. One of those things (like it or not) is for a major distribution to support the most popular portable media players on the planet — the iPhone and iPod Touch. And it looks as though Canonical has stepped up to the plate. According to reports at Ubuntuforums, Lucid Lynx supports Apple’s hardware...

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Display the system’s SMBIOS hardware components

Do you want to know the entire details of each piece of hardware on your computer???. This command will help you to find it.. dmidecode -t x Replace x by: 0 for BIOS 1 for system 2 for base board 3 for chassis 4 for processor 5 for memory controller 6 for memory module 7 for cache 8 for port connector 9 for system slots 10 for on board devices 11 for OEM stings 12 for system configuration option Note: use sudo if you are not a root user ...

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