Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Computer&biz: motivational words
Business opportunity are like buses,
when one goes, another one will always come. ( by Richard brandson, Virgin airline) Retweet this story
when one goes, another one will always come. ( by Richard brandson, Virgin airline) Retweet this story
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
How To Change Ubuntu Desktop from DHCP to a Static IP Address
If you’ve installed your Ubuntu installation with DHCP, it’s really easy to reconfigure your system to use a static IP address with the GUI based Network Settings dialog.
To open the utility, go to System \ Administration \ Networking
You’ll see your network adapter in the list. Click the Properties button, and you’ll see this dialog:
Just change the drop-down box to Static IP address, and then put in your static settings. Ubuntu is so easy, isn’t it ?
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kashim, India
EU probes Samsung
Samsung's patent deals are being looked into by the European Commission.
Competition regulators are investigating whether the firm used some of its intellectual property rights to "distort competition in European mobile device markets".
The commission says it wants to know if Samsung has failed to live up to a commitment to license key technologies to rivals.
The action comes as the company is involved in patent battles with Apple.
A statement by the South Korean firm said: "Samsung Electronics has not received any formal notice and is unable to discuss the matter at this time."
The inquiry centres on Frand commitments - a promise by industry players to license innovations that are essential to an industry standard on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
This means that the owner cannot discriminate who gets to use its invention and that its fee cannot be excessive.
The commission notes that in 1998 Samsung offered an "irrevocable commitment" to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to respect Frand terms.
But the regulator says that: "In 2011, Samsung sought injunctive relief in various member states against competing mobile device makers based on alleged infringements of certain of its patent rights which it has declared essential to implement European telephony standards."
Lost lawsuits
Samsung has made more than a dozen patent claims against Apple in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Italy relating to 3G-essential technologies.
So far the courts have ruled against Samsung in the cases - in part because it was felt that the firm had failed to live up to its Frand commitments.
However, patent consultant Florian Mueller, who has blogged about the various cases, notes that: "The European Commission can't wait until Samsung finally wins a ruling based on such a patent and enforces it, potentially causing irreparable harm."
A spokesman for the European Commission confirmed that it had instigated the proceedings. He said that the commission had not received an official complaint from Apple or any other company about the matter.
Counter-attacks
Samsung has also been on the receiving end of patent and design-rights litigation.
Some analysts view its lawsuits as a response to Apple's legal attack.
The iPad-maker succeeded in having two of its competitors' tablets banned from sale in Germany last year forcing a redesign.
The ruling against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was upheld by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court today.
Experts say the commission's intervention is likely to further complicate matters.
"It is really difficult for Samsung to have the commission wading in when none of its competitors have made a complaint," said Vicki Salmon, a member of the UK's Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.
"At a time when there is a lot of litigation between companies it doesn't help to be on the receiving end of an official inquiry."
Microsoft is bringing Kinect to desktop PCs .
January 31, 2012
The ability to control a Windows desktop with a simple hand gesture could become reality sooner than we once thought.
The Daily got a sneak peek at two Microsoft-developed Windows 8 notebook prototypes with built-in Kinect sensors. The system would allow for gesture recognition in portable devices for the first time. The prototypes "appear to be Asus netbooks" and "feature an array of small sensors stretching over the top of the screen where the webcam would normally be," The Daily reported.
3-D gesture control on a laptop could offer more interactive, Kinect-style PC gaming, as well as new computer interfaces and ways to control one's notebook.
Microsoft opened up its Kinect SDK to developers in June, and recently said it would be bringing Kinect to desktop PCs in 2012. The Xbox Kinect console itself is already in 18 million households the world over.
Although Microsoft popularized it, the 3-D gesture recognition space is rapidly becoming a hot area of innovation.
Another company, SoftKinetic, is working on similar technology aimed at the notebook market. Using a different technology than what the Kinect currently incorporates, the SoftKinetic system can sense motion as close as 5.9 inches away.
And then there's LG and Samsung, whose upcoming Smart TVs have taken a cue from Microsoft, and will incorporate Kinect-style gesture recognition, along with other forms of interface control like voice control, and touchscreen remotes.
Although Microsoft is demonstrating and testing this technology, finished Kinect-based portable products may not come straight from Redmond, but rather from developers or OEMs.
Windows 8 is set to debut in beta in February. We should start seeing finished Windows 8 products (notebooks and tablets) arriving toward the middle and end of this year.
How To Install PHP5 and Apache on Ubuntu
if you are doing any kind of PHP development, you’ll almost always be using Apache along with it. Here’s the quick and easy way to get PHP up and running on your Ubuntu box.
First, you’ll want to add the extra repositories to Ubuntu’s sources.list file.
From a command shell, you will run the following commands:
sudo apt-get install apache2sudo apt-get install php5sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Note that if apache is already installed you can omit the first line. Your web files will now be found in /var/www/
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