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Guest Post By Sandeep Menon In today’s world of technology, the CTO or CIO is definitely spoilt for choice.  No longer are the days when they have to pick only the established vendors for their IT infrastructures. Total costs of ownership of IT systems have shifted and spread out, and from an operating platforms perspective, there are so many choices that can be implemented.

India has announced $35 computer (CNN link reads $35 laptop but it looks more like a tablet PC) for students. The objective is to bring cheap and affordable computers to the people, specially students, and to facilitate the use of modern technology in education. The Indian ministry hopes the price will fall to $10, while an expected subsidy for students will bring the price down to $20. Indian ...

Webmin is a free and open source web-based control panel for managing a dedicated or virtual private server. Webmin works well for server administrators with intermediate as well as advanced level knowledge. In this post I look at how to install Webmin on Centos Linux. Continue reading Installing Webmin on Centos

Its a book. Its a tablet. NO!. Its a DUAL SCREEN TABLET!. Say hello, to The Kno by Kno, Inc. The device is of course as you can see a dual screen with a 14″ screen attached to hinges that are to target the educational sector. Simply, because they look like a book and can also act like one. Really helpful.One thing needed to be complaint about is the fact that the thing weighes at around 5.5 ...

Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 was released yesterday which brings some new and exciting features that Ubuntu users are going to love for sure. New features include the latest GNOME desktop environment, new drivers and improved support for nVidia cards, built-in Twitter/Facebook integration, new themes and notifications etc.

vnStat is a very simple utility that can track the amount of bandwidth used by your web server. It works by monitoring the received and transmitted bytes counters of your network interface and logging the data in a database. In this post I look at how to install vnStat and a web-based front end on a CentOS 5 Linux web server. Continue reading Monitoring bandwidth usage with vnStat ...

Back in days of windows 98, LINUX users were like aliens to me. LINUX came into my life as super hero when a live CD helped me retrieving important files out of my dead PC. I was amazed with pre-installed applications and the ‘free’ features. Currently I am running on Ubuntu 9.10 that’s really productive for me. I first tried UBUNTU 9.10 before final installation when i was using windows 7. I ...

Yesterday, I posted a tutorial on how to tether your iPhone on Ubuntu 9.10 using Bluetooth, and now I have another tutorial to tether iPhone using USB on Ubuntu Linux. In this tutorial, we’ll be using an iPhone Ethernet driver written by Diego Giagio and several packages from Jonathan Beck’s PPA. iPhone Tethering on Ubuntu 9.10 Using USB First step is to add the PPA repository to your Synaptic ...