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It’s September of an election year, and people are drawing lines, taking stands, and proclaiming their political beliefs. Even the lurkers, who brag that they ”never post political stuff on Facebook” find their trigger fingers twitching over the ”share” button. The internet is a battlefield, and you simply can’t get around online without being drawn into a shootout from time to time. When that happens, these tips will keep you knocking down opponents without losing your cool or becoming a troll. ...

Computational Engineers at the University of Southampton have built a supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego. The team, led by Professor Simon Cox, consisted of Richard Boardman, Andy Everett, Steven Johnston, Gereon Kaiping, Neil O’Brien, Mark Scott and Oz Parchment, along with Professor Cox’s son James Cox (aged 6) who provided specialist support on Lego and system testing. Professor Cox comments: ”As soon as we were able to source sufficient Raspberry Pi computers we wanted to see if it was possible to link them together into a supercomputer. We installed and built all of the necessary software on the Pi starting from a standard Debian Wheezy system image and we have published a guide so you can build your own supercomputer.” ...

As software developers, we develop habits that allow us to build products that work and do not fail under stress. Every software developer knows what an ”off-by-one” error is, and like the Karate Kid, we train extensively so we can avoid those traps. We learn how to avoid these and other similar software problems and we sharpen our skills to find logic errors. As we mature as developers, finding logic errors and incomplete solutions becomes our way of life. It defines us. ...

This proposal adds new elements and attribute to [HTML5] to enable different sources of images based on browser and display characteristics. The proposal addresses multiple use cases such as images used in responsive web designs and different images needed for high density displays. This proposal allows content authors to provide user agents with the information they need to select the best image source. The current img element only allows for a single source of an image, but there are numerous use cases where document authors need to define different image sources depending on the factors such as the design, size resolution, and display density. ...

As you probably already heard in recent news, 1,000,001 Apple UDID’s were leaked. It’s unfortunate that so many apps use UDID’s to identify users since it’s extremely insecure. This brings me to WhatsApp, a free messaging service, used by millions of people. Their system runs on a modified version of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). There is nothing wrong with using XMPP, but there is a problem in how WhatsApp handle authentication. ...

A co-worker watched me type the other day and noticed that I use certain Unix commands for purposes other than they are intended. Yes, I abuse Unix commands. » Tom Limoncelli | everythingsysadmin.com

Tengo una Raspbmc instalada en la Raspberry Pi. Al utilizar aptitude para instalar cualquier paquete o actualizar el sistema, recibo el siguiente error: $ sudo aptitude update [ ERR] Leyendo la información de estado E: No se pudo abrir el fichero de bloqueo "/var/lock/aptitude" - open (2: No existe el fichero o el directorio) W: No se pudo bloquear el fichero de almacén. Esto significa habitualmente que dpkg u otra herramienta apt está instalando paquetes. Se abrirá en modo de sólo lectura, ¡se PERDERÁN todos los cambios que realice al estado de los paquetes! En realidad, lo que sucede es que /var/lock es un enlace simbólico que apunta a /run/lock, que no existe, y de ahí que no lo encuentre. Creando el directorio en cuestión, se soluciona el problema: ...

Si intentamos montar un disco o partición en NTFS, el formato que utiliza Windows, que no ha sido desconectada “de forma segura”, es posible que no podamos montarla y que recibamos el siguiente error: $ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/ntfs $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Error de entrada/salida NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it’s a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details. Incluso si utilizamos el parámetro -o force nos sigue devolviendo el mismo error. ...

Without open source, Twitter wouldn’t exist. Every Tweet you send and receive touches open source software on its journey between computers and mobile devices. We were curious about how much open source is used at Twitter. Beyond that, we wanted to discover how open source may influence the culture at Twitter, Inc. We asked Chris Aniszczyk, Open Source Manager at Twitter, to share the company’s open source story. Aniszczyk will be keynoting at this month’s LinuxCon, August 29 through 31, in San Diego, CA. His topic: The open source technology behind a Tweet. ...

Hace año y medio que recopilé datos sobre la distribución de la propiedad de los medios de comunicación, compilando esos datos en un solo gráfico: los dueños de la información. Parece que el gráfico tuvo buena acogida y a mucha gente le pareció interesante. A mí, al menos, me parece útil. Una herramienta para tener presente, cuando consultamos algún medio de comunicación, a qué intereses sirve. Así que me puse manos a la obra, recopilando datos de los movimientos empresariales en el sector, para poder mostraros un nuevo gráfico, ampliado, corregido y actualizado. ...