GNOME 3.18 to Bring Important Changes to Files and Calendar

GNOME 3.18 is expected to arrive in September, but until then developers plan to work to improve it as much as possible. Two components that will get some special attention are File (former Nautilus file manager) and Calendar.

Softpedia - All the previous releases since GNOME 3.10 have been a real success, and there is no indication that the 3.18 won't be the best until now. GNOME has constantly been improving, and each new version arrives with a ton of new features. This is a big project, with a lot of moving parts, and just the fact that they manage to synchronize the release of all of the packages is an accomplishment in itself.

Without a doubt, Files and Calendar are among the most important packages in the GNOME stack. Any changes made to these two components will be immediately spotted by users, so the developers need to be very careful what modifications they make. Now that we can see what improvements are going to land GNOME, well ahead of time, this is a good way of preparing the users for what's coming.

Files and Calendar are just a drop in the ocean

Even if there are two well-known applications, Files and Calendar still make just a small part of the entire stack, and not all of the components will get the same kind of attention.

Georges Stavracas is one of the GNOME developers, and he will implement some new features for Calendar. For example, a new, experimental calendar manager will be added, keyboard navigation will be implemented, a week view will be made available, and a new event editor will be added as well.

Also, Files will get a new Network & Drives page, an improved sidebar will be added, the bookmark management will be refined, and a new dialog for renaming and creating folders and files will become available.

GNOME 3.18 should land on September 23.

Internet Will "Jammed" in Five Years

KOMPAS.com - Internet world is threatened "jammed". Why, as summarized by Kompas Tekno from PC World, Tuesday (19/05/2015), the capacity of optical fiber cable infrastructure are the backbone of the global network will not be able to keep pace with the rapid rate of consumption of large-sized content.
Moreover, lately services greedy wide bandwidth streaming video is used more and more crowded.
Optical fiber cables are theoretically able to handle data transmission of 100 terabits per second, equivalent to 250 pieces of Blu-ray disc. Although impressed by the large, this capacity is estimated to have been inadequate in just five years into the future.
If it were so, a network like the Internet would apply jammed highways. Traffic will be slowed down because of insufficient network capacity for the amount of data back and forth.
Optical fiber cable capacity can actually be improved by strengthening the level of light that dihantarkannya. But there is one point where the light will experience saturation is too high and instead blocks the data transmission.
So, what can be done? Scientists are a number of universities in the UK are trying to find solutions to increase the capacity of the Internet backbone.
One method offered is to create a new type of optical cable which has "many core" so that it can deliver greater amounts of data. But cable is thus more difficult contrived than conventional optical fibers.
Whatever the proposed solution, the scientists should be able to commercialize and produce it on a large scale. If not, then maybe internet bandwidth to be "rationed" or restricted when it is "jammed".

Verizon's acquisition of AOL Worth 4,4 Billion USD

Detik-Inet - US telecommunications company, Verizon agreed to buy the media company America Online (AOL) with a value of USD 4.4 billion. With this purchase, Verizon hopes to expand the number of ads they can sell and increase the production of the video.
"Of course, the content business is very important. But for us, the main interest is more on the acquisition of advertising technology platform," said John Stratton, Verizon President of Operations, as quoted from the pages of the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday (13/05/2015).
Verizon AOL purchase value is based on the calculation of USD 50 for one share of AOL, which at the close of market on May 11 last at a rate of USD 42.59 per share.
Through this purchase, Verizon certainly have access to the technology developed by AOL for advertising sales and online video service. In addition, Verizon will be the owner of some of the leading media, such as Huffington Post, Techcrunch, Engadget, Makers and AOL.com.
In this agreement also participated decided that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong will continue to lead the company if the purchase is approved by the US financial authorities.

Systemd for Ubuntu Touch Start Working

kabarlinux.web.id - As has been reported previously, the only one that is not yet on systemd Ubuntu is Ubuntu Touch-Ubuntu operating system for smart phones. Last March, Ubuntu Cloud began to switch to systemd, followed by Ubuntu 15:04, which was launched a few days ago.

Martin Pitt-one Ubuntu developers reported that he begin to systemd-kan Ubuntu Touch.

With some improvements made, Martin has been successfully running systemd in Google Nexus 4 with Ubuntu Touch devel. Includes can also run Unity 8, 3G Mobile Data, Telephony, and ADB / Phablet-Shell.

Microsoft CEO: Microsoft love Linux

Merdeka.com - In addition to Apple, which is a major competitor of Microsoft is the operating system Linux in business. Although said to be competitors, uniquely, CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella said that his company was in love with Linux.

Several years ago, the world operating system for PC only dwell on only 3 OS is Mac OS from Apple, Linux and Windows from Microsoft.

Of the three, Windows (Microsoft) and Linux are two fighters who have a lot of time. Not infrequently period from attacking each other both in terms of insults and insinuations, when one of them getting into trouble.

Interestingly, as quoted from Softpedia (21/10), although it became a competitor for many years, it turns out Nadella assume that Microsoft loves Linux and said that under his leadership the company will work to provide support for the Linux distribution through the Azure cloud computing services.

Nadella also explained at an event held in San Francisco that Microsoft will work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to create can run on Azure well. However, certainty is still in process.

Uniquely, when it was under the leadership of Steve Ballmer, the man who now has other business in the country of Uncle Sam actually said that Linux's like a cancer for Microsoft.

Although Linux or Mac OS also has the same time-as much, but in terms of operating system for the desktop, until now, Microsoft with its Windows still dominate the market with a massive 90 percent worldwide.

So, if the CEO of his own already announced that the 'war' between Linux and Windows (Microsoft) ended, roughly whether the future of these two products will help unite considering that there is a mismatch between the two.

Android M, Safer for Personal Data?

KOMPAS.com - Google plans to introduce its latest Android OS, Android M on the occasion of Google I / O later this month. One of the updates in Android M is more control over the data privacy of its users.

Quoted KompasTekno of Trusted Reviews, Friday (08/05/2015), Android M will provide more detail in terms of choice of what data can be accessed by an application.

As we know, when installing an application from the Play Store, users have only offered information about what data is to be accessed by the application.

Chances are, the Android M, the user is given a choice of more about what data may be accessed by the application that will he pairs.

According to Slashgear, the option is now there in the Android coding for this, but Google hide from users mostly by reason of maintaining the stability of the application.

Not much other information is known about Google's Android M. Leaked schedule I / O only mentions that Android M "will bring the power of Android to any kind of workplace".

Perhaps, Google intends to bring Android to the corporate environment, as he did on the phone, tablet, TV, and later cars.

If some action on your Linux Experiencing Network Problems

Along with the times, then so much the Linux operating system Existing and emerging, some of which is the development of other operating systems. Let's say Ubuntu, Kali Linux, OS Steam is the development of debian, fedora is redhat version in free versions and many more that you can see in full on Wikipedia. However, some people are still too reluctant to install linux, This is because opinions are circulated in the community who think that Linux is hard to use.

Did you know that the user actually Linux is now easier, This is due to a more familiar and palatable for using the GUI. Besides the many forums and good explanatory article about troubleshooting tutorial or on the use of Linux. Including this article, where author tried to describe in general how to tackle one of the problems that sometimes arise. When you have finished installing the base Linux operating system is a network error. Why only a general depiction? Because according to the author, it is more relevant than explained in detail. to tackle the problems that sometimes you will find a variety of different ways.

Do check tool
The first thing you do when you find this problem is to check the router, modem, or ISP. Sometimes small mistakes such as IP settings on your router is still not fix will make you a little dizzy with this situation. Besides the issue of the instrument, sometimes internet service provider is also worth your check. Who knows, sometimes there is an interruption in your neighborhood and they do not know.

Check Driver
Checking the tool either modem or router has been running well, but you can not connect to the Internet? If you use Wi-Fi to connect to the internet, a good idea to check your own driver. Whether installed or not? On his development some hardware is not supported directly by the operating system provider. Automatically you have to install proprietary software example broadcom wireless and several others. If you are one of the ubuntu users, to overcome this you can do several options Among others are:

• Checking the driver through the Jockey-gtk or more familiar called Additional Hardware. Ease of use this application, you do not have too much trouble to detect using the terminal to find a driver you need. In addition, if the problem only on Wi-Fi driver and you connect to the Internet using a cable. The program will perform the download and install the operating system drivers on yours.

• Checking via the terminal. basic when it will do the installation manually is:
• You must know the type of operating system you are using as well as the kernel you are currently using. For example, the author checks the operating system and kernel use
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• When you already know the kernel and operating system type, then is to determine the type of computer hardware on the device. You can use the command lspci or lshw, if there was any time you can also use third-party applications. If you use the command lshw, the division will be directly classified. For example, in driver Wi - Fi
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*-network

description: Wireless interface

product: BCM43142 802.11b/g/n

vendor: Broadcom Corporation

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0

logical name: wlan0

version: 01

serial: b8:76:3f:a3:18:79

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.30.223.141 (r415941) ip=192.168.2.245 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg

resources: irq:17 memory:eb500000-eb507fff

Up here you will know what Kernel, the type of operating system and the type of hardware on your computer device. So you stay looking at the official website or via Google. Let's say here hardware Wi-Fi author uses Broadcom, the kernel developer's website referenced interesting enough.

So what if instead of Ubuntu? Of course in basic process will be done the same with the second step, namely knowing your particular device first then dilannjutkan with the installation. Sometimes every linux users will have a different solution in the face of a problem. For example, by using B43, kmod-wl or otherwise.

Network settings
The tools used and the driver has been good, but still not connected to the internet? Perhaps you can begin to check on the network settings / network. You can set it via settings> Network. A new window will appear, when you access it. Some menus can be found among others

• Wired, used when you use a wired internet connection.
• Wireless, Set any connection connection using Wi-Fi
• Proxy, for the proxy settings when you connect to the Internet.

 Kernel
This can sometimes be a very annoying problem, especially for those users based not debian linux with. Sometimes downgrade should be made to find one of the drivers of the computer to match your particular device. new linux kernel is sometimes not in line with the development of hardware drivers in Linux compatibility. So that one solution you sometimes have to do further exploration when such problems occur.

Linux Foundation Announces Open Source Development Project Drone

Drone development is currently carried out by various parties. As a result, drones that there was a bona fide attractive design. Just look drone named Nixie or PlexiDrone that allows the owner to bring the drones to various places. And now, the Linux Foundation also mengumumpkan if they will participate in the project to develop the drone named Dronecode.

Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin said that open source software and the cooperation of the various parties will provide significant technological advancements. And he hopes that Dronecode Project is one of them. Moreover, members of the Linux Foundation has the world renowned companies such as 3D Robotics, Baidu, Box, Intel, Qualcomm and others.

drone

Project development of the Linux Foundation's drone is a project including PX4, APM software / ArduPilot UAV and related code. Even now there are as many as 1200 developers who are committed to participate in this project. In addition, there are around 150 code in some projects. Andrew Tridgell figure who previously worked APM / ArduPilot was going to be a Technical Steering Committee of the project.

Pentagon Develop More Sophisticated Search Engine from Google named is MEMEX

KOMPAS.com - Pentagon through the institution of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is currently developing a search engine technology that is claimed to be far superior to Google.
According to them, the search engine is labeled Memex able to do more in the search task, even capable of reaching 95 percent search for information that could not be done by Google.

Search engine whose name is taken from a combination of memory and is designed to browse the index information that is not indexed on the internet, including able to explore a database of information that is not displayed on Google and other hidden parts, where criminal activity is actually done.

"We envision the existence of a new paradigm in internet search that will adjust the content, search results, and display interfaces for individual users as well as users in a particular field of study, not vice versa," said DARPA Program Manager Chris White in a statement.

"By creating better methods to interact and share information, we want to increase the ability of search engines to everyone, and allow people to search information. Ease of use for those who are not programmers is very important," he added, as reported by Computer World ,

In contrast to the results offered by Google, Bing, and Yahoo, which is based on advertising and linearly displayed by search engine algorithms, Memex will present information in the form of sophisticated infographics, information is hard to find by Google.

It is believed to be very helpful in fighting various forms of crime such as human trafficking, prostitution online, or terrorism.

However, DARPA assured that it will also be very useful for government, military, and commercial organizations in the search for and organize "CRITICAL MISSIONS" information on the Internet. For example, users can quickly find information on the worst hit areas in natural disasters