@Macarlo Networks, Incorporated
Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 15:09:16
Connecting Karmic Koala at boot
Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 15:05:34
Hi, folks...
I've recently upgraded my desktop distro from The Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) to the new release 9.10, The Karmic Koala, perhaps the best Linux ever. Congrats Canonical for this fine free OS and free services (I performed my upgrade online, in few hours, downloading and installing over 1,400 files without only one problem, using a DSL Internet connection). Then I downloaded the live CD.
The only problem is that both upgrade & CD has a bug in network-manager and the user cannot access the Web simply clicking its icon in the Gnome panel at head. But I solved this inconvenience quickly:
First of all I removed the network-manager:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove network-manager
Then, I performed the steps below:
Configuring resolve.conf with two DNS from my DSL provider:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ chmod a+r /etc.resolv.conf
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
My new resolv.conf is:
nameserver 200.149.55.140
nameserver 200.165.132.147
Editing network interface for automatic Internet connection at boot:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~ sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
...and y new interfaces is:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto dsl-provider
iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
Note that you want not an automatic connection at startup you can do the boot without it and then connect manually doing:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ sudo pppoeconf
...this will detect your eth, then you have to insert the user name and password used for your ISP and you are done!
I've recently upgraded my desktop distro from The Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) to the new release 9.10, The Karmic Koala, perhaps the best Linux ever. Congrats Canonical for this fine free OS and free services (I performed my upgrade online, in few hours, downloading and installing over 1,400 files without only one problem, using a DSL Internet connection). Then I downloaded the live CD.
The only problem is that both upgrade & CD has a bug in network-manager and the user cannot access the Web simply clicking its icon in the Gnome panel at head. But I solved this inconvenience quickly:
First of all I removed the network-manager:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove network-manager
Then, I performed the steps below:
Configuring resolve.conf with two DNS from my DSL provider:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ chmod a+r /etc.resolv.conf
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
My new resolv.conf is:
nameserver 200.149.55.140
nameserver 200.165.132.147
Editing network interface for automatic Internet connection at boot:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~ sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
...and y new interfaces is:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto dsl-provider
iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
Note that you want not an automatic connection at startup you can do the boot without it and then connect manually doing:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ sudo pppoeconf
...this will detect your eth, then you have to insert the user name and password used for your ISP and you are done!
Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition Puts The User At The Heart Of Its New Design
Monday, 26. October 2009, 23:32:54
Canonical announced today the upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution. Ubuntu 9.10 will be available for free download on Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large that all have a common purpose - to make Ubuntu the most user-friendly operating system available. Ubuntu 9.10 features a redesigned, faster boot and login experience, a revamped audio framework, and improved 3G broadband connectivity, all of which contribute to a first-class user experience.
Furthermore, the innovative '100 Paper Cuts' initiative organised with the Ubuntu Community allowed users to nominate minor annoyances that impacted their enjoyment of the platform. So far over 50 fixes have been committed, removing minor irritants such as inconsistent naming or poorly organised application choices. Larger scale user experience improvements include a refreshed Ubuntu Software Center, giving users better and more easily understood information about the software they have available - bringing the world of open source applications closer to the user. These improvements, in combination, have a transformative effect on the user experience.
Ubuntu 9.10 also includes the integration of 'Ubuntu One' as a standard component of the desktop. Ubuntu One is an umbrella name for an exciting suite of online services, which were released in beta in May 2009. Ubuntu One provides an enhanced desktop experience, simplifies backup, synchronisation, and sharing of files with an expanded set of features including Tomboy Notes and contacts synchronisation.
Ubuntu 9.10 also welcomes a host of features that make it the best platform for developers, whether professional or casual. Developers interested in writing applications that run on Ubuntu now have a simplified toolset called 'Quickly' which makes it fun and easy by automating many of the mundane tasks involved in programming. Quickly also helps users 'package' the code and distribute it through the Ubuntu software repositories. Ubuntu developers will now find all code hosted in the Bazaar version control system, which is part of the fully open source Launchpad collaboration website. It's never been easier to develop on or for Ubuntu.
Netbook and smartbook users will be delighted by improvements to the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix (UNR) interface which continues to raise the bar in delivering the easiest, most discoverable and most useful user experience on small form machines. Common with Ubuntu 9.10 for desktops, UNR will integrate the Empathy instant messaging program for text, voice, video, and file transfers which will make communication more enjoyable then ever.
“Ubuntu 9.10 gives users more reasons than ever to seriously consider Linux at a time when many are thinking again about their operating system options. We are delivering a platform for users interested in an easy-to-use, great-looking, web-friendly operating system," says Jane Silber, COO at Canonical. “A faster, more beautiful boot and login sequence, file and contact synchronisation through online services and great experiences on the most popular notebook, desktop and netbook models continue to drive Ubuntu into the mainstream of computing choices."
More Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition release highlights:
Faster, simplified, better-looking boot experience for most users
Audio revamp allowing improved sound control across multiple applications
Firefox 3.5: latest, fastest, most secure web browser yet from Mozilla
Useful links
Ubuntu Desktop Edition is entirely free of charge and can be downloaded from www.ubuntu.com as of Thursday 29 October
Ubuntu Netbook Remix is entirely free of charge and can be downloaded from www.ubuntu.com
Ubuntu One offers 2 GB storage for free, and 50 GB for $10 per month. See one.ubuntu.com
Canonical provides support products for desktop and notebook users priced from $55 per year. It can be purchased at www.ubuntu.com/support/services
The 100 Paper Cuts project can be found here (open ID required): https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts
The list of supported netbooks can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks
The new feature tour with screen shots can be found at http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/910features/
The list of supported languages in Ubuntu 9.10 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/ReleaseLanguages/9.10
About Canonical
Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu partners and customers worldwide. As the company behind the Ubuntu project, Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu – an ever-popular and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is available to every organisation and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks.
Canonical partners with computer hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and offers online services direct to end users. Canonical also builds and maintains collaborative, open-source development tools to ensure that organisations and individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source community. For more information, please visit www.canonical.com.
Furthermore, the innovative '100 Paper Cuts' initiative organised with the Ubuntu Community allowed users to nominate minor annoyances that impacted their enjoyment of the platform. So far over 50 fixes have been committed, removing minor irritants such as inconsistent naming or poorly organised application choices. Larger scale user experience improvements include a refreshed Ubuntu Software Center, giving users better and more easily understood information about the software they have available - bringing the world of open source applications closer to the user. These improvements, in combination, have a transformative effect on the user experience.
Ubuntu 9.10 also includes the integration of 'Ubuntu One' as a standard component of the desktop. Ubuntu One is an umbrella name for an exciting suite of online services, which were released in beta in May 2009. Ubuntu One provides an enhanced desktop experience, simplifies backup, synchronisation, and sharing of files with an expanded set of features including Tomboy Notes and contacts synchronisation.
Ubuntu 9.10 also welcomes a host of features that make it the best platform for developers, whether professional or casual. Developers interested in writing applications that run on Ubuntu now have a simplified toolset called 'Quickly' which makes it fun and easy by automating many of the mundane tasks involved in programming. Quickly also helps users 'package' the code and distribute it through the Ubuntu software repositories. Ubuntu developers will now find all code hosted in the Bazaar version control system, which is part of the fully open source Launchpad collaboration website. It's never been easier to develop on or for Ubuntu.
Netbook and smartbook users will be delighted by improvements to the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix (UNR) interface which continues to raise the bar in delivering the easiest, most discoverable and most useful user experience on small form machines. Common with Ubuntu 9.10 for desktops, UNR will integrate the Empathy instant messaging program for text, voice, video, and file transfers which will make communication more enjoyable then ever.
“Ubuntu 9.10 gives users more reasons than ever to seriously consider Linux at a time when many are thinking again about their operating system options. We are delivering a platform for users interested in an easy-to-use, great-looking, web-friendly operating system," says Jane Silber, COO at Canonical. “A faster, more beautiful boot and login sequence, file and contact synchronisation through online services and great experiences on the most popular notebook, desktop and netbook models continue to drive Ubuntu into the mainstream of computing choices."
More Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition release highlights:
Faster, simplified, better-looking boot experience for most users
Audio revamp allowing improved sound control across multiple applications
Firefox 3.5: latest, fastest, most secure web browser yet from Mozilla
Useful links
Ubuntu Desktop Edition is entirely free of charge and can be downloaded from www.ubuntu.com as of Thursday 29 October
Ubuntu Netbook Remix is entirely free of charge and can be downloaded from www.ubuntu.com
Ubuntu One offers 2 GB storage for free, and 50 GB for $10 per month. See one.ubuntu.com
Canonical provides support products for desktop and notebook users priced from $55 per year. It can be purchased at www.ubuntu.com/support/services
The 100 Paper Cuts project can be found here (open ID required): https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts
The list of supported netbooks can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks
The new feature tour with screen shots can be found at http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/910features/
The list of supported languages in Ubuntu 9.10 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/ReleaseLanguages/9.10
About Canonical
Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu partners and customers worldwide. As the company behind the Ubuntu project, Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu – an ever-popular and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is available to every organisation and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks.
Canonical partners with computer hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and offers online services direct to end users. Canonical also builds and maintains collaborative, open-source development tools to ensure that organisations and individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source community. For more information, please visit www.canonical.com.
IBM and Canonical Launch Linux- and Cloud-based Desktop Software in the U.S.
Wednesday, 21. October 2009, 14:53:48
ARMONK, N.Y. - 20 Oct 2009: Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Canonical are introducing a cloud- and Linux-based desktop package in the U.S. designed for use on a company's existing fleet of personal computers (PCs) or even low-cost netbooks.
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091020/NY95631-a
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091020/NY95631-b
The IBM Client for Smart Work (http://www.ibm.com/lotus/openclient), based on IBM productivity and collaboration software, helps organizations save up to 50 percent per seat on software costs versus a Microsoft-based desktop, in addition to avoiding requisite hardware upgrades. The package allows companies to use their existing PCs, lower-cost netbooks and thin clients.
The new IBM package can be embedded in business processes. It is compatible with SOA-based IT environments and gives people a complete, open, and secure alternative to closed and costly Microsoft desktop software.
Independent market estimates range up to $2,000 for the cost of migrating to the Windows 7 operating system for many PC users. New PC hardware requirements account for a significant portion of the added expense.
The IBM Client for Smart Work package, launched September 24 in Africa, was initially designed for emerging markets but sparked calls for the solution in the U.S. The U.S. version is arriving in time to help companies avoid the higher licensing, hardware upgrades and migration costs associated with Microsoft Windows 7.
"If a company is a 'Windows shop,' at some point it will need to evaluate the significant costs of migrating its base to Microsoft's next desktop," said Bob Picciano, General Manager, IBM Lotus Software. "American businesses have asked for a compelling alternative that can help them free up PC expenses to use for more strategic collaboration and business transformation projects."
IBM and Canonical expect to enlist hundreds of partners to offer the IBM Client for Smart Work in the U.S. in 2010. The current partner ecosystem includes regional systems integrators, ZSL and CSS Corp; virtual desktop provider, Virtual Bridges, and its distributors, Midas Networks and KalariSys; and several online, vertical industry businesses. IBM is also targeting the education market by collaborating with university faculty through the IBM Academic Initiative.
The U.S. solution includes several open standards-based components:
Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations from IBM Lotus Symphony, which is a free-of-charge download on the Web;
Email from IBM Lotus Notes or the cloud-based LotusLive iNotes launched earlier this month, which starts at $3 per user, per month;
Cloud-based, social networking and collaboration tools from LotusLive.com from $10 per user, per month; and
Ubuntu, an open platform for netbooks, laptops, desktops, and servers.
Since the IBM Client for Smart Work is based on Eclipse, Linux and open Web standards, it can integrate with any third-party software. This gives companies the freedom to use technologies of their choice, extend their functions and preserve existing investments.
"Canonical is proud to partner with IBM to help open up the American corporate desktop through Ubuntu," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical. "IBM's smart client package running on Ubuntu will allow U.S. organizations the financial freedom to redistribute the costs of expensive software licenses into IT projects that will innovate and drive critical growth."
IBM developed this package based on client feedback and surveys, including a study conducted by the IT analyst firm Freeform Dynamics, commissioned by IBM, which showed that Linux desktops were easier to implement than IT staff expected if they targeted the right groups of users.
"Instead of positioning the IBM Client as a 'drop-in' replacement for the status-quo desktop, IBM is looking to create something better -- focused on usability, openness, and security with a path to cloud computing -- in market segments that make sense," said Bob Sutor, Vice President of Linux and Open Source, IBM Software, who alluded to these customer requirements in his Linux desktop predictions at LinuxCon in September. "Linux as the basis of the desktop is a pragmatic choice and gives a nod to the likely future of the desktop as being open and often virtualized."
"The IBM Client for Smart Work offers university faculty, administration and students a Linux-based unified communication, collaboration and information exchange platform that potentially will facilitate sought after campus synergies," said Jeffrey A. Lasky, Professor and Chair, Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, GCCIS, Rochester Institute of Technology.
This software bundle can also be extended to cloud and virtual desktop infrastructures using VERDE software from Virtual Bridges. Several companies have already customized the IBM Client as a virtualized desktop offering based on VERDE.
Midas Networks of Austin, Texas is now selling IBM Client for Smart Work software along with Virtual Bridges's VERDE as a hosted virtualized desktop. This software-as-a-service offering looks like a traditional desktop, but the hosted applications permit the users to access their desktops from any network-connected device -- wherever they may be.
RealtyBargains.com, providing access to real estate property assessment information, is equipping its agents with the IBM Client for Smart Work starting in January 2010.
"Our partnership with IBM and Canonical will allow us to offer the real estate industry's best agent workspace," said Padma Kumar Nair, president and CEO, RealtyBargains.com.
The IBM Smart Work Initiative
The IBM Client for Smart Work enables you to deploy a desktop strategy that allows you to reduce costs of ownership up to 50% and at the same time increase organizational productivity. It is an optimized workspace with built in productivity and collaboration capabilities that can be embedded in business processes. It is compatible with, and complimentary to SOA-based IT environments and empowers users with a complete, open, easy to use, and security rich alternative to closed and costly Microsoft desktop software.
The IBM Smart Work initiative is designed to help companies become more efficient by better connecting their workers and business processes. The IBM Client for Smart Work helps achieve these objectives by cost-efficiently connecting the workforce through locally-based collaboration software and across firewalls through the cloud. The solution can be installed and tailored by IBM Global Technology Services and IBM Business Partners for specific job roles by mapping business services to human networking patterns. Essentially, the way people and organizations work can be improved through a combination of collaboration and business process modeling.
For example, the IBM Client for Smart Work can equip the members of a company's marketing, sales and research departments with the means to quickly and efficiently collaborate. Business process modeling (BPM) can show workflows between sales and marketing, but very little between sales and research or marketing and research. Based on expertise residing in those functions and informal networks discovered through modeling, a company could find powerful insights from research playing an important role in sales and marketing efforts. It may turn out that an expert in R&D might be a company's greatest resource for marketing content, but this expertise has to be identified and shared in order to provide the highest value to the organization. Through online communities on LotusLive.com, this kind of insight can be tapped as needed for the benefit of an entire organization.
Companies can use the IBM BPM suite components such as WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition as required. Business leaders and business analysts can discover and explore business-relevant content to help them understand, experience, and accelerate business process management using IBM BPM BlueWorks.
IBM is targeting the IBM Client for Smart Work for a number of markets, including:
Large enterprises that have segments of employees for whom the PC on their desk is primarily a tool for collaboration, email, browser-based applications, and straightforward office productivity tasks.
Small- and medium-sized businesses that have discovered initial savings of free or low-cost Web-based email services but have grown frustrated with service outages, advertisements or security concerns.
Government organizations that want to leverage the Open Document Format for open standards-based office tools and industry-leading collaboration software to lower costs and self-fund mission critical initiatives. For this, IBM offers the package running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Education customers that want to rapidly deploy netbooks for smarter classroom initiatives. For more information on how IBM Academic Initiative faculty can access the IBM Client for Smart Work, visit https://greenhouse.lotus.com
Commuters who want to travel light can bootup their netbooks using a USB stick and then login to a virtual Linux desktop on the cloud using Virtual Bridges's VERDE solution.
U.S.-based customers can purchase the IBM Client for Smart Work from business partners such as Canonical, CSS Corp., Compariv, Mainline, Midas Networks, Red Hat, Virtual Bridges and ZSL. The IBM Lotus client-side package runs on Canonical's Ubuntu operating system, and provides the option to deliver collaboration through the Web in a cloud service model. Also available are alternate delivery models including an appliance using Lotus Foundations and in-premise using Lotus Domino and related collaboration software.
Price varies depending on the configuration and support requirements.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/occs and http://www.ibm.com/lotus/openclient.
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091020/NY95631-a
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091020/NY95631-b
The IBM Client for Smart Work (http://www.ibm.com/lotus/openclient), based on IBM productivity and collaboration software, helps organizations save up to 50 percent per seat on software costs versus a Microsoft-based desktop, in addition to avoiding requisite hardware upgrades. The package allows companies to use their existing PCs, lower-cost netbooks and thin clients.
The new IBM package can be embedded in business processes. It is compatible with SOA-based IT environments and gives people a complete, open, and secure alternative to closed and costly Microsoft desktop software.
Independent market estimates range up to $2,000 for the cost of migrating to the Windows 7 operating system for many PC users. New PC hardware requirements account for a significant portion of the added expense.
The IBM Client for Smart Work package, launched September 24 in Africa, was initially designed for emerging markets but sparked calls for the solution in the U.S. The U.S. version is arriving in time to help companies avoid the higher licensing, hardware upgrades and migration costs associated with Microsoft Windows 7.
"If a company is a 'Windows shop,' at some point it will need to evaluate the significant costs of migrating its base to Microsoft's next desktop," said Bob Picciano, General Manager, IBM Lotus Software. "American businesses have asked for a compelling alternative that can help them free up PC expenses to use for more strategic collaboration and business transformation projects."
IBM and Canonical expect to enlist hundreds of partners to offer the IBM Client for Smart Work in the U.S. in 2010. The current partner ecosystem includes regional systems integrators, ZSL and CSS Corp; virtual desktop provider, Virtual Bridges, and its distributors, Midas Networks and KalariSys; and several online, vertical industry businesses. IBM is also targeting the education market by collaborating with university faculty through the IBM Academic Initiative.
The U.S. solution includes several open standards-based components:
Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations from IBM Lotus Symphony, which is a free-of-charge download on the Web;
Email from IBM Lotus Notes or the cloud-based LotusLive iNotes launched earlier this month, which starts at $3 per user, per month;
Cloud-based, social networking and collaboration tools from LotusLive.com from $10 per user, per month; and
Ubuntu, an open platform for netbooks, laptops, desktops, and servers.
Since the IBM Client for Smart Work is based on Eclipse, Linux and open Web standards, it can integrate with any third-party software. This gives companies the freedom to use technologies of their choice, extend their functions and preserve existing investments.
"Canonical is proud to partner with IBM to help open up the American corporate desktop through Ubuntu," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical. "IBM's smart client package running on Ubuntu will allow U.S. organizations the financial freedom to redistribute the costs of expensive software licenses into IT projects that will innovate and drive critical growth."
IBM developed this package based on client feedback and surveys, including a study conducted by the IT analyst firm Freeform Dynamics, commissioned by IBM, which showed that Linux desktops were easier to implement than IT staff expected if they targeted the right groups of users.
"Instead of positioning the IBM Client as a 'drop-in' replacement for the status-quo desktop, IBM is looking to create something better -- focused on usability, openness, and security with a path to cloud computing -- in market segments that make sense," said Bob Sutor, Vice President of Linux and Open Source, IBM Software, who alluded to these customer requirements in his Linux desktop predictions at LinuxCon in September. "Linux as the basis of the desktop is a pragmatic choice and gives a nod to the likely future of the desktop as being open and often virtualized."
"The IBM Client for Smart Work offers university faculty, administration and students a Linux-based unified communication, collaboration and information exchange platform that potentially will facilitate sought after campus synergies," said Jeffrey A. Lasky, Professor and Chair, Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, GCCIS, Rochester Institute of Technology.
This software bundle can also be extended to cloud and virtual desktop infrastructures using VERDE software from Virtual Bridges. Several companies have already customized the IBM Client as a virtualized desktop offering based on VERDE.
Midas Networks of Austin, Texas is now selling IBM Client for Smart Work software along with Virtual Bridges's VERDE as a hosted virtualized desktop. This software-as-a-service offering looks like a traditional desktop, but the hosted applications permit the users to access their desktops from any network-connected device -- wherever they may be.
RealtyBargains.com, providing access to real estate property assessment information, is equipping its agents with the IBM Client for Smart Work starting in January 2010.
"Our partnership with IBM and Canonical will allow us to offer the real estate industry's best agent workspace," said Padma Kumar Nair, president and CEO, RealtyBargains.com.
The IBM Smart Work Initiative
The IBM Client for Smart Work enables you to deploy a desktop strategy that allows you to reduce costs of ownership up to 50% and at the same time increase organizational productivity. It is an optimized workspace with built in productivity and collaboration capabilities that can be embedded in business processes. It is compatible with, and complimentary to SOA-based IT environments and empowers users with a complete, open, easy to use, and security rich alternative to closed and costly Microsoft desktop software.
The IBM Smart Work initiative is designed to help companies become more efficient by better connecting their workers and business processes. The IBM Client for Smart Work helps achieve these objectives by cost-efficiently connecting the workforce through locally-based collaboration software and across firewalls through the cloud. The solution can be installed and tailored by IBM Global Technology Services and IBM Business Partners for specific job roles by mapping business services to human networking patterns. Essentially, the way people and organizations work can be improved through a combination of collaboration and business process modeling.
For example, the IBM Client for Smart Work can equip the members of a company's marketing, sales and research departments with the means to quickly and efficiently collaborate. Business process modeling (BPM) can show workflows between sales and marketing, but very little between sales and research or marketing and research. Based on expertise residing in those functions and informal networks discovered through modeling, a company could find powerful insights from research playing an important role in sales and marketing efforts. It may turn out that an expert in R&D might be a company's greatest resource for marketing content, but this expertise has to be identified and shared in order to provide the highest value to the organization. Through online communities on LotusLive.com, this kind of insight can be tapped as needed for the benefit of an entire organization.
Companies can use the IBM BPM suite components such as WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition as required. Business leaders and business analysts can discover and explore business-relevant content to help them understand, experience, and accelerate business process management using IBM BPM BlueWorks.
IBM is targeting the IBM Client for Smart Work for a number of markets, including:
Large enterprises that have segments of employees for whom the PC on their desk is primarily a tool for collaboration, email, browser-based applications, and straightforward office productivity tasks.
Small- and medium-sized businesses that have discovered initial savings of free or low-cost Web-based email services but have grown frustrated with service outages, advertisements or security concerns.
Government organizations that want to leverage the Open Document Format for open standards-based office tools and industry-leading collaboration software to lower costs and self-fund mission critical initiatives. For this, IBM offers the package running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Education customers that want to rapidly deploy netbooks for smarter classroom initiatives. For more information on how IBM Academic Initiative faculty can access the IBM Client for Smart Work, visit https://greenhouse.lotus.com
Commuters who want to travel light can bootup their netbooks using a USB stick and then login to a virtual Linux desktop on the cloud using Virtual Bridges's VERDE solution.
U.S.-based customers can purchase the IBM Client for Smart Work from business partners such as Canonical, CSS Corp., Compariv, Mainline, Midas Networks, Red Hat, Virtual Bridges and ZSL. The IBM Lotus client-side package runs on Canonical's Ubuntu operating system, and provides the option to deliver collaboration through the Web in a cloud service model. Also available are alternate delivery models including an appliance using Lotus Foundations and in-premise using Lotus Domino and related collaboration software.
Price varies depending on the configuration and support requirements.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/occs and http://www.ibm.com/lotus/openclient.
Free Hosting for Rosicrucians
Sunday, 11. October 2009, 01:38:20
Hi Folks!
Due Yahoo final notice concerning the end of Geocities at October 26th, 2009, We have decided to extend total free hosting for Rosicrucian webmasters from all Orders and Fraternities (official websites only) per one year more (2009CE). Are you qualified? Contact us: http://macarlohost.net/contactus.htm (Login required to send message - user name: customer password: macarlo2009)
All the best from @Macarlo Networks, Incorporated
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Due Yahoo final notice concerning the end of Geocities at October 26th, 2009, We have decided to extend total free hosting for Rosicrucian webmasters from all Orders and Fraternities (official websites only) per one year more (2009CE). Are you qualified? Contact us: http://macarlohost.net/contactus.htm (Login required to send message - user name: customer password: macarlo2009)
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Canonical adds Advanced Ubuntu Service and Support Offering
Friday, 4. September 2009, 02:40:16
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu project, announced today an advanced service and support offering that gives large enterprises with complex IT environments a highly-skilled, dedicated Canonical support professional.
Premium Service Engineer (PSE), a new level of support for large enterprises, offers a single point of contact for Canonical’s large customers – enabling a faster response time and faster issue resolution. PSEs have access to all levels of support, including Canonical’s platform engineers.
“Having a Premium Service Engineer has been vital to getting the level of support we require to improve our operational infrastructure.” said Chief Technology Officer Antonio José Sáenz from Isotrol, a pioneering customer of the PSE service. “As we are involved in the delivery of many open-source projects and ourselves operate a large Ubuntu and Debian server and desktop environment, being able to rely on a dedicated Ubuntu expert from Canonical reduces the pressure of supporting high-profile open-source projects externally and internally.”
“Familiarity with the customer’s environment is key to providing dedicated support,” said Steve George, Director of Corporate Services at Canonical. “As Canonical believes in providing service consistency, we assign the same technical consultant who assisted you with your initial deployment to also act as your Premium Service Engineer. This ensures that your Premium Service Engineer has an in-depth understanding of your requirements from the start.”
PSEs work proactively to support Canonical’s enterprise customers – becoming virtual team members who collaborate with IT/IS staff. They conduct regular technical and service reviews, transferring best-practice knowledge, and helping enterprises optimise their Ubuntu environments.
“One of the reasons we decided to engage a Premium Service Engineer from Canonical was to have an open-source Ubuntu expert on-hand on a continuous basis to help and ensure all our business units equally benefited from operational best practices,” said Saenz from Isotrol.
PSEs also act as the voice of the enterprise within Canonical’s platform and development areas, ensuring that new Ubuntu releases continue to meet the needs of enterprises.
About Canonical Corporate Services
Canonical’s Corporate Services group provides support, implementation and training services to organisations of all sizes. Comprised of Linux and open-source experts in server, desktop and cloud technologies, the Corporate Services group works with Canonical customers to help deliver all the benefits of the Ubuntu platform.
Pricing and Availability
Information and pricing for the PSE service is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/support/services/pse
About Canonical
Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu partners and customers worldwide. As the founder of the Ubuntu project, Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu – an ever-popular and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is available to every organisation and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks. Canonical partners with computer hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and offers online services direct to end users. Canonical also builds and maintains collaborative, open-source development tools to ensure that organisations and individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source community. For more information, please visit http://www.canonical.com.
Premium Service Engineer (PSE), a new level of support for large enterprises, offers a single point of contact for Canonical’s large customers – enabling a faster response time and faster issue resolution. PSEs have access to all levels of support, including Canonical’s platform engineers.
“Having a Premium Service Engineer has been vital to getting the level of support we require to improve our operational infrastructure.” said Chief Technology Officer Antonio José Sáenz from Isotrol, a pioneering customer of the PSE service. “As we are involved in the delivery of many open-source projects and ourselves operate a large Ubuntu and Debian server and desktop environment, being able to rely on a dedicated Ubuntu expert from Canonical reduces the pressure of supporting high-profile open-source projects externally and internally.”
“Familiarity with the customer’s environment is key to providing dedicated support,” said Steve George, Director of Corporate Services at Canonical. “As Canonical believes in providing service consistency, we assign the same technical consultant who assisted you with your initial deployment to also act as your Premium Service Engineer. This ensures that your Premium Service Engineer has an in-depth understanding of your requirements from the start.”
PSEs work proactively to support Canonical’s enterprise customers – becoming virtual team members who collaborate with IT/IS staff. They conduct regular technical and service reviews, transferring best-practice knowledge, and helping enterprises optimise their Ubuntu environments.
“One of the reasons we decided to engage a Premium Service Engineer from Canonical was to have an open-source Ubuntu expert on-hand on a continuous basis to help and ensure all our business units equally benefited from operational best practices,” said Saenz from Isotrol.
PSEs also act as the voice of the enterprise within Canonical’s platform and development areas, ensuring that new Ubuntu releases continue to meet the needs of enterprises.
About Canonical Corporate Services
Canonical’s Corporate Services group provides support, implementation and training services to organisations of all sizes. Comprised of Linux and open-source experts in server, desktop and cloud technologies, the Corporate Services group works with Canonical customers to help deliver all the benefits of the Ubuntu platform.
Pricing and Availability
Information and pricing for the PSE service is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/support/services/pse
About Canonical
Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu partners and customers worldwide. As the founder of the Ubuntu project, Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu – an ever-popular and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is available to every organisation and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks. Canonical partners with computer hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and offers online services direct to end users. Canonical also builds and maintains collaborative, open-source development tools to ensure that organisations and individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source community. For more information, please visit http://www.canonical.com.
Western Digital Releases 1TB Laptop Hard Drive
Tuesday, 28. July 2009, 03:16:45
Western Digital announced Monday two laptop drives that offer "extreme" amounts of storage: the Scorpio Blue 1TB and the Scorpio Blue 750GB. Prior to this announcement, the largest laptop hard drive available was 500GB. Currently, the largest desktop hard drive on the market is 2TB. The Scorpio Blue 1TB drive, though half the capacity, is still very impressive, considering the fact that a 2.5-inch laptop drive is much smaller than a 3.5-inch desktop drive. The new WD laptop drives are the first that use 333GB per platter technology.
The Scorpio Blue hard drives support the SATA2 (3Gbps) standard but have a thickness of 12.5 millimeters, as opposed to 9.5 millimeters in other 2.5-inch drives. This means the new drives will not fit in all 2.5-inch slots in laptops.
For this reason, WD designates them as a perfect fit for portable storage solutions and they'll be in WD's new My Passport Essential SE Portable USB drive.
Read this complete news at CNET.http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10296034-1.html
The Scorpio Blue hard drives support the SATA2 (3Gbps) standard but have a thickness of 12.5 millimeters, as opposed to 9.5 millimeters in other 2.5-inch drives. This means the new drives will not fit in all 2.5-inch slots in laptops.
For this reason, WD designates them as a perfect fit for portable storage solutions and they'll be in WD's new My Passport Essential SE Portable USB drive.
Read this complete news at CNET.http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10296034-1.html
Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Family Pack
Wednesday, 22. July 2009, 00:15:32
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it does plan to offer a "family pack" for Windows 7 that can be used on up to three PCs. The software maker acknowledged the move as part of a blog entry Tuesday afternoon. However, it still isn't saying how much it will charge for the family pack, which allows three installations of the home premium version of Windows 7. The move was hardly a surprise, after Microsoft included references to the family pack as part of licensing terms in a test version of Windows 7 that leaked onto the Internet.
Windows users have been calling for a family pack since before Windows Vista, and Apple has offered a family pack for Mac OS X since 2002. With Vista, Microsoft had a promotion for a time that allowed those who bought a copy of the Ultimate edition to buy up to three copies of Home Premium at a discount. Apple's family pack covers up to five machines.
Find out more at CNET
Windows users have been calling for a family pack since before Windows Vista, and Apple has offered a family pack for Mac OS X since 2002. With Vista, Microsoft had a promotion for a time that allowed those who bought a copy of the Ultimate edition to buy up to three copies of Home Premium at a discount. Apple's family pack covers up to five machines.
Find out more at CNET
In Chrome, Hints of a Real Rival to Windows
Thursday, 9. July 2009, 14:11:24
If at times you’re frustrated with your PC — and who isn’t? — Google says it is working on a solution. Many people easily lose patience with PCs that are slow to start up and prone to crashing, vulnerable to virus attacks and constantly in need of fiddly updates. Hoping to turn that irritation to its advantage, Google is developing an operating system — the underlying software that handles the most basic functions of a computer. With the software, Google is mounting a blunt challenge to the dominance of Microsoft, whose Windows operating system runs about 95 percent of PCs. Google promises that its Chrome operating system, which will be available on computers in the second half of next year, will put an emphasis on speed, simplicity and security. Google faces enormous hurdles. Computing giants like I.B.M. and Sun Microsystems have spent years trying to dethrone Microsoft, with little to show for it. But if it gains traction, Google’s plan could undermine not only Windows but also Microsoft’s other multibillion-dollar franchise, Office. Google is trying to put the Web browser at the center of people’s digital lives, relegating complicated operating systems like Windows to a secondary role. “I’m not saying the shareholders should take their money and run, but this is the beginning of the end of Microsoft as we knew it,” said Jean-Louis Gassée, a venture capitalist who has battled Microsoft in posts at Apple and his own computer company, Be.
A spokesman for Microsoft, Frank Shaw, declined to comment on Google’s announcement or the competitive threat.
Read this illustrated article at The New York Times.
A spokesman for Microsoft, Frank Shaw, declined to comment on Google’s announcement or the competitive threat.
Read this illustrated article at The New York Times.
Firefox 3.5: Excellent But Not Web Upgrade
Saturday, 4. July 2009, 00:24:41
Firefox 3.5 GA released yesterday fdor Windows & Linux is excellent for fans, but competition getting tougher.
Firefox 3.5 brings the world's second-most popular browser up to speed with current browsing technology and trends, and perhaps nudges it just a bit ahead of the competition. However, it is by no means the leap ahead that its predecessor Firefox 3 was, and it's clear that the competition isn't going away anytime soon.
Available for Windows, Windows Portable, Mac, or Linux, Firefox 3.5 nevertheless represents the best Firefox we've yet seen from Mozilla. This comes as no surprise, and with a testing process that involved four beta builds, three release candidates, and a version change to reflect what Mozilla described as the originally-unintended breadth of the improvements being made, most of the new features are no surprise, either.
Private Browsing, known to IE users as InPrivate, Chrome users as Incognito, and Safari users as, well, Private Browsing, finally comes to a public version of Firefox. It's been available to the 800,000 or so beta testers since December 2008. If you're not familiar with it, users can toggle on or off the browser's history, cookies, and other browsing traces at will via the Tools menu or CTRL+SHFT+P. A new window will open. Among its other uses that serve as fodder for second-rate comedians, it's an excellent tool for avoiding leaving tracks on publicly-used computers and its about time that Firefox finally got it. In fact, Firefox has had it in various stages of development for four years. Read the complete and illustrated review at CNET Download.Com: http://download.cnet.com/%20http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10276351-12.html
Firefox 3.5 brings the world's second-most popular browser up to speed with current browsing technology and trends, and perhaps nudges it just a bit ahead of the competition. However, it is by no means the leap ahead that its predecessor Firefox 3 was, and it's clear that the competition isn't going away anytime soon.
Available for Windows, Windows Portable, Mac, or Linux, Firefox 3.5 nevertheless represents the best Firefox we've yet seen from Mozilla. This comes as no surprise, and with a testing process that involved four beta builds, three release candidates, and a version change to reflect what Mozilla described as the originally-unintended breadth of the improvements being made, most of the new features are no surprise, either.
Private Browsing, known to IE users as InPrivate, Chrome users as Incognito, and Safari users as, well, Private Browsing, finally comes to a public version of Firefox. It's been available to the 800,000 or so beta testers since December 2008. If you're not familiar with it, users can toggle on or off the browser's history, cookies, and other browsing traces at will via the Tools menu or CTRL+SHFT+P. A new window will open. Among its other uses that serve as fodder for second-rate comedians, it's an excellent tool for avoiding leaving tracks on publicly-used computers and its about time that Firefox finally got it. In fact, Firefox has had it in various stages of development for four years. Read the complete and illustrated review at CNET Download.Com: http://download.cnet.com/%20http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10276351-12.html
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