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Having whet the appetite of Linux geek and environmentalists with the Zonbox computers at $ 99 eco, the company Zonbu has pulled out of the hat another gem that is emerging as a possible rival for the 'Asus EEE and possibly also for ubuntizzati Dell notebook. This is the Zonbu Notebook. This notebook uses a custom version of Gentoo (but of course you can install other linux distro), as happened with the Zonbox, while hardware components used are ideal for maximizing energy savings: a processor VIA C7-M at 1.5GHz. From the standpoint of consumption good performance, just 15 Watts average. This is indicated by starting at about $ 280.

Published in: linux, tech This module of iptables is done on purpose to make life difficult for users of the network dedicated to the corporate LAN unauthorized downloading of films and music. The module is called IPP2P.
Once installed, the administrator can decide whether to completely block P2P activity, or limit the maximum usable bandwidth for this protocol thus avoiding an erosion of performance of the corporate network.
Not available precompiled packages you must compile from source. Here the tutorial Debian Administration that step by step guide to installing and deploying IPP2P.
Published in: linux, tech, tips Posted by: admin (Nov 28) Free Open Ghost appears as a young and ready to make his career, provided that Symantec is not affected by the adopted name. The heart of the project revolves around partimage and a series of web pages: the control panel FOG, in fact, is accessible via browser and all transactions with clients are conducted (in automated) via PXE (no bootdisk, and then ). The only currently supported clients are XP / Vista and you can perform the backup / restore only on systems with a single partition. This
Published in: opensource, tech Posted by: admin (Nov 28) MusicPal is capable of receiving over 5,000 radio stations online (via Internet) without the necessity of a connection to the PC. The device via wi-fi to connect to our WLAN in an autonomous way. MusicPal is the Freecom portable ch can be used as radio, reader file in MP3 and WAV format and display in which display news outlet or Weather the 'RSS-News Service.
Easy to configure, has a lcd display where hours are set, station, track and interpreter of song. Radio stations, preordained by gender and country (vTuner service included), can be selected and easily stored on a number of presets. MusicPal incorporates a speaker, but it can also be connected to 'through the HiFi audio outputs integrated. There is also an input for headphones.
The target price is EUR 129.
Posted by: admin (Oct 18) The Core Pocket Media Player is an application developed by programmer Picard, free before the release of the commercial version Core Player. Today, the project was abandoned, is, however, the solution almost complete and open source software, for viewing of various media files on your pocketpc: AVI, DivX, XviD, WMV, WMA, ACC, 3GP, OGG, OGM, ASX, ASF, MP3, MPEG, MPG FLV (YouTube) and others. It also supports streaming in HTTP and MMS. Compared to Windows Media Player Mobile is cheaper in the consumption of the battery, it displays video full screen, manages playlists, has multilanguage support, VGA screen, and even an internal benchmark to measure the graphics performance of your device. Not bad.

The latest version is freely usable 0.72 for Windows Mobile, Smartphone and PalmOS, with both sources and some of the codecs that give support to some audio / video extra, such as AC3, FLAC and so on. etc..
Reproduction of the WMA and WMV with Windows Mobile 6 can give problems, to solve the problem just follow the instructions in this article. In case of downloading 2 DLL in the Windows folder on your handheld. If you have problems with slow play, you can read this article.
TCPMP allows the display of videos of Youtube, after installing TCPMP Plugin for Flash Video. Copy the two files with the extension. PLG in the handheld where TCPMP is installed, then the associated file. Flv on TCPMP.
Published in: mobile, tech Posted by: admin (Sep 19) For lovers of "small is beautiful" Zonbu is an interesting product. Small size, and a power consumption of no more than 15Watt uo instrument so versatile and attractive to a wide range of uses. Zonbu is completely silent, dissipation and 'completely passive, that' there are no fans of any kind, it is by alettine referred to the same cabinet and 'provided a solution that could be used in my opinion, even on desktop systems, especially for the power supply. Click here to read the review from the site OpenLinux.