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a wireless network scanner for Linux

Michael_Horatio — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:27:02 GMT

anyone recommend a wifi scanner that I can put on my netbook (ubuntu 10.04)

I need something like inSSIDer which works fine in Windows 7.

thanks in advance..MH

Booker T bassist Donald Dunn dies aged 70

floppybootstomp — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:09:02 GMT

Donald Dunn dies

Damn, another good one lost, seems my peers are dropping like flies lately :(

Scientists Plan $1b Ghost Town

ZemaTalon — Sun, 13 May 2012 03:19:09 GMT

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. � A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology -- but no people.

A $1 billion city without residents will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, officials said Tuesday, to help researchers test everything from intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks to automated washing machines and self-flushing toilets.

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Bob Brumley, senior managing director of Pegasus Holdings, said the town will be modeled after the real city of Rock Hill, S.C., complete with highways, houses and commercial buildings, old and new. No one will live there, although they could as houses will include all the necessities, like appliances and plumbing.

The point of the town is to enable researchers to test new technologies on existing infrastructure without interfering in everyday life. For instance, while some researchers will be testing smart technologies on old grids, others might be using the streets to test self-driving cars.

"The only thing we won't be doing is destructive testing, blowing things up -- I hope," said Brumley.

Read the whole story here.

Finally - a city that's not crowded and no traffic :)

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Linux Mint Has A PodCast...

ZemaTalon — Sat, 12 May 2012 05:50:15 GMT

Mintcast 112 mp3

or in ogg format

First 6 mins is just chit chat, then they finally start getting into it. Some interesting stuff actually.
They have an episode every Monday at 8pm EST. I'll have to add this to my list of things I can listen to when there's nothing on the radio :)

BBT WCG Charts and Stats Update 05/11/12

Dark Angel — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:44:08 GMT

Script Question

Alakazam — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:22:13 GMT

Long story short, I wrote a script to automate turning up my fan on the GPU, however this is my first attempt at doing this. From doing some reading, I should put the script in either "/usr/bin" or "usr/sbin", it doesn't seem to matter to the folks on Google, hehe, that's why I'm asking you gurus.

Also, from reading some man pages, I'll need to change permissions and make it executable. Which way would be better if I even have it close to right. I want the Misses to be able to invoke the script but not write to it.

Code:

chmod a+x /usr/bin/nvidia_script.sh

Code:

chmod 755 /usr/bin/nvidia_script.sh

Next up is to figure out how to keybind the script using Cinnamon in Mint 12, google hasn't been very helpful the little bit I did poke around.

Snap Snap Snap...

ZemaTalon — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:12:31 GMT

... goes the powersupply in my gaming machine. 3 or 4 year old Corsair 850W. I've been hearing an occasional faint snap every once in a while but I could never figure out where it was coming from. But last night it was loud, and with 3 quick snaps in a row. I happened to have an ocean sound mp3 playing to help me sleep - it would hiccup with the snaps, easily ID'ing the source. Needless to say I shut it down. So out it comes. I'll have to cannibalize one from another machine since my biggest spare is only 600W and I don't think that'll cut it with my 6970HD.

NVIDIA Adaptive VSync Technology

Alakazam — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:28:58 GMT

There's a pretty decent article explaining the new AVSync Technology over at HardOCP.

"NVIDIA has developed a new technology called Adaptive VSync that is poised to improve the gameplay experience. We look at how this technology works, and see if we can graph the performance and compare it with traditional VSync methods. Check out how this technology is moving the "smoother" gameplay experience forward!"

Link to article Here

Mozilla Memory Breakthrough

Bad Haircut — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:18:09 GMT

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Firefox is still seen by many as the browser with the worst memory management, even though that is not really the case, if you level the playing field. Depending on the add-ons installed, and versions of the browser used, results may vary.

BreakthroughMozilla very recently made a breakthrough that has not yet been picked up by any tech news site out there. In fixing the memory leak, Mozilla developer Kyle Huey explains how he fixed add-on memory leaks once and for all in the web browser:

My approach takes advantage of the fact that chrome code lives in a separate compartment from web page code. This means that every reference from chrome code to content code goes through a cross-compartment wrapper, which we maintain in a list. When the page is navigated, or a tab is closed, we reach into chrome compartment and grab this list. We go through this list and �cut� all of the wrappers that point to objects in the page we�re getting rid of. The garbage collector can then reclaim the memory used by the page that is now gone.

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/05/08/bre...-memory-leaks/

Weird email from VMware

peterb — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:18:59 GMT

Just to let you know, I recently received an email from VMware advising me that my account has been merged with another account as per my request:

"Dear VMware Customer,
Your request to merge account .......................... into account ........................... completed successfully. As a result of the merge, you will see the following changes to your access:

Once you log into the VMware portal, you will see a new account that you will have access to, and your initial account will no longer be accessible
Your Home folder, all subsequent folders, and all licenses will now be placed at a sub-folder under the new account's Home folder.
If you had any Folder permissions, you will retain those permissions
You will be no longer retain any Global permissions that you had
The Super User and Procurement Contact of your account will be assigned all folder permissions at that folder.
Your Account Activities page will now be displayed in this Account's Activities page."

I never requested this merger of accounts. I contacted VMware support. They called me today and advised me that during their update of their database they experienced a "glitch" in their accounts. For those using VMware you may want to log in to your account to make sure that the same didn't happen to you.