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Verizon doesn’t care about BlackBerry or Windows Phone — it just wants to beat the iPhone
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It seems that Thorsten Heins and Steve Ballmer — the chief executives of BlackBerry and Microsoft, respectively — have a friend in Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead, who praised both companies‘ mobile efforts during an investor conference earlier today. Before Heins and Ballmer start struttin’ their stuff, however, they might want to consider why Mead is so excited about Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10, because the truth probably begins and ends with the iPhone. The iPhone line (Verizon sells the iPhone 4, 4S, and 5) accounted for 4 million of the 7.2 million smartphones activated on Verizon’s network last quarter. Despite the number of Android devices shipped each quarter, the relative novelty of Windows Phone devices, and, as Mead put it, customers with a “hunger for the qwerty keyboard” only available on BlackBerry devices, Apple reigned supreme. This isn’t something unique to last quarter, either. Some 63 percent of the smartphones activa

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Screams in the Night: The Rise and Fall of Windows 8
SERENDIPITY

When Windows 8 was initially released, my first thought was “You’re kidding. Surely they don’t expect me to use that!” Yes, they really did. They seemed to be of the opinion that the future of computers would be touchscreens all the way. Which made me wonder if anyone at Microsoft had actually tried using a vertical touchscreen. Not a tablet or a tiny laptop, but a real, full-size 24″ high-definition touchscreen on a desktop. Because I sure had and it was not a happy experience. Touch screen is for tablets, not desktops — or even laptops. I actually bought a big touchscreen PC more than two years ago. What a waste of money! Forget software issues. Software was not an issue. The concept itself is hopelessly flawed. I bet you need a real world example, just so you know I’m not making this up or displaying uninformed prejudice against new technology. If you know me at all, you know I love new technology. I embrace technology. But I abhor “up

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የኢትዮጵያዊያኑ ስቃይ በየመን በየመን ያሉ ኢትዮጵያያንን መንግስት ራሱ ሸፍጥ እየሰራባቸው ነው ሲል አል-ተውራ ጋዜጣ አጋለጠ
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ሰሞኑን ስደተኛውን ወደ ሀገር ለማስገባት ግርግሩ ጦፏል፡፡ ብርሃን ሊወጣ እንደሆን የሚያስመስል ግርግር አለ፡፡ ለይምሰል የአንድ ሰሞን ሩጫ እንዳይሆን እንጂ…ደግሞም ነው፡፡ የኢትዮጵያ መንግስትን የሚወክለው ኤምባሲ በዚሁ መጓጓዣ ወረቀቱን (ሊሴፓሴ) በማውጣቱ በኩል ይቀጥላል አይቀጥልም አይታውቅም፡፡ አሁን ግን ተግቶ ወደ ሀገር እንዲገቡ ማድረጉን ወገኖቹ ለይ የተፈጸመውን ወንጀል እንደማድበስበስ የሚቆጠርበት ሁኔታ እንዳለ አንዳንድ የመናዊያን ጋዜጠኞች እየዘገቡ ነው፡፡ ከዚህም አንዱ ከስደት ተመላሾቹ ላይ በኢትዮጵያም ሆነ በየመን መንግስት ግፍ እየተፈጸመ መሆኑን የመን ውስጥ የሚታተመ አል-ተውራ በመባል የሚታወቀው የመንግስት ጋዜጣ ዘግቧል፡፡ ይህ አል-ተውራ የተባለው የመንግስት ጋዜጣ የኢትዮጵያዊያኑን ሬሳ በየመንገዱ ወድቆ ይታያል፣ አይተናልም፡፡ ግማሹ ቀባሪ አጥቶ ይሸታል…›› በማለትም ስለሁኔታው ጠንከር ያለ ዘገባ አስነብቧል፡፡ ጋዜጣው በገባው እንዳለው…   የጋዜጣው ዘጋቢ ከመግቢያው ጀምሮ ያስቀመጠው ነገር የሚገርም እና የሚያሳዝን ነው፡፡ በመግቢያ ፀሁፉ ላይ…አባስ ሰዒድ የተባለ ጽዳት የሚሰራ ኢትዮጵያዊ ከስድስት ወር በፊት በሶማሊያ በኩል በባህር ተሻግሮ ወደ የመን ስለገባበት ሁኔታ ሲነግረው ‹‹እናንተ ሀገር ማንም በርሀብ የሚሞት የለም፣ ኢማን አለ፡፡ አዛኞች ናቸው፣ የሰው ክብር አለ..ምናምን…እኛ ሀገር ግን..ብሎ አነጻጸረልኝ፡፡ ዛሬ አባስ ይህን የማቀርበውን ዘገባ ስታይ ኢማን አለ? ደጎች ናቸው? ፈሪሀ አላህ ያላቸው ናቸው ያልካቸው ሰዎች የሰሩትን ስታይ ምን ትለኝ ይሆን? እኔስ እንዴት ብዬ በሙሉ አይኔ አይሃለሁ?..ምን አንገት የሚያቀና ነገር ሰሩና?..›› እያለ በሰፊው ሀተተ፡፡ አባስ የተባለውም ሆነ እሱን መሰል አብዛኛው ኢትዮጵያዊ ስደተኛ የስ

My ideal combo for Gnome Shell 3.8
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How To Backup Multiple Computers
How To Backup Multiple Computers

If your looking at backing up multiple computers I think it’s safe to say that you have a basic idea on how to do normal backup of some sort.  You might be managing this manually or with a little bit of free software or something like that.   If you already have a basic handle on how to do some type of backup that puts you ahead of most people who never do any backup at all. Now that you’ve found yourself in a position where you need to start worrying about backup for multiple systems things get a little more confusing.  Maybe your just backing up multiple computers for yourself of maybe the family has started expressing concern with all their computers.  Or perhaps you’ve taken on more responsibility at work or something like that. Regardless of the exact situation you need a reliable way to keep up with the backup for all these systems. Contents  Backup Multiple Computers With The Basics Networking another backup basic The downside to basic backup Something that sho

My First UX Presentation
Green UX

So, I have been in my UX role for officially 5 weeks and only solely doing this role the last two. I am yet to have to take on any client work fully myself for this role, but I have accomplished my very first full UX Presentation to a room full of people on behalf of my company. With only 2 weeks of prep, and no practice whatsoever and slide changes on the train on the way there, it’s safe to say I was internally combusting. It was all pretty daunting, but once it was done, that was a big addition to my new UX belt. Part and parcel of this role is that I will be expected to do similar things regularly – so being thrown into the lion’s den with hardly a second to even think about what I was going to do, certainly gave me guts! So it was over and done with … phew, time to breathe and do some more UX related research for a while. But alas, I have been requested to do the same presentation again 2nd week of January, to a brand new group of people. Gulp. So unlike my previous attempt, I alr

Is Dan Brown reading “The Trough”?
The Trough

  English: Dante Alighieri’s portrait by Sandro Botticelli. Tempera 54,7 x 47,5 cm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ihttp://www.danbrown.com/#news-section    Dan Brown has a brand new book. http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Robert-Langdon-Dan-Brown/dp/0385537859/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_t_1_7M8V#reader_0385537859Here is an insider link from Amazon on some pages, a lot in fact, of this book. Inferno (Robert Langdon)

What an OS is
Understanding the Art of Programming

A Computer System is made of: Hardware Operating System Applications programs Users The OS : is the resource administrator is a control program (monitor) makes possible the resource sharing distinguishes the kernel code from the user code is an abstract machine What being a resource admin means: administrating the following resources CPU Main Memory Second Memory Network Devices I/O the OS makes simultaneous functioning of these resources possible the OS shares these resources among the tasks Being an abstract machine implies offering of an interface of operations made on the hardware system, operations such as: Process operations: fork(), wait(), exec() File operations: open(), write(), read(), close() Messages: send(), receive() Address space: malloc(), free() Types of OS: in terms of tasks mono-tasking: CP/M, DOS multi-tasking: Windows, Unix, OS/2 2. in terms of users mono-user: DOS, Windows desktop versions, Macintosh multi-user: Unix, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris, Windows server version

Safe Reboot Of Linux Using Magic SysRq Key
LINUX DIGEST

  The magic SysRq key is a key combination in the Linux kernel which allows the user to perform various low level commands regardless of the system’s state.   It is often used to recover from freezes, or to reboot a computer without corrupting the filesystem. The key combination consists of Alt+SysRq+commandkey. In many systems the SysRq key is the printscreen key.   First, you need to enable the SysRq key, as shown below.   #echo “1″ > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq     List of SysRq Command Keys The following are the command keys available for Alt+SysRq+commandkey   • ‘k’ – Kills all the process running on the current virtual console.   • ’s’ – This will attempt to sync all the mounted file system.   • ‘b’ – Immediately reboot the system, without unmounting partitions or syncing.   • ‘e’ – Sends SIGTERM to all process except init.   • ‘m’ – Output current memory information to the console.   • ‘i’ – Send the SIGKILL

The Easiest Way to Install LAMP on Raspberry Pi
Justin Harbour

Debian OpenLogo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Raspberry Pi is, perhaps, best used for a headless web-server, but it’s very hard to set up.  Not any more. With this bash script on GitHub, it only takes three commands to have a fully functional LAMP web server.  This includes Apache, PHP 5, and MySQL.  Look past the break for full instructions, and more info….. In the future, I plan to add phpMyAdmin support, but for now, it’s simple to install as it is. Here are the commands (so you don’t have to go to GitHub): git clone https://github.com/LikeABoss-001/Raspberry-Pi-LAMP-Install-Script.git cd Raspberry-Pi-LAMP-Install-Script sudo chmod +x install.sh && ./install.sh Feel free to star or fork my work on the GitHub Repo; and, as always, submit an issue ticket if you experience any problems.

Windows apps on Mac without pain
Sérgio Vilar

Installing Macports and Wine Follow the 1-4 steps on this article to install Macports and Wine Runnin applications without terminal First, locate the application you’ve installed on the folder ~/.wine/c_disk/Program Files/ Then, open the AppleScript Editor and put this: set program to "~/.wine/drive_c/'Program Files'/YOUR_APP.exe" set wine to "/opt/local/bin/wine" do shell script wine & " " & program Obviously replacing YOUR_APP.exe by your app name Select File > Save as… then select “Application” Ready! Now you have an application to initialize your windows app without terminal.

Only love – Solo el amor
Gisell Chanden Project

Only love can create anything more beautiful on this planet, only love makes you so much better in every way, only love is the basis of human existence, only love can climb very high mountains.       Solo el amor puede crear todo lo mas bello en este planeta, solo el amor hace de ti mucho mejor en todo sentido, solo el amor es la base de la existencia del ser humano, solo el amor es capaz de escalar montañas muy altas.  

[AMAZING NEWS] Samsung Galaxy S4: Google edition
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  Google announced its own branded Galaxy S4 at its conference today.(Credit: James Martin/CNET) At today’s Google I/O developer’s conference in San Francisco, the tech giant announced that it would release its own variant of the previously unveiled Samsung Galaxy S4. For the most part, the device will remain largely the same. It will feature 4G LTE and 16GB of storage space. However, the handset will offer a skinless Nexus experience, come with its bootloader already unlocked, and users will receive system updates as they come in. This GS4 version will be available starting June 26 on AT&T and T-Mobile for $649. When CNET reviewed the GS4 in April, we gave it an Editors’ Choice for its superb 13-megapixel camera, lightning-quick Snapdragon 600 processor, and numerous software features that include eye-tracking and gestures. Check back often as this first-take will be continually updated throughout the day, and be sure to catch all of CNET’s Google I/O cover