29/11/2011
There is Identica to replace Twitter and Diaspora to replace Facebook, hang on a minute! for Google? Yeah! YaCy is here.
YaCy is a distributed search engine, instead of using centralized servers YaCy is a network of "peers", servers which has installed the software.
Advantages:
- We might not have to compromise on privacy.
- There might no be any restriction or censoring of information, as most of the search giant have to power and control of what results should appear.
- It's a search engine powered by user, rather not a single company.
What YaCy says about itself?
YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world's users.
You can try it at http://search.yacy.net/
14/11/2011
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of co-founders of the social network Diaspora, has died at age 22. Zhitomirskiy was one of four New York University programming students who last year launched Diaspora, which is designed as an open-source alternative to Facebook. Their intention was to build "an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data". A commercial alpha version was released November 23, 2010. The group has raised more than $200,000 in donations using a fund raising platform start-up called Kickstarter.
26/10/2011
The father of Artificial Intelligence and the creator of LISP is dead at the age of 84. He had won the Turing award for Artificial Intelligence. He was was a professor in the Stanford University.
12/09/2011
Earlier last week news of security breach at Kernel.org was floating the internet.On 8 September another breach was discovered at infrastructure of Linux Foundation,it's sites Linux.com, LinuxFoundation.org and all their subdomains are down and display the following message.
Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011. The Linux Foundation made this decision in the interest of extreme caution and security best practices. We believe this breach was connected to the intrusion on kernel.org.
We are in the process of restoring services in a secure manner as quickly as possible. As with any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately. We are currently auditing all systems and will update this statement when we have more information.
We apologize for the inconvenience. We are taking this matter seriously and appreciate your patience. The Linux Foundation infrastructure houses a variety of services and programs including Linux.com, Open Printing, Linux Mark, Linux Foundation events and others, but does not include the Linux kernel or its code repositories.
It also advised its users to “consider the passwords and SSH keys that (they) have used on these sites compromised" and change them soon.
31/08/2011
While India is fighting against corruption under the leadership of Anna Hazare, demanding the modified Lokpal bill, a lot is happening behind the curtains. In a shocking and "silent" move the Tamil Nadu government has displayed yet again how the termite of corruption is eating up Indian system.
The Tamil Nadu government has broken all records by shutting doors to all competitors and giving exclusive orders for Microsoft products in a latest tender.[Read more]
News posted by Swapnil Bhartiya, originally published at http://www.muktware.com
17/08/2011
The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. There have been eleven releases - most recently Debian 6.0 Squeeze in February 2011. There are more than 1,000 Debian Developers and Maintainers from all over the globe.
Debian celebrates it 18th birthday. Users can thank Debain at http://thank-you.debian.net. If you are a Ubuntu user,you can at least thank its father.
07/07/2011
Google's email service have become a default email service for most part of us. Gmail in a blog post has disclosed about it's plan on new look for gmail. Couple of screen shots posted on the Google's blog suggest us that changes are only cosmetic. Though there are no major changes, the new look is clean and elegant. This change lines up with series of cosmetic changes Google is doing for its services.