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hardware / interesting / linux / software / technology — 3 Comments
16
Jun 08

SplashTop Linux On HP and Dell Notebooks

linux inside dell and hpSometime ago ASUS rebranded some of their motherboards as “Express Gate”.

What is unique about these “new wave” motherboards is that they come with SplashTop Linux installed in 512MB flash memory that is embedded on these motherboards.

What does it mean? It means that essential applications (e.g. web browser, instant message client, e-mail client, etc.) that come with SplashTop Linux can be started within 5 seconds after PC/Notebook is powered on – cool huh? Well Hewlett-Packard and Dell also thought it is “cool huh?” and decided to act upon it.

This week Hewlett-Packard announced the HP Envy 133 as its competition to Apple’s ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook. Like the MacBook Air, the Envy 133 runs off an Intel CPU. With the HP Envy 133 they are also shipping an “instant-on Linux” they’ve called Voodoo IOS (Instant-on Operating System).

In addition to the instant-on Linux excitement this week for the HP Envy 133, Dell is apparently working on a similar Linux solution. Engadget has shared details surrounding the Dell E and E Slim. These notebooks are direct competition to the very popular ASUS Eee PCs. These Dell E and E Slim notebooks will use Intel’s Diamondville processors and come with a similar set of features to the Eee PC and potentially at a better price. The E and E Slim also ship with what Dell is calling “BlackTop” for providing an instant-on Linux solution.

For a few months now DeviceVM (SplashTop creators) has had a version of SplashTop that comes equipped with the Pidgin (formerly GAIM) instant messenger and other cool apps.

from wikipedia:

Distinct from most Linux distributions, Splashtop is intended to be integrated on a read-only device and shipped with the hardware, rather than installed by the user. The user can install another operating system but always has this one ready to boot, in case the other one is broken, or in case web browsing and chatting is enough. It boots in about 5 seconds.[5] It is thus marketed as “instant-on.”

An “instant-on” operating system offers many advantages over a traditional operating system:

  • It boots much faster.
  • It is less vulnerable to malware as the system is mostly read-only.
  • It allows for diskless computers.
  • It is lighter but sufficient for running a web desktop and web applications.

sources: phoronix

art / hardware / howto / linux / music / software / technology / ubuntu — 3 Comments
3
Jun 08

Install Floola on Ubuntu

iPod on UbuntuFloola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It’s a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Windows Vista is supported).

Step 1. Get it from:

http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=download_linux

Step 2. Before running make sure to install c++ standard library:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

Step 3. DONE!

linux / software / technology / ubuntu — Comments Off on Install Avant Window Navigator on Ubuntu Hardy Heron
3
Jun 08

Install Avant Window Navigator on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

add these two in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-core/ubuntu/ hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-core/ubuntu/ hardy main

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install awn-manager-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk

howto / linux / software / technology / ubuntu — 1 Comment
3
Jun 08

Install Opera in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

1. Add “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main” to /etc/apt/source.list

2. sudo apt-get update

3. sudo apt-get install opera

howto / java / software / technology / tutorials / web 2.0 / xml — 80 Comments
28
May 08

Generate XSD from XML

There are several tools out there to create (or to infer) an XSD schema from XML document. I liked trang command line tool the most. Found it first when reading about Spring web services in Spring in Action book (very good book btw).

Here are four simple steps how to create XSD from XML* using trang:

Step 1. Get trang

Download trang.zip from here (at the moment of writing “trang-20030619.zip”)

Step 2. Extract it

Use “unzip trang-version.zip”, or just winzip/winrar/7z etc.. if on windows

Step 3. Make an alias

This step is optional, but makes it extremely easy to run the tool with a single command. Make an alias to the “trang.jar” by (in my case Ubuntu/Linux) editing “~/.bashrc” and adding the following:

# execute trang.jar (create XSD from XMLs)
alias xml2xsd='java -jar ~/soft/utils/trang/trang-20030619/trang.jar'

above “~/soft/utils/trang” is the directory where “trang” was unzipped to.

Step 4. Create XSD from XML

Let’s look at the XML file we need an XSD for:

$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 357 2008-05-28 15:38 holiday-request.xml
 
$ cat holiday-request.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<holidayRequest xmlns="http://mycompany.com/hr/schemas">
    <holiday>
        <startDate>2006-07-03</startDate>
        <endDate>2006-07-07</endDate>
    </holiday>
    <employee>
        <number>42</number>
        <firstName>Ultimate</firstName>
        <lastName>Answer</lastName>
    </employee>
</holidayRequest>

now run the tool against it:

$ xml2xsd holiday-request.xml hr.xsd
$ cat hr.xsd
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” elementFormDefault=”qualified” targetNamespace=”http://mycompany.com/hr/schemas” xmlns:schemas=”http://mycompany.com/hr/schemas”>
  <xs:element name=”HolidayRequest”>
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element ref=”schemas:Holiday”/>
        <xs:element ref=”schemas:Employee”/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
  <xs:element name=”Holiday”>
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element ref=”schemas:StartDate”/>
        <xs:element ref=”schemas:EndDate”/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
  <xs:element name=”StartDate” type=”xs:NMTOKEN”/>
  <xs:element name=”EndDate” type=”xs:NMTOKEN”/>
  <xs:element name=”Employee”>
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element ref=”schemas:Number”/>
        <xs:element ref=”schemas:FirstName”/>
        <xs:element ref=”schemas:LastName”/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
  <xs:element name=”Number” type=”xs:integer”/>
  <xs:element name=”FirstName” type=”xs:NCName”/>
  <xs:element name=”LastName” type=”xs:NCName”/>
</xs:schema>

done!

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* – NOTE: “trang” can create an XSD from multiple XML documents, not just one.

List of other tools to use as an alternative to trang:

XSD away, Good Luck!

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