How to install FreeNX server and client in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). FreeNX is a system that allows you to access your desktop from another machine over the Internet. You can use this to login graphically to your desktop from a remote location. One example of its use would be to have a FreeNX server set up on your home computer, and graphically logging in to the home computer from your work computer, using a FreeNX client.
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Archive for March 12th, 2010
On March 15, Take Action to Stop Dumping Mine Waste Into Our Water
Posted in March 12th, 2010
This post was co-written by Mary Anne Hitt, deputy director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign.
There is nothing clean about destroying homes and communities to get coal out of the ground. Mountaintop removal coal mining is a dirty secret in our nation’s energy supply. More than 470 mountains in Appalachia have been destroyed by [...]
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It’s Hard To Watch The Newsosaurs Turn A Blind Eye To Their Own Extinction
Posted in March 12th, 2010
Sometimes it is obvious where the world is headed, but some people and industries become frozen in place and time. They are like the duckbilled dinosaurs happily munching on the still-abundant plants around them when the meteor strikes instead of the small furry mammals underfoot who take cover every day by natural habit. In the print newspaper industry, it’s the same story. Everyone wants to wall off the Web and keep grazing on declining ad revenues.
A week ago, I wrote a post based on a conversation I had with Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen in which he made the case that print media companies would be better off shutting down their print operations now (“Burn the boats”) and move forward unencumbered into the digital age, no matter how painful that may be. That suggestion hit a deep nerve, and continues to do so. 
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Brightkite’s Sneaky Plan To Get Regular Users Into Location: Group Text
Posted in March 12th, 2010
Brightkite is tricky. Tricky and smart.
While larger than most of their location-based rivals with over 2 million users, they know that in the past year they’ve lost some momentum to the newer check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. So they’re trying to do something unique to swing momentum back in their favor.
Today, at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Brightkite is unveiling its new Group Text service. It’s both a feature on the website and a standalone application in the App Store (it should be available shortly). With it, Brightkite is latching onto one of the most popular and fast growing categories in mobile applications: group texting. Unlike regular text messaging, this type of app allows you to message many people all at once (and go back and forth). And better, in a world where cell providers are still managing to rip-off users with their text message bundles or $0.15 rate per-text, group texting is absolutely free.
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Steam powered tank
Posted in March 12th, 2010
This steam-powered tank is really something of a steam-electric hybrid. Steam provides the locomotion, but an electrical system provides the remote control and steering. A full boiler will provide 10-15 minutes of operation which you can see in the video after the break. Before you leave a nasty comment: Yes, we realize this project is [...]
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Sponge music
Posted in March 12th, 2010
[Aaron] calls this project “Stochasticity”. It uses two sponges as a musical interface. The performer wears a wrist strap and then draws on the table with water from the sponge to play different notes. You really need to watch the video to fully understand what’s going on here.
We’re guessing that this is Arduino based since [...]
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CauseWorld’s New App Melds The Check-In With The Check-Out
Posted in March 12th, 2010
Last night, we wrote about a CauseWorld teaming up with TechCrunch to provide double karma points during the SXSW festival starting today in Austin, Texas. These points, obtained through checking-in at various locations, can be used to donate to charities through big brands that support the app. It’s a great feature, and we hope you’ll use it in Austin. What we didn’t talk too much about is the app itself that enables it, CauseWorld, which just released a new version of its iPhone app in the App Store.
We first covered the app back in December, but now it has been significantly upgraded. One of the core ideas behind the app has always been the intersection of the mobile and physical world (something I’ve thought a lot about as well). A new feature bridges the gap a bit more as you can now scan barcodes on individual items with your iPhone to earn extra karma points. Proctor & Gamble are the ones sponsoring these points on different products they make. It’s a good idea, because even if you choose not to buy the item, it forces you to pick it up and look at it a bit.
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Karl Rove “Proud” of U.S. Waterboarding
Posted in March 12th, 2010
As part of his ongoing media blitz to promote his book, Courage and Consequences, Karl Rove appeared Thursday on the BBC program Newsnight, where he told his host that he takes pride in the Bush administration’s so-called “enhanced interrogation” program.
“I’m proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists and gave us [...]
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FunMail’s FunTweet Visualizes Twitter Streams With Pretty Pictures
Posted in March 12th, 2010
We’ve written about FunMobility’s nifty picture messaging app for the iPhone and Android, called FunMail, that allows users to blasts their text into the application, which then breaks down whatever the user typed for context and places fun graphics with your original text. Now, FunMobility has caught the Twitter bug and is launching FunTweet, a web service which turns any Twitter stream into visual messages that are related to the text.
Similar to FunMail, FunTweet will turn text in Tweets into a matching image. On FunTweet’s site, you sign in with your Twitter credentials and the service will draw your Tweets from your Twitter homepage feed and display each tweet as a FunMail image on FunTweet. Users can also enter a @UserName, a HashTag or a Subject as well to the images. If you like the image FunTweet picked, you can publish the Tweet to your Twitter account. If you don’t like the image, click “Try Again” and you can choose from other images. For example, if you tweet about writing a story or reading a book, then FunTweet will come up with images that match “story” – a book, a magazine, a typewriter, or a pen. 
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Pentagon Partially Blames The Internet For That Christmas Underwear Bomber
Posted in March 12th, 2010
This is the lede, verbatim, from a story that appeared in The Hill yesterday: “The Internet allowed extremists to contact, recruit, train and equip the suspect responsible for the attempted Flight 253 bombing on Christmas Day ‘within weeks,’ a top Pentagon official told lawmakers Wednesday.” What’s the implication, that because someone used the Internet to plan something, something bad, we should get rid of it? Fine by me, believe me.
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Sonos Confirms $25 Million Investment From Index Ventures
Posted in March 12th, 2010
Sonos has now confirmed the Index Ventures investment we reported two days ago. The company has taken an additional $25 million in capital from Index, raising the total raised by the company to $65 million. And Index Ventures Partner Mike Volpi, a former CIsco executive, has joined their board of directors.
The funds will be used for growth equity, says the company, which signals that they are past the proof of product stage (well past, in this case) and will use the funds to speed market penetration.
From our original post:
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TechCrunch Friday GiveAway: An Apple iPad #CRUNCH
Posted in March 12th, 2010
It’s Apple iPad day, and every early adopter worth their salt is pre-ordering one of the soon to be ubiquitous little devices and counting the days until they get their hands on it on April 3. You’ve been waiting on this thing since December 2008, after all.
We know you’ve already bought two for yourselves, the limit, because that’s how TechCrunch readers roll. We know this because we’ve told our advertisers that every single one of our 9.2 million monthly readers is a high disposable income influencer in technology and media that just loves to try out new things that they see advertised on TechCrunch. And since those advertisers believe us, we have the means to buy an extra iPad and give it to you. Even though you’ll then have three of them. Because you, dear reader, are a high disposable income influencer.
Read on for details…
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GCHQ lost track of 35 laptops in 2008
Posted in March 12th, 2010
Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Friday 12 March 2010 at 16:33:00
Intelligence and Security Committee attacks ‘cavalier’ attitude to security
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) lost track of 35 laptops in
2008, including three classified as ‘top secret’, the Intelligence and Security
Committee (ISC) has revealed.
GCHQ director Iain Lobban told the ISC, which was established in 1994 to
examine the policy, administration and expenditure of GCHQ, that historically
laptops were simply checked in and out and updated in the records.
The ISC criticised this “haphazard” approach to the allocation and location
tracking of devices, and has demanded tighter security practices.
“The ISC considers that this formerly cavalier attitude towards valuable and
sensitive assets was unacceptable. GCHQ must ensure that it controls, tracks and
monitors its equipment effectively,” it said.
Lobban claimed that the rapid deployment of personnel and assets to conflict
areas had exacerbated the problem.
“A lot of the laptops are shipped out to sites in the theatres of war for
communications means or to control equipment. Against an operational imperative,
people perhaps took slightly hasty decisions without due process,” he said.
However, Lobban admitted that its former control processes “were not
sufficiently robust”, and said that GCHQ had updated its procedures to check the
location of every single laptop more regularly.
The news will make embarrassing reading for Downing Street, which recently
gave the Information Commissioner’s Office the ability to
fine
companies found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act up to £500,000
from April 2010.
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Lunch.com Communities Let You Build Your Own Niche Reviews Site
Posted in March 12th, 2010
Last August, we wrote about Lunch.com, a reviews site that’s setting out with the goal to make the world a better place by changing the way people think about each other (as I wrote then, it’s a pretty lofty goal). Today, the company is launching a new feature called Communities that lets users build their own review sites around any niche topic. If you’d like to try founding a community, you can do so using the beta code “techcrunch”.
The new feature can be likened to a ‘Ning for review sites’. As a community founder, you select a topic on whatever you’d like, then invite other users to contribute reviews and other content (you can elect to moderate this as it comes in).
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