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Ubuntu 13.04 (almost certainly) will say goodbye to Wubi

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, the Ubuntu installer on Windows , all lights will be offered from launch of Ubuntu 13.04, reported on OMG! Ubuntu!

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As you know, Wubi installs Ubuntu like a Windows program more than they were , but the talk is met by several developers Canonical in mailing lists, and following the conversation until end it seems to be, continuity of Wubi is sentenced.

The reasons for this movement are derived mainly from abandoning Wubi , which has not been taken into account for a while now. Broadly, Wubi showing gaps in their choices, especially conflicts Windows 8 and many errors to resolve, so it was decided to leave it apart from the next version of Ubuntu is coming soon … unless someone is willing to take over the development (yes, leave the door open, but little remains for the release of Ubuntu 13.04 to trust that something is resolved).

In short, without a formal decision, few papers have Wubi in the future, much less in Ubuntu 13.04. Hit or error?

TrackingPoint a riflescope based on Linux that allows not fail (almost) never shot

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If you had told me I was going to talk about guns in MuyLinux, ever would have believed. But that’s life: at the fair in consumer electronics CES 2013 which was held in Las Vegas these days have seen dozens of releases of devices and solutions of all kinds, but one of the most unique was that of TrackingPoint Company , who presented his system scope with the goal to aim automatically based entirely on Linux .

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This scope is attached to a series of Precision Guided Firearms , or what is the same, high-precision rifles with these systems led to not miss the point . Using this view, we have a digital screen with a data overlay.

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explain, after selecting the target, we can press a button to mark it, so that the scope is in charge of following up with a laser system. And when we decided to shoot, do not pull the trigger directly , but align a series of curves that, having done that, the rifle firing automatically.

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computerized system takes into account factors such as temperature, humidity, or direction and wind speed , all for perfect shots. In fact guarantee the accuracy can be 100% up to distances of 870 meters.

not only that we can record those searches and target tracking, and can even access viewfinder screen through a WiFi access point including that for example we can use an iPhone or an iPad as our focus.

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Price? A bargain. $ 17,000 buy a rifle and a telescopic sight iPad gift . Apparently the idea is to provide a tool for fans to go hunting, but maybe this type of solution will end up being used in military equipment. The video with the show then.

The Senate website had gone (almost) free with Open Source software

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our fellow MuyComputer point, the new website of the Spanish Senate, well known for its disastrous premiere and a half million euros that cost, has been replicated in less than a week, using Open Source software and zero cost . The only thing that would have cost are the hours of programming and design of the website, which as we have seen from the results had not been practically nothing.

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Besides bugs, security flaws, lack of optimization and speed or breach of standards , another of the ‘virtues’ of this ‘jewel’ that is the new portal Senate is the use of proprietary licenses in the form or content publisher, which takes nearly half of the total budget.

criticism when you consider that similar portals as important as the U.S. White House is built on open source and free CMS uses Drupal , as good as any in the industry.

To illustrate this point especially, a Spanish engineer who prefers to remain anonymous, has replicated the Senate web using entirely free software, which to begin with, would have saved the taxpayers suffered 250,000 euros .

“I have nothing to hide, but not seek publicity or want to get involved with people in the industry. If I decided to talk and contrast data is because I led and managed large public administration websites. Sure, small paragraphs, because such projects work many people. However, I know how they work, and why those costs’ , the author explained, putting the nail on the head of what happened to the renewal of the portal.

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ASUS sells almost 1 million Nexus 7 per month

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Partner with Google to create Nexus 7 is one of the best decisions ASUS has taken in more than 20 years. According to the Chief Financial Officer of the corporation Taiwanese, David Chang, the popular 7-inch tablet is selling nearly 1 million units per month .

The great reception that took Nexus 7 market benefited not only Google, but also put ASUS in a landmark within the market. According to figures from the third quarter, sending the company’s Asian tablets increased 200 percent compared to the previous period.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal , Chang said “At first they were, for example, 500,000 units per month. Then they were 600 or 700 000. This last month were almost a million “. The Nexus 7 complete statistics were not unveiled yet, but surely will be announced in coming months.

It should also be noted that the number of units sold per month can dramatically increase since October. Alongside Nexus Nexus 4 and 10, Google introduced a new model of Nexus 7 with 32 GB of space and cellular connectivity . The launch of this version can give a push even harder ASUS figures.

Unfortunately you can compare the performance with the Kindle Fire and Nook tablets because the manufacturers do not disclose statistics on their market performance.

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Web 3.6.0 (Epiphany), almost ready

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Xan Lopez, one of the developers of native browser in GNOME, GNOME Web (formerly known as Epiphany, we call it strange otherwise) has given some details about the new expected in this application of the desktop environment.

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starts talking about the most relevant feature visually, what they call “the big picture” (The Overview) , which displays a grid in new tabs and browser windows with pages visited by the user.

feature, time that we see in other browsers, will now be part of Web, and facilitate (especially on mobile devices) access to those websites that we usually visit .

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WebKit2 arrives in beta, the rendering engine is not yet entirely stable but can be activated and launching the application with the parameter “-with-webkit2 “, which will notice faster response times, better scroll, or Flash support without nspluginwrapper, among other things.

full screen mode has also been improved, and the bar is removed and the button that appeared in the previous version, but now they have been removed elements to provide full-screen mode “more complete and more screen “, and will be especially interesting when HTML5 enjoy games in full-screen browser.

Another important issue mentioned this developer is introducing a test environment that allows you to check if the operation of the browser, its components and its code is correct. Although there is still a way to go (have covered 40% of the targets) seems important that this section is on the right path. Other points of interest are automatic session recovery (when we close the browser or hang us by conflict), so no tabs, Do Not Track mode, or support to Autocomplete URLs SoupTLD.

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