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Students logging on to check their e-mail with Pine may have noticed unusual warning messages this week as Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) began rolling out a set of Linux-based servers—a change meant to bring Harvard’s servers up to date with the newest technology...
...Lots of programs have been developed that want to run on Linux,” said Davis, who is also a Crimson editor. “It’s been a wonderful development over the last decade. We’ve seen other universities make great strides with...
With TiVo, the hacking process is simpler than you might think. This is because TiVo is not so much a stereo component as a computer that runs on the free operating system called Linux. It uses IDE hard drives that you can purchase at any computer store for about a dollar per gigabyte. You need to hook up the hard drive to your PC or Mac, install a free piece of software called BlessTivo, open the TiVo box and attach its new brain. (Reverse the process, and you can make a backup of precious TV recordings on your computer.) Most...
...With TiVo, the hacking process is simpler than you might think. This is because TiVo is not so much a stereo component as a computer that runs on the free operating system called Linux. It uses IDE hard drives that you can purchase at any computer store for about a dollar per gigabyte. You need to hook up the hard drive to your PC or Mac, install a free piece of software called BlessTivo, open the TiVo box and attach its new brain. (Reverse the process, and you can make a backup of precious TV recordings on your computer.) Most...
Meanwhile, Big Blue has more tightly embraced Linux, the grass-roots operating system that Palmisano originally championed inside the company and that is becoming a legitimate threat to both Unix and Microsoft's Windows. IBM's research division, in which the company invests $5 billion a year, is also trying to come up with an "autonomic" technology, so that complex systems can fix themselves, and IBM can serve up technology without spending so much on labor...