With major service providers taking their users towards “the clouds”, it appears that the leaders in the space will continue to primarily advance products and services for mobile devices such as superphones and tablets where storage and processing are limited. Recent advances from Apple and Amazon have been hitting headlines however Google in [...]
After mucking about with various combinations of grub2, xen and eucalyptus on Ubuntu Karmic and eventually Debian Squeeze I now have a working cloud computing sandbox using binaries entirely from debian packages.
The final configuration is a Debian Squeeze instance on my HP dv7z laptop running standard grub2, xen and eucalyptus packages. The kernel [...]
For some time now I have observed the Ubuntu dmesg line [ 10.799981] input: ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer as /devices/platform/lis3lv02d/input/input8 and wondered if this was (a) a properly recognized piece of hardware, (b) a feature of my laptop or my Seagate STxxxxxxxx hard disk and (c) what applications might take advantage of it, assuming I [...]