Archive for August, 2011

iOS 5 Coming On September 30th (EXCLUSIVE)

Posted: August 19, 2011 in Apple, mobile, News, O/S
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We have been informed by a reliable source that iOS 5 should be available on September 30th at 10 AM PST just the same time as previous update releases.

 

Back in June, iOS 5 was introduced during the WWDC 2011. iOS 5 comes with features as OTA updates, a perfect notifications system, Newsstand, Twitter integration, the Reminder Up, PC-Free feature, the iMessage, Speech-To-Text feature and even more features unveiled in the released betas of iOS 5.

9to5mac earlier this week reported that Apple’s next-generation iPhone will be available in stores starting on Friday, October 7th. The report also included that pre-orders of the iPhone 5 will be available from Friday, September 30th. So the date of iOS 5 release is most likely true as Apple traditionally releases a new update to the public couple of days before the release of new iPhone hardware.

Twitter Adds Subtle New Feature

Posted: August 12, 2011 in Internet!, News
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Twitter quietly added a prompt to post a public reply to any user whose profile page you visit today; it’s a small but logical step to take and one that makes the interface all the more supportive of social interaction. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey replied to user @jSammy17 and said the feature was new today – that appears to be the company’s only public statement about it so far.

Activity streams, photo uploaders and media galleries, now changes to the posting interface – with all these changes made in one week you’d think there was a hot new social network that had just launched and that was challenging Twitter for its users. When will a Twitter Games Platform launch, I wonder?

The call to action to send a public @ reply to a user whose profile page you’re on is pretty straightforward. You could always send a private Direct Message to someone when you visited their page if they were following you. Now whether they are following you or not, you can initiate a conversation.

Above, finance blogger and post-industrial renaissance woman Sarah Gilbert is a great person to follow. Now you can send her, or anyone else, public replies whether she follows you back or not.

6 Billionth Picture Uploaded to Flickr

Posted: August 10, 2011 in Internet!, News
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Flickr has announced that it has reached another milestone – the 6 billionth photograph was uploaded to the site on Monday by user eon60. The photo, which depicts a Montbretia flower, was taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 digital compact camera. “Over the last few years Flickr has seen consistent growth, with uploads increasing over 20% year-over-year,” Flickr said in a statement.

Check Redhat version installed

Posted: August 3, 2011 in How To
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I was looking at how to tell the version of Redhat Linux installed on a machine from a command line. Mostly I used uname -a to view the server settings.

Here is a sample:

$ uname -a

Linux  myserver.mydomain.com   2.6.18-8.el5 #1  SMP  Fri Jan 26 14:15:21 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386  GNU/Linux

It return the server kernel’s version: 2.6.18-8.el5 #1, but not something my mother could understand.

To get a layman term, we can query file /etc/redhat-release instead.

 

$ cat /etc/redhat-release

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)