Must the Dot Tel domain have a other concept,, so that it can compete against other domains for smart phone usage?

If the restrictions for .Tel Domains would be removed, then they would be the "better Dot Com's" for mobile telephone Internet usage.

Furthermore, if Dot Tel domains can offer something, that Dot Com domains can't offer on a mobile phone, than Dot Tel domains would be in more favorable position.

Extensions can`t change, but restrictions can be removed, anytime.

Hardly anybody would mind to pay the hosting for a Dot Tel domain, if they had the same freedom as with a Dot Com domain. At the end, they would have the better domain extension for mobile Internet on smart phones. As people would know, that a Dot Tel domain, is like any other domain, and that it offers the same navigation possibilities.

Users used to register a Dot Mobi, only because of its extension: Because they intended to use the domain for smart phones with Internet.

The .Tel registry is doing the same thing: Offering a domain for smart phones with Internet, but with restrictions.
However, the .Tel registry is providing a control panel, for populating the domain.
It was supposed to be a no-brainer, but the friending feature was too complecated, as well as few other things.

Why not deliver a mobile friendly template, without any restrictions? And leave the hosting to the registrars?

As soon as the only difference between domains, is the extension, Dot Tel will win over the other domain extensions, for smart phone usage.

The existing dot tel concept seems to be somewhat outdated. It might of worked well, eight or ten years ago, when it was created.

Dot Tel domains are lacking exitement. And users are used to Dot Com websites.
It is difficult to sell something that is less attractive.

The biggest advantage of the Dot Tel domain, is that it is "low cost" for the domain holder / owner. And users don't know, that using it, would be also "low cost" for them. And so, users other from the .Tel owners, don't care about the costs for Dot Tel domains. They just see a weird and boring page, with some contact information on it, and a penedrant and annoying Dot Tel logo. And say, that the design looks more like a domain parking page.

The easiest and more successful thing would be, to lift all restrictions, and tel(l) the world, that Dot Tel domains are for smart phone usage. Full stop.
And everyone would "get" that, and people would start registering .Tel's, and populating them by a webdesigner, or by themselfs.

Who would care, to have to pay hosting and a webdesigner, if they get a powerfull and efficient mobile website at the end, having a fantastic domain extension (.tel)?

The ten year old Dot Tel concept needs some rethinking and remodeling. Time for change. You can't expect a ten year old concept to be successful, ten years later.

If a Internet domain does not offer more than a landing page and a folder tree, and contact information, than it should be much less expensive... Somewhere around $03,00 (tree Dollars).

Provide a person with a Dot Com address, and he knows, what to do with it.
Provide a person with a Dot Tel address, and he does not know what to do with it.

If every new smart phone had a Dot Tel search engine as default, then everybody would know, what to do with Dot Tel domains.

If Dot Tel domains would be easyer to mobilize, and offer as much freedom as Dot Com domains, then that would be clearly an advantage for the Dot Tel domains.

Ok, I think I said enough, and now it is up to you, to "thinktank" and brainstorm.

The really biggest advantage of .Tel domains, is the fact, that one can set up a mobile friendly Internet domain within a few hours (ok, you say, within a few minutes..), and which is ideal for QR-Code usage (Quick Response Code usage). Because, if you want to sell something spontaniously, and fast, you can set up a mobile friendly .Tel domain, and encode it as a QR-Code (you generate a code from a website URL, for example), and print the code and display it, where smart phone owners can scann it (and click to decode it), and then interact with you and your offer.

Speed, is what matters, and you can act fast, with a .Tel domain, a QR-Code generator, and a QR-Code reader. This sort of interaction, one can only achieve with mobile websites. And Dot Tel is already "out of the box" mobile. No need for a webmaster and a webdesigner, there. And the "no need", would be a time saver and advantage, in connection with QR-Code usage. Again: Time saving matters.

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Dot Tel domains: Review.

First of all, I heartily thank Bill, for his fantastic blog „DOT TEL DOMAINS BLOG“, at http://dottel.blogspot.com/.

I agree with many of his statements, especially, about the .tel domain registry Telnic. And I can hear a lot of disappointment within his comments.

How good is the communication between Telnic and the holders of .tel domains?: The call for a professional webdesigner for the Dot Tel interface and look, had never been realized.

Bill put the question, once again, if one should renew or drop the .tel domains, and he tends to not renew most of them, due to his „uncertain future for .tel“ vision. Bills comments are easy to follow and understand, according to common sense. However, investors should aim a long term strategy of about five years, and then make a decision to drop the .tel domains, or not. If you don't think in long terms, you are not investing. Neither are you investing, if you are not taking financial risks.

Besides all the improvements for the look and the promotion of .Tel that could have been done, but haven't been done, and after ca. two years, since online, .Tel is clearly underestimated, undervalued, and hardly, or not understood. The Dot Tel domain is a Internet landing page for contact and business information, and a lot more. The domain works partly „out of the box“, and can be, on the other part, configured, with a bit of nitty gritty work, to a efficient SEO booster, and a domain that gets found in Internet.

I doubt that any .tel domain with an good name is a waste of money, if used and kept up to date.

Dot Tel domains are here to stay. The key is public education, but which hasn't taken place on a grand scale.

The monitary system is not favorable for long term investments: It depends strongly on short term profits. Every one thinking, they could make short term profits with .tel domains, must give up those expectations. The value of a domain, is not the value in form of money, that you can cash in, at a given time. With time, certain domains get sought after, by a few people, who know what they could do with them. Offer them, where there is competition from other bidders: At an live auction.

If we drop a .tel domain, or sell it under value, we lose in the long term, but save expenses in the short term: So what do you prefer, and what can you afford?

Even Dot Biz and Dot Mobi will become established and accepted by a wider audience. The are late comers, same as Dot Tel.

Now, imagine, you could just buy a domain, without having to renenew it every year...: No droped domains, would be the result.

Now imagine, Dot Tel's would cost only $5 instead of $10 (http://www.name.com/ price): The result would be....: Less droped domains. Both szenarios sound like fair deals.

For a reseller, or for a domainer with a large portfolio, the domain prices are probably too high, for uncertain long term investments: Why don't the domain registries take such a fact into account, with non-established domain creations?

The decisions are always based on financial thoughts and related to current market prices.
Basically, a good domain name and ranking, has nothing to do with money. And money shouldn't spoil the success, potential and fun.

As I once pointet out: The domain extension ".tel", is probably the best of all existing domain extension, by just looking at the extension itself. And no other existing domain name extension suits better for mobile phone computing.

People have never asked, what sense the domain name extension ".com" makes: But ".com" just got accepted and established with time, by the masses. ".com" could either mean "communication", "commerce", "company", "computing", whatever.

With ".tel", I think, people can't easily make the bridge from Internet domain to telephone, respectively, why should a website URL have a extension, that reminds you of "tel-ephone"?

As soon as Internet and the smart phone become a natural related thing, there might be a run after anything, that eases mobile communication. Inclusive "Dot Tel" domains.

If the couple "Internet" and "smart phone" is no no-brainer yet to mainstream, why should the Dot Tel registry Telnic make much effort to educate mainstream about Dot Tel?
Looking at it that way, and in that aspect, you couldn't blame Telnic, for beeing as passive, as it has been, up and till now. Telnic is not bigh enough, to take such a finacial risk, as such promotion would not just cost one million Dollars, but at least five or ten million Dollars.

By just having a lot of "drops" (droped .tel domains), the financial losses, are still kept at the smallest possible. And financial recovery is possible, anytime, within reasonable time.

Therefore, Telnic is far, from "missing the boat". And all chances are fully intact.

Dot Tel, will pick up, with time. And it will be the overall development in the world of mobile communication, that will decide about the success of the Dot Tel domain.

Of course, and nevertheless, Telnic should change a few things now, at present, and not postpone those. You might be able to say, what that should be. But I am not quite sure.

I think the registry, as well as the domain holders, are a bit overextended. And decisions and actions taken, on both sides, are either taken too carefully, or too hastily, but neither appropriate.

So, who is to blame?: I think, the basic problem are high costs for calling and surfing on a smart mobile phone, which hinders mainstream owners of mobile phones, to access the Internet from their mobile phones, or access Internet, more often. Roaming costs, or still far too expensive.
And people don't know, that .Tel pages the sites that can be viewed at the lowest cost.

When mobile Internet gets generally more mainstream, then that is when Telnic should start making some serious efforts with promoting .Tel, and spending some important amount of money for promotion. I assume, that Telnic does have a successful strategy, even if it doesn't really look that way.

All in all, domaining with heavyweight in the mobile telecommunicaion field, and expecting to make some tidy earnings, and some serious money, is nothing more than a poker game.

Dot Tel domains, are usefull, now, but for for getting tidy earnings through advertising or selling, it is far too early. But you should nevertheless learn all about .Tel, and how to improve and populate a .Tel domain. Because when things take off, you should be ready, and even better: Already established with your .Tel's.

Think twice, befor your intend to drop your Dot Tel domain(s). Act fast, to get a Dot Tel name, as long as it is still available.

Don't forget, that the future of Internet, is in mobile computing, mobile Internet, mobile phones, and mobile websites. Desktop PC's are being replaced by mobile laptops with an aditional bigger external monitor, so that they can be used at home, as well as away from home. And soon, you will be able to interact (more) between your stored data on your smart phone, and your laptop. Let us say, you scan info on the go, with your smart phone, and download it to your laptop.

And so, why will you wan't to give up a good mobile Internet address, if things are developing so promissing?


Herer are some useful links:

Create, print or display a .TEL business card
http://www.nametag.me/dot-tel-business-cards.php

Create, print or display a .TEL business card with QR Code.
http://nametag.me/qr-code-dot-tel-business-cards.php

Promote Your Dot Tel Domain: Generate A QR-Code, And Display It, Where It Can Be Scanned.
http://www.qrstuff.com/

Advertise On Dot Tel Domains
http://www.teldomaintel.com/tel-domain-services/tel-domain-advertising/

Hide Your Dot Tel Email Address
http://www.teldomaintel.com/tel-domain-services/hide-your-tel-email-tel2form/index.html

Daily Growing Dot Tel Community / New Registrations
http://www.dottel.net/daily-dot-tel-registrations#regs

Select A Dropped Dot Tel Domain Name For Registering
http://www.dottel.net/daily-dot-tel-drops#drops

Articles About Dot Tel Domains
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Bill_Rutherfurd

Register A Dot Tel Domain Name
http://www.blacknight.com/telnic.html

Share Your Dot Tel Domain
http://tel2social.com/

Sell Or Buy A Dot Tel Name
http://teltheworld.co.uk/teltheworldmarketplace.html

Dot Tel Monthly Meetup Group
Join us to learn the advantages for PR and marketing in the dotTel space: The Vancouver dotTel Meetup Group Monthly Meetup.
http://www.meetup.com/dotTel/

Dot Tel News
http://www.dottelfinder.com/news/

Dot Tel Forum For Naysayers and Supporters
http://www.namepros.com/561820-the-official-tel-discussion-thread-279.html

Dot Tel And QR-Codes
http://qr-code.dot-tel-domain.tel/

Dot Tel Info Center
http://dot-tel-domain.tel/

Dot Tel Self Learning Center And Tutorials
http://tutorials.dot-tel-domain.tel/

Dot Tel Design Support
http://teldesign.tel/

Search Dot Tel Contact Info
http://d0.telpages.com/search.action


Dot Tel Business Services
http://thetabiz-services.dot-tel-domain.tel/

Email Addressbook (Hidden Email)
http://wikiworldbook.tel/

Dot Tel Support
http://aled.tel/

Lenovo ad with QR code

I will give you a couple of examples of recent implementations of QR codes in Southeast Asia. The first one is of a Singapore magazine publisher using the QR code in a Lenovo ad. The idea is to engage the reader with the product in a more interactive way. This is achieved by putting a QR code inside the ad; for more photos of the model (both the person and the notebook) the reader could scan the code, which will redirect him/her to a mobile website with more interesting content. One can imagine many more examples of implementations of 2D barcodes with regards to advertising, like engaging the reader with the advertiser and publisher through lucky draws, special campaigns, etc.

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Eeebuntu 3.0

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Eeebuntu 3.0 was available in 4 flavours and you can download the iso's here;

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Eeebuntu 2.0

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Eeebuntu 1.0

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The Aurora Story

The Aurora Story

Past

Aurora started life originally in 2008 as the Eeebuntu project; A customized redistribution of Ubuntu; modified specifically for the Eeepc range of netbooks.

Originally a simple collection of scripts and hacks to get Ubuntu 8.04 onto an EeePC it grew into a distribution of its own

By the end of 2008 Eeebuntu had released version 2 of Eeebuntu; over the next 6 months over 400,000 downloads were achieved: Not bad since only 40,000 copies of Version 1.0 were downloaded.

In May/June 2009 the Eeebuntu team released 3.0 to great reviews across numerous review and blogsites such as Linux.com, Techrepublic and The Register.
To add to the value of Eeebuntu; support for a wide range on non-eeepc netbooks was added to the acpi and kernel.
In June 2009 after an astounding 25,000 downloads, within a week of releasing standard and NBR editions, Eeebuntu were nominated as a finalist in the Sourceforge choice awards 2009. Then in july, after being named as a Finalist, Eeebuntu won the category as "Best New Project of 2009".

In September 2009 the team announced work on Eeebuntu 4 (eb4) but the project would see a shift in support. In December we announced that, as well as a Debian base, we would be looking for Eeebuntu to be supported on all systems : laptop, netbook and desktop alike.



Present

Aurora has been designed from the ground up to be more than just an OS or Linux distribution. We are here to build a user friendly system for user, by users. Aiming to make life simple so the OS just does what the user expects it to do!

We aim to teach our users and help others using the great benefits of open-source and the community by working together to document and write tutorials to teach others, collaborate on new ideas and give the community TRUE input on the system they use.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.



The Future at 88 miles an hour...

We haven't been to the future (just yet) but we have ambitious plans on how we want to get there and how the end result will be. This picture can be grown and added to by everyone who wishes to join the collaboration effort of the Aurora Project.

Working together we believe that a great system can be built by those who want to use it.

If we build it they will come :D

Controlling Your Linux System with a Smartphone

Jan 01, 2011 By Jamie Popkin

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Using simple Web technologies, you can turn your smartphone into a multipurpose device to control your computers.

Phone technology has come a long way recently. The gap between personal computers and handheld devices is becoming smaller. I keep hearing the phrase “death of the PC”, and there may be some truth to this statement. However, I believe many of us will continue to need access to larger and more powerful computers that are too big to fit in our pockets. To me, the best of both worlds is to have full control over a larger computer from my phone.

Many new smartphones have advanced Web browsers built in. With this technology, you can access an interface configured to run any command on almost any computer. It is fairly trivial to run a Web server on a Linux box. If you take the appropriate security measures, you quickly can build a Web interface designed specifically for handheld devices.

Security

The approach shown in this article is to use a user account to run commands on the system. Of course, there are security concerns in doing this, but with the appropriate precautions, it can be made reasonably secure.

The system will rely on Wi-Fi. This makes sense when dealing with handheld devices, so configure your Wi-Fi router with a password. Users that want to connect to the local intranet will have to enter a password into their device before seeing anything. Most devices will remember the credentials and connect automatically once in range.

To minimize the risks in the event of a security breach, let's also create the user account with minimal permissions. This is a good safety measure, even though the interfaces will expose only “safe” commands.

Setup

Install the following from your distribution's repository if not already installed: Apache2, apache2-suexec and libapache2-mod-perl2.

The first package is the Web server. If it doesn't start automatically after the install, run the command:

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

The second package allows you to run the Web server with the credentials of a particular system user. When it is installed, you need to issue the following command as root to enable the apache module:

a2enmod suexec

Some of the examples presented here require Perl CGI interoperability. The last package is needed for that.

Now, you need to configure Apache to run as your little-trusted user. On our family Linux box, I created an account for all the kids. The user name is “saturn”. This account can do things like play music and watch videos. However, it doesn't belong to any groups that can delete or change things of importance. So let's use this account as an example.

Edit your apache config, and add the following line to the default VirtualHost (*:80) or to the VirtualHost you want to use:

SuexecUserGroup saturn saturn

Apache runs as root, so it has the ability to run scripts as any user. The line above tells Apache to run as the user saturn and group saturn.

Now, restart Apache, also as root, with this command:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

The Web service now is running as the user saturn.

The Simplest Example

Playing a sound file from the command line is fairly trivial, and it's a good way to exhibit the simplicity of this setup—one button for one action.

I'm using a traditional Web stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript and CGI. The CGI part can be accomplished with a number of different languages. This first example uses a shell script, for the sake of simplicity.

Create an index.html file in the root Web directory. For many systems, this is located in /var/www/. Some systems use /var/www/html/. In this file, add a button that calls a JavaScript function called playQuack():

The JavaScript for the playQuack() function is in bonkers.js. The entire index.html file looks like this:

 

   

            content="initial-scale=1.0; user-scalable=no"/>

   

   

 



 

   

 

Some additional content worth mentioning is in the metatag. This tells smartphones not to scale the content of the page. Without this, the button would be very tiny on the screen.

Here is my default.css file. It defines a background color and specifies how the button will look:

html, body {

 background-color: #1E1E26;

}



button#quack-button {

 position: absolute;

 top: 20%;

 width: 70%;

 left: 15%;

 padding: 5px;

 border-width: 3px;

 color: #BFBFBF;

 font-size: 34px;

 font-weight: 800;

 border-color: #9C9C9C;

 background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top

     left bottom, from(#BF5A34), to(#463630));

     -webkit-border-radius: 10px;

}

Many mobile browsers are starting to support WebKit CSS. This is exciting, because a couple lines of WebKit code can do some really fancy things. The last two lines before the last curly bracket tell the button to have rounded corners and a color gradient background.

Now you have a nice-looking button. Point the browser on your phone to the IP address of the Linux computer. You should see something similar to Figure 1.

Figure 1. A Simple Button Displayed on an iPhone

Next, let's make the button actually do something. Create the bonkers.js file in the root Web directory, and enter the following:

var myDomain = document.domain;

var cgiURL   = "http://" + myDomain + "/cgi-bin/bonkers.cgi";

var xmlRequest;



function playQuack() {

 xmlRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();

 xmlRequest.open("GET", cgiURL, true);

 xmlRequest.send(null);

}

This is the JavaScript that forms the client-side process. It creates a URL that essentially runs the CGI script on your Linux box. In this example, you really don't care about the return value from the CGI script.

Believe it or not, the hard part is all done. CGI scripts are extremely simple and easy to understand—especially for someone who is used to the command line.

All CGI scripts must be located in the cgi-bin directory. This commonly is located in /var/www/cgi-bin or /usr/lib/cgi-bin and is also configurable within Apache.

Here is the CGI script, bonkers.cgi:

#!/bin/bash



mplayer ~/quack.wav &

That's all. This is a Bash shell script. A reference to the shell path is at the top. Below that is a command to run MPlayer, which plays an annoying quack sound. You essentially can place any shell command here.

There you have it. Anybody with a smartphone and the Wi-Fi password can make quack sounds come out of the computer. Now it's time to do something a little more useful.

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Create .Xauthority file

Submitted by Parimal Naigaonkar (not verified) on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 23:31.

Hi,
I really liked your article, I was trying it but there is no .Xauthority file in my home folder.
Can you guide me how to create it under ubuntu 10.10.
Thank You

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Advantages of Linux Smart Phones

By Oolong

Advantages of Linux Smart Phones

Linux intelligent phones have been user-friendly with modernized facilities of Linux handling system. Though there have been many handling systems accessible for Smartphones identical to Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm etc, Linux handling systems have been portion a users for many years. You might be meddlesome to buy a Linux Smartphone as we have been used to Linux building-block functionality. Another reason is which we might wish to knowledge latest things as good as singular facilities accessible in this OS. Though Linux Smartphones have been still in a expansion phase, due a open source inlet we have a leisure to write programs by yourself if we have been informed with programming. Linux Smartphones have been not specifically catering to infrequent as good as commercial operation users, though in a entrance years it will have a own poignant marketplace share.

Most of a engaging functions accessible in Linux intelligent phone have been due to a actuality which it is operated by Linux handling system. Most of a Smartphone functions identical to Web browsing, Office await as good as editing, Media playback as good as present messaging have been available. Linux Smartphone permits we to download as good as accumulate assorted packages which we can fit in your phone. You can remotely carry out a Personal Computer by requesting VNC as good as can additionally have giveaway phone calls by regulating soothing phone formed upon SIP. If we wish to speak to somebody during movement, we can operate 802.11b/g. You can write to yourself or operate sourceforge as good as find if it’s already created by someone. All these have been special advantages for Linux Smartphone users.

With all a functions identical to alternative intelligent phones, these phones have been still in a little ways a Pipe dream. Their life is really minimal as good as when compared with alternative Smartphones, there have been not many American providers charity Smartphones now handling upon Linux. But a removing softened as a subsequent chronicle of Palm handling complement is starting to be formed upon Linux. Other than ancillary open source projects upon Linux, it additionally concordant with determined Palm Operating complement applications as good as which is a bonus to work upon both platforms. There is starting to be launch of Motorola Smartphones formed upon Linux height in a future, as there is already a single handheld device with acceptance from FCC.

There was good success in Smartphones using with Linux handling complement upon hardware written for alternative brands of Smartphones. Palm Smartphone Treo runs utterly easily with Linux as good as so for alternative hardware additionally it won’t be which harder. Anything can occur in a destiny identical to which we might buy intelligent phones but any handling complement as good as we can implement a elite handling complement upon a Smartphone. One of a barrier Linux faces is a intercompatibility with a alternative Smartphones in a market Linux Phone Standards forum (LIPS) plays a categorical purpose whilst a sender uses WiFi to hit you. Access before well known as Palm source who have been a makers of Palm handling complement have been stipulate members in LIPS as good as a subsequent chronicle will be Linux based. This does not indicate which Linux Smartphones have been not severely supported. The many successful Smartphones in a marketplace identical to Motorola, Samsung, Panasonic as good as NEC have been using upon Linux. The Latest Smartphone SCH-i819 of Samsung focused for Chinese businessmen offers special chronicle of Linux for preferred submit of Chinese characters as good as hold shade support. The one more underline BREW helps for many of a Smartphone downloads.

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ABI Research: Linux Smartphones Will Outperform All Others

By Cl Oinsight

With the number of Android-based smartphones constantly ticking upward, both consumers and manufacturers have enjoyed the fast-growing popularity of Linux-based, open-source devices. In a June 1 report, ABI Research is forecasting such growth to continue - though not based on Google's Android alone.

Linux-based smartphones, such as those running Google's Android, will outstrip the growth of the rest of the market and account for more than a third of worldwide market share by 2015, ABI is predicting. Android won't, however, be without competition.

Citing Google's figure of 60,000 Android smartphones currently shipping each day (though in a May 13 shareholders' meeting, Google CEO Eric Schmidt raised that figure to 65,000) ABI said it expects Linux-enabled smartphones to outstrip the growth of the rest of the worldwide smartphone market and comprise 33 percent market share by 2015.

By: Michelle Maisto

Linux-based smartphones, such as those running Google's Android mobile operating system, will outstrip other types in growth and account for more than a third of the worldwide market by 2015, ABI Research is predicting. Android won't, however, be without competition.

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As the number of Android-based smartphones continues to grow, both consumers and manufacturers have enjoyed the increasing popularity of open-source-based mobile devices. In a June 1 report, ABI Research predicted that such growth will continue—and not based on the success of Google's Android operating system alone.

Citing Google's figure of 60,000 Android smartphones currently shipping each day (though at a May 13 shareholders' meeting, Google CEO Eric Schmidt raised the number to 65,000), ABI said it expects Linux-enabled smartphones to outstrip the growth of the rest of the worldwide smartphone market and win a 33 percent share of the market by 2015.

"Due to its low cost and ability to be easily modified, Linux in the mobile market today is nearly as disruptive as Linux was in the server markets a decade ago," ABI analyst Victoria Fodale said in a statement.

Fodale noted that much of operators' interest in Android has come thanks to its flexibility. Motorola, for example, has built its Motoblur functionality on top of Android, and HTC similarly built its Sense interface on Android.

"The Android platform can be modified so that OEMs can differentiate their products," Fodale continued, "and the licensing terms allow OEMs to innovate while still protecting proprietary work."

While Google is surely the frontrunner, Fodale noted, "Android is not without competition."

At the Mobile World Congress in February, for example, Samsung introduced the Linux-based Bada operating system, with Samsung Electronics Executive Vice President Ho Soo Lee saying Bada offered "a powerful opportunity for developers to get their applications onto an unprecedented number of Samsung devices across the world."

ABI described Bada as being "kernel-configurable," meaning that it can run on the Linux kernel or on a real-time operating system kernel, which means it can run on a variety of other devices as well as on smartphones.

The same week as the Bada debut, Nokia and Intel introduced the Linux-based MeeGo platform, which offers an application development environment called Qt.

"Applications and other content are not in a walled garden; rather the ecosystem is more like an open frontier," Kai Oistämö, Nokia executive vice president of devices, said in the announcement.

In a June 2 report, however, analysis company Ovum questioned how viable a competitor MeeGo will actually be, unless Nokia and Intel start selling far more smartphones.

"From the perspective of most third-party developers, MeeGo remains an unknown and unproven quantity that is entering an already highly competitive and crowded landscape," wrote Ovum analyst and report author Tony Cripps, adding that in the short term Nokia and Intel should focus not on smartphones but on other devices. They could then "capitalize on any successes to 'cross-sell' the benefits of Qt development onto Nokia's Qt-enabled feature [phones] and smartphones."

Cripps added, "Doing so may not prove easy, and will require considerable investment. We have yet to see whether MeeGo and its backers have the stomach for the fight, but it would be wrong to write off its changes until we see the merchandise."

For now, it's still Android that will be pushing Linux-based mobile phone growth forward. In a May 19 report, Gartner announced that Google's OS put in a phenomenal showing in the first quarter of 2010, with a 707 percent year-over-year increase in North America.

How do I Download on a MEPIS Linux PC?

By Al Bondigas , eHow Contributor

updated:

Files and programs can be downloaded several ways in MEPIS Linux.

MEPIS, first released in 2003, is a popular Linux distribution for both novices and savvy computer users. The graphical interface uses KDE, with functions similar to Microsoft Windows. Built on a Debian base, MEPIS has access to thousands of programs from the Debian repositories and downloading programs is an intuitive process. Files, music and photos can be downloaded via any web browser by a simple mouse command within the web browser.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

things you'll need:

• Root access

1. Downloading Files With Your Browser

   • 1

     Go to the link of the file you wish to download.

   • 2

     Right-click on the link and select "Save As" to download the file.

   • 3

     Select the directory to which you wish to download.

   • 4

     Wait while the file downloads. Most web browsers will show a download manager to show your progress.

   Download With apt-get

   • 5

     Open a command shell.

   • 6

     Type "su -" to go to a root terminal, then press "Enter."

   • 7

     Type in your root password and press "Enter."

   • 8

     Type "apt-get install program", substituting the name of the package you wish to download. Press "Enter."

   • 9

     Follow the prompts; when asked to confirm your download and installation, type "Y" for yes, then press "Enter."

   • 10

     Wait while the package downloads and installs. The apt-get program will search for all files the program needs to run.

   • 11

     Type "Exit" to leave the root shell and press "Enter." This will leave you in a user shell.

   • 12

     Type the executable name of the program in the command shell and press "Enter." Watch for any error messages in the shell while the program launches.

   Using Synaptic

   • 13

     Open Synaptic by selecting "System/Synaptic Package Manager" from the K menu. You will be asked to type in your root password; do so.

   • 14

     Select the programs you wish to download and install.

   • 15

     Click "Apply" and wait for the package to install itself.

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Tips & Warnings

• Launch a program for the first time via a command shell; this way you can see any error messages.

• Be careful what you download. While Linux is relatively impervious to viruses and malware, you still do not want to take chances.

• Work carefully in the root shell; you can access any file or program from there and can damage your system.

References

• Vienna University of Technology: Simply Mepis User Guide
• Mepis: From Windows to MEPIS

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What Is the Diffence Between Asus EEEPC 1000H & 1000HA Models?

By Matt Julington, eHow Contributor

updated: October 13, 2010

Built-in Bluetooth is a useful netbook feature.

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Asus bumped up the size of its Eee PC netbooks in 2008 with the launch of models such as the 1000H and 1000HA. The two netbooks feature larger, 10-inch screens and share many other specifications, but differ in several key areas.

Hard Drive

1. The 1000H, with an initial list price of about $50 more than the 1000HA, is equipped with an 80-gigabyte hard drive. That's 80 GB less storage than offered on the 1000HA.

Bluetooth

2. Owners of the 1000H enjoy built-in Bluetooth capability, enabling use of devices such as a Bluetooth mouse. The 1000HA lacks Bluetooth support, although it can be added via a Bluetooth USB adapter.

Wireless

3. The 1000H provides support for wireless 802.11n as well as 802.11b/g. The 1000HA is limited to the slower wireless b/g, an especially important distinction for travelers who need the fastest-possible Internet connection on the road.

Shared Specifications

4. Both netbooks are equipped with 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processors, 1 GB of DDR2 memory or RAM, and a 1.3-megapixel webcam.

Comparing the specs between an Asus EeePC 1000H and an Asus EeePC 1000AH.

Asus EeePC 1000H:

* Intel Atom N270 dual core CPU,
* Intel Mobile 945GME chipset,
* 1 Gb DDR2 667MHz RAM upgradable to 2Gb,
* 160 Gb SATA harddisk,
* Six-cell LiOn battery 6580 mAh,
* 10″ WVGA display at 1024×600,
* ElanTech touchpad,
* RaLing RT2860 wireless network adapter – IEEE 802.11bgn,
* Attansic Technology L1 Gigabit network adapter,
* Broadcom BT-253 internal USB bluetooth adapter,
* Alcor Micro SD/MMC Card Reader,
* Genesys Logic USB 2.0 webcam 1.3Mpixel.


Asus EeePC 1000HA:

• Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor
• 160GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive (Seagate 5400.4)
• 1GB of DDR2 RAM (667MHz)
• Windows XP operating system
• 10” WSVGA LED-Backlit 1024 x 600 LCD
• Ports: 3 USB 2.0, 1 VGA monitor out, headphone jack, microphone input, SD card reader (SDHC compatible), Kensington Lock slot, Ethernet 10/100
• Webcam (1.3 MP)
• Battery: 7.4v 6600mAh 6-cell battery
• Wireless: 802.11b/g
• Size: 10.47 (W) x 7.53 (D) x 1.12 ~ 1.50 (H)
• Weight: 3lbs 2.5oz, 3lbs 11oz with AC adapter

Mepis Linux on an Eeepc 1000HA

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How to Boot from an external USB CD-ROM Drive

(for example in order to run a live linux CD to rescue files or install linux from a CD)

Eee PC 900 20 Gig Linux Model

• Make sure the Eee PC is OFF
• Plug in the external drive into one of your Eee PC's USB ports.
• Turn your External CD/DVD ROM Drive ON with the CD inserted and closed
• Turn on Eee PC and when you see the message at the bottom of the screen about hitting F2, etc: hit ESC
• You will get a blue Boot Device menu with several choices: You should see two “HDD” choices, a “USB” choice and “Network” choice
• Choose the USB choice
• It should continue to boot and follow your particular linux distribution instructions

How to disassemble and modify Asus Eee PC

http://www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemble-modify-asus-eee-pc/

In this thread you’ll learn how to disassemble and modify an Asus Eee PC. I’ll be posting new instructions and guides as soon as I find them. If you find a new guide not mentioned in this thread feel free to leave a link in comments.

Guide 1. Taking apart Asus 701 and modifying the motherboard.

This guide will help you to take apart an older Asus Eee PC 701.

You’ll find instructions for:
1. Taking apart the laptop base and removing the motherboard.
2. Taking apart the display panel and accessing the LCD screen.
3. Modifying the motherboard by installing two extra USB ports in the area of unused MiniPCI slot.

In the same guide you’ll learn how to take apart the display panel assembly and access the LCD screen. You can use this guide if you want to replace the LCD screen or inverter board.

You may ask: “Can I install a new 8.9 inch LCD screen on a 7 inch model?” This guy attempted replacing the screen.

..so the screen works, but BIOS needs to be hacked for full screen image.

..and you would need to modify the housing quite a lot.

Do you know how to hack the BIOS? Can you modify the housing? I guess the answer it NO.

Guide 2. Installing internal Bluetooth module into an Asus Eee 701.

This guide will walk you through the motherboard modification and installing an internal Bluetooth module into an Asus Eee 701.

I’ve added internal USB Bluetooth to my Eee without interfering with the built-in wireless, using the empty mini PCIe card slot, or disabling any of the available USB ports.

Guide 3. How to make an internal Bluetooth adapter from an external USB adapter.

Let’s say your Asus Eee PC doesn’t have internal Bluethooth adapter. Does it mean that your are stuck with using an external USB adapter? Apparently not.

Frustrated by the ugliness of plugging a USB bluetooth adaptor into my Eee PC, I decided that the best thing I could do was gut a bluetooth adapter and install it internally.

Check out this tutorial for converting your external USB adapter into the internal adapter.

Guide 4. Asus Eee 901 disassembled.

Actually it’s not a disassembly guide, but some pictures from the inside of the laptop. Could be very useful if you need to take a quick look at the motherboard.

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Static electricity can kill your laptop. I recommend wearing an anti-static wrist strap while working with internal parts of your laptop.

This is the homepage of the gtalX project. gtalX is a Linux client for gtalk, the voip application of Google. It supports voice and text-based chat.

This is the homepage of the gtalX project. gtalX is a Linux client for gtalk, the voip application of Google. It supports voice and text-based chat. Before you download it, please read the 'How to install' paragraph below.

You can download the latest released version of gtalX here (currently version 0.0.4).
You can download the latest unstable version of gtalX here (it won't even always build, but it includes the latest changes)

We are hosted on sourceforge, at this address: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtalx/.



Description

gtalX is based on the libjingle library (version 0.4.0) provided by Google. gtalX is implemented using QT 4.3. We have written gtalX on Zenwalk, one of the best Linux distributions. Download the live cd and give it a try!

The current stable version of gtalX is 0.0.4 (it is an alpha version). The currently implemented functionalities are:

* Login with your gmail account
* Voice chat with someone who has gtalX (under Linux) or Gtalk (under M$ Windows)
* Text chat with someone who has gtalX (under Linux) or Gtalk (under M$ Windows)
* Customizable chat icons
* Language support (translation to Hungarian and a chance to translate it to any other language)
* Taskbar icon (next to the clock)

Planned features for the next version are:

* File transfer (works in unstable! :-))
* Logging of user actions into a local log-file for easier bug reporting (of course without any personal data)

How to install on (K)Ubuntu 9.10

(Please let me know if you experience any problems with the packages!! My email address is in the Contact Us section below. I only got to test the deb files on KUbuntu 9.10.)

To install on 32-bit Ubuntu 9.10 you can try this EXPERIMENTAL deb file (this installs today's snapshot of the unstable branch).
To install on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 you can try this EXPERIMENTAL deb file (this installs today's snapshot of the unstable branch).

The way to use the deb file:

sudo dpkg -i gtalx_0.0.5_i386.deb
# or if you have 64 bit Ubuntu
sudo dpkg -i gtalx_0.0.5_amd64.deb

# you will get a dependency error after the above line so you'll need to execute this next:
sudo apt-get -f install

To remove this package execute:

sudo apt-get remove gtalx

How to build & install on most Linux distros

1. Install prerequisites

In general you'll need QT4, gcc and probably some other development packages that you need to build binaries on your system. If you want to upgrade to a new version, uninstall the old version first. I collected the dependency packages from Ubuntu, you'll need these libraries. Since you'll need to build gtalx, get development packages (if your distro has separate dev packages). Here is the list:

(build-essential)
libqt4-dev
libogg-dev
libtheora-dev
libsdl-dev
libavcodec-dev
libswscale-dev
libexpat1-dev
libraw1394-dev
libvorbis-dev
libgsm1-dev
libspeexdsp-dev
libmediastreamer0-dev
libortp-dev

For the ./make script to work properly I also needed the pkg-config package on Ubuntu.

If your distro has speex, mediastreamer2 and ortp (see the last 3 items in the above list) you can try what you get form there, but in general gtalx builds and installs these if your computer does not have them. There can easily be a version conflict here; if you are unsure and you do not use ubuntu, do not install these, let gtalx take care of them. Please make sure that you do not have ortp installed but mediastreamer2 not installed as these 2 are very closely related and mediastreamer2 will not build with versions of ortp that it does not expect. On Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 it is safe to install the libmediastreamer0-dev and libspeexdsp-dev packages, on the rest either install speex, mediastreamer2 and ortp or none of these.

In my experience on Slackware 12 you'll simply need to install QT4.
On Zenwalk you'll need (use netpkg) qt4-devel*

2. Perform the build

* Extract the tar.gz file into any folder you like (tar -xvf .tar.gz)
* Change into the created directory, add execute permissions to ./make (chmod +x ./make) and run ./make

3. Install

* Become superuser (su, or use sudo)
* Execute ./make install

If all is ok, after these steps you can execute gtalX by typing gtalx at the command prompt (or you can start it from the start menu).

If you want to uninstall, you should execute the uninstall script as root from the directory where you called ./make install. Actually after you have installed gtalX successfully, you can delete all the source and build files, but please keep the uninstall script. The uninstall script alone will let you uninstall gtalX, you won't need any other files to do that.

If you use the unstable version then on Ubuntu instead of the ./make install step you can create a deb package by running
./make ubuntu
Then proceed as usual about installing a deb file (if unsure, see above)

Comment:

We test/use gtalX on Slackware, Zenwalk and Kubuntu. If you are using a different distro and gtalx does not build, or there is another problem, please let us know. If you have a fix for the problem, we would gladly and gratefully integrate that fix into the software, but we do not have the time to test this software on any other distributions. Still, we surely hope that it will work on more than these 3 ones. Actually we know that it works on gentoo, opensuse and fedora as well.

Screenshot

How to translate

If you have an installed gtalX with our make script, in the /usr/share/gtalx/languagefiles directory you will find a file called Hungarian.txt. Copy that file; the name of the new file should be the English name of the language into which you are going to translate gtalX (e.g. French.txt or German.txt). If you start gtalX in an environment that is different from English, gtalX will load the file automatically. If no such file exists, it will print an error message that you can read if you start it from a console. E.g.

language file not found: /usr/bin/../share/gtalx/languagefiles/French.txt

Obvoiusly if you want to translate gtalX into French, you need to create a file called French.txt in the above mentioned directory. Once you have copied Hungarian.txt, edit it, and I think it is easy to figure out what is to be done.

The second line in Hungarian.txt is:
"Translated by"="Fordította: Békés József"

This is a text that will appear in the About dialog; put your own name so that it will be displayed in the About dialog.

If you start gtalX from your console, and a translation is missing, gtalX will complain and will tell you which item is missing in its output to the console. Otherwise it will substitute the English phrase for missing translations in the application.

If you want to translate on an English system, you can modify gtalX's language if you start it and specify the LANG environment variable, like this (if you enter this into the console, gtalX tries to start in German; since there is no German.txt it fails to do so...):
LANG=de_DE gtalx

If you have any questions, just send us an email to the address specified in the Contact us section below. If you have a language file we would be happy to get it; please send it to the same email address and we'll include it in the software.

Contact us

The authors of gtalX are: Erika Bekes, Oliver Leahy and Jozsef Bekes. If you want to contact us, you can send us an email to bjdodo at hotmail dot com.

Licensing

Since this is the first open-source application we have written, we might not have done everything as required. If you find that we are breaking the copyright or any other law in any way, please let us know and we'll do the best to correct the mistakes. We would like to give this code to the open-source community, and we would like to offer this application to all Linux users, but we do not want anyone to be able to sell our code, or make any money from it, so our intention is to place this software under GPL3.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.



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Link:

http://sites.google.com/site/jozsefbekes/Home/gtalx

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