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Intensive Week: Ruby on Rails Course
UPDATE: The course is full! More information is available here.
An intensive week course about Ruby on Rails is being arranged. The course is aimed for whoever wants to get started using the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails.
Not all details are known at the moment, but it will be during the next intensive week (19. – 23.10.2009). I am currently thinking about a two day course.
The prerequisites are basic knowledge of Object Oriented programming and (X)HTML.
If you are interested in participating, send me an email through the contact form. Knowing how many students to expect helps to better organize the course.
More details will be posted when known.
Nokia announces Linux-based N900 phone
Nokia has officially announced the upcoming Linux-based N900 mobile phone. The N900 will run Nokia’s own Maemo platform, which has previously been limited to Nokia’s Internet Tablet devices.
The device itself comes with fairly decent specifications, and looks very attractive.
Specifications:
- 3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display (800×480 pixels)
- 3.5mm AV connector
- Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz
- WLAN b/g
- Bluetooth
- Integrated FM transmitter
- Integrated GPS with A-GPS
- TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz CPU
- Graphics: PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
- Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
- 32 GB internal storage
- Up to 16 GB of additional storage with an external microSD card
For more information, go to maemo.nokia.com/n900
New feature: Galleries
Galleries have just been added to the HHLinuxClub website. They are still under some development, but are ready enough for everyone to see.
Photos of the Open Source Seminar have been added.
Also, in case you haven’t noticed, we have redesigned the login functionality. And if all of that is not enough, all pages should now be lighter and load faster.
Intel Ends The Confusion
Intel finally has seen the right direction and decided to simplify the confusing naming conventions for the CPU’s. The naming will tell more about the level of the products and the average consumers won’t need any extra knowledge anymore.
Intel still going to keep Pentium which refers to “trustworthy” and Celeron which is cheap price with an average performance and they are going to keep Atom processor name for internet based computers. In future, you would not be able to find Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Solo or Core 2 Quad processor in the market. All of these will be given a common name as Core 2 Processor. So the new names will be Core 2 i3, i5 and i7. i3 means beginner level, i5 for medium level and i7 for upper level.
For more information about Intel please press here
First Support From Linux
According to Sarah Sharp who is writing on her own blog; The initial support for USB 3.0 drivers is now available at her own kernel.org git tree. and the patches are queued for 2.6.31. That means we are going to have the official support latest on September 2009 which is a great timing because NEC announced that they will be producing 1 million USB 3.0 cards in September so Linux is going to be the first operating system that supports USB 3.0.
To see Sarah Sharp’s Blog.