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How to do USSD queries for 3G modems in Linux ?

By ZayedMon, 05/17/2010 - 19:50

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How do you do USSD queries for 3G modems in Linux? for example if you want to know your balance, you press "*100#". In Windows most of manufacturers of 3G modems (like Huawei E220) supply a spacial program for USSD queries but that not an option in Linux.

Myself, I always disassemble my 3G modem, remove the SIM card, put it in my mobile, do what I need and then reverse the whole procedure. It is not fun. Therefore, I start looking for a solution.

Linux 2.6.34 has been released

By ZayedMon, 05/17/2010 - 18:59

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Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.34. In brief "This version adds two new filesystem, the distributed filesystem Ceph and LogFS, a filesystem for flash devices. Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance, the VMware ballon driver, the "kprobes jump" optimization for dynamic probes, new perf features (the "perf lock" tool, cross-platform analysis support), support for GPU switching, several Btrfs improvements, RCU lockdep, Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (RFC 5082) and private VLAN proxy arp (RFC 3069) support, asynchronous suspend/resume, several new drivers and many other small improvements."

I'm sure you as end use do not care about all that stuff :). Therefore, I would like to pick what I see is important for end user in this release.

Linux kernel 2.6.33 released

By FahadThu, 02/25/2010 - 11:15

Linus Torvalds has released version 2.6.33 of the Linux kernel just two and a half months after the release of Linux 2.6.32.

A Comparison of IRC support between GNU/Linux distributions

By FahadSun, 01/17/2010 - 23:37

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Finding a quick solution for your problems in any distribution is the main reason to make you rely on it. Therefore, the major distributions have many ways to provide support to their users. Among them, IRC support provides a way to communicate quickly and more interactively with users.

In this article, I will make a comparison between the popular linux distributions in IRC support. I am not going to talk about how many questions have been answered, or how helpful the answers are; instead, I will focus in two things: how many nicknames each time are in the channel and the channel activity.

Linux Reaches 32% Netbook Market Share

By FahadTue, 12/08/2009 - 16:33

"Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or dying are incorrect, at least globally, according to an analyst firm. Nearly one-third of the 35 million netbooks on track to ship this year will come with some variant of the free, open-source operating system, ABI Research said.

The exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows, said Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI, which works out to about 11 million Linux netbooks this year.

Linux kernel 2.6.32 released

By FahadThu, 12/03/2009 - 21:10

Linus Torvalds has released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel after less than three months since 2.6.31.This version adds virtualization memory de-duplicacion, a rewrite of the writeback code which provides noticeable performance speedups, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a

Interview with Greg Kroah-Hartman – Linux Kernel Dev/Maintainer

By ZayedTue, 12/01/2009 - 14:13

"First, people need to realize that our driver model is different than other operating systems, because all our drivers ship with the kernel. The license requires our drivers to be open, so everything is in the main kernel tree.

Because of our huge rate of change, they pretty much have to be in the kernel tree. Otherwise, keeping a driver outside the kernel is technically a very difficult thing to do, because our internal kernel APIs change very, very rapidly.

Linux owns 32 percent of netbook market

By ZayedFri, 11/06/2009 - 23:22

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According to ABI Research's study on the percentage of Linux-based netbooks. “In 2009 Linux will represent 32 percent of netbook sales, far higher than the seven percent figure claimed by Microsoft, says a report. ABI estimates that Linux will overtake Windows on netbooks by 2013, largely due to sales in less-developed countries.”