In April, 2014 support for Windows XP will stop. The options are limited: Continue using XP until it no longer works, buy an expensive new PC with Vista7 or Vista8, buy an even more expensive Apple PC, or buy a relatively new used PC or Apple PC. BUT WAIT! There is another alternative. For decades now many people have been using GNU/Linux.
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Internet Defense League To Be Deployed Against CISPA
The SOPA threat was successfully defeated using these tactics. The CISPA is about sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. government and certain technology companies. Opponents of the bill include EFF and ACLU while proponents list Facebook and Microsoft...
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What's going on in KDE Plasma Workspaces 2?
While moving its codebase to Qt5, the KDE Development Platform is undergoing a number of changes that lead to a more modular codebase (called KDE Framework 5) on top of a hardware-accelerated graphics stack. In this post, you’ll learn a bit about the status of Frameworks 5 and porting especially Plasma — that will be known as Plasma Workspaces 2, paying credit to its more convergent architecture.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.4 x86_64 (Apache2, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)
This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more.
Read more »Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?
Google users can still send subscription requests to contacts whose accounts are hosted elsewhere. But they cannot accept incoming requests. This change is akin to Google no longer accepting incoming e-mail for @gmail.com addresses from non-Google domains. That would be unthinkable.
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Move Over GIMP, Here Comes Krita
Today we turn our attention to the wonderful Krita drawing, painting, and illustration program for Linux. We're going to learn about the important fundamental Krita tools, Tools, Brushes, and Colors. I'm not much of an artist, but I can show you how to use the excellent Krita features.
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Namaste! LMS - Free Wordpress Learning Management System
Namaste! LMS is a Free
Learning Management System
For WordPress
Namaste! LMS supports unlimited courses and lessons with very flexible access to each of them. You can create assignments, manage students, add notes, and more.
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Preview of Qt 5 for Android
Qt integrated Qt 5 for Android into the “dev” branch, meaning that it will become part of Qt 5.1 when it is released.
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Ubuntu 13.04 Beta1 released
Welcome to the Raring Ringtail Beta 1 release, which will in time
become the 13.04 release.
This alpha features images for Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, UbuntuKylin,
Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu.
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Google Reader axed. Is FeedBurner next?
Parts of the FeedBurner service have already been eliminated. For example, the FeedBurner API and AdSense for Feeds have been retired.
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Kali Linux 1.0 review
Where BackTrack was based on Ubuntu and used a GNOME 2 desktop environment, Kali Linux 1.0 is based on Debian and uses a customized GNOME Shell.
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KDE's wonderful usability
KDE is what I consider the most usable desktop environment there is. But what makes it so? One thing that makes it so is it's configurability, which is often the target of criticism. Another is the way it's designed, the parts that make up the whole. Let's take a look at these.
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Understanding SELinux
A task of any operating system is to provide software that strongly increases its security. A lot of programs of this type have been created; some are better than others.
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Using Multiple PHP Versions (PHP-FPM & FastCGI) With ISPConfig 3 (CentOS 6.3)
Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. This feature works with PHP-FPM (starting with PHP 5.3) and FastCGI (all PHP 5.x versions). This tutorial shows how to build PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on a CentOS 6.3 server.
Read more »ySpeed.js: Convert mph to kmh and knots inside text
A class to convert km/h to mph and knots and vice-versa. It can also parse speeds in a text and return the text with corrected and converted speeds.
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