So, using the computer I assembled using an ASRock motherboard, and the same hard drive, I made my first attempt to set up a dual-boot system between Windows8 Pro and Linux Mint 13 on a computer with UEFI firmware, and on a single hard disk drive (HDD).
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Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 12.10
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This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 12.10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g.
Read more »Open Data Day, Feb 23, 2013
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The next Open Data Day will be Saturday, February 23, 2013. We are more keen than ever to have this not just be about hacking code, but reusing other projects and broadening the community by using data to do all sorts of things from analysis to visualizations and even just sharing an interesting insight.
Read more »Blocking Facebook Web Trackers At The Firewall For Extra Privacy
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If you've spent any time examining the network traffic to and from your web browser, you will notice the prolific number of trackers embedded in the pages. Blocking them at the firewall will stop every form of tracking from the sites blocked. In some cases it will even speed up loading and rendering.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.10
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Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 12.10 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.
Read more »Eight Years of Firefox
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Eight years ago today, Mozilla launched the first version of Firefox.
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The free software media and cults of personality
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It's all the media's fault. Or, if not, the media helps perpetuate it. I'm talking about the cults of personality that often dominate the free software community -- not just the respect for accomplishment in an alleged meritocracy, but the undue influence that certain people are allowed to exercise.
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CIO European Parliament: free software users are important avant-garde
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The European Parliament's Free Software User Group is 'very important'. Its work helps strengthen democracy in the European Parliament. "And if you help it here, you're probably also helping it in Greece, Finland, the United Kingdom and elsewhere."
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Ending the cults of personality in free software
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Free software has a history of creating and supporting cults of personality. Since it is a widespread human phenomenon, it is easy to understand how this happens. It is, however, unhelpful and destructive and we really ought to actively discourage it, starting by putting aside the current cults.
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Note to EFF: FDE implementation in Ubuntu’s Ubiquity is only at 50%
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Micah Lee gave the non-profit organization some credit for pushing Mark Shuttleworth and crew to implement full disk encryption (FDE) in Ubiquity.
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Happy Second Anniversary Fuduntu!
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Happy second anniversary, Fuduntu! Today (Nov 7th) we celebrate the second anniversary of the Fuduntu Linux distribution, and what a year it has been!
In our second year Fuduntu has undergone many exciting changes in key areas designed to improve platform supportability and growth.
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.2
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Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an OpenSUSE 12.2 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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Ubuntu 12.10 review
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As an introduction for those readers who have just dropped in from a different dimension, Ubuntu is a Linux distribution (an operating system) derived from Debian, and financially supported by Canonical Group Limited, a software technology outfit based in the Isle of Man.
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Hampshire College distributes free software bundle to all incoming students
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Hampshire student and FSF campaigns organizer Kira shares the success of their ambitious project to help fellow students get started with free software. Hampshire College is definitely in a relatively good place in regards to recommending free software. The student group has managed to achieve two major milestones in the span of just two semesters.
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Why do super computers use GNU/Linux?
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Over 90% of the world's supercomputers employ GNU/Linux as their operating system. Here are six reasons why.
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