Matias Vangsnes

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ICANN Wants YOU…for gTLD Batching

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

In an announcement published over the weekend, ICANN issued a request for community input on “requirements for an evaluation and delegation process” for new gTLDs. Essentially, questions raised during the Public Meeting in Prague about the order in which new gTLD applications would be handled – whether at the evaluation, release, or delegation phases – [...]

Valve Announces Steam & Left 4 Dead 2 For Ubuntu Linux

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

Legit News Valve Announces Steam Left 4 Dead 2 For Ubuntu Linux In what could be a turning point in Linux gaming, Valve has announced that they will be porting the Steam client to Ubuntu Linux as well as Left 4 Dead 2. Some may ask why only one Linux distribution, or why Ubuntu? Well [...]

Make Money Blogging WordPress Tips Revealed By WebTrafficToolkit.com

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 14, 2012 – London, UK — The make money blogging WordPress tips just revealed by WebTrafficToolkit.com are designed to help online entrepreneurs make money by blogging from home. “Many people are wondering ‘can I make money blogging using WordPress?” said a company spokesperson. “The answer is yes, but the proper [...]

Did OEM influence Canonical Secure Boot plan?

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

July 05, 2012, 9:41 AM — As the Linux community continues to debate the best way to deal with Microsoft Windows 8-certified machines that will have Secure Boot on UEFI, some nagging questions still remain as to why Canonical opted to take the solution it did. Both the Fedora Project and Canonical has publicly announced [...]

openSUSE still searching for UEFI, Secure Boot solution

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

June 25, 2012, 12:35 PM — Now that the Fedora Project and Canonical have proposed their own plans for their respective Fedora and Ubuntu distributions to work with the upcoming Secure Boot provisions in Windows 8-certified machines, it’s natural to wonder what openSUSE will be doing about the issue. The answer for now seems to [...]

Lee: Make sure you don’t lose Internet on July 9

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Q: I keep reading that many computer users may lose access to the Internet in July. What is this about, and what can I do to make sure I am not affected? A: On Nov. 8, the FBI and Estonian police arrested a group of suspected cybercriminals in “Operation Ghost Click.” The suspects are accused [...]

Facebook gets boost from new iOS 6 and WordPress integration

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

<!– Sign up for our Newsletters | –> Sign up for our Newsletters |   Email the Editor  |  Print  Apple’s announcement that it’s integrating Facebook into its operating system software should be welcome news for a social network that’s taken a lot of hits in recent weeks. “Facebook is a company that could use some good [...]

Is Microsoft Allowing Ubuntu Linux on Azure without a Patent Deal?

Friday, June 8th, 2012

From the ‘Ethical Concerns’ files: Microsoft alleged years ago that Linux and Open Source technologies infringe on over 200 Microsoft patents. It’s that basic allegation that Microsoft used to convince Novell/SUSE to sign a a Patent deal and it’s the same basic underpinning for a dozen deals with Android vendors. So why is Microsoft allowing [...]

WordPress Hosting Reviews Announces Seven Awesome Footer Designs

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

The next time you’re looking for help at Newark Liberty, JFK, or LaGuardia airport, the answer to your question might come from a friendly, beautiful woman. Just don’t expect that woman to be an actual, live human. As part of … Continue … Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/wordpress-hosting-reviews-announces-seven-awesome-footer-designs-071708897.html

Display The Article Word Count In WordPress

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Back in 2005 when I started this very blog that you are currently reading, I did not really care that much about the size of articles posted here on the site. While that may not seem like a big issue, with Google Panda and all, it can very well be one.  Especially Google, but also [...]

Ubuntu Linux 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’ Is Born

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Naming conventions are rarely dull in the world of Linux distributions, and Ubuntu Linux is no exception. “Warty Warthog” started it all off, of course. Now, with recent examples including “Natty Narwhal” (Ubuntu 11.04), “Oneiric Ocelot” (Ubuntu 11.10), and “Precise Pangolin” (version 12.04), the question on many fans’ minds has been what the nickname will [...]

How To Make VPNs Even More Secure

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

How To Make VPNs Even More Secure enigmax April 15, 2012 95 privacy,vpn Print From being a niche product used by the few, in the past few years VPN services have hit the big time. These days more and more Internet users see running a privacy enhancing service as a requirement rather than just a [...]

Linux on the desktop: what went wrong?

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Linux, the free operating system that brought professional-grade computing to the lowly PC, has come a long way since doing something as simple as switching off meant performing secret handshakes or offering arcane prayers to the computer gods such as computername ~ # shutdown -h now). Today, practically all Linux distributions (some 450 are in [...]

Anonymous is not taking down the Internet today

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

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Anonymous is not taking down the Internet

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

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Difference engine: Free is too expensive

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

LINUX, the free operating system that brought professional-grade computing to the lowly PC, has come a long way since doing something as simple as switching off meant performing secret handshakes or offering arcane prayers to the computer gods (eg, “computername ~ # shutdown -h now”). Today, practically all Linux distributions (some 450 are in circulation) [...]

‘Anonymous’ says it won’t shut down internet

Friday, March 30th, 2012

NEW DELHI: Will hackers, allegedly associated with a group called Anonymous, shut down internet on March 31? According to the group’s Twitter account, from where it communicates with the world, the answer is no. “What is this #OperationGlobalBlackout nonsense? I thought we settled this back in February? It won’t happen. Stop asking us about it! [...]

Anonymous Threatens to Attack the Internet Sat., March 31

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Anonymous plans to attack the 13 main “root” DNS servers on Saturday, thus shutting down the internet for an unspecified duration. In case you missed it last month, Anonymous posted its intentions via Pastebin to shut down the Internet on March 31, 2012. This may be why LulzSec decided to rise from the ashes early, [...]

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