Fans of Linux in general and Linux Mint in particular are no doubt already familiar with MATE, the GNOME 2-like desktop that was first included in Linux Mint 12 as an alternative for users wary of GNOME 3. MATE is still less than a year old, but on Monday the open source project behind it [...]
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Finding out what’s flowing over port 80 on your network
Friday, July 27th, 2012The history of TCP port 80 started a long time ago when the IANA assigned TCP port 80 for HTTP activity and TCP port 443 for secure HTTP (HTTPS). HTTP was designed as a protocol to transport requests and data between clients and web servers. Using this information, you could then lock down your firewall [...]
TZO Turbo Charges Hosted Cloud Services
Thursday, July 26th, 2012PEPPERELL, Mass., July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Today TZO announces their new “Cloud Tracker” service. Cloud Tracker will turn on the Turbo Charger for any of your Hosted Cloud Services. Many cloud providers deliver their “Cloud Services” not with a conventional static IP addresses but with an unwieldy CNAME definition. For example, in [...]
Ubuntu Linux 12.10 Will Integrate Web Apps into the Desktop
Friday, July 20th, 2012The next version of Ubuntu Linux will include a new feature that can incorporate commonly used Web apps directly into the user’s desktop, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at OSCON on Thursday. The new feature, called Ubuntu Web Apps, will give users of the popular Linux distribution a way to run online applications such as [...]
Valve confirms Steam for Ubuntu 12.04, L4D2 as first game
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012We first heard about a possible port of Steam and the Source engine for Linux back in April when Michael Larabel of Phoronix visited Valve’s offices. He confirmed Linux was a platform Valve had been thinking about for a while, and the project had been moving along slowly in the background. Then, last month Gabe [...]
Valve announces Ubuntu port of Steam, Source engine, and Left 4 Dead 2
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012Valve has officially revealed that it plans to bring its Steam game distribution service to the Linux platform. The company is also working to port its Source game engine and its popular 2009 title Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2). The Steam port for Linux was announced this evening on the Valve website in a new [...]
UppSite Raises $2.1 million for Turning Websites into Apps
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012By Nick Clayton Israel-based UppSite which turns websites into mobile apps has raised $2.1m in seed funding. The money comes from TheTime startup incubator and Matomy Media Group which are both owned by the chairman of McCann Erickson Israel, Ilan Shiloach, according to Globes. Uppsite CEO Gal Brill founded the company in 2010. It allows websites [...]
Free Guide Available for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Thursday, July 5th, 2012Free Guide Available for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS by Sam Dean – Jul. 05, 2012Comments (0) One of the reasons that Ubuntu is such a popular Linux distribution is that the free manuals available for it are efficiently kept up-to-date and easy-to-follow. Now, the Ubuntu Manual Project has delivered Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04, a very timely [...]
Desi Networks Applies for .DESI TLD with KSregistry
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012(Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – Desi Networks, LLC submitted an application for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), DOT DESI as part of the new gTLD program of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. DOT DESI will use the registry system of the German based provider KSregistry GmbH as technical framework. [...]
Desi Networks applies for .DESI TLD with KSregistry as backend provider – Your
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012Tweet Tweet Desi Networks, LLC submitted an application for a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), DOT DESI as part of the new gTLD program of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. DOT DESI will use the registry system of the German based provider KSregistry GmbH as technical framework. Desi Networks, LLC [...]
Does Ubuntu Need More “Apps”?
Monday, July 2nd, 2012These days, it often feels like an operating system is only as cool as its “apps” — which are separate from applications, mind you. And so it’s not surprising to see Canonical pushing hard to deliver more apps to Ubuntu users, an effort highlighted most recently by the upcoming AppsSprint. Yet is Canonical, promoter of [...]
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