Matias Vangsnes

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Video: Michele Neylon Shows The Difficulty in Submitting gTLD Comments

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

I want to share a video with you that was posted by Michele Neylon, CEO of Blacknight, a domain registrar and hosting company. In the video, Michele walks people through the process of posting a comment on ICANN’s gTLD website for the the gTLD applications Based on Michele’s experience, and as you can see, it [...]

How to delete a page or post in WordPress

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

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How to pick a new Linux distribution

Sunday, July 29th, 2012

How to back up your Linux install The beginner’s guide to Linux Mint Ubuntu needs to open up You might not have noticed, but there’s more than one Linux distribution out there. In fact, there are hundreds, and the list is growing weekly. Okay, you probably did notice, but the fact remains that the free [...]

The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Multisite

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Examples of Appropriate Uses When should you use it? The best way to illustrate this would be with a few real-world examples. WordPress.com Perhaps the most popular use of WordPress Multisite is WordPress.com, which is a hosted blogging service where anyone can quickly and easily create their own personal blog. Every blog created on WordPress.com [...]

Linux Mint 13 KDE released: But does it live up to expectations?

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Hot on the heels of its Xfce build, the final release of Linux Mint 13 KDE is now available for download. This is an iteration that a lot of people have been anxiously awaiting, because it combines a lot of good things in a single package. As part of the Mint 13 family, it is [...]

Whois Tools 1.0–Whois and DNS Lookup Software Now Fresh, Available for Download at HosterTalk.com

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 23, 2012 – Hoster Talk features the new software Whois Tools 1.0. This software, which is now available for download, is a free WHOIS and DNS lookup application which aims to aid web designers and developers in determining the Whois records and DNS information of a site for the domain [...]

Peppermint OS Three: The real-deal desktop cloud Linux

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Say hi to Peppermint OS Linux, which combines the traditional desktop with the cloud. The desktop and the cloud are getting hitched. You see it in everything from Windows 8 with Office 2013 to Ubuntu with WebApps to Mac OS with iCloud. And, of course, there’s Chrome OS, which is just the Chrome Web browser [...]

Why Does the Net Still Work on Christmas? Paul Mockapetris

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Paul Mockapetris, the father of the internet’s Domain Naming System. Image: Paul Mockapetris In 1983, you could ask for your own internet address. But not after 6 p.m. California time. Or over the Christmas holiday. When the internet was still the ARPAnet — the government-funded network that connected various research outfits across the country — [...]

Who Will Buy an Ubuntu Ultrabook?

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Jamie Condliffe View Profile Email Facebook Twitter RSS Dell has announced that it’s planning to bring Ubuntu to the masses. In the fall of 2012, Dell’s XPS 13 will be available with an install of Ubuntu direct from the company. But who’s going to buy one? I should point out that, until recently, I was [...]

Featured blog partner: Q&A with Bob Passaro of Eugene Bicyclist

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

View full sizeJamie Passaro Bob Passaro: Will blog for microbrew Welcome to our weekly interview feature, where we turn a spotlight on one of our 50 community blog partners. Meet Bob Passaro, who blogs, mostly for fun, about the bicycle scene in Oregon’s second largest city at Eugene Bicyclist. Dude’s got the three B’s covered: bikes, [...]

Softly on a budget

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

The primary freeware photo-editing option on a Linux system is the ”ugly and cranky” GIMP. MICROSOFT is about to drop Windows 8 on us and Apple has an operating system update coming soon. They will cost money. And do we need them? What if you could get all the photo-editing and other essential software absolutely [...]

How to Turn Your Laptop Into a Typewriter

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

Writing requires focus: You need to sit down with your thoughts and just plow through your work. Regrettably, a modern computer isn’t that great for focusing on something as mundane as text. A word processor surrounds your text with so many flashy buttons and toolbars that you might sometimes feel as if the words you’re [...]

WPwebshop.com Offers WordPress Users Premium Themes, Plugins and Tools for Their Websites

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

San Fransisco, CA — (SBWIRE) — 07/16/2012 — With 300 million new websites created in 2011 alone, the internet is growing at a remarkable rate. Many new website creators lack the knowledge to code a website by hand and in turn rely on content management systems. Content management systems allow a user to build a [...]

Ubuntu and the dangers of collectivism

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

The Ubuntu cuttlefish Rarely have I read such a vacuous collection of waffle as Barbara Nussbaum’s defence of Ubuntu, in response to Andrew Donaldson’s article ‘Let’s never mention Ubuntu again’, both published recently on Politicsweb. Truly, she manages to detract meaning from even the meaningless. I am loath to quote Orwell on the subject – so [...]

How to install Apache on Linux

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

The installation, care, and feeding of an Apache Web server is not terribly difficult, but can seem so if you haven’t ventured into those particular waters before. This quick-start guide will help you get your feet wet with Apache on a Linux server. You’ll find it’s relatively simple to get the Web server set up [...]

DNS Changer Malware may have affected 47,000 Americans

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

The FBI finally shut off servers Monday morning that at one point supported millions of users infected by the DNS Changer Malware, leaving as many as 47,000 Americans disconnected from the Internet. Though the FBI with the help of various organizations and companies was able to reduce the number of infected computers from 4 million to [...]

DNS Changer Malware may have affected 47,000 Americans

Monday, July 9th, 2012

The FBI finally shut off servers Monday morning that at one point supported millions of users infected by the DNS Changer Malware, leaving as many as 47,000 Americans disconnected from the Internet. Though the FBI with the help of various organizations and companies was able to reduce the number of infected computers from 4 million to [...]

Court Shuts Down WordPress Based Pirate Bay Proxy

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Court Shuts Down WordPress Based Pirate Bay Proxy Ernesto July 9, 2012 22 brein Print Hollywood’s battle against The Pirate Bay website continues in Europe with yet another injunction. A Dutch court has ordered the shutdown of a WordPress-based proxy operated by hosting company Greenhost. The company initially refused to take the proxy offline, but [...]

Intel Corporation : CORRECTING and REPLACING McAfee Keeps Consumers Connected After DNS Access Cut Off – 4

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

07/05/2012 | 08:05am McAfee Releases Free Tools that Help Consumers Identify the Risk of DNS Malware and Modify Their DNS settings Subheadline of release should read: McAfee Releases Free Tools that Help Consumers Identify the Risk of DNS Malware and Modify Their DNS settings (sted McAfee First to Release Free Tools that Help Consumers Identify the [...]

McAfee Keeps Consumers Connected After DNS Access Cut Off

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

[July 05, 2012] McAfee Keeps Consumers Connected After DNS Access Cut Off SANTA CLARA, Calif. –(Business Wire)– McAfee (News – Alert) has just released a free tool to help consumers who may be infected by the ‘DNSChanger’ Trojan stay connected after servers are shut down by the FBI on July 9th. The new McAfee tool, available [...]

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