Matias Vangsnes

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From Windows to Linux Part Two: System 76

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

Image courtesy of System 76 Having determined that Linux was not to be feared, I set out on the next phase of my operating system adventure: To work on a machine designed specifically for Linux. System 76 has been manufacturing Ubuntu pre-installed laptops, desktops, and servers since 2005. They sent me a 14.1 inch Lemur [...]

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

DNS Made Easy DNS Made Easy is the standard of IP Anycast DNS services… Reston, VA (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com), the leading IP anycast managed DNS service provider, has announced statistics on downtime prevention for its clients as a result of utilizing their DNS Failover and System Monitoring platform. The statistics [...]

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

DNS Made Easy’s Failover Service proves to be a key asset for organizations in preventing downtime with their hosting. Calculated savings from lost revenue by using DNS Made Easy’s Failover Service exceeded $230 Million alone. Reston, VA (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com), the leading IP anycast managed DNS service provider, has announced [...]

ICANN Allows New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Applications

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

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MATE 1.4: The GNOME 2 Desktop Clone Gets a Key Update

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

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 [...]

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012 Reston, VA, Jul 31, 2012 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) – DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com), the leading IP anycast managed DNS service provider, has announced statistics on downtime prevention for its clients as a result of utilizing their DNS Failover and System [...]

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

DNS Made Easy Failover Service Saves over $230 Million in Lost Revenue During Q2 2012 Reston, VA, Jul 31, 2012 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) – DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com), the leading IP anycast managed DNS service provider, has announced statistics on downtime prevention for its clients as a result of utilizing their DNS Failover and System [...]

Finding out what’s flowing over port 80 on your network

Friday, July 27th, 2012

The 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 [...]

Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 3 unifies user menus

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Nautilus still has some problems under the default Ambiance theme The Ubuntu developers have released the third alpha of Ubuntu 12.10 “Quantal Quetzal”, the final release of which is scheduled for 18 October. This development release includes several changes over Alpha 2, which was released a month ago. These changes include a reworked session menu, improvements [...]

Micro​soft/Trust​wave Expand ModSecurit​y To IIS And Nginx Servers

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

CHICAGO– July 25, 2012 – Trustwave, a leading provider of cloud-based compliance and information security solutions, today announced that the popular, open source ModSecurity Web Application Firewall now supports the top three Web server platforms, including new support for Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) and Nginx, in addition to existing support for Apache Web servers. [...]

Trustwave Teams With Microsoft to Bring Open-Source Web Application Firewall to Top Web Server Platforms

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire -07/25/12)- Trustwave, a leading provider of cloud-based compliance and information security solutions, today announced that the popular, open source ModSecurity® Web Application Firewall now supports the top three Web server platforms, including new support for Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) and Nginx, in addition to existing support for Apache Web servers. Trustwave collaborated [...]

FiberCloud Adds Ubuntu to its Supported Open Source Operating Systems – Virtual

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Linux Cloud Server users gain expanded options for cloud and dedicated servers. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) July 25, 2012 Cloud computing and colocation provider FiberCloud announces today that they now support Ubuntu operating systems on both their cloud and dedicated servers. Customers now have the option to choose pre-installed Ubuntu cloud servers, offering more operating system [...]

Reveal Day For Almost 2000 gTLD Applications

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

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Tutorial: Use Word 2013 to Edit Your Blog

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

Office 2013 sports some pretty nifty features. One them is the ability to edit your blog directly using Word 2013. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can create a short blog post, insert embedded video, and save it as a draft on your WordPress website. Let’s get Started! When you first open [...]

Dell launching Sputnik, the Ubuntu developer laptop, this year

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

Dell launched an experiment earlier this year to see if it could build a compelling Linux laptop for software developers. The effort, which is codenamed Project Sputnik, pairs the XPS13 Ultrabook with Ubuntu 12.04. The software environment is tailored for developers, featuring a number of useful tools and a framework for automating the installation of [...]

Optimum7 Updates Duplicate Post Remover Plugin for WordPress

Saturday, July 21st, 2012

Duplicate Post Remover Updated for Simplistic Identification and Removal of Duplicate Pages and Posts Miami, FL (PRWEB) July 20, 2012 Recently, programmers at Optimum 7 released an update for their Duplicate Post Remover plugin on WordPress. ”Google, thanks to Panda and Penguin updates, are aggressively penalizing sites containing duplicate content,” says Optimum7’s Co-Founder and COO, [...]

Dell Ubuntu Linux Developer Laptop Launches this Fall: Project Sputnik FTW

Friday, July 20th, 2012

XPS13 Ultrabook(Photo: Dell | Mobile Apps) Dell announced on Wednesday, July 18, that it is officially back into the Linux laptop market. Project sputnik, which was first announced back in May, will now move out of Dell’s internal incubator program and graduate into a real product. Starting this fall, Dell will be selling a special [...]

Your very own ARM-based Ubuntu servers in the cloud… for free

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

Not content with dominating the world of smartphones and tablets, makers of low-power ARM chips are setting their sights on the server market. While x86 servers are still the norm, there have been hints for some time that ARM might become a presence in the data center. Another small, early step toward an ARM future [...]

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 [...]

Dell Gives Linux Laptops Another Chance

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project Sputnik, first announced in May, is graduating from Dell’s internal incubator program into a real product. According to project lead Barton Geroge, Dell will sell a special “developer edition” of its XPS13 Ultrabook starting this fall. The laptop will come pre-loaded with Ubuntu, [...]

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