Matias Vangsnes

Internet, communication and the concept of open source

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Steam on Ubuntu could hurt gaming on Linux

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

I love video games. And Valve makes some pretty doggone phenomenal ones. So when we got the official word that Valve’s Steam (their software/game store), along with one of their games – Left 4 Dead 2 – was coming to Linux… let’s just say I was “pleased.” But then I thought about it some more, [...]

Gnome OS to land in 2014

Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Gallery By Nicole Kobie Posted on 9 Aug 2012 at 10:47 Developers have revealed they are working on a Gnome OS, potentially extending the reach of the open-source platform to tablets. At the moment, Gnome is a desktop environment that sits on top of Linux OSes – but has been ditched by Ubuntu in favour [...]

BeagleBoard.org hobbyists unleash 20 new "cape" plug-in boards, fueling Linux …

Thursday, August 9th, 2012

DALLAS, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – ”Throwing a bone” to designers, makers and hobbyists looking to easily and affordably develop creative, Linux-based electronics, BeagleBoard.org today announced the availability of more than 20 new plug-in boards for the widely-adopted BeagleBone Linux computer platform. Creatively calling the plug-in boards “capes” in reference to the cape worn by a [...]

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 [...]

Types Of Websites You Can Create With WordPress

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Many people who have heard of WordPress think that it’s just a publishing platform for blogs. In truth, WordPress is an extremely powerful and versatile publishing solution, and can be used to create many different types of websites. Magazine Style Websites WordPress can also be used to create magazine style websites. These websites don’t have [...]

Gumstix New Waysmall™ Silverlode Computer: Powering Vertical Market …

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – Gumstix, Inc., the premier provider of tiny computers-on-module (COMs) and expansion boards for embedded design engineers, today debuted the Waysmall Silverlode computer, a compact 11.0 x 4 .4cm, 1.8cm tall, low-wattage computer designed for developers of commercial and industrial vertical market applications. Housed in an aluminum case, [...]

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 [...]

Asahi Technologies Launches Low Cost WordPress Development Services

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Infinite demands. Empowering solutions. WordPress is an ideal tool for creating low cost websites that are flexible for blogging as well as professional shopping cart CMS. (PRWEB) July 24, 2012 WordPress is an ideal tool for building small and simple websites. Cost-efficient and easy to use, people are increasingly using WordPress for blogs and CMS [...]

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 [...]

Enve Creative Develops WordPress Website for 10 West Self Storage

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Enve Creative has launched a search engine optimized WordPress and HTML5 website for 10 West Self Storage of Morris, Connecticut. Torrington, Connecticut (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 Enve Creative has launched a search engine optimized WordPress and HTML5 website at http://10westselfstorage.com for 10 West Self Storage. 10 West Self Storage offers climate-controlled self-storage units and lockers, [...]

Free open-source software: My take on its inexorable rise

Monday, July 30th, 2012

The battle for the desktop is shifting glacially toward Linux but it’s a different kettle of percentages for mobile. Every day there are: 371,000 babies born 378,000 iPhones sold One million Android devices activated Only 1.1 million PCs sold Stats via @zeldman via @lukew via TNW As we all know, Android has Linux at the [...]

Announcing CarrierSecure from OpenDNS. New Program Delivers Scalable, Innovative Security Solutions to Telcos Everywhere.

Sunday, July 29th, 2012

OpenDNS We’re confident CarrierSecure will bring OpenDNS to many more people SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) July 19, 2012 OpenDNS, the world’s largest Internet-wide security network – making the Internet safer, faster and more reliable for more than 50 million people every day – today announced CarrierSecure, a new program designed to enable telecom providers to offer [...]

Malware infects three-quarters of the world’s top banks

Friday, July 27th, 2012

File this story in the “Who do you trust with your money?” category. Eighteen of the top 24 banks in the world have malware problems, security firm Lookingglass says on Wednesday. Even three-year old worms that have long had patches and fixes to address them continue to infect the PCs of banks, including Conficker, found [...]

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 [...]

Memolane: Highlight Social Content With New Embed Features And WordPress Plugin

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Memolane, a startup that helps users archive and explore their content across social networks, has been working to make it easier to share that content, for example by allowing users to share “lanes” with their Facebook friends. Now, founder Eric Lagier says publishers, brands, and anyone else should have an easy time featuring that content [...]

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. [...]

Black Hat: Open Source ModSecurity Comes to Microsoft IIS

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

In an interview with InternetNews Barnett explained that a decade ago when ModSecurity was first being built, Apache was the most popular web server and that’s why it was chosen as the initial platform. Fast forward to today, and Apache is still the most popular web server in the world, but it is now facing [...]

Asahi Technologies Launches Low Cost WordPress Development Services

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Over 14 million websites use WordPress for their websites. As it is considered to be simple and cost effective tool for websites and also a light weight CMS. With the current environment being uncertain, businesses are trying to keep their website costs as low as possible in order to stay competitive, increasing demand for low [...]

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