Matias Vangsnes

Internet, communication and the concept of open source

Posts Tagged with "reason"

Citibank: New gTLD .Citi Is Not Confusing to Applications For .City or .CITIC

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

Sooooo, Mike…NOW do you agree that the gtld’s are utter foolishness? Startin’ to rethink the ol’ “right of the dot” now, ain’t ya? If not, me think you should be. Caution, numerous icebergs significantly larger than this still lie in the deep waters ahead. Sheer stupidy to even discuss this garbage or for ICANN to [...]

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

Wednesday, August 1st, 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 [...]

How to check your website’s tags on OpenDNS

Friday, July 27th, 2012

As a website owner you have to cope with a lot of situations. One of them is the classification of your website by services such as Web of Trust, business filtering solutions or OpenDNS. The reason for this is that false classifications can get the site banned in the network, and if you do not [...]

Dell’s Increasingly Excellent Linux Adventures

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

The weather outside may be frightful, to adapt a phrase for the scorched and overheated world here in the Northern hemisphere, but there’s no denying that July is turning out to be delightful for our favorite operating system. Not only did Linux get a heaping helping of recognition in the big Higgs Boson announcement recently, [...]

Why WordPress? Do It Yourself Website Design?

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Why WordPress? People often ask if WordPress is an easy solution that they could use to build their own website AND maintain it all by themselves. Honestly, that is a loaded question. One of the reasons that we love WordPress is that it makes it possible for developers to deliver a website to our clients [...]

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 [...]

Hello kitty: Internet Defense League assembles to fight copyright lobby

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

Mozilla, WordPress, Reddit and a number of other sites have joined forces to combat copyright crackdown legislation, through a distributed lobby group called the Internet Defense League. Launching on Thursday, the League offers code that webmasters can embed in their sites, so opposition to legislation such as ACTA or SOPA can be swiftly organised. “When [...]

Dell ‘Project Sputnik’ Ubuntu laptop programme enters beta phase

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

‘Beta Cosmonaut’ program But Dell is now recruiting volunteers for what it calls the Sputnik Beta Cosmonaut program, according to George, through which a limited number of applicants will receive a discounted, beta version of the laptop. To apply, all you need to do is fill out a form on the Dell site; in return, [...]

Move Over WordPress, There’s A New CMS In Town

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

New Data Shows Pinterest Users Look But Don’t Buy J.J. Colao Forbes Staff Facebook Didn’t Kill Digg, Reddit Did Paul Tassi Contributor Anthony Casalena doesn’t need your help. The 30 year-old CEO of Squarespace, a website creation service, bootstrapped his company to over $1 million in annual revenue by himself, then doubled revenues three years [...]

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 [...]

Dell ‘Project Sputnik’ Ubuntu laptop project enters beta phase

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

‘Beta Cosmonaut’ program But Dell is now recruiting volunteers for what it calls the Sputnik Beta Cosmonaut program, according to George, through which a limited number of applicants will receive a discounted, beta version of the laptop. To apply, all you need to do is fill out a form on the Dell site; in return, [...]

Dell’s Ubuntu Laptop Program Enters Beta, ‘Blows Away’ Expectations

Monday, July 16th, 2012

Fans of Ubuntu Linux may recall a project launched by Dell back in May to create an Ubuntu-loaded laptop specifically for developers. Dubbed Project Sputnik, the effort back then had already resulted in a prototype open source laptop based on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Precise Pangolin and Dells XPS 13 hardware. Earlier this month, however, the [...]

Dell’s Ubuntu Laptop Program Enters Beta, ‘Blows Away’ Expectations

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

Fans of Ubuntu Linux may recall a project launched by Dell back in May to create an Ubuntu-loaded laptop specifically for developers. Dubbed Project Sputnik, the effort back then had already resulted in a prototype open source laptop based on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” and Dell’s XPS 13 hardware. Earlier this month, however, the [...]

Religious wars brewing in ICANN gTLD expansion

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Religious convictions are emerging as the key battle line in the massive domain name expansion currently in progress at internet addressing overlord ICANN. Morality in Media, a largely Christian, US-based anti-pornography group, has become the first religious organisation to kick off a formal campaign against what it seems a “harmful” porn-themed new generic top-level domains. [...]

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 [...]

FBI DNS Changer Creates Mass Hysteria for Computer Users Losing Internet Access

Monday, July 9th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 09, 2012 – DNS Changer has been among the talk of the town described by virtually every syndicated media outlet to be the latest emerging threat among internet-connected computers. DNS Changer was found to be a type of Trojan horse threat that could essentially change the settings on a PC [...]

Ubuntu a 2-way street

Monday, July 9th, 2012

There are many ways to look at the departure of Ray Allen, but to make a complicated story simple, leave it at this: He took the out-of-town discount. For some reason, Allen’s decision to play in Miami for $3 million less a year than the Celtics [team stats] were offering has caused an element of [...]

Will your Internet be cut off by DNS Changer Monday? How to find out.

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

Computers still infected by the DNS Changer malware using an Eastern European advertising scam won’t be able to access the Internet Monday, when the FBI is expected to shut down the servers that ran the operation. But there’s a fix. By Mark Clayton, Staff writer / July 8, 2012 The DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG) has [...]

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