I had a lot of trouble in last few weeks with a company’s browsing restrictions. It used an extensive directory of ‘forbidden websites’ that kept out all but a few popular sites. In effect, no games sites, no personal email, and no Hacking Truths. None of the conventional proxy servers worked, and even Google Translate failed.
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Why MeeGo - not Android
Some people will tell you fragmentation is one of the main things that is holding back Linux from desktop adoption. Not having a unified name, packaging system, or heck even desktop environment often confuses new users and puts them into overload - Too much choice can be a bad thing.
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Top Free Linux for Netbooks
Since people saw the big impact of Netbooks in the market, different Linux distributions came out that were customized for Netbooks. They were designed a little differently to optimize viewable area on small 10-inch screen sizes
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Ten factors that give Ubuntu 10.04 an edge
The most recent release of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution has been available for a few months. You may not use Ubuntu, or perhaps you know little about Linux, so why should you care? The answer is because it offers a number of improved features, the best 10 of which I list here.
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Parted Magic 5.3 improves memory usage
The third point update to the 5.x branch of the multi-platform partitioning tool features a number of updated packages, improved memory usage and drops support for the GRUB4DOS ISO
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Matterhorn: Open source lecture recording tool
With the open source Matterhorn, universities can record and analyse lectures
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Want to know what the Canonical Design Team is doing?
If you use or follow Ubuntu, a great way to see what's happening somewhat behind the scenes is the Canonical Design Team site/blog.
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Games resurrected using DOSBox - Part 3
It's been a long while since I wrote parts one and two, so I decided to freshen up the collection a bit and add several more titles to the list of successfully tested and played games using DOSBox.
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Make use of the KDE 4.5 Clipboard
In this article I am going to introduce you to the Klipper tool contained within the KDE 4.5 desktop.
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Lightweight Distro Roundup: Day 5 – Dreamlinux
Just getting Dreamlinux Installed or running in anything but a VM has been a nightmare. It kernel panicked when booting from a flashdrive, and installation failed repeatedly.
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User friendly showdown: Ubuntu 10.04 versus Windows 7
So recently I have written a lot about how user-friendly Linux has become. Naturally the nay-sayers have spoken loudly and insisted that Linux is far, far behind Windows in the user-friendliness category. So, I decided I wanted to figure out a way to test this argument to see which operating system was, in fact, more user friendly.
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New Ubuntu Unity video trailer released
Canonical have just released a video trailer of the forthcoming Ubuntu Unity interface for netbook computers.
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We introduced to you guys probably the best combination of gtk theme and icon set for Ubuntu/Gnome[Equinox gtk theme + Faenza icon theme]. Now take a look at Awoken icon theme. I won't say it is better than Faenza icon theme, but it is almost as good.
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