Content control software, also commonly known as web filtering software, is software which is designed and optimised to determine what content can be viewed by the user. This software is particularly relevant to information supplied by a web browser.
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Meego 1.0: A NoGo
Personally I was very excited when MeeGo was first announced. After having used the 1.0 release of MeeGo that is targeted for netbook devices I really must say: I'm really not impressed.
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It's Official, Steam Coming to Linux
We recently touched on one way of being a Linux gamer. Recent news that Valve Software will soon be releasing a Linux client promises to provide another option for Linux gamers. The news couldn not come at a better time as the world will shortly focus on gaming with the upcoming, industry-only E3 conference, the crown jewel of the gaming industry.
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Is Linux Secure
I'm at Southeast LinuxFest right now, listening to Daniel Chen's Linux audio talk. A bit over an hour ago, I finished my presentation on the Linux security myth. It's meant to be accessible to normal users or to geeks needing to explain to normal users. I was asked afterward why I didn't talk about buffer overflows. That's easy: normal users can't do anything about them.
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Why an Ubuntu Tablet Won’t Sell
Canonical’s foray into the tablet arena is fundamentally different from both the iPad and a WebOS tablet, and unfortunately reeks of a company failing to learn from their competitors successes and failures. Here are four reasons why an Ubuntu tablet simply won’t work.
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Lubuntu 10.04
In previous reviews, I looked at the latest versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Now it’s time to look at a lightweight alternative to both of them, Lubuntu. Lubuntu uses the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) instead of the chunkier GNOME or KDE desktops.
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Open source hardware worth £1billion by 2015
The market for open source hardware is hotting up, with the top 13 companies in the space turning over nearly $50million last year – according to Phil Torrone, designer at Adafruit industries. Speaking with Adafruit’s founder Limor Fried at the O’Reilly Foo Camp East in May, Torrone also claims there's plenty more money to be made…
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BD remote for android available soon
Sony did a press release about 3D tv's and blue ray players and they anncounced a android BD remote app.I know not everybody is to happy with Sony but this is a nice movement. I would like many more manufacturers to release remote control apps for my favorite device.
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Linux gaining on Windows among Eclipse developers
A survey from the Eclipse Foundation, which oversees development of the open source Eclipse IDE, shows that 32.7 percent of respondents use Linux as their primary desktop development system, up almost 6 points from 2009. Meanwhile, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro among Eclipse developers.
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Latest Examples of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” (EEE)
How Microsoft embraced, extended, and extinguished companies and products; examples from Ulteo, sub-notebooks, VMware, and Novell
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"Shifting" to another keyboard layout in GNOME.
The Danish language makes use of two letters [åÅ] and [øØ] which are not on my Icelandic keyboard. Having to switch permanently between keyboard layouts all the time with key combinations (Windows way of doing things) such as alt+shift is tiresome! It turns out that there’s a very easy way to switch between layout in GNOME.
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What Happened to IBM's Linux Wristwatch?
In 2000, IBM researchers developed a wristwatch that runs Linux and X11. Their goal was to test the limits of the operating system and explore ways people can interact with tiny electronic devices. So what happened to this Linux-powered wristwatch?
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How to: Make Hp Scanjet G2400 and G2410 scanners work in Ubuntu with Xsane
Searching tons of pages on net I perceived that the problem was with the drivers.....
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So you want to be a Hacker?
Great Linux distro to learn about network vulnerabilities.
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rugged android phone
If you are looking for a rugged Android phone this may exactly be what you are looking for.
This phone was originally build for windows mobile, but nowadays they also ship it with android.
And I have to say, it actually looks nice for a rugged phone.
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