Disk encryption is not something most personal computer users think of when they consider ways to boost the security profile of their computer. A firewall? Yes, that in the minds of most is what computer security is all about. However, a firewall is a network security tool, and it is useless if your computer is lost or stolen. That is when disk encryption comes into play.
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Remotely manage your KDE system from your Android Phone
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A step by step tutorial on how to easily connect and manage your KDE desktop from your android phone. To achieve this, you are going to need a VNC server running on the host computer, and a VNC viewer running on your Android phone.
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How to use RobotFramework with the Selenium Library
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Tutorial to use Selenium with the RobotFramework test automation framework.
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Sourcefabric launches theme contest at first Central American conference
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Sourcefabric took the occasion of their first ever Central American conference on July 15th 2011 to launch a new global theme contest. Designers worldwide are invited to submit themes for Newscoop, the open source CMS for news organisations. The contest is free to enter at contest.sourcefabric.org, where designers can download a sample theme and view the competition's guidelines.
Read more »GNOME & KDE Developers Go To Battle Over A Name
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Ben Cooksley, the KDE System Settings Maintainer, wrote a formal complaint to the GNOME developers over the use of "System Settings" for a GNOME application.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 15 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
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This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 15 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
Read more »Two questions about (Free) software development: copyright assignment and non-commercial use
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Does contributing your code to some FOSS project automatically give away your copyright on that code?
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Firefox 8 is 20% Faster than Firefox 5, Install Firefox 8 in Ubuntu via PPA
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According to a recent study by extremetech.com, Firefox 8 is already 20% faster than Firefox 5 in almost every metric and has got a drastically reduced memory footprint as well.
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Linux kernel 3.0 released
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It could not have been foreseen when Linux 2.6.39 was released in mid-May, but it has now happened: Linux 3.0 is here.
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Harmony's curiously flat tune
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A standard for contributor agreements was the promise of Project Harmony, but now the project's agreements have been released, they appear to have hit all the wrong notes with many in the community. We look at why Harmony is off-key.
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Kaptan
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Kaptan is the “welcome” application of Pardus, a Linux desktop distribution developed and maintained by the Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), an arm of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).
Read more »Lancelot menu
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Lancelot is one of three menu styles for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. It is similar in some respects to mintMenu of Linux Mint, but with a lot more features and a lot more configurable options. This article is written to showcase all the features of this menu, which is developed and maintained by Ivan Čukić.
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Pardus 2011.1 review
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Pardus is a Linux distribution developed and maintained by the Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), an arm of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). It is a desktop-oriented distribution based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment.
Read more »Mono and Copyright
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Uses the Mono situation to explain why Copyright reform is needed.
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VirtualBox 4.1 has been released! PPA Ubuntu
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Oracle today released VirtualBox 4.1, a new major release. Introducing VM clones, this mean the ability to clone virtual machines via the GUI and VBoxManage.virtualbox the New Advanced wizard for creating new virtual disks and virtual disk copy also for 64-bit memory limit is up to 1 TB.
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