The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have released HTTPS Everywhere, a Firefox extension that activates SSL/TSL encryption on sites that support the security setting, but don't feature it as a default when visiting because of partial support, unsecured trackback links or other issues. To alleviate this problem, HTTPS Everywhere writes all requests in HTTPS.
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HTTPS Extension Adds Default SSL Browsing to Firefox
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Debian 6.0 Squeeze by the end of the year… maybe
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The Debian release team recently announced the current status of the next Debian release Squeeze. Based on past experiences there will be at least 4 months needed after the freeze to release the next stable version.
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5 Ways Identi.ca is Better Than Twitter
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Twitter popularized micro-blogging, indeed, but it isn't fair to say they started it. There are many micro-blogging services, like Identi.ca. I like Identi.ca's focus on software...
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Best and Free Programming Ebooks with Open Source Licenses
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Today in WebDesignish we are presenting very useful and recommended list of programming Ebooks with open source licenses, like Creative Commons, GPL, etc. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general.
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UFO: Alien Invasion 2.3 released
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UFO: Alien Invasion's team -- a free software squad-based tactical strategy game in the tradition of the old X-COM PC games, that combines military realism with hard science-fiction and the weirdness of an alien invasion, is proud to announce the 2.3 release.
Read more »'GPL Compatible' T-Shirts and Accessories
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'GPL Compatible' T-Shirts and Accessories - strong Copyleft licensed Free Software, this design is a reference to that.
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Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny
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Amanda is an open source client/server solution to back up filesystems. Backups are triggered by the backup server, backup definitions are located on the servers but exclusion lists are located on the client.
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The Butterfly Effect
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The Butterfly Effect is an open source physics puzzle game about cause and effect, which the developers state is not entirely unlike “The Incredible Machine“. There are 30 now fully playable levels.
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LinuxTag: Mobile version of KDE PIM suite introduced
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At the LinuxTag conference currently being held in Berlin, the developers have presented a "KDE PIM Mobile" prototype running on a Nokia N900
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Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm On Debian Lenny
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This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix (e.g. using amavisd-new).
Read more »KOffice 2.2: Is It Ready Yet?
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KOffice 2.2 was recently released and can be “used for real work”. Conveniently, just after 2.2 was released, I found myself needing to put together a presentation for Akademy – so what to use?
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GIMP 3-D, 3 Ways
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When you add text to a photo in GIMP, sometimes it comes out looking flat and boring. Today, let's explore three ways of adding an extra dimensions to your images and text.
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A Quick Look at Qt Quick
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Qt 4.7 has not been released yet, but the curious can download the beta or even grab a snapshot from git. The big news in this point seven release is Qt Quick - a new approach to user interfaces. Before I get carried away and start throwing screenshots at you, let's step back and look at today's user interfaces.
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Linux Mint 9 review
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Mint 9, aka Isadora, is the latest update to the desktop-focused, Linux distribution based on Ubuntu (10.04). It is one of the more exciting desktop distributions, with a nice selection of custom-developed graphical management utilities.
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Vinux - A talking linux distro for blind and visually impaired users
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Vinux is a remastered version of the popular Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users.. It provides three screen readers, two full-screen magnifiers, global font-size and colour changing facilities
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