For all intensive purposes, the English language is changing a lot these days. Chock it up to the Worldwide Web and the fact that more and more people are writing these days rather than merely reading. When they write, they write what they’ve heard. But sometimes they’ve heard wrong, and so they write wrong, too. [...]
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A nice thing about the default setup of Ubuntu desktop is that if you type a command which isn’t installed (or if you slightly misspell it), you’ll get suggestions to install packages that provide that command. But that’s not enabled for Ubuntu Server. To get that same functionality, do this: sudo apt-get install command-not-found Now [...]
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If you’re running a website, either you or your service provider is running a nameserver. The most popular nameserver is BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon). It’s old, venerable, full of features, complicated, and big. Sort of like Sendmail. MaraDNS is the secure, small, easy alternative. It’s also open source (like BIND).
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Remember GeoCities? It was the the dark underbelly of the Worldwide Web, where you could get a free space to spout off on whatever you wanted to. It was Greenwich Village as compared to the New York Times building. When you went there you were sure to exercise your synapses, reading about all sorts of [...]
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David Inviglio counts the reasons Netflix killed Qwikster, after having just split up its DVD-rental service into the new company about a month ago: 1. It was going to be hard for people to use both. 2. It didn’t pacify customers. 3. Some customers actually prefer DVD. 4. Netflix split off Qwikster to sell it, [...]
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There’s been a lot of concern lately about police abuses lately. People want to protect their rights, but (many) police forces want to prevent citizens from recording them. In comes Cop Recorder 2: It’s an Android app that helps you record your interactions with the police. It’s suposed to be network enabled, though I haven’t [...]
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We’ve all had enough of viruses on Windows. Then we had to get used to malware on phones. Now there are viruses for airplanes, too. The drone system being used to fight the US’s war in Afghanistan and other countries has been hit with a virus, specifically a keylogger. Unanswered questions: Is it possible the [...]
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Bacula is an open-source network backup system released under the AGPL license. It’s available in the Ubuntu repositories.
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I was looking around for people’s opinions of running Debian vs. Ubuntu Server. A lot of people think there’s no reason to run Ubuntu because it’s just a derivative of Debian. One person has an actual difference between the two: Debian doesn’t have Upstart. Upstart is the init daemon which starts services, and restarts them [...]
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Steve Jobs passed away at his home. Regardless of your preference in computers or phones, he had an amazing record of innovation over the years:
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