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Stop ACTA: Get Informed & Take Action

Posted on January 31, 2012 | No Comments
What is ACTA? ACTA is an international trade agreement negotiated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, Singapur as well as a few other countries, whose aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counterfeited goods (hence its acronym: Anti-Counterfeiting [...]
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Ubuntu codename ‘Precise Pangolin’ Alpha 1 Released

Posted on December 2, 2011 | No Comments
The Ubuntu developers team is pleased to bring you the first set of developer images that capture the current fleeting reality of our Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1) as it starts to emerge. Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone [...]
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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is out

Posted on October 13, 2011 | No Comments
Today is a great day for Ubuntu fans, as the new Oneiric Ocelot has been released by the development team. I’m upgrading one of my notebooks as I’m writing you this post. Hope nothing goes wrong 11.10 includes a new release of compiz and Unity. [...]
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Steve Jobs “may never be equaled”

Posted on October 6, 2011 | No Comments
(Reuters) – Passionate, prickly, and deemed irreplaceable by many Apple fans and investors, Steve Jobs made a life defying conventions and expectations. And despite years of poor health, his death on Wednesday at the age of 56 prompted a global gasp as many people remembered how [...]
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Apple Launches iPhone 4S, iOS 5 & iCloud

Posted on October 4, 2011 | No Comments
CUPERTINO, California—October 4, 2011 Apple® today announced iPhone® 4S, the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri™, [...]
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Tiny Core 4.0 release

Posted on September 25, 2011 | No Comments
Team Tiny Core has announced the release of Tiny Core & Micro Core v4.0. The changes includes: Updated kernel to 3.0.3; Updated udev to 173; Updated glibc to eglibc-2.13; Updated e2fsprogs base libs to 1.41.14; Updated base Xlibs (microcore users need to get new Xlibs.tcz); Updated all the custom core utilities to [...]
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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot beta 2 has been released

Posted on September 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
Ubuntu is making great progress and is heading full speed to the release candidate. The final version of Ubuntu 11.10 is expected to be released on October 13, 2011. The Ubuntu team has announced today the release of Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2. Codenamed “Oneiric Ocelot”, [...]
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Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot first beta is out

Posted on September 2, 2011 | No Comments
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1. Codenamed “Oneiric Ocelot”, 11.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work [...]
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Code snippet: Restrict access to a page in PHP based on remote hosts IP’s

Posted on August 23, 2011 | No Comments
<?php //get the remote host IP $szRemoteIP = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; //this is the array holding the allowed IP's list; $arrAllowedIPs = array("192.168.0.1", "192.168.2.3", [...]
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OS X Lion v10.7.1 Update

Posted on August 18, 2011 | No Comments
Apple released on August 17, 2011 a new update for OS X Lion. The OS X Lion v10.7.1 Update is recommended for all users running OS X Lion and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability and compatibility of your Mac. This update include [...]
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