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Whole New World: A New Society
Introductory Letter
At thirteen years of age in the year 2001, I was like the rest of our generation of kids born in the 1980s and even some of them in the late 1970s that caught the beginnings of the World...
by knobcore
 58 comments
on Fri Nov 23, 2018 at 02:38 PM PST
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As I write, chipmaker Intel’s stock is tanking, having already shed $11 billion in value in just four hours, and still falling:
The drop comes on news, broken this morning at The Register, that a major security flaw has been discovered in...
by DocDawg
325 comments
on Wed Jan 03, 2018 at 10:54 AM PST
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Wikileaks has released Vault 7: the CIA archive of hacking tools wikileaks.org/…
This is an opportunity to not only constrain the CIA but to break the giant software conglomerates (Google, Facebook, Apple, Windows-GFAW)
Wikileaks is releasing the...
by Mr D
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on Thu Mar 09, 2017 at 09:10 PM PST
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Gather round, my nerds, and I shall tell you a tale. A tale of wonders, a tale of brave heroes, a tale of world-breaking powers.
Once upon a time, back in the misty dawn of history before the Creation of Linux, two mighty archdruids of Unix cast a...
by Krotor
51 comments
on Sat Jun 04, 2016 at 03:55 PM PDT
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In Part I of this article, we became acquainted with Terminal, the window for entering commands in Linux Mint and learned how to use the built-in help for Linux commands.
In a previous article, we created some sample text files in our Documents...
by Krotor
33 comments
on Sat May 28, 2016 at 10:51 AM PDT
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I hate to break it to you but the scariest thing that you have heard about Linux is true: there is a window where you type in strange commands and mysterious options. It might surprise you to learn that Windows has the same type of window, called the...
by Krotor
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on Mon May 23, 2016 at 05:21 PM PDT
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In the first half of this article we briefly discussed file permissions in Linux and then got acquainted with Nemo, the file manager in Linux Mint. You may wish to catch up by reading Part I if you have not already done so.
Use the List view to...
by Krotor
12 comments
on Tue May 17, 2016 at 04:32 PM PDT
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Your weird Cousin Ernie drops by or maybe your snoopy Aunt Mildred comes to visit for a week. Either way, he or she urgently needs to check email or Facebook or tweet the latest news about Elvis' extraterrestrial baby, using your computer. Uh oh, who...
by Krotor
21 comments
on Mon May 16, 2016 at 03:41 PM PDT
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So it's time. Today is the day your life will change forever. Yesterday, you were just a regular guy or gal, who had followed the crowd over the years from XP to Vista to Windows 7. Then Windows 8 came out and you recoiled, bewildered that Microsoft...
by Krotor
205 comments
on Wed May 11, 2016 at 03:57 PM PDT
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Boy, was I ever disappointed the first time I tried out Linux. Under Windows, I downloaded the appropriate file, burned it to a CD (the live installers were smaller back then), left the disc in the drive, and rebooted. I was pumped up, anticipating...
by Krotor
46 comments
on Mon May 09, 2016 at 05:32 PM PDT
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There have been a few diaries and comment threads in recent weeks with discussions of Linux, the computer operating system that offers an alternative to Windows. It seems to me that quite a few people are interested in it but don't know much about it...
by Krotor
135 comments
on Sat May 07, 2016 at 03:40 PM PDT
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OK—this is Blog #2. I’m going to talk about gaming on Linux. Most of you that game (and you know who you are….) look for The leading game houses releases to indicate what Operating system you use. Sad
by LinuxUserMan
65 comments
on Sat Jan 09, 2016 at 04:50 PM PST
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So, I was just invited to join the rolls of “ Kosack” kind today and…..I think (insert thought-bubble here) “What am I passionate about enough to write about on DailyKos?????” Insert fairly longish
by LinuxUserMan
68 comments
on Thu Jan 07, 2016 at 08:44 PM PST
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There are only 3 days left in 2015
28 is 4 x 7 (more later)
28 is the sum of the first natural numbers. 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = 28
28 is the sum of the first p
by enhydra lutris
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on Mon Dec 28, 2015 at 06:05 AM PST
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I just got home from the local cheese distributor, which happens to be a bar downtown. Some of the best cheese in town, hand delivered straight from the cheesery every thursday. Most of it, I'm told,
by tourniquet
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on Sun Aug 02, 2015 at 04:09 PM PDT
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Friends of mine in government, in law offices, or in doctors offices often have a work/personal email that comes with a disclaimer. "This communication is confidential," etc, and is intended only ...
by OllieGarkey
565 comments
on Sun Aug 02, 2015 at 10:21 AM PDT
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Israeli firm Komodia is the firm that developed the "technology" to intercept SSL (that is, https) connexions that Lenovo leveraged in its Superfish software. As of this writing, Komodia is under a ...
by Village Vet
83 comments
on Tue Feb 24, 2015 at 02:00 AM PST
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What we need is a Turn Key setup to protect online Americans from government, corporate, and outright criminal intrusions.
We're talking about getting 25,000,000+ people out of these lines of fire ...
by waterstreet2013
43 comments
on Wed Mar 12, 2014 at 10:17 AM PDT
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So I was listening to a discussion about the decision that Valve has made to release thirteen separate Steam Boxes with approximately eleventy quadrillion hardware options. Once side thought that ...
by angryea
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on Mon Jan 13, 2014 at 06:09 PM PST
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Oakland has been paying big bucks to SAIC (...
by jpmassar
17 comments
on Sun Nov 10, 2013 at 07:16 AM PST
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