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Disk encryption is one of several physical security measures that could be used to protect data on your computer from unauthorized physical access. And it is best configured during installation, not after. But once configured, how effective is it?

The PC is dead. Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don't merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we're seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users and software developers on the one hand, to operating system vendors on the other—and even those who keep their PCs are being swept along. This is a little for the better, and much for the worse.

By the end of 2012, code from new "Data.gov-in-a-box" may help many more countries to stand up their own platforms. A partnership between the United States and India on open government has borne fruit: progress on making the open data platform Data.gov open source.

In our course through life, we all end up finding things that we enjoy and that we like to keep around. Linux and photography are two things have added to my enjoyment for a long time. [...] So, when I read about some of the features in OpenSuse 12.1, I couldn’t resist giving it a try.

"Until I can happily hand a new Linux box to a customer and KNOW that five years from now or even seven years from now it'll still be running WITHOUT having to disable updates, or jump through CLI hoops or chase forum fixes, the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages."

An interview with Alan Orth, a systems administrator for the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya.

So, I want to take a shell script and be able to put it on any machine - and have it backup the databases on that machine using mysqldump.. and put them each separately into a backup directory.. here's what I came up with.

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While trying to keep up with everything going on right now it is good to see that the Desura client open source is still going ahead and an unofficial update has been posted on the forum

Sonia Ouarti from Canonical announced a couple of days ago, December 2nd, that the Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth and devops expert Clint Byrum will hold a webinar about Juju, this Thursday, December 8th at 3pm GMT.

MegaGlest is a free, open-source real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy universe, based on a 3D engine, with support for single player, multi player, and mods. It’s available on Linux, Windows, and, starting with this release, also OS X.

Gnome 3 extensions have breathed a new life in those disgruntled Ubuntu users who were looking elsewhere due to the lack of customisation of Unity. The rating jump that LinuxMint enjoyed on Distrowatch was a strong indicator which some Ubuntu fans tried to shot down as 'useless'. I don't want to get into that, I have already wrote about it. Unity may work perfectly fine for a majority of users, especially if you are using a netbook with tiny screen. For, those who are looking elsewhere due to lack of customisation of Unity, don't worry. Now, you can customise your Ubuntu and get back to work.Here are the top 6 extensions that I am using on Ubuntu and have started loving it again. It's the best of both worlds -- stability and power of Debian (with PPA) with customisation of Gnome 3 shell.

LibrePlan is a new web-based collaborative application that allows you to plan, monitor and control your projects, via a rich web interface that provides a desktop-like user experience.

There are lots of reasons for computer users to turn to one of several Linux distributions for their homes and businesses. In this article, I've listed five of what I believe are the most compelling ones.

Among other big ticket announcements during recently concluded Ubuntu Developer Summit(UDS) was Ubuntu Unity's foray into Mobile and TV space. This was an exciting development to everyone in the community and user-contributed design mockups have been pouring in ever since. We had featured a bunch of really interesting Unity Mobile mockups before, now it's the turn of Unity TV based design mockups and ideas. Read on.

At the request of many of our readers, we've created the following tutorial to teach them how to easily move the window buttons from left to right side in the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems.

Weather applications play an essential role in helping people make informed decisions about day-to-day activities. Having the latest forecasts on the move can be extremely valuable. This type of software also provides timely warnings of extreme weather, to help people protect life and property.

From the 'Don't always believe what you read' files: There has been some 'confusion' in recent days about the status of Mozilla's relationship with Google. Some have speculated (incorrectly) that the deal is over, leaving Mozilla without its chief source of revenue.

When you provision virtual machines, you try to ensure that they have the storage that they need. But as we all know, storage needs tend to change over time. If you have KVM machines that need more space, we can up their storage with tools you already have handy. Two methods we're going to use today are adding file-based storage as a separate partition, and increasing the size of the virtual machine's storage volume.

There are a lot of new options to explore in CentOS 6 during install, be sure that you have a basic understanding of what the options are before you begin the installation. One important aspect is to understand what type of hardware will be used for the server, hardware or software RAID, LVM, ext3 or ext4, etc.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Boudewijn Rempt writes about the 2.4 version of Krita. In addition, the usual list of updates: Progress in the work to separate QGraphicsView from libplasma Calligra sees work on docx support and autocolor Telepathy sees UI refactoring; there is now extended away support and dialog-less setup for link-local XMPP read more