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Posted April 18th, 2009 by rory
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With all the coverage of TPB in the media at the present time perhaps now is the time to look at alternatives.  I know that TPB is not going away soon whilst the appeals process is ongoing and the servers have been relocated to the Netherlands (and alternatives will pop-up) - but take a look at oneswarm. It's available for Linux as well as windows.  I think some kind of anomynity giving client will be the future of p2p, whether it's oneswarm or some other piece of software - it will happen.

Oneswarm is a friend-to-friend 'darknet' file sharing protocol so will probably take off in university campuses first, you can watch a video here that explains oneswarm.

Feisty Fawn

Posted April 18th, 2007 by rory
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This is just to let you know that the next version of Ubuntu is out tomorrow (Thursday 19 April) and it's codenamed Feisty Fawn, that's 7.04. Go here to download it or here to have it sent to you for free on a CD.

I think it is really good and ready for practically all users, even if you're not a geek. I have been running it for about 2 weeks whilst it was still in development and apart from some nvidia module mismatches it has performed flawlessly. This won't happen to you if you download it tomorrow.

Please give it a try and experience some freedom. Start your exploration of Linux by reading The Open Source Definition and then you could post or read the answers to various question which you can search for on the Linux Questions Forum or the Ubuntu Forum. You can also view the videos about how to install Ubuntu here.

I've got my laptop back and installed Slackware

Posted November 1st, 2006 by rory
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My Mother bought a new laptop, so she gave me back the Dell Inspiron 3800. I downloaded Slackware 11.0 and put it on it and even got my wifi (Netgear WAG511) working with the madwifi drivers. I have WPA on it to boot! It's tons better than Windoze.

Linux: How to Easily Reinstall Packages

Posted September 26th, 2006 by rory
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Here's a quick tip I learnt last week from the Lotta Linux Links podcast (Episode 20). This will work on all Debian based distributions. First of all produce a list of all the installed packages on the system by typing:

#dpkg --get-selections > /home/username/installed-software.log

This will redirect a list of all the packages into the file "installed-software.log". Then all you have to do in order to reinstall all the packages is type:

#dpkg --set-selections < /home/username/installed-software.log

Now that I have my /home on a separate partition and I back this up onto an external ubs hard drive and an internel ide hard drive, if I ever have to re-install my system I can just make a base install and then reinstall the list of packages. Simple!

My First Shell Script

Posted January 22nd, 2006 by rory
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I have finally completed my ftp shell script. What it does is compresses all of Mandy's work files and then encrypts it using my gpg key and then sends (by ftp) it to my ISP server.

As a nice touch I made it a cron job, so that it automatically does all of this at 8:30pm every Sunday. The great thing is that it also sends Mandy an email to report on the success of the operation. This is so cool.

Hooray for Linux!