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From the get go, I was not impressed with the Ubuntu Edge, the new smartphone from Ubuntu that will dual boot Android and, no prizes for guessing, Ubuntu Linux. The smartphone pie is mostly made up of Android and iOS, with ...
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Today’s post is about my pfSense installation. It’s not the usual pfSense setup. First of all, instead of running in a standalone PC or some sort of embedded computer, my pfSense runs in a virtual machine. Then, it ...
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For a long time I had been planning to capitalise on the free cable broadband, albeit a slow one that barely qualifies as broadband speed these days, to provide a failover uplink for my home network. My primary network access ...
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PC hardware virtualization is getting quite common place nowadays. There was a time when this was something done on server environments and by computer techies, but these days, end-users with desktops and notebooks are equally ...
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I’m almost surprised that I am still struggling to figure out the complexities of Linux. After all, I’ve been using Linux since the days of the Yggdrasil distribution, something that most Linux fans have probably not ...
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I should know that secure network connectivity is just one part of IT security. But it seems a VPN to my home is a little bit of an overkill. I’ve now got an OpenVPN server setup at home so that I can connect back home. The ...
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I’ve always been wary of upgrading any Linux box. Something usually breaks. So although it would be nice to have the latest software, in recent years I have never been too eager to be the first. I suppose I’ve lost ...
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Richard Stallman will be at NUS next week, 13th and 14th March. He’ll be having a seminar/talk at School of Computing on the 13th, and at University Town on the 14th. He’s the man behind GNU and the Free Software ...
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From time to time, when I try to pretend to be a noob user, I find myself having to complain about Linux. The user experience, in my opinion, is just not there yet. Over a decade ago, when I was interviewed about whether Linux ...
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It’s been quite a long while since I last built my own PC. My last desktop PC was built some time around 2005. I was reasonably familiar with PC components at that time. Technology has changed so much, and even though I do ...
