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Archive for November 2nd, 2007

No worries: head of MEPIS Linux is fine

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Users of the popular Linux distribution MEPIS were getting worried about the distribution’s leader, who had been rather quiet lately.
Some Linux distributions — Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Novell, for example — have thousands of people working on them over the course of a month. Others, like MEPIS, have one developer, and users of the popular [...]

Over-50s Invade the Social Networking Scene

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

 
An anonymous reader writes “The Telegraph newspaper reports that over-50s are invading sites like Facebook and MySpace in massive numbers. A recent study showed that nearly one third of Facebook users are aged between 35 and 54, and that this group also made up 41 percent of MySpace users. “Because the mind of an over-50 [...]

Tutorial: Linux Backups For Real People, Part 1

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

 
Everyone knows they should make regular backups of their data. But hardly anyone is as diligent with backups as they should be. So in this two-part series we’re going to learn some nice simple methods for making regular backups on single PCs or small networks. Part 1 covers external backup media, and bendingudev to your [...]

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