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5 tips to make you’re ubuntu run faster

 Warning ! : the following tips can reasonnably improve speed on most systems but not all systems are the same so only apply these techniques if you think you’ve got the skills to fix you’re system incase it goes wrong.
1. improve you’re grub settings
start up you’re PC and press ESC to enter the grub conf […]

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TimeVault a time machine clone for ubuntu

A commonly heard point of criticism on Ubuntu is the fact that it doesn’t have any easy backup tools that can be used by every sort of user no matter what their PC skills are. An attempt to fix this problem was made during the development of Ubuntu 6.10 with a program called […]

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A linux security bug

For those who haven’t heard it yet,
there seems to be some kind exploit in linux kernel 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1 wich automatically makes the user root when running th following code
At first it was thought to be a Debian specific problem but it seems to be occurring on all systems with the above mentioned kernel.
though there […]

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Ubuntu selling software through add/remove

according to a press announcement made on the parallels website
canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) is going to be providing trial versions of parallels through the add/remove software manager while keys for permanent use will be sold on their web page.
What I find to be very strange about this announcement is that add/remove already has VirtualBox […]