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The blackout against SOPA and PIPA

18th Jan 2012 - Blackout Day

This new year, the US legislature brought two acts to be added into the law books - The STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT (SOPA) and The PROTECT IP ACT (PIPA). However these acts met with mighty opposition from internet users all around the world, with giants like 

Tweaking Linux To meet User Needs

Till recently I was using Fedora 15 - "Lovelock" as my alternate OS, which usually is always a Linux flavor. Now, at present I am using Ubuntu 11.10 - "Oneiric Ocelot" on my system. One thing one must realize, is that Linux distributions run in a very different manner from Windows. They do not (yet) support executable facility, so the installation of many a software is not as easy or automatic as in windows. Also, a general OS install of Linux distributions is very general. It does not do much more than install the kernel and other must haves in order to run a system. They do, however provide repositories for the easy installation of many open source softwares that are popular, or open source alternatives to commercial softwares.

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Ubuntu 11.10:

In this post, I will entail the different softwares that I feel one MUST have in their system, and how to go about installing them - in fedora 15 and in ubuntu 11.10. Please note, that this is simply a comparitive study.

31 Useful Ubuntu 11.10 Unity Keyboard/Mouse Shortcuts

In my opinion, the overall Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 experience is so much better and involving if you know some essential Ubuntu Unity keyboard and Mouse shortcuts. So here are a bunch of very basic yet useful Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 (Unity) keyboard shortcuts. Thanks to askubuntu for the list.

Aptitude Answers 3

Here are the answers to the last week's aptitude questions. Read more for the answers. Refer here for the corresponding questions!!!