Author: John
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Books that Inspire the Futurists in Geeks
It is the beginning of the summer and I was looking for book lists. The first book I have on my coffee table is Neuromancer which I had been led to believe is a seminal work in hacking. And then I found this list on ReadWrite and it struck a chord with me. I have…
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SetUp Your Own Private Cloud Storage Service with OwnCloud
Currently in the shop I decided that although I use Box, SkyDrive, Dropbox, Ubuntu One, and Amazon, I need a bit more storage and my own control. So I have setup OwnCloud. For an overview of OwnCloud look at this article on Lifehacker. Review OwnCloud’s list of features. I am using Fedora 18 which is…
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Infographic: HOWTO Troubleshoot DNS problems
This infographic from Orsyp details the troubleshooting process for a DNS error. Seasoned IT professionals can probably breeze through this infographic quickly and easily, understanding and relating to every point. Today’s infographic can become a helpful guide to those days when the technology you rely on begins to fail. I suggest giving today’s infographic a…
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Quick and Simple Configuration of Samba for Fedora 18
I have a Fedora 18 system here with the hostname snape.greshamhs.org and the IP address 192.168.92.249. I always make sure that SELinux is disabled: Edit /etc/selinux/config and set SELINUX=disabled: vi /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing – SELinux…
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Open Government on github
Open Government was published in 2010 by O’Reilly Media. The United States had just elected a president in 2008, who, on his first day in office, issued an executive order committing his administration to "an unprecedented level of openness in government." The contributors of Open Government had long fought for transparency and openness in government,…