Category: Technical
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A Champion of Plastic
This made me laugh today. Because if I didn’t laugh, I’d probably have a wee cry. First, this Android & Me article sparked my curiosity on how they could compare the new Apple phones to so many competitors. I won’t examine the whole article, just these two paragraphs : Let’s start with the new “budget”
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Backing Up Your Minecraft Server in Ubuntu
I wrote an earlier post on how to create a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu. It’s been pretty popular, so this article will describe a very simple way to ensure that you take hourly automated backups of your Minecraft server(s). This is incredibly useful for a number of reasons : Some random punter has griefed your
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The Other Foot
This cracked me up : http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4625502/microsoft-responds-to-google-youtube-windows-phone-block So Microsoft are whining that Google won’t tell them how their ad engine works, despite needing to know this so that they can write their own Youtube app (they won’t accept Google’s one, or perhaps Google refused to write one for such a niche platform). Google wrote the Android and
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Getting Humble
Another bundle, and I’m looking forward to this one! Check it out for yourself, before June 11th 2013 when it runs out, but for the lazy, here’s a list of the games you can be playing on Ubuntu right after purchasing this one : Hotline Miami Proteus Little Inferno Awesomenauts Capzied Thomas Was Alone Dear
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More Stallman
From Wikipedia : Spyware is a software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer’s consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer’s knowledge. “Spyware” is mostly classified into four types: system monitors, trojans, adware,
