By the way do you know what bug was posted by Mark Shuttleworth as a first and major one? Here it is (2004-08-20): Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world’s population and limiting the [...]
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Were you wondering why Ubuntu is Linux distribution #1 for new users (and not new) and how could it become so popular leaving behind such old-times like Mandriva, Linspire, Fedora and even Ubuntu’s ancestor Debian? I was. And as for me, I think that people stick to community rather than to technology… Do you agree? Here is the nice article to read in which UbuntuCat (one of the most active [...]
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Question: How can I disable building of directory index in apache/httpd? In other words, how to prevent users from seeing the contents of published directories? Answer: Actually you are totally right that you wish to disable this feature. One of the “must do’s” on setting a secure apache web server is to disable directory browsing. Usually apache comes with this feature enabled but its always a good idea to get it [...]
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Below are the quotes from rather interesting interview with Joel Cohen, writer and associate producer of The Simpsons. Joel is an Emmy award-winning writer and a keynote speaker at the Red Hat Summit this June. The Simpsons is usually described as satirical parody of the middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its titular family (wiki’s one). Crudely animated scenes were produced with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Linux animation technology, [...]
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