A smaller and faster jQuery “intended for the modern web” hits the shelves today 19 April. jQuery 2.0 drops 12 percent in size squeezing out support for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 browsers. The jQuery team will continue to support the 1.x branch which runs on Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. “You can (and should) continue to use jQuery 1.9 (and the upcoming 1.10) on web sites that need to accommodate older browsers”. More
Gnote, the mono free Tomboy clone, finally gets in-built synchronization. Though the home page of the Gnote project still says “Synchronization support is being worked on”, automatic synchronization is present in Gnote v3.7.2 build. Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, and Ubuntu 13.04 Raring have Gnote Unstable PPA’s that can be used for a smooth installation, maybe not a production unit. Source code is also available for the DIYs. More
The last time I did a screenshot tour of Ubuntu Studio here at Kabatology was to present the once grandiose, now out-dated Ubuntu Studio 9.10. Ubuntu Studio 9.10 was more eye-candy, now its a signor multimedia and graphic orientated Linux Operating System for professionals. More
VPN Gate is an academic experiment project carried out by the Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan with the aim to circumvent government firewalls. With the motto “We No Need Berlin Wall on the Internet” Nobori, the creator of VPN Gate wants to help individuals in countries that restrict the use of Internet by perceptually blocking websites (Pirate Bay, KAT, YouTube, Twitter or Facebook, etc), with a system that is not only simple to use, but is also completely free.
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This guide will take you through the installation of L2TP over IPsec VPN connections on your Linux workstation, be it Mint or Ubuntu. First launch your terminal, and paste the following lines therein:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:werner-jaeger/ppa-werner-vpn
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install l2tp-ipsec-vpn
l2tp-ipsec-vpn relies on Openswan and xl2tpd packages as the underlying protocol handlers. But you don’t have to install them singularly. Both packages and other dependencies are installed automatically from the repository with the above commands.
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