Archive.org is down? This is not good.
Archive.org is down again. I hope this is fixed soon.
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Bitchute website finally down.
The famous Bitchute video-sharing website is down at the moment. This is a racist website hosting horrible videos containing racism, but the Cloudflare errors show that it is finally gone. This will help stop misinformation about the current election. Youtube is still going strong, this is a better video-sharing solution…
Read MoreAustralian MyGov website gets more users and crashes under the strain.
The Australian my.gov.au website has gone down under the increased usage due to the Coronavirus epidemic and the increased demand for social welfare services. This is a joke. The Department of Human Services cannot even keep this website running and were blaming a Cyberattack at one point, but it was…
Read MoreInternet in Iran has been shut off. This means war is imminent? اینترنت در ایران خاموش شده است. این به این معنی است که جنگ قریب الوقوع است ؟
The Internet to Iran has been shut down. Does this mean that war is on the horizon? This would make life harder for the people in that embattled nation. But there are still ways to communicate if the main communication networks are shut down. If all your nation blocks internet…
Read MoreGet to runlevel 3 in Linux Mint 18.1
To get to runlevel 3 in Linux Mint, press the Control-Alt-F2 key combination and login at the virtual terminal, then run this command to shut down the login manager. sudo service mdm stopsudo service mdm stop Then you may use the Linux Mint virtual terminal instead of the desktop if…
Read MoreHow to use the ip command to bring down an interface on RHEL.
The ip command is a useful alternative to the ifconfig command and allows the user to manage network interfaces. This is a good way to use the command line to bring network interfaces up or down. In this example I am bringing the network interface down. [root@localhost jason]# ip link…
Read MoreWhy the Fedora 18 Gnome desktop sucks and it is better to use the MATE desktop instead.
The new Fedora 18 Gnome Version 3.6.2 distribution is the most dumbed down version of the Gnome desktop yet. They have removed the ability to set up different themes by default. The only thing that you can do in the Appearance menu is set the wallpaper. I have a dual…
Read MorePirate bay gone and Windows and Macintosh security concerns. Linux wins on that front.
The recent raid that took down the Wikileaks and Piratebay websites could be a sign of things to come. The SOPA and SIPA bills that Congress tried to pass through as well as the ACTA bill are about stopping the sharing of copyrighted material; but other things such as the…
Read MorePiratebay.se file-sharing website shut down. Possibly for good; is this the end of freedom on the Internet?
The piratebay.se website has been shut down. The servers hosting the Wikileaks and pirate Bay websites are down after a raid on the premises by authorities. This means that those people wanting to download copyrighted material will have to look elsewhere for their movie fix. This could spur further raids…
Read MoreAPT problems with Linux Mint 12. Is archive.ubuntu.com down?
I am having trouble accessing the APT repository at archive.ubuntu.com, I found out that if I changed it to gb.archive.ubuntu.com I could access the repository again. This is very annoying though. You would expect to be able to access the repositories when ever you need to. But it works just…
Read MoreUbuntu 12.04 shutting down the desktop.
I have had problems with the Ubuntu 12.04 desktop when I was using it where the Unity desktop would not shut down properly. The only solution I could find was to press Ctrl->Alt->F2 and type sudo init 0 at a bash prompt and the system will shut down. Hopefully this…
Read MoreXbox Kinect technology to control computers?
The Xbox Kinect technology is being released for use on Windows. I do not see how this technology will be useful on a PC, waving your arms in front of a computer screen to control your computer would get tiring very quickly. This technology is not exclusive to the Xbox,…
Read MoreMounting a Windows XP partition that was improperly shut down.
This is how to fix this issue with an NTFS drive that was not properly shutdown and therefore is not able to be mounted on Linux. https://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/how-i-fixed-an-external-hard-drive-that-was-not-cleanly-unmounted-in-windows/. This will help out a user trying to to mount a Windows XP partition that was improperly shut down. This is very annoying…
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