Linus Torvalds Ted Talk Feb 2016

Linus Torvalds is the person behind Linux.

I will spare you the long bio details, if you are looking for that I suggest you to read his Wikipedia page Here



 

Linus Torvalds Ted Talk review and opinion

In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Linus Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," proclaims Torvalds. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."

This are two quotes from this great Ted talk. The video as 21.30 minutes so it is not a boring long interview at all. Everyone can and should take a look at it.

Linus Torvalds is no entertainer, he his a programmer. But the interview gives us access to the "Human" side of Torvalds and as great entertainment value, even if you are not into technology and Linux.

The interview takes us behind the story of how linux was created, and explain how and why Linus Torvalds as chosen to make Linux open source, instead of going the easier commercial route.

The big controversy point on the interview is when Linus Torvalds chooses Edison over Tesla

Personally I would take Tesla over Edison any day :) But Torvalds point was that Edison actually got the job done, while Tesla would have great ideas but no final product.

You can watch the video below, or just see it on the official TED webpage LINK

 

 

Best Internet Firewall

What is a Internet Firewall? 

An Internet firewall is a machine which is appended (generally) between your site and a wide area network. It gives you a controllable filtering of network activity, permitting selective access to certain internet port numbers (ie: benefits that your machine would somehow or another give to the network in general) and revokes the access to truly well everything else.

Different "kinds" of Firewalls are accessible for different types of networks.

Internet firewalls are a compelling "win big or bust" way to deal with managing external access security, and they have become extremely popular, with the rise of the Internet availability for everyone

Free Internet firewall Download

Here I will give you the download link for one of the best Firewalls for your computer:

Comodo Firewall

Comodo Firewall is a product from the Comodo Group. Comodo is a private American company dedicated to Computer Security. They offer a wide array of products ranging from Anti virus SSL certificates, Firewalls, Sandbox applications. Pretty much anything you may need to keep your Windows system safe.

The strong points of the Comodo firewall are:

• No complex configuration Issues — perfect for amateur users


• Quickly learns user behavior to deliver personalized protection


• User-friendly, attractive graphical interface


• Lots of configuration options let techies configure things just as they like


• DDP-based security keeps you informed and PCs safe

Free Download Here

Why to use a Firewall?

Vivaldi browser Download and Review

Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to the famous, but outclassed Opera web browser. And it was officially launched yesterday 06-04-2016

 

Some features:

- Vivaldi version 1.0 uses the Webkit/Blink layout engine also used by Google Chrome.

- Vivaldi browser is compatible with Windows, OS X and Linux.

- Distributed as freeware, but it is NOT Open source software.

[caption id="attachment_2271" align="aligncenter" width="300"] vivaldi browser start page[/caption]

This is the Wikipedia LINK

 

 

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Because it is so new, I still did not test the browser to exhaustion. But so far from what I have seen everything works great, but it is just another “skin” on top of the Google chrome browser.

I used to like Opera browser very much, while they were using the Presto engine, but since they left it and switched to google, they become just another extension in my opinion.

Security wise, I did not finish my tests, but since they are not FOSS (Free Open Source Software) I would not trust them at all to keep anything private.
Opera browser was well known from selling your browsing activities ( mobile browser, Turbo, etc).

Vivaldi browser will work for you as good as chrome does, with the added advantage of still supporting older OS versions like Windows XP, Vista and older OS X versions. Wich will enable the user too keep getting security updates on their system.

Vivaldi Browser Main features

Adaptive Interface – The color scheme from Vivaldi will adapt to your taste as much as you like, you can change everything, from colors to content placement, bookmark bar placement, etc.

Spatial Navigation – Vivaldi browser allows you to navigate the webpage using your keyboard, not only scrolling UP and DOWN, but also LEFT and RIGHT

Powerful Bookmarks – The Bookmarks feature was enhanced, now you can add tags to your bookmarks and set “nicks” for faster access

Web Panels – With Webpanels, you can “Dock” a Panel to the sidebar of Vivaldi. What this allows you to do, is for example to keep Facebook or Twitter open on the sidepanel, so you can follow any discussion you are engaged in, and still browse other webpages with ease.

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Now I leave you with the official Download Link

And Vivaldi Main page Link

 

Sources:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10228/vivaldi-web-browser-launches-with-version-10-built-for-power-users-of-the-web

https://vivaldi.com/

 

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Chess for linux – Jin review and Download

When you switch from Windows to Linux, you will miss some “commercial” software. To be completely honest most of them does not have a Linux version, but do not despair!

All software you run on Windows can eventually be run under Linux.

Unfortunately most of it as a big learning curve to be able to run correctly, and Chess for linux is no exception.
But despite that you can find good and free alternatives to get Chess for linux.



Today Iam going to guide you on how to obtain a chess client to play online on the FICS (Free Internet Chess Server)
There are a lot of different “clients” to play on FICS as you can see on their webpage LINK.



I choose Jin because it is really easy to set up, as a small learning curve, you just need to configure it once, create a link and that's it you can forget it is even there. This will be the easiest solution to get Chess for linux.

So lets start the tutorial to get Jin working with FICS

Jin Download and set-up tutorial

The first step is for you to create a FICS account.

You can do that by browsing to FICS webpage here LINK

Fill the form with First name, user name, email, etc (Be sure to use a real email because you need to click the activation link they are going to send)

Check your email, click the activation link.

Now you have a FICS account, but you still need the software to play chess online on your Linux distro.



 

Second step Download Jin.

To always get the latest version, you should proceed to the download through the official Jin website on this LINK

Click on Download Jin, it will start the download of a tar.gz file which works exactly as a ZIP file on Windows.

- After you download the file, open the folder that contains it. Right click and choose “extract here”

- Open the folder just created jin-2.14.1 or the version you got.

Double-click jin

Select the first option “Run in Terminal”

Choose the server (In this case the second one Free Internet Chess Server)

Login with your username and password.



 

And thats it Welcome to Jin and FICS :)

 

This are the most basic steps to get Jin up and running on your linux OS.

But there are some other important tweaks you should do to personalize your experience and make it easier to use:

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Create a Link to Jin on your Desktop

First of all, you do not want to navigate to Jin folder every-time you want to play it right?

Just like in other OS whe need to create a link to Jin application and drag it to your desktop.

To create a link using Linux the easiest way is just to grab the program with your mouse, drag it to where you wish while pressing Ctrl+Shift on your keyboard this will create a link to the file instead of creating a copy of the file.

 

Change the link Icon

When you create the link, the Icon it will show, will be the regular Shell command Icon. To change it to “Jin” Icon:

Right click the link on your desktop > select properties > click the icon on the properties page > browse to your Jin folder and click the Icon.

 

Personalize Jin behavior and feel

To change options like pre move and automatic promotion you need to open Jin.

Log in. Click on Preferences > Chess board… > Moves – And here you can select the Auto promotion option and the Moving in Advance select the (premove)

Feel free to mess around with the remaining menus and set everything to your own taste.



 

This is all there is to know to get Jin up and running on your Linux system

* When I first installed Jin I had a problem with sound delay. I would only listen to the piece move, a few seconds after it did. If this is happening to you. The probable cause is your JAVA version. The fix is simply to download Oracle Java, from your Linux Distro Repository, or from Oracle official Webpage Here: LINK



 

 

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Tails - Get your privacy back

Tails, because there is never too much security!

Almost all O.S. (Operating systems) like Windows, Mac, Ios, Ubuntu, Android, etc will track you and send your details to other persons.

This means that for you to become secure, first and foremost you will need to increase your privacy.

On this post I will guide you step by step on how to achieve this.
Following this steps, In the end you will get a fully working O.S. running on your computer from a pen drive!

The system that I will recommend you to use is named Tails, it is a Unix based system, specially design to keep your online activity anonymous.

You are going to need a Internet connection to download the ISO and a Pen drive (4gb is enough for what you will need)

Lets start with the instructions

Step by step guide to create a bootable Pen disk with Tails the anonymous system

end-to-end encryption

end-to-end encryption and its importance

Hello, this article will focus on end-to-end encryption. I will briefly explain what it is, why you should use it, and how to use end-to-end encryption to send your data.

Lets start with some basics:

End-to-end encryption means that data (including communications data) is encrypted at your end, and decrypted only at the intended recipient’s end. The important point is that no ‘middle man’ who can access your unencrypted data is involved. Because a middle man can always be regarded as suspect, end-to-end-encryption should be seen as an absolute must if you care about security.

A case in point is Microsoft, who while they encrypt all emails and files held in SkyDrive, also hold the encryption keys, and used these to unlock the emails and files of its 250 million worldwide users for inspection by the NSA. 

Basically, services that encrypt your data on their servers, rather than you encrypting your own data on your own machine, should be strongly avoided.

The terrifying scale of the NSA’s attack on public cryptography and its deliberate weakening of common international encryption standards has demonstrated that no proprietary software can be trusted; even software specifically designed with security in mind. It is now a proven fact that the NSA has co-opted or coerced hundreds of technology companies into building backdoors into their programs, or otherwise weakening security in order to allow the NSA access. US and UK companies are particularly suspect, although the reports make it clear that company’s across the world have acceded to NSA demands.

The problem with proprietary software is not just that as sole developers and owners, companies can be fairly easily approached and convinced to play ball with the NSA, but that their source code is kept secret, making it easy to add to or modify in dodgy ways without anyone noticing.

The best answer to this problem is to use free open source software (FOSS). Often jointly developed by disparate and otherwise unconnected individuals, the source code is available to everyone to examine and peer-review, thereby minimizing the chances that it has been tampered with. Ideally this code should also be compatible other implementations, in order to minimize the possibility of a back-door being built in.

It is of course possible that NSA agents have infiltrated open source development groups and introduced malicious code without anyone’s knowledge, and the sheer amount of code that many projects involve means that it is often almost impossible to fully peer-review all of it.

Still, despite these potential pitfalls, FOSS remains the most reliable and least likely to be tampered with software available, and if you truly care about privacy you should try to use it exclusively (up to and including using FOSS Operating Systems such as Linux).

On this Article I tell you how to obtain and use PGP to encrypt your files LINK

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Vikings discovered America NOT Columbo

Vikings discovered America NOT Columbo

Hello, this post is not 100% technology related, in it I will tell you about some very recent developments on Viking explorations (2 days old) and how Vikings discovered America much sooner then Columbo ever did.

The main accepted theory about who discovered America points to Christopher Columbos and his fleet of three ships. Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, who set sail from Spain in 1492, with the idea to reach India. But due to good fortune they found America instead.

This was mainly accepted as the first real exploration in American soil by foreign persons. It was! because recently proofs were found that the Vikings discovered America at least 500 years in advance from Columbo.

So from now on hopefully History books will start to get rewritten and show the real story.

[caption id="attachment_2130" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak, pictured here with BBC presenter Dan Snow, says she may have unearthed a second Viking settlement in North America.[/caption]

The archaeologists team that made this recent discovery, based their work on the Viking Sagas, and used satellite technology. With this discovery a new professional term is getting used "Space Archaeologist" and Iam starting to think about changing my job, just to have a business card saying that Iam a Space Archaeologist!

 

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Some quotes from the article:

A team of archaeologists say they’ve made a potentially “seismic” discovery in Canada that could “rewrite the history of Vikings in the New World” — and they did it with the help of medieval sagas and the latest satellite technology.

According to these stories, many of them featuring “larger-than-life heroes,” the Vikings had made the first European voyage to North America — at least 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

In the 1960s, archaeologists determined that a site on the northernmost tip of Newfoundland in Canada — L’Anse aux Meadows — had been a Viking settlement, established about a millennium before. The discovery changed the history of European exploration in the New World and proved the sagas were not simply works of fiction.

Thanks largely to the work of Sarah Parcak, a leading space archaeologist, evidence has been unearthed of a possible second Viking site in North America — and it’s located about 300 miles further south than L’Anse aux Meadows.

Link to source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/viking-discovery-canada-satellite_us_56fe36bfe4b0daf53aef5a26

 

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