ISO hunt would have to create a shadow copy of their illegal content and host it on this anonymous p2p webserver. Downside to this is that pages on their site would load slow and the database most likely would not update live.

anoNet

"anoNet is a decentralized friend-to-friend network, similar to Freenet in intent though not design. anoNet works by making it difficult to learn the identities of others on the network allowing them to anonymously host content and IPv4 services." --Wikipedia "In early 2005, a few people fed up with the way the Internet was heading, began in earnest to create a large wide area network that was secure and lived in its own space. On this new network anyone would be free to do as they saw fit - roam about, host services, or just be social without fear of being monitored or even worse censored. The first step to bring this network to fruition was to encrypt the information that normally travels across the Internet. What they ended up with is known as anoNet." --anoNet "It currently has webservers, ftp servers, wikis, DNS, search engines, email, webmail, IRC, IM, bittorrent, streaming audio. Basically if it is on the Internet, then it is on anoNet. We try to make sure that we have a replacement for any and everything that is on the Internet." --anoNet "IP addresses are anonymous. It's the link between the IP address and the user of the IP address that links it to you. Due to the structured nature of the Internet, it would be bad if two ISPs started to use the same ranges. Thus, ISPs register their networks with ARIN,RIPE, APNIC, etc. The ISPs also keep records of which IP they give out to who at a certain time. This means that, in theory, every IP address that is used is accountable for, and the end user can be named. If it were possible to use any IP address you liked for as long as you liked, there would be no way of knowing who was using it. 2 problems exist with this idea. The first is routing - how do you tell the Internet that IP address w.x.y.z is connected through ISP q, especially if the IP address you want to use isn't part of the range that ISP q normally uses. The second is that more than one person might try and use the same address at once. We get around the first problem by using a routing protocol. We use BGP on anoNet. BGP makes a much better routing protocol for untrusted networks - however, it requires that the two peers agree beforehand to exchange routing information. We deemed this as acceptable since your peers will already know your Internet IP. You also have the option of running OSPF to inject bogus routes that even your peers won't know are coming from you. The second problem, we overcame socially. We have a registration website that users claim a subnet and a BGP ASN on. Unlike the Internet where you have to give your real name when you register for IP address space or an ASN, you only stick your pseudonymn on your space (or just mark it is RESERVED). Now, this doesn't stop someone from using address space that isn't theirs. But we have ways of dealing with that. More details are on the wiki inside anoNet." --anoNet

Bookmark the link to your bookmarks bar. https://m.google.com/app/buzz?force=1

Then right click the bookmark and select properties.
Check the box that says load this bookmark in the sidebar.

This tool is very usefull for following the live stream. As we all know the Gmail version of Buzz is very jumpy and often scrolls a lot.

http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/03/30/stephanie-meyer-the-short-second-life-of-bree-tanner/

New ‘Twilight’ Book To Precede ‘Eclipse’ Premiere
Fans of Stephenie Meyer‘s ubiquitous
‘Twilight’ novels are about to receive an unexpected
treat: a brand new book.
According to Entertainment Weekly,
‘The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner’ is
scheduled to be released by Meyer’s publisher
Little, Brown and Company on June
5. That’s just in time to build even more
hype for ‘Eclipse,’ the third film adaptation
in the series, which is scheduled to land in
theaters on June 30.
Originally written as a side project to
help her flesh out characters while working
on the book version of ‘Eclipse,’ ‘The Short
Second Life of Bree Tanner’ clocks in at a
relatively slim 192 pages and “chronicles
the journey of villain Victoria’s newborn
vampire army as they prepare to close in on
Bella and the Cullens.” Meyer describes the
creation and publishing of the story as a
happy surprise.
“I never intended to publish this story as
a stand-alone book. I began this story a
long time ago — before ‘Twilight’ was even
released,” the author said in a statement on
her Web site. “Back then I was just editing
‘Eclipse,’ and in the thick of my vampire
world. I was thinking a lot about the newborns,
imagining their side of the story, and
one thing led to another. I started writing
from Bree’s perspective about those final
days, and what it was like to be a newborn.”
Fans who want to share that insight are
in for another happy surprise: In addition
to the hardcover version available at bookstores
for $13.99 (with one dollar from each
purchase going to charity in the form of the
American Red Cross International Response
Fund), the story will also be available
online completely free of charge.
That’s right — from June 7 until July 5, ‘The
Short Second Life of Bree Tanner’ will be
posted on breetanner.com for everyone to
read for free, an unusual gesture that Meyer
explains is a way to reward her loyal fan
base.
“You all have bought a ton of my books,
and
I wanted to give you this story as a gift.”
And for fans, there’s no doubt about it:
‘Twilight’
is the gift that keeps on giving.
‘The Second Life of Bree Tanner’ will be
available for sale at 12:01 AM on June 5 at
book stores around the country.

Public Skype Chat tonight at 8pm Eastern Public Skype Chat

Neofonie's WePad 11.6-inch Android Tablet - http://hothardware.com/News/Neofonie-WePad-Is-An-116-AndroidBased-iPad-Killer/

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Notion Ink Adam Tablet Caught On Video, Specs Finalized - ADAM - Gizmodo

But 2010 is the year of the Tablets and the Android and iPad war is at its beginning stages. No longer will we have to settle for the standard Startfleet issue Pad.
Its almost like 1985 all over again with Apple Vs Microsoft. Now its Apple Vs Android





Re-Align the ventral phase constrictors, No longer an issue with the New Android Tablets.










Archos 6 $199
Dell 5" Streak

ARCHOS

The best of web browsing, multimedia, live information, social networking and applications for in-home use for as little as $199 The ARCHOS 7 and the ARCHOS 8 home tablet are two new Android™-based multimedia tablets specifically designed for home use to enhance one’s digital lifestyle. The ARCHOS home tablet range bridges the gap between the Smartphone and the desktop PC to provide always-on access to the web and multimedia content in a large-screen format. Their screen sizes are 7” and 8” respectively. The ARCHOS home tablet are designed for use in the bedroom, the back yard or the kitchen – the hub of the modern home. Large, high resolution screens make them perfect devices for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, and much more. The new devices align with ARCHOS’ strategy to introduce innovative electronic products with extremely aggressive pricing. In this case, the first large-screen Android™ devices at affordable prices, starting from $199 . The ARCHOS home tablet create a new range of Android™ tablets based on an ARM 9 processor @ 600 MHz which will run alongside ARCHOS’ existing internet tablets, offering functions, features and applications suited to the home. A complete new range of ARCHOS internet tablet, based on an ARM Cortex up to 1 GHz, will also be launched in the summer of 2010 offering a richer set of features with screen sizes from 3” to 10”.

The ARCHOS 7 home tablet is the first 7’’ Android™ tablet to deliver the Internet and all the applications for your digital lifestyle whether you’re lying on the couch or you’re out and about, for a breakthrough price of just $199. The ARCHOS 7 home tablet sports a 7’’ touch screen and a slim form factor of only 12 mm thick. Weighing approximately 350 g (0.8 Ibs), the ARCHOS 7 home tablet is extremely portable and can be easily carried around the home. With the ARCHOS 7 home tablet, users will always be in touch with the world around them through easy access to information services such as news, weather and local business directories. The video player software provides a great movie and YouTube™ viewing experience. With built-in Wi-Fi, the ARCHOS 7 home tablet can easily be connected to a home network, while the built-in USB connection makes transferring files from a PC or a USB stick simple. This tablet consumes power at a very modest rate thus allowing up to 7 hours of video playback and up to 44 hours of music from a full battery charge. The ARCHOS 8 home tablet is the first 8’’ home digital device to help keep the family connected to each other. The ARCHOS 8 home tablet is perfect for displaying family pictures through the digital photo frame application, for web browsing and accessing web services. At just 12 mm in thickness and weighing around 400 g (0.9 Ib), the ARCHOS 8 is a product that’s equally at home in the kitchen, in the living room, office or entry. Instant on for quick web searches, social network updates, photos and videos. The ARCHOS 8 home tablet offers far more than just picture or video viewing. Services such as Cookineo, a cooking recipes app, local weather information and business directories simplify household chores and help users to plan their schedules. At the same time, email, social networking services and a family calendar application help the family to keep in touch and schedule their lives with just one tap of the screen.

A Pentium II or Celeron system with 128 Mb RAM is probably a bottom-line configuration that may yield slow yet usable system with Lubuntu. It should be possible to install and run Lubuntu with less memory, but the result will likely not be suitable for practical use.

Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 hands-on

In episode 6 of our podcast we asked the question, "should netbook manufacturers standardise on a single distro?" Well, as netbook manufactuers continue to find ever more obscure distros to fit onto their systems, Canonical has stepped into the fray wielding a mighty cluestick: Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR).
When we interviewed Mark Shuttleworth a few weeks ago, he agreed that Ubuntu was late into the netbook arena. But the arrival of Jaunty Jackalope means that UNR has finally seen an official release, so there are lots of questions that need answering: how is it different from normal Ubuntu? How well does it work on average netbooks? And, most importantly, is it any good?
If you've already read our group test of netbook distros and want to know what Ubuntu can do to pull ahead ahead of the pack, you can read our full review of Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix below. Read on!
Lots of people loved it, just as many hated it, but few can doubt that Asus changed the computing world with the original Eee PC. Suddenly you can could get the functionality of A Real PC out of a laptop you could slip into your bag and still have room for lunch and a good book. Sure, it might have looked like something Toys 'R' Us would produce, but the Eee PC 701 has been followed by dozens of other devices that add more style, more power and more refinement.
But, despite having an early lead, Linux managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and Windows XP has managed to forge a home for itself on netbook devices. In fact, at the computer store nearest to TuxRadar HQ, nearly all the netbooks ship with Windows as standard, and most of them don't have a Linux option.
Part of the problem people were facing with Linux was that it simply wasn't Windows - they wanted their Start menu, they wanted My Computer and they wanted Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org, good as it is, just doesn't cut it if someone is looking for the ribbon toolbar from Office 2007. Another problem was that some of the netbooks were ridiculously oversold. The Eee PC 701, for example, was marketed as being a great laptop for photographers on the move, which is remarkable given that it came with nothing more than mtPaint.
But by far the biggest problem with Linux netbooks was that too much stuff just didn't work out of the box. People don't know what codecs are and they don't care. What they want is to be able to double-click on an MP3 and have it play. They want to watch kitten videos on YouTube. Someone called us once because they were having trouble installing Skype on their Acer Aspire One - they were double clicking a setup.exe file and, unsurprisingly, nothing was happening.
Thanks to its aggressive marketing, we all know that Ubuntu is "Linux for human beings", but can the Wizards of Polish really take the bruised and fragmented Linux market and make it work? Yes, they can.

Perfect out of the box

One of the major advantages Apple has in the market is that it controls the hardware and the software, which means it can test things on very limited hardware configurations and be sure it works for everyone. With netbooks, Ubuntu has the same happy situation: the vast majority use Intel's Atom CPU, have 1GB of RAM, onboard graphics and a fairly standard wireless network card. As a result, UNR does something desktop Linux rarely manages: it looks great out of the box.
We don't mean it has nicer colours, prettier icons or nicer widgets. Instead, we mean if you hover icons they grow a little larger. When you click one, it spins around to show it has been activated. Menus fade in and out, and real alpha transparency is there as standard. You don't get wobbly windows or other Compiz frippery - instead, the effects are subtle and easy on the eye, constantly reminding you that just because the laptop is cheap it doesn't mean it's no good.
But UNR doesn't stop there. Canonical recommends that netbook manufacturers purchase Windows Media Audio and Video codecs before shipping devices to customers, and makes it easy to purchase licences for MPEG4 (H.263), MP3 and AAC as well. Adobe Flash, Acrobat Reader, Java and Skype are all also easily installed.
All this may make hardcore Free Software advocates gnash their teeth, but ultimately it means that more users have more positive experiences with their new Linux netbooks, and that's crucial to helping spread the word that Linux isn't scary/broken/rubbish.
And, of course, it comes with Ubuntu's now ubiquitous brown, albeit the darkest shade yet.

What's special about Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Following the trend set by Asus and Xandros back with the Eee PC 701, UNR makes it very easy to run programs by listing all the available applications directly on your desktop. But where the Eee split programs up into categories such as Work, Learn and Play, UNR sticks with Gnome's standard category breakdown of Accessories, Graphics, Sound & Video and more. But it breaks with style in three important ways:

• It has a Favourites menu with the most commonly run apps - you can also drop things in there for later access.
• Preferences and Administration are easily accessible, being placed beneath the other menu items.
• Regardless of which menu category you view, common folders from your filesystem are always visible on the right.

Even though the menus are presented as flat tabs, they still use the standard menu format so you can edit them using Alacarte, and any software you add using Synaptic or apt-get is automatically added.
But the real surprise comes when you launch any program, because they nearly all launch automatically maximised and with their window decoration (the brown bar at the top) removed. This behaviour - powered by a background daemon called Maximus - is a simple and pragmatic attempt to save screen estate, because the most common screen resolution on netbooks is 1024x600 so the screen real estate is very limited.
Instead of window decorations, UNR launches programs as if they were browser tabs. Every app that's running is shown in a small icon along the top left of the screen, whereas the currently activated window takes up the remainder of the space and is clearly highlighted. Losing the window decoration in this way clearly only saves 25 pixels or so, but part of the magic of UNR is that work has been put in to save pixels everywhere and eventually all those savings add up: you really do get more data on your screen with UNR.
Not every app benefits from being maximised using Maximus - Gtk's system of making widgets fit their allocated space makes some apps look distorted and hard to use. Fortunately, none of these ship with UNR as standard, which means that users coming to Linux the first time won't have any problems. But if you're a more advanced user and decide that Cheese, F-Spot and OOo Draw don't cut it in the Graphics category, you may find that some of the more obscure packages in Synaptic don't look quite right.
We should point out that Update Manager does not get automatically maximised, so it's clear that there are workarounds in place. Earlier test versions of UNR had each palette in The Gimp being maximised, but that small flaw has been fixed now.
Continuing to follow Asus's lead, UNR doesn't have virtual desktop enabled by default. On the one hand we can absolutely understand that virtual desktops would confuse newbies (although Apple managed to make it digestible by giving it the catchy name "Spaces"), but on such a small screen virtual desktops must surely be more of an advantage than ever.

What sucks about Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Even though it's head and shoulders above most other netbook distros, UNR still needs more work. Yes, we know it's only the first official release, but every distro has some litte niggles in that can be improved. And with UNR the biggest problem really does come back to Maximus - we love the idea, and on the whole it works just fine. But when you run a program that wasn't really designed to be run in full screen and Maximus hasn't been told to leave it alone, it doesn't look too good.
A small mitigation to this is that you can right-click on any window tab and tell Maximus to Unmaximise it, but the next time you ran that same program it would be maximised as before. If Maximus were smart enough to remember that you didn't want that app maximised previously, this wouldn't be a problem.
Another problem with Maximus is that it makes some day-to-day operations a bit clumsy - drag and drop, for example, is done by picking up files, hovering approximately over the 32x32-pixel icon for the tab you want to drop it onto (which is neatly obscured because the thing you're dragging is over it), then waiting a second for the tab to automatically change. It's precarious at best, but could easily be fixed by making dragging icons partly transparent so you can aim more precisely.
The only other problem - also minor - is Gnome's viciously slow code for reading icons, which is compounded by the fact that UNR won't change tabs until the icons for that tab have been loaded. Although SSDs ought to leave hard drives in their dust, lower-end netbooks appear to come with SSDs that have been dipped in treacle - OpenOffice.org Writer loads in a respectable 12 seconds on our Aspire One, but changing tabs for the first time can take up to two seconds. And installing a couple of hundred megs of system updates? It's almost slow enough that you're tempted to run older, broken apps than sit through the process.
To be fair, these aren't Ubuntu's problems. Yes, having a holding throbber in place while loading icons would help, but slow SSDs will act as a speedbump for any distro.

Your software selection

Content in the knowledge that most netbooks ship with at least 4GB of space, Ubuntu Netbook Remix weighs in at a rather rotund 2.1GB for its default install. This will of course be hugely irritating to people with 2GB Eee PCs, but with many netbooks now packing 160GB hard drives clearly the first-gen netbooks are in the minority.
Thanks to blithely ignoring the 2GB limit, UNR comes with OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Evolution, Pidgin, Totem and lots of other Gnome mainstays. And, yes, that includes Mono: Tomboy and F-Spot are both present and correct. In fact, the only noticeable absence was The Gimp, perhaps because few people are likely to want to do any serious art production on a netbook. That said, it's an apt-get away, so anyone who wants it isn't being held back. Cheese, the Gnome webcam app, worked perfectly out of the box on our Acer Aspire One, again contributing to the slick user experience that is the standard in UNR.
Behind the scenes, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 is just like any other Jaunty Jackalope release, which means it comes with the stylish new notification dialogs that pop up in the top-right corner when something important happens. But it also means you can switch back to the standard Ubuntu desktop if you want to, with the panels along the top and bottom as you would normally expect in Gnome. One tip, though: make sure you close any windows before changing back to the netbook view, because they can easily get hidden!

Get Ubuntu Netbook Remix from normal desktop Ubuntu

The transformation from Netbook Remix to standard Ubuntu isn't one way: if you're running the standard desktop edition of Ubuntu 9.04 you can switch to a netbook interface quite easily, but be warned: it might take a little effort to return your desktop to the way it was!
Warning: if you're using Compiz (aka "desktop effects") please turn it off now. UNR doesn't need them, and in fact it may collide with its own deskop effects system.
First, bring up a terminal window and run this command:

sudo apt-get install go-home-applet human-netbook-theme maximus netbook-launcher window-picker-applet

When you enter your password, that command will pull in various dependencies required to make UNR work. Now reboot your PC, and you should come back to a desktop that has the two largest parts of UNR working - the netbook-launcher app (the thing that now owns your desktop) and maximus, the window maximiser. But this is only the beginning of the transformation - to get the full effect, you should do the following:

1. Remove from the top panel the Ubuntu menu (Applications/Places/System) from the left and the switch user applet from the right, plus any app launchers you don't want. Just right-click on things and choose Remove From Panel to get rid of them.
2. Right-click on the top panel, choose Add to Panel, then add Go Home and Window Picker, moving them to the left and centre of the panel respectively.
3. Remove the bottom panel entirely - right-click and choose Delete This Panel.
4. Now go to System > Preferences > Appearance and choose the Human-Netbook theme.

So... what do we think?

We've explained how it works, we've told you what it includes, and we've even shown you how you can try it today without installing a new distro. But this still leaves the question "is it any good?" And here's the answer: yes. We're really grateful to Asus for kicking off the netbook market, and its simplified user interface isn't totally disconnected from UNR's.
But what we like about UNR is that Canonical has managed to totally rethink the way screen real estate is used while also building upon established Linux standards. The window tab system isn't a hack; it's just an applet for Gnome panel. The application quick launcher doesn't store its own database; it just reads the same .desktop files as any other menu system.
And yet these are the sorts of features most people won't notice - at least not directly. Instead, when added to the visual gloss that's enabled as standard, Ubuntu Netbook Remix just feels good to use because you know a lot of thought has gone into its design, and a lot of polish has gone into its production.
The only truly scary thing is that this is Canonical's first foray into the netbook world, and already it's kicked competitors into touch. Sure, Ubuntu haters won't go near it, but everyone else with a netbook needs to give UNR a try because we think you won't be disappointed.

VirtualBox

Its either Wine or This for me so I will just go with a virtual install of xp inside of ubuntu.

Debian Admin--Debian/Ubuntu Linux System Administration Tutorials,Howtos,Tips

I was trying to add a repository to synaptic and I entered some wrong information. Now Everytime I try to load synaptic it crashs.


Can anybody tell me where the synaptic config file is so I can edit in manually and remove the repo i tried to add.

Honestly I hope she wins.

Lazy slop, I can stand when ppl try and cook dinner in 15 minutes and use instant potatoes. Take your time and cook some real potatoes you lazy asses!!!

Anybody ever tried this. Before I can move my slow ass desktop pc to xbuntu I need to test it out and make sure all of the hardware is going to work.

I want to use this windows installer to install to my external western digital HD before I actually wipe windows and install it to the internal HD.

This program is kick ass for novice linux users and first timers. I got it working great on my notebook but its installed to the main HD.

Techs Palace: Multiple profile in Google Chrome in Ubuntu

Multiple profile in Google Chrome in Ubuntu

I'm talking on basis of Ubuntu. This may or may not work in other OS.
You can use Google Chrome with multiple profile to:

• Open different email address at once. For eg: open abc@gmail.com in one window and xyz@gmail.com in another
• Separate personal stuff and your work stuff
• Allow your family member to login without you signing out

These are the main reasons I use multiple profile in google-chrome. If you don't want to go through this hassles, you can always open multiple browsers.
For case in point you are browsing facebook.com and your sister wants to open the same site for quick check, you can either open different browser or open the same browser that has different profile. (or open in private mode too)

Both my favorite browsers Chrome and Firefox supports multiple profile. For now I'll write instructions for Chrome:

1. Right click your panel, select add to panel and select custom application launcher (if you want to add in panel)
   or
   Right click the menu, select edit menus and click new item (if you want to add to menu)
2. Fill it as:

• Type: Application
• Name: Google Chrome Profile A
• Command: google-chrome --user-data-dir=/home/userName/.config/google-chrome/newProfile (the text in picture isn't correct)
3. Click close
4. Thats it folks.

Ubuntu | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

If I had the equipment I would need something like this to seep all the fat in-laws that have moved in with me.I don't cook small meals. I always cook enough so that 9 people can have second helpings. What really sucks are the days I have to be out late running errands and I come home to a fozen 1lbs hamburger loaf. WTF am I suppose to do with this. Nobody bothered to start cooking before 7pm. SMACKTARDS.

The about that time the 3 seperate families that live in my house begins to cook 3 seperate meals. Six people standing in the kitchen , fighting over who gets to use the big pot next.

When I cook, Its not something I try and be lazy about. I take my time and let things come out just right. These in-laws thing that Ramen noodles and hot dogs constitutes a meal.


Oh and don't try to make a cheesecake around these fat asses or something sweet. It will get en hailed like a fucking scooby snack.