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Introduction to DIY Home Server

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Abstract A home server can be extremely useful for managing your personal data like backing up your files, streaming your music, photos and videos and accessing locally installed services like webmail, webeditor, calendar, notes, contacts, finances and many more. This is an introductory article for a series of articles for building, deploying, securing, maintaining, troubleshooting … Read more

GPL, Creative Commons and human brain malwares.

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Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which property rights are recognized. Richard Stallman, the free software advocate, in his “Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It’s a Seductive Mirage ” article argues that, although the term intellectual property is in wide use, it should be rejected altogether, because it “systematically distorts and confuses these issues, and its use was and is promoted by those who gain from this confusion.” He claims that the term “operates as a catch-all to lump together disparate laws originated separately, evolved differently, cover different activities, have different rules, and raise different public policy issues.

Personally, I love the idea of sharing as quoted in GPL :

The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program–to make sure it remains free software for all its users.

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2Click Update version 5.6

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After a month of delay, for testing purposes, I am releasing the new version of 2Click Update (2cu) and 2cuCORE. This version is a result of collaboration and contribution by the community. I have to thank Nathan Douglas and Mark Obad for their contribution to the code of this version and the translations provided by the launchpad community.

Comparison: Ubuntu update manager and 2clickUpdate

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After publishing the 5.5.version of 2click Update, it got an unexpected attention by the community. Many referral links, reviews, code contribution, translations and some emails pointing in one general question:

what the heck does it do and why to use 2click Update when there is already Ubuntu Update manager available

After some mails talking about the reasons why 2click Update is better than “classic” update manager with Andrew, author of  Web Upd8 , I realized that many people could have the same questions that raised upon the discussion.  Let me give you a better description of  what makes 2click Update a “smart robot”(script).

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2click Update v5.5: Going Lightning with Axel

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I am pleased to announce that 2click Update version 5.5 of 5.X series is out. In this major release the entire structure of code has changed. The code is structured in a modular way so that every feature is just a module. Also a new feature is available that will automatically boost the downloading of upgrades in a way that traditional apt-get cannot. The new module is called Speed-apt.

Go grab the new version of 2clickUpdate 5.5 at the Download Page

Behind the scenes…

Not so long ago in WebUpd8 I came across with Axel, a simple piece of software that tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget clone on byte-critical systems.

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2click Update v5.3 Bug fix release

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Urgent Bug Fix Release and two more languages added : a) Fixed Bug affecting all previous releases : This bug prevents 2clickUpdate to show messages in user defined language even if user has copied the language pack of his/her choice. b) Added Russian and Spanish language pack. Now languages available are: Albanian Brazilian Portuguese Greek … Read more

2click Update 5.2

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With this version of 2click Update of 5.x series a fast translation method is introduced. You can now translate instantly this software into your local language in 2 minutes ! Just visit https://translations.launchpad.net/2clickupdate and start the translation in the most easy way ever made available. 2click Update is already available in 4 languages: Albanian by … Read more

2clickUpdate v5.1

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Dr Android ROM

I am pleased to announce the availability of a new series 5.x, the 5.1 version of 2clickUpdate. With this release I am trying a new approach internally (in terms of code) and structurally that will lead to a better expandable and maintainable software. Its possible that until the version 6, code will be changed in … Read more