Rupert Murdoch wants money twice for reading his news.

BBC News – Google to limit free news access

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has decided he needs more money so will charge everyone to read his online news, imagine passing your copy of your newspaper to a mate and then asking for the cover price again?

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Police arresting people without eveidence for there Super DNA Database

Apparently “The Human Genetics Commission, which advises the government on the social, legal and ethical aspects of genetics, called for a review of the database and said new laws must be passed to govern its use”
You don’t say, just a quick reminder for those who have forgotten, in the U.K we have this weird thing where you are “INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY” now whats hard to understand about that ? nothing from our point of view but we can now be arrested for failing to give a DNA sample, now that is hard to understand when you are innocent.
Nobody should be forced into going to a Police station where they will be held down by “several” large Police officers (there words) and a DNA sample taken. Its disgusting and it’s another so called “anti terror” law.

Tony Blair you are the worst of the worst, since offering to do anything the US asks us and backing them on any venture they go on we have had to accept these new laws to control us. You gave away our rights so you and George Bush could be friends and still insist on calling yourself a “Christian”

Terror, i’ll tell you what terror is, it’s when you can no longer trust the Police or your Government to actually be on your side.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/audio/2009/nov/27/guardian-daily-podcast

Police making arrests ‘just to gather DNA samples’

U.K. cops arrest people ‘just for the DNA’ – Europe- msnbc.com

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Microsoft – Rumours of our Black Screen of Death are greatly exagerated

Nice, the epruption over Microsoft’’s “Black Screen of Death” seems to be that NO its not related to any Security Updates but YES, “we do know that ‘black screen’ behavior is associated with some malware families such as Daonol.” My mate Aiden had already reported that of the hundreds of Microsoft PC’s that have passed through the company he works for (poor lad) they have NEVER had the “Black Screen of Death” issue, unless caused by faulty graphics drivers.

Microsoft’s MSRC reveals there take on it.

So 1] PREVX when you dislike “proprietary” software as much as us please give us well researched facts,  ie; discuss Windows problems with MS first.
     2] Everyone Else Use a strong operating system in the first place and keep it updated, any version of SELinux should do.

Malware suspected of “Black Screen” issue

‘Black screen of death’ for some Windows users – Security- msnbc.com

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What’s the easiest Backup software for linux – Back up your stuff, NOW!

Well at first glance they all appear to need a lot of dependencies satisfying so i’m going to look for something more like a complete package, after all if you are in a hurry to perform a back up you really don’t need to be attempting to check your system first for things like that, you just need to back up now !
So “Simple Linux Backup” is not going to be simple from our point of view. What about “Back in Time” now this looks more like it. So download the file either by clicking HERE and fetching the pre compiled easy “deb” file and the common file or if you are hardcore typing;
wget http://backintime.le-web.org/download/backintime/backintime-0.9.26_src.tar.gz
in a terminal.
So if you took the easy way
You can double click the backintime-common-0.9.26_all.deb and install and then double click backintime-gnome-0.9.26_all.deb and install that, now go to Applications/System Tools/Backintime and backup your stuff NOW!
If you took the hardcore root (tee hee) follow the instructions below;
O.K lets open the archive and see whats inside, “right click” the backintime-0.9.26_src.tar.gz archive and select “extract here” double click on the folder and you should see something like the picture below.

Double click the “README” file and when prompted with the following message select display

The bit that’s relevant to us is this

Now you need to open a terminal (if you haven’t already) and type those commands for your Desktop Manager ie: GNOME or KDE, i’m using GNOME so I type the usual 3 commands from the GNOME sub directory

./configure
make
sudo make install

remember to assume root for the last command by typing “sudo”

when it has completed type “backintime” and backup your stuff NOW!

Hope that helps and please comment with any alternatives you may have used.

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Install this Festive Snow Theme in Linux in 3 easy steps

Yes I know it’s a bit early for getting all christmasy but I found this lovely theme that I had never got around to installing and thought i’d give it a whirl.
You will need both of the following files.
Download the archives (zip’s)
Snow Theme
LighthouseBlue GTK Theme engine
In most installations you can just right click your desktop click “change desktop background” and select the “theme” tab then you will see a button at the bottom marked “install” click that and then select the files you downloaded. You can customise your themes further by clicking “customise”

I think it will probably last until twelfth night but we’ll see if I can stand that much festiveness, is that a real word, I wouldn’t think so.

Make your ASUS eeePC Easypeasy

According to Easypeasy’s wiki ;

” easypeasy is an operating system optimized for netbooks. It favors the best software available by delivering Firefox with Flash and Java, Skype, Google Picasa, Banshee, codecs (ie. mp3) etc. out of the box. easypeasy 1.5 is our latest stable release and was released September 7th, 2009.”
According to me it’s a really easypeasy operating system to use that does everything from the first time you boot it up. The Wireless connection is ready for you, the Function Keys work (most of them, I couldn’t actually switch off the wireless). Out on the internet and Flash websites work, MP3’s play it all “just works”.

Of course it’s not actually FREE as in FREEDOM but if you can live with that and need to be up and running on your eeePC fast it’s definitely worth a look.

Key sequence to boot from USB or External CDRom on an ASUS eeePC

If you are reinstalling your operating system or even just trying different versions on your ASUS eeePC then you may need to select the boot device or your eeePC will keep starting up from the internal drive.
Press the “esc” key after powering on the eeePC, you may need to tap the key a couple of times. You will then be taken to an options screen where you can select the device to boot from ie: USB or CD/DVDRom whichever contains your new distribution.

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Check the temperature of your eeePC CPU with this nifty little command or Is your ASUS eeePC all hot and bothered ?

Check the temperature of your eeePC CPU with this nifty little command;

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ00/temperature

this is another one of those quick commands you can fire off in a console to get instant information and it’s another one of the reason’s I could never go back to using Windows.

I should point out that this command was issued from within the Easypeasy eeePC distribution not Xandros etc. so i’ll check further on that and your mileage may vary etc. etc.

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Can Twitter save the Planet ask Stephen Fry

I like Stephen Fry and I applaud his efforts, however I think he maybe too distanced from the world now when he says Twitter will prove to be a “triumph of humanity.”
Now, they smashed up the bus stop near us and graffitied the school walls and i’m just wondering how Twitter might have helped there? I doubt if the perpetrators would know how to send a Tweet and the chances of them having a device to send it from are even less likely.
I think the problem is that for a lot of us we forget we are fortunate enough to have this technology but thousands do not and therefore cannot be part of a future involving technology.

Stephen Fry attacks ‘malevolent’ comments following Twitter spat | Media | guardian.co.uk

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Wired Magazine claim Google Chrome OS should be more Microsoft compatible, sigh…

I think Brian Chen may be just winding us up in this article where he complains about Open Source/FREE software not being compatible with MS Office formats. Now even I know that Microsoft’s version of a document standard is completely different to every one else’s, so what is needed is Microsoft to make MS Office compatible with the Open Document standard.
Come on Brian there are enough people trolling Linux users without you taking a cheap shot across the bow as well.

Why Google Should Cool It With Chrome OS | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

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