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CrashPlan: A Good – but Not Perfect – Linux Backup Plan

CrashPlan is an automated backup system that does the job, but it’s not without its pitfalls. The software offers a cross-platform backup solution that’s reliably easy to use once you configure the software. Installing it to your Linux system, however, is anything but user-friendly. More than a few Linux users will emerge looking for a less-finicky solution. In addition, while the developer, Code 42, appears to adhere to the open source philosophy, you will face a big challenge if you try to locate the source code.

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Btrfs In 2014: RAID5/RAID6, Data Deduplication

Samsung’s F2FS isn’t the only Linux file-system receiving new features but the Btrfs developers are currently baking some new treats of their own…

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10 MySQL Database Interview Questions for Beginners and Intermediates

In our last article, we’ve covered 15 Basic MySQL Questions, again we are here with another set interview questions for intermediate users. As we said earlier these questions can be asked in Job Interviews. But some of our critics on the last article said, that I don’t give response to…

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The Linux 3.13 Kernel Has Many Improvements

With development dragging on for the Linux 3.13 kernel until the middle of January, here’s a recap of some of the most important changes that landed into Linux 3.13 that either provided new features, performance improvements, or are worth noting for one reason or another. There’s also a rundown of all the Linux kernel benchmarks we’ve done on this new kernel to date…

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OpenSaaS and the Future of Government IT Innovation

OpenSaaS and Government IT

In recent years, open source software projects, and, separately, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) products have begun to significantly disrupt traditional technology vendor business models in government, making it easier and cheaper for governments to procure and implement the software solutions they need.

Now, OpenSaaS—SaaS based on open source code—is poised to accelerate this trend.

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MSI Laptop Reviews

Buying something for the futuristic needs is always hard as it involves a lot of prudence, technology know-how, gaming needs and future gaming trends. If you are deficient in any one of these, you are sure to buy a laptop that will need replacement or, at least, up-gradation in the near future.

Millions of people buy gaming laptops and other gaming gadgets every month across the globe. Mostly, they have little knowledge about the gaming computers and they would buy the very computer that impresses them by its look. At the most, layman would compare the weights, processor speed, storage, etc. This is due to the reason that they have little knowledge about computers, their capabilities and capacities. They may also be unaware of the 3D gaming needs of the computers. This leads them to pay more and more money for having a gaming laptop that may not equate the worth of their money. They are sure to replace this type of computer within the next few years.

The msi gaming laptop is built with the desire to give people a high sounding laptop that exhibits the topnotch features and that has a futuristic design and technology. You will feel a difference after using it if you have previously been using some other gaming laptops or computers.

Talking about the myriads of features, we can say that the msi gaming laptop is a feature-rich computing device that is meant for facilitating your gaming requirements. It caters to your future needs and will be there with its 3D graphics card to display the most stunning events of the game that you like to play.

The msi gaming laptop bears the weight of 2.4kg, storage capacity of 128 GB SanDisk SDSSF212 SSD+ 1 TB Western Digital WD 10JPVX-22J HDD, sound quality with Realtek ALC892 with SoundBlaster Cinema enhancement, 16 GB DDR3 (2 x 8 GB SODIMM) RAM, Intel Core i7-4700MQ Quad-Core @ 2.4 GHz (Turbo Boost up to 3.4 GHZ) processor, BD Combo (DVD-RW) optical drive, Windows 8, 64 bit operating system, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4 GB GDDR5 RAM graphics card and 15.8-Inch 1920×1080 LED Anti-glare matte screen display. The laptop is accessible in the 383 x 249.5 x 37.6mm dimensions. Moreover, it has the Intel Fourth Gen HM87 and a Bluetooth 4.0.

It is difficult to choose another laptop if the msi gaming laptop is available in town. We can also buy it from online companies that are working to facilitate the global sellers as well as the buyers.

The world has become a global village in the true sense of the word as many people across the globe enjoy playing their games on the World Wide Web by using their laptops or other computing devices. The msi gaming laptop promises a new life style for you. It lets you enjoy the games that you love the most. Once it is there before you with its stunning look, you can not help buying it straightaway without any hesitation around.

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Linksys WRT54G Reborn, with 802.11ac and More

Linksys is resurrecting the hackable Linksys WRT54G router in a new WRT1900AC model, with dual-band 802.11ac, a dual core CPU, and open source Linux code. Before there were open source development boards and phones, one of the most popular playpens for embedded Linux hackers was the Linksys WRT54G WiFi router. It was one of the […]

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Raspberry Pi: Hands-on With RISC OS

A unique alternative operating system – not a Linux based one, but one with a long history.

Fedora 21 Won’t Be Released Before August

While hat wearing Linux users are excited at large this morning about Red Hat partnering with CentOS, there’s some unfortunate news if you’re hoping for a new Fedora Linux release in the next few months…

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Linux 3.14 To Have PRIME Support For NVIDIA Tegra

PRIME rendering support is coming to the open-source NVIDIA Tegra graphics driver with the Linux 3.14 kernel…

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