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Rapidshare Terminates Accounts of Illegal Downloaders
By You on Wednesday March 24th 2010 03:34 | Category: Web
For many years Rapidshare was considered to be a safe way for people to download copyrighted content without having to face repercussions. Recently, however, the company has been actively going after users that upload or download copyrighted files through the service by terminating accounts and logging IP-addresses for legal purposes.
In common with BitTorrent and other file-sharing services, Rapidshare has steadily increased its user base in recent years. The site has hundreds of millions of visitors each month and is listed among the 50 most-used sites on the Internet.
Like most file-hosting services, Rapidshare is hosting a wide range of music, movies and music files that are distributed without the consent of the rightsholders. This has dragged the company’s bosses into several lawsuits with copyright holders already, most recently they were ordered to proactively filter 148 book titles to avoid jail time and huge ... Complete article
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The Ubuntu Music Store is now live
By You on Monday March 22nd 2010 03:24 | Category: Software
Lucid Beta testers can rejoice because the Ubuntu Music Store is now live and open for business. If you're into legal music distribution this just might be your highlight of the week.
Even though the Ubuntu music store is realy nothing more than just 7digital with a little juice and some nice Rhythmbox integration many people (including me) have been waiting for it to open up and let us enjoy a sneek preview of the many great things to come.
I have to say I'm not dissapointed at all on behalf of the way it looks.. it looks realy tightly integrated into Rhytmbox, almost as if it had to be there in the first place. I'm still a bit let down by the overall bitrate quality of the music itself (most of the albums are 256kbp/s) but I'm sure they'll work on that once business ge... Complete article
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New Ubuntu themes available in latest Alpha 3 update
By You on Friday March 5th 2010 03:05 | Category: Software
Yesterday Ubuntu made an announcement concerning a major overhaul of their artwork and branding. A new logo and website were announced as well as two default themes, well these themes are now available through the ubuntu-artwork package update.
The newly announced Ubuntu themes have just been made available through the Ubuntu Lucid Alpha repositories.
Simply run:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
and you're solid! Please make sure you're not on a stable build (i.e. Karmic or Jaunty..) cause then a dist-upgrade could render your system unstable.
The new themes can then be found in your 'appearance' menu under the 'themes' dialog.
The themes are called 'radiance' (light version) and 'ambiance' (dark version).
Go check it out!
Do you like it? let us know!
OMG! Bandcamp is the new muxtape
By You on Monday February 8th 2010 02:18 | Category: Web
Bandcamp is a new music platform for bands to show off their creations, nothing new you might say. However Bandcamp differs itself by offering music in high quality audio instead of the pitty excuse for sound most band sites are offering.
We at Softsaurus love music, in a way it guides us through life... well you can make up all kinds of bullshit on music but the fact is that it should just sound right. With the current costs of drive space compression is almost rendered useless, if you run out of space just buy some more.. why listen to medioker MP3 quality if you can listen to FLAC or OGG files instead?
However many online music platforms still offer these highly compressed audio files and some even dare ask money in return. Music should be sold at CD quality, after all who would buy a 128KB/s Compact Disk, strangely enou... Complete article
Install firefox 3.6 stable on Linux in two steps
By You on Thursday January 28th 2010 01:49 | Category: Tutorials
Installing Firefox on Linux can be a painful process if you´re new to the platform. Although Firefox comes installed by default on nearly every distro you might just want to install the latest and greatest version 3.6 and keep it up to date. Well here's how to do it.
This tutorial applies only to distro's with the 'aptitude' package manger (apt-get) and focuses on Ubuntu in general.
There are several ways to install Firefox but by far the easiest way is adding the official Firefox-stable PPA to your repositories.
1) Add the PPA to your repositories:
if you're on Ubuntu Karmic or later you're fine using just this snippet and paste it into an open terminal window:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable/ppa
WARNING: only if the previous line didn't work out for you.. else skip to step 2... Complete article
ISP Stands Up For Torrent Site Owner's Privacy
By You on Sunday January 17th 2010 01:59 | Category: Web
The Swedish ISP TeliaSonera is refusing to comply with a court ruling ordering the company to hand over information identifying the owner of SweTorrents. Instead, it has appealed the decision, arguing that the verdict is in violation of the European data retention directive and claiming that SweTorrents doesn’t host any copyrighted files.
In conjunction with the local anti-piracy outfit Antipiratbyrån, three movie companies took legal action last year in an attempt to obtain the personal details of the owner of the SweTorrents BitTorrent tracker.
They asked the Södertörn District Court to demand that TeliaSonera give up the information because SweTorrents was infringing on their copyrights. The application was made under the IPRED legislation introduced earlier that year, which was put in place to make it easier for copyright holders to track down and identify potential copyright infringers.
In December, the Court rule... Complete article
Official Ubuntu Desktop Support For Home Users
By You on Wednesday January 6th 2010 01:09 | Category: Software
Trust me to miss the memo, but somewhere along the line Canonical started selling support services to home users as well as businesses and enterprises via the official Ubuntu Store. Before your eyes gloss over in fear of thousand-dollar fee's, the price structure is quite competitive and would be more than tempting for a weary newbie who wanted the security of help down a phoneline.Windows Support
Daring to utter the 'M' word - Microsoft - it's worth nothing that Windows OS does come with very basic free support - however in a roundabout way you're still paying for it by having to buy the OS in the first place. Canonical are just tipping the scales the opposite way - a free OS with paid support.
"Buy telephone and email support to help you install, personalise and configure your desktop to your own needs, whether you are a beginner or a proficient Linux user." ~ Canonical Store
In theory no one need pay for support at all thanks to the indomitable helpfulness of the Ubuntu Forums but ... Complete article
Chromium now blends in perfectly with Gnome
By Fabio on Saturday November 14th 2009 11:14 | Category: Software
Chromium has come a long way since the early builds just a few months back. It has gained theme, extension and flash support along with other fine features it's coming together nicely. Although until now Chromium just didn't seem to fit in well with my Gnome environment, but all that has changed.
Almost from the very start Chromium has offered the ability to use your GTK theme to make the browser blend in with your everyday system.
Even though the feature to match the GTK theme has been available for a while it didn't seem to work out for me.
It did try to put together a few of my themes colors and used the native window manager but it's only since the latest build that it actually does this to the point that you can't even tell this once was that bright blue sports car called Chromium.
Very nice job by the Chromium dev team, it now integrates really well and it's slowly but s... Complete article
Howto: run Jinzora on your Synology NAS
By Fabio on Monday November 2nd 2009 11:12 | Category: Tutorials
I can't even tell you how much trouble I've went through to get a decent music server like Jinzora (or any for that matter) to work on my Synology CS407e but now that I did I thought I'd share it with you guys.
I'm pretty sure (google) I'm not the only one that had to deal with open_basedir restrictions and headers that got sent halfway round the world and back. Well turns out the solution is 'as always' easier than you'd think. I'll run you through it in a few snack sized steps.
The following steps apply to Jinzora 2.8 Obsidian on a CS407e Synology device although it should work for all Synology NAS servers.
Step 0 - Enable SSH acces on your Synology device
Since your NAS is a remote system you must find a way to control it externally, SSH is a great way to do so, however telnet is als... Complete article
Strange Wiki page Powned Youtube.com
By Fabio on Friday October 30th 2009 10:37 | Category: Web
Strange as it may seem, some Wiki page has taken the liberty to nest itself on the youtube webserver and therefore taking the real youtube offline. This appears to be a hack although it could very well be nothing more than a faulty redirect.
This afternoon was one of the rare days in which I would like to have found comfort in watching dull Youtube video's but as it turned out Youtube.com wasn't redirecting me to the Youtube homepage instead it showed a Wiki from the Wikimedia foundation.
Today hasn't been that swell of a day at Google for their Calendar and Gmail services also had to deal with some downtime. Although Google being.. well Google, it was all over in a hitch. Luckily for you guys I captured the whole Wiki glitch in a nice screenshot as shown above.
You know I'm just being an ass writing this, Google is providin... Complete article
