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Enter password to unlock your login keyring

If you get this irritating pop-up all the time, go to programs and type “Password” a program utility called “Password and keys” will be displayed. Right click on the displayed item called “Login”. This will ask for the old and new password. If you have not changed your user password, just enter the 


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Change to Fedora 17

Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 server only to find that the samba server was horribly slow. I replaced it with Fedora 15 and it runs like a train. Yes, I know 15 is an old version but for a production site you don’t want the latest bugs. Also, howtoforge has a stunningly good article on how to 


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Selecting software for a greenfield

Error: Image "cover-centos.jpeg" not found Published in Dare magazine, August 2010 I am writing this using Open Office on a laptop with Ubuntu as it’s operating system, the Open Source equivalent from Oracle of Word and Windows respectively. My exposure to Open Source dates back to the 1990s. At 


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