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Promise of a post-illegal copy world. Part I: History of Intellectual Property

January 21st, 2010 gatolinux No comments

Lots of Internet forum discussions with various people on the subject of computer piracyillegal copying and intellectual property were my inspiration for this article. Along with the discussions, a lot of inaccuracies and lacks in the image of reality presented to humanity by RIAA, MPAA, MAFIAA and other corporate lobbyists appeared. Because I hate lies and injustice, I decided not to tolerate the false propaganda and to write this article which is a finial of few years of thinking, mentioned discussions and arguments used by both sides of the barricade.

Translated from Polish by Kamil Zawadzki

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Three ways to securely access remote internal networks and work from home

January 8th, 2010 Mega No comments

Remote access to a computer and internal network’s secured resources – all of it in a simple way that’s following well-known security’s best practices? Sounds impossible, but it’s not. How to achieve it explains Bartosz Feński aka fEnIo.

A computer network with a tight security should be separated from the outside world as much, as it’s possible. It’s often the case. Even if there is a over a dozen of devices(PCs), that play different parts assigned to them in terms of company’s infrastructure, usually there is one that separates them from others, a firewall and a router.

On the assumption that the company’s policy is not too strict we often have an free access to this kind of devices. It can be various internal services, databases, servers of whatever is necessary to run a current company. What if, after work, when we are home safe and sound, we still need to connect to one of those servers that are not accessible outside the internal network.

I’ll describe few ways to do it.

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KDE 4.4 dev: What’s new?

November 30th, 2009 gatolinux No comments

I have managed to find some time to cover the recent changes in the development version of KDE 4.4. The number of changes is not impressive but they are interesting enough to write an article.

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