Anyone in Germany who uses the WordPress Stats, must know that the service in the Critique of privacy advocates is or was. The reason for the decision of Automattic, the company of WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, additional scripts in the stats plugin was installed to transmit the data to the company Qantcast, which among other things, created personal profiles of web surfers. Read the rest of this entry »

I must once again the topic of Android 3.0 or 4.0 device with integrated via MTP in Ubuntu Linux pick up from yesterday. I'm right there written in detail, why can you use an Android 3.x or 4.0 device is no longer as a USB mass storage device and how it's accessed via the Media Transfer Protocol still on the data of the mobile phone / tablet. Read the rest of this entry »

I was today at a press demonstration of Lookout Mobile Security, who want to start their safety Lookout app for Android now also on the German market. For me this was the first event of its kind and I must admit that I was pretty impressed. Not because it took place in a pretty nice environment, not because it was a great buffet, but because of the CTO and co-founder Kevin Mahaffey really nice, and – above all things – was also competent. Read the rest of this entry »

The eleven days for the Christmas raffle Linux and I have unfortunately gone by super fast. In those days, 662 participants have finally entered into the form, with 2135 lots were collected. So ultimately makes, on average 3.22 tickets per person or 0.04% chance of winning on the Cirrus7 One per lot or an average of 0. Read the rest of this entry »

Actually I would have to devote to the UMTS-Stick K4605 Vodafone-H do not contribute. In Ubuntu you have to Oneiric 11:10 infect the stick simply enter the PIN of the SIM card and you're on the net. Problems arise, however, if you try to stick with Windows and the driver installation failed. In this case, the stick gets stuck in the wrong mode and can not be used under Linux. Read the rest of this entry »

A few weeks ago was the Ubuntu laptop Satchbook of rocking at my guest. Unfortunately, the time is currently a bit short with me, from there, you had to wait a little longer on the report and the other is the post in my blog about the device is slightly shorter. Does not matter, because the Linux community, there is the contribution that I've written for the Linux User 11/2011 to read fully online. Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe even a quick tip for those who are about to update their Ubuntu system, or have already gone through this work. Alin Andrei from WebUpd8 blog has its managers PPA Y donated a function that can be especially after upgrading to the new Ubuntu version useful. During the upgrade so any additional repositories be disabled. Read the rest of this entry »

Buyer of the former Humble bundles will surely have already found the corresponding mail in your mail box. The Humble Bundle comes in again for another round! This time it is again a special “bundle” because you can only buy one game Frozen Synapse. But who pays more than the current Average, who gets the games of Frozenbyte bundles on top for free. Read the rest of this entry »

About the Kraftfuttermischwerk I've encountered a few days ago at this time-lapse video. Taken from the ISS, we see how America passes under the camera. You can see the lights of big cities, you can recognize as storm clouds to bring the lights and then finally as the sun rises again. The whole video, I find it incredibly impressive and beautiful. Read the rest of this entry »

A few days ago I told you so, reports that the Linux Counter has a new owner who wants the project of the Census Linux push back a bit. To easily transfer the data from its system to the counter, there was always a script, but this required an executable mail server on the system. Installed something which very few users of a desktop Linux have or want to install. Read the rest of this entry »