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Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education
I really think that education is the silver bullet, and this TED talk shows the effort of the best universities to bring education to everyone thanks to the modern and affordable technologies that we have available right now. Online education is not a substitute for teachers and classrooms, but it can scale and complement the […]
Google Drive is here!
April 25, 2012
Your Google Drive is not ready yet Well, almost here… Here is a quick comparison on some of the remote storage and file sync solutions that I consider important: Online Service Win Mac Linux Android iPhone Web Client-side Encryption Initial Space Client Source Server Source Google Drive Yes Yes No Yes Soon Yes No 5GB […]
Using getmail to backup Gmail on Linux
July 17, 2011
Even though Gmail has been proven quite reliable over the years, there have been isolated episodes of data loss. In any case, I backup my mail locally: better safe than sorry. On my Linux machine I use “getmail” to download my mail through POP and store it in a single “mbox” file. First of all, […]
BloGTK installation on Ubuntu 10.04
November 7, 2010
I wanted to try BloGTK to write my WordPress blog posts, as suggested by the Apps for WordPress.com page. I installed it on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine from the Software Center, then launched it from the Applications -> Internet menu, but it didn’t start. I could only see on the task bar that a window […]
Reinforce ssh security with Denyhosts
November 10, 2009
…For years I’ve been saying security consists of protection, detection and response–and you need all three to have good security… March 2007, Bruce Schneier I always read Schneier’s site carefully, because everything he says is precise, consistent and grounded in experience. When I stumbled upon this concept of three components of security, I realized that […]
Secure remote storage with Dropbox and TrueCrypt
October 11, 2009
Instructions on how to create a secure remote storage using free portable tools such as Dropbox and TrueCrypt.
Google Reader as a Twitter client
August 27, 2009
I always have a Google Reader tab open in my browser, and I predict I will spend more time on it now that it’s becoming more similar to FriendFeed; for these reasons I tried to use it as a Twitter client. In order to see a Twitter timeline feed, I need to authenticate first. I […]
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