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Link: How To Disable Unity Online Search Feature On Ubuntu 14.10

What Is Unity Online Search Feature?

The Unity search function in Ubuntu operating system is provided by Canonical Ltd. When you enter a search term into the dash, Ubuntu will search your computer and will record the search terms locally. Unless you have opted out, the search terms will be sent to productsearch.ubuntu.com link and selected third parties including Facebook, Twitter, BBC, and Amazon. Canonical and these selected third parties will collect your search terms and use them to provide you with search results while using Ubuntu.

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How To Disable Unity Online Search Feature On Ubuntu 14.10 (Unixmen)

Link: 5 Dropbox Alternatives for Linux

These days there are dozens of personal “cloud storage” services. The most popular is Dropbox. A lot of people are happy with Dropbox; some are not. It’s not a terrible service, but it’s not for everyone. For whatever reason, finding an equivalent to the service is challenging. The reason? Not a lot of mainstream services offer a Linux client, so you’ll have to do a bit of digging. Luckily, we’ve compiled a list of the best Linux friendly alternatives to Dropbox to make your life easier! Check it out!

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5 Dropbox Alternatives for Linux (Make Tech Easier)

Link: Duplicati – An Open Source Powerful Free Backup Tool

Duplicati is an open source free backup program that creates backups with the ability to store them securely encrypted, incremental and compressed on cloud storage services and remote file servers. At the moment it has the ability to work with Amazon S3, Windows SkyDrive, Google Drive, Tahoe LAFS, Rackspace Cloud or it can use your own SSH, WebDAV, SFTP or FTP file server.

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Duplicati – An Open Source Powerful Free Backup Tool (LinOxide)

Link: Finding Orphaned Packages Using Deborphan And Rpmorphan

Are you troubling with full of unused packages that occupies more space and slow down your operating system performance? Well, you should try these two awesome utilities that help will you to easily find and remove the orphaned packages on your hard drive.

Well, What is an Orphaned package? Simple, Orphaned package is an unwanted package which is no longer necessary. As you may know, whenever you install a package, it will install along with other packages(dependencies). After removing the package, not all the dependencies will be removed completely. Some dependencies might still exist and dumbs the hard drive space after removing a specified package.

In this tutorial, We will discuss how to find and remove the orphaned files in Debian, and RHEL based systems.

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Finding Orphaned Packages Using Deborphan And Rpmorphan (Unixmen)

Link: Reduce amount reserved free disk space with tune2fs

In Ubuntu/Debian by default while creating ext2/ext3/ext4 file system 5% of disk space is reserved for super user across each partition.

Except for root partition 5% reserved space is not required for other partitions. So we reuse that reserved space.

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Reduce amount reserved free disk space with tune2fs (Sany’s Linux and Open Source Blog)
Related:
tune2fs – adjust tunable filesystem parameters (Unix Tutorial)

Link: Spotlight: Privacy Advocates Furious As Apple Feature Siphons Off Location Data of Yosemite And iOS 8 Users

The privacy world is peeved at Apple again. It’s emerged that anyone who uses the Spotlight feature in either Mac OS X Yosemite or iOS 8 will have their location and search data passed to Apple servers. The same data will also be sent to Microsoft …..

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Spotlight: Privacy Advocates Furious As Apple Feature Siphons Off Location Data of Yosemite And iOS 8 Users (Forbes)
Related:
Apple’s Mac computers can automatically collect your location information (Washington Post)
How to Stop Apple From Snooping on Your OS X Yosemite Searches (Wired)
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Link: Google Drive No Longer Offers Web Hosting [Workaround]

….. Google has recently upgraded the Google Drive interface for everyone and, according to the support page, the web hosting feature is no longer available in the new Google Drive. You can still create public folders inside Drive but the option to publish that folder as a website is gone.

The good news however is that is still very much possible to host sites on Google Drive through Google Scripts without you having to write a single line of code. Here are the steps involved:

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Google Drive No Longer Offers Web Hosting [Workaround] (Digital Inspiration)

Link: How to Set Up a Local Web Server on Windows, Mac, and Linux

When developing a website, a web designer needs to be able to see his webpages the same way the end user would. Sometimes simply clicking on and viewing your HTML files in the web browser is enough, but if you want to test dynamic content, you will need to set up a local web server. Doing this is quite simple and can easily be accomplished on Windows, Mac, and Linux. There are many types of web servers available, but we will be using Apache as it is the most common server around, very easy to set up, and compatible with all major operating systems.

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How to Set Up a Local Web Server on Windows, Mac, and Linux (Make Tech Easier)

Link: Alien’s Bash Tutorial

First you probably need to read a UNIX command bible to really understand this tutorial, but I will try to make it as clear as possible, there is about 100-150 UNIX commands explained later in this tutorial.

You are to have some UNIX experience before starting on this tutorial, so if you feel that you have UNIX/Linux experience feel free to start to learn here.

What I included here is general shell scripting, most common other things and some UNIX commands.

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Alien’s Bash Tutorial (subsignal.org)

Link: How to remember ./configure script arguments a year later

Here’s a typical scenario – you install software from source, spend an hour figuring out the configure options ….. A year passes by, a new software version has come out, and you want to upgrade. ….. However you’ve forgotten what the configure flags were…..

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How to remember ./configure script arguments a year later (good coders code, great reuse)