Ikey Doherty, best known as the creator of the Solus Linux project until his departure in 2018, today announced a new distro: Serpent OS (soon to be re-branded as Serpent Linux). On the Serpent OS website (https://www.serpentos.com/about/) Doherty explains that Serpent OS is intended to be “A Truly Modern Linux Distribution” with modern architectural design […]
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GNOME is one of the most commonly used desktop environments for Linux/BSD desktops and laptops, but by default it can be quite lacking in customisability and other features. Fear not! There’s an easy way to modify your GNOME install: extensions! The easiest way to install extensions is using the GNOME Shell Extensions page (https://extensions.gnome.org/). This
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By default, Canonical have put the dock in Ubuntu on the left-hand side of the screen. This can be useful for maximising vertical real estate in browsers and word processors, but it super easy to move the dock location. To do this, simply press the Special key on your keyboard (Windows key on a standard
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The first thing that you’ll notice when picking this laptop up after admiring the build quality is the weight. At 1.2KG it is incredibly light and can be thrown in a bag without having a huge impact, making it perfect for those needing a portable yet powerful laptop with business functionality like a 4G modem,
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A few years ago the Finnish anti-virus company F-Secure released their SENSE router. The promise was that it can be a shield protecting your home from dodgy IoT devices and other security concerns. The problem? It’s not very good. The F-Secure SENSE is a security router with the aim of protecting your home network from
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If you’re unable to generate a Let’s Encrypt certificate for your DrayTek OS router and the error given is ‘Domain Verify Timeout’, check the following: Under System Maintenance > Access Control: Check Enforce HTTPS Management is Disabled for Internet Access Control Check Web Allow is Enabled for Internet Access Control Check Web Port is configured to
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When using CloudLinux with PHP Selector, you may need to force all existing users on a server to use a correct version of PHP. While Plesk makes this easy by setting a PHP version to an alt-php version, PHP Selector will still default to 5.4 meaning sites won’t load. We’ll need to do two things.
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Outlook for Windows supports profile switching at launch natively, but the version for macOS makes it a little more difficult. Microsoft does, however, include a profile switching utility within Outlook for Mac and with some AppleScript you can launch the switching utility before Outlook. It’s not as seamless as Outlook on Windows, but it’s better
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There’s nothing worse than getting a new laptop, booting it up, and then hearing that incessant coil whine noise that kicks in and out. I’ve noticed it’s worse on the HP laptops we’ve used, but HP isn’t to blame. Intel is. In our testing, the issue seems to be related to Intel’s TurboBoost feature that
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Out of the box, servers are often insecure and come with outdated software. In this guide we will be going through the basics of what you need to do to secure a server. This guide applies to CentOS 7 and was last updated April 2019. 1. Updates! Updates! Updates! The first thing you need to
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