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Software gives visual representation of who’s following you online

WebsterThursday, March 1, 2012 11:08 EDT A new piece of software released this week by browser-maker Mozilla does something unique: it provides a real-time visualization of who is tracking your movements online. The software is called “Collusion,” developed last year by Mozilla programmer Atul Varma, who became inspired to code the program after reading extensively about online privacy matters. It plugs into the Firefox browser and watches as websites and ad networks drop “cookies” into the browser during normal surfing.

“Each dot in the graph represents a website,” Alex Fowler, the global privacy lead at Mozilla, explained to Raw Story. While it doesn’t sound all that creepy, just wait until you see your own graph. “Mozilla’s goal is to raise awareness of users about one part of their online experience,” Fowler explained. (H/T: PCWorld) Copyright 2012 The Raw Story Stephen C. Stephen C. Free conversion - no download required - Zamzar. Mount USB Devices in Virtualbox with Ubuntu. Mounting a USB device inside a virtual machine is often a tool that you cannot go without.

Mount USB Devices in Virtualbox with Ubuntu

If you are using Virtualbox in Ubuntu however, you need to take a few extra steps to make it work. Install Virtualbox The first thing you need to do is install Virtualbox from Oracle’s website. It is different than Virtualbox OSE which is included in the Ubuntu repositories because the Virtualbox from Oracle includes proprietary software which allows you to mount USB devices inside you VM among other things.

If you already have Virtualbox OSE installed from the Ubuntu repositories, uninstall it before installing the .deb file from Oracle’s website. Note: Any VMs you made with Virtualbox OSE will still work with the standard version of Virtualbox. Set up Your Virtual Machine Install your virtual machine and once the installation is complete install the Virtualbox guest additions into the guest OS from the devices menu. Turn the virtual machine off and go to the settings for the VM. Virtualbox Website. How to watch Netflix (Watch Instantly) in Linux.

With Ubuntu 14.04 and Chrome 37 onwards, playing Netflix on Linux natively is now possible thanks to Encrypted Media Extensions and co-operation between Canonical and Netflix.

How to watch Netflix (Watch Instantly) in Linux

The instructions below are legacy instructions for running Silverlight on Linux via Wine. However, running Netflix is entirely possible in Ubuntu Linux 12.04 and later releases (and most likely any other modern distribution). See the section below "Running with Wine". Until recently there was no simple solution to watching streaming movies via Netflix (Watch Instantly) in Linux for any Linux distros besides Android based computers.

This is because they use Microsoft Silverlight plugin with DRM. If you don't like it, complain to Netflix, not us. Netflix does not currently offer support for Linux (as of Nov 2013), This how to is by NO means, in ANY way, shape, or form an official or supported way of running the Netflix: Watch Instantly feature natively in GNU/Linux. Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download. How to Recover Deleted Files with Free Software. Microsoft To ARM Win8 Tablet Makers: No Dual Boot For You. This may seem a bit of inside baseball, but it’s a fairly interesting fact for folks looking forward to thin-and-light Win8 devices running ARM chips rather than Intel.

Microsoft To ARM Win8 Tablet Makers: No Dual Boot For You

According Computer World, devices running ARM versions of Win8 will not be able to run other OSes, like Android, thanks to something called Secure Boot. A version of Secure Boot is built into many mobile devices – namely phones and tablets – in order to avoid bootloader mobile attacks and, obviously, to keep things locked down. Windows Phone, for example, prevents folks from installing anything into the bootloader nor can they run off-brand software. However, folks love them some Linux and for these devices to be completely locked down could disappoint the hacker contingent. Microsoft says that you can disable Secure Boot on larger systems, however, noting in the design documents: MANDATORY: Enable/Disable Secure Boot. It’s clear from this that Windows 8 is both a mobile and a desktop OS, depending on the install.

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