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iPhone Fingerpainting HARDOCP - HardOCP Computer Hardware Reviews and News Guru of 3D: PC Hardware Reviews and tests How to set up OpenVPN in 30 seconds or less on a VPS After we showed you how to set up a pptp vpn last year we are now addressing how to set up OpenVPN on your server. From OpenVPN website: OpenVPN Access Server is a full featured SSL VPN software solution that integrates OpenVPN server capabilities, enterprise management capabilities, simplified OpenVPN Connect UI, and OpenVPN Client software packages that accommodate Windows, MAC, and Linux OS environments. OpenVPN Access Server supports a wide range of configurations, including secure and granular remote access to internal network and/ or private cloud network resources and applications with fine-grained access control. Last time I did this on an older system, it was quite a painful ride. But hey, if you need a secure connection, that old pptp vpn won't do it anymore. After some painful 15 minutes of trying to find out what happened to some packages and what not, I decided to see if a easier method was available. I first tested this on my home server and it went just fine. Why RamNode?

Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup I regularly get emails from young people, usually those with an interest in programming, who are trying to make decisions about school and/or their professional futures. This post is for those young people. If you’re in your late teens or early twenties, you’ve grown up in a world that has come to idealize startups, their founders, and the people who go to work at them. If you’re in school, maybe you’ve felt pressure or been incentivized to drop out and join or start a company. The generation you’ve grown up in has, for the past few years, teetered on the brink of being “lost”. Everyone’s path is different, and your choices are your own. A startup is just a means to an end. I recently interviewed a young man. People are fulfilled by their work when they operate with a sense of purpose. Maybe a startup is the best way to meet a goal, and maybe it isn’t. Maybe the best way to meet your goal is starting a non-profit or going into politics. A startup is just a means to an end. And yet.

We Alone on Earth Don't Wait for Windows 8; These Five Programs Will Get You a Better Windows Now While Costermonger's point wasn't exactly well articulated, he might have been on to something. When you consider that the following are more or less baked into Windows 8: 1) Display Fusion (Multiple taskbars built in) 2) Fences (In the Metro Environment you can do this) 3) Xplorer^2 Pro (New Windows Explorer in Win8) That's $74 worth of software. Flagged In no way is the Metro interface anything like Fences. In no way is the new Explorer half as good as Xplorer2. DisplayFusion still has a billion features Windows 8 does not have. Regarding Metro being like fences, have you seen the grouping feature? Explorer vs Xplorer2: this comes to personal preference — I prefer as streamlined an explorer interface as possible. Regarding DisplayFusion: multiple taskbars and multi-monitor wallpaper are present.

Good honest reviews. Great forums. Canadian. by chewtoy0 Apr 19

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