Freedom and Privacy, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

How to Privatize Your Calendar with Owncloud, Thunderbird, and Lightning

Edit 151224: I had accidentally selected ‘ics’ format instead of caldav.  Sorry about that. Now it works! — Getting your calendar off other  people’s servers should be a priority.  It’s bad enough that you’re being tracked unwillingly but throwing your daily calendar out there to be viewed is borderline twisted. I needed a solution where the sync was happening on…

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Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

detailed ubuntu ddclient and namecheap tutorial

I just wanted to log this great website that I found which offers a great copy and paste ddclient setup.  It’s much better than the out-of-the-box setup that comes with the software.  Thanks very much for this tutorial! detailed ubuntu ddclient and namecheap tutorial It was also interesting to learn that Namecheap simply uses a service called ‘freedns’ apparently…. good…

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Freedom and Privacy, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

How to Completely Remove Unsafe Microsoft Windows and Replace with Safe Ubuntu

So you have a Microsoft Windows computer.  You finally realize that the reason you have no hair on your head is because you pulled it all out at your computer.  It is full of viruses, malware, and a host of other programs attempting in vain to stop these from making their home on your machine.  Also, you heard the news…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

PGP (Yeah, You Know Me): and How to Set Up New Key

PGP encryption on your email is not only awesome but it’s now mandatory if you care even the slightest about your personal privacy.  If you don’t care about your personal privacy, I invite you to strip naked and dance in front of your living room window towards the street with your blinds open at night…. unless you look like me…

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