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Technology To Control Our Own Data
The idea here is to use computer tools that ensure private companies don’t collect your personal information in the first place. Recent examples include an open source search engine and an ad-free social network.
There are also laws that protect users' personal data and penalties for those who fail to comply
In addition, users use passwords to protect all public profiles on internet pages
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easy to use backup tool for linux
Create an incremental backup of a debian-linux server with an easy to use tool. The backup-server is reachable via ftp and sftp. The backup should be encrypted and compressed to be space and bandwidth efficient. There should be an easy way to either restore parts of the backup or the full system after a failure.
Using Git DVCS (distributed version control system) and GitHub to effectively collaborate on an open-source software project
While collaboratively working together on an open-source project (which aims to provide a fresh web app framework in this concrete case) and moves at a fast pace it conseqeuntly turned out that using the standard approach of centralized VCS for it soon hit its limits.
Therefore, we jointly decided in the community to switch to a decentralized one, namely Git.
This DVCS was originally developed by Linus Torvalds for managing the development of the Linux kernel.
Its main concept basically is that everybody has his/her own complete "clone" of the code repository. So there isn't a single centralized code repository as in the structure/architecture of Subversion, but a number of decentralized ones.
As a consequence Git was also developed to have very powerful and convenient capabilities of merging branches of code repository clones. This feature which is also one of Git's biggest strengths shall be described and explained in more detail.
Git's basic usage is mainly command line based and can especially in the beginning pose quite a steep learning curve on new users.
So it should be given a short introduction to Git's main concepts and concrete usages as well.
Another very nice companion to Git is the Git code repositories hosting site/service GitHub (github.com) which can make using Git simpler and furthermore improve collaborative development processes and tasks of a programming/development project. This shall also be presented and explained.
