You really do not own files stored in the Cloud

Thanks to the proliferation of always being connected to the internet via our mobile devices and computers, the use of cloud storage (DropBox, Drive, etc.) for our documents and other important files is just a click away.

Yet most people are not aware of the security risks, or the fact that there is no guarantee that your information will remain online — or safe from unsavory individuals and governments.

First week impressions of Fedora 18 and Gnome 3.6 (including the abomination called Nautilus)

Recently I got a new-ish computer and set about dual booting it with Fedora 18.

To be honest, I never purposely meant to leave Windows years ago, it just happened over time due to slow attrition.  At the time, around five years ago, I had picked up a spare PC so threw Fedora 13 on it after looking at a handful of Linux Distros.  Though most of my friends went the Ubuntu route, I chose Fedora mainly because it was branched from RHEL and at the time many of the servers I was working with were using CentOS (which is a RHEL branch also, but for servers).

Fedora 16 - Gnome 3: Remove Weekday From Top Panel

I will admit, having used Gnome 2.x for years on my main desktop computer, jumping into Fedora 16 with Gnome 3 was a bit of a culture shock for me.  Of course, to be safe, I didn't muck with my main computer, but threw FC16 onto my old MSI Wind netbook just in case things went seriously awry.

There have been a few minor issues, and being one who absolutely hates change I will admit that my first impressions of Gnome 3 were not very flattering.  After all, everything was soooo...  Different.  Now a few weeks into using it, and quite a bit of tweaking, it is not too bad.  Especially considering this netbook is not exactly a speed demon, it runs relatively well.  (And of course anything is better than the Windows XP that shipped on this little machine.)