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Upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 the Linode Way

It seems like only yesterday when I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, but it’s been several years and it’s time now to move on to Ubuntu 16.04. Once before I’d tried to upgrade Ubuntu to a new major release in place. In other words, upgrade my current installation. It didn’t go well.

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Google and the power we give in exchange for security

A couple of weeks ago,  I received an email from Google. It read: Chrome will show security warnings on http://burningbird.net To owner of http://burningbird.net, Starting October 2017, Chrome (version 62) will show a “NOT SECURE” warning when users enter text in a form on an HTTP page, and for all HTTP pages in Incognito mode. […]