Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on June 30, 2007
Not too long ago, I mentioned that you can buy a Sony Playstation 3 with Linux pre-installed. If you happen to have a PS3 already but still want to install Ubuntu on it, check out this tutorial. I...
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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on June 29, 2007
Apple and its AppleTV is yet another product that makes it completely impossible for linux users to use without spending money getting a Windows OS or a Mac. If only iTunes were made available on...
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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on June 29, 2007
With today's launch of Apple's iPhone, most of the news available on-line (and off-line, for that matter) cover the iPhone and the Mac cult members who camped out to get one. I do not know...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on June 28, 2007
Google first released their Google Desktop for Windows and followed by the Mac. Today, we now have Google Desktop for Linux. I have tried Google Desktop on the Mac but decided to uninstall it in...
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Filed in archive Servers
by Rom Feria on June 27, 2007
FTP is one of the easiest and most universal ways of transferring files between systems (although I prefer and highly recommend SCP) but it is also not easy to manage. In most cases, ftp access is...
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Filed in archive Hacks
by Rom Feria on June 25, 2007
Not to be accused of being too biased towards Ubuntu (which I am, btw), here's a feature on how you can create your own Linux distribution using the YaST tool that OpenSUSE has been using....
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Filed in archive Securing
by Rom Feria on June 25, 2007
Next to the BIOS-level password security, the boot loader is the next level of protection one gets. Linux's popular boot loader, GRUB, provides a built-in feature that prompts you to enter a...
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Filed in archive Servers
by Rom Feria on June 23, 2007
Not too long ago, I had my technical team install Subversion (SVN), a version control system, on a Mac OS X. I am not sure what happened but I think they opted to transfer it to a Linux box.......
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on June 23, 2007
When I was maintaining several servers for my university's computer science department, I always make it a point to keep tab of the server configurations for each of the services that we provide....
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Filed in archive Securing
by Rom Feria on June 23, 2007
I wrote about Snort on Ubuntu last month, this month, I found another how-to on installing and configuring Snort but on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5. Whilst the basics are identical, there are...
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When Microsoft announced its new Silverlight technology, it provided a Windows and Mac OS X version, none for Linux. However, the Mono project, the .Net Linux implementation, pledged that it will...
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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on June 23, 2007
A series of videos, called Inside the One Laptop Per Child, is being produced and streamed from various sites such as Red Hat Magazine, OLPC.tv, and, of course, YouTube. So far, three episodes have...
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Filed in archive Hacks
by Rom Feria on June 23, 2007
Over at the Ubuntu Forums, there are two tutorials on how to install and configure the ultimate desktop eye-candy of all time, Compiz Fusion, a combination of compiz and beryl. Whilst some of the...
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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on June 19, 2007
I blogged about using 3G to connect to the internet but I used a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X. Getting it to work depends on a lot of factors, with your computer-mobile phone connection as the main...
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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on June 17, 2007
TurboLinux released an innovative Linux-based device called the Wizpy. Wizpy is a device that allows you to view video, listen to music stored locally or streamed from the radio, read e-books and...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
After featuring Skype's version 1.4 beta, it is time that we feature a SIP-compliant VoIP softphone also. The OpenWengo project releases version 2.1 of its WengoPhone softphone. Improvements over...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
When I was starting with Linux, I had to dual-boot my computer so I have a back-up working OS should Linux fail (fortunately, it never did). Dual-booting means learning how the boot manager works and...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
You've learned about filtering spam using spamd and by strengthening Postfix, Linux.com's Murthy Raju adds more tools to your Postfix-based spam busting techniques. Coupled with SpamAssassin,...
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Filed in archive Servers
by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
Linux.com's Gary Sims lists various tools that you may use to monitor and manage your system processes. Budding system administrators should know these tools by heart. :) This powerful feature of...
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Filed in archive Misc
by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
Now that you know what virtualization is all about, it is time to find out if virtualization is indeed what you need. Jonathan Hassell, of LinuxInsider, writes a short guide to determine if...
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Filed in archive Securing
by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
redhat Magazine published a full tutorial on how to enable a two password encryption scheme for its encrypted file system, EncFS. The tutorial even includes some tips and tricks on securing your...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
In a press release by Open Sound System (OSS) creator, 4Front Technologies, the source code for version 4 of OSS is now released under three (3) different licenses, namely, 1. GNU GPL v.2 2. Common...
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Filed in archive Hacks
by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
Whilst I do not have a portable computer running Ubuntu (actually, this is a lie because I do have one but Ubuntu is running as a guest OS on Mac OS X hehehe), I do understand the frustrations of......
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OpenSUSE and Slackware are catching up with the other distributions in prepping up their next release. openSUSE is now on the alpha 5 release of its version 10.3, while Slackware is starting with the...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
Voice-over-IP is fast becoming one of the most important tool for the internet-savvy. Whilst there are several ways of doing this, afaik, there are only two technologies that are worth looking at,...
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