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by Rom Feria on January 01, 2008
When I first started using Linux, I was fond of invoking the 'who' and 'w' commands to find out information about users who are logged in the server. Sometimes I'll send them a...
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by Rom Feria on December 22, 2007
What great timing! I was pulling what's left of my hair figuring out how to get 5 different laboratories on different networks to share their printers. Thanks to LinuxPlanet's Carla Schroder...
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by Rom Feria on December 21, 2007
Adobe's PDF format is one of the most ubiquitous open standard file formats available today. It is no surprise that Linux has various software that supports the file format. Whilst this is...
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by Rom Feria on December 21, 2007
Nmap is undoubtedly one of the must-have tools in a network administrator's arsenal. I have mentioned this tool a couple of times already but I failed to say that there is a front-end interface to...
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by Rom Feria on December 15, 2007
One downside of having non-dictionary-based passwords is its recall. The most secure passwords are often difficult to memorize. Due to this, it is not uncommon to have a couple of passwords that you...
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by Rom Feria on December 08, 2007
I mentioned PyBackPack recently and now here's another back-up tool, rdiff-backup. Rdiff-backup aims " to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup." It lists the...
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by Rom Feria on December 08, 2007
It is ironic that despite the number of data backup utilities available, both commercially and as open source, the percentage of people doing back-ups regularly is not even beyond 50%! One can only do...
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by Rom Feria on November 30, 2007
It may sound a bit weird saying that the tool is a "command-line" GUI tool but that is exactly how you can best describe Hotwire as compared to how it is written on its website, "a...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
Speaking of IPTables, Sergio Gonzalez Duran of Linux.com writes about using IPTables to block specific applications and specific IP addresses from accessing network resources. For more detailed...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
Today, nobody can afford to connect to the internet without a firewall enabled. However, it is not always easy to setup, configure and maintain firewalls specially if your applications are...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
With personal media players (PMP) getting really affordable, consumers are converting their video collection to formats that are supported by their favorite PMP. In my case, I use an iPhone so I...
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by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007
I admit that I am pretty much spoiled by Apple's applications but this just shows how much Linux developers can learn from commercial applications. :) Anyway, today's Mac application is called...
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by Rom Feria on November 17, 2007
Now too long ago, a friend asked me how to view CHM documents on a Mac and she ended up getting a FOSS tool from somewhere. CHM files are Compiled HTML Help files that Microsoft use for its Help...
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by Rom Feria on November 17, 2007
I remember 3 years ago, when I was teaching a bunch of freshmen how to use Linux, the students had a rather unpleasant experience of having their computers freeze and become unresponsive. It was...
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by Rom Feria on November 17, 2007
Matt Hartley over at Linux Fanatics gives us a brief update on the available anti-virus tools for Linux. Whilst it is definitely not an exhaustive list, it pays to be familiar with these tools. What...
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by Rom Feria on November 10, 2007
Not too long ago, I wrote a piece about Recoll, a Beagle alternative. I stated that I preferred Recoll over Beagle primarily because it is not a MONO application. I missed another one, named Tracker,...
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by Rom Feria on November 10, 2007
One of Apple's claim to fame with their Mac OS X version 5, aka Leopard, is Time Machine. The back-up tool that is so easy to use that your grandmother can use it. Personally, it is one of the...
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by Rom Feria on November 03, 2007
It always good practice to have a very strong, non-dictionary-word passwords. However, most of the time, this is not the case, specially for home desktop systems. Whilst this definitely is not a good...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
I just wrote about the Crunchbag.com article on how to remotely control your bittorrent downloads. Whilst I have mentioned using Azureus with web interface plug-in as my current method of accessing...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
A Crunchbag.com article on "Remote Torrent Downloads Via SSH" just hit me right on the spot. I have been looking for a way to do this for the exact same reason as stated in the article,...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
Last week, Apple finally released Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, to the public. One of the main features that makes it a bit attractive is Time Machine, an easy to use, user-friendly way to manage your...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
IN this day and age when data can easily be stolen, thanks to the internet, it is often necessary to secure data by encrypting it. However, if you have multiple encrypted files, subdirectories, disk...
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