Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on April 29, 2007
Parallels, the maker of Parallels Workstation for Linux and Parallels Desktop for Mac, announced the Parallels Technology Network, a service "dedicated to consolidating the efforts and activities...
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Filed in archive Misc
by Rom Feria on April 29, 2007
First, what is GCompris? GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still...
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Filed in archive Securing
by Rom Feria on April 28, 2007
Whilst this one speaks about the Mac OS X and compares it with Microsoft's Vista security features, the same can be said of Linux vs Vista's security. Mac OS X and Linux, both coming from a...
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by Rom Feria on April 28, 2007
We are familiar with Gnome and KDE, the desktop environments shipped with most Linux distributions. Do you have an idea how these two desktop environments came about? Well, PC Authority's Leigh...
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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on April 27, 2007
I have covered the OLPC project several times already but I have not really dug deeper on its underlying OS. Mr. M. Tim Jones was kind enough to provide us with a first look of Sugar, the OLPC...
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Updates from our open source community come not in trickles but in bulk. Here're some of them: 1. Linux kernel 2.6.20.9 - this upgrade turns off IPv6 by default. Kernels previous to this have...
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by Rom Feria on April 24, 2007
Last week, I was tasked to take cover my niece's birthday party. So with my trusty ole Canon 350D DSLR, I was off to a shooting spree. I had the camera always set to RAW since you never know......
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by Rom Feria on April 24, 2007
I have featured Beagle, a Mono-based tool that offers a fast desktop search engine a few months ago. I followed it up with Splunk, a desktop search engine that scans your entire network. Today, I...
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by Rom Feria on April 24, 2007
With Linux kernel 2.6.20 and upwards providing full virtualization solution via the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM), it is best to learn what you can and cannot do with this new feature. M. Tim Jones...
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Filed in archive Securing
by Rom Feria on April 24, 2007
Whilst it is ideal to have those who hack into your machine to be put in a cell, what good will it give you if s/he has done significant damage already, right? Prevention is the first thing to do,......
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After several failed attempts to install Ubuntu Feisty Fawn as guest OS on Parallels Desktop on the Mac, I gave up and decided to install Solaris 10 instead. Whilst installing Solaris 10 as a guest...
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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on April 20, 2007
Linux.com reports that the GNOME Foundation is set to announce the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative. With members from mobile device manufacturers like Nokia and Intel as well as Linux-supporting...
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by Rom Feria on April 20, 2007
Joe Barr provides us with a way to add eye-candy to the otherwise boring boot sequence of Ubuntu. One only needs to get the StartUp Manager (SUM) and start getting creative. He concludes But I think...
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Microsoft announces the Microsoft Student Innovation Suite, a package that contains Windows XP Starter Edition, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0 for...
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by Rom Feria on April 20, 2007
Fast on the heels of Thursday's Ubuntu 7.0.4 release, Falko Timme releases a tutorial on how to setup a Feisty Fawn-based server over at HowToForge. The tutorial teaches you how to install a web...
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Ubuntu releases version 7.0.4, code-named Feisty Fawn, last Thursday. This same code-base becomes the basis for Kubuntu, a KDE-based Ubuntu version, and Edubuntu, Ubuntu for Education (see image)....
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by Rom Feria on April 18, 2007
Whilst this may sound like a marketing blurb coming from Mark Cox, the Director of the Red Hat Security Response Team, but it sure would encourage you try it out yourself. A default installation of...
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by Rom Feria on April 18, 2007
WebDAV is probably one of the least used utilities available to developers and content managers. Personally, I got familiar with WebDAV only thru Apple's Mac OS X. Anyway, it is far easier and...
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Since it is tax time once again, I found an interesting article from the Software Freedom Law Center about Microsoft and the Patent tax. Whilst this definitely gives a one-sided view of that matter,...
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by Rom Feria on April 13, 2007
Spam consumed 40% of our e-mail traffic last year. Whilst there are two ways of managing the issue, server and client-side, it is best that we employ both. Personally, I have GMail's spam filter...
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by Rom Feria on April 13, 2007
If you are like me who has been bitten by the Twitter bug (add me!), then you may be looking for other ways of posting your tweets besides using the web, IM and SMS interfaces. Here's the...
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by Rom Feria on April 13, 2007
Yet another traffic shaper but this time, it is lightweight and runs on userspace. Named trickle, it "is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper. It can run in collaborative mode...
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