Filed in archive Securing
by Rom Feria on March 31, 2008
© abardwell At the recent CanSecWest Applied Security Conference that was held in Canada, three computers running Mac OS X, Vista and Ubuntu Linux respectively were offered for hacking. None of the...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on March 19, 2008
If you are the type who manages multiple Linux computers in a laboratory, then you are familiar with HDD cloning. In my days as admin, I used to use Norton Ghost to do this with the Partition Image...
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If you are a developer who prefers using Linux as your platform but is required to churn out applications on .Net or some other non-Linux platforms OR if you are a Mac user who needs to release .Net...
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Filed in archive Multimedia
by Rom Feria on March 19, 2008
by Sebastian Bergmann I have been playing with the beta version of Skype for Linux on the Asus Eee PC before and I must say that it is stable and awesome. Video support is a welcome addition to this...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on March 19, 2008
by mindcircus Well, not if you are using ext3! Whilst everyone is expected (yes, now I expect everyone to have back-ups of their data after featuring several back-up utilities already) to have...
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The BBC is known to have strong support for Linux. When its iPlayer software was released, it did not take them long to release the Linux version. Compared to US TV networks, the BBC seems bent on...
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Filed in archive Multimedia
by Rom Feria on March 19, 2008
We all know that YouTube and other popular video-sites use Flash as their multimedia file format. Whilst Adobe provides versions of their Flash Player for Linux, the player is in no way open source....
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If you are a citizen of Second Life and miss using it when you shifted to Linux, then don't despair. The beta version of the Second Life Linux client is now available for download. At close to...
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Filed in archive Utilities
by Rom Feria on March 13, 2008
I have featured back-up utilities that try to mimic the ease of use of the Mac's Time Machine. This time, I am giving you yet another Time Machine clone called BackerUpper, "a simple program...
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Filed in archive Hacks
by Rom Feria on March 13, 2008
I have featured FUSE, the open source file system in user space project, several times already. However, this is the first time I have found a way to automount FUSE file systems. For this to work,...
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Sharing data between Mac OS X and Linux is easy if you are using Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion or any other virtualization software. However, if you prefer pushing the pedal to the metal, so to...
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Not too long ago, Amazon launched its music store and started selling DRM-free MP3s. Competing against iTunes, Amazon's MP3 music store provides higher quality music but a slightly cheaper price....
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