Ksplice Inc. has announced the launch of its Uptrack service, which eliminates the need to reboot Linux servers when installing updates and security patches.
"The Cambridge, Mass., start-up has …

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HowToForge as a quite lengthy feature on how to turn your touchpad on and off with just a single short cut key. This is convenient specially when you also…

If you are not happy with the applications bundled with the Ubuntu distribution, then welcome to the club. I prefer to have a lean, mean computing machine, i.e., without those games but with the mul…

LogMeIn's Hamachi is "a VPN service that easily sets up in 10 minutes, and enables secure remote access to your business network, anywhere there's an Internet connection." This is th…

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Ubuntu's next generation of Linux distribution includes eCryptfs, a kernel-based cryptographic file system. This new feature provides user…

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In a constrained space provided by the current netbooks, such as the Asus Eee PC, MSI Wind, etc., space is a premium. However, it is also important that y…

If you are like me, I tend to keep several copies of my photos in several directories. I use one directory as a scratch directory and do all image editing on image files in that directory. Once done…

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There are times when our server (or desktop) goes bonkers and simply refuses to boot up from its HDD. What I usually do is to boot-up from a standard L…

On my Mac, I use iStat Menu to monitor my system. On Linux, there are several tools to do this but I have found Conky to be the most familiar, i.e., looks like iStat Menu.

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Whilst we have several distributions with LiveCD versions to allow us to boot-up our computer and run/test Linux without installing it, not too many are f…