No one ever suspected how bad an all out clash between MS and Linux enthusiasts could get...

Ubuntu 8.10 offers a way to create a USB drive from the Live CD or an .iso. The question is, how well does this really work. In order to test we created several of these USB drive installs. The first thing to note is that the process is easy to do. Here is a step by step in create a USB Pen Drive disk.

"The Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1 was released on November 12th, which inspired me to check it out and give the installation over ssh a try..."

We all knew it was only a matter of time until the bit bucket flowed over ;)

Vi and Vim are extremely powerful text editors that are guaranteed to be on almost every *nix system you log into. You don't always have the comfort of a GUI & nano can be cumbersome when doing large tasks. Vi/Vim are an absolute necessity to every Linux admin and a life saver, so why not sit down, spend some time, and get to know your new friend

The good, the bad and the confusing of determining cpu properties on various nix systems

If you are one of the increasing number of Internet users that are paranoid about Big Brother watching your activity online, now you can become anonymous with Incognito. Join me as I review this live Linux CD that you can use to protect your identity online.

The devil they say is in details, even the simple Bash path variable can open some security problems on your box. Every Bash documentation out there warns us not leave '.' in the path (it matches current directory). They however don't seems to mention that leaving a dangling ':' (colon) at the beginning or the end of Bash $PATH does create the same security vulnerability.