Many of us experienced Privateer in the early 90's, the engaging space piracy and trading game that captured us with mystery and challenges.
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How real are the 451 findings?
Dan Farber is featuring news of another 451 Group study showing that open source is “just about” to take over the system management business.
As Yogi Berra once said, “it’s deja vu all over again.”
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Instant backups with smbmount and grsync
Need a simple yet effective way to back up your laptop or desktop machine to a network-attached storage device or a network hard disk running Samba?
Read more »Benji’s “One-Click-Install” Gets Supported by openSUSE Build Service
The openSUSE Build Service generates .ymp files from now on, which can be used with Benjamin Weber’s One Click Install YaST Module.
This module takes care that all required repositories get used for installation and installs a predefined set of packages. You need no root permissions just to browse the content of a .ymp file.
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Documentum upgrade extends open-source support
EMC Monday unveiled several upgrades to its Documentum 6 (D6) enterprise content management offering that add improved customization and configuration flexibility.
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Still waiting for swap prefetch
If a system is idle, but has a lot of application data sitting around in swap, maybe it should page some of it back in. That way, the kernel won't spend too much time paging when the applications need to run again.
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Linux vendor strengthens smartphone security
A la Mobile’s Mobile Security Engine, uses 128-bit AES encryption and digital certificates to protect the operating system.
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Desktop Backgrounds For Minimalist Window Managers Revisited
Back in February I wrote about using xli to add a desktop background of your choice to a minimalist window manager.
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How To Manage An iPod From A Linux Desktop With Rhythmbox
This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with the Rhythmbox audio player. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod and delete files on the iPod.
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Tips and Tricks: How do I find the inode size of an ext2/ext3 filesystem?
Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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Linux security: Authenticate your users and know what they're up to
Here's a question for Linux systems administrators out there: Do you know what your users are up to? You probably think you do, but Kurt Lingel, the principal product architect at Sugar Land, Texas-based JME Software LLC, begs to differ.
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Linux: Custom Kernels with Debian and Fedora
Last week we took a tour of the generic way of building custom Linux kernels. Today we'll look some nice Debian shortcuts, and Fedora's unique way of building custom kernels.
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Enea Open Sources LINX for Linux
Enea, a provider of network software and services, today announced that its LINX for Linux product is now freely available as an Open Source offering complete with source code, documentation, test programs, a startup guide, and program build system guide.
Read more »The Story of DEFCON
Jeff Moss aka Dark Tangent, the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat, tells the history of the largest hacker conference and how it all got started.
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The Linux Foundation Borrows Novell's Linux CTO for 18 Months
Unix operating system and server maker Sun Microsystems stole away Ian Murdock from The Linux Foundation this past March, leaving the newly constituted foundation missing a chief technology officer.
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