Innotek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Some of the features of VirtualBox are: Modularity, virtual machine descriptions in XML, guest additions for Windows and Linux and shared folders. The following workshop describes how to install VirtualBox (OSE) on OpenSuse 10.3 and to install a WindowsXP guest addition.
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Is Vendor Stubbornness Stalling Virtualization?
Joel Sweatte, director of IT at East Carolina University's College of Technology and Computer Science, recently asked the vendor of an engineering analysis application about its support for VMware's virtualization software. The company told him that it didn't have a virtualization support policy and that he should call back if the application didn't work.
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Installing Ubuntu, a world without Windows
In an earlier column, I mentioned to you that if you got a new computer for Christmas, your old PC might be a good place to install one of the many free Linux distributions out there. If you are tired of Windows and wanted to try something else, I specifically mentioned Ubuntu as a good starting point for the Linux newbie.
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Emacs tip of the day: M-x send-invisible
"I use emacs for everything, including the shell. [...] Just use M-x send-invisible to enter your password and it will neither be displayed nor stored in the kill ring..."
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Five reasons not to fear a $200 Linux PC
In fact, buying Linux and learning how to use it are easier than ever, thanks to the open-source operating system's expanding presence in affordable computers and mainstream retail outlets.
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Neko learns some new tricks!
This is one small problem with human languages like English
- you can’t simply go ahead and invent words of your own, even
if you are the Queen of England!
But programming languages have no such restrictions.
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Learning by experimenting (with Scheme)
"In his beautiful essay, The Art of Lisp & Writing, Richard Gabriel makes a strong case for the use of programming mediums instead of programming languages when either introducing programming to students or starting a new project. He says..."
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Your First Steps with Linux
Over the years I think I helped to influence few people here and there to actually start experimenting with linux. I count that as a personal success. I’m sure I was not the primary influence in most cases, but I’m glad I could help people to start tinker with the new OS. Note that I didn’t say switch. I do have an issue with this whole switch mentality. People say “I have switched to Linux” or “I have switched to Mac” and I can’t help but roll my eyes.
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SSH 101: Secure Shell Basics and X11 Forwarding
SSH is an incredibly powerful tool. It lets you connect to a computer anywhere in the world, share files, and even run applications remotely. This tutorial will take you through installing and configuring the SSH Server, discuss some of the basic options of the SSH client, and show you how to run even graphical applications on a remote computer, from anywhere.
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Linux Exploration…
A few years back when I had relatively little knowledge of anything I installed a linux distribution (no names mentioned) on my old desktop and couldn’t really get anything to work. The biggest problem was getting the internet to work; it just didn’t seem to want to work at all. That really put me off trying again for a long time. I had an old laptop lying about that just wasn’t being used so I thought I would just install it and see what happened.
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The Ultimate Linux Password Management Guide Part 1
This multi-part article (1 of 12) looks at several utilities, programs, and commands to make password management (creating secure passwords, storing secure passwords, remembering secure passwords) on Linux easy. It also covers some cross-platform and portable applications.
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The Ultimate Linux Password Management Guide Part 2 KeepassX
This is part 2 of the article "The Ultimate Linux Password Management Guide" and will show you how to use keepassx for managing collections of complex passwords. Part 1 talks about the importance of complex passwords, several utilities and methods of creating complex passwords, and also lists some of the software we will review for managing complex passwords.
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metasploit 3.1 released + exploit distcc example
metasploit 3.1 review of the new msfgui3 and why distcc over a public network or wireless is not good (improperly configured allows remote command execution) -- with video -- and with recommendations on securing distcc
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The Ultimate Linux Password Management Guide Part 3 gpass
This is part 3 of a multi-part article. Part 1 discusses the importance of complex passwords and also discusses some ways to create them in Linux. Part 2 covers the KeepassX application, a program with a very nice graphical user interface. In part 3, we take a look at the gpass program which is a nice graphical user interface for the gnome desktop (will work on others too).
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