Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Administration
DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly unique. I say this because there are so many things to do at DEFCON, other than going to talks, that [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Administration
Sometimes it’s fun to just make people think “WTF‽” when they see your computer. That’s “WTF‽” in a good way. It’s not hard on Linux to make people say “woah”, but it’s even easier, if you know the command line, to make people look at you typing away on your laptop and think you’re some [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Administration
If you self-manage or Co-Lo a Linux server, you absolutely need to know how to secure your box. If you don’t know, you need managed hosting. End of story. No questions.
Here’s a (very) basic outline for you. You’ll need to do some research on each step. This post is specific to a Linux server running [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Administration
Kaminsky outlines flaw, says ‘we’re in serious trouble’; exploit code posted on Metasploit
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Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Administration
I’m awfully excited to note (belatedly) that Banshee, the free and open source music player for Linux, turned 1.0 a couple weeks ago. When I first surveyed all the music players available for the girlfriend’s Linux laptop, Banshee looked the most promising, but it was still in a fairly unstable beta. Now that it’s finished, [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Administration
At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.
At JavaOne in May 2007, Sun [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Administration
It’s easy to make the mistake. The idea that the fact these things are free of cost isn’t the major motivator is something that is over most peoples heads.
Take movie piracy for example. The fact that it enabled you to get movies without paying is only a tiny fraction of the allure. It’s the only [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Administration
If you type about:config in your address bar, Firefox opens the master directory of user-defined preferences and built-in settings. The ultimate arena for performance tampering, the about:config settings are the foundation for programming Firefox extensions.
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Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Administration
An Information Week article published last week appears to position Microsoft as trying to do something right when it comes to open source. And it positions the open source community as being not quite ready to make nice after past insults, threats, and abuse.
Speaking for myself, I am always ready to see what somebody has [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Administration
Do you need to change your web host or switch your database server? This is probably the only time when you really think of backing up your MySQL data. If you’ve got a website with a database or your custom database running for your applications, it is imperative that you make regular backups of the [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Administration
We’re kinda late on reporting this but, this for those of us who are artistically challenged need all the help we can get when it comes to design software. A vector tracing tool called Vector Magic (the result of Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project by James Diebel and Jacob Norda) was a valuable [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Administration
Even Opera gets pwnt. IE 8 and Safari couldn’t be completed because they crashed during testing. The drop in memory usage at the end is when they close all but one tab - IE7 never releases memory.
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Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Administration
Today is a great day for all the people waiting for the first bits and pieces of Amarok 2 on Windows. Amarok developer shakes worked hard to get it ready for you. Enjoy! Please be aware that it is only a tech preview with a lot of known problems. From the amarok.kde.org posting:
I’ve had the [...]
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Administration
Since so many Mac users are also child porn enthusiasts, I thought you might like to know that the newest version of TrueCrypt came out last night and they support OS X now.
Now my trendy Mac friends can stop having to mess around with their USB keychain, mirroring their passwords and bill pay confirmations from [...]
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Administration
Some of you might already be using Unlinker since I have posted about it several times before. A lot of you have asked, what does it do? Hopefully this brief post will help you see the usefulness of this relatively simple but powerful Firefox Extension…
Suppose you are on a forum, blog, Apache index page, or [...]
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