If you are a geek like me or just a privacy aware person you’re probably using encryption to secure your communications. If not, you really should get started…
There are lots of tools to make using encryption easier. One popular and well known tool is Seahorse, a powerful GnuPG frontend from Gnome.
Another great piece of software [...]
Canonical has launched a new service as part of it’s Launchpad service. Personal Package Archive or PPA is a build and publishing system for Ubuntu packages.
Developers can upload software and have it built automatically. The PPA service also sets up a normal package repository so users can easily install your software packages. Best of all [...]
I woke up this morning at 3 am with a killer headache, sore throat and bad temper. Yeah, just my luck…
This week would be all about finishing the extranet portion of the Intramas application I’m developing at work, but I still didn’t get any decent work done today. Just cleaned up the template files and [...]
The Virtual Hosting Blog has a 15 point report card on operating system security. It compares the various security related portions of Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Windows Vista.
For the impatient: Mac OS X gets A-, Ubuntu receives a B+ and Windows Vista gets a B-.
After reader about the ‘old’ Nokia N800 and watching the unboxing of the N810 I’m about 200% sure that I would want a Nokia N810 internet tablet.
The only problem is the $450 price tag and the fact that it isn’t a phone… Sure there’s skype but well, that’s just skype.
Imagine the Nokia N820, an improved [...]
I don’t think there’s any geek that hasn’t read (or at least knows about) the novel 1984. The literary work of George Orwell tells the story of Winston Smith, a citizen of the futuristic nation Oceania. Winston lives under the constant watch of Big Brother. No doubt many of you are more familiar with the [...]
I spent most of my time this morning integrating rrdtool into GPB Backup, the open source backup solution I’m developing.
RRDTool is an open source data logging and graphing system developed by Tobias Oetiker. It creates single file databases that can be filled with pretty much any data.
I integrated an rrdtool script into the main GPB [...]
Ars Technica has a review of the Asus Eee PC.
Ryan Paul concludes that the Eee is a great piece of hardware, though burdened by some minor flaws. He also makes the excellent point that it becomes increasingly difficult for Microsoft to adapt it’s Windows operating system to the faster increasing needs and flexibility of todays [...]
These days everyone that’s active online has at least a couple of accounts that are protected with a username and password combination. We all know that we should use different passwords for all our accounts but we all know we sin against this rule. One password, maybe two for all our accounts. Security, this not [...]
The latest Skype 2.0 beta for Linux has video chat support!
To quote the release announcement: “This release is not just a revolution for us in Linux, but a revolution for the Skype world at large. No longer are we, the people of Linux, prevented from socialising in the same way as our peers.”
Indeed, now [...]