This is a blog reply to the post made by Alex on his blog The tech and other cents. Alex has written a post on the fact that more and more the media are referring to Ubuntu and not to Linux in general. While I can understand Alex’s fear that this may lead to the [...]
There probably isn’t a serious hacker around that doesn’t know the name nmap. It’s a security term on it’s own, the opensource portscanner that has been around for as long as I can remember.
Since it’s incarnation, nmap has been a command line tool. No point & click, just the power of the shell. A number [...]
Surfing the web I stumble upon various interesting blogs. To share these hidden beauties to my readers, here is the ‘Featured Blog’ feature.
Today I’d like to share www.linuxhaxor.net with you, an insightful blog that gives very interesting information on hacking Linux. From tricks for the Bash shell, to process manipulation straight to nmap scanning.
Dell has just announched on it’s Direct2Dell blog that it will be offering legal DVD playback on it’s Ubuntu line of computers. This great news comes with the announcement that it will now also support Ubuntu 7.10 on it’s Linux line-up.
DesktopLinux.com has a nice write up on the subject and Mark Shuttleworth has finally updated [...]
On Januari 11th the KDE team will be releasing KDE 4, the new release of the award winning K Desktop Environment. KDE 4 has an impressive list of new features and includes an almost completely redone code base. It’s not only faster than KDE 3 it also uses substantially less memory.
Read on for a [...]
I blogged about Truecrypt in my last post and mentioned the two excellent GUI’s available for GNU/Linux users. The EasyCrypt GUI has been rapidly improving since the project got announced by Steven Harper, it’s main developer.
Let’s have a look at what EasyCrypt has to offer.
Users of the popular PGP software are probably aware of the Open Source GnuPG that can replace PGP for encryption. But an often used feature of PGP, especially in corporate environments, is the ability to encrypt entire disks, partitions or create virtual disks that are encrypted. This feature isn’t included in GnuPG but there are [...]
I’m totally freaking out! What the f*ck is wrong with Microsoft DNS server?
Here at work we’re still wearing down two old servers that serve as internal DNS servers. They are only authorized for internal computers and server so nothing critical to our servers that are published on the internet.
The thing that’s totally freaking me out [...]
Unless you’re keeping track of my blog in a RSS feed reader, you’ve no doubt seen the new theme I installed just moments ago. Instead of going for a readily available theme I decided to give it my best shot and create a new theme from scratch.
This ‘do it yourself’ approach in part explains the [...]