If there is one question you could ask to recognize a true geek, it would be “Do you use Vi or Emacs?” If you’re talking to a geek they will either start laughing because they recognize you as a fellow geek or they will start talking about the merits of their favorite editor.
Besides the eternal [...]
The Ubuntu team unveiled the Ubuntu brainstorm website, an initiative inspired by the immensely popular Dell Ideastorm.
Just like on Dell Ideastorm, users can post ideas on the brainstorm website and promote other ideas. The Ubuntu team hopes to use the data collected to get an image of what users find lacking about Ubuntu, or what [...]
The encryption used by popular several disk encryption systems such as Apple’s Filevault, the Bitlocker feature in Windows Vista, TrueCrypt or dm-crypt is not that secure after all.
That is the conclusion of researchers of Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The flaw is actually a design limitation in the current way disk encryption systems [...]
If you’re a system administrator like me, you’ll no doubt have a bunch of remote machines that you connect to with SSH. SSHMenu is a cool panel applet that lets you quickly connect to your favorite hosts.
Getting SSHMenu on your system is as darn easy with Ubuntu or Debian. Just add the SSHMenu Debian Repository [...]
The TrueCrypt foundation recently released TrueCrypt version 5.0, the latest version of the Open Source disk encryption software for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Before version 5.0 was released, Linux users had to resort to other GUI frontends or stick with the command line version. GUI options weren’t too bad, the more advanced Forcefield GUI [...]
“Because the traditional System V init daemon (SysVinit) does not deal well with modern hardware, including hotplug devices, USB hard and flash drives, and network-mounted filesystems, Ubuntu replaced it with the Upstart init daemon.”
I took at look at how Debian 4.0 (Etch) performed with the Initng daemon and now Linux.com has an excellent article from [...]
Informationweek reports that the European regulators have started an investigation into Microsofts activities concerning it’s Office Open XML “standard”.
“The investigation will be especially welcome in standards circles, due to the wide range of reports from the field that Microsoft has engaged in ’stacking’ of the national committees that were voting on OOXML as well [...]
These days Web Applications are hot. Rich Internet Content, Ajax, Web Enabled, all buzzwords you probably heard about. In this article I’ll tell you about Django, a new web framework that will help you develop powerful applications for the web.
Looks like virtualization in Ubuntu 8.04 will be another great feature! This Phoronix article takes a look at the GUI used in Ubuntu 8.04 to make virtualization easier.
The GUI that will be used in the upcoming Ubuntu release is the virt-manager program that has already been used in Fedora Core 8 and is contributed by [...]