Archive for October, 2008
October 31st, 2008 at 08:09pm
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Simple Guide How to Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibix) Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibix). This tutorial will explain how to Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibix) released on the 30th of October 2008.By default Ubuntu 8.04 LTS will not offer a [...]
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October 31st, 2008 at 08:09pm
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How to Make Money With Free Software… SPE IDE - Stani’s Python Editor: “The goal of the competition was not to design a building, but the new 5 euro commemorative coin with the theme ‘Netherlands and Architecture’. The winner will be rewarded with a nice price, but most of [...]
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October 31st, 2008 at 05:30am
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Google, Microsoft and the OpenID dust-up Microsoft and Google both announce support for OpenID, except that Google’s version has users and advocates up in arms. And Microsoft looks to have got it right.
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October 31st, 2008 at 05:30am
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Tutorial: Graphical Remote Control Desktops for Linux A. Lizard takes us on a tour of secure remote graphical Linux administration over the Internet; through firewalls, routers, dynamic home IP addresses, Wake-on-LAN, and other perils. We will learn how to securely administer both Linux and Windows remotely. The journey begins with today’s part 1 of three [...]
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October 30th, 2008 at 11:50am
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The Great 3G Letdown On Friday morning, I gave 3G wireless another chance. Maybe it was looking a gift horse in the mouth. Faster is better, and we should be grateful companies are continuing to invest in the networks we all rely upon. But after all the hype and anticipation, third-generation wireless infrastructure has been [...]
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October 30th, 2008 at 11:49am
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Give your old PowerPC Mac a new lease of life with Ubuntu Linux Windows Vista gets a bad rap for its hefty hardware requirements, but it’s not alone. Apple’s MacOS X platform has left a lot of Macs with PowerPC G3, G4 and G5 chips out in the cold. However, Linux isn’t just for the [...]
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October 29th, 2008 at 07:02pm
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Sun Cofounder Switches Into Startup Mode Andy Bechtolsheim, a revered technologist who cofounded Sun Microsystems and has been instrumental in designing the company’s servers, is stepping down from his day-to-day role to help build a new networking startup. Sun, which makes servers and software widely used in corporate computing centers, said Bechtolsheim’s transition to part-time [...]
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October 29th, 2008 at 07:02pm
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Comix - User firendly Comic book & general image viewer in openSUSE Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR or tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed) as well as plain image files.
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October 29th, 2008 at 04:40am
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Preventing MySQL Injection Attacks With GreenSQL On Debian Etch GreenSQL (or greensql-fw) is a firewall for MySQL databases that filters SQL injection attacks. It works as a reverse proxy, i.e., it takes the SQL queries, checks them, passes them on to the MySQL database and delivers back the result from the MySQL database. It comes [...]
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October 29th, 2008 at 04:40am
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A Closer Look At Red Hat’s Plymouth Phoronix: “Solar is one of the splash plug-ins available with Plymouth, which fits well with Fedora 10 considering the desktop theme. Solar is also a visually advanced plug-in. Below is the video that shows a number of planets and other graphics rotating [...]
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