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Question of the Day - 6 June 2008
05-Jun-08Unbreakable Linux?
03-Jun-08Not sure exactly why anyone would really care, but you can get a free two DVD set of Oracle’s “Unbreakable Linux”, which is basically an unbranded RedHat Enterprise Linux. Just register on their site and give them your name and address and soon it will come winging your way. Being the “distro” freak I am, [...]
Linux Format Mega-Distro DVD
15-May-08Back in the Dark Ages of my home computer, when I was running Windows full time, I was quite the “Distro Dabbler”. I was forever downloading ISOs of various Linux distributions, burning them on a CD and trying them out by installing it on an unused partitions. Until finally, about two years ago, I bit [...]
Question of the Day - 14 May 2008
14-May-08What command would you use to mount a native FreeBSD partition?
We’ve been AllTop’ed
08-May-08So our humble little blog here has been listed on AllTop’s Linux page. If you haven’t checked it out, I heartily encourage you to. AllTop is one of those blog collectors, but it is set up very nicely, with a clean, sharp UI. A simple front page, broken down into eight major categories, each with [...]
Question of the Day - 17 April 2008
17-Apr-08Given the following, how would you start a graphical program (Firefox, Evolution, Deluge) from an ssh session?
Desktop environment is Gnome.
Workstation automatically logs you in at boot.
You can execute commands as root using sudo if necessary.
Commandments for Open Sourse Developers
11-Apr-08Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt as slaves of the Pharaoh. [...]
Amarok cover fetching being fixed
10-Apr-08In case you were wondering, like myself, why cover fetching was broken in Amarok, here’s a note from an Amarok developer explaining the recent breakage:
April 8: Amarok cover fetching at sebruiz.net
Just a quick message that Im sure many of you have discovered already. Cover art retrieval from Amazon is now broken due to a change [...]
Secure Data Destruction
09-Apr-08It seems that almost every Linux blog I read today had something about recovering deleted files from ext3 filesystems. That’s all well and good, but what if you are sure you want the data deleted? What if it needs to be more than just deleted, it needs to be securely destroyed? Well the concept certainly [...]
We all know that Firefox is the only way to browse, but it’s been a bit hard to love it so much lately, especially on Windows. Come on, 280MB of RAM occupied by a browser with 6 tabs? That’s ridiculous. The good news is that FF3 is noticeably faster. I was a little bit shocked [...]