With graphical user interfaces becoming more and more friendly and easy to use, new users of GNU/Linux and the BSDs can now get their daily work done without having to tinker around (very often) with a terminal. However, many users don’t like to use a GUI for every task, and find that they necessarily [...]
Even though Linus Torvalds has always been known as a deity-like figure in the world of Linux, lately he has been quite outspoken about where he thinks his operating system is going and what its competitors are doing wrong. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Torvalds had quite a few complaints to bring against both [...]
February 7, 2008 (Computerworld) Yahoo Inc. this week introduced a new monthly Web Hosting service for small and medium sized businesses, which provides unlimited hosted storage capacity and bandwidth. Subscribers to the new service, priced at $11.95 a month, are free to take up as much disk space on Yahoo’s servers as they need to [...]
It’s the bane of anyone who uses the Internet: remembering different user IDs, passwords and registration information for sites you use regularly. Soon, you may not have to. Some of the Internet’s biggest players — Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM and VeriSign — are working on a new single sign-on that would take some of [...]
Here ya go folks maybe the most complete collection of Linux cheat sheets on the web. I am sure that you will find one or two that you have not seen yet. Check out the Page
Oh yes I know that I just wrote about this the other day, however I have to jump in and say I have tried it and by gawd it worked so smoothly it was a tad scarey. I followed the instructions and uploaded it to The Barrel and just like advertized 5 clicks and I [...]
Move over, Microsoft Singularity. There’s another microkernel, .Net-based operating system in town. And this one’s available under an open-source license. Cosmos: An open-source C# microkernel OS is bornKnown as Cosmos, the new, independently developed operating system (OS) is the brain child of former Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team member Chad “Kudzu” Hower. Unlike Singularity [...]
Are underseas telecom cable cuts the new IEDs? After two underwater cable cuts in the Middle East last week severely impacted countries from Dubai to India, alert netizens voiced suspicions that someone — most likely Al Qaeda — intentionally severed the cables for their own nefarious purposes, or that the U.S. cut them as a [...]
WordPress put out an urgent security release today. If you are using an older version of WordPress you should consider upgrading to version 2.3.3 as soon as possible. I was about to do the manual update when I was pointed to this tool from Scott’s Twiiter. It’s the WordPress Automatic Updater plug-in (GPL). WAUP is [...]
Storing backups on optical media such as DVD-R discs suffers from two major drawbacks: DVD discs are easy to scratch, and the media itself degrades after a while. You can deal with the scratching issue by careful handing of the media, but even expensive media becomes unreadable over time. Dvdisaster aims to help you recover [...]