Okay it is the time for all the “experts” to come out of the closet and make their year end predictions, well there is one that has lived for as many years as I can remember and I hope is not brought up this year. And that is “This is the Year of Linux”. My [...]
You can never be too safe these days. Viruses, spyware, rootkits, remote exploits, you just never know what security issue is going to be your downfall. That’s why it is important as a Linux administrator to have an understanding of some of the best Linux security tools available to you. In this article, you [...]
Okay I have gotten home,two days late and hardly worse for the wear. A christmas day that was ruined, and a bitter taste for Northwest airlines in my mouth. But i have to say thanks to some folks that were responsible for a great trip or at least the first part anyway. Thanks to Slick [...]
Okay the trip was not a total failure, there was a lot of good food and some great times. But the one thing I have to mention is Big Daddy’s Seafood Market. Here is a little spot in the town of Jennings,La. And you want to talk seafood this is the place. A lot of [...]
The idea was go south and have a nice pre-Christmas party. Well that went well, and then came yesterday. Sitting in the airport to start the day we were told the plane was running late due to Ice. Well okay I figured that this is the season for storms no big deal and I had [...]
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued an alert for an e-mail scam targeting holiday travelers, warning that malware authors are using clever social engineering tactics to hijack Windows computers. In the e-mail scam, users get a .zip file attached to a message about an airline ticket and an ominous mention of [...]
Okay here is your chance to check out the man behind Mepis my favorite distro and one that I try and promote as much as possible. Learn why he started Mepis and some of his belief’s for a distro. A very good read for all as it gives a lot of insight into a developer [...]
Linux forums, mailing lists, and even howto articles are full of fearful comments against the Linux command line. "Pry my GUI from my cold dead hands!" is all too common. Nobody wants to take your GUI away, because with Linux you get the full power of both. Akkana Peck gives us a friendly introduction [...]
Morgantown, WV, Dec 8, 2008 — ISO files of the sixth and last anticipated beta of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 are available for 32 and 64 bit processors as SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.93-beta6_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.93-beta6_64.iso. In beta 6, the kernel has been updated to upstream version 2.6.27.7 and the extra drivers have been rebuilt for the new kernel. This kernel [...]
Using Linux and Open Source software can make your bottom line easier to look at. Here are 10 reasons that you need to look at Linux for your company. And here is a great article looking at the various reason that a change over might be the ticket for your company in the up [...]