http://thebarrel.net/blog Linux,Security,and More Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:44:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you can see he really has gotten into getting really comfy when it comes to his morning nap. http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/03/08/hacker-gets-comfy/ Yeah, everyone has stolen Wi-Fi at one point or another, but not everyone has called into a tech show in order to complain about the fact that someone put the kibosh on said stealing.Meet Jennifer, she had been unwittingly yoinking Wi-Fi for more than a year and a half when ... http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/03/02/clueless-woman-calls-tech-show-when-her-stolen-wi-fi-disappears/ This was on wired and I thought that you folks might want to take a look at it this guy is the ultimate doomsayer I have heard of in a long time, Baldy.The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael ... http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/03/02/threat-level-privacy-crime-and-security-online-cyberwar-hype-intended-to-destroy-the-open-internet-2/ This was on wired and I thought that you folks might want to take a look at it this guy is the ultimate doomsayer I have heard of in a long time, Baldy.The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael ... http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/03/02/threat-level-privacy-crime-and-security-online-cyberwar-hype-intended-to-destroy-the-open-internet/   It's a well-known fact that humans love lists, and the media are generally all too happy to oblige. Recently, however, mixed in among the many "Top 10" lists and "10 Ways to ..." articles out there was one that seemed worthy of attention. "10 Characteristics of a ... http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/01/28/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-linux-guru/   YouTube and Vimeo is kicking Adobe's Flash to the curb in favor of the sharp new HTML5. Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming sites, thus booting out the long-standing champ of multimedia delivery, Adobe Flash. With recent security ... http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/01/23/youtube-vimeo-ditching-flash-for-html5/ Yuppers the blizzards were not enough because here is the ice storm. Jeeesh what a nice winter.These are branches that normally are 5 foot above the deck and here they are. http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/01/21/gotta-love-ice/   This article is part of the on-going 15 example series where 15 examples will be provided for a specific command or functionality. In this series, earlier we discussed about find command, crontab examples, grep command, history command, ping command, and wget examples. In this article, let us review ... http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/01/10/can-you-top-this-15-practical-linux-top-command-examples/ Okay for goodness sake enough is enough! With only 5" of snow on the ground this is all the new stuff over night and with 12 hours more to come there should be a great mess by morning when the high winds hit.And for those you have asked the ... http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/01/07/true-2/   We recently asked readers for requests on new articles you’d like to see (and thanks for all the great ideas!). One such request was a beginner’s guide to Arch Linux. As a Linux distro addict, I’ve heard of Arch many times over the years but for some reason, ... http://thebarrel.net/blog/2010/01/02/getting-started-with-arch-linux/