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July 22, 2008 (2 days ago)

Download Of The Day: OpenSSH 5.1

Jul. 22nd, 2008 by vivek

OpenSSH server and client version 5.1 has just been released and available for download.

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Posted in Download of the day, Networking, OpenBSD, Security | Top Of Page | 1 Comment »

How To Secure User Accounts Under IBM AIX Systems

Jul. 22nd, 2008 by vivek

Security is an important aspect of the IBM AIX operating system. Follow along with this quick reference guide on AIX user security commands to learn more.

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Posted in Howto, Links, Networking, Security, Sys admin, Tips, UNIX, User Management | Top Of Page | Leave a Comment »

July 18, 2008 (6 days ago)

Download Of The Day: Firefox 3.0.1 (Critical Security Update)

Jul. 18th, 2008 by vivek

Firefox 3.0.1 has been released and available for download. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Mozilla. Use the following instructions to upgrade Firefox.

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Posted in CentOS, Debian Linux, Download of the day, GNU/Open source, Linux desktop, Linux distribution, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Security Alert, UNIX, package management | Top Of Page | 1 Comment »

Exporting Networked File Systems Via Another Networked File System

Jul. 18th, 2008 by vivek

How do I access networked file system mounts such nfs via ftp servers under Linux / UNIX?

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Posted in CentOS, File system, Linux, Networking, Security, Sys admin, Tip of the day, Tips, Troubleshooting, UNIX, Windows server | Top Of Page | 3 Comments »

July 17, 2008 (1 week ago)

Download of the day: Vmware 2.0 Virtualization Solutions Beta Software

Jul. 17th, 2008 by vivek

VMware Server is an entry-level server virtualization solution, which is proprietary, freeware software. VMware released version 2.0 beta of Server on July 1, 2008. New version provides appliance like control using nothing but a webbrowser.

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Posted in CentOS, Download of the day, Hardware, High performance computing, Linux, Linux Virtualization, Networking | Top Of Page | 1 Comment »

July 16, 2008 (2 weeks ago)

Windows PowerShell vs UNIX BASH Shell

Jul. 16th, 2008 by vivek

Shell scripting is fun. It is useful to create nice (perhaps ugly) things (read as solutions) in shell scripting. Now Windows got Powershell. But how does PowerShell measure up to traditional shells like Bash?

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Posted in Linux, Shell scripting, UNIX, Windows server, programming, windows vista | Top Of Page | 1 Comment »

5 Reasons To Avoid Apple iPhone 3G

Jul. 16th, 2008 by vivek

Your iPhone 3G comes with a complicated list of rules about what you can and can’t do with it. Free software foundation has published the list of 5 reasons to avoid Apple iPhone 3G.

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Posted in GNU/Open source, Hardware, Linux Embedded devices | Top Of Page | 9 Comments »

Linux: Display Japanese or Chinese Or Any Other Multilingual Text On The Console / Shell Prompt

Jul. 16th, 2008 by vivek

Explains how to display multilingual text such as hindi, chinese, japanese, korean etc text on the console using framebuffer, and bterm applications under Fedora / RHEL / CentOS / Debian / Ubuntu Linux.

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