Images are an important part of an attractive, eye-catching blog. Well-chosen images can highlight and capture the essence of your communication, helping your audience to better appreciate your message. Here are three WordPress extensions that help you gain more control over the photos and graphics you want to display on your blog.
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Three reasons why GNU/Linux is better for Web servers than OS X
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Apple's OS X, which has been an official certified Unix system for some time now, is often installed onto Internet-exposed or intranet-only Web servers for serving up dynamic content. I've worked with such configurations for a couple of years, and with GNU/Linux alternatives for even longer. There are at least three reasons why GNU/Linux systems do the job better.
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Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers
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Version 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools.
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Ubuntu Hardy gets Sweeter with Sugar!
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Wow, what a nice surprise! (This has actually been in development since December of last year :o) The OLPC Sugar desktop environment is available in the Ubuntu Hardy repository! You can use the emulator to run it in a window or login as a full blown desktop through GDM
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Stop Obsessing and Just Do It: VoIP Encryption Is Easier than You Think
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Ian Sullivan showed me an article that he read about eavesdropping on Internet telephony calls. I'm baffled at the obsession about this issue on two fronts. First, I am amazed that people want to hand their phone calls over to yet another proprietary vendor (aka Skype) using unpublished, undocumented non-standard protocols and who respects your privacy even less than the traditional PSTN vendors.
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OpenSSH’s VPN
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Most SSH clients have the ability to perform local and remote port forwarding. This is a pretty neat use of SSH if you haven’t ever seen it before. OpenSSH can take it one step further and provide a full VPN solution encrypting all network traffic on all ports between two machines. This is pretty powerful stuff. This is useful for a quick-and-dirty way to encrypt all traffic between two machines.
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NETGEAR Launches Open Source WGR614L Wireless-G Router
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Good news for all hackers. NETGEAR launches Open Source edition of wireless-G router enabling Linux developers, geeks, hackers and enthusiasts to create Firmware for specialized applications
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List of FTP Clients Available in Linux
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FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging files over any TCP/IP based network to manipulate files on another computer on that network regardless of which operating systems are involved (if the computers permit FTP access). There are many existing FTP client and server programs. FTP servers can be set up anywhere between game servers, voice servers, internet hosts, and other physical servers.
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Getting started with KWord Development
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About 2 months ago, I started working on KWord ODF support. Getting productive working on KWord is no mean task - apart from the mandatory C++/Qt knowledge, one need to know Scribe, KDE, KOffice libs and KWord. I knew only C++/Qt and basic Scribe.
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TinyUrl Creator :: Firefox Add-ons
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TinyUrl brings the http://tinyurl.com functionality into your browser. It takes a long URL as input, and gives you a short URL to use in it's place.
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10 Reasons why i love GIMP Graphics Tool?
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One of the best and the most widely used graphics tool for linux is GIMP , the GNU Image Manipulation Program. This GIMP is a full featured image editing program with many menus, tools and filters.
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Migrate device control applications from Windows to Linux
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Ease the pain of migrating device control applications from Microsoft® Windows® to Linux® by understanding how device control works in both operating systems. The authors outline these differences and give you a C/C++ migration sample.
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Simple backup script for Ubuntu
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Trying to prevent myself from another home fiasco, I've decided to build a simple script to backup some of my directories.
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Building a carputer the most difficult, expensive and rewarding do-it-yourself (DIY) projects I have ever completed...
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When is an open-source project ready?
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I’ve been getting told that my recent review of KDE 4 wasn’t fair because KDE 4 isn’t really ready for prime time. My response: “When is any program, especially an open-source program, ready?”
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