Kate is the KDE Advanced Text Editor, and it does a great job for editing any type of text files, like Bash or Perl scripts, or C/C++ sources.
Read more »Kate Review: The Powerful KDE Text Editor
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Intrusion Detection For PHP Applications With PHPIDS
This tutorial explains how to set up PHPIDS on a web server with Apache2 and PHP5. PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple to use, well structured, fast and state-of-the-art security layer for your PHP based web application.
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CPU frequency scaling in Linux
The recent CPUs have a feature which let them scale their operating frequency (changing a voltage power supply input) according to the system/user needs. This way, when the entire processor resources are not needed, the system can greatly reduces the overall power consumption, lowering temperatures and fan speed ;) This post addresses the frequency scaling setup in Linux: enjoy
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Automate system administration tasks using Nagios
As a system administrator, one often have to do repetitive tasks such as checking for free disk space, check mail queues and monitor critical services. If there are only a handful of servers, this task may not be very intimidating, but there are many times when there are many servers to monitor, or just for the sake of automation. This is where Nagios comes in.
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Monitoring network performance with speedometer
Speedometer shows a graph of your current and past network speed in your console, letting you see your network connection's up and downstream speed and history at a glance. You can also use speedometer directly on a file to monitor the download performance and history of a specific download instead of all network traffic.
Read more »Open-source smart card project launched
A Dutch charity is funding an open-source project to design smart card software that offers stronger protection of personal data in light of security vulnerabilities found with cards used today.
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HD surveillance camera design runs homespun Linux
Marseilles, France-based Nexvision has announced a network IP (Internet protocol) video camera design that incorporates the Texas Instruments (TI) DaVinci TMS320DM6467 processor. The Linux-based CamHD hardware/software reference design is equipped with an Altera Cyclone III FPGA (field-programmable gate array), and boasts a claimed 1080P HD resolution.
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Three Quick Tips To Make Your PHP Understandable
Producing code that clearly conveys a developer's intent is key to any well written application. That not only applies to PHP, but every programming language. Developers who emphasize the creation of legible code tend to create applications which are easier to both maintain and expand upon.
Read more »Open Source Data Recovery Tools To The Rescue
Disasters happen to the best of computers. Luckily, open source apps like SystemRescueCD, dd, Partedmagic, BackTrack, Security Tools Distribution, Helix, and TestDisk can help recover important data and bring dead systems back to life.
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ZFS on Linux: my story and HOWTO you can have it too
Have you heard about ZFS? It’s a generation-defining stable high-performance high-end filesystems, created by Jeff Bonwick at Sun, and ported over to Mac OS X and the BSD family. Oh, and for Linux, using the FUSE (Filesystem in userspace) kernel abstraction. Here’s my ZFS story.
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Default password list in the system/Application
Why? because most system administrator forget to change their default password in the system. So basically during the first assessment or audit, just go through using this default password to enter the system. What you need is to search this following site to get default password update.
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Alpha Ubuntu for UMPCs is developer ready
Canonical isn’t wasting any time getting Ubuntu ready for UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs) and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices). The company just announced on June 24 that the developer release of Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 is ready for testing.
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8 Reasons why i love Ubuntu?
THE BEST ever Linux operating system out there; and this way, we can compete with big operating system like Windows and Mac. It's time for Linux users to have a strong, easy to use and powerful desktop operating system, and Ubuntu can help us.
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The Bash Script To Configure The Firewall Using IPTABLES
Network security is a primary consideration in any decision to host a website as the threats are becoming more widespread and persistent every day. One means of providing additional protection is to invest in a firewall.
Read more »Click the wrong link and wind up in jail
But what if the user didn’t know the images were on the computer? Or what if the user didn’t know what the Web site was before it was clicked?
Sorry. That doesn’t count. The link got clicked. The images are on the computer. Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Don’t pass Go. Don’t collect $200.
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