FTP communication is not secure, all communication is plain text and can be easily captured. Despite this serious weakness, few do anything to secure it. There are simple ways to correct this with VSFTPD.FTPS is also known as FTPS Secure or FTP-SSL. What FTPS does is add the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to the normal FTP on the same port 21.
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Opening Up Video on the Web - Is it Possible?
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The web works because of open standards. It doesn't matter whether you're reading this on a Firefox on Linux, Opera Mini on a BlackBerry, IE on Windows, or even (possibly with a few issues) WorldWideWeb on NEXTSTEP. You can still read this content, because all of the protocols and languages used to encode and deliver this content to you are open standards.
Read more »Installing Ubuntu 8.10 On Your USB Flash Drive
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This guide shows how you can install Ubuntu 8.10 on a USB flash drive. Ubuntu 8.10 comes with a tool that lets you create a USB startup disk easily - this startup disk behaves like the Ubuntu 8.10 Live-CD.
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Ubuntu Netbook Remix Continues to Succeed
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Back in September, I examined the first reviews of Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the Dell Inspiron Mini. Ubuntu Netbooks Remix looked like it had a promising future, even at that early point, since every review I found was positive about the software. More recently, HP's Mini 1000 Mi has arrived and a few reviews have shown up.
Read more »YouTube Cinema Dims the Lights for Your Viewing Pleasure
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The YouTube Cinema Firefox extension lowers the lights on any playing YouTube video, removing distracting ads and comments so you can focus on the video.
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Response to the proposed Canonical Notification System
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To date, there has been no usability testing or validation of the proposed CNS. The following is a summary of a literature review I conducted to help evaluate the proposal and its impact on Kubuntu and KDE.
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Desktop distros inch closer
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MEPIS and Mandriva are testing new releases of their Linux distributions, and French project Jolicloud has posted a screen (pictured) from its upcoming netbook distro. MEPIS posted SimplyMEPIS 8.0 RC2, and Mandriva released its second alpha for Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring.
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EU could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with Windows
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The European Commission could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows.
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The GPL is designed to put big corporations and individual contributors on equal footing
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«...The GPL is designed to put big corporations like Microsoft and individual contributors on equal footing," said Kuhn.
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Why should the free software community look like the proprietary software industry?
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"...Here’s my vision of the future: Smaller businesses. Each with fewer, happier clients. Less money. Lots of them, all over the world." -- NB: see Why The Free Software World is not an “ecosystem” ;)
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How To Easily Change Your Usplash Screen In Ubuntu
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I remember when I first booted up Ubuntu on my computer three years ago that I wasn’t very impressed with the dull black usplash screen. It gave me a feeling that I was back to the Windows 95 era.
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Action research: mapping the nexus of research and political action
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"...The first examples of online creation communities are development communities, that is communities developed around free software programming, such as the communities around Apache, GNU and Linux, Debian or Drupal.
Read more »Remote Desktop Between Ubuntu/Linux and Windows, Part II
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In Part I of this two-part tutorial we discovered options on remoting between Linux and Windows machines. Plus we setup the VNC solution on each platform. Now we'll continue by configuring our router for connections over the Internet. Additionally, we'll see how to encrypt the connections and how to remote into the native display. Let's get started!
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Dynamic Abbreviation in Emacs
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"Dynamic abbreviation, available by calling dabbrev-expand or pressing M-/, is a generalization of the standard abbreviation system in Emacs and is one of it’s most productivity-enhancing features. Regular abbreviations, or abbrevs, are shortcuts for words and blocks of text that you type frequently..."
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How to Use BitTorrent in Linux
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Though file sharing is extremely widespread nowadays, it amazes me that lot of people still don't know how to use a BitTorrent client or perhaps don't know what to do with a ‘.torrent’ file. Just take a look at this data (Google Trends):Because of this, I decided to make a quick and easy tutorial on how to start downloading files via BitTorrent in Linux.
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