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Windows 7 on a Lenovo Ideapad S10e Netbook
At the end of January I ordered a nice shiny Lenovo Ideapad S10e from Buy.com. I managed to get a decent price that didn’t hurt the pocketbook, and it was a new toy that I could endlessly experiment with. I started to install a wide variety of operating systems to check for support and to [...]
Continue reading...FOG as a web-based Ghost Replacement
1. February 2009
Lets face it, some sectors just can’t move to Linux due to legacy application support, lack of personnel support, employee training, and especially due to the jump in vastly different user interfaces. Each company has their own incredibly (insert sarcasm) unique reason for holding back. So, what is left for the network admins to do [...]
Continue reading...VitualBox 2.1.2 Released
27. January 2009
You might have noticed that VirtualBox 2.1.2 has been released into the wild. While there is a laundry list of changes, a few performance and stability enhancements for Mac OS X were on the top of want my list.
While Parallels and VMWare offer commercial solutions, Sun backed VirtualBox offers many similar features for free. As [...]
AQEMU Frontend for QEMU
16. December 2008
Virtualization has always held a special place in my toolset because it allows me to make modifications to my environment without the headache of potentially breaking something. So, any improvements on this front tend to grab my attention.
Recently, I came across AQEMU a GUI frontend to QEMU. For those of you who may not know, [...]
Cryptkeeper for Encrypting User Files
8. December 2008
In this day and age, encryption has become the focus for securing sensitive data like bank account information, software licenses, or even social security numbers. If you have ever wanted to keep specific folders in your home directory encrypted in Linux there are a multitude of ways. Cryptkeeper and K-encfs come to mind. Both applications [...]
Continue reading...Programming a Simple Client/Server Application with Ruby
23. November 2008
Being able to add some sort of client/server model to your programs is pretty essential these days, and Ruby does a fine job making your life easier.
For this article, I’ll show you a quick, down-and-dirty way of getting a very simple server up and running and a client that will say “Hello Server World” and [...]
ClamTk 4.04 – A GUI Front End for ClamAV – Released
18. November 2008
ClamTk just released the latest version of their frontend to Clam AntiVirus which “brings back the Debian builds.”
If you’ve never heard of Clam AntiVirus (aka ClamAV) before it is an Open Source antivirus solution for Linux. Over the years ClamAV has gained much popularity, and has been used by many companies small and big alike [...]
Untangle offers VPN, Snort, Firewall, and Much More!
31. October 2008
If you have ever been involved in setting up a small to mid size network that requires full access to roadwarriors, the ability to detect intrusions, and the need for a firewall, then you will know that it is no easy task. The commercial cost of this alone is enough to consume your entire [...]
Continue reading...Handling Exceptions in Ruby
28. October 2008
Dealing with exceptions is a big part of any object oriented programmer’s job. We need to be able to recover from things like connect failures or syntax errors, and do so gracefully. Thankfully, raising and “rescuing” exceptions in Ruby is a fairly easy task. Let’s start with a basic example. We all know [...]
Continue reading...Linux Alternatives to Apple’s Time Machine
23. October 2008
Have you ever caught yourself drooling over Apples Time Machine, but just couldn’t bare jumping ship to MacOS X? You are in luck because you have a few projects to choose from. Most of these applications use rsync (a filesyncing program for *nix) and cron (a task scheduler) to mimic the characteristics of [...]
Continue reading...Sun, IBM and Microsoft Host Workshop to Combine VM Efforts
1. October 2008
Sun recently held a 3-day workshop where technical leads and directors from IBM and Microsoft were invited to join together at the Sun campus to try and work on consolidating Virtual Machine efforts going forward; more specifically focused on developing solutions that would yield Java-like performance for Ruby, Python, PHP, and Scala on the JVM.
No [...]
Android’s Unlock Screen is a Level of Security
28. September 2008
Google’s Android mobile platform has a pretty interesting approach to the unlock screen that makes it more than just a simple way to avoid hitting buttons in your pocket. Android’s unlock screen actually introduces a new level of security to the device that didn’t previously exist on mobile phones without introducing an annoying new system [...]
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9. March 2009
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