It’s easy to be impressed by Apple’s Time Machine backup feature. It works in the background, is seamlessly integrated, and when you need to get to restore something whoa.. you’re all of a sudden in space, travelling back in time, bringing something back to the present. There are two key things to this system. First […]

Linux iptables Pocket Reference is a really great little book, and although it’s been written a good few years ago, most of the explanations still apply. iptables is a great way to manage all your needs running a Linux-based gateway server: filtering and connection blocking (firewall), proxying, packet forwarding or one of the network address […]

The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer.Our newest release, the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , brings a host of exciting new features for users.This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process,Desktop,applications screeshots Full Story

When going to sleep I sometimes like to leave my computer on playing ambient music from an internet radio station. It’s a really good intro to the dreams. However I don’t want to have the computer play and be turned on all the time so I use a simple auto shutdown program to set the […]

Reading Free Software Magazine’s “Google Chrome OS. Or, how KDE and GNOME managed to shoot each other dead” I yet again see the ages old complaining about there being two major desktop environments on Linux and how bad this is. In another article, “10 Things I Hate About Linux” at least two reasons named have […]

As you may or may not know Haiku OS Alpha 1 was recently released. It is a full featured and improved clone of the old BeOS. OSNews has a nice review starting with a bit of history. I downloaded and burned a live cd, but it doesn’t seem to support my hardware since the kernel […]

Certain pages on this site lead to a “reported attack site” warning for Firefox 3 users which is apparently a feature built into Firefox 3 and provided by Google. This is actually making me want to boycott Firefox because these kinds of cozy relationships is NOT what we want to see happen in the market. […]

First of all I want to make clear that I always liked FTP. And I still prefer it over uploading my files through a web-interface, but I now have found quite a big reason why FTP really really sucks. And here it is: FTP has clearly not been designed to upload 7000 files. Right now […]

In Windows they are used for a long time already, but most Linux-users probably don’t even know that their system supports them too. Access Control Lists (ACLs) extend the regular permissions we all know with the possibility to give permissions for specific users/groups. With a little example I want to show how to use ACLs […]

I just ran into this question and thought I’ll post it here to see what others think. My personal opinion is that it doesn’t, and here’s why: I have 8GB of RAM, and although most of it usually is free (or just used by the cache and thus free-able in case of suspension) I have […]