Does the reality ever live up to the hype?
Everyone knew it was coming—they just weren’t entirely sure what, exactly, it would be. The MacBook Air was rumored to have a lot of things—a black (or silver) aluminum case, a multitouch screen, massive trackpad, 12- or 13-inch screen, a solid-state hard drive, the moniker of “MacBook [...]
Do you wish you had access to your home file server without leaving your firewall wide open to attacks? Well today’s your lucky day! While you can implement this on any OS its easiest to do this on Linux. This article will show you how to lock down your firewall and implement a port knocker [...]
“They’re perfectly happy to use anything at all as fear, uncertainty and doubt in the marketplace,” says Linus Torvalds about Redmond’s claim that Linux violates a number of its patents.
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Why bother?
Why do you need to learn the command line anyway? Well, let me tell you a story. Not long ago we had a problem where I used to work. There was a shared drive on one of our file servers that kept getting full. I won’t mention that this legacy operating system did not [...]
GnuPG is an open replacement for PGP Corporation’s PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption tool, and based on the OpenPGP standard. What GnuPG (or GPG for short) does is allow for the encryption and decryption of files using a public/private keypair. It can be used to encrypt regular files or e-mail, in either binary or ASCII [...]
This is a linux command line reference for common operations.
Examples marked with • are valid/safe to paste without modification into a terminal, so
you may want to keep a terminal window open while reading this so you can cut & paste.
All these commands have been tested both on Fedora and Ubuntu.
That is what the site says [...]
At last, friendly, informed, and understandable Linux advice. Written by Linux users, for Windows users or anyone who wants to test the Linux waters.
Sounds good right? Well here is a site that I have suggested to people for a long time now and I have mentioned here more than once. The first lines tell it [...]
