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Archive for February 10th, 2008

Macros for Thunderbird

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

If you are like me, you have a lot of items that get repeated in e-mails websites and hint pages maybe even links you name it and unless you are really patient it can be a handful making macros in Thunderbird. Well today I found a handy little add-on to do just it makes Macros [...]

A Linux firewall primer

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Okay this is a older article but it still is a great source of information for those who ask what is a firewall and how does it work. And should I spend money on a firewall or is a open source firewall just as good.
You’ve heard the familiar arguments: commercial firewall products are overpriced; [...]

sudo, or not sudo: that is the question

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

f you’ve dabbled even a little bit with security matters, you know that giving root rights or the root password to a common user is a bad idea. But what do you do if a user has a valid need to do something that absolutely requires root rights? The answer is simple: use sudo to [...]

Backing up in Linux is Finally Made Simple with TimeVault

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

 
File backups are a key element for every user and on every computer. Whether it be an office setting or a home desktop machine, backups are essential - your hard drive will fail at some point; you will need a backup, and you’ll be kicking yourself if you learn this lesson the hard way. Linux [...]

A dummies introduction to GNU Screen

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

 
With graphical user interfaces becoming more and more friendly and easy to use, new users of GNU/Linux and the BSDs can now get their daily work done without having to tinker around (very often) with a terminal. However, many users don’t like to use a GUI for every task, and find that they necessarily need [...]

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