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I've just read on Open Source Security about a a comprehensive step-by-step guide to enabling disk encryption in your choice of RHEL 5.2 or SLES 10 SP2. If you want to use the guide check the lin
... things are done, I think that is ultimately what may make Linux obsolete. -not in the near future, though. Software and hardware have an amazing inertia, and ways of doing things tend to stay around ...
...ot completely off-base in his assessment of the potential for significant costs associated with open source software development and support, put his foot in his mouth when he noted that "Deep dev o...
... lot of people that have decided not to change their OS because of the difficulties to operates some of the software's they need in Linux environment. There is apperantly a growing interest in creat...
...important that you know to check things for yourself as did this bloger: Fought the good fight with the Software Store's attempt to roll out the new RPEG utility on Linux using Tomcat. Too bad th...
It actually took about five minutes to install Puppy Linux on the computer! There are two main reasons for using it the first is to restore files and the second is to make them disappear
Many enterprise software companies are faced by the need to change in order to adapt to a market th is based more than ever on open source. There are very interesting discussion on the adaptations t
... KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SC...
Because it's Spring and my garden is in dire need of some help - I went looking for some free landscaping software and was lucky enough to happen upon this blog Which is doing a review of exactly tha
...verything in a consistent way, with maximum efficiency and without any distractions from legacy hardware or software. Business effectiveness? Uh, sure, if you have to bring that up. But mainly, we ...
Peter Watson, an Australian software developer gives us his very possitive opinion of the ASUS Eee PC. among other things, Peter Watson says It comes pre-installed with the most user-friendly ver
...w their leader anywhere. Looks like the 2 faced krauts just got a lot of musicians pissed off at them. Shit software the krauts produce anyway so it's no loss.Let them screw up the apple platform. htt...
...nt (EULA) stating, most ominously, that: 'You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), Microsoft may provide se...
... 'These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer.' I wonder what software micro$oft plans to disable on my comput...
...have a Knoppix disk that I burned from a download. It works fine. I want to redistrbute Knoppix with my own software. (This is kosher.) How do I convert the iso9660 image to regular files, add my own ...
There just ain't no stopping these guys: 'You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), Microsoft may provide se
...hat's just a red herring. According to MS, there are *loopholes* in the EULA, which doesn't allow MS to run software of *their* choice on your PC, that won't do, so this is what the security update fi...
... and home. (In understand that the first two are mandatory.) I'd like to keep both my data files and non-OS software (Java, Open Office, Mozilla,etc.) separate from the OS. So I'd like to store the no...
Typical Microsoft histeria. It is though they are somehow trying to peddle that if a country adopts GNU software there will be a huge social upheaval, glass will crack, dogs will houl, paint will stri
...to Redhat Linux 7.3 and am trying to adjust to the 'new world'. So far I'm a very happy camper with the new software programs that have replaced the old MS ones. I need advice though on one issue. I m...
I know people who would. They also run Windows. Coincidence?
... towards a more customizable and therefore more useful system. Finnally mandating that other less efficient software and systems be avoided through policy and other means. Or do I have it all wrong,...
... code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, * b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three...
...unced for years has finally made it to the outside world... the GNOME 2.0 platform is out, and already user software is starting to roll. This feels fine somehow, even if it puts pressure on me beca...
Debian makes GNU/Linux distributions for 11 seperate hardware platforms and now officially has 10,000 software applications to choose from. http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=702&mode=threa
...ws as the future Unix replacement. Microsoft's recent comments about open source - referring to open source software as viral software - can be traced to its fear that Linux is going to do just that.'...
... no Linux boxen there. At home on a PII450 (at work they have very nice PIV2000's crippled by incompetent software): head -1 */* |grep -c 'V1.0' This gives me a number. I can check the rest wi...
Is there any Open source UML based development software ala Rational Rose out there? If there's any would appreciate some comparison info in terms of features. Thanks.
...i, that is only about 14MB. This time I downloaded a 100MB Java SDK from Sun. Must I install this giant software package to have Java plugins work in Mozilla, or can I extract only the plugins? Th...
...etwork connection for either nor are they interconnected. There also are no additional funds for additional software. Now, given all this, which person is going to be able to complete the assigned t...
... did I have to go to to set this up? Well, none actually - SuSe did it all for me at install. Hardware, OS, software, the lot. Is it slow or cumbersome? Well, no. The same action on the same system wi...
...s? I have a fair understanding of IP routing, and am happy reading manuals/man pages, but I don't know what software (on either end of the link) is needed to get...
...all the latest RedHat patches and use a self compiled 2.4.19 kernel with XFS Patches from SGI. My installed software is: * smbldap-tools-0.7-2 * openldap-clients-2.0.27-2.8.0 * openldap-servers-2.0....
This is such a partonising read. What is interesting is that MS have decided to bite the bullet and rewrite everything. Not just the OS but all their apps. I've said this on many occasions, you cannot
I went to ftp.suse.com to download the suse software for my PC. I have downloaded the full files to my PC. How can I burn it to CD? Those files has the size about few Gigabytes. I believe I need to bu
...t to get the Commerce Commission to give Microsoft a similar slapping over its new 'give us all your money' software update plan for larger companies. Well, it's actually more of a software non-upda...
This is sort of a rant, but more of a view of why Windows software is so bad, and linux software tends to be better: computer science. Ask a Linux developer about hash tables, b-trees, sorts, and 'h
Here is an article from MIT's Technology Review, ranting about bad software and focusing only on commercial, closed products!! Not a single mention of open software. http://www.technologyreview.com/
hi, i want to move to linux (esp suse) but i'm affraid that i might not get all the software substitutes for the linux. here i am giving a list of softwares if anyone has ever come accros a linux cout
.../news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-06-21-015-26-NW-MD-PB 'This new contract enables MandrakeSoft to provide Linux software and related services to an increasing number of government agencies. The adoption o...
There was an interesting article in www.zdnet.com/zdnn regarding OSS vs. Closed Source Software, and the huge number of anti-Microsoft postings, some of which I agree with, others, plain stupidity. Af
Hi, I finally have download the whole KDE-3.1.2 and its pertinent supporting software/libraries from SuSE (i.e. applications, development, experimental, internationalization, and base directories) a
Computer Virus: A malicious computer software program that performs actions detrimental to the system it is run on either without the user's knowledge or against their intentions. Computer virii u
...ouldn't get camstream to work with the webcam, although it worked fine with the TV card. ;-/ v4l compatible software is definitely the way to go for ease of use. I had a 10X DVD drive in the Gentoo ...
... the UFAQ until weekend of July 6/7. 2. A couple of people gave me the OK to take posts from the 'Windows Software for Linux' thread, but, alas, it is not going to happen this week, Real World press...
Is there any open source UML based modeling software similar to Rational Rose? If there's any, how does it compare to Rational Rose? Thanks.
Sure. And you are still a wintroll, a liar and a software thief.
...un 2002 00:44:43 -0400 I have a Win2k machine here at work. It had some sort of disk problem. Hardware or software, I'm not sure. Anyway, it was quite blue, and the node was, until repair by our IT ...
...rial, Emory University Library's Martin Halbert, says he encourages his staff to look first for Open Source software because 'it's philosophically aligned with the values of academia.' And it doesn't ...
...ht, but really - if a track is highlighted, it should play when you click on play, no? So, any CD burning software out there that uses Grip's directory structure? I tried eroaster, but it crashes ba...
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