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Linuxaria Introduction to inotify : Linuxaria

Dec 6

Posted by John Allen in Linux, Technology, Unix | No Comments

Linuxaria Introduction to inotify : Linuxaria.

Download Centrify Express

Oct 12

Posted by John Allen in Debian, Linux, Networking, Technology, Unix | No Comments

Download Centrify Express.

Pinguy OS (One deadly Ubuntu re-spin)

Oct 11

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Pinguy OS.

Linux: Howto download ISO files directly to a CD/DVD/BLU-RAY | Pétur Ingi Egilsson

Jul 23

Posted by John Allen in Linux, Technology | No Comments

It is possible to download .iso files directly onto a cd\dvd\blu-ray disk. /dev/shm is a directory found on Debian & RedHat based distributions. (Please let me know if you find it on dists as well) /dev/shm is a dynamic RAM disk, meaning it’s size will grow and shrink with the size of the files placed [...]

Linux / UNIX: Encrypt Backup Tape Using Tar & OpenSSL

Apr 1

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Linux / UNIX: Encrypt Backup Tape Using Tar & OpenSSL.

Linux Themes – Themes for linux

Dec 8

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Linux Themes – Themes for linux.

Acetone: Mount and manage your CD/DVD ISOs

Dec 3

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Acetone: Mount and manage your CD/DVD ISOs.

[Phoronix] The Cost Of ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Fedora 12

Nov 26

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[Phoronix] The Cost Of ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Fedora 12.

Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) freeze postponed

Nov 25

Posted by John Allen in Debian, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Technology | No Comments

The proposed freeze of Debian 6.0 in Dec 09, has been postponed till Mar 2010, and while this is disappointing, I’m glad they postponed it. I don’t want Debian to become Ubuntu. The solid, rather than regular releases are far better, and hopefully we’ll get a 2.6.33 or newer kernel too.

CVE-2009-3547 (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)

Nov 9

Posted by John Allen in Debian, Linux | No Comments

Synopsis: “Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc/*/fd/ pathname.” Debian 5.x systems suffer from this vulnerability (with or without Wine installed), and the [...]