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A very nice guide for finding the hardware specs of a Linux box.

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Joe Stewart, a veritable malware wunderkind and senior security researcher for SecureWorks, gave a talk at SANS Las Vegas about malware attribution.  From what he said and the way he talked, you just knew this guy thoroughly knew his stuff.  I made a mental note, amidst devouring my snack, to look him up.
Well, I found his [...]

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Oh no, my little world just got a bit rocked.  Like your favorite uncle’s oncoming dementia, I’m slowly losing my Linux “skills.”  Yesterday, a colleague asked for help in removing Solaris in order to install Fedora on a test server she was working on, an operation which should ordinarily have taken only a few minutes.
Thirty minutes later, I was [...]

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Good article at polishlinux.com that presents “a few effective methods to revamp the way you work in a restricted corporation-like network.”  If you can handle the shaky language (it’s a Polish site), it’s a very good introduction to SSH tunneling.

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A review of the The Dapper Drake (http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8289526009.html)

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Found this gem just today!  I’ve been looking for one of these for a long time.

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Been having problems accessing certain sites because the firewall gentlemen installed a Checkpoint Smartdefense “recipe” to kill any HTTP connections with the “CreateTextRange” doodad as it constitutes a problem for IE (big surprise).  Well, because of this, I installed a Squid server on port 3128 and thought that would fix the problem if I pointed [...]

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My boss came up to me on Thursday last week and asked what projects I had to work on. At the time, I was looking at an Ebay auction so I didn’t know exactly what to say. I spouted off something about finishing my RT project then asked why. She’d wanted to [...]

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According to someone named Peter Quinn, a former Masschussetts CIO, the reason Linux is not making inroads into the commercial sector is because its proponents are badly dressed. He calls them the “sandals and ponytail set”. Guffaw!

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A cute (yes, I said cute) and elementary exposition of a Windows restoration using the Knoppix LiveCD.

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