Linux/Mac only: Social bookmarking service Delicious is a great way to save and share your bookmarks, but what happens if they go the way of JournalSpace and lose all your data? You need backups!
Since Delicious is owned by Yahoo there isn’t a serious risk of complete data loss, but it’s better to have a local [...]
Got tired of the long dropbox url for your public files? It is difficult to remember when you are on IRC and you don’t want to open nautilus and search for that file?
Do this with a htaccess
You just need to follow these two easy steps:
1. Create a new folder on your web server, for example [...]
Encryption
New to Ubuntu 8.10 is a nifty seamless encryption feature. It’s always been possible to encrypt individual files/folders in Ubuntu but it involved creating a key pair and then individually encrypting files. To view or edit the file, it was necessary to decrypt it and then re-encrypt it again if changes were made. Messy.
The new [...]
We all know that spiraling gas prices throughout the world has put a strain on the economy. But instead of becoming melancholic about the whole situation, we should look at the brighter side of things. After all some good samaritan out there would do something to bring some cheer into our lives.
Take for instance CodeWeavers [...]
Firewall Builder (fwbuilder) is a graphical application that can help you to configure IP traffic filtering. It can compile the filtering policy you define into many specifications, including iptables and various languages used by Cisco and Linksys routers. Separating the actual policy you define and the implementation in this way should let you change what [...]
Today, via Digg, I stumbled across this Linux bashing post. I got quite a kick out of the plain stupidity being presented and decided to investigate a little further.
That’s when I found this masterpiece by the same author on the same site. Again, I almost spit out my Diet Mountain Dew in response to the [...]
I guess this little guy doesn’t like Windows…
I’d love to give credit to the original owner but I can’t seem to find them…
Why would you ever waste the time writing an article no one will ever read:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314458
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I little geeky humor for all you *nix fans out there:
Command T-shirt
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Last night I attended my first meeting with the Bismarck Mandan Linux Users Group (BisManLUG). I have to admit, I didn’t even know we had a local users group until a couple of days ago.
Top notch stuff. There was a demo on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet PC that I have been lusting over for [...]
Jon Barnhardt
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