Linux.com :: Set up your firewall with Firewall Builder
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 [...]
Bismarck Mandan Linux Users Group
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 [...]
Virtualization, not the friend it used to be?
Jon Galloway rips on using virtualized machines as a way to get work done. His point is that we take fast PC’s and make slow machines of yesterday out of them by creating virtualized OS’s inside of/on top of them.
In some ways I agree, but in other areas I think he is off base a [...]
Linux, the new Windows
I admit it.
I have turned into a Linux zealot.
But not without good cause.
You see, there was a time when I though Windows was great, same for the Mac. I still think the Mac is a great platform but it is becoming Windows little by little.
I recently gave Vista the boot on the laptop I [...]
Testing Ubuntu Live CD on Laptops
When I bought my laptop in January, I wanted to make sure Ubuntu would have an easy time finding all the drivers for the hardware.
What better way to do this than with a live cd?
Anyway I figured they would be kind of weary of me booting a laptop with the Ubuntu live CD, especially when [...]
