Jan 232011
 

police-tuxThanks to a group on LinkedIn where I belong I found this interesting article done in two parts by Angelo Fonzeca that i propose to you:

Introduction

Are you afraid that your system has been compromised by an unauthorized access?
Have you got discovered abnormal network activities and/or do you suspect that your system has been infected by trojans or rootkit?

Is this your nightmare? 😉

No problem, there are some solutions which help system administrators to check their servers, so they can be more serene about security of their machines.

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Jan 222011
 

collageIt happens every now and then you have a set of photos and you want to do with them  a background image with a collage of them, or perhaps a mosaic, it’s possible in Linux?

Sure there are Gimp and Picasa that among the many features that give even offer these options, but there are other programs, perhaps smaller and simpler to just make this work?

Once again, Linux does not disappoint, and today I want to present three projects to create photo collages.

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Jan 192011
 

pcal-sample-monthlyThanks to a message on identi.ca I ve saw this program usable from the command line that allows you to easily create custom desk calendars, marked with the dates that interest you and with the ability to add pictures to one (or more) special days.

I’m talking of pcal shipped with anothe calendar programming lcal

PCAL and LCAL are calendar-generation programs which produce nice-looking PostScript output.

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Jan 112011
 

arduino
In the past I had made a leap into the world of open hardware, and i had wrote some about Arduino, one of the best projects in this field.

I’m interested because what happened in the world with open source software is beginning now in the hardware world, and the Arduino project is an excellent example of this.

But enough if you’re curious I suggest you go and watch this excellent documentary.

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Jan 072011
 

calendar What better time to create your own calendar for 2011, even better if based on the Linux world ?.

I saw this idea on the site http://cursorlibre.com/ where they made a nice dodecahedron with a Ubuntu theme.

In the download package, there is a pdf version ready to print and assemble, plus a pdf version of a guide in which is explained what parts should be cut and how to bend the paper to obtain the dodecahedron.
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