Aug 292011
 

Today I’m glad to present you an article by James Hawkins.

As the heading of this article suggests, either you are a windows or a Linux user, you aren’t safe online. We (Linux users) were happy in the past thinking that running Ubuntu or Fedora would have saved us from an “infection”, but that is not the case anymore, today any Operating System whether Mac, Linux or windows, has his own weakness,related to his vulnerabilities. We know that windows pc’s had more vulnerabilities in comparison to any other O.S in the past, but the point is that every computer over the Internet could have its own exploits, its only a matter of finding those vulnerabilities and exploiting them.

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Aug 282011
 

nfuploader Back from vacation? now you’ll have probably a lot of photos and video to show to friends on facebook, but loading them by hand from the web interface is not exactly the easiest thing to do.

There is a small program that can help you: NFuploader, which allows you to load one or more images from Nautilus, but some are also used by Thunar the XFCE file manager, directly to Facebook.
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Aug 272011
 

0.10-planetsStar Gazing has always been an authentic hobby of many people around the globe and it is indeed one of the oldest hobbies known to man. We all must love gazing stars at night, most of them don’t make it as their hobby, but many of us still try hard to look out for the constellation, or even spot out a planet or a galaxy, and for amateur’s like me it is even difficult to spot a planet in the night sky.
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Aug 262011
 

Sometimes bad things happen, and you must recover your desktop or server from an error.

For this delicate work there are some specialised Linux Live Distributions that once booted allow you to make a lot of tasks, like mounting and repairing disk partitions and file system, for this it’s important that the live Distro has support for many different File System type and LVM, it should also have a good support for the network, it’s possible that you need to download or move something on the computer, and so it’s also important to have a wide range of network support, wi-fi too maybe.
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Aug 252011
 

Original article by Craciun Dan published on Tuxarena, the article is based on the installation and use within a distribution with packages .deb

For this tutorial we’ll use the genisoimage utility, developed as part of the cdrkit project. genisoimage is a command-line tool for creating ISO 9660 filesystem images, which can be burnt after to a CD or DVD using wodim or some other burning tool. To install it open a terminal and type the following as root:

apt-get install genisoimage

Now, let’s use the simplest syntax to create an ISO image out of a directory and its contents:

genisoimage -o output_image.iso directory_name

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