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News Item Yoggie Opens up its Miniature Firewall
Yoggie releases cutting-edge source code and its Linux-based hardware platform to the developer community
News Item New Free System Admin Tool- Linux Hot Copy
R1Soft®, developer of Continuous Data Protection®, today announced the upcoming release of a free beta version of Hot Copy for Linux, a new command line utility that takes instant, readable and writable snapshots of disks or volumes on any Linux server, providing an unprecedented level of flexibility for IT administrators.
News Item Competition from Solaris?
Sun has released a new version of OpenSolaris, is it any good.. ??
How-to Load Balancing Apache and Plone
There are many solutions to this issue, this might be one of the neater ones ...
How-to Gambas RAD
Rapid Application Development for Linux
How-to Warzone 2100
Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive.
How-to An integrated Email soltion for Linux
There is a tendency to think of Outlook / Exchange as "the" email solution ... : wrong!
News Item Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop
Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop Makes Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail Available Offline
News Item Ubuntu for Notebooks!
Canonical Showcases Ubuntu Netbook Remix at Computex
How-to Image backups with netcat
Transferring large blocks of information across the network between devices
News Item Browser war hots up
For many years Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been the dominant Internet Browser, simply because it comes pre-installed on the Operating System supplied with most home computers. (Windows) It does look however like things are starting to change a little ...
How-to Windows CDROM's in Xen VM's
Some brief detail on how to connect up and switch CDROM's within Windows instances when running inside Xen
News Item Security Enhancements
Some people [bots?] seem to think it's fun to register on the site with bogus details and either someone else's email address, or a non-functional email address. We've just made this a little more difficult.
How-to Making NoMachine (nx) Fly
When working with slow communications links, tweaking Gnome can make all the difference ...
News Item Welcome to Linux.co.uk!
And they're off!
How-to Linux/Mac/Windows File Compatibility
aka file name friction
How-to The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6
Although it seems like only yesterday that we were booting up our first Linux 2.4 systems, time has ticked by and the kernel development team has just released the 2.6 kernel to the public.
How-to Automation using CRON
Automation of Tasks in the *nix Environment
How-to CERT - Home Network Security
An overview of the security risks and countermeasures associated with Internet connectivity.
News Item Ready for Launch>
The countdown has started ...
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