You had to be a crank to insist on being right. Being right was largely a
matter of explanations. Intellectual man had become an explaining creature.
Fathers to children, wives to husbands, lecturers to listeners, experts to
laymen, colleagues to colleagues, doctors to patients, man to his own soul,
explained. more>>

One of the most important characteristics of the contemporary data center, notes
Applied Expert Systems, Inc. (AES), is that an ever-increasing amount of the traffic is
between servers. Realizing the resulting need to facilitate improved server-to-server
communications, AES developed CleverView for TCP/IP on Linux v2.5 with KVM Monitoring.
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I’ve covered several different programs that are
useful when doing electrical engineering in the past. In this article, I
want to look
at a program called linsmith
that helps you do calculations or see
how different parameters behave.
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Insecure about Being Unsecure

There have been epic battles over whether “insecure” or
“unsecure” should
be used when referring to computer security. more>>

For users in search of a commercially supported encryption tool for Linux with a
backdoor-free guarantee, Jetico recommends its recently updated BestCrypt Container
Encryption for Linux 3.0. more>>

Okay, that title really isn’t fair. NethServer has all the Linux stuff, it’s just
that you don’t have to interact with it in the traditional way in order to
reap the benefits. NethServer is a web-based management software package
built on top of CentOS. You can download it as a separate distribution,
but truly, it’s just software on top of CentOS. more>>

Although open-source software excels at innovation and leverages the immense power of
talented developers dedicated to solving difficult problems, the focus is rarely on
enterprise capabilities, asserts CloudBees, the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps.
Fortunate for Jenkins developers, CloudBees, Inc., has announced CloudBees Jenkins
Enterprise, a Jen more>>

A year or so ago, I wrote a short article titled “Network Go
Bag”. During the past year, I’ve gotten lots of email about that bag
and actually quite a few questions about working while traveling in
general. more>>

In a previous article, I introduced
the Tiny Internet Project, a
self-contained Linux project that shows you how to build key pieces
of the internet on a single computer using virtualization software,
a router and free open-source applications. more>>

In perfect alignment with its self-described identity as “the data reduction
expert”, Permabit Technology Corporation recently announced availability of its
Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) 6 for Canonical’s Ubuntu Server. more>>

ADUPS is an Android “firmware provisioning” company based out of Shanghai,
China. The software specializes both in Big Data collection of Android
usage, and hostile app installation and/or firmware control. Google has
blacklisted the ADUPS agent in its Android Compatibility Test Suite
(CTS).
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The special sauce in USMobile, Inc.’s Scrambl3, the mobile app that facilitates
“the world’s most private calls and messages”, is a set of open-source
components that create a top-secret-grade VPN, encryption algorithms and internet
protocols.
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This article is the fourth in my series about the Qubes operating system,
a security-focused Linux distribution that compartmentalizes your common
desktop tasks into individual VMs. more>>

The new second edition of Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry’s classic Wicked Cool Shell
Scripts, published by No Starch Press, features a smorgasbord of favorite scripts and 23 brand-new ones.
Subtitled 101 Scripts for Linux, OS X, and UNIX Systems, Taylor
and Perry’s guide
features a collection of useful, customizable and fun shell scripts more>>

You’ll recall that in my last
article I shared a long, complex explanation for why
spam email catches my attention and intrigues me, perhaps more than it should.
Part of it is that I’ve been involved in email forever—I even wrote one of
the most popular old-school email programs back in the day. more>>