Groklaw Shutters Doors Over Email Privacy Concerns
- Aug
- 20
The continuing flood of news about the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ communications, which has already forced secure email providers Lavabit and Silent Circle to shut down, has now claimed yet another victim. Specifically, award-winning tech legal news site Groklaw, which served the free and open source software community, on Tuesday announced that it is closing because of email security concerns.
Who’s Afraid of Linux Malware?
- Aug
- 19
There once was a time when Windows users could feel relatively safe and secure as they made their online excursions around the World Wide Web. Those days ended relatively quickly, of course, followed soon afterwards by a similar waning of confidence on the Mac side. For those of us who prefer Linux, however, the Age of Innocence — as one might call it — has lasted much longer.
Linux Burrows Deeper Into the Enterprise
- Aug
- 15
Server-side Linux has been pushing into the enterprise for some years now, and 42 percent of respondents to a survey conducted on behalf of Linux vendor SUSE said it was either their primary server OS or one of their top server platforms. Perhaps more importantly, Linux is extending its reach beyond its traditional areas of supercomputing, Web servers, Internet hosting and application development.
Elon Musk Blazes Hyperloop Trail
- Aug
- 13
Uber-industrialist Elon Musk on Monday released the alpha plans for his proposed Hyperloop high-speed travel system between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Hyperloop will consist of streamlined capsules riding like hovercraft on an air cushion in a steel tube with solar arrays on its roof to provide power to the system. The tube will be supported every 100 feet by pylons.
1 Small App, 1 Giant Feather in Linux’s Cap
- Aug
- 13
What a difference a day makes, as the old saying goes — or, perhaps more aptly here in the Linux community, what a difference an app makes. Which app, you may ask? Why that would be Microsoft Office for Android, of course — the arrival of which a few weeks ago has caused no shortage of jubilation in the Linux blogosphere. “It looks like Linus has won,” noted a recent article.
Yum that was useful!
- Aug
- 09
Pardon the humor. Just a collection of useful yum commands that are useful to have around but I don’t always remember off the top of my head. I’ll be adding to this post over time. How to list the files installed by a yum package You will need ‘repoquery‘ which is part of ‘yum-utils‘. If […]
read moreThis Watchdog Is Android’s Best Friend
- Aug
- 09
If you find yourself bashing away on your Android device and maxing it to the hilt with numerous background-running apps, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered freezes and slowdowns. As PC makers can attest, we’re using our Android and other newer devices as laptop substitutes these days, and thrashing phones and tablets in the process. However, there are tools to help manage the maxing-out.
Flush This!
- Aug
- 06
I came across this today and learned something new so thought I would share it here. After killing 2 processes that had hung I noticed the following in the ps output: root 373 2 0 Jun11 ? 00:00:00 [kdmflush] root 375 2 0 Jun11 ? 00:00:00 [kdmflush] root 863 2 0 Jun11 ? 00:00:00 [kdmflush] […]
read moreResearchers demo exploits that bypass Windows 8 Secure Boot
- Aug
- 02
The Windows 8 Secure Boot mechanism can be bypassed on PCs from certain manufacturers because of oversights in how those vendors implemented the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification, according to a team of security researchers.
read moreSnowden leaves Moscow airport as Russia grants him asylum for a year
- Aug
- 01
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has finally left the transit area of the Moscow airport, after Russia granted him temporary asylum, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal.
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