SSH. Open Source Servers. Welcome! - Phatch = PHoto & bATCH! - Nightly (Build 20110507043313) Internet Browsers. Office apps. NoSQL Tutorial. Some months ago I had a discussion with NoSQL creator, Carlo Strozzi, regarding the databases. I should admit, I am an SQL fan! It's hot having the same language, no matter which platform or database engine is used.
He underlined the fact that most SQL engines lack of flexibility and waste system resources (memory and disk space) because of their multi-platform environment (such as Oracle, DB2, Informix, etc.). He suggested I have a look at the white paper that inspired him: “The UNIX Shell As a Fourth Generation Language” by Evan Schaffer (evan@rsw.com) and Mike Wolf (wolf@hyperion.com). Quoting from the above paper: ... almost all [database systems] are software prisons that you must get into and leave the power of UNIX behind. [...] The UNIX file structure is the fastest and most readily-available database engine ever built: directories may be viewed as catalogs and tables as plain ASCII files. . will copy it with the right permissions. Getting Some Steps Around. Lightspark. Cygwin. TightVNC: VNC-Compatible Free Remote Control / Remote Desktop Software.
Gnash. GNU Gnash is the GNU Flash movie player — Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9.
SWF v10 is not supported by GNU Gnash. The main developer's web site for GNU Gnash is located on the Free Software Foundation's Savannah project support server. This site allows you to file bugs, or view the source code via the web. Examples of GNU Gnash Homestarrunner.com running in GNU Gnash 0.8.10. 59 Open Source Tools That Can Replace Popular Security Software — Datamation.com.
It's been about a year since we last updated our list of open source tools that can replace popular security software. This year's list includes many old favorites, but we also found some that we had previously overlooked. In addition, we added a new category -- data loss prevention apps. With all the attention generated by the WikiLeaks scandal, more companies are investing in this type of software, and we found a couple of good open source options.
Thanks to Datamation readers for their past suggestions of great open source security apps. Feel free to suggest more in the comments section below. Anti-Spam 1. ASSP (short for "Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy") humbly calls itself "the absolute best SPAM fighting weapon that the world has ever known! " 2. Used by more than 100,000 sites, MailScanner leverages Apache's SpamAssassin project and ClamAV to provide anti-spam and anti-virus capabilities. 3. This Apache project declares itself "the powerful #1 open-source spam filter. " 4. 5. 6. Anti-Spyware 7.