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If you store important information on your Linux server and want to make sure it is for your eyes only you need to password protect these files. Let’s see how you can do this with Linux. First, pick a good password.
How to password protect files in Linux
Linux: Install a million games in one click! Updated: December 16, 2009 Well, not really a million, but how about tens or hundreds?
Linux: Install a million games in one click!
Fun: Chuck Norris vs. Linus Torvalds | HUP
Linus Torvalds once found a segmentation fault in the universe. Linus Torvalds can run kill -9 and kill Chuck Norris. Linus Torvalds doesn't die, he simply returns zero. Linus Torvalds first written program had artificial intelligence.
Core features Signaling SIP user agent compliant with RFC3261 SIP/UDP, SIP/TCP, SIP/TLS Supports IPv6 Digest authentication Supports multiple calls simultaneously with call management features: hold on with music, resume, transfer... Multiple SIP proxy support: registrar, proxies, outbound proxies Text instant messaging with delivery notification Presence using the SIMPLE standard in peer to peer mode DTMF (telephone tones) support using SIP INFO or RFC2833 Media Audio with the following codecs: speex (narrow band and wideband), G711 (ulaw,alaw), GSM, G722.
features | Linphone, an open-source video sip phone
Ubuntu Security In an effort to reduce the number of stickies, this sticky is what I consider "the basics" and if you are new to Security on Ubuntu / Linux you should start with this thread.
Ubuntu Security
May 16 2010 If you value your rapidly disappearing privacy while surfing the Internet you need to know about these tools. Whether you want to protect yourself from snoopers, want to spy on those out to get you, or want to be able to track trends that you know will lead to something big, then these tools will help you get the job done. The best part about them is they are FREE!
51 Free Tools to Stay Informed and Invisible on the Internet
Common Where am I now ?? pwd Moving around : cd , ln Create a directory : mkdir Delete a directory : rmdir Display files in a directory : ls Copying files : cp Delete file(s) : rm What kind of file is this ? : file Where is this file ?
Ultimate list of linux/unix commands you must know | Open Help
18 Applications You Need to Install and Experience After Installing Ubuntu
We have already featured a post dedicated to things you should do after installing Ubuntu , now lets take a look at the applications/softwares to install after installing Ubuntu. Please bear in mind that this is a post meant for newbie Ubuntu users primarily. Top 18 applications to install after installing Ubuntu. This article have the following sub categories Top Multimedia Applications for Ubuntu My favorite multimedia applications for Ubuntu include, VLC Media Player VLC media player is arguably the most comprehensive multimedia application available for Ubuntu.
How would I get Love 0.8.0 Pre-release
It just so happens I was looking for that today, too. You can find it below; just pick the version that matches your version of Ubuntu and whether it's 32-bit (i386) or 64-bit (amd64). Be aware that the pre-release version is command-line only.Linux Articles | AddictiveTips - Part 4
devtodo is a program aimed to help developers manager their to do lists from the Ubuntu Terminal. It maintains a list of items that are yet to be completed, allowing programmers to track outstanding bugs or items by adding them to a to do list. You can prioritize items according to importance (e.g., low, medium, high etc), and display them in a hierarchy within the Terminal window.Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Post Installation Guide
Friday, 14 October 2011 18:43 The new Ubuntu 11.10 codenamed Oneiric Ocelot has been released! As you all know Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution since it aims on usability and ease of installation. The Unity has a few changes. First of all LightDM is the new login manager.Ripping is a term used to describe the act of taking a video DVD and copying it to your hard drive, while additionally encoding the video into a smaller format like Divx/xvid/mpeg-4 and saving it as an AVI file. Not so long ago I wrote a blog that shows you how to take such an AVI file and convert it into a viewable, playable DVD . So I thought it would be best to show you how to move the video in the opposite direction. I consider this to be a legitimate format for people to back their DVD’s into for two reasons: Many DVD players are now capable of playing Divx/Xvid formated videos all on their own. It’s more compact (700 ~ 1400 MB per film, a blank DVD is capable of storing about 4300 MB).
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Free and open source software is all about sharing so, prompted by a reader who emailed me last week to ask about books on Linux, I spent some time over the weekend doing research. The result is a short list of books that users – from newbies to gurus – can download and read at their leisure. There are many more books than just these available online but I chose to limit the list to books that could be downloaded in full. I also chose a wide range of books, from introductions to Linux, books on implementing open source in schools and in Africa, to books that defined the evolution of free software.
10 open source books worth downloading : Tectonic - The Source for Open Source News
Meet ‘Ubuntu for Android’ – a side-by-side pairing of the Android and Ubuntu OSes on a single phone, the latest part of Canonical’s ‘ multi-device’ future for Ubuntu. When in your pocket the phone is the same as it always was: an Androiddevice. But when the connected to a monitor (by way of a nifty looking dock) it launches into a fully fledged Ubuntu desktop running the Unity interface. Both OSes share the same kernel – so this isn’t a case of an ‘Ubuntu’ app running atop Android or vice versa. Both run at the same time on the same device.The net result of this is a super efficient workflow.