I don’t have much to say here, other than I wanted to see something real time or close to it about how the traffic is flowing on my Vyatta Router so I looked for some info and found it. I am sharing it here for others and future reference on my own part. The first […]
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For several weeks now I have been running PS3 Media Server (http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/) hosted on Ubuntu 10 Desktop (http://www.ubuntu.com/), when I decided to fine tune my environment by making the system headless as I had no need to interact with a desktop environment. Info: PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant UPNP Media Server which can […]
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Firefox Sync
This week I have come to learn of Firefox Sync. I now have all my bookmarks, password, history and preferences available on all the computers I use. Similar to how Google Chrome syncs your favorites. For more info: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/sync/
Hyper-Threading is a technology included by Intel first in their Netburst line of parts. Hyper-Threaded processors present their individual processing cores to the system as if they are two processing cores. To use Intel’s parlance, that means that each physical core appears in the operating system as two logical cores. While the OS can distinguish […]
The shred command can be used for destroy files so that their contents are very difficult or even impossible to recover. The shred command accomplishes its destruction by repeatedly overwriting files with data patters designed to do maximum damage. Even the use of high-sensitivity data recovery methods and equipment make it difficult to recover files […]
For some time I have always used tools such as scp sftp to copy files between Linux based systems. Until the growing need to have this process simplified. I recently fell in love with Linux all over again with the new release of Ubuntu. I always had known it was possible but never had the […]