Today’s Linux article has two purposes: 1) To add a little spice to your boring old email signature, and to help you understand a bit about bash scripting. The goal is to be able to create a pseudo-dynamic email signature that adds the uptime of your Linux box and/or the output of the fortune command. [...]
Google Real-Time Spam
One of the problems that we saw when we wrote about Google’s entry into the real-time search engine market was the spam factor. Real-time means that there cannot be a human review of the contents before it goes live. The only thing that Google can do is to select only trustworthy sources for the inclusion [...]
Gmail Now With Option to Merge Duplicate Contacts Automatically
A long requested feature of many Gmail users has been finally added to the popular webmail service. Gmail users can now merge duplicate contacts automatically, something that was not possible before. The only option of dealing with duplicate contacts before the recent changes was to manually merge selected contacts in the Gmail contact list. That [...]
Your Bank Might Know More About You Than You Know
Many Internet users, especially those that have social networking accounts, expose information about themselves but also friends and colleagues on the Internet. Everyone probably read stories in newspapers that cyber criminals are using those information to create false identities or trap friends and colleagues into thinking that they are actually someone they know. What has [...]
Paragon Drive Backup – Download Paragon Backup Software
Data backups should play an important part in a computer user’s schedule. Backups ensure that data is not lost if it gets deleted, overwritten or edited. This can be accidental or because of hardware failures or virus attacks. Backups can even ensure that data is still there if a computer gets stolen if the backup [...]
Windows 7: How To Copy Or Move Files From Multiple Folders
Complex file operations are not really supported by the default file browser in Windows. Windows Explorer does not come with the means for instance to copy or move a specific file type or files with a specific name pattern effectively. One example would be to copy all photos from a folder and all of its [...]
Install a BSD-variant with the help of PC-BSD
You’ve managed to tackle Linux. You’ve installed it and are using it (or planning on using it) for either a server or a desktop. You’ve found it works well, but maybe you want to take it up a notch and give a BSD a try. BSD is not Linux. BSD is a modification of AT&T’s [...]
Another Adobe Reader Zero Day Vulnerability In The Wild
Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat have been hit with yet another zero day vulnerability that is affecting all versions of both programs up to Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9.2. The vulnerability has been disclosed to the public by Adobe’s Security Response team who wrote in their blog that they “are currently investigating this issue [...]
Firefox 3.5.6 and 3.0.16.
The Mozilla Firefox developers have begun spreading the new Firefox 3.5.6 to the ftp mirror servers around the world which is an indication that the public release is imminent. Release notes and information have not been updated yet. The beta release notes mention several security and stability updates in this new version of the popular [...]