If you want to do a thorough system security audit on a Linux machine what do you use? Cobble together a few of the pre-installed tools? Search through the numerous locations for a tool that might give you enough information to determine if your system is safe? Or, do you open up a terminal window [...]
Open Office 3.2.0 Final Released
Open Office 3.2.0 Final has been released and is currently distributed to mirror ftp servers worldwide to ensure a smooth delivery once the release notifications will be added to the project’s homepage. Five release candidates and numerous betas have made available before the developer’s of Open Office decided to release the final version of the [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 9th, 2010
- Comments: 2
Dealing with bugs in Linux
One of the things I’ve always liked about using Linux is the feeling that my input is actually important. Either by way of giving input to the developers directly or (more importantly) reporting bugs that inevitably appear on a system. It’s the latter of the two that help Linux (as a whole) to take great [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 7th, 2010
- Comments: 5
Manage your money in Linux with HomeBank
For many Linux users one area where Linux needs some improvement is money management. Yes there is the very powerful GnuCash (check out GnuCash in my article “GnuCash: Open source Accounting/Financing goodness“). But many users find GnuCash to be too much power for what they need. There is also the slick KMyMoney, but that depends [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 6th, 2010
- Comments: 1
Waste plenty of time with Frozen Bubble and gnubik
Let’s face it, we sit at our computers for hours on end. Be it administrating, working, or just plain killing time. Everyone knows that the interwebs is a sure-fire time killer. But what happens, gasp, when those interwebs are down and you’ve no way to pass time? You shrivel up and die right? No! You [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 5th, 2010
- Comments: 30
Covert .mp3 to .wav and .ogg from command
I have a ton of various music files on my machine that are in various states of migrating from .mp3 to different formats. The primary reason for this is because of the issue of licensing between Linux and the MP3 format. And although there are GUI tools to do nearly every job you need, there [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 4th, 2010
- Comments: 2
Check and repair corrupted tables on MySQL database
This morning I woke up to find one of the sites I administer down. The error on the page was very clear in that it could not connect to the database due to a corrupt table. I had two choices, recover from a backup or attempt to repair the corrupted tables. I opted to try [...]
