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Resources and information for businesses and institutions that use Open Source Software, in particular Linux and LAMP software. Articles on solving real-life problems and on how to make Open Source software work for you.
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Using Big Files As Hard Disks
The XEN hypervisor uses big files (a couple of gigabytes) as filesystem images for virtual machines. Unlike other virtualisation solutions XEN does not impose its own internal structure on the image file. The big file simply has to contain an ordinar...
Fetch Your Email Through A Secure Tunnel
Current Phishing Attacks In early October when news came up that quite a lot of Hotmail and Gmail accounts had been compromised by phishers who tricked users into using a faked login page the general advice for scared users was: "change your email p...
WEP Is Dead, Long Live WPA
The Final Nail in WEP's Coffin I have to admit it, this is old news, very old news. WEP is dead, and the final nail had been driven into WEP's coffin some three years ago. But many WiFi networks......
Booting a CD Without a CD Drive
ISO Files Most Linux distributions and a number of CD utilities like Clonezilla or GPARTED-Live come as iso-images, ready to be burned to a CD medium, to start an installation or running a live session for some useful purpose. But......
Hardcore Virtualisation - Learn To Love XEN
A few weeks ago I happened to install CentOS-5.3 on a HP blade server, and while scrolling through the software selection dialog, I ticked everything that had to do with Virtualisation and Clustering. Consequently, the new system came up......
Just Linux Everywhere
Finally I've started to develop Linux virtual machines for people that simply want to run Linux on Windows or Mac OS-X without the need to touch their hard disk or to engage in installation or troubleshooting at all. ......

