Most people lock their doors and windows, use a paper shredder to protect themselves from identity theft, and install antivirus software on their computers. Yet they routinely surf the Internet without giving a second thought to whether their browser is secure and their personal information safe...

Every sysadmin will try its best to secure the system/s he is managing

This article will explain how you can install the latest memcached daemon (including the libevent library) on a linux system. The only prerequisite for memcached is libevent so we will have to install this first.

This article will show how you can rebuild any debian package. You might need to rebuild a package for various reasons: add/remove some compilation options, make some changes to the sources, or compile a newer version from testing/sid into stable, etc.

This document describes how to install and use sshfs, a FUSE based filesystem that uses SSH to mount remote folders.

Canonical will announce Netbook Remix, its version of Ubuntu Linux tailored for mobile devices, in two weeks, Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth said.

The best open source protection for “the cloud,” as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license. (Picture from our Tech Republic’s GeekEnd blog, written by Jay Garmon.)

Cross Platform Extensions will be included for free in the next service pack of System Center Operations Manager 2007, and Microsoft anticipates extending cross-platform support to other System Center products, including System Center Configuration Manager.

Whether you’re looking to save on keystrokes, avoid errors or simply show off how terse and clever you can be, Unix systems offer a lot of options for smart use of the command line. In this week’s column, we’ll look at a few of my current favorite command line tricks.

Few useful Linux tricks

The first alpha release for KDE 4.1 is out, and bugs aside, it looks promising.