Scientists, academicians and researchers are a group of users that benefits greatly from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS / FLOSS). Most them would use free software not only to help in preparing graph and documentation, but also as the main tool in their investigation. Although it is not explicitly required by the software license […]
Ubuntu One Files for Android is an application written by Micha? Karnicki as part of Google Summer of Code Project (GSoC) 2010. The client is licensed under the GNU Affero GPL v3 and its source code is available from Launchpad. The application lets you synchronize your phone contacts, files and photo gallery on the cloud […]
Debian project has released update on Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) which addressed several security issues and bugfix. Debian Squeeze users are advised to update their installation using “apt-get update” and “apt-get upgrade” command to ensure all of the updates are installed properly. p/s: Although I currently use Ubuntu, I was actually a Debian user and I […]
RouterPasswords.com is a website that list a collection of default router passwords from popular vendor. This is handy should you lose the instruction manual or forgotten the default password.
MySQL service port are not meant to be accessible to the outside world as it would become a security concern to the administrator. Although MySQL server (mysqld) by itself has a built-in mechanism to deny access from unauthorized ip-address, it still does not protect it from being overwhelmed by multiple malicious requests or buffer overflow […]
The upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 release (Oneiric Ocelot) will drop Synaptic Package Manager from default installation in favor of Ubuntu Software Center. This has been foreseen since Canonical has spend their effort in developing and improving Ubuntu Software Center as a convenience one-stop center to install free and paid software alike. Personal Thoughts Personally, I still […]