Have you ever wanted to take a video of your sleek desktop, with your customised icons, window manager, GKrellM, and whatnot? Or make a video of cool XGL effects? Or a video tutorial to teach a few friends how to use a certain application? If you have, then this tutorial is for you.
Ubuntu’s desktop install provides a bunch of useful software for desktop users, but it doesn’t install a firewall by default. Luckily, it’s really simple to get a firewall up and running on Ubuntu.
Frankly, I’m glad that the default install doesn’t set up a firewall. Most of my computers live behind a firewall at all times […]
Security is a process, not a result. It is a process which is difficult to adopt under normal conditions; the problem is compounded when it spans several job descriptions. All the system level security in the world is rendered useless by insecure web-applications. The converse is also true—programming best practices, such as always verifying user […]
Something that has always bugged me about Mac OS X is that when you connect to a remote computer you have the option of being a registered user or a guest. Anyone that is on your network can connect to your computer via guest access, though this only gives the user access to the drop […]