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In Depth: 10 easy steps to secure your Linux machine

Running Linux gives you some inherent protection from attack, but you still need to take adequate steps to thwart any attempts that people might make to compromise your system. Here are 10 of the best courses of action that you can take. It may sound ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, Tech.co.uk,  28 Oct 2009

Has open-source hardware reached its tipping point?

Out of all the many things I detest, the worst is paying for items and still not owning them. With the world the way it is, I have no option but to disobey the laws of economics and open my wallet for gadgets that curb my freedom to use them to their ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, LXer,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In Depth: 6 of the best media burners for Linux

Back in the day, a custom audio CD with the best love songs made a wonderful Valentine's Day gift. Now she'd hardly be impressed. You'd need to throw in the holiday videos and make sure it works on the high definition plasma to sweep her off her feet. ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, Tech.co.uk,  27 Sep 2009

In Depth: 6 of the best video players for Linux

A video player is pretty much the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there's hardly any desktop distro that doesn't pre-install one for you. You'd think the popularity of a video player would be directly proportional to the ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, Tech.co.uk,  11 Sep 2009

In depth: The 10-minute crash course in virtualisation

From OS/2 Warp to the dotcom bubble, revolutions come and go. We're willing to bet, though, that virtualisation isn't just a flash in the pan. It's a real revolution that's already changing – and will continue to change – the world of computing for ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, Tech.co.uk,  16 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Oracle,  Microsoft Corporation

In Depth: 6 best orthodox file managers for Linux

Depending on when you got started with computers, you've probably used an orthodox file manager. They're zippy, they're often favoured by those who are more comfortable on the command line, and enable you to do more via keyboards than some can do with ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, Tech.co.uk,  8 Jun 2009

In Depth: Run Windows and Linux: easy partitioning guide

Setting up a Linux distribution isn't a difficult task anymore, but if you want to install Linux on a machine that already has a Windows installation on it, you'll have to slice your disk into smaller partitions to do so. As fun as it would be, it's ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, Tech.co.uk,  17 May 2009

Opinion: Why Windows users should switch to Linux

Forget the thousands of school and university students running Linux on their desktops. Forget the nonprofit and charitable institutions worldwide using Linux to power their systems. Forget Google, NASA, the US Department of Defense and dozens of ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, Tech.co.uk,  10 May 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  NASA,  Microsoft Corporation

Three plugins for better online social networking

One of the reasons for the popularity of social networks and apps is their ability to allow users to create content. But all online services have different interfaces and different limitations. If you've been longing for an FTP-like solution to ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, LXer,  22 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Flickr,  Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Digg

VMGL brings 3-D effects to VMs

The closest any virtualization platform has come to offering native 3-D in VMs is the recently released VMware 6.5 which lets you run OpenGL 2.0 apps in Windows XP guests. But it works only with certain ATI and Nvidia graphics, and not with on-board ...

From MAYANK SHARMA, LXer,  6 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Intel,  RPM, Inc.

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