For my photographer and multimedia friends, here's a summary free Linux-based software available for rendering high definition images... Linux.com | High Dynamic Range images under Linux.
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🕑Dec 01, 2005 🖋John Locke
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BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk
Just stumbled upon a pretty cool web interface to a centralized backup system. You can manage a series of snapshot backups of all the computers on your network. It can automatically send a user an email if there's a repeated problem of missed backups.
🕑Nov 28, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Time to give Linux a try?
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Here at Freelock, we're strong believers in that maxim. The problem is, so much about computing is broken these days. And in most cases, we've just learned to live with the problems.
You have had choices. For the past decade, your choice has been between crash-prone and insecure Windows, incompatible, expensive, and slightly strange Macs, or highly technical, user-unfriendly Linux. Times are changing, for all three.
🕑Nov 12, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Free OpenOffice.org training videos
Now here's something everyone should do, before plopping down a few hundred dollars on Microsoft Office:
NewsForge | NewsForge presents free OpenOffice.org training videos.
🕑Oct 31, 2005 🖋John Locke
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"Anti-piracy" techniques install spyware on your computer
Fascinating read here, about how a copy-protected music CD from Sony installed a surriptitious program on a computer, hid itself completely from view, and made itself nearly impossible to remove without crippling the user's computer.
🕑Oct 31, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Kerberos, LDAP, and Single Sign-on
Another very technical article. This one describes how to set up an infrastructure for securely providing single sign-ons to multiple systems in a LAN. Paranoid Penguin - Single Sign-on and the Corporate Directory, Part I | Linux Journal
🕑Oct 28, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Rescuing damaged Server installs
... we've done a few rescues at Freelock Computing lately. I just stumbled across a nice article with some in-depth troubleshooting tips over at Linux Magazine.
🕑Oct 28, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Advanced Linux LDAP authentication
This is a bit technical, but contains steps for securing LDAP to control user access to your network. Linux.com | Advanced Linux LDAP authentication.
🕑Oct 25, 2005 🖋John Locke
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VoIP Security
Voice Over IP (VoIP) is becoming a main part of the small business infrastructure. As phone networks converge with data networks, security becomes more of a concern.
🕑Oct 13, 2005 🖋John Locke
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OpenDocument Format could replace HTML
Here's a fascinating interview with Gary Edwards, who was on the committee that developed OpenDocument as a standard.
🕑Sep 30, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Open source start-up updates its ERP suite for SMBs
New Open Source ERP vendor in Belgium. Interview with the founder here: Open source start-up updates its ERP suite for SMBs
🕑Sep 28, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Computing and the American West
Computer history has some interesting parallels in the history of the American West. After the initial forays of Lewis and Clark and the first set of explorers, early settlers crossed the plains in covered wagons. But the West wasn't accessible to most Americans until the age of the railroads, when the Union Pacific Railroad put tracks across the continent and started running regular passenger service.