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Debian Laptop on different networks

I use my Debian GNU/Linux laptop both at home and at work. Sometimes I may take it over to a friend’s network so I can show him some stuff. Unfortunatelly, being on a bunch of different networks does pose some problems. When I’m at home for instance, I’d like my firewall to block incoming FTP […]

Data retention is no solution!

I believe that: Data retention is an invasive tool that interferes with the private lives of everyone; Retaining personal data on everyone is an illegal practice in terms of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as it is disproportionate; Security gained from retention may be illusory, as it is likely that traffic […]

Comfortable Mp3 tagging with EasyTag

I’ve searched for years for a good Mp3 tagging utility. They all failed on some points: Too slow (in either the User Interface or the updating of tags) Confusing User Interface No IDv2 tagging No mass-tag-updating No way of renaming files according to tags No way of reading tags from the particular way I name […]

Taking Firefox 1.1 (Deer Park) for a test-drive.

NOTICE: Please substitute all occurences of the text ‘1.1’ in this article with ‘1.5’. The reason? They’re skipping v1.1 and going straight to v1.5. Too bad I didn’t find out about this Roadmap earlier. About Deer Park Deer Park, the development codename for the upcoming Firefox v1.1 release, hit the Alpha 2 stage last Sunday. […]

SecureSHell File system

Okay, I’m on a linking rampage here. Sorry. (I hate link-logs). But this is pretty cool, and I’ve been looking for it for a long time. Mounting a remote filesystem over SSH: shfs. Shfs is a simple and easy to use Linux kernel module which allows you to mount remote filesystems using a plain shell […]

Open Source Web Design

Aaaaand, yet another interesting project: Open Source Web Design. For those unfortunate souls that have to make it through life without any artistic skills whatsoever. Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier […]

Debian System Administration Tips and Resources

Cool site: Debian-Administration.org This is a simple weblog which is designed to contain interesting and useful information related to the System Administration of Debian GNU/Linux systems. Whilst there are several sites where users can post questions and have answers contributed by other users there are no other sites on the web which are specifically targetted […]

GNU Source Installer

A new project, the GNU Source Installer, popped up. […] a graphical tool which provides configuration, compilation, installation, tracking and removal of source packages. Basically, it’s a front-end to configure && make && make install. This screenshot describes it best. But the cool part is de-installation and easy access to information on installed packages. This […]

Virtual Desktops for Windows

GNU/Linux window managers almost always have a feature built in called virtual desktops. The first time I installed GNU/Linux, I was immediatelly in love with this feature. It increases the ease of use of your desktop by such a large factor that I absolutely cannot work without this feature. Unfortunatelly, such a feature is not […]

The innovating BBC

From a slashdot article: “According to BBC News, the second series of “The Mighty Boosh” will be available to stream from the 19th of July, A full week before starting its run on BBC 3. And then a comment from one of the slashdot readers: It’s ironic that a socialist funded network can innovate faster […]

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