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LockTight Secures Your Mac With a Hotkey

2009-11-12T14:34:00.001+01:00

LockTight Secures Your Mac With a Hotkey

Mac OS X only: Screen locker utility LockTight adds a shortcut key combination for OS X users to quickly lock your workstation from the keyboard.

Windows users switching to using a Mac might be surprised to find no equivalent to the Winkey+L shortcut combination that locks the screen, especially helpful in work environments or at home to keep little fingers from opening things they shouldn't.

LockTight plugs into OS X as a simple system preference pane with a configurable hotkey, but for full effect you might want to configure your Mac to require a password when coming back from the screensaver and disable automatic login. Hit the link for the download, or take a look at the Switching to Mac guide for all the steps.

LockTight [via Switching to Mac]

Linux via the internet with boot.kernel.org

2009-10-03T14:00:00.001+02:00

Linux via the internet with boot.kernel.org: "Boot.kernel.org allows users with broadband internet connections to start a variety of Linux distributions from the internet"

Git && distributed Web development

2009-08-30T22:57:00.001+02:00

Git changes the game of distributed Web development: "Version control systems are a core component of most development projects, regardless of whether you're developing an application, a Web site, or an operating system. Most projects involve multiple developers, often working at widely separated physical locations. Distributed version control systems are nothing new, but the Git version control system provides unique support for collaboration and interaction among developers."

DNS presentation on HAR2009

2009-08-19T22:31:00.001+02:00

DNS presentation on HAR2009:

"Bert Hubert (PowerDNS author) made 'DNS Security in the Broadest Sense' presentation at HAR2009."

Kernel 2.6.31 - Storage and file systems

2009-08-18T09:14:00.002+02:00

Kernel Log – Coming in 2.6.31 - Part 3: Storage and file systems: "Next generation file system for Linux" should now be even faster. The first components for defragmenting Ext4 file systems are now in the kernel. Parallel hardware scan in Intel ATA drivers speeds up boot time"

Byobu

2009-08-13T18:59:00.001+02:00

Like GNU Screen? You'll love Byobu.

https://launchpad.net/byobu

Yubikey personalisation tool

2009-08-10T21:42:00.001+02:00

Version 0.94 of the Yubikey personalisation tool is available now.

http://code.google.com/p/yubikey-personalization/downloads/list

Novell SLE11 release indication

2009-02-13T08:48:00.002+01:00

Novell SLE 11 will probably ship by the end of March, according to the Novell Communities website.

http://www.novell.com/communities/node/6773/novell-support-advisor-02-beta-release-january-30th#comment-5700

a Ruby regular expression editor

2009-01-20T22:30:00.000+01:00

Found a nice Ruby regular expression editor over at http://www.rubular.com/ . Can be useful if you're working with Regex every once in a while.

Google Calendar supports iCal

2008-12-02T07:52:00.002+01:00

Google Calendar now fully supports Apple iCal. There's even a nifty app to set it all up.

Novell Leatherman

2008-11-22T20:24:00.003+01:00

Leatherman,
originally uploaded by ./martijn.

Received a Leatherman Micra from the friends over at Novell
Communities. All that for submitting one or two short articles. Thanks guys.

http://www.novell.com/communities/

XEN dropped from Ubuntu 8.10 (server/desktop)

2008-11-10T20:07:00.005+01:00

With Ubuntu 8.10 it not possilble anymore to run Ubuntu 8.10 as Dom0 host. Ubuntu does not supply a suitable Kernel for this purpose. Of course it is possible to compile your own Kernel using the XEN patches from xen.org.

It's still possible to run Ubuntu 8.10 as a DomU guest OS. Ubuntu advices to use KVM for virtualization. This requires CPU's with virtualization extensions (hardware virtualization).

For now, Ubuntu 8.04LTS is the last version to include a XEN-enabled Kernel.

Force change password upon login

2008-11-09T23:55:00.003+01:00

With the following command you can force a user to change it's password upon login on a Linux host:

# chage -d 0 [user]

OpenRedAlert

2008-11-09T23:40:00.003+01:00

1992 all over again with this re-written OSS game engine for RedAlert (linux/win32).

http://code.google.com/p/openredalert/

Nokia sync with Google Calendar

2008-11-09T23:34:00.000+01:00

I'm a big ScheduleWorld fan for some years now. I mainly use it to sync my Nokia N-series phone with my Google Calendar using SyncML. The additional Contacts to LDAP sync also comes in handy.
I sync my phone over a 3G connection. To suppress phone-costs, it's now also possible to sync your phone with ScheduleWorld over bluetooth using this nifty Firefox plugin.

Nomad

2008-11-04T22:09:00.002+01:00

Using RDP to control your Linux desktop sure sounds like a new approach to me :) Let's see if this lowers the barrier for Linux adoption in Windows-environments.

http://en.opensuse.org/Nomad

Nomad has compositing manager extensions. So, desktop-effects (*xgl) should work over an RDP session.

XEN guest images

2008-09-20T13:06:00.003+02:00

Jailtime.org is a great resource if you're looking for some ready-to-run XEN guest images.

http://www.jailtime.org

Apply for SLE11 beta testing

2008-08-21T22:03:00.002+02:00

The Novell Beta Program is accepting applications to beta test SUSE Linux Enterprise software.

The beta testing will run from September until February. If you are interested in applying for the beta, complete an application:

http://opsamericas.com/?p=779

Opt-in before 7 September.

new Novell Client for openSUSE 10.3

2008-07-01T07:47:00.005+02:00

Novell released the Novell Client for Linux 2.0 SP1 public beta. This release supports openSUSE 10.3 and SLED 10sp2. Unfortunately no support for openSUSE 11.0 yet ... but it's in the making!

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We're pleased to announce the public beta of the Novell Client for openSUSE 10.3. Novell released the packages [1] for the Novell Client for Linux 2.0 SP1 public beta today.

A number of openSUSE users have expressed interest in having the client packaged for openSUSE, so our developers have been working on building the client against openSUSE. Please download the package and give it a try on your systems.

Novell is also working on a package for openSUSE 11.0, though we don't have an official timeline for that package yet. We will also post an announcement when it's available, and will post announcements for any further betas or the final release of the Novell Client for Linux.

[1]: http://www.novell.com/beta/auth/beta.jsp?id=2585&type=1
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Hardy wallpaper

2008-06-26T09:41:00.002+02:00

80058-hardy_darkorange,
originally uploaded by ./martijn.

A nice alternative for the default Ubuntu 8.04 wallpaper. Picked it up somewhere in the blogosphere, can remember exactly where.

oVirt

2008-06-20T18:39:00.005+02:00

New virtualization tools from the RedHat shed. oVirt offers a compleet solution for running and managing VM hosts. Funny to see that it uses KVM (trough libvirt) instead of XEN, with XEN being the main VM-technology in the RedHat exterprise products.

http://ovirt.org/index.html

Looks like a serious and low-cost alternative to VMware ESX to me.

openSUSE 11.0

2008-06-19T11:01:00.004+02:00

It's in the open ...

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/iso/

SUSE Studio

2008-06-03T21:03:00.002+02:00

Roll your own (JeOS) distro.

Just sign up, and explore when invited.
http://studio.suse.com/

S60 Google Calendar sync

2008-05-23T13:28:00.001+02:00

CalSyncS60 syncs your (Nokia) S60r3 phone with Google Calendar.
The software is currently in beta.

http://s60addons.com/calsync/

Novell Client for openSUSE - status

2008-05-14T23:17:00.004+02:00

There's progress on the Novell Client for openSUSE 11.0! Let's hope a public beta will follow soon.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262319#c36

--- Comment #36 from Jakob Perry 2008-05-14 14:53:43 MST ---
I'm currently in testing with the novell client for OpenSuSE 11. For
the most part it is working properly, except for the intermittent
appearance of ncl_tray showing up in its own window in the upper
left of the screen.

There also needs to be a refresh of using pam_script and autologin
for the novell client. novfs is working better now with beta 2
(After the drive space bug was fixed), however its showing incorrect
free space for drive pools. (IE: you have three NSS volumes within
one pool that is 600GB, novfs will show 1800GB as total storage)

Also, the rpms are built upon an old version of libbfd, which
requires manual symbolic links to allow ncl to work.
This should be updated for 11 as well.
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