Category Archives: Information technology

Yaay 🙂 The last edition is YEARS old, but was still an interesting read. I’m happy to see that there s going to be a Third edition available some time soon. I wasnt able to find a release date, but .. Its good to see that its at least on its way!

The Fosdem site has several videos of thisyears talks. I’m now downloading several of them. I’m Curious 🙂 2008 Battle of Wesnoth Xen Virtualbox Mozilla Prism 2007 Security Testing Bacula (partially watched it earlier) Now all I need is the time to watch them! :s Stuff like this is where I see the eee comingContinue reading “Fosdem”

Inside BashStyle-NG, a strong idea struggles to be born. On one hand, if you use the bash shell at all, you will likely find several of BashStyle-NG’s customization options worth trying — all the more so because they are only a few mouse clicks away. On the other, a poorly designed interface makes using theContinue reading “BashStyle-NG: A useful idea poorly implemented”

This Link shows the disk info on the disk in the Apple Time Capsule. I hear there s a lot of comment on the choice of disk for this new network backup(!!) solution, and I’m certainly not looking to join those undoubtedly many people writing about it, but there IS one thing that just blowsContinue reading “Apple Time Capsule – Disk Utility Info”

Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard. Although DRAMs become less reliable when they are not refreshed, they are not immediately erased, and their contents persist sufficiently for malicious (orContinue reading “Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys”

going to the visualization talks at Fosdem tomorrow. Though my grandmothers birthday might make that near impossible

Ultimately, I think most Linux users would prefer to see resources invested in making truly native open source alternatives to commercial applications, but the Wine project fills a very important need for many. It seems likely that we can look forward to additional Wine improvements as Google continues to participate in ongoing Wine development.Link YeahContinue reading “Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements”

With MySQLfs you can store a filesystem inside a MySQL relational database. MySQLfs breaks up the byte content of files that you store in its filesystem into tuples in the database, which allows you to store large files in the filesystem without requiring the database to support extremely large BLOB fields. With MySQLfs you canContinue reading “Using MySQL as a filesystem”