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Moving from Ubuntu 10.10 to Linux Mint 10

April 23, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

With a long Easter weekend available to me and with thoughts of forthcoming changes in the world of Ubuntu, I got to wondering about the merits of moving my main home PC to Linux Mint instead. Though there is a [...]

Taking SUDO beyond Ubuntu

October 27, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

Though some may call it introducing a security risk, being able to execute administrator commands in Ubuntu using SUDO and GKSU by default is handy. It’s not the only Linux distribution with the facility though because the /etc/sudoers file is [...]

Relocating the Apache web server document root directory in Fedora 12

April 9, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

So as not to deface anything that is available online on the web, I have a tendency to set up an offline Apache server on a home PC to do any tinkering away from the eyes of the unsuspecting public. [...]

Using the Windows Command Line for Security Administration

July 24, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

While there are point and click tools for the job, being able to set up new user groups, attaching them to folders and assign uses to them using the command line has major advantages when there are a number to [...]

Some things don’t mix…

May 10, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Now that the Release Candidate for Windows 7 is out, I have been giving it a whirl in a VirtualBox session and it, like the Beta that I had been trying too, feels a sold enough affair. I went for [...]

Faster IE7 phishing monitoring

October 28, 2007 Leave a response Shortlink

The standard phishing detection that comes with IE7 really does slow things down when it comes to navigating web pages. In contrast, the option offered as part of Norton 360 is much faster. So much so that you hardly notice [...]