Tech

This happened to us recently. Today the accountant rushed over to me and asked if I could check why our ADSL usage had spiked. Now the reasons for this happening could be related to any of a ton of reasons.

One of them is stolen account details.

Now living in South Africa – with limited bandwidth thanks to Telkom and their cronies – stolen account details can be problematic. If your cap is maxed out you will soon find yourself without internet access, and if this happened to a business it could seriously mess up a person’s day.

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Hardy Heron comes equipped with Compiz Fusion. If you read my review of Hardy Heron, you will know that Compiz Fusion is somewhat hamstrung by the absence of Compiz-config Manager.

Here’s how to get it, and unleash Compiz Fusion in all its fury on your desktop. continue reading…

Right, I promised myself that I would not revert to being a rant blogger in order to get attention. Hence I will keep this as rant free as possible, and as an added bonus I will keep it informative as well – so you could maybe learn something helpful. continue reading…

In the last two months I have had the pleasure of working with some interesting scenario’s regarding security needs and the implementing of security practices.

From implementing an open but secured wireless network at a school, to managing webservers for an Internet Service Provider, I have seen a lot in a short time.

What became readily apparent – as I sit here on the couch on a Sunday afternoon – is that security begins and ends with the human factor. continue reading…

One of the guys on the GLUG mailing list pointed us in the direction of this beauty of a web browser. Today, for the third installment of Pimp My Ubuntu I will guide you through the basic steps of installing this browser. continue reading…

So I did part one on customizing Gnome-Splash. I remarked that if you run Gutsy or Hardy, you no have Gnome-Splash. Well I found a way for you to get your Splash on even in the newest version of Ubuntu. continue reading…

I happened on a book “Hacking Windows XP” the other day. Browsing through it I found useful tips on customizing XP, from boot splash, to Login Screen, to how it behaves and so on.

I thought it quite a cool idea to present a series of how-to’s over the next few weeks on customising various aspects of Ubuntu. continue reading…

Hardy Heron is out. Now you all should know by now that I pride myself in being a late adopter, I only upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy last week! To be honest I was so impressed with the improvement that was made release-on-release that I could not wait for Hardy to be released. For once I broke my golden rule of “Update only when most issues have been resolved” and downloaded Hardy once the feeding frenzy was over. continue reading…

Pertaining to my previous post regarding an XDMCP host and thin clients – I realized the need to be able to see who is logged in and maybe the rights and privileges they have.

So I wrote a little shell script that allows me to do just this.

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Linux has many strengths, and many vices. One of it’s big strengths is the network transparency of the X server.

But let me regale you of a real world experience with thin clients… continue reading…