-
Recently I was asked to set up a small e-commerce website and I wanted to ensure certain directories could only be accessed by those who needed to. One of those pages was phpmyadmin which if brute forced, could cause a…
-
Warning! Linux Mint – Multiple hacks.
The Linux Mint blog announces that the project’s web site was compromised and made to point to a backdoored version of the distribution. It is advised that if you did download an ISO on the 20th, then you avoid using…
-
Xfce compositing and compton keyboard shortcut toggle
In a previous post we addressed a simple way of enabling and disabling compositing in Xfce using a shell script. In this post we discuss how to do the same with compton, as well as some additions made to the original…
-
Dropping Dropbox
I’ve been a Dropbox user since 2008. I’ve enjoyed using Dropbox over the years, with native linux support and native android support I was able to back up what I wanted to back up (i.e. phone, desktop and server contents) with…
-
Hosting woes
As a result of much downtime with our old hosting provider, we’ve now decided to take up a VPS with Linode (Our affiliate link). After much testing over the course of 4 months, we were quite happy with the performance and…
-
Xfce – Set a keyboard shortcut for compositing toggle
I use Xfce as my primary desktop environment, and recently, I found the need to disable and enable compositing on a regular basis. This led to my search for a way to do this via keyboard shortcuts, as it was…
-
Linux Voice – Crowd funding
As a long time reader of the Linux Format magazine, a brilliant read, I was quite shocked to find out that some key members of this magazine had left. They also had a pretty entertaining podcast on TuxRadar.com, where they…
-
Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Apple has announced that the company’s co-founder Steve Jobs has died. He was 56 years old. In a statement, the company said: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were…
-
Google acquires Motorola Mobility
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) yesterday announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5…
-
The Humble Indie Bundle #3 Is Live
The Humble Indie Bundle #3 is officially live. You can get 5 classic indie games: Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, Hammerfight, VVVVVV and And Yet It Moves for whatever price you want while helping the Child’s Play Charity and the Electronic…