Calibre

Calibre is an open source e-book library management application designed for the 21th century, for the digital world that were are living in right now. It lets users to manipulate digital books in any way possible. It helps users to easily read ebooks on their personal computer, convert ebooks from one format to another, create … Leggi tutto

John The Ripper Expedites Password Cracking

“John the Ripper is an open source password cracker that is used by security researchers to help audit, crack and test password security. The core project is sponsored by security vendor Openwall led by developers Alexander Peslyak and Roman Rusakov. Thanks to funding from security vendor Rapid7, leaders of the open source Metasploit project, Peslyak … Leggi tutto

Making Credit Cards Unhackable

Credit card credentials are easy to obtain and difficult to secure. An unhackable credit card could be on the horizon, thanks to technology based on quantum computing.

Practical password security

A recent security breach at phpbb.com resulted in an intruder obtaining and publishing thousands of member names and passwords. A design flaw, a.k.a. bug, in a mailing list application was responsible. An analysis of the passwords revealed some interesting facts about the types of passwords people use when creating accounts at web sites. The most … Leggi tutto

Linux 4.1 rc6

It’s been a fairly normal week, although I can’t say that the rc’s have  exactly started shrinking yet. No, the rc’s haven’t been all that big to begin with this release cycle, and things have been fairly calm, but I’d be happier if we didn’t have noise in raid5 and device-mapper at this stage. That … Leggi tutto

New Linux Based OS Brings Internet of Things Closer to Reality

The “Internet of Things,” or IoT, has the potential to change the way we interact with the devices and objects in our homes and lives. A simple, customizable open source operating system designed for these types of embedded systems would make it easier for a lot of manufacturers to bring viable products to the market. … Leggi tutto

Vintage: Canton GLE70

Le casse acustiche  sono fondamentali per ascoltar musica.  Sono il punto cruciale della filiera, fanno la differenza. Contano più dell’adozione di  flac invece di ogg vorbis, di un raffinato preamplificatore al posto del computer, di un amplificatore  mosfet pura classe  A  o valvole invede di un D . Il recupero delle vecchie Canton GLE 70, … Leggi tutto

PyCon 2015 conference report & video roundup

This year, I attended my first PyCon, which was held in Montréal from April 8-16. PyCon changes location every two years and this year was the second one held at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, Canada.

How to install a Debian 8 (Jessie) Minimal Server

This tutorial shows how to install a Debian 8 (Jessie) minimal server. The purpose of this guide is to provide a minimal Debian setup that can be used as basis for our other Debian 8 tutorials and the perfect server guides here at howtoforge.com.

Automation is the key to the cloud

Cloud infrastructure wouldn’t be possible without open source. You can’t work in IT without at least some knowledge of Linux. It is a foundational knowledge that is just expected of new hires. Development, operations, networking, or storage—doesn’t matter—Linux and the open source ecosystem are central to any infrastructure today. But it isn’t just Linux. The … Leggi tutto

Is OpenOffice Dying?

In September 2014, rumors were flying that Apache OpenOffice was floundering and might soon merge with LibreOffice.

Turning The Arduino Uno Into An Apple ][

“I’ve always been fascinated by the early days of the computer revolution. Today we take tremendously powerful machines for granted but it was not always that way. As a personal project I decided to implement an early eighties era microcomputer on the Arduino Uno to demonstrate just how powerful even the most basic of our … Leggi tutto

See What’s New in Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet

The stable edition of Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) is just around the corner, so this is a good time to take a look at the features that are going to be implemented in the new release and see what important packages have been updated. Changes galore, but most of them under the hood Systemd replaces … Leggi tutto

Linux 4.0 released

Date Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:41:30 -0700 Subject Linux 4.0 released From Ima Sheep <> Linux 4.0 released So I decided to release 4.0 as per the normal schedule, because there really weren’t any known issues, and while I’ll be traveling during the end of the upcoming week due to a college visit, I’m hoping … Leggi tutto

Ubuntu phone is now available for sale all over Europe

Available unlocked on the BQ Aquaris E4.5 The world’s first Ubuntu phone is now available for sale all over Europe, direct from the manufacturer, BQ. The Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition includes an 8 megapixel camera, dual SIM and best of all, no network lock.   € 169.90 General Colour: Black Screen Screen size: 4,5″ Screen Technology: … Leggi tutto

The Blender Institute’s sixth open film project

The Blender Institute’s sixth film project, codenamed Gooseberry, is in deep into the most open production from the Blender Institute yet. If you’ve been following the project so far, then you already have a sense of what Blender means by an “open production”—lots of sharing.

Wine 1.7.40 Released, Install/Update In Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Wine is an Open Source, command line and most popular software that allows users to install and run Microsoft Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine Team recently released Wine 1.7.40 development version with many bug fixes and improvements. Let’s see what’s new in this release. How To Install/Update Wine 1.7.40 Wine 1.7.40 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid … Leggi tutto

Mono 4.0.0 Will Adopt Microsoft’s Open Source Code

While there’s no download link or an official announcement, the release notes of the upcoming Mono 4.0.0 framework have been published recently on the project’s website, and we have to admit that the changes are quite impressive, despite the fact that Mono is no longer a popular project on the open-source community.

L’area di frontiera I.T. dell’azienda

I tempi cambiano ed oggi più rapidamente che mai. Le aziende hanno sempre di più necessità di accedere dall’esterno alle risorse I.T. interne. Oggi la via maestra è attivare una connettività in fibra almeno 50/50. Le nuovissime VDSL fibra, seppur di rilevanti banda nei due versi,  sono oggette ad un’eccessivo intevento da parte dei fornitori … Leggi tutto

Ubuntu on the Asus Zenbook UX305 ultrabook

The Asus Zenbook UX305 is a thin and light laptop that offers a pretty great value. For $699 you get a 2.6 pounds notebook with 8GB of RAM, 256GB of solid state storage, a 13.3 inch full HD matte display, and an Intel Core M Broadwell processor.

Not So Dynamic Updates

Typically when a network is under my control, I like my servers to have static IPs. Whether the IPs are truly static (hard-coded into network configuration files on the host) or whether I configure a DHCP server to make static assignments, it’s far more convenient when you know a server always will have the same … Leggi tutto

Elementi di Progettazione di un Network Residenziale

Diamo alcune indicazioni ovvero una semplici linee guida per coloro che intendano allestire un network residenziale. La prima scelta riguarda se utilizzare esclusivamente connessioni WiFi. Le tecnologie moderne sono tali da permettere l’utilizzo esclusivo di connessioni WiFi, ma si può preferire di realizzare delle tratte con cavo, soprattutto tra piani diversi, zone di utilizzo intenso … Leggi tutto