2008 March - Part 3

Archive for March, 2008

Phishing Alert: HSBC scheduled maintenance

posted on March 21, 2008 in Internet with 0 Comments

Beware, I received a phishing attempt today claiming that HSBC is carrying out it’s regular maintenance work and needs me to update my profile. Always remember, banks never send us emails with action items.

Mobile call on Emirates flights

posted on March 21, 2008 in General, Tech with 0 Comments

The days are counted for the no cell phone policy on flights. Emirates is leading the way by becoming the first commercial airline to permit it’s passengers to make in flight voice calls and send text messages from their personal mobile devices. The first in flight voice call was made aboard Emirate’s flight from Dubai [...]

Firefox 3 beats IE7 in memory consumption

posted on March 19, 2008 in Mozilla, Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

Firefox 3 Beta 4 is out and it’s beating Microsoft’s IE7 in the memory consumption arena. As browsers improve so do their hunger for memory but to what limit is the question. The competition will eventually boil down to which browser uses the least amount of memory to accomplish the general requirements of a browser. [...]

HP machines soon to ship with Novell Desktop Linux

posted on March 19, 2008 in Linux, Tech with 0 Comments

HP is planning to roll out a few of it’s Notebooks and Desktops preloaded with Novell’s Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10). Dell had the head start with it’s offering of machines preloaded with Ubuntu and recently also preloaded with SLED10. Ã¢â‚¬Å“We are really excited because of the power that the HP distribution channel brings, the reach [...]

How to keep your Linux session alive

posted on March 18, 2008 in hacks, HowTo, Linux with 2 Comments

Recently I wrote about implementing session timeouts on Linux. For admin’s who know what they are doing(most times) this can sometimes be an annoying experience. There’s a simple noop script over at bashcurescancer to help work around session timeouts. This will work for ssh and also the default virtual consoles. Watch noop in [...]

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