2009 July - Part 2

Archive for July, 2009

How to setup an OpenSSH Server on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

posted on July 24, 2009 in HowTo, Linux, Ubuntu with 2 Comments

Here’s a simple walkthrough to setup an OpenSSH server on Jaunty together with 2 basic hardening options you should apply. 1. Install the OpenSSH server. Fire up a console and run the command below. This will install the required binaries and packages for the OpenSSH server. apt-get install openssh-server 2. Get some basic hardening in [...]

Fastest Firefox, the community shows off

posted on July 23, 2009 in Firefox with 0 Comments

Firefox 3.5 is fast, no doubt there. These guys are too, fast at what they do. So, it’s only fit that Mozilla feature them on it’s Fastest Firefox campaign site. The world’s fastest clapper, Kent French. Watch the Video The world’s fastert sport stacker, Steven Purugganan. Watch the Video The world’s fastest benjo player, Todd [...]

candy.com the 3 million dollar domain

posted on July 22, 2009 in Internet with 0 Comments

Who said common names can’t sell? Candy.com was bought by G&J Holdings for a whopping USD 3million from the “Domain King”, Rick Schwartz. WOW!! What does G&J Holdings do? Nothing but candies. A massive selection, from old to new and they’re all online. On the downside, they don’t do international orders. This si something to [...]

Launchpad is now open source

posted on July 22, 2009 in Linux, Open Source, Software, Ubuntu with 0 Comments

This surely comes as good news to all Ubuntu fans out there. Canonical today made Launchpad open source under the GPLv3 license. As promised. If you didn’t already know, Launchpad is a project hosting and collaboration platform for software which provides access through its web interface or through its APIs. Users simply need an account [...]

Microsoft submits GPLv2 code to the Linux Kernel

posted on July 21, 2009 in Linux, Tech, Windows with 2 Comments

Yup, you read that right. Big boy Microsoft submitted 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel community for review and inclusion into the Linux kernel tree. All under the GPLv2 license. The code, made up of 3 Linux drivers will enable all flavours for Linux to run on Windows 2008 through it’s Hyper-V hypervisor [...]

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