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Weekend Link Roundup: Week 6

Server Environment Discovery Tool - This is an sweet time saver for knowing what services a server offers.

Feds: We will search through your laptop files at the border - Well this seems crazy to me. If you are traveling abroad you may be subject to search and seizure of your laptop/cellphone data. I’ll quote good ol’ Ben Franklin, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” I recommend using a program like truecrypt for whole drive encryption. I think it would also be fun to write over the “blank spots” of your hard drive with Rick Astley videos. Read more »

Weekend Link Roundup: Week 5

BSDTalk - A cool podcast that discusses FreeBSD. They interview many FreeBSD developers and have some interesting discussion.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users - An interesting article with 7 great tips for beginners learning Linux. Although the advice the author gives is very basic and common knowledge, he explains his advice very well. I think Linux beginners would get a lot of value out of reading this. Read more »

Weekend Link Roundup: Week 4

Computer viruses hit one million - Apparently Symantec just published a report that says their are now over a million known computer viruses. This is funny since I can’t really even remember that last time I have seen/had one.

So neighbors steal your wi-fi, kill the link or… have fun! - This is a great article that shows how you can exploit people that connect/hack your wireless network. Instead of disconnecting them they turn all their web pages blurry and upside down.

25 Games for Linux - As many know Linux is not really know for gaming since the game developers like to ignore us Linux users. Fortunately here is a good list of fun games that work natively in Linux. Read more »

Duplicating a CD with DD

Want to make an exact copy of a CD without installing k3b or some other burning software? You can do it in Linux/Freebsd with one line of code using dd. The nice thing about dd is that it will make a disk level duplicate of the CD. It should be a 100% exact copy. Read more »

Weekend Link Roundup: Week 3

Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection - Largest collection of linux commands and cheat sheets that I have come across.

FreeBSD Information and Tips - This is a few nuggets of gold. Worth checking out.

Open Flash Chart - If you are making a website that needs some charts. Open flash chart makes them like the charts found at finance.google.com and google analytics. These charts look awesome. Read more »

Weekend Link Roundup : Week 2

Top 20 Linux Apps for 2007 - A great list of Linux apps you might need. I personally don’t like Amarok, but that is because I don’t like a “media managment” type music player. I like the simple playlist random play style. Read more »

Weekend Link Roundup : Week 1

In this post I am going to publish the links that I found interesting this week. Read more »