SSH (Secure Shell) is a remote adminstration utility typically for UNIX systens that provides secure access to the command line.The service is provided by the UNIX deamon SSHD which listens on TCP/IP port 22.A popular utility for providing SSH on BlackBerry is midpssh ( http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/ ) which is now maintained at http://ota.deltatech.com.mx/ and...
BuddyPress – Open Source Social Networking
BuddyPress, the social networking plug-in to multiuser wordpress (WordPress-MU) has been released from beta to general availability. I now use BuddyPress on my home CentOS Linux server to provide a internal social network and blogging facility for the family.I am still trying out different calendar plug-ins to provide a central calendar for the...
SlySoft defeats latest Blu-Ray BD+ content protection
SlySoft publish “AnyDVD” and “AnyDVD HD” for accessing and copying DVDs and Blu-Ray disks by defeating the copy protection mechanisms.SlySoft is based in Antigua thus avoids penalties under the DCMA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) 1998, the CDPA (Copyright, Designs and Patents Act) 1988 and other similar legislation in other parts...
Miro – Free open source video platform
I use Windows and Linux interchangeably so I like to choose open source toolsets that run on both platforms (I also find that Linux apps are generally also available on Mac OS X so that’s cool). Miro is now my favourite video player (Xine has been deprecated in my A-List).It supports all the video formats I use (Flash Video, AVI, H.264, Windows Media,...
Fedora 10 – Cambridge release
It doesn’t seem that long ago that Fedora 9 was on a countdown and now Fedora 10 is almost ready.The key features for me are:* RPM 4.6 which is a major rewrite* Faster graphical startup – including kernel graphical boot for flashless booting* Rebase to Gnome 2.24* Sbin sanity (at last!)* AMQP Infrastructure – for high speed messagingThe full...
Additional Fedora 9 Packages – Livna
The Fedora distribution does not contain any patented or alleged patented technology such as MP3 and DVD players.To enable this functionality use packages from the Linva (soon to be merged with RPM Fusion but that has not been completed just yet) from repository available at LivnaLivna now supports Fedora 9 (Annoucement)To add Livna to your RPM distribution...
