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, 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...

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 9 is soon to be released. It contains amongst other improvements: • Faster X Windows start-up• Upstart service manager instead of initd• Multi-timezone clock• Preview of the ext4 filesystem (for the brave)• Persistent LiveCD images on USB• Firefox 3