Steve on July 16th, 2009

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 most importantly now [...]

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Steve on May 27th, 2009

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 family. [...]

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Steve on November 19th, 2008

I use Windows and Linux interchagably 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 [...]

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Steve on April 28th, 2008

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 //

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