Screenshots and Review of GNU Gnash Open Source Flash Player

13 08 2006

Sick of waiting for Adobe to release its new Linux version of its Flash player? Consider taking a look at the open source GNU Gnash player. It can be natively compiled on x86 and AMD64 environments, as well as many more—with probably fewer license restrictions than Adobe’s player will ever have. It isn’t perfect yet, but it is worth looking at.

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Take a closer look at the most secure Unix OS OpenBSD

13 08 2006

This article gives you a close look at the operating system so secure that it was once banned for use in a DEF CON competition, where crackers go after each other’s systems.

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Create Incremental Snapshot-style Backups With rSync And SSH

13 08 2006

As neither human nor computers are perfect (humans err / computers may fail) it is quite obvious that a good backup system will prevent too much damage once the computer may go down. This could be either because the harddrive is failing, because of hackers, because you accidentally deleted something important, …

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