Tuesday, November 17, 2020

On Laptops: Thoughts On Using CentOS, Ubuntu LTS, and Fedora

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I recently participated in a discussion in a CentOS group I belong to about the suitability of CentOS for ordinary laptops. These were my ...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

New version of Culmus (Hebrew) fonts released

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For those of you who do some Hebrew computing, I received this from Maxim Iorsh on e-mail via the Culmus announce list. For those who don...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

How Things Work Today or The Joys of Consulting

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A person with company A has a concern about some work that needs to be done. They call outsource IT firm B with whom they have a contract. F...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

A Holiday Gift From Conexant: an ALSA Driver For Recent Cherry Trail SOC Based Devices

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Late on Monday Simon Ho of Conexant announced the release of a driver for the company's driver for CX2072X codec to the ALSA-devel mail...
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Friday, January 8, 2016

Goodbye, Debian 8.1

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Goodbye, Debian 8.1 (Jessie). I tried the distro for several months because RHEL clones ( Springdale Linux and CentOS , both 7.0 and 7.1)...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

List of Linux System Hardening Resources

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My recent post about how quickly newly commissioned Linux systems can be attacked and possibly compromised led to a bunch of e-mail queries...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Linux Security: Lock Down a New System Immediately

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PCWorld recently published an article about Linux botnets launching DDoS attacks. The attackers find and exploit poorly secured Linux syst...
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