Besides its success on the desktop, Ubuntu has become a popular server distribution as well. With the release of Hardy Heron 8.04, Canonical is making this release a Long Term Support (LTS) version, with 5 years support on servers. Many hosting companies offering dedicted and virtual private servers (VPS) offer Ubuntu as an option. That [...]
Nmap (Network Mapper) is a security scanner originally written by Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich) used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a “map” of the network. Nmap runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, HP-UX and BSD variants (including Mac OS X), and also on AmigaOS [...]
The latest version of Ubuntu (10.04 Lucid) comes with a plymouth theme that allows more cool and animated screen to be displayed during boot up. While this is a great improvement, it also means that all the previous method of setting your own boot screen and login screen is no longer valid. For those who [...]
Although some analysts still doubt, the BlackBerry OS 6 still harvest a row of praise from Mike Lazaridis, President & co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM). In fact, the operating system as a reflection digadang-gadang heart of RIM. 6 The BlackBerry operating system, according to Lazaridis, equipped with powerful features that distinguish BlackBerry connectivity with [...]
Crontab is a program that allows users to create jobs that will run at a given time. Each individual user has their own crontab and the entire system has a crontab that can only be modified using root access. If you are adding a crontab for an individual user you must sign on as that [...]
Some time ago after doing an update to the Ubuntu operating system Lucid 10:04, I feel there are flaws with this Operating System. Where is the login screen that is less attractive. For that I tried searching for ways to change the look of the login screen to the one I want. After looking around [...]
