1. Mercury Messenger is Java-based MSN client. Nice and powerful MSN client. Among it’s features I would mention the following ones: Support for multiple operating systems (you can run the same Mercury version on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows) USB Stick Support (all settings, chat logs, etc… will be saved on your USB stick) Be online with several MSN addresses at the same time (without starting a new [...]
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Linux utility time is used to run programs and summarize system resources usage. time runs the program COMMAND with any given arguments ARG… When COMMAND finishes, time displays information about resources used by COMMAND (on the standard error output, by default). If COMMAND exits with non-zero status, time displays a warning message and the exit status. The following example shows how to check how much time it takes to copy [...]
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04 Oct 2007 – Novell announced the availability of openSUSE 10.3, the newest version of the community Linux distribution. Announced features: On the desktop Beautiful Green Artwork KDE 3.5.7 GNOME 2.20 GTK YaST 1-Click Install Multimedia New/Redesigned YaST Modules Compiz and Compiz Fusion Virtualisation OpenOffice.org 2.3 Behind the Scenes New Package Management Greatly Improved Boot Time Linux 2.6.22.5 GCC 4.2 libZYpp 3.26.2 Downloadable CD and DVD images are here. Screenshots [...]
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Well known security expert H.D. Moore published entertaining article on how to make your Apple iPhone to be a hacking platform… Having a network-enabled root shell in my pocket is great, but being able to pop a root shell on someone else’s iPhone is even better. A few things to keep in mind: Every process runs as root. MobileSafari, MobileMail, even the Calculator, all run with full root privileges. Any [...]
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Actually there are a lot of resources describing why virtualization matters, but here is one more informative article. Virtualization is one of those buzzwords that is being freely floated around the industry left and right, and can mean so many different things to so many different people. Lately, virtualization has been getting a lot of press coverage, and industry analysts are telling business organizations that this is a “must have” [...]
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