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Friday, 10 August 2007 12:12 |
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 Apple is on fire right now. Well, not literally. But their Macintoshes are being ripped out of stores. Considering Apple's dominance before the dark 90's and the Redmond monopoly, they're not more popular than ever right now, but they are very popular nevertheless. Even stores here in Finland that would only sell Windows desktop PC's and laptops have MacBooks , iMacs and Mac Minis on their shelves now. This means more choice for consumers.
Personally my choice of desktop has always been either Linux or FreeBSD. However, a laptop computer has special requirements and while Linux fulfills the software's part, the problem with laptops in general is that they're ugly. Really ugly. And that they might not return from standby mode due to ACPI-related bugs (affecting both Linux and Windows). And that they run hot enough to set your lap on fire. And that the battery in a general PC laptop lasts less than 1 hour. My choice of laptop has always been Apple. In this article I will tell my 5 reasons for this. |
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 17:44 |
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 This cheap SIP-based hardware phone is an excellent choice for cheap and free internet calls. Combined with something like Voipdiscount or Gizmo, you can call around the world and forget those expensive phone bills.
The first thing you need to note is that this phone is a hardware VoIP phone. This means no computer is required for making internet calls, at all. Only a broadband internet connection is needed. There are many Skype softphones on the market that need to be plugged to the computer's USB-port, but the only comparable products are the Skype Wi-Fi phones, which are hopelessly unstable and difficult for the end-user, and the RTX DUALphone 3088, using the same DECT technology but priced twice as much as the Siemens C450 IP.
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Saturday, 24 February 2007 14:42 |
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 SSH provides a total control over your *nix-based OS with a secure and encrypted access. Not only does it work through any kind of a slow connection, including a dial-up modem or GPRS, but you can also tunnel graphical programs through it - securely and without the need to blow holes to your firewall.
However, using an outdated SSH-server software or allowing logging in as root with a weak password will most certainly get your system compromised. I very much doubt you want to give an attacker a full control over your system. Fortunately securing your SSH is very easy, yet effective. I will split every step into a security "level". You can reach from the absolute minimum up to a very secure level. |
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