Links deleted on reboot Several multimedia programs I use rely on the existence of “devices” such as /dev/dvd or /d......
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Corporate policies prohibit the unauthorized connection of hardware to the company network, threatening dire consequences in the case of non-compliance. Fair enough, but how do you actually go about catching somebody trying to plug an illegal laptop into your Ethernet?

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They run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, cost money, and juggle email messages: these three commercial mail servers aim to convince admins they are worth the price.

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Realtime virus scanning at the file server is an elegant and efficient option for protecting Windows clients. We’ll show you some tools and techniques for realtime scanning with Samba.

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Boo is a scripting language tailor-made for Mono and .NET. This haunting mixture of Python and C# may be just what you need to get started with the .NET framework.

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Armed with just a rescue CD and a Perl script, you can back up a client’s hard disk across the wire.

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KAlarm is a lean alternative calendar program. You can use this handy alarm clock as an easy-to-use replacement for cron.

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The Fish shell offers some user-friendly features for command line beginners.

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If you want to offer visitors to your website more than a text-based howto, why not publish a video-based tutorial with Vnc2swf.

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A handy Firefox extension called ScrapBook lets you save, manage, and annotate web pages.

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