Carla Schroder of Linux Today has posted a nice list of her Linux tips and tricks, here. One tip I could not make work is Cracking Passwords. The program simply refused to identify my passwords file. I found that it might be because it doesn’t support this kind of encryption or something like that.

There has been a new development in the subject I raised a day ago. It seems that there has been some effort on Microsoft’s side to clarify the legal issue with the Mono Project. According to this article in iTWire, Microsoft will extend its Community Promise to the C# and CLI standards.

Apparently, there is a serious breach in Apache’s security. Attacker can launch a denial of service attack on Apache based web-site causing it to stop responding.

There’s an ongoing discussion about the Mono project. Mono is somewhat controversial because it is an open source implementation of C# programming language and .NET platform. Mono has constantly being bullied because both C# and .NET are creations of the cause of all evil on earth, Microsoft corp.

I am naturally reviewing and following many blogs and news sites related to Linux. There are two themes that keep strong presence in the Linux related media. This are of course: Is Linux ready for being Desktop operating system? Bitching Microsoft. I must say that I am myself is guilty of expressing my point of [...]

I am wondering what it takes to be a QA engineer, testing software. As a software engineer I am looking for ways to solve problems. I’m usually being told where the problem is and there I am looking for a solution. It takes me hours and sometimes days. I am trying various configurations. I am [...]

This is really amazing stuff. It appears that modern memory chips don’t loose their content immediately after power loss. Apparently, it takes two minutes to the loose their content completely. Moreover, you can cool the memory chip using regular dust remover spray. This will keep the memory content intact for at least 10 minutes. This [...]

My guest post on Daily Blog Tips! Don’t give up and keep cool.

When git appeared for the first time, I was convinced that I don’t need it. It seemed that git is good for large and distributed projects, like kernel. While my own needs where much more modest – manage a project with couple of dozen files and perhaps a couple of contributors at most. Couple of [...]

What is the most frequently used piece of software on your computer? Here’s one program that holds one of the highest place in my list of most frequently used programs. I am talking about… bash. In case you don’t know, this is the program behind large portion of the Linux command line. It is the [...]