TuxGuardian is another Linux firewall application that was created with an idea to serve non-linux savy users. It’s a free software distributed under the GNU GPL. Some of the features of TuxGuardian are
Detects unauthorized applications trying to act like a client or a server;
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You might have read that I upgraded from Ubuntu Edgy to Feisty 3 days back. VMWare server didn’t work after I upgraded to Feisty. I had to download and install a patch before I could get it to work. I downloaded the patch from here.
Once downloaded, untar the file. Open a terminal and go to [...]
WiPeer is a software that allows users to share files directly among the computers, play multi player games, chatting and colloboration, all with or without wireless network. According to WiPeer, here are some scenarios where WiPeer can help.
- You are visiting your friends and would like to transfer photos of a shared trip from your [...]
Acer America is recalling 27,000 rechargeable lithium ion batteries manufactured by Sony. I don’t know why Acer took so long to recall.None of the incidents reported so far contains Acer laptops, but Acer is voluntarily recalling the batteries. The affected laptops were sold from May 2004 through November 2006. The affected models are TravelMate [...]
Google uses MySQL open source database for some of it’s application. They have released some enhancement patches for MySQL under GPL license. They would like MySQL team to integrate those patches into the MySQL code and until they do that, Google has released the code under GPL license for anyone to use them.
The patches include [...]
Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and other OSes. Antiword converts the binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text and to PostScript. The programmers’ version is released under GNU General Public License. There are RPMs available for Antiword. There is no Debian package to [...]
I upgraded my desktop from Ubuntu Edgy to Ubuntu Feisty yesterday. I did a manual upgrade. I took a backup of my sources.list file and then changed all occurrences of Edgy with Feisty. I then did
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
It took some 30 minutes to download the updates and took another 30 minutes to upgrade. [...]
Seattle Times reports that an open-source software activist walked on stage as Gates was giving prizes to students and held a banner over his head that read, “free software, open source.” Gates and most of the group appeared shocked at the intrusion, which ended when the man ran off the stage and was tackled by [...]
Simon Paquet posted in the calendar weblog that 2 blocker bugs are blocking the release of 0.5 RC1. They are
Bug 377641 - Outlook does not read iTIP/iMIP invitation because of missing UID
Bug 372287 - Sunbird crashes on open in Mac OS X 10.3
They are hoping to fix bug 377641 today. They are still trying to [...]
I have written earlier that the videos started working in CNN after Microsoft released the plugin for Firefox. Well, it works fine for the videos in the main page. If the video link is inside a news story, it’s not working. It still shows missing plugin screen. For example, I was reading the news about [...]