Using Conky to display Linux system information
I recently install Fedora 14 on a laptop to test it out and see how it worked compared to other distributions of Fedora that I had already used. All in all I think it...
Congratulations Linux Journal on it 200th Issue
I just wanted to say congrats on the 200th issue to Linux Journal. I enjoy reading about Linux and things that are open source. This mag is a great place to start. I have...
Firefox addon, Firesheep, the novice way to sidejack?
I read several articles about Firesheep, the addon for Firefox, and the sidejacking that it performs on a computer network. The first think I would like to say is that most these articles basically...
Two vulnerabilities in Linux allow access to root account
Two new vulnerabilities affecting Linux were uncovered this week that could potentially be used by malicious hackers to gain root privileges. One vulnerability, which was reported on Tuesday by security firm VSR, arises from...
Getting Hard Drive Serial Numbers using scripts
Recently I had been working on a way to retrieve hard drive serial numbers without having to go around and look at each drive. We have to use them for reports and we use...