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    Computer code that exploits a flaw in Apple Computer's Mac OS X was released over the weekend.

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    When developing your company's virus protection strategy, don't forget that Linux and Unix systems need to be protected as well.

  • Radio wars put the wait back into wireless

    Zigbee's getting ready to put wireless data everywhere, but an upstart company wants to nip in first. Will we get caught in the crossfire?

  • Mandrake Linux's libDrakx

    Mandrake's libDrakx allows you to create GUI or text interfaces with relative ease, especially if you have some Perl under your belt. We'll work through creating a simple window, as well as a more complex list interface.

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    Apache is open source, powerful, free and runs on more than half of all Internet servers. Let's take a quick look at how to get your Apache server up and running.

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    If you want security coupled with flexibility and some good old-fashioned command line action in your UNIX of choice, look no further than OpenBSD.

  • Mimic DOS commands in Linux

    You can take advantage of the flexibility inherent in the Linux command shell and create scripts that allow you to emulate DOS commands in a Linux environment.

  • A little Wine with your Linux?

    Why this program's ability to run Windows apps on Linux may not necessarily satisfy.

  • Reducing spam on a Linux mail server

    Unix and Linux mail servers can fight spam by using DSPAM, which acts as the local delivery agent for the server and learns to recognise spam to ease the administrative burden of constantly keeping up with blacklists.

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    When you say IDS, you probably think of a network-based IDS that detects attacks via a signature-based mechanism. SNARE is an open source solution that uses a host-based IDS to protect individual servers.

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    US Robotics has updated its 802.11g hardware to allow wireless connectivity up to 125 megabits per second.

  • Alternative OS: Mac OS

    Since the mid-1980s, Apple has been wrestling with Microsoft over which company makes the best operating system. Our head-to-head comparison of the newest Mac OS--OS X--and Windows XP clearly shows the fight is still alive.

  • Network management and debugging

    Because networks increase the number of interdependencies among machines, they tend to magnify problems. As the saying goes, "Networking is when you can't get any work done because of the failure of a machine you have never even heard of."

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