LockTight Secures Your Mac With a Hotkey

LockTight Secures Your Mac With a Hotkey

Mac OS X only: Screen locker utility LockTight adds a shortcut key combination for OS X users to quickly lock your workstation from the keyboard.

Windows users switching to using a Mac might be surprised to find no equivalent to the Winkey+L shortcut combination that locks the screen, especially helpful in work environments or at home to keep little fingers from opening things they shouldn't.

LockTight plugs into OS X as a simple system preference pane with a configurable hotkey, but for full effect you might want to configure your Mac to require a password when coming back from the screensaver and disable automatic login. Hit the link for the download, or take a look at the Switching to Mac guide for all the steps.

LockTight [via Switching to Mac]

Linux via the internet with boot.kernel.org

Linux via the internet with boot.kernel.org: "Boot.kernel.org allows users with broadband internet connections to start a variety of Linux distributions from the internet"

Git && distributed Web development

Git changes the game of distributed Web development: "Version control systems are a core component of most development projects, regardless of whether you're developing an application, a Web site, or an operating system. Most projects involve multiple developers, often working at widely separated physical locations. Distributed version control systems are nothing new, but the Git version control system provides unique support for collaboration and interaction among developers."

DNS presentation on HAR2009

DNS presentation on HAR2009:

"Bert Hubert (PowerDNS author) made 'DNS Security in the Broadest Sense' presentation at HAR2009."

Kernel 2.6.31 - Storage and file systems

Kernel Log – Coming in 2.6.31 - Part 3: Storage and file systems: "Next generation file system for Linux" should now be even faster. The first components for defragmenting Ext4 file systems are now in the kernel. Parallel hardware scan in Intel ATA drivers speeds up boot time"

Byobu

Like GNU Screen? You'll love Byobu.

https://launchpad.net/byobu

Yubikey personalisation tool

Version 0.94 of the Yubikey personalisation tool is available now.

http://code.google.com/p/yubikey-personalization/downloads/list

Novell SLE11 release indication

Novell SLE 11 will probably ship by the end of March, according to the Novell Communities website.

http://www.novell.com/communities/node/6773/novell-support-advisor-02-beta-release-january-30th#comment-5700

a Ruby regular expression editor

Found a nice Ruby regular expression editor over at http://www.rubular.com/ . Can be useful if you're working with Regex every once in a while.

Google Calendar supports iCal

Google Calendar now fully supports Apple iCal. There's even a nifty app to set it all up.

Novell Leatherman

Leatherman,
originally uploaded by ./martijn.

Received a Leatherman Micra from the friends over at Novell
Communities. All that for submitting one or two short articles. Thanks guys.

http://www.novell.com/communities/

XEN dropped from Ubuntu 8.10 (server/desktop)

With Ubuntu 8.10 it not possilble anymore to run Ubuntu 8.10 as Dom0 host. Ubuntu does not supply a suitable Kernel for this purpose. Of course it is possible to compile your own Kernel using the XEN patches from xen.org.

It's still possible to run Ubuntu 8.10 as a DomU guest OS. Ubuntu advices to use KVM for virtualization. This requires CPU's with virtualization extensions (hardware virtualization).

For now, Ubuntu 8.04LTS is the last version to include a XEN-enabled Kernel.

Force change password upon login

With the following command you can force a user to change it's password upon login on a Linux host:

# chage -d 0 [user]

OpenRedAlert

1992 all over again with this re-written OSS game engine for RedAlert (linux/win32).

http://code.google.com/p/openredalert/

Nokia sync with Google Calendar

I'm a big ScheduleWorld fan for some years now. I mainly use it to sync my Nokia N-series phone with my Google Calendar using SyncML. The additional Contacts to LDAP sync also comes in handy.
I sync my phone over a 3G connection. To suppress phone-costs, it's now also possible to sync your phone with ScheduleWorld over bluetooth using this nifty Firefox plugin.

Nomad

Using RDP to control your Linux desktop sure sounds like a new approach to me :) Let's see if this lowers the barrier for Linux adoption in Windows-environments.

http://en.opensuse.org/Nomad

Nomad has compositing manager extensions. So, desktop-effects (*xgl) should work over an RDP session.

XEN guest images

Jailtime.org is a great resource if you're looking for some ready-to-run XEN guest images.

http://www.jailtime.org

Apply for SLE11 beta testing

The Novell Beta Program is accepting applications to beta test SUSE Linux Enterprise software.

The beta testing will run from September until February. If you are interested in applying for the beta, complete an application:

http://opsamericas.com/?p=779

Opt-in before 7 September.

new Novell Client for openSUSE 10.3

Novell released the Novell Client for Linux 2.0 SP1 public beta. This release supports openSUSE 10.3 and SLED 10sp2. Unfortunately no support for openSUSE 11.0 yet ... but it's in the making!


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We're pleased to announce the public beta of the Novell Client for openSUSE 10.3. Novell released the packages [1] for the Novell Client for Linux 2.0 SP1 public beta today.

A number of openSUSE users have expressed interest in having the client packaged for openSUSE, so our developers have been working on building the client against openSUSE. Please download the package and give it a try on your systems.

Novell is also working on a package for openSUSE 11.0, though we don't have an official timeline for that package yet. We will also post an announcement when it's available, and will post announcements for any further betas or the final release of the Novell Client for Linux.

[1]: http://www.novell.com/beta/auth/beta.jsp?id=2585&type=1
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Hardy wallpaper

80058-hardy_darkorange,
originally uploaded by ./martijn.

A nice alternative for the default Ubuntu 8.04 wallpaper. Picked it up somewhere in the blogosphere, can remember exactly where.