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How to make backup files that never exceed a predefined size

Marco Fioretti offers a script that you can use to create backups that don't exceed a certain file size, making it easier to spread backups across various storage media or services..

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Why and how to migrate mailboxes to IMAP and Maildir

Marco Fioretti provides the steps to automatically move your old mailboxes to IMAP and MailDir.

1 week ago in Open Source by Marco Fioretti Comment

iperf: Simple but powerful tool for troubleshooting networks

Scott Reeves demonstrates the use of iperf, which provides basic information on throughput, packet loss, and jitter to help you troubleshoot UDP and TCP issues.

3 weeks ago in Open Source by Scott Reeves Comment

KDE 4.8 minor tweaks, major improvement

Jack Wallen takes a look at KDE 4.8. Will the latest release of this powerful KDE Linux desktop bring him back to KDE?

April 23rd, 2012 in Open Source by Jack Wallen Comment

8 ways to use e-mail header info and how to extract it

Marco Fioretti offers a tip to help you sort and process random e-mails by extracting the e-mail header info first. Here are eight tasks you can accomplish with this script.

April 16th, 2012 in Open Source by Marco Fioretti Comment

How to automatically insert photographs in LaTeX files

Marco Fioretti explains how to insert photographs automatically in LaTeX files--a technique that may be tweaked to suit a number of general uses.

April 9th, 2012 in Open Source by Marco Fioretti Comment

Use kismon to view kismet log files

Scott Reeves introduces a GUI front-end available to users of Kismet, the wireless network detecting tool.

April 2nd, 2012 in Open Source by Scott Reeves Comment

Command line calendars and some little known uses for them

Why would you want to use a command line calendar? Marco Fioretti tells you how they can be used and what the benefits are.

March 26th, 2012 in Open Source by Marco Fioretti Comment

Linux design needs to be out of the hands of developers

Why does the Linux desktop suffer so much? Jack Wallen thinks he has the answer to this question that has been in play for a very long time. See if you agree with the conclusion he has drawn.

March 19th, 2012 in Open Source by Jack Wallen 1 Comment

How to use shell functions to fetch information online

Marco Fioretti shows two examples of shell functions that you can use for Web scraping when all you need is a quick way to extract text from a given Web site.

March 12th, 2012 in Open Source by Marco Fioretti Comment

Beacon frames, 802.11 devices, and Kismet

Scott Reeves follows up on his introduction to the Kismet network monitor to examine how it uses beacon frames to detect devices on a 802.11 network.

March 5th, 2012 in Open Source by Scott Reeves Comment

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