The very first Linux distribution that I have tried as a full install for a server was Slackware. I still have some preference to Slackware but given the improvements and features from Ubuntu made it difficult for me to tinker with Slackware again. However, this tutorial on how to install Slax on a USB thumbdrive will surely make it easier for me to try it again.

Unfortunately, this only works if you have a machine that allows booting off of your USB port! At least the Asus Eee PC can do that! Hehehe.

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It is common knowledge that we use ssh for remote access as well as the underlying transport for some other services, e.g., VNC over SSH, FTP over SSH, etc. One you have SSH installed, you can also omit FTP along with Telnet. However, if you give access to file transfer via SSH, you are required to provide shell access, too. Well, not anymore.

UnixCraft outlines how you can use the restricted shell (rssh)
to provide SCP and SFTP without shell access. Not only that, you can also use rsync, rdist and cvs without shell access. How cool is that?

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Yesterday, a friend of mine mentioned his friend installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware and after a week of using it, ending up getting a Mac. Whilst this clearly violates the Mac OS X EULA but if you are in education, I think (don't quote me) you can hide behind Fair Use.

So how do you install Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware without hacking? Lifehacker just featured the how-to a few days ago and if I did not have a Mac, I would have tried it just to have a feel of what I am missing or what I am NOT missing.

Just a disclaimer - this clearly violates the Mac OS X EULA but as an academic exercise, you may want to try it out… just like what another professor friend did a few weeks ago.

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Today's geeks might have missed the wave when getting online means hearing those tones, beeps and hisses and not to forget hogging that phone line for hours when you download files. Whilst today's connections are mostly broadband, either wired or wireless, there are still some areas where having a dial-up connection is the only to go. So, how do you go about configuring your system for dial-up connection?

Being such an ancient technology, the resources (tutorials, how-to, tips, etc.) might not be easy to find. Good thing that I have found someone who was in the same boat, xiao haozi. Xiao wrote a Mutaku article on how to setup a dial-up connection. That definitely saved me time in scouring the net for resources.

If you are desperate enough to connect using dial-up, then give this a shot and let us know what happens.

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If scientists can now clone sheep, I am sure that we Linux geek can clone our own drives. Just in case you do not know how, well, here is ArsGeek's how-to.

You will need a Linux LiveCD and a HDD with at least the same size as your original installed copy. This is useful specially when you want to make it easier to recover your system quickly.

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Vyke, just like any other Free VOIP provider is offering free calls to various destinations. There are many other VOIP providers who are providing FREE VOIP calls to these destinations but it would be safe to keep more and more backups.
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After such a long time here’s another great trick to make FREE CALLS to INDIA. With this trick we will be able to make one hour FREE CALLS to INDIA.
Rebtel a VOIP service is offering 1 hour FREE CALLS to INDIA. Wait! dont goto their site, you’ll not find it there.
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Earthcaller which is till date the best VOIP solution to call USA and Canada from anywhere in the world have just came out of their Beta period after such a long time.
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One of the Mac's features is Automator, a tool that allows you to record user actions to make often repeated tasks automated. This is one of the features that is often ignored but proves to be very powerful.

In Linux, there is now a tool that gives us with the same feature and it is called GNU Xnee. It is “a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute user actions under the X11 environment.“

I have yet to test this but it seems very promising. Now, if only there is a way to do this outside of X11.

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Who here does not regularly use a web-based service? I reckon that we all do - in my case, I use Twitter's web interface when I am not using a Mac. I also use Meebo for my instant messaging when I am connected behind a firewall. These work on your browser but sometimes you just need a container for that particular web app and nothing else. This is where Mozilla's Prism comes in. (more after the jump)

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