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Israeli vendor StartSSL offers free SSL server certificates that are valid for a year. This article explains how to apply for a certificate for a domain and install it on the server
It can be very useful to be able to talk directly with your SMTP or IMAP server for diagnostic purposes. Things get a bit more complicated when encryption rears its ugly head, but with the right tools, it doesn't have to be a black art
When people click on short URLs from services like bit.ly or tr.im, they don't always know where they'll land until they've actually arrived. The next generation of short URLs even go one step further
The H Security information page on Conficker is where you can find the latest stand-alone removal tools, news, scanners and tips about the Conficker worm.
Criminals use various methods to camouflage the traces of their malicious software on the internet. However, their paths can be retraced using special tools to identify the vulnerability the malware exploited to enter a system
Mandriva began life as Linux Mandrake in July 1998 in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands
Linus Torvalds has released the first RC of Linux 2.6.34 and completed the integration of the next version of the kernel's most important changes. Improvements include graphics drivers for recent Radeon GPUs and for the graphics cores of some Intel processors that are only expected to be released early next year. Another new addition is the LogFS file system
A new online service to help Windows users check installed programs are up to date and do not have known security vulnerabilities
The H attended this year's CeBIT trade show on the world's largest fairground in Hannover, Germany and met up with a wide variety of people from the open source community, including free and open source software (FOSS) developers, project members and companies
Glyn Moody takes a look at the state of Android, at the worries that the platform is fragmenting and why it isn't a bad thing
The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started and is causing heated discussions on the LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9 for security fixes and found almost twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes proprietary files from the kernel, and new graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer numerous improvements
A promising open source driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware, a replication solution to prevent server down times, "ATA Trim" support and a host of new and improved drivers are some of the most prominent improvements in Linux 2.6.33
FreeBSD is the most accessible and popular of the BSDs, has code at the heart of Darwin and Apple's OS X, and has powered some of the more successful sites on the Web, including Hotmail, Netcraft and Yahoo! In this health check, we look at the past and future of the "unknown giant"
If you yearn for the operating systems or arcade games of the past, and are willing to make the effort to bring them back to life, free and open source software is definitely the way to go. Green screens and might-have beens, operating systems and games, BeOS, Amiga OS or DOS can be relived and replayed through a host of emulators, simulators or rewrites in varying stages of completion
