All major messaging applications pass data through their servers and as we already know, all service providers, including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, log this data – everything you write to your friends, family, colleagues, etc.
Continuing the series of posts on improving communication privacy, this time we learn how to encrypt our instant messenger conversations…
AMIBIOS is a kind of BIOS manufactured by American Megatrends (AMI).
AwardBIOS is a kind of BIOS manufactured by Award, now owned by Phoenix Technologies.
Several custom implementations of the PhoenixBIOS system exist in many popular motherboards. The beep codes from a Phoenix-based BIOS may be exactly the same as the true Phoenix beep codes or they may vary.
Email messages are at the moment the least secure method of transferring information. They are almost always written in plain-text, jumping around from server to server with anyone interested in eavesdropping on them able to do so.
To use an end-to-end PGP encryption with Thunderbird, you’ll need to install Enigmail (Thunderbird extension) and GnuPG…
While EXT4 may or may not work with CloneZilla / PartedMagic (I have not tested lately, but my last attempt failed miserably), fsarchiver is a very handy little tool for creating an image of this version of the standard Linux filesystem.
If you’re running a munin node and server and also poses a WRT54GL router running DD-WRT, you can easily create graphs for some of the router’s stats in munin via SNMP.
At time x86 and x64 versions of the same package may conflict with each other or with updates of packages that use them.
Yum is a great package manager but yum doesn’t allow removing packages without also removing dependencies on that package. This is where the the old and mighty rpm comes in.
A long time ago I found a nice little application handy at displaying Windows’ uptime. It’s been running fine since Windows XP all the way to the (disastrous) 8.
Simply download and extract the uptime.exe executable to your Windows, System32 or SysWOW64 folder…
So you’ve installed Windows Xp on a (probably very) old computer and forgot to check the BIOS to make sure APCI is enabled…
Now to switch Windows Xp from the “Standard PC” HAL to the A(dvanced) C(onfiguration and) P(ower) I(nterface) one you’ve got two choices…
