After much pain and research with ffmpeg and mencoder, I stumbled upon MMC – Mobile Media Converter. It seems to be a front end to FFMPEG, but works seamlessly. It has quality presets, as well as customizable transcoding quality settings, for those who don’t want to lose their framerates. If you’re looking to convert your [...]

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A very interesting article. Abstract. Full text (PDF).

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Here’s a good article on the subject. Here’s also a good HowTo crack WPA.

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Source: HowToForge.

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I was never a big fan of the iPhone, but the Linux 2.6 kernel has finally been ported to it. It doesn’t yet interact with the touchscreen, but if this eventually leads to an iPhone-Ubuntu distro being created, you can bet I’ll be putting the iPhone on my wish list – just for use as [...]

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From their site: It is a complete solution for every organization to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents. You and your team can create and collaborate on: Text documents Spreadsheets (coming soon) Presentations Task Lists E-mails Calendars Web Links All it requires is an xampp server (essentially a Linux server). [...]

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Even Linux can be vulnerable to attack, especially on a fresh install where all settings are left at defaults. This is an excellent article from IT Security on how to shore up security on a fresh Linux install. I am not sure if the anti-virus recommendation is required at this time, I think that might [...]

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