What's New in the News
It's been a long time since visiting this site. I've been searching for employment, haven't found the appropriate match for me. I've...
Steganography and You
Hey, hey, hey, look who’s back! Harry N. Hacker here. The boss and Anne are on vacation this week, so I’m going to tell you about my...
The Cleaner: A Review
Good afternoon to all you happy blog followers. Today we are going to investigate a software package called Moosoft’s The Cleaner. The...
Fuzzy Hashing
Hash functions are well-known methods in computer science to map arbitrary large input to bit strings of a fixed length that serve as...


Securing Linux
Good day: Harry Hacker here. As you may have noticed, this blog is all about securing Linux (Large tee hee hee from the audience and a...
Linux Shell Scripts
1. What Is Shell Scripting? Before I go into Shell Scripting, let’s find out what a shell is. Well, the shell is a program that takes...
Telnet
1. What is Telnet? Telnet is a protocol or language which is used for communication between two or more computers and other machines on a...
Mr. Torvald, do you have the system time?
1. Why is it important to maintain the system time in a Linux distribution? Linux depends on the system clock to run certain programs at...


Linux Printing Systems
In 1997, the owner of Easy Software Products, Michael Sweet started developing Common Unix Printing System. CUPS, which is a modular...


A Boot Loader Called Grub
Hello, Harry N. Hacker here to discuss grub. I was out in the back yard the other day, and noticed a bunch of… what? We aren’t talking...