Antivirus is a Must
It doesn’t matter what operating system you run, there is always a risk of a security flaw. Even in Unix style operating systems, various programs have been created which take advantage of the user, often in the form of a Trojan (malware which masquerades as something else so that the user can install it). And while you are more likely to get away with not running an Antivirus on Linux then you are on Windows, don’t take the risk. This isn’t the first time I’ve brought this up, and once again this is prompted by a series of attempted attacks...
Connectbot - An ssh Client for Android
A smartphone, being in esscence a very small PC, has great potential to act as a wonderful tool for anyone who administers a server or network. Once the machine and network that are to be accessed are configured, any correctly configure client will be able to login and run commands on the remote machine. So far, the only ssh client that I have tried on Android is Connectbot. The first benifit to Connectbot is its price, free even for the full version. As for other features, Connectbot does have a few. It allows you to have multiple sessions open, and...
Path and Pathauto Modules in Drupal
Minutes before moving my thoughts blog to a new directory, I configured the pathauto module to automatically rename the path to each story to reflect its title rather than reading node/#. I had been meaning to do this for quite a while, and it turned out to be quite simple (and if I would ever get around to reading the Drupal Getting Started Guide I would already know about it). To allow the renaming of the Paths, you have to enable the Paths module, which, being a core module, only entails going to Administer > Site building > Modules, clicking...
Give Me a Free Option Please
I really don’t enjoy using Windows for general purpose things - I’ll grant that some special applications require this, and I understand that many businesses use Windows as the only operating system on their network. But I really hate it when on my computer I have no choice but to use Windows, whether it be in order to connect into someone’s network - be this because someone’s web page only works in Internet Explorer (when will Firefox finally have enough market share that it starts getting sites that only support it?) or because they require you to have special software...
Keepassdroid
Recently I wrote up the password manager Keepass. One of the many qualities I praised was the cross platform nature of the program. Keepassdroid exemplifies this point by serving as a version of the program for Android. Keepassdroid is compatible with the same database format that the main program uses, meaning that you can copy the .kdb file over from your computer to your phone’s storage card. The decryption on the phone takes slightly longer than it does on a modern computer, but it is still a decryption time of under a minute. The actual user interface is fairly well...