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Firewall your applications with AppArmor

Wednesday, 06 December 2006
Traditional methods of securing a computer have revolved around controlling access to critical services. So, if you need to secure network applications, you need to police network traffic. But security vendors are realizing that securing a computer, in effect, boils down to protecting the applications instead. Novell's AppArmor is designed with just this is mind.
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Trick: Step-by-Step IPP based Print Server using CUPS

Wednesday, 06 December 2006
This tutorial describes how to install a Linux print server with CUPS. It also covers the installation and configuration of printer drivers on the print server as well as the printer setup on a Windows 2000 client.
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Trick: Cloning a Mandriva box

Friday, 01 December 2006
Any time we think about installing OS on more than one system 'cloning' comes to our attention. If you are cloning your Linux box hard disks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs, you are often using programs like g4u and Acronis. But you can use the „low level data transfer commands” like dd and netcat also. This article describes the power of those tools.
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Trick: Howto "spice IceWM up"

Wednesday, 29 November 2006
IceWM is a tiny window manager for Linux and Unix that requires far less memory and CPU power than even XFCE, a common window manager for lightweight systems.
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Trick: URPMI quick and easy

Monday, 27 November 2006
One of the best Mandriva specific tools is, without a doubt, urpmi. This tools allows a better and easier package management and helps to find a way out of the “dependency hell” that many inexperienced users complain about. This article gives you an overview of the most often used options and some tricks how to use it efficiently.
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Tip: Five things to know when you switch to Linux

Tuesday, 21 November 2006
If you have just installed GNU/Linux on your computer, and have only ever used Windows before, here are five things you need to know to get going rapidly. On Windows, you were probably used to find a given program on the Internet, download a setup.exe file, and then install the program in something like C:Program Files. Things are very different on GNU/Linux.
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Trick: Racoon Roadwarrior Configuration

Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Roadwarrior is a client that uses unknown, dynamically assigned IP addresses to connect to a VPN gateway (in this case also firewall). This situation is shown on picture 1.1 and is one of the most interesting and today most needed scenarios in business environment.
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Mandriva 2007: Back in the race

Friday, 03 November 2006
Beginning with an easy-to-use installer and booting into a well-thought-out desktop, Mandriva 2007 provides an environment that is aesthetically consistent and makes new users feel at home. Where Mandriva 2006 failed to provide an appropriate level of support for more advanced users, Mandriva 2007 includes prominently displayed tools for configuration from the desktop. Although these tools are marred by sluggish package management and an unhelpful security rating system, as well as instability on some machines, overall Mandriva 2007 re-establishes the distribution as one of the most advanced desktop experiences in GNU/Linux.
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Accessing Windows Resources from a Linux Desktop

Friday, 27 October 2006
You're one of the lucky ones. Despite incredible pressures, you've somehow managed to convince your boss to let you run Linux on your workstations instead of Windows. It could be that you've already saved your organization tens of thousands of dollars by convincing them to upgrade to OpenOffice.org instead of the latest Microsoft Office, and now the company is willing to explore other possibilities. However, you are still going to have to deal with the Windows workgroup or domain and the appropriate shared files and printers.
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