SC Magazine reports the UK Information Commissioner has stated that the US laws requiring notification of the public in the event of a data breach is not a viable model for the island nation. I have argued before that a

BitTorrent is the main distribution method for TV-shows online. Despite the availability of legitimate streaming sites, millions of people prefer to download their favorite TV-shows using torrents instead. ShowInsider is a new project that reveals the latest TV piracy trends.

Today, VIPeers has launched a new and totally free BitTorrent hosting service. With VIPeers, everyone can easily share large files up to 5 GB with as many people as they wish, without having to seed it themselves. The service can

In September a Spanish court decided that the eDonkey indexing site Sharemula operated legally, indicating that linking to copyright infringing material is permitted under the law. Now that decision has been reinforced as a court decides that a torrent site

November 4, 2008, election day in the United States. As votes are cast right across America to determine who will become the 44th president, we take a look at where the sympathies of some of the key anti-piracy and filesharing

Hi guys,How can I do an extraction of all lines that contain 23 strings in the file with awk?I tried with awk 2 words,Code:---awk '/word1//word2/' source.txt > filtered.txt

Hey folks. I have never setup an Linux VPN connection before, but here is the plan.(1) I would like to setup a Linux VPN server that can handle multiple different & separate VPN connections...

I am trying to install Suse v11 on an older Sony Vaio notebook(PCG-6G4L). This is a dual boot with XP, which is running fine.:rolleyes:Suse just won't run although it appeared to install OK with kde...

Hi,I need to recompile a package in order to include support of some specific library.What is the "Debian way" to modify the build options of a package?Thanks!

but it will not connect to an open wireless Web access.Any ideas how to get it to connect with the internet.Thankscircuitrider

HiIt's very easy to reset a root password in Linux. For instance with grub and opensuse you can just add some extra boot arguments: linux init=/bin/sh and you can reset the password. Isn't that a...

I manage a small network (6 computers) that was working under Fedora 7. It is a private network (behind a firewall) and its access to the internet is through a proxy, and this is working. One machine...

I have a Fedora 9 server.I have various wired and wireless workstations.I want to export one or more folders on the server and mount them on the clients.1) Samples of the exports file would be...

Hello all,Any idea how to install Fuppes on Ubutnu 8.10?I tried the instruction in this link but then the...

Hi,I have some external USB drives (WD) which are not considered by system as removable. I have one with NTFS and two with FAT32.When I try to mount I get error:rafal@linux-39sr:~> mount...

Published at LXer:Many computer users know that if you want to save money, go open source. Open source software is programming that is freely available on the Internet and whose programming language...

Hello everyone,I have a small problem, I have a centos 5 server authenticating against a AD 2003, I can log on with the users that belong to specific group as PAM allows that through...

Today I downloaded Ubuntu 8.10 updates-amazingly fast.So I checked speed at Vodafone New Zealand, as recommended by Simon Bridge. Download 4154 Kb, 519.9 KB/sec. Upload same as usual-354Kb,...

STILL EDITING THIS POST!]]So, a few hours ago I ran out of the shop with a very big grin on my face. I upgraded my computer from an AMD athlon 3200+ to an Intel Quad Core Q9550 :p. So far

Hello,I have a bit of a problem. I have a Server running RHES 5 with a RAID attached. When I reboot, the various drives in the RAID are discovered differently. I reboot one time and the drive...