Slow Down and Make Yourself Faster – Tips for the Terminal By: Aaron Croyle I spend most of my day typing arcane things into black windows with green text, as such I spend some time looking for ways to eliminate keystrokes. I’ve been using bash and vim for more that 10 years and I continue to learn more features that I can use on a daily basis. I’ll give you some tips at the end, but the moral of the story is learn how to make better use of your tools. How to Get Better 1) Anytime you’re typing the same thing more than once, ask yourself if there’s a better way to do it. If you don’t know, stop what you’re doing and ask Google. Maybe you should be using awk or sed to do some search and replace job. Maybe you can just do it in vim. If you’re in vim already, do you know how to work on more than one file at a time? 2) Anytime you want to do something you’ve done before ... (more)

Infinitely Virtual Selected as Intuit Host Provider, Enabling QuickBooks Hosting in the Cloud for Virtualization Clients

QuickBooks, Intuit’s market-leading financial management software, is now available on a cloud-hosted basis to clients of Infinitely Virtual, the hosting company announced today. Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services for businesses, has been approved as an Intuit Commercial Host, enabling it to provide QuickBooks capability to clients via its virtual server platform. “With QuickBooks the go-to financial software for millions of users, we are excited about the opportunity to host QuickBooks for clients who want the advantages of 24x7, s... (more)

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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today celebrates the 10th anniversary of its flagship solution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which has transformed the deployment of business-critical applications for IT organizations around the globe. With the introduction of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system in May 2002, Red Hat dramatically changed the software industry with the first-ever open source software subscription business, spurring the adoption of Linux across the enterprise. Continuously bringing increased levels of IT infra... (more)

Fraunhofer: veiligheidsgat bij Dropbox, Mozy & Co.

Vaak bieden cloud-opslagdiensten onvoldoende veiligheid. Tot dit resultaat kwam een onderzoek uitgevoerd door het Duitse Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, waarbij verschillende leveranciers zijn getest. Hieruit bleek dat geen van de geteste leveranciers in staat was aan alle veiligheidseisen te voldoen, en bij sommigen ontbrak het zelfs aan behoorlijke versleuteling. Naast de technische tekortkomingen vonden de onderzoekers ook imperfecties op het gebied van assistentie aan de gebruiker. Dit laatste zou ertoe kunnen leiden dat met behulp van zoekmachines v... (more)

Fraunhofer: problemi di sicurezza per Dropbox, Mozy e altri provider

La sicurezza dei servizi cloud storage è spesso inadeguata. È il risultato dello studio del Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Germania, che ha analizzato numerosi provider. Conclusioni: nessuno dei provider testati è stato in grado di soddisfare tutti i requisiti di sicurezza, mentre alcuni hanno anche dimostrato di non avere sistemi di crittografia adeguati. Oltre ai difetti tecnici, i tester hanno riscontrato anche punti deboli per gli aspetti relativi all'orientamento degli utenti. Quest'ultimo aspetto potrebbe facilitare la scoperta di informazioni c... (more)