By now you have heard your peers raving about flash storage. But perhaps you have not made the switch from your enterprise HDD storage solution yet, because of nagging questions you may have, about the cost of flash storage or its technical capabilities.
The Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) application, which has long been known as a
primary tool for file encryption, commonly focused on email. It has
management tools for exchanging credentials with peers and creating secure
communication channels over untrusted networks.
If There Was a Problem? Yo, I'll Solve It...
I'm not sure what problem Vanilla Ice solved with his DJ's sick hook, but
thankfully in the Linux world, we solve problems all the time.
Although Linux Journal readers might not equate Milwaukee with tech, a new
Briggs & Stratton product portends the bright future of smartened
"legacy" devices from the industrial heartland.
Historically, data replication has been available only piecemeal through
proprietary vendors. In a quest to remediate history, SUSE and partner
LINBIT announced a solution that promises to change the economics of data
replication.
Microsoft Windows is usually a presence in most computing environments, and UNIX
administrators likely will be forced to use resources in Windows networks from
time to time. Although many are familiar with the Samba server software, the matching
smbclient utility often escapes notice.
Across a wide range of consumer devices, from cameras to smartphones to laptops, flash storage has become the de facto standard for digital data storage.
Some tools that I use on the command line are so basic and
so ingrained in my day-to-day actions that it's weird when they're not
available. This often happens to me on OS X. I love that OS X has UNIX
underpinnings. I love that the terminal window is a
real terminal
window and works like a terminal window should work.