Google Chrome OS – do we want another monoculture?
Yes, Google has open-sourced Chrome OS, its much discussed browser based operating system. But as usual, the open sourcing only says so much about its openness. Wait, no – its...
US data firm blows s**t out of a server
This may cheer up those backroom boys among you who’ve ever had a strong desire to let a server have it with an arsenal of weapons, but didn’t have a...
Network Throughput & Performance Testing
Iperf is a a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics and reports bandwidth, delay jitter and...
Katana v1 – Portable Multi-Boot Security Suite
The Katana Portable Multi-Boot Security Suite is a comprehensive open source security auditing suite. The idea behind Katana is to bring together the best security distributions and applications to run...
Windows 7 – Error Code 0x80072F8F
After a clean installation of Windows 7 Ultimate on a new Dell Precision M2400, I was unable to complete an online activation. The specific error “0x80072F8F” provided no information as...