Intel Corp’s (INTC.O) surprise $7.7 billion bid for McAfee Inc (MFE.N) may trigger more deals as competitors scramble for a piece of the rapidly growing software security sector. Technology giants Oracle Corp (ORCL.O), Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N), IBM Corp (IBM.N) and EMC Corp (EMC.N) — which are all looking to expand the “stack” of hardware...
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Apple surpassed Microsoft two months ago as the world’s most highly valued tech company, and is now challenging the Redmond giant on another key metric: In a blowout third quarter, AAPL posted record revenue of $15.7 billion, which should be close to or exceed what Microsoft reports on Thursday. Apple’s quarter easily surpassed consensus...
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Apple’s CEO tops the magazine’s list of the 50 smartest people in tech “He is a visionary, a micromanager, and a showman who creates such anticipation around new products that their releases are veritable holidays.” So begins Jessi Hempel’s assessment of Steve Jobs, Fortune Magazine’s choice for the “smartest CEO in tech.” Apple’s (AAPL)...
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Though 4G LTE (long term evolution) looks like the future for mobile broadband, the rival WiMax technology got a small boost yesterday with the launch of laptops in Malaysia that come with the wireless technology built in. The likes of Acer, Dell and MSI launched a number of netbooks and notebooks that will let...
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Here’s the story. The victim, Stone, is a Chinese Apple developer from Tencent, the company which created China’s most popular IM software QQ. He’s invited by Apple to attend WWDC2010. Being a tech guy, he brought along his iPad on the trip. During the conference, he got robbed on a bus in San Francisco....
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In one of the biggest and unlikeliest turnarounds in business history, Apple is the most valuable company in technology, passing Microsoft in market capitalization. Apple’s market cap has passed $227.1 billion — ahead of Microsoft’s $226.3 billion. Apple is up about 1.8% today, and Microsoft down about 1%. Full Story: Cult of Mac
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Either with ckrootkit or with rkhunter. chkrootkit: Either install the package that comes with your distribution (on Debian you would run apt-get install chkrootkit ), or download the sources from www.chkrootkit.org and install manually: wget –passive-ftp ftp://ftp.pangeia.com.br/pub/seg/pac/chkrootkit.tar.gz tar xvfz chkrootkit.tar.gz cd chkrootkit-/ make sense Afterwards, you can move the chkrootkit directory somewhere else, e.g....
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A script to take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. Features – Backup mutiple databases – Single backup file or to a seperate file for each DB – Compress backup files – Backup remote servers – E-mail logs – More AutoMySQLBackup Script Features • Backup mutiple MySQL databases with...
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Here is how to copy the required number of lines from one file to another in VI editor. First use the following key combinations in the source file. Press ESCAPE Press Shift “(Shift double quotes) Press a Press the number of lines you want to copy press y followed by another y Now press...
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If you want a job to run on the last sunday of every month, you can use the following syntax from within cron: 18 * * * 0 && /path/to/script i.e. on sundays at 18:00 check if the day of the month is greater than 24 – if so run...
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UNIX provides a command called “at” which can be used to run jobs according to the specfied time. To run a particular job in every hour, every day use the following set of commands in a file called “at.sh” which will be executed recursively everyday. ########### CUT HERE ################## #! /usr/bin/sh # dt is...
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To know who all have sent you mail. —————CUT HERE ———- #!/bin/sh : ${USER:=`expr “\`LANG=C id\`” : ‘uid=*(\(*\).*’`} for MBox in /var/mail/$USER /usr/spool/mail/$USER “” do && break done && exec echo “No mailbox” exec grep “^From ” “$@” “$MBox” —————CUT HERE ———-
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You used to have to set up ip addresses, netmasks, gateways, and name resolvers all manually. Refer to any basic networking text to learn more about this aspect. These days DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) is very popular. Let’s assume that a DHCP server (typically inside your Cable/DSL modem) and issues all the network...
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