National Broadband Network pricing announced. 500 GiB cap?

The prices for the National Broadband Network from Telstra have been announced. The entry level package will cost AU$73.00 per month with AU$49.95 of that covering the Internet and AU$22.95 for the home phone. This gives you 25 Megabits per second. The premium package is AU$100 per month, this gives you 100 Megabits of bandwidth. … Read more

A look at the very latest Ubuntu 12.04 Unity desktop.

I have had another look at the Ubuntu Unity desktop, I am aware that this desktop environment is not everybody’s favourite user interface, but it deserves another look. I have recorded a Youtube video of the latest Unity desktop and with the MyUnity desktop configuration tool that allows even more configuration of the Unity interface … Read more

Ubuntu Linux coming to the Google Android platform.

The Ubuntu Linux distribution is coming to the Google Android hardware platform. This means that the secure and open Linux operating system will be coming to the popular Android hardware. The Google Android operating system, although it is based on Linux, has been the subject of much controversy over the security issues that have plagued … Read more

Ubuntu Linux used in McDonalds restaurants.

The Ubuntu Linux distribution has been spotted running on the computers in McDonalds restaurants. A good win for open source software over a flaky and insecure Windows XP installation that would crash and fail every so often. This distribution looks to be Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), by the look of the window decorations. This is … Read more

Xvideo Service Thief. A good video downloader for Linux.

Xvideo Service Thief. A good video downloader for Linux. This application allows you to download online videos from a variety of sources such as the popular video-sharing website Youtube. You click the add video button and paste a Youtube URL and the video will be downloaded. I found that this does not work with the … Read more

Website traffic getting better and mega engineering of the future.

I have just found a screen shot of the Awstats traffic information for my old securitronlinux.com domain and I was getting more traffic to my website at the height of my websites popularity but with my current website the amount of unique visitors is higher, I am getting over 7500 unique visitors with my current … Read more

VLC 2.0.0 TwoFlower released for Ubuntu 12.04.

The 2.0.0 release of the VLC media player has been released for Ubuntu 12.04. I updated my Ubuntu 12.04 installation and there it was. So the final release of Ubuntu 12.04 will include this media player in the repositories. The VLC media player is available for Linux and Windows and includes its own internal codecs … Read more

Customising Linux and Computing history.

The Linux distributions that are in common use all over the world have many advantages over the closed source operating systems such as Windows and Macintosh operating systems, the freedom to customize the distribution and create your own version of the distribution is the key strength of Linux. The Ubuntu distribution includes a tool named … Read more

Useful KDE 4.8.0 tips. How to make KDE 4.8 look like KDE 3.4.

Useful KDE 4.8.0 tips. Useful tricks to make working with KDE easier. To open a small run prompt to open any program, just press the Windows key and “r”. This will open a prompt at the top of the screen allowing you to type a command such as ‘xterm’ and the requested application will be … Read more

Securing your WordPress installation with Website Defender.

http://www.websitedefender.com/announcements/websitedefender-wordpress-security-plugin-news/scan-blog-wordpress-security-scan/. Securing your WordPress installation is vital, the PHP installation as well as the MySQL database need to be protected. The Website Defender website offers a free service that will scan your website and offer suggestions on how to secure your WordPress installation and any other software that you have installed such as PHPBB. I … Read more

Tron Legacy UNIX commands revisited.

http://www.securitronlinux.com/uncategorized/tron-legacy-unix-operating-system/. As seen in this posting above, the Tron Legacy movie used computers with a variant of the Solaris UNIX operating system. The ps -ef command works in the FreeBSD UNIX distribution, you need to mount procfs with this command: mount -t procfs proc /proc this will enable the proc file-system. The login -n root … Read more

Using the dircolors command in your ~/.bashrc.

Using the dircolors command in your ~/.bashrc. The dircolors command as used in your ~/.bashrc will set the colours of the various files and directories that are shown with the ls(1) command. Use the command dircolors –print-database to display a list of the filetypes and what colour codes will be used for each one. [ … Read more

Linux commands that prove useful for your day to day workflow.

The UNIX tail command is very useful for viewing the last number of lines of a logfile. As in this example. Showing the last 10 lines in the file /var/log/syslog. |{~}-{Thu Feb 16 21:36:44} -{john@deep-thought } $ tail -n 10 /var/log/syslog Feb 16 21:31:01 deep-thought cron[1480]: (*system*anacron) WRONG FILE OWNER (/etc/cron.d/anacron) Feb 16 21:31:29 deep-thought … Read more

Even more good KDE 4.8.0 themes. Useful themes to spice up your KDE.

These are some more good quality KDE 4.8.0 themes I have discovered. Androbit: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=123524. Celedonia: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=142424. Oxywin: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=112004. Wave: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=117875. These themes are easily installed with the system settings menu, just sort by rating and the themes list will be displayed. I gave Unity a fair trial yesterday with all of the latest updates and … Read more

The MyUnity configuration application.

The MyUnity configuration tool is a useful utility to configure the Unity desktop the way you wish. The utility may be installed on Ubuntu by typing sudo apt-get install myunity, then run myunity to load the application and configure away. With additions like this, that really should be integrated into the system settings control panel, … Read more

Spark Linux tablet bringing Linux to the mobile market.

The US$265 Linux powered Spark tablet is a new innovation that brings cheap affordable hardware and a open Linux operating system together. This is an incredible innovation, that will create a tablet that hopefully is hackable to install other flavours of Linux and able to run various games as well. It would be cool to … Read more