Looks like somebody had a little free time and decided to crack the kindle code. They have amusingly called the python code to do so ’swindle’ On a side note, here is an excellent website pointed out to me who does what with your privacy on e-book readers http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/e-book-privacy You can find the original code here http://pastie.org/753699 In...

Whilst i realize this is not ‘linux’ is is unix based and has a similar permissions and command line. I recently upgraded my OS X laptop to Snow leopard. Being the good sysadmin I am i made sure i used Time Machine to backup all my files and data to an external drive. I used the chance to do a fresh install also, and the upgrade went fine. I then restored...

I found this the today http://www.safe-rm.org.nz/ , and having had the odd accident im most definitely going to be installing this on my own server! What is safe-rm? Safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper, which checks the given arguments against a configurable blacklist of files and...