Linux

Astaro Releases Free Edition for Small Businesses

Posted by Daniel on January 28, 2010 at 1:48 pm

Astaro Corporation, a leading network security vendor, recently announced the launch of the Essential Firewall edition of its flagship security solution Astaro Security Gateway (ASG), available for free to all organizations worldwide. The Essential Firewall edition is claimed to include all the necessary functionality that all organizations need to secure their networks and operate a [...]

KDE 4.3.1 Released

Posted by Daniel on September 7, 2009 at 3:17 pm

The KDE team has released KDE 4.3.1. This is a bugfix release of KDE 4.3 with a few new improvements. So, users of KDE 4.3 or older versions may want to upgrade it to the new release. From the changelog, a few significant bugs were fixed: More than 25 bugs fixed in KMail, KDE’s default [...]

How to repair a corrupt MBR in Windows Vista

Posted by Daniel on June 14, 2009 at 3:51 pm

I tinker with Linux a lot and in many cases, have computers that dual-boot with Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, and Server 2008. What always happens is that sometimes I remove the hard drive containing the Linux partition and the GRUB boot loader. This inevitably leads to the error 5 message – “boot loader not [...]

Device Manufacturers and the fleecing of consumers

Posted by Daniel on June 13, 2009 at 7:27 pm

I’ve recently had cause to wonder if device manufacturers purposely make sure their devices are of limited use to people who buy their products. A few examples: I recently bought a couple of NAS devices and each one of them failed woefully to do what was advertised. First is what I actually started calling the [...]

What Can Astaro Linux Do For You?

Posted by Daniel on May 5, 2009 at 12:56 pm

I had a client who was just getting killed by spammers. Every morning their inbox was loaded with junk mail and they had as much as five thousand (5,000) emails in their spam filter box when they came in. I decided to help them out with the free version of Astaro Security Gateway. We threw [...]