Industrial Strength Firewall, Poor Mans Budget
What in this world could protect your computer(s) or network better than a firewall? If you said not connecting your machine to the Internet your right, but most of us can’t live for more than a few minutes without being online. Hell, it gives me the shakes.
Now, here at the Frank residences we have multiple [...]
TrueCrypt: Now On OSX
The super popular open source disk encryption software TrueCrypt is now available for the Mac OS.
TrueCrypt creates a virtual encrypted disk that mounts in the Finder and provides on-the-fly 256-bit encryption. You can keep this virtual disk on your drive or on a USB thumb drive and can even be hidden. TrueCrypt relies on MacFUSE [...]
BugLabs Now Open For Business
The BugLabs store in now ready for business. For those of you who don’t know what Bug Labs is all about it’s a modular ‘snap it together’ computer base. Essentially you mix and match various components like an LCD screen , motion sensor, camera, or gps receiver.
I can only imagine the sheer about of hacks [...]
Quickly Install Open Source Software
Here is two great pieces of software to make sure that you are getting the best open source replacement software you can get your hands on. WinLibre (for Windows) and MacLibre (for the Mac) allow you to install and update some of the best open source software available for the two platforms. This is great [...]
Neuros OSD – Hack Away
The Chicago based company Neuros Technology International has created a very unique product. The Neuros OSD (for open source device) is a versatile media recorder that, by using a memory card or a USB drive can record video from multiple sources that is then stored in MPEG-4 format.
The OSD has not only open hardware, but [...]
MythTV and Zap2It Labs to offer TV Listings
Fear-not fearless open sources PVR’ers, the people over at MythTV are real close to striking a deal (albeit a pay one) to have listing services continued.
Zap2It labs, which has provided free TV listings in Canada and the US announced last month that they were discontinuing their free service. Shortly thereafter a group of Mythtv and [...]
Firefox: 400 Million Strong
Firefox has made the 400 million mark, quite impressive. The open source browser has only been around for about 3 years, so achieving this number is quite impressive. There are reportedly about 120 million or so regular Firefox users, which makes me wonder what happened to the other 280 million went.
81% of our readers are [...]
Unofficial Linux Support For New iPods
We reported earlier that Apple had cramped the open source style of synching your new iPod with Linux, but now some crafty kids, 36 hours after the story made the rounds online, have got some code to get everything working. Details can be found here.
SIP for the SMC WSKP100
II’m a big fan of open source software. Probably the biggest piece of open source software that is heavily used (ok, besides MythTV) is our Asterisk phone system that runs all of the phones here at home. The problem with depending on Asterisk is the need for SIP based phones or SIP adapters, which can [...]
