How to Rename a File or Folder in OS X ? There is no rename option by default in OS X right click or command click context menu. You can follow any of the methods. There are many methods, OS X or rather Mac is about shortcuts. We have not discovered any of these methods described in this How to Rename a File or Folder in OS X guide. These are well known possibly since when UNIX (for command line … [Read more...]
Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites
Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites needs few extra steps to do otherwise the method is same that is normally done for any Apache2 webserver. Rackspace Cloud Sites is Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) primarily targeted for hosting PHP-MySQL based web softwares including CMS and blogging softwares. Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites is … [Read more...]
OS X Terminal Transparency, Themes and Syntax Highlighting
OS X Terminal Transparency, Themes and Syntax Highlighting has been easier to manage with OS X 10.8.3. Here are some tips to get your Terminal looking nice. First thing is that, those who used iTerm before, many continued using the unofficial next version of iTerm as iTerm2. The basic reason probably for all was the look and easy to customize features. However, with the latest version, almost all … [Read more...]
Linux : Basics About Unix-like OS
Linux referred to the usually free, unix-like Operating systems based on the Linux kernel and is GNU GPL based software. The large, commercial distribution was from 1992 through the licensing of the Linux kernel under the free GNU GPL. In 1983, Richard Stallman launched the GNU project with the goal to develop an Unix-like, POSIX -compatible operating system. Linus Torvalds is an important person … [Read more...]
Building Your Own PaaS : Introduction
Building Your Own PaaS is easy as one can use any suitable Infrastructure as a Service and prepare the required servers to run any Open Source PaaS software. This is named as Introductory article for Building Your Own PaaS as we want to give you the options and possibility and in subsequent guides, we will gradually provide you the step by step guides for some of the options for Building Your Own … [Read more...]
Text Editors for Mac OS X : Best of the Bests yet Free
Text Editors for Mac OS X are required for more advanced functions than the default text editors like helpful syntax highlighting, macro and tabs. We are in favor of Free Text Editors under GNU GPL or Compatible License. There are GPL-ed and Free from the beginning Text Editors for Mac. Do not use any closed source paid Text Editors for Mac OS X (many website promotes) and if possible try to … [Read more...]
VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox for Mac ?
VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox both are virtualization softwares. First is a paid software and second one is a Free Software. Which one is right for your Mac ? It is not that a Free software is of worse quality than a paid software and also the reverse is true - not all fields have enough good free softwares or a minimally paid software works great. VMWare Fusion for Mac VMware … [Read more...]
Puppet and Management of Own Public and Private Clouds
Puppet is written in Ruby and is licensed under Apache 2.0 License. Any virtualized environments or Public and Private Clouds can be manged with this tool. This is an overview of Puupet Software and some links to protype snippets and other developments. This article gives the reader an idea of the scope of using Puppet, itself it is not a guide on how to modify and use Puppet according to your … [Read more...]
SQL Injection : What is SQL Injection and What Actually Happens
SQL Injection is the exploitation of a vulnerability in the context of SQL databases, through the lack of masking or review of meta results in user input. The hacker tries, on the application or the CMS like WordPress (MySQL), to get the access to the database and inject own database commands. The goal is to spy out data, changing its meaning or to obtain the control over the server as basically … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing : Your Concerns and Thoughts of Richard Stallman
Cloud Computing as terminology raises the eyebrows of some users who are associated with academics and computing for many years. There are certain reasons for publishing this article. Few days ago, one of our follower on Google Plus raised an important point - that is the security points of Cloud Computing. Definitely, security is a concern; but there are other concerns as well. Basically these … [Read more...]
Security in the Cloud
Security in the Cloud grows from knowledge of the intelligent crowd. Finding critical vulnerabilities, controlling spam can solve problems faster than before. Previously we published two critical articles in the series of Security in the Cloud; first one is Visibility and Control of Security in the Cloud and The Divided Responsibilities in Security in the Cloud. Here is another important article … [Read more...]