Category: Computer

  • The Future of Freedom

    A Feature Interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney Here you will find insights to the emergence of the global surveillance state! William E. Binney was a highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for more than 30 years. In this feature interview William Binney blows the whistle on NSA’s blatant wrong doings…

  • Fight for Freedom on the Internet 2015

    For the People it is all about freedom. For the people in power it is all about control. Campaign #Fight4Internet2015 #ContraSurveillanceState #FreeInternet with #Tor and #OTR United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Article 12. • No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his…

  • Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

    An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting Mendel Cooper <thegrendel.abs@gmail.com> This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little nuggets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and as…

  • My Mac OS X Desktop icon’s Disappeared

    Today suddenly all icon’s on my Mac OS X Desktop disappeared or went missing and showed only the default icons. When I opened the Console app and searched for the icon process I saw messages like this: 24/11/13 13.36.30,122 com.apple.IconServicesAgent[262]: main Failed to composit image for binding VariantBinding [0x34b] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x253] -…

  • How to install Lubuntu Server on Cubietruck from Mac OS X

    This is how to install and set-up the latest Lubuntu software pack on to the NAND Flash on the Cubietruck  from a Mac OS X computer. Cubietruck The Cubietruck is a 5V 2A single-board computer “SBC” / PC on Board “PCB” – much like the Raspberry Pi that has taken the World with a craze – but the Cubietruck is just faster,…

  • Hounding of Snowden must stop

    Amnesty International meets US whistleblower Edward Snowden www.amnesty.org Right of asylum wikipedia.org

  • The right to Privacy for All

    Open letter to the Police State and its supporters, The right to privacy is a basic human need – as is the right to mingle with others freely. This is at the very foundation of human life – and maybe life it self. I believe we call it it freedom in the human world. Imagine…

  • I support a free Internet

    I support freedom of speech. I support the right of privacy. I support a free Internet. Supoort Electronic Frontier Foundation in its effort to make the US Government and the like aware of the digital rights of the people in this world! And do join the Internet Defense League with the rest of us and…

  • No need for more hot air in the cloud

    Is Amazon’s new music cloud the real deal? This is what Amazon CEO and Founder, Jeff Bezos, is offering you: “Dear Customers, Managing a digital music collection can be a bit messy. You can buy music from your phone, but how do you transfer it to your home or work computer? Also, if you’re not…

  • Critical Thinking

  • The Story of Stuff

    Reference: The Story of Stuff www.storyofstuff.com

  • We No Longer Trust Google

    Who is lurking in the darkness? Google is lurking the darkness as Gmonster if you ask me, friends of the Internet as well as quite a few grand organizations, legislators, government officials around the world dealing with privacy, security and data protection issues. Recently Google has been caught with their cute innocent Googli map cars sucking…

  • Understanding SSH

    SSH lets you send secure, encrypted commands to a computer remotely, as if you were sitting at the computer. You use the ssh tool in Terminal to open a command-line connection to a remote computer. While the connection is open, commands you enter are performed on the remote computer. Note: If the SSH service (…

  • Test the SMTP Service

    To test the SMTP service, follow these steps: 1. Type Telnet at a command prompt (Terminal) , and then press ENTER. 2. At the telnet prompt, type set LocalEcho, press ENTER, and then type open 25, and then press ENTER. 3. Type helo me, and then press ENTER. The output resembles the following: 250 OK…

  • How to enable X11 Forwarding with SSH on Mac OS X Leopard

    Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) or VNC is a wonderful invention if you want full control over a remote desktop, but what if you only want to access the user display of one single X11 program on a remote machine? This is possible on Mac OS X with X11 Forwarding. THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN REWRITTEN (Manual…