January 24, 2005
While doing some research for a presentation on SSH for LPI 102 training, I came across this great introduction to SSH, or secure Shell, and thought that since we use it here at Rider, you might like to know about it. Great links and content.
How to use SSH:
“How to use SSH
The following tutorial should help you in using Secure Shell to and from our workstations and servers.
ssh is a replacement for telnet, rlogin, rsh, rexec and ftp. Over the years, more and more features were implemented and these give you many more possibilities than the old tools.
The first ssh-daemons and clients were written around 1993 to manage Linux, UNIX and BSD systems over the internet. ssh has two attributes: It should be maximal secure and simple to use. The security of ssh should not stop you from doing your job - even more, it should help you to work easier.”
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January 19, 2005
My primer to Open Source Software was in 1999 via a student worker who asked me - “Why pay $600.00 for Adobe Photoshop when the GNU Image Manipulation Program is open-source?” After he showed me the GIMP, it became clear that Open Source Software was a brilliant and exciting option for my own use. There’s a primer for the use of OSS in Academia at iosn.net that might excite educators at Rider and elsewhere to take note about educational purposes like I did about use in imaging work.
UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network - FOSS Education Primer:
“FOSS Education Primer
This primer covers the use of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) from schools to universities. It provides a brief overview of how it can help in setting up the IT infrastructure and administration of educational institutions and considers software (mainly proprietary) which is now used as the basis for IT curricula and alternative FOSS which is available.
The primer can be downloaded from the following links:
* PDF Format
The primer is intended to be a living document, constantly updated to reflect the latest information and available to all. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license and should always be available from the IOSN website.”
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January 18, 2005
Although I personally opted away from the SanDisk product, and went for an iRiver product with a little more functionality, this mozillaquest article gives a good overview of the SanDisk Digital Audio do-it-all solid state devices that Apple is interested in conquering with the iPod shuffle.
The new iPod doesn’t fully compete here though, as far as functionality, but it clearly wins in the style/zen/minimalist category.
These devices make a great niche of products, and are especially useful for those who present or talk to groups on a regular basis, like, let’s say every teacher everywhere, because it has a voice recorder that holds hours of audio. But that’s just one function…
SanDisk Digital Audio Players for Linux, Mac, and Windows Make Nice Gifts — Page 1- - MozillaQuest Magazine:
“In the practical, handy, and useful gift category consider giving a SanDisk Digital Audio Player. It gives lots of bang for the bucks. The SanDisk Digital Audio Player plays MPEGs and other digital music files, it doubles as a voice recorder, and it has a built-in FM stereo radio too.
The Digital Audio Player also is what amounts to a USB removable disk drive. Moreover, all that functionality is wrapped into a package about the size of a roll of quarters — small enough to fit inside a shirt pocket or a closed hand. Please see Figure 1, below.
The SanDisk Digital Audio Player uses flash memory to store digital music files such as MP3, WMA, and WMA DRM files. It comes in three memory capacity sizes: 256-MB ($90), 512-MB ($150), and 1-GB ($200). We tested the 512-MB SanDisk Digital Audio Player — and we are impressed.”
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