TOR: anonymity online

Want to surf the internet anonymously?

Tor is a great software that will masquerade your IP address and encrypt your TCP connections.



Here is a description of Tor from their website:

Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.

Five ways to use Windows apps in Linux

There are many ways that can help mitigate dependencies on Microsoft Windows and their products.

1. Use an open source alternative instead
2. Buy a commercial product that was designed for Linux
3. Use Wine to run the application in Linux
4. Run Windows in a Virtual Machine
5. Run the application on a remote Windows system

Read the details here.

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OOo Basic crash course: Working with documents on an FTP server

Wouldn't it be nice if you could access your Writer documents from any
computer connected to the Internet and work with them as if they were
on your local machine -- especially if this could be done transparently
with just a couple of mouse clicks? To be able to do this, you don't
have to install a full-blown document management solution or use a
third-party file storage service. All you need is an FTP server and an
OOo Basic macro.



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USB Pen Drive Linux

Live Linux versions preconfigured and ready to Boot from a USB flash pen drive

downloads available from sourceforge.net.

VirtualBox

Virtualbox seems like a powerful virtualization product that may rival

VMware. I have not tested it yet because there doesn't appear to be an ebuild on Gentoo for it yet. Check it out!

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Introduction to Linux

This is a great flash introduction to Linux and has a step-by-step video tutorial for installing MEPIS Linux system (can't get easier than that, I bet your grandma can follow the steps).

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Learn the DD command - LinuxQuestions.org

Learn the DD command - LinuxQuestions.org
Some very useful tips and information about dd command....
Oh it also shows you how you can easily create a boot USB flash drive.

Check it out at www.linuxquestions.org