Monthly Archives: March 2015
Customising OpenSSL for the Real World
The OpenSSL project is a robust collective effort that seeks to develop a commercial grade, fullfeatured toolkit implementation of SSL and TSL. This article...
Use Ubuntu to Customise Your Linux Distribution
This article guides readers on customising a Linux distribution using the Ubuntu Customization Kit. Readers who like getting their hands dirty playing around with...
Haskell: The Purely Functional Programming Language
Haskell, an open source programming language, is the outcome of 20 years of research. It has all the advantages of functional programming and an...
Be Cautious while using Bit Fields for Programming
In this article, the author tells embedded C programmers why writing code involving bit fields needs to be done carefully, failing which the results...
Ten Tools for Configuration Management
Configuration management (CM) comprises the detailed description and updating of information related to an enterprises software and hardware. This article lists the top 10...
Popular Cloud Options You Can Depend Upon
Here's a list and short description of the most popular open source cloud options in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
One of the key areas in...
Ten Apps for Rooted Android
Heres a guide to the ten best apps for rooted Android, as viewed by the author.
1. SuperSU
Rooting your Android is basically about giving super...
The Way FreeBSD Jail Work
FreeBSD-based computer systems can be partitioned into several independent mini-systems called jails by using operating system level virtualisation, which is an implementation of FreeBSD....
Set Up an FTPS Server in Linux
vsftpd is a very popular package for FTP (File Transfer Protocol) but poses a security threat because it transfers vital data like usernames, passwords,...
Running Apache Hadoop over Lustre
A combination of the power of Hadoop and the speed of Lustre bodes well for enterprises. In this article, the author shows how Hadoop...
