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.htpasswd generator

Online Tools
 
To generate a user/pass string required by apache's .htpassword file, enter the required username and password below. Note: user/pass must consist of letters and numbers only.

SMTPstoat - Open Source command line SMTP mailer

Software
 
SMTPstoat is a command line SMTP mailer application that sends out e-mails according to various specifications. There are plenty of apps that include the name 'weasel'...

FileSplit - Open Source command line file splitter

Software
 
Filesplit is a command line application that splits a file into chunks of whatever size you specify. It can also merge the chunks back...

POPEdit - Open Source POP3 mailbox maintenance utility

Software
 
Linux POP3 mailbox viewer, easily clear POP3 mailbox - POPEdit POPEdit is designed to collect just the headers and top few lines (if specified)...

Setting up quotas for users/groups on a Linux server

Howtos
 
v1.0, Jan 21, 2007 This document provides 'step-by-step' instructions for setting up quotas on Linux -- which allows...

Setting up a CVS server on Linux, accessing via Windows over SSH

Howtos
 
v1.0, May 13, 2004 Chris Pike - www.drydeadfish.co.uk cvs-wincvs-ssh.pdf - Download this document in PDF format [109.4k] This document provides...

Microsoft, both follower and leader

Anti-Microsoft
 
Things have changed a great deal for Microsoft over the past few years -- due to various circumstances -- and the company is now focusing...

Microsoft admits power of bundling

Anti-Microsoft
 
Back in 2003, when the EU questioned Microsoft's bundling of Windows Media Player (WMP), Microsoft claimed that competing products could easily be downloaded, so why...

WinFS is not a file system!

Anti-Microsoft
 
Innovation?Since Microsoft has drawn attention to the existance of WinFS, there have been many articles stating how this new 'file system' is much better than...

Trustworthy Computing in 2002

Anti-Microsoft
 
2002 was the year that Linux made big news, and Microsoft admitted that Linux was its greatest threat. Microsoft's continued attempts at spreading Fear, Uncertainty...
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Windows V Linux

Microsoft's 'Get the Facts' campaign puts Windows ahead of Linux, but do these claims hold up under detailed analysis? I think not. 


Software Patents

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