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Deleting a file or reformatting a disk does not destroy your sensitive data. The data can easily be undeleted. That’s a good thing if you accidentally throw something away, but what if your trying to destroy financial data, bank account passwords, or classified company information. In this article you will learn number of tools to delete files securely in ubuntu.

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Whirlygig is a USB 1.1 device that contains a fast, high quality hardware random number generator. Via a Linux driver, each whirlygig you connect makes available an additional 7Mbits of high quality randomness a second, or 750-850KBytes/sec sustained using the standard /dev/hw_random API.

Welcome to LessWatts.org Saving power is a hot topic across the computer industry. For some, saving power means getting a longer battery life on their mobile devices, be it laptops or handhelds. For others, saving power means reducing costs and increasing efficiency in their data centers. For all of us its about reducing the impact of computing on our planet. LessWatts.org is not about marketing, trying to sell you something or comparing one vendor to another. LessWatts.org is about how you can save real watts, however you use Linux* on your computer or computers.

Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier!

I have written before about my admiration for Web typography, and in that article I touched on the fact that many “Web safe” fonts can’t be applied to Linux. Linux distributions each ship with their own font libraries, but I’d like to focus on similar typefaces you can use within a font-family to help make your design bulletproof.

The Linux Wacom Project manages the drivers, libraries, and documentation for configuring and running Wacom tablets under the Linux operating system. It contains diagnostic applications as well as updated kernel drivers and XFree86/X11R6 XInput drivers.

The team is designing an electronic stethoscope that will: * Record high-quality audio data from a patient's body * Store this audio data in a convenient format * Use a USB interface to transfer the audio files to a computer * Reduce the amount of ambient noise that a doctor hears * Be simple, accurate, and easy to use!

This is the web presence of the Debonaras (Debian On Nas And Routers And Stuff) development group and user community. We aim to port the Debian Linux distribution to consumer devices (NAS devices, Routers, etc) with attached storage.

Harald Welte is the one bringing the issue to the court; he is the writer of iptables contained in the Linux kernel, included in all Freeboxes. He his supported by Rob Landley and Erik Andersen from the BusyBox project, also included in all Freeboxes (see the BusyBox Support Letter).

gnokii provides tools and a user space driver for use with mobile phones under various operating systems (most testing is done under Linux but also Solaris, *BSD family and MS Windows families are known to work. For a list of supported makes and models take a look at our FAQ pages.

LINGOT is a musical instrument tuner. It's accurate, easy to use, and highly configurable. Originally conceived to tune electric guitars, its configurability gives it a more general character. (Tuning another instruments has not been tested). It looks like an analogic tuner, with a gauge indicating the relative shift to a certain note --found automatically as the closest note to the estimated frequency--, indicating that note and its frequency.

OpenMoko™ is an Open Source project to create the world's first free mobile phone operating system. The OpenMoko project is a community that anyone can join, to help design their ideal phone. Eventually, phone software won't be tied to any particular phone. You can install any OpenMoko software over the whole range of supported phones, and if you upgrade your phone, you don't lose that software. Bugs fixed on any phone are fixed on all.

In this thirteenth installment of “Speaking UNIX” discover more shortcuts and power at the UNIX command line. From benefits of Shell or making better usage of your time, this article will teach you the secrets of the UNIX command-line wizards.

"Who can you trust?" Wem kann man vertrauen? Unter diesem Motto sind Ende Dezember in Berlin Hacker und Datenschützer zum 23. Chaos Communication Congress zusammengekommen. Die Themenpalette der Veranstaltung ist zwar um einiges breiter, doch die Vertrauensfrage im Internet dürfte gerade für den durchschnittlichen User das wichtigste Problem sein.

Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion. The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system. Motion is a command line based tool whose output can be either jpeg, ppm fies or mpeg video sequences.

touchscreen support under linux, still in development

KleanSweep allows you to reclaim disk space by finding unneeded files. It can search for files basing on several criterias..

gkhdplop is the gkrellm port of wmhdplop.

GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme.

invisiblethings.org is a non-profit website dedicated for sharing the thoughts of its author in the area of computer systems and network security. joanna rutkowska

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Here's how you can build a Flash-based video using the vnc2swf screen recording program, a VNC desktop session, and some HTML code.