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Remove DRM from Amazon Kindle’s ebooks using Linux

When you buy an ebook using your Kindle, there’s a 99% chance it’s a DRM file. That means you won’t be able to read it anywhere else but on your Kindle. And we won’t accept that. To be able to con[...]


See who’s poking your Linux box

If you’re using SSH and you have your ports wide open to the world, your best bet would be to install fail2ban. If you’re curious though as of whom is trying to get in by bruteforcing your SSH passwords, you [...]


Remove Update Manager’s pop-up in Jaunty

The Update manager in Jaunty tends to show up unexpectedly now and then. You close the window by reflex. But what if you didn’t have to cloes it anymore? Disable the application’s pop-up window by launching g[...]


Lock your KDE screen from the command line

Did you know you can lock your current KDE screen by using the command line? For the 3.x series use dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface lock and for KDE 4.x try qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock With the he[...]