Liberty Systems & Software

One of my clients had some very interesting Internet traffic statistics last week.  We came in Thursday morning and found that overnight we had downloaded over 700 GB of data from our ISP (UQ SchoolsNet).

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Today we have a guest blog post from my wife Angela.  She is an avid Ubuntu user (in fact, so are our kids) and a great web researcher in general.  She wanted to borrow digital editions of books from our local library; however, the books are only available in the form of digital handcuffs.  So she set herself the task of getting Adobe Digital Editions (DE) working on Ubuntu lucid.  Without further ado, here's her story:...

Dave Rosenberg at cnet has pointed out that Apple junkies don't have a monopoly on crack-head fanboyism: Microsoft's video on how to host your Windows 7 launch party breaks new ground in this area. This makes us Linux fans seem positively normal in comparison! :-)

cnet has a really interesting article about a clever trojan horse application which steals money from online banking accounts while the user is logged into them, and displays false balance details to the user so they don't know what's going on. Currently it only affects Windows users. Check your balances regularly from multiple different platforms (including your bank's ATMs).

CSO Magazine recently released a bunch of really useful security resources. Check them out:

• 10 essential (and free!) security downloads for Windows
• Five free penetration testing tools
• Five steps to successful and cost-effective penetration testing

Michael Reed has a good piece on his experiences in moving his mother from a Windows-based PC to Ubuntu Linux. The result? Amazingly successful, although it did take some tweaking on his part.