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Book Review - The Linux Command Line

By Jayson Broughton 

Do you ever have that moment when someone asks you for a recommendation on a book, and when put on the spot you spin around in your office chair, scan your ever-growing library of books that you bought over the years of IT experience but either:A. Never read? B. Flipped through but never finished? C.Passed out halfway through the first chapter?  more>>

Hack and / - Password Cracking with GPUs, Part III: Tune Your Attack

By Kyle Rankin 

You've built the hardware, installed the software and cracked some passwords. Now find out how to fine-tune your attacks. more>>

Getting Steamy with Desura

By Shawn Powers 

I remember the first time I tried to install Quake on Linux. I was so excited to have a native "real" game to play, that I couldn't grab my installation CD fast enough. Unfortunately, I didn't really take good care of my media, and the CD was too scratched to read. more>>

Public Art with Augmented Reality and Blender

By Katherine Druckman 

Augmented reality artist/developer, Nathan Shafer, has plans to illustrate the history of Exit Glacier in Seward, Alaska via 3D modeling using popular open source modeling software, Blender. more>>

July 2012 Issue of Linux Journal: Networking

By Shawn Powers 
Cast the Nets!

I thought we'd gone native this month and were going to show how to work nets and fish like the penguins do. I had a double-fisted, sheep-shanked, overhand cinch loop to teach you, along with the proper way to work your net in a snow storm. more>>

A Penetration Tester's Toolkit

By Matthew Agle 

Ever wonder exactly how vulnerable your network is? Using these tools can give you an idea and provide the means to protect yourself. more>>

Open Formats, Open Editors

By Shawn Powers 

E-books are currently quite a hot topic in the publishing world. Heck, for the past few months, it's been quite a hot topic here as well! Thankfully, digital publication doesn't have to mean proprietary formats and DRM-laden files. more>>

Viva La Revolinux

The Rapidly Changing Desktop

By David Lane 

Two years ago, I got into a conversation with another professional about the desktop. I opined that very shortly, the desktop would be our cell phone and there would be no need to put file servers at everyone's desk. more>>

Kill A Watt: Now with Less Math!

By Shawn Powers 

If you're interested in how much energy your electronics use, it's hard to find a device better than a Kill A Watt—except maybe the Kill A Watt EZ! P3 International now offers model P4600, which provides the same features as its predecessor, but it also automatically calculates device cost per day, week, month or year. more>>

Asus Transformer Prime

By Aaron Peters 

The Transformer Prime is a killer piece of hardware, no doubt...but can it replace a full-fledged Linux Netbook? more>>

New Products - June 2012

By James Gray 

 New products for June.

Nuvola: the Linux Choice for Cloud-y Music

By Shawn Powers 

Nuvola Player (formerly known as google-music-frame) is a Linux application that integrates cloud-based music services into your Linux desktop. I've tested it only with Google Music, but Nuvola now supports Google Music, Grooveshark, Hype Machine and 8tracks. It also supports Last.FM scrobbling. more>>

Ahead of the Pack: the Pacemaker High-Availability Stack

By Florian Haas 

A high-availability stack serves one purpose: through a redundant setup of two or more nodes, ensure service availability and recover services automatically in case of a problem. Florian Haas explores Pacemaker, the state-of-the-art high-availability stack on Linux. more>>

NOW CLOSED -- Free Issue of Linux Journal

By LJ Staff 

One FREE current or back issue of Linux Journal available for download today only. Pick any issue you like. As a reminder, this is Reader Appreciation Month here at Linux Journal. We are celebrating with give aways, contests and promotions the entire month of June. more>>

Internet Explorer 7 Tax

Software Discrimination Is Never The Answer

By Justin Ryan 

Last night, as I was perusing social media, a post from a friend caught my attention. It seems that the web-types at Kogan, an online electronics retailer in Australia and the UK, have tired of the additional work required to support Internet Explorer 7, and to even the score, have imposed a 6.8% tax on shoppers using IE7. more>>

Spice Up Your Desktop with Cinnamon!

By Shawn Powers 

If you are disgruntled by the new interfaces provided by recent distribution releases, namely GNOME 3 and Unity, you might want to take a look at Cinnamon. With its traditional feel and extreme theme-ability, Cinnamon is a desktop interface bound to spice up anyone's computer. more>>

Plasma Active - a New Approach to Tablet Computing

By Stuart Jarvis 

Why would you spend a few hundred dollars on a device that is little more than a smartphone (with a bigger screen, without the phone)? more>>

Rock Out with Your Console Out

By Rebecca Chapnik 

Playing and managing your music in text mode. more>>

Reader Appreciation Month

By LJ Staff 

June is Reader Appreciation Month here at Linux Journal. more>>

Seamlessly Extending IRC to Mobile Devices

By Bill Childers 

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is one of the older real-time communications methods still in active use on the Internet. Due to its popularity, flexibility and cross-platform nature, it still has a very vibrant user base today. more>>

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