From the monthly archives:

July 2010

Fix Missing eth0 When Cloning Ubuntu VMware Virtual Machines

25 July 2010

I ran into an annoyance trying to clone some Ubuntu LAMP virtual machines that I was using for website development. Every time I cloned the virtual machine, eth0 would go missing, and ifconfig would show only the loopback device, lo.
It turns out that when you clone a VMware virtual machine, the cloned virtual machine’s network [...]

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Antivirus Software To Become Mandatory?

1 July 2010

This article was originally published on 24 June 2010 on newmatilda.com.

Earlier this week, the Standing Committee on Communications tabled a report on its yearlong inquiry into cybercrime. The report, headed Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime makes 34 recommendations aimed at improving computer security in Australia. One of them in particular [...]

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