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Opening up the Apple

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Apple is undeniably one of the biggest things in technology today. Mac lovers are growing in number every minute with their obsessions ranging from the iPod to the Powerbook. It really has become a cult following of sorts, with the ubiquitous Apple logo also becoming a status symbol of sorts as Apple gadgets don’t come [...]

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Open-Source is the Future

Friday, June 19th, 2009

The realm of closed systems developed in secrecy with closely guarded algorithms and software engineering may become a thing of the past as with the advent of more and more open-sourced systems being deployed across the internet. Cloud computing is set to be ruled by open-sourced applications, developed by big businesses to cater to commercial [...]

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Using ‘dd’ Commands

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

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The ‘ dd ‘ command is one of the original Unix utilities and should be in everyone’s tool box. It can strip headers, extract parts of binary files and write into the middle of floppy disks; it is used by the Linux kernel Makefiles to make boot images. It can be used to [...]

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