Articles from ADMIN Issue 06
RVM makes managing multiple Ruby interpreters, versions, and Gemsets more or less child's play.
If you want to use your UCS as the underpinnings for Zarafa, you will appreciate the good work that Univention partner LINET has done on the zarafa4ucs integration package.
Office 365 is Microsoft's new, easy-to-manage cloud solution for email, tasks, and contacts, as well as real-time collaboration throughout the enterprise.
Intruders rely on ARP cache poisoning to conceal their presence on a local network. We'll show you some tools an attacker might use to poison the ARP cache and gather information on your network.
Performance problems with virtual servers on Hyper-V are often caused by a network access bottleneck, but various optimization settings can help speed things up.
LXC creates system containers that let administrators isolate security and critical services. We show you how to set up such a system within a system.
Most cloud providers offer their own APIs, which means cloud users sign up for the services of one provider at the expense of being able to migrate easily to other providers later. Apache Deltacloud addresses this issue by offering a standardized API for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds.
The Nmap security scanner comes with a built-in scripting engine. We'll take a look at Nmap scripting and how the scripts are organized.
The new cgroups feature provides an administrative approach to restricting resource use. This application is particularly interesting for virtualized systems.
"Easy to remember but difficult to guess" isn't just a catchy phrase for choosing passwords, it's the law of the Net. Learn how to check your password using a tool network intruders use every day: John the Ripper.
