Digital Issues

Chips & Gadgets

This month’s emphasis is on hardware. We look at video acceleration, smartphone security, and new life for old devices.

Cover Stories:

• Video Acceleration: Accelerate Intel chips with the Video Acceleration API.
• SEAndroid: The SEAndroid framework promises SELinux-like security.
• Palm Recycled: Revive old Palm devices.
• Gnublin Board: A learning device for embedded Linux.

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Living with Windows

Interacting with the Windows world has never been easier. This month we look at Windows apps in Linux and Linux partitions in Windows.

Cover Stories:

Practical Wine: Use this classic Linux tool to run your Windows applications in a custom execution environment.
22Ext2Fsd: Connect to Linux partitions from Windows.
CrossOver: If the taste of Wine is a little too esoteric, try running your Windows apps in CrossOver.

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Going Virtual

Your virtualization options continue to expand. This month, we look at two popular solutions. First, we show you how to map your virtual disks to optimize your KVM installation. Then, we examine the ins and outs of virtualization with VMware’s free vSphere Hypervisor 5.0.

Cover Stories:

• KVM Storage: Optimize your virtual disks by choosing the right formats, best tools, and most efficient settings.
• vSphere: Jump start your virtual server environment with VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.0, the free version of the VMware virtualization software.

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Intrusion Prevention

New vulnerabilities appear every day. To keep your network safe, you need to think like an attacker.

Cover Stories:

• IPv6 Pen Testing: You can't rely on just your IPv4 pen test tools if IPv6 services are running on the network.
• Capture File Filtering with Wireshark: Save a history of network activity and search it later for intrusion evidence.
• OpenVAS: How safe is your network? Look for potential problems with this open source vulnerability assessment tool.
• Side Channel Attacks: Error messages and verbose log entries can tip off intruders.



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Hadoop

New vulnerabilities appear every day. To keep your network safe, you need to think like an attacker.

Cover Stories:

• StarCluster: Launch, control, and orchestrate clusters of virtual servers in the EC2 cloud.
• Hadoop: This open source platform for distributed storage and computation brings Big Data down to the everyday.

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Build a Botnet

Building a botnet doesn’t necessarily make you an outlaw; we show you how one programmer automated a timesensitive business application with a botnet. Next, get ready to hit the ground running with HTML5, and secure your websites with sound PHP programming principles.

Cover Stories:

Developing Botnets: Botnets that do no harm.
HTML5 Offline: An offline cache can protect you from Internet outages.
HTML5 Tools: These resources get you started with HTML5.
PHP Security Principles: Sound principles for secure code.
3D with Three.js: The Three.js JavaScript library and the WebGL component of HTML5 make 3D in the browser easy.

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Living with Windows 8

Getting Linux and Windows 8 to work together requires just a little know-how. We help you get started.

Cover Stories:

• Virtualizing Windows 8: Windows 8 in VMware Workstation 9 and VirtualBox.
• Linux Filesystems on Windows 8: Three ways to make Windows see your Linux partitions.
• Windows 8 and Samba: Configuring Linux for file and print sharing.
• Win8/Linux Dual-Boot: Set up Windows 8 to dual-boot with Linux.

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10 Knoppix Rescue Tricks

Use these advanced troubleshooting techniques to save lost Windows and Linux systems.

Cover Stories:

The 10 Best Knoppix Hacks: Linux sage Klaus Knopper shares his experience in digital disaster recovery with his 10 best methods of saving lost systems, partitions, and data.

Partition Rescue: No matter what operating system you are running, you can use the SystemRescueCd Live Linux system to save your partition data and copy it to a safe location.

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Natural Language

Science fiction authors and hightech visionaries dream of a future where humans and computers communicate in ordinary English. A new cloud-based tool brings that future a little closer.

Cover Story:

Maluuba nAPI – You don't have to be a linguist to wield the power of natural language processing. Maluuba's innovative nAPI interprets ordinary text and passes it to your program in machine-readable form.

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