Digital Issues

Build a Raspberry Pi Media Center

This month, Rasp Pi becomes a multimedia system, then we look at three great tools to create, manage, and monitor your virtual environments.

Cover Stories:

• Raspberry Pi Media Center: Use the scripting powers of Libre/OpenOffice to automate repetitive tasks.
• Proxmox VE: Set up a high-availability cluster with Proxmox VE.
• phpVirtualBox: Virtual desktops in your web browser.
• VMware Monitoring: Instead of vCenter, use OpenNMS to monitor VMware environments.

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Brain in the Desktop

The Nepomuk semantic desktop has matured with the KDE 4 series. We look at how you can use Nepomuk to structure information about the files, folders, and applications on your system. Then, discover Qt build tool Qmake, social media data mining, and the e-commerce services of eBay and Amazon.

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Drive-By Attacks

We look at SharePoint integration and show you how to manage Active Directory from Linux. But first, a special story on a dangerous new class of intrusion tools.

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Search Tools

This month we look at three full-text search engines that query your structured and unstructured data. We also put the focus on data storage, with a collection of articles on managing, encrypting, and sharing your data.

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GNU HURD

This month we follow the Hurd and take a close look at highperformance computing.

Cover Stories:

• Exploring the Hurd: GNU’s forgotten OS is back in the news with a new Debian port.
• Getting Started with HPC Clusters: We show you how to get your first taste of high-performance computing.
• The Cloud’s Role in HPC: If you don’t have your own supercomputer, the cloud might be the best option for exploring HPC.

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Fighting Malware

We introduce you to the tools that can help you detect malware and defend the portals of your realm.

Cover Stories:
Code Analysis: Look for gaps in your code that could make you vulnerable to attack.
Dr. Portscan: Bring order and sense to automated port scans.
Nmap Workshop: Seal your perimeter with a powerful tool that thinks like an intruder.

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Is ARM the Future of Linux?

ARM Arch: The versatile ARM architecture is poised for a central role in the next generation of devices.
Duplicity: Back up to the cloud with this easy Linux command-line utility.
VM Depot: Check out Microsoft's library of Linux virtual images for the Azure cloud.
Windows in OpenStack: We'll show you how to make Microsoft's Azure cloud play nicely with OpenStack.

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Privacy Tools

The emphasis is on privacy this month, from security tools to encryption to systems that isolate you from the rest of the digital world.

• Privacy Tools: Three tools to keep your data safe from wandering eyes.
• Ubuntu Privacy Remix: UPR isolates you from the outside world.
• Encrypting Block Devices: Encrypting a block device protects all the files you put on it.
• PHP XHP Extension: Use HTML and XML tags in PHP to clean up your code.
• Web Cryptography API

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Living with Windows

This month we look at virtual Linux on Windows and virtual Windows on Linux.

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