Carla Schroder

Snort has truly grown up. Its fans watched it grow from a fairly simple, lightweight, yet effective, intrusion detector into a full-blown intrusion

Setting up an open source IPSec implementation has traditionally been difficult and complex, to the point that as a security solution it almost doesn't

Red Hat's Kickstart is a versatile, easy-to-use customization tool that gets better with age. With Kickstart, Fedora and Red Hat Linux users can easily

The Asterisk open-source iPBX is known for its power and flexibility, but no one would call it fast or easy. Until now, that is. AsteriskNOW is a software

Getting SIP (session initiation protocol) traffic through NAT (network address translation) firewalls is a beastly problem. Unless you are the proud, and

PostPath: Linux-based Exchange-compatible e-mail and collaboration server. Planning a move away from Exchange can be almost as painful and expensive as

Most computer administrators would prefer to have early warnings of overheating, rather than be alerted by a pile of melted slag. Modern CPUs are capable

No matter how fat your incoming Internet connection, someone will always find a way to hog it and leave the rest of your users wishing for faster methods

GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader for Linux and Unix, has served ably and well for many years. It's a flexible, powerful bootloader that can boot

An integrated network discovery/IP address tracking/DNS and DHCP-management application is a great time-saver on even the smallest of networks; it's

When you send a cleartext, unencrypted e-mail, you are saying "I don't care who reads the contents of this message, I don't care if someone possibly

In the beginning was ANSI, which was later extended to ASCII, and that was the universal language of computers. But that did not encompass non-English