LockTight Secures Your Mac With a Hotkey

LockTight Secures Your Mac With a Hotkey

Mac OS X only: Screen locker utility LockTight adds a shortcut key combination for OS X users to quickly lock your workstation from the keyboard.

Windows users switching to using a Mac might be surprised to find no equivalent to the Winkey+L shortcut combination that locks the screen, especially helpful in work environments or at home to keep little fingers from opening things they shouldn’t.

LockTight plugs into OS X as a simple system preference pane with a configurable hotkey, but for full effect you might want to configure your Mac to require a password when coming back from the screensaver and disable automatic login. Hit the link for the download, or take a look at the Switching to Mac guide for all the steps.

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Linux via the internet with boot.kernel.org

Linux via the internet with boot.kernel.org: “Boot.kernel.org allows users with broadband internet connections to start a variety of Linux distributions from the internet”

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Git && distributed Web development

Git changes the game of distributed Web development: “Version control systems are a core component of most development projects, regardless of whether you’re developing an application, a Web site, or an operating system. Most projects involve multiple developers, often working at widely separated physical locations. Distributed version control systems are nothing new, but the Git version control system provides unique support for collaboration and interaction among developers.”

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DNS presentation on HAR2009

DNS presentation on HAR2009:

“Bert Hubert (PowerDNS author) made ‘DNS Security in the Broadest Sense’ presentation at HAR2009.”
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Kernel 2.6.31 – Storage and file systems

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Byobu

Like GNU Screen? You’ll love Byobu.

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Yubikey personalisation tool

Version 0.94 of the Yubikey personalisation tool is available now.
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Novell SLE11 release indication

Novell SLE 11 will probably ship by the end of March, according to the Novell Communities website.

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a Ruby regular expression editor

Found a nice Ruby regular expression editor over at http://www.rubular.com/ . Can be useful if you’re working with Regex every once in a while.

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Google Calendar supports iCal

Google Calendar now fully supports Apple iCal. There’s even a nifty app to set it all up.

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