Tomato

A year-and-a-half ago, we showed you how to turn your $60 router into a highly configurable $600 router with DD-WRT, a free, open source firmware. Since then there's been a lot of development of open source firmwares, and today we're taking a look at my new favorite, a firmware called Tomato. Tomato does almost everything DD-WRT does—from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation—in addition to offering a simplified interface chock-full of fancy charts and graphs. Sound good?

Let's get started HERE.

Encrypted Partitions in Ubuntu

In a previous article, I talked about using shred to securely delete files. Now we’ll delve into using encrypted volumes in Linux to secure our data in the first place, so that we don’t need to use programs like shred. Along the way, we’ll benchmark the raw performance of an encrypted volume and compare the results to an unencrypted volume and see just what kind of real world compromises we see.

Read the article HERE.

Secure VNC with Hamachi

The last time I wrote about VNC, several of you asked, "But why not easier-to-set-up solutions like LogMeIn.com?" Well, mostly because VNC software is cross-platform and free (as in speech - no upsell). It works on the Mac, Linux and Windows - and it offers a level of granular control that you don't get with third party services in the middle. It does require some comfort with advanced networking concepts, though, and I hear LogMeIn (which owns Hamachi, coincidentally) is great, so don't let me stop you from going that route.

Ready to set up VNC with Hamachi? Here's how.