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More Secure Email  

Encryption and server locations in Germany and Switzerland are sought-after attributes in the search for a more secure and reliable email service. We compare four providers who promise to protect your privacy.

Taking Precautions  

The software market offers numerous solutions for tracking the status of Windows computers. However, if you only need to monitor individual computers outside the domain, you can use PowerShell to collect basic health and performance data.

Scripting Competition  

We compare the performance of batch, VBScript, and PowerShell commands with four standard tasks.

Critical Support  

Logging is of such importance in security monitoring and troubleshooting that easy access to the information buried in logfiles is essential. The Logwatch tool monitors logs and analyzes and reports on activities of interest as specified in configuration files.

Control Center  

Some users may struggle when setting up various services, such as web servers, email servers, firewalls, and the like. Zentyal simplifies configuration of all those things, thanks to its intuitive user interface.

Safe Transport  

Those who think that enabling STARTTLS in the mail client will make their mail traffic more secure are wrong. Only those who bank on DANE can be sure that a mail server or a firewall will not switch off encryption in transit.

Mr. Efficient  

The superior "Earliest Deadline First" task scheduling method has been part of Linux since kernel 3.14.

Flexible Storage  

FreeNAS offers a range of features to suit your storage needs. We show you how to get started.

Secrets  

Email has the reputation of being insecure, unreliable, and easily readable for any user – just like a postcard. An initiative led by the founders of Lavabit and PGP hopes to replace email with a new medium.

On Track  

The statistical programming language R dissects its database in a masterful way, and you can embed your R in Python using the Rpy2 interface.