In An Introduction to Logs for Newbies: Pt. 1, I took a look at basic log accessing and monitoring.In this one we will take a look at some more advanced logging, but don't worry, you don't need a chainsaw!

First, we will take a look at searching logs using grep. If you want to look for an entry for, say, eth0, you would type: This will show you all log entries relating to eth0, which will look somewhat like this:...

As we all probably know, there was a bombing in Boston during the marathon. There is now quite a bit of debate on this and surrounding issues. Were the bombing suspects Muslim terrorists? Why did they kill the MIT officer? etc. etc. I'm surprised that the liberal politicians haven't started saying, 'Ban all pressure cookers! After all, they can and were used as weapons of mass destruction!!' Indeed various leaders have come out and said that the constitution "needs to be reinterpreted to keep...

Logs are an important part of maintaining and managing a Linux system. This is a brief tutorial for accessing and reading a Linux log. First, you need to open a terminal window, you will first see a prompt similar to this on most systems.

You then need to type this: This will bring up the contents of the root partition. You can see all of the various directories in the root partition such as these:...

Security plays a pivotal role in our society. Without security our computer systems would fall part and money would be lost. Good passwords are an essential part of this infrastructure. As most of you know, good passwords should be long, and have a good mix of characters, letters, and numbers. Example: a9&dd4$Fd is pretty good, while 123 is not good. The new term I would like to introduce is the "Rip Van Winkle Aproach." The idea behind this ideology is to make such a long password...

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/...er-windows-era

This is a very interesting article in my opinion. Windows is only hanging on because that is what people are used to, and Microsoft has, so to speak, cornered the manufacturers into pre-installing it on their computers. This article was written in the days of Vista; 7, a relatively good OS, came in-between Vista and 8, helping to stave off the death of Microsoft. Now with the advent of Windows 8, we are seeing another...