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I ran into the need to install and configure FTP on my Ubuntu Linux server at home. Dreamweaver CS3 will let me edit files on an SFTP server, but not on a SFTP server using a public/private key instead of a password. I didn’t want to remove this security advantage and just use [...]

Well, well, well…. I wrote the other day that Microsoft was making some drivers available to the Linux kernel under the GPL license. Many people were surprised but it really came down to functionality with Hyper-V. Turns out, there is a little more to the story as reported here.  The problem is [...]

Microsoft surprised some people today with the announcement that they are contributing some drivers to the Linux kernel project.  There is a lot of mis-information and confusion running around..look no further than Slashdot!  Some things just never change….  Anyway, the purpose of Microsoft’s contribution is simple, better support for Hyper-V.  By adding these kernel extensions [...]