Much of Mozilla's engineering effort goes into direct enhancement of the contemporary Web-browsing and email experience: Firefox and Thunderbird, standards support, new APIs, etc. But some of its value is indirect, such as the Mozilla Watchdog initiative, which aims to better equip Web users to protect themselves against fraud. The Watchdog tools help you protect your passwords and make you more aware of threats to your security – which is certainly valuable for individuals, and even more so for organizations.
Here's an axiom for every major organization to memorize: if you have data, then you have a data storage problem. But while the cloud service players are happy to compete for your business, you may not need to purchase a solution. A number of open source projects offer flexible ways to build your own distributed, fault-tolerant storage network. This weekend, let's take a look at one of the most intriguing offerings: Tahoe LAFS.
Not that long ago, desktop Linux users were left out of most of the online music services. But these days, as the industry has trended towards cloud-based music services — from online “jukebox”-style file lockers where you store your own tunes all the way to subscription services that offer on-demand access to every track you can think of. Unfortunately, they all seem to want to run in their own dedicated application, and every audio player has plug-ins for a different subset of the available options. What's a music nut to do? Find out in this break-down of the cloud music tuning options available to Linux users.