Issue #180 / Nov 2015

Law enforcement officers in Japan recently indicted former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès. The leader of the now-defunct Bitcoin repository has been in custody since June as investigators consider what might have happened to more than $183 million in lost Bitcoin funds.

Ubuntu Studio 15.04 and Arch Linux 2015.09.01

Updates on technologies, trends, and tools

Pydio is a free software solution trying to establish itself among cloud storage solutions such as ownCloud or proprietary services like Dropbox for synchronizing data across several computers and sharing folders with colleagues or friends.

Everybody's talking about the OpenStack cloud, but many users prefer Apache's CloudStack – another open source cloud system with a long history and a more unified design.

Many companies now offer data storage in the cloud. We tested seven alternatives with a close look at security features.

Tools tested: MenuMaker, CLOC, ddrescueview, Hiawatha, pam_honeycreds.so, and XDM.

With a little planning and a few LibreOffice tricks, you can create one document that contains text customized for various end users.

If you need to browse through packets rushing by on the local network, Wireshark provides a useful service. But, if you prefer to build your own tools, why not use the command-line version, TShark, and a terminal-friendly Curses UI?

Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions.