Issue #177 / Aug 2015

On May 29, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht received a stern sentence for his involvement with building and operating the world's first global anonymous supermarket for everything. Some were surprised with the severity – life in prison without parole for the 31-year-old "Internet entrepreneur." But the Silk Road led its wayfarers way out beyond the cutting edge, and if you live your life as a pioneer, sometimes you get surprised.

Linux Mint 17.1 (64-bit) and Elementary OS (32-bit)

Updates on technologies, trends, and tools

When the Twitter hashtag #monitoringsucks gained popularity a few years ago, it seemed as though monitoring software had reached its limits and stagnated. Will Sensu launch a new golden age?

Linux Dash and Cockpit are small-scale solutions for monitoring a cloud-hosted virtual server from home.

Many enterprises use the free Nagios monitoring solution; some would prefer to change to something else. We talked to people who switched to find out how they fared.

Powerful command-line tools offer fast and easy image editing.

People applying for IT jobs should brace themselves for the popular interview question about the sticky bit in Unix operating systems. It certainly pays to know.

A timely snapshot by Mondo Rescue puts a computer back on its feet after a system failure in just a few minutes.

Klaus addresses problems with Wheezy updates, Adobe Flash, dial-up settings, and mountpoint dates.