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UNIX/Linux Security Best Practices

Submitted by navind on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 22:30

You can take steps to protect yourself from intruders who attempt to break into your UNIX or Linux system. Among many of the different security services here are some things to do to make intrusion more difficult.

Turn off unused services
Services which you don't enable can't be attacked from the outside. If you don't provide access to a service, it doesn't matter if there is any vulnerability in the daemon which would provide that service. So disable anything you don't need to use.

Why do you need to know Java?

Submitted by liliane on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 16:47


Java technology powers hundred of thousands of websites and billions of mobile devices worldwide, including 200 million Android smartphones and tablets. Consequently, people who master Java and who can develop websites and applications in Java are in great demand both in Mauritius and worldwide.

Get 20% discount off our Java and Android training!

Submitted by avinash on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 17:09

Did you know that your company can target more than 200 million worldwide customers using Android-powered devices by creating apps on the Android Market? Android is also fast gaining ground in Mauritius thanks to the availability of affordable and powerful Android smartphones and tablets from Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, HTC, LG, etc. To tap into this fast growing market, your IT team would no doubt benefit from our quality and highly specialised training.

jQuery Mobile for HTML5-based user interfaces

Submitted by avinash on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 15:11

jQuery Mobile is a new framework for developing HTML5-based user interfaces for smartphones and tablets. As it is multi-platform, web applications built with jQuery Mobile, look and feel the same whether one is using Android or IOS devices. The framework also supports Blackberry, Windows Phone, Symbian, etc.

Picks of the Week #8

Submitted by avinash on Sun, 12/25/2011 - 13:00

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Merry Christmas! Thank you for reading the eight edition of Knowledge Seven's Picks of the Week on this special day!

Every two weeks, Avinash Meetoo and his team of collaborators will make you discover interesting articles and websites to help you broaden your understanding of the world of open source software and information technology in general.

Announcing AndroidMauritius and Knowledge Seven forum

Submitted by avinash on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 08:43

Knowledge Seven is proud to announce the launching of a new Android portal at androidmauritius.com. During the past 18 months, Android use has exploded around the world and in Mauritius to become the world’s most widely-used operating system for smartphones and tablets. Google has just announced that people have downloaded Android applications more than 10 billion times hence showing how dynamic the Android ecosystem is.

Knowledge Seven sponsors Terre de Paix

Submitted by liliane on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 16:47

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For our first Corporate Social Responsibility contribution, we have decided to sponsor Fondation Pour L'Enfance – Terre de Paix. This NGO aims at combating poverty in general and has among its objectives to carry out child care activities in a secular and non-discriminatory way.

Master PHP/MySQL for real

Submitted by avinash on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 13:37

Since their introduction a few years ago, PHP and MySQL have become the de-facto standard web technologies used to power most blogs and websites. They are used, for example, by Facebook and Wikipedia.

Learning the basics of PHP and MySQL is easy. There are a lot of online resources available, most notably the official PHP and MySQL documentation.

But what if you want to go further?

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