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While looking for an easy way to keep my Slackware install up to date, I just ran across this article:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/1337224
Now that Slackware 11.0 is out, you may wonder what is the best way to update the distribution. Swaret is an open source project that aims to keep various versions of Slackware up-to-date. I use Swaret and some cron scripts to keep my servers current automatically.

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If you have a neighbor that likes to borrow your open wireless access point, you can have some fun with them. Redirect all of their browsing, invert the images, or return blurred images.
The first approach I took was to establish a transparent squid proxy on my FreeBSD firewall that I have providing DHCP and NAT for my internal network. I added a third NIC to provide these services for my untrusted wireless network. This will also help you to segment and protect your wired LAN.

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