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In computing there are two terms which are often confused: encoding and enciphering. One of them, with 'cipher' in its name, usually best refers to something that is cryptographically enciphered which means it was mathematically mangled in a fashion that the result, regardless of the input, is fairly random, patternless nonsense to the un-key-assisted eye. The other term refers to simply changing data from one form to another at is basic level. One type of encoding is 'base64' encoding, which is used through many areas of computing and can be explained much more-simply than most cryptographic cipher functions (in my opinion). This article is to show how, on many levels, Linux Just Does That.

Sales Enablement: Training, Tools, Demos

Have you seen the new ChalkTalk Videos, demos, and Solution Cards? These materials will help you quickly understand and demonstrate Novell solutions to your customers.

Customers with Unix and Linux environments are struggling with the risk of administrators having excess privileges with no audit trail. You have an excellent opportunity to eliminate this risk and generate new revenue with Novell Privileged User Manager.

Don't miss out on adding this great solutions to your portfolio of offerings.

We have several new demos out this month, available to download now and will be shipped as DVD updates soon. They include...

Many organizations needlessly expose their superuser or root account credentials to users who are required to run commands that need elevated privileges, and passwords are often not changed when administrative staff change jobs—leaving potential back doors into systems and increasing the likelihood of a security breach.

You have an excellent opportunity to solve these problems and generate new revenue with Novell Privileged User Manager.

Webcast: Thursday, September 10, 2009 - Migrating your mission-critical workloads from one software platform to another is not a trivial process. To ensure a smooth migration, you need careful planning to avoid any significant downtime and service interruption for your enterprise. Experts from Novell and Ziff Davis will discuss best practices for migrating from Solaris to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Are you one of those, who run custom scripts during or after an AutoYaST installation? Maybe you have been dreaming of getting this integrated into the YaST installation workflow and visible in the installation dialog? This article outlines the steps required to have custom scripts snap nicely into the installation framework including progress bar, messages about the individual steps being performed, logging and help text - just like many of the other installation dialogs.

Here are the links to recordings of both parts of our recent Art Of The Demo webinars with Peter E. Cohan.