Horcrux is an excellent wrapper around the rsync-based Duplicity, for easily managing automated, encrypted backups to multiple locations.

Telling the time on Linux is more complicated than it might seem at first glance. Here are some simple Linux commands to measure how long a process runs, tell the time across time zones, use a calendar and more.

In advance of the ownCloud 4.5 release expected this week, Carla Schroder shows us how to synchronize your Dropbox account (and other external storage) with your ownCloud personal cloud server.

Check out this sampling of free websites that test performance, tell you where things are, perform diagnostics and display the results in nice graphs and charts that even a pointy-haired boss can understand.