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Intrusion detection with Tripwire 2008-04-03 06:09:00 Its so heartening to know that its not only me who is concerned about Home Network security and intrusion detection. I have written two articles about it.1) Setting up a Firewall and 2) Setting up Intrusion
detection. Now even FOSSwire has come up with an article on Intrusion detection with Tripwire. Trpiwire rworks in a similar fashion as SNORT and allows to setup policies. It then periodically monitors those policies. It’s most useful in server environments, where you have services running all the time and where they are at risk of intrusion. It’s also not the be all and end all, and you certainly shouldn’t assume that it will be able to catch everything, but it is an essential tool in my opinion for people running servers in many environments that help you limit the damage that c
Mandriva Spring 2008.1 - Part 2 2008-04-19 23:02:00 Mandriva has just released their 2008.1 spring edition.Continued from Part 1.Multimedia & Browser Support:Mandriva has many open source and proprietary codecs. Kaffeine on the ONE (KDE) edition and the FREE (KDE) edition handle Ogg, MP3, AVI, WMA, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, and Quicktime files out-of-the-box.However, for no apparent reason Totem is the default Movie player even in KDE version. Question -- What is Totem doing in a KDE distribution, when Kaffeine can perform better ?The presence of all this media support by default does not make Mandriva a codec GOD, still many codecs like win32-codecs, gstreamer-ugly ( for real media support) etc needs to be installed from the PLF repository. PLF is like a merge between Official and Unofficial repositories and can be easily configured using easyur Read more:Spring
Mandriva Spring 2008.1 2008-04-19 22:55:00 Mandriva has just released their 2008.1 spring edition. This release promises a lot, some of its new features areParental control utility. This can be very useful for people having young kids who do not want their kids to access ¨improper content¨ .Now I read this as pornographic sites and sites which deal with excessive violence. An added feature is to limit the time of computer usage.Elisa multimedia center - A one stop tool to manage photos, music and videos.PulseAudio- Well most new distributions now come with Pulse Audio.Codeina Framework - For our US based friends who want to pay for the codecs. Thankfully I am not in US, and like Linux, codecs are also free for me :).Improved Package managerEnhanced KDE.Coherence - A media server that allows sharing video and audio.KDE 4.02 ( now Read more:Spring
Countdown to Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 2008-04-21 01:52:00 Ubuntu is undoubtedly the most popular Linux distribution. It's meteoric rise has made Linux accessible to normal users. With computer manufacturers like Dell offering Ubuntu pre-installed on their Laptops and desktops, Ubuntu is destined to rise further. The 8.04 or the HardyHeron
release of Ubuntu is a LTS Release, which makes its very attractive for users who look for a stable release, with very few bugs and Long Term Support (read three years) for it. This release is also touted to catapault Ubuntu in the commercial business server and desktop environment.Counter: Lets check some of the features which make Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron a great release.Latest Firefox 3 (Beta 5). Though in Beta, Ubuntu devs have extinsively tested and and found to be very stable on Ubuntu. Enhanced F-spot ph Read more:Countdown
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Flash on Firefox 3 Beta 5 2008-04-21 21:54:00 Firefox 3 Beta 5 is the latest and the greatest version of Firefox. It has many improvements over Firefox 2.Despite being in Beta, Firefox 3 is so stable now that the most popular Linux distribution Ubuntu is shipping with Firefox 3 Beta pre-installed.OK enough praising Firefox 3 Beta, lets come to the most common problem one might face when we install Firefox 3 Beta.I tried Firefox 3 Beta on Windows XP Professional and discovered that I cannot install Adobe Flash
on it. whenever I tried I get some weird error saying"Firefox could not install this item because"install-3lw..rdf" (provided by the item) is not well-formed or does notexist. Please contact the author about this problem."I wanted to make Firefox 3 Beta my primary browser, but without Flash -- its a big NO. What I did is a hack, Read more:Firefox
Flash in Firefox 3 in Linux 2008-04-22 20:36:00 As a continuation of my article on Flash
in Firefox
3 in Windows.I tried Flash in Mandriva 2008.1 Spring.Firefox 3 for linux comes as a tar.bz2 compressed file.All I had to do was to uncompress it usingmkdir /home/abhay/Download/Firefox3/cd /home/abhay/Download/Firefox3/tar -jxvf firefox.tar.bz2This creates a directory called "firefox".the -"j" option on tar command tell that the compressed file is compressed with bzip2 and we need to use bunzip2 to uncompress it.Next step was to install Flash plugins in Firefox3.This was trivial. I went to the Firefox3 plugins directory.[abhay@localhost plugins]$ pwd/home/abhay/Download/Firefox3/firefox/pluginsand just linked Flash library from my previous installation of Firefox 2.ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so .One single step and I ha Read more:Linux
Ubuntu servers still down 2008-04-24 10:08:00 Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution, hence, when the latest and the greatest Ubuntu was getting released, I was expecting heavy load on Ubuntu servers
. I thought that even Ubuntu people expected this. However, I was not exactly right.The heavy load took its toll on Ubuntu servers and they were un-reachable. I tried after 5 minutes and the servers are un-reachable. I am sure that Canonical will bring them up in no time -- but dude its already been 5 minutes.When I try I get this messageService Temporarily UnavailableThe server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) Server at www.ubuntu.com Port 80Update:: Ubuntu Servers are up now. Read more:Ubuntu
Good morning from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 2008-04-24 09:37:00 Very good morning, a morning made better by the release of long awaited Ubuntu
8.04 LTS.People always look out for Ubuntu releases, this one being a Long Term Support (LTS) is even more sought after.It was nice to see the shining Ubuntu homepage with 8.04 release announcement. Check out some of the screen shots of the release pages. One issue I had, there is no torrent for 8.04. Now I love torrents and believe that they relieve pressure off the servers. The absence of torrent was slightly disappointing, specially when they provide the torrents for 6.06 and 7.10.So I went back to the default download page and used KGet to get the iso for me.Here you can see KGet (KDE 4 version) performing its job beautifully and I have already downloaded 30% of the iso.The download will be over in 2-3 hour
Mandriva 2008.1 Package Manager 2008-04-25 23:23:00 Mandriva Spring 2008.1 is no doubt a great distribution. It has good collection of default software, has excellent hardware detection, has proprietary drivers and software and an overall great out of box experience. People, including me, often complain about its Package manager. With 2008.1, Mandriva has greatly improved RPMDrake. Its fast, has good number of packages and beautifully handles dependencies. Lets have a little detailed look. We start it with the nifty "Install and Remove Software". It first opens to a welcome screen and confirms if we want to use the tool, want to add media source, if update only or full sources, After this it presents the list of servers for us to select the appropriate one and proceeds to add media.Finally we are presented with the RPMDrake GUI. I like the
OpenSUSE 11 Beta 3 2008-05-27 23:56:00 OpenSUSE 11 Beta 3 marks the end of Beta series of OpenSUSE 11. With final version scheduled to release in 22 days on 19th June 2008; I felt its time to test what is in-store for us. I was specially interested in the KDE4 version and the new installer. It was nice to see 200+ seeders for the KDE4 iso of OpenSUSE Beta3, download was a breeze. Here are my experiences after popping in the LiveCD. I h
KDE 4.1 Live CD 2008-08-03 04:41:00 I just bought a new laptop and KDE guys decide to pamper me by releasing the greatest desktop manager in form of KDE 4.1. To add cherry to the cake OpenSUSE guys made a Live CD and gave me the opportunity to fiddle with it. The download was a breeze, looks like all the OSS guys are just seeding the Live CD. On the first boot I was presented with the familiar OpenSUSE welcome screen.
I am Back 2008-07-26 21:26:00 I know that my last post was on 28 May, 2008. Its already two full months and I have not written a single post. -- Agreed that the name of my site is LazyTechGuy, but this time I have taken my laziness to extremes. Actually I do have a few reasons for this, its up to you which one you guys accept :: I changed my job. So what everyone does it at some point of their career. Changing
Downgrade to XP or Upgrade to Mandriva 2008-08-24 01:59:00 My friend wanted a low cost Laptop and went for Dell 1525. Here in Singapore, it is really a value for money Notebook. For SGD 1099 we get a full featured Laptop with the following Configuration Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T2390 Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic 2GB DDR2 SDRAM 15.4” WXGA Display with Integrated 2.0 mega pixel web cam 1
IS Ubuntu Hardy really THAT buggy ? 2008-08-23 22:10:00 Blogsphere and forums are full of post saying that hardy is much more buggy than Gutsy or any other previous release. Come on this is a LTS release, how can this be so buggy ? Lets take a look at some of the posts We begin with the comments section on LWN. Lwn reported the release of Ubuntu
8.04 and starting from first comment its all bug reports. The first comment reports three major bugs T Read more:Hardy
MSN Video does not support Internet Explorer 7 2008-08-16 04:38:00 I could not believe my eyes, but then truth is stranger than fantasies. Ok to being with: I have Microsoft Vista Home Premium edition - that came pre-installed with Sony VAIO. I was browsing Microsoft MSN site, I think MSN still belongs to MS :), and came across a video. On clicking the link for the video I came across an Error saying my browser is not supported. I almost fell down laughing. On re Read more:Internet
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Moral Policing by MS 2008-08-10 04:00:00 Recently I was searching for Victoria Beckham's autobiography "Learning to fly", I did not get many places where I can read it online, so I broadened my search and searched for Victoria. I did not get her biography but came across many of her pictures. Probing further, I came across pictures of "Victoria silverstedt", now these were much more appealing than that of Bekh Read more:Moral
How to Perfectly Kill a Perfect Distribution 2008-09-06 21:45:00 PCLinuxOS was the perfect distribution in 2007. It had all the bells and whistles to be an excellent Windows XP alternative. Here the the things I loved about PCLinuxOS Good looking UI ( OK I admit that I love KDE ). Almost mimicking XP look and Feel ( now many of Linux Purist might not like it, but this acts as an important point to help transition a new user from XP to PCLOS - keyword Read more:Perfect
Dell takes Ubuntu to the world 2008-08-27 08:20:00 I simply admire Dell for being the pioneer in bringing Linux to an average users. Dell was the major manufacturer who introduced Ubuntu
on Laptops and Desktops in US. It followed up with its success in few European markets and now Dell is trying to further stretch its wings-- Dell is going to offer Ubuntu on its Latos and Desktops to 20 more countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin Americ
Best among the rest 2008-08-25 08:43:00 Now this is beyond doubt that Ubuntu is the most searched Linux distribution. Most websites/forums claim that Ubuntu is the most popular one. Okey, agreed that Ubuntu is the most popular; what about the rest ? Now Distrowatch reports the top 10 distributions as 1Ubuntu 2openSUSE 3Fedora 4Mint 5PCLinuxOS 6Debian 7Mandriva 8Dreamlinux
Prominent public figures in Open Source world 2008-09-21 03:26:00 Open source has taken the world by storm. Numerous open source applications are being used by satisfied users. The most prominent and widely used open source products are Firefox, Linux Distributions,Sugar CRM, GIMP, Wordpress, emacs etc. The latest to join this ever increasing bandwagon is Google Chrome. Many people don't know what Open Source
(OS) means but are still happily using these OS produ
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