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Create your own Live CD in 7 Steps 2008-03-21 01:50:00 Revisor enables you to customize and compose your own Fedora based installation and live media. It does so by presenting you a GUI with all options you can click you way through, and a CLI and extended configuration files for the more advanced users. Features that Revisor has vary from customizing the packages available during the installation and/or installed on the live media, to fully
How to compile & execute C programs under Linux 2008-03-20 13:28:00 Once you have written and saved your C program using any editor return to the prompt. An “ls” command should display your C program. It should have the .c extension. Now at the prompt type the following
$ gcc -o firstprogram firstprogram.c
If your file is named firstprogram.c then type ‘-o firstprogram’ as the parameter to gcc. This is basically your suggested name for the executable file that
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How to Ignore ping request 2008-03-20 13:24:00 To turn answers to icmp_echos (ping) off, as root type: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all and to turn it on again type: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
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Hide DNS server (BIND) version from others 2008-03-20 13:22:00 DNS server
is one of the most targeted application for attack, It’s always a good idea to hide your DNS server version
information so that BAD guys cannot view the version and start the attack to this specific version of your DNS server (Bind). To hide your version of bind, add the following value to named.conf in the options section section as follows: options {
directory “/var/named”;
version
Visual diff/merge tool - Meld 2008-03-19 12:46:00 Meld is a powerful visual diff and merge
tool. It displays colour-coded two- and three-way diffs and enables you to merge or edit the compared files. It can work with version control systems (cvs, svn, hg) and can diff directories. The GTK-based interface is clean and features tabs and a toolbar.
Meld does a great job of simplifying edit and merge tasks; when comparing files, for example, you
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UTube Ripper 2008-03-19 12:28:00 About UTube Ripper
UTube Ripper can download and convert Youtube videos...
Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.10.x. Other dependencies include: Gambas 2
Download : Here
Enable support for iPods in Ubuntu 2008-03-19 00:48:00 Thanks to the good folks in the Ubuntu
community, there is a mind-blowingly easy solution to add support for all iPods to the system. Programs like Gtkpod and Rhytmbox call on the gpod library to interact with your iPod, so all you have to do is get the latest version. Simply download this deb package, and run it with Gdebi, which should be the default choice in Firefox. Then, if you don't have
A free penetration testing toolkit - Inguma 2008-03-19 00:38:00 Inguma is a free penetration testing and vulnerability discovery toolkit entirely written in python. Framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force usernames and passwords, exploits, and a disassembler.
Inguma comes with 2 GUIs: text based and PyQT based. The most tested one and the only one that will surely work is the text based. The PyQT one
Installing ATI drivers on Ubuntu 2008-03-18 18:08:00 Download ATI driver from their website. Next login as root in ubuntu. Then double click the downloaded file. You will get different options here choose to run the file. The next screen asks you if you want install the drivers or if you want to generate a package. Choose to install the drivers. Then after the installation one will have to manually change the drivers to fglrx. To do this open up a
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China giving away free virus 2008-03-18 00:25:00 From iPods to navigation systems, some of today's hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory — pre-installed virus
es that steal passwords, open doors for hackers and make computers spew spam. Computer users have been warned for years about virus threats from downloading Internet porn and opening suspicious e-mail attachments. Now they run the risk of
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Cyber-attack launched from 10,000 web pages 2008-03-18 00:20:00 A security firm has identified over 10,000 web pages rigged by cyber-criminals to hijack the PCs of unsuspecting surfers..
The web pages have been modified to silently redirect visitors to sites laden with malware that attempt to break into the user's PC.
McAfee Avert Labs described the assault as "one of the largest attack
s to date of this kind".
The redirects and attempted break-ins are all
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Security audits of network device configuration files 2008-03-18 00:16:00 Nipper performs security audits of network
device configuration files
. The report produced by Nipper includes; detailed security-related issues with recommendations, a configuration report and various appendices. Nipper has a large number of configuration options.
Nipper has no requirements. However, if you want to use the SNMP features under Linux you will also need a TFTP server and the
Detect - how much you expose to hackers 2008-03-18 00:14:00 Examples of data seepage are what happens when you power-on your computer. It will broadcast to the world the list of WiFi access-points you've got cached on your computer, the previous IP address you used (requested by DHCP), your NetBIOS name, your login ID, and a list of servers (via NetBIOS request) you want connections to. Even if you then establish a VPN connection to hide everything else,
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Accessing the Windows Partition from Fedora Linux 2008-03-15 02:45:00 When running FedoraLinux
it is possible to access files located on the Windows
partition. To achieve this it is necessary to mount the Windows partition. The first step is to create a directory to use as the mount point. In this example we will create a directory called /windows from the terminal window:
su - mkdir /windows
Next, we need to run the mount command (still as super user and
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Install/configure Compiz Fusion on openSUSE 10.3 for Intel onboard graphics 2008-03-15 02:40:00 First up, download the required Compiz
Fusion packages via 1-click install; Here are the links:
1-Click Installer for KDE
1-Click Installer for GNOME
1-Click Installer for Compiz Manager
We’ll have make some changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf as well.
So open the Terminal and type
kdesu kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf –> This is for KDE users
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf –> This is for GNOME
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Configure/Install Compiz Fusion on openSUSE 10.3 for nVidia cards 2008-03-15 02:37:00 First, you’ll have to download nVidia
’s drivers. You can get it, via the 1-click install(for Legacy cards, click here) download the latest drivers from nvidia’s site and doing a manual install of the drivers.Manual install of nVidia drivers Pre-requisites: compiler gcc,program make andpackage kernel-source You can install these from openSUSE DVD. After these are installed, Get the drivers from
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Configure Gmail account on Linux 2008-03-13 07:12:00 The first step is to configure your GMail account to enable POP access. Start a browser, log into your GMail account and click on the Settings link at the top of the page. On the settings page, click on Forwarding and POP. On the GMail forwarding and POP screen, make sure the POP download is enabled. Make selections to control whether email is also left on the GMail server and whether all
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Installing the Apache Web Server on Ubuntu Linux 2008-03-13 07:07:00 The standard web server on Linux
is Apache
. The web server is the technology that receives requests from web browsers and servers up the requested web pages to those browsers. The desktop version of Ubuntu
Linux does not install the Apache web server by default. The first step in setting up a web server, therefore, is to install Apache.
To install Apache from the command-line start a terminal
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Installing Firestarter on Ubuntu Linux 2008-03-13 07:03:00 Installing Firestarter on UbuntuLinux
Firestarter is not installed by default when Ubuntu Linux
is first installed. The first step in using Firestarter, therefore, is to install it.
To install from the command line, begin by opening a terminal window by selecting the Applications menu and selecting Terminal from the Accessories menu. In the terminal window enter the following command and press
Small History of "Ubuntu" 2008-03-13 06:51:00 The word "Ubuntu
" is an ancient Zulu and Xhosa word which means "humanity to others". Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". It was chosen because these sentiments precisely describe the spirit of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
Ubuntu is one of a number of Linux distributions. The source code that makes up the Ubuntu Linux distribution originates from Debian (so called
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HowTo run an Perl or shell script using procmail 2008-03-24 18:07:00 This is a sample (example) of procmail configuaration and in this configuation we want to run some script
:0 * conditions, if any | your-script-here
Obviously, you are not restricted to Perl or shell scripts. Anything you can run from a Unix command prompt can be run from Procmail.
Are you an Ubuntu User? - Get Counted !!! 2008-03-24 13:28:00 The Ubuntu
Counter Project is like a miniature version of The Linux Counter. It aims to catalogue the number of registered machines using the numerous varients of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
Why? Because, quite simply, Ubuntu rocks.
To register your Ubuntu machines, simply register yourself as a user, and add your machines to your account.
Once registered, you will have a user button (like
Testing firewall rules 2008-03-23 13:41:00 Sometimes it is handy to check firewall rules without coordinating a test with the end user. For these tests, use the hping2 utility to "spoof" traffic coming from the source IP address(es) used in the firewall rules.
At the same time, monitor the internal and external network interfaces on the firewall to make sure traffic is reaching the firewall and allowed through the firewall. In order to
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ctime, atime, and mtime 2008-03-23 13:40:00 It is important to distinguish between a file or directory's change time (ctime), access time (atime), and modify time (mtime).
ctime -- In UNIX, it is not possible to tell the actual creation time of a file. The ctime--change time--is the time when changes were made to the file or directory's inode (owner, permissions, etc.). It is needed by the dump command to determine if the file needs to be
Important parts of the kernel in form of picture 2008-03-23 13:35:00 The Linux kernel
consists of several important parts: process management, memory management, hardware device drivers, filesystem drivers, network management, and various other bits and pieces. Figure shows some of them.
Probably the most important parts of the kernel (nothing else works without them) are memory management and process management. Memory management takes care of assigning
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