October 2007
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Miss Open Universe
It is my pleasure to announce totally new and exciting competition: Miss Open Universe. [I am not sure about this, if it turns out to be porn I will punt it. - Scott] (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
Pete Savage: Secure DAV SVN Non Production Server
Following on from the tutorial I wrote earlier on today. I’ve been messing around with dav svn too. I found that I didn’t have to do too much to get a working DAV SVN server working. Basically continuing on from the previous tutorial, ie certificates have been generated etc, this should enable svn access on the server.
First, we edit the ports.conf again as in the previous post, to add svn...
Pete Savage: Setting up a Secure Non-Production...
So, it’s been a long time since my last blog post. A very long time. I thought I’d start with a controversial topic of WebDAV. Now before people castrate me, I’ve never setup a WebDAV server before, but it was something I’ve had an interest in for a while. So, here is a short How-To (I guess) on what I’ve done so far. I’m looking for anyone to give me advice on better security. Using a...
How To: Switch From Windows to Linux
Are you geek enough for Linux? Though it first earned a reputation as a platform for hobbyists and hackers, Linux has come a long way since Linus Torvalds cobbled together the first kernel as a student project. A modern Linux desktop is a sophisticated, user-friendly GUI environment, with features and applications to rival any proprietary OS. In fact, when compared to the mainstream alternatives,...
ReviewLinux.Com: First Look at Sabayon Linux 1.1...
Sabayon Linux is an up and coming Linux OS. The artwork of this Gentoo based Linux distribution is wonderful. Packed with software I think this distribution is one that everyone would enjoy. (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
Explanation of Ubuntu Hard Drive Wear and Tear
A recent bug report for Ubuntu Linux has confirmed that both the Feisty and Gutsy versions of Ubuntu cause some unnecessary wear and tear on a hard drive. The bug report reads:
“I run feisty (beta) on a Dell Inspiron 9400 with a Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 hard drive. After booting, the drive’s power management settings are such that it spins down A LOT. To give you some statistics: the drive...
Ubuntu Demon(Roald Hopman): Default umask
This is a respons to Aaron Toponce’s blog post about a better default for umask.
The most secure umask is 077 which will give newly created files the default permissions of rw———- and will give newly created directories the default permissions of rwx———. If a user needs a file to be readable for others he can simply change the permissions of such a...
What I Learned From My Dad Who Taught Me How To...
Editor Profile - Denny K Miu is the CEO and one of the six co-Founders of Gigamon Systems. Denny has extensive experience in developing technology, products and business relationships. He has been a Professor, an engineer, an entrepreneur, a team leader as well as an individual contributor.
In earlier posts, I have written about my experience as a startup entrepreneur, both from the standpoint...
CrossFTP Client (ver. 1.38)
CrossFTP is an excellent FTP client. CrossFTP Pro is a synchronization tool and FTP/FXP/FTPS/SFTP/WebDav(s) client. About this version
CrossFTP 1.38 is a major enhancement release. It significantly improves the start-up speed, improves system integration for edit/open with operations, starts to support the Bonjour (ZeroConf) service discovery protocol, adds beta support for PRET, and fixes a...
Wing IDE (ver. 3.0.1)
Wing IDE is a development environment for Python. About this version
This release focuses on fixing minor usability issues found in Wing 3.0, and improves and expands the vi keyboard personality. (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
Aaron Toponce: Default Umask In Debian
I’m a bit bothered by something that no one can seem to give me a clear answer on: why is the default umask in Debian/Ubuntu ‘022′?
Let’s think about this for a second. Back in the days of historical UNIX, probably for decades, the traditional file permissions of ‘read’, ‘write’ and ‘execute’ was sufficient security for both users and groups, and for the most part, they still are. We have...
X/OS is an undistinguished Red Hat clone
X/OS Linux is a distribution built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources. Its developers claim it was created “to provide a hassle-free enterprise-class Linux operating system without usage terms tied to commercial services.” I downloaded it expecting I might find all the refinement of Red Hat along with some improvements and the community one expects to find growing around free...
Debian Package of the Day: Kivio: Powerful, easy...
Article submitted by Ken Muir. We are running out of articles! Please help DPOTD and submit good articles about software you like!
So often we hear that Linux is lacking in key applications, but if there is one area in which there is a strong replacement for a key Windows application, it is flowcharting.
Kivio is part of the KDE Office Suite that offers basic flowcharting abilities, but with a...
Gmail Apparently Enabling IMAP Support
The folks over at Download Squad have stumbled across persuasive evidence that Google is adding IMAP support to Gmail. While the option to use IMAP has not showed up in my Gmail account yet (or any other bloggers’ for that matter), they point to this Google help center page, which confirms the speculation. We’ve been tracking new Gmail features for some time; IMAP was the final piece of the...
360.yahoo sucks !
360 is probably the worst product Yahoo has ever released. They should have killed it before it was ever released, and then beat the developers over the head with a blunt object for several hours.
It’s that bad.
Quoted by Sean from getclicky.com
Linux on PC ?
Linux had won. We were now the biggest competition in the server and database market out there and all the big names cared about Linux. Money was pouring into development from all these big names into developing Linux’s performance in these areas.
The users had lost. The desktop PC, for which linux started out as being development for, had fallen by the wayside. Performance, as home...
Google Continues to Bankroll Mozilla
The Mozilla Foundation (which shepherds the development of the Firefox browser) released its financial statements today for its 2006 fiscal year. It’s revenues were $67 million, and 85 percent of that (or $57 million) came from the Google search box that comes as a default on every browser. Firefox is used by 120 million people worldwide. Larry Dignan has the details.
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Yang Decides to Shut Down Yahoo 360—Nobody Notices
Okay, we admit it. We’ve been busy here at TechCrunch, and totally missed this announcement last week that Yahoo is finally going to pull the plug on its stillborn social network, Yahoo 360. Jerry Yang even mentioned it in a blog post on October 16: “Our new decision-making framework also informed what we’d no longer invest in… ., we intend to transition Yahoo! 360 to a more integrated...
Fyodor Answers Your Network Security Questions →
Seven.Ten Degrees of Modularisation
Ubuntu Server is a popular Linux server distribution which has been gaining some good ground over the past few years, but is still behind its main commercial rivals: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. However, one of the new, experimental (but stable) features in Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition is set to change the course of all server Operating Systems in the near future, and...
Oracle Linux Is No Longer an RHEL Clone
Oracle is taking its Unbreakable Linux down a slightly different path from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. First, let’s make this clear. Oracle Unbreakable Linux was, is now and is for the foreseeable future going to be based on Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux codebase. It is not, however, going to be simply RHEL’s twin in every way. When Oracle first announced the release of Unbreakable...
Microsoft woos Asia through Turbolinux
Adding to its list of Linux partners, Microsoft has extended its collaboration agreement with Asian Linux vendor Turbolinux. Promising collaboration efforts and controversial intellectual property assurances for Turbolinux users, the deal could be seen as the latest attempt by Microsoft to extend its reach into the rich prize that is the Asian market. (via luKas’ shared items in Google...
China and the US are getting hitched (with fiber)
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Looks like Chinese and US telco’s will do what our governments can’t: establish an undeniable bond which is stronger than, uh, glass. Ok, we have that. Nevertheless, work began this week in China on a 18,000-km (11,184-mile) fiber-optic cable between the coastal city of Qingdao and Nedonna Beach, Oregon. Existing cables between China and the US run through...
New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU...
BaCa writes to mention that a new hardware/software combination has been created by a company called ElcomSoft that will reportedly allow cryptography professionals to build cheap PCs that work like supercomputers for the specific task of retrieving lost passwords. Utilizing a combination of the CPU and the GPU the task of brute forcing a password may be reduced by as much as a factor of 25....
StartUp Manager (ver. 1.9.8)
Manage Grub, Usplash and Splashy settings About this version
Fixed a small error in the desktop entries
Added check for root
Some translations added. Thanks to the translators involved (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
Linux frag-fest: the games Linux plays
You know Linux will handle all your web browsing needs, your e-mail, your office apps. But when it comes to gaming, what do you do? If you’re a hard-core gamer are you stuck in a Windows world, or the netherworld of dual-booting? Fear not: Linux can play hard and here’s how to get going.
Read the whole story here: itwire.com (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
Quote: Security People Are Insane
“The fact is, security people *are* insane. You just argue all the time, instead of doing anything productive. So please don’t include me in the Cc on your insane arguments - instead do something productive and I’m interested.”
— Linus Torvalds, in an October 19th, 2007 posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List.
(via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
The Role and Value of Truly Free Linux...
As GNU/Linux becomes more popular, the motives behind its inceptions are often forgotten. Linux is a free operating system, but its broadening userbase perceives this freedom as pertaining to cost, not rights and liberty. (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
Unpredictable...
“Sometimes I’m tardy and miss things for weeks and need prodding, and sometimes I pull almost before you’ve sent the’please pull’ message. I’m unpredictable. Or keeping you on your toes. Or incompetent. Pick whatever suits your mood ;)”— Linus Torvalds in anOctober 17, 2007 message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. (via luKas’ shared items in Google...
Adventures in Digital Photography With Linux, part...
LXer Feature: 22-Oct-2007
Welcome back! In part 4 we ranged all over the place, from how to manage and edit your photo archives with Linux, some discussion on choosing lenses, and finally getting down to the most important part of getting high-quality photographs: understanding aperture, shutter speeds, and ISO. Part 4 covered the fundamentals of aperture, so let’s leap in to shutter...
Extending Nautilus context menus with...
There are literally dozens of plugins and extensions for Nautilus, the default file manager on the GNOME desktop environment, but there is just one that allows you to customize the Nautilus context menu items. The Nautilus-actions extension enables you to add customized entries to the context menu such that, when you right-click a file, the context menu will show options specific to that file....
Winefix - improved desktop integration for Wine
I found this on the Ubuntu user forums, thanks goes out to (deadlydeathcone) here is his post. (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
Enrico Zini: axi-simplequery
Introducing apt-xapian-index
I’ve recently posted an introduction of apt-xapian-index.
Today I’ll show how to make simple queries to apt-xapian-index. If you feel
like reimplementing my examples in another language, let me know and I’ll
include it to the post.
The source code that follows is commented like a tutorial, and shows how to
implement an apt-cache search...
How to Replace Windows Completely with Ubuntu
APCMag has a lenghty article on switching from Windows to Ubuntu. “When I was first given this task I had to sit and blink a few times, if for nothing else than dramatic pause. I’m a self-confessed Linux nut, as some of you may know, but even I’m cautious to do away with Windows completely. There’s a reason I have a dual-boot Windows and Linux machine. Several of them, in...
Creating business cards with OpenOffice.org Writer
Exchanging business cards is a rudimentary form of networking (the people, not the server kind). However, to get the most out of the exchange, you need a card that attracts attention and reflects the image or values you want to project.read more (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
Switching From OS X to Ubuntu: 10 Things I Miss
About two months ago, I switched from OS X to a new Dell with Ubuntu Linux at work. For the most part, I could not be happier, but there are a few things I really miss about my Mac. Here is a list of the 10 things I miss the most. (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu...
This tutorial shows how to set up a Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, but should apply to the...
SELinux Sparks Tussle Over Linux Security Model
“Should Security Enhanced Linux be designated as the sole security framework for Linux? While most security specialists would agree on the high quality of SELinux, proponents are arguing this framework is the only one that should be needed for the open-source operating system kernel. In fact, it would eliminate the need for the Linux Security Module, an open platform for outsider developers...
Facebook Goes To 64 Bit User IDs
NewsCloud writes “Facebook has announced to developers that they are moving to a 64 bit user ID in November. At 32 bits, the current ID allows nearly 4.3 billion user accounts. Yet, despite having only 47 million users today, Facebook’s move to 64 bits will allow it to have more than 18 quintillion (18,446,744,074,000,000,000) user accounts. Of course, there are currently only about...
This week at LWN: Memory part 3: Virtual Memory
The virtual memory subsystem of a processor implements the virtual address spaces provided to each process. This makes each process think it is alone in the system. The list of advantages of virtual memory are described in detail elsewhere so they will not be repeated here. Instead this section concentrates on the actual implementation details of the virtual memory subsystem and the associated...
2.6.20.16 kernel - vmware ???
Your kernel was built with “gcc” version “4.1.2”, while you are trying to use “/usr/bin/gcc” version “4.1.3”. This configuration is not recommended and VMware Workstation may crash if you’ll continue. Please try to use exactly same compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler “/usr/bin/gcc” version...
Amazon’s $100,000 Startup Challenge
Anyone out there with a great idea for building a startup around Amazon Web Services can enter a $100,000 challenge that Amazon is sponsoring. Amazon’s collection of Web infrastructure services include hosted storage (S3), compute cycles (EC2), computer-to-computer messaging (SQS), payments (FPS), and an on-demand workforce (Mechanical Turk). AWS has already attracted more than 265,000...
Ubuntu 7.10 + WINE vs. Windows XP
This week’s release of Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” is a significant win for the free software community. Not only does this release incorporate an updated package set — most notably with the Linux 2.6.22 kernel and GNOME 2.20, but it also delivers on new desktop innovations from BulletProofX and displayconfig-gtk to Compiz Fusion being enabled by default on supported...
InterviewUp Wants to Make Interviews Less Painful
InterviewUp is following in Yahoo Answers’ very successful footsteps on Monday by officially launching a site where users can share questions and answers with one another.
While Yahoo Answers appeals to people who are itching to ask all types of questions - and others who inexplicably have the time and desire to answer those questions - InterviewUp focuses on the niche of people interested in...
Beauty and the Geek: Firefox 3's Visual Makeover
Firefox 3 plans to ditch the unified cross-platform browser interface in favor of a sexier look tailored to specific operating systems. Firefox 3 will feature different skins for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X and various Linux distributions. (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)
Simple home networking with SSH
The Secure Shell (SSH) network protocol makes it easy to connect computers that are running Linux, share files, and remotely run applications. Along with an X server, it can make sharing a single computer simple on a home network. (via luKas’ shared items in Google Reader)