November 2007
44 posts
Pay the bill or die .... →
Power Cut to Woman on Electric Oxygen Pump
44-year-old New Zealand woman Folole Muliaga, who needed an electric oxygen pump to live, died after falling behind on a $122 power bill. The woman was a school teacher who had been off work since February due to illness. Relatives told technicians from state owned Mercury Energy that she needed an electric oxygen pump. Despite an invitation to see the...
Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 Now Available →
Intrusion Detection: Snort, Base, MySQL, and... →
In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure Snort (an intrusion detection system (IDS)) from source, BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about possible threats. Snort will output its log files to a MySQL database which BASE will use to display a graphical...
Impressions of Fedora 8 →
Two weeks ago I switched my main production workstation from Sabayon Linux 3.4 to Fedora 8. This was part of my scheduled distro rotation plan that I started two years ago in order to better evaluate the different options on the market and to stay on top of the latest open source innovations. It was also the first time in years that I used a Red Hat product; as far as I can remember, I...
28 Papers on Real-Time, Embedded Linux →
“LinuxDevices.com is pleased to publish an overview and papers from the Ninth Real-Time Linux Workshop held in Linz, Austria, Nov. 2-3, 2007. The papers, available for free download without registration, span a broad range of topics, ranging from fundamental real-time technologies to applications, hardware, and tools. As usual, the conference was organized by the Real-Time Linux Foundation....
Ubuntu: Rumint →
I plan to buy the book - Security Data Visualization that written by Greg Conti. I’m not much into visualization field so I guess it might be good for me to learn more about it with the present of this book. If you are asking for more, you can find other resources/books that recommended by Greg here. Greg Conti has also written the tool called rumint(room-int) to visualize network packets....
Linux on board: Developing for the Nokia N800 →
Root around inside the heart of the Nokia N800 phone/Internet tablet/Webcam and take a closer look at the build environment, based on scratchbox.
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Introducing Mercurial, a distributed version... →
According to its developers, “Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.” Dozens of projects already use the software. Here’s how you can get started with some basic version control tasks using Mercurial.
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 66 →
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #66 for the week November 11th - November 17th, 2007. In this issue we cover the LoCo teams up next for official approval, the welcoming of a new MOTU, some news from the good folks in Ubuntuforums, and, as always, much much more.
GNU GRUB (0.97) Simplified for Newbies →
A GNU Grub guide which is specially designed for newbies and focuses on the fields as below MBR, boot sector, boot loader Backup & Restore boot loader Grub stage1, stage2, stage3 and relation among them Making Grub Floppy Making Grub CD Making Grub Pen drive stage1 and stage2 on different media Grub’s device and device.map file Grub Rescue Super Grub Disk Grub’S GUI...
Asian open source summit postponed →
Originally scheduled to be held in Hong Kong next week, Open Source Software Summit Asia has been held over to 2008, organizers confirmed.
How To Enable Multiple HTTPS Sites For One IP On... →
This guide is Debian specific but could be ported to other distributions since the concept is the same. In order to use TLS Extensions we have to patch and recompile Apache2 and recompile OpenSSL with the enable-tlsext directive. Since TLS extensions are relatively new, some Internet browsers will not work so the Apache2 server will deliver just the default site as http 1.0 does on an http 1.1...
TCPDUMP VS SNOOP Cheat Sheet →
I like the idea of having cheat sheet in your pocket where you can learn things quickly and in the mean time, it also serves as quick reference. I have actually spent sometime to create this TCPDUMP VS SNOOP cheat sheet and I think it’s good to share it with the world.
http://rawpacket.org/anonymous/papers/tcpdumpVSsnoop-cheatsheet.pdf The cheat sheet is not only about the comparison of...
Blocking specific network applications with... →
Many organizations face a productivity problem with employees who abuse chat programs like MSN Messenger. Some IT departments are instructed to block this kind of traffic for users who either abuse or simply don’t require the software. You can block applications like MSN Messenger in your proxy server, but some clients may still have access to the applications, because there are many...
Diet Coke+Mentos →
AMOR: a desktop companion →
Article submitted by Christian Haase. We are running out of articles! Please help DPOTD and submit good articles about software you like!
AMOR is a nice toy which is absolutely senseless. It displays a tiny figure on your desktop, running on top of your windows or falling down to the bottom. It is a KDE application, but it should be no problem to use it in Gnome (as I do).
In the package are...
Computer role-playing games for GNU/Linux →
Do you ever get tired of listening to gamers who insist that all the best games are for consoles or Windows, so why bother with GNU/Linux? Do you have colleagues who maintain that GNU/Linux is suitable only for serious work, and that games are frivolous and unimportant? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people go on about how expensive games are to produce, and how they just couldn’t...
Get familiar with alternative Linux desktops →
Desktop customization in Linux is very flexible; from the ultra-modern KDE and GNOME window managers to with the likes of Fluxbox and AfterStep, there’s a Linux desktop to suit everyone. Jack Wallen covers some of your Linux desktop options.
broadcast using this tool 0.1.5rc1 (Default... →
butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, open source, multi-OS tool that grabs audio data from your sound card (line-in, CD, wave, etc.), encodes the PCM data into MP3/OGG, and sends it to a streaming server. ShoutCast and IceCast are supported.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
This release uses the PortAudio library instead of
the ALSA API. This
has many advantages,...
Gosh, gOS is good →
Many people still question whether Linux will ever make it fully into mainstream computer acceptance. A $199 computer now available on a major superstore’s shelves just in time for Christmas might change all that. Anyone who wants a computer to just to send email and instant messages and watch YouTube videos should like the Everex gPC, which is powered by a nifty Linux distribution called...
Online music school saves cash with Linux →
WorkshopLive.com is a virtual music school that features dozens of professional instructors teaching lessons online for all levels of expertise, in guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums. When WorkshopLive was in the early stages of development, the company had limited funds to devote to hardware, software, and human resources, so CTO Marilyn Hoefner decided to give open source software a try....
Emacs editing environment, Part 7: Let Emacs help... →
Part 7 of this series shows you why Emacs is the self-documenting editor, and the many ways in which you can take advantage of the help and assistance offered in this editor. In this tutorial, learn about describing keystrokes, commands, and functions. You’ll also read, browse, and search through a complete Emacs reference manual.
Chân lý ... →
Khi để mất đi một thứ gì, lúc đó bạn mới thấy được “giá trị” và tầm quan trọng của nó. Sau đó bạn sẽ phải …đi kiếm thứ khác.
The smart way to Process XML files with PHP →
This article introduces the XJConf for PHP open source package and demonstrates some useful real-world applications of its usage.
Too many free operating systems? I don't think so. →
Some people say that there are too many GNU/Linux distributions, too many people just doing their own instead of joining an existing effort. In essence their criticism is towards the fact that so many people in the Free Software community actually take their freedom and pursue their dreams instead of finding their place in somebody else’s vision. Sometimes the criticism is pointed towards...
Dave Morse, Amiga Computer Co-Founder, Passed Away →
Dave Morse (1943-2007), Amiga Computer co-founder, died on Saturday, November 2nd. In 1982, he left Tonka Toys (where he was Vice-President of Marketing) and became the Chief Executive Officer at Hi Toro, Inc., which he co-founded and which morphed later that year into Amiga, Inc. and led through the development of the Lorraine Project (a codename inspired by Dave’s wife Lorraine) -...
Students Design Open Source Video Card →
With the Open Graphics Project advancing slowly a few students picked up the idea to do it all smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper. From the site: “We’d love to have an OGD1 card and are amazed by it’s specifications, but for us and a lot of people, this card is simply too much. So that’s where this card comes in, to give you all the fun of developing on...
How To Make Desktop Applications Start... →
You probably know this: you power on your machine, and immediately after you have logged in you manually start your two or three favourite applications. Why not have the system start these applications for you automatically? This short guide shows how to accomplish this under GNOME.
Install CentOS 5 DomU on CentOS 5 Dom0(64 bit)... →
The article “Installing Xen On CentOS 5.0 (i386)” by Falko Timme silently presume that you have at least ADSL Internet connection 700 Kb/sec due to following instruction for virt-install command line utility..
VirtualBox: The best virtualization program you've... →
Quick, name some virtualization programs that run on Linux. Time’s up. If you’re like most people, you probably named VMware or Xen first. Many of you probably know of one or more of the following: Parallels, QEMU, KVM, Virtuozzo and OpenVZ. However, few of you probably know about VirtualBox. And chances are if you know about VirtualBox 1.502, you’re already running it because it...
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Why Gphone Will Use Ubuntu →
By now all of you have likely heard of the Google concept call the ‘Gphone.’ Yet there remains a lot of speculation in regards to its future.
Anatomy of Linux Synchronization Methods →
In your Linux® education, you may have learned about concurrency, critical sections, and locking, but how do you use these concepts within the kernel? This article reviews the locking mechanisms available within the 2.6 kernel, including atomic operators, spinlocks, reader/writer locks, and kernel semaphores. It also explores where each mechanism is most applicable for building safe and efficient...
Eee PC Tips: A crash course in Linux →
If you’ve got a bit of Linux experience under your belt, it’s pretty simple to add some programs, enable an advanced desktop, and tweak the Eee PC to your heart’s content. But it turns out that even if you’re a Linux noob, the learning curve isn’t that steep. Here are some of the most useful Eee hacks/tweaks we’ve discovered in our first half week of playing...
AppArmor's Security Goals →
“This document is intended to specify the security goal that AppArmor is intended to achieve, so that users can evaluate whether AppArmor will meet their needs, and kernel developers can evaluate whether AppArmor is living up to its claims. This document is *not* a general purpose explanation of how AppArmor works, nor is it an explanation for why one might want to use AppArmor rather than...
Note ...linh tinh. →
Tình hình là có một shell trên một hệ thống: cho dùng background và gcc. Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) - 2.4.20-8 Quá cũ ??? Việc cồm pai irssi với phiên bản irssi 0.8.9 (20031210 2316) cần glib. Đành phải cắn răng đem glib 1.2 về cồm pai. Với glib pkg-config mà dùng glib-config nên cần —with-glib1 và —with-glib-prefix để có thể cồm pai một cách trơn tru. Các free shell...
Updating your system the Smart way →
All Linux distributions have things in common, but many differ in software installation and updating. Gentoo Linux is based on Portage, SUSE uses YaST, Red Hat and Fedora opt for yum, Linspire prefers CNR…. Oh, and don’t forget the different package options: RPM, Debian, source, and more esoteric options. Smart Package Manager works with all major distributions, replacing native tools...
Google Only Ahead Of Microsoft In Search: Ballmer →
Whilst spruiking the release of Windows Live in Tokyo Thursday, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer told reporters that Google wasn’t ahead of Microsoft in any way online except with search.
“Google is not ahead of us” said Ballmer, “In the area of search specifically, Google would lead.”
Whilst the Windows Live platform is a positive step forward in Microsoft’s long pubescent attempts to become a leader...
HAMMER B-Tree Recovery →
“Speaking of on-disk B-Trees, ReiserFS’ biggest problems are all based on its use of flexible B-Trees,” suggested a reader on the DragonFlyBSD Kernel mailing list, pointing to the difficulty of detecting a failed node and then of rebuilding the B-Tree. HAMMER filesystem designer and author, Matt Dillon, explained, “if a cluster needs to be recovered, HAMMER will simply...
Four ways to extract the current directory name →
A great design talent →
Google sẽ đi đâu ? Cuộc chiến thầm lặng →
I.Google quả là cao tay: -Việc tung ra Gmail, Docs, Photos, Maps, Apps, Reader và vô số các ứng dụng online khác, google đã khẳng định một câu chắc nịch rằng : “Tao đang hướng đến cuộc cách mạng xử lý online”. Các dữ liệu hay tính toán đều nằm ở server google. Máy PC bình thường chỉ là những client nhỏ gọn đủ để kết nối tới các server đó. Việc...