Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail. Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you [...]
Deluge is a full-featured free opensource BitTorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it’s backend and PyGTK for it’s user interface. Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge’s functionality is available in the form [...]
xargs is an incredibly useful command: it takes in input and executes your chosen command on it: xargs command. Deceptively simple in concept; extremely powerful in execution. It’s most commonly used to execute one command on the output from another command (command1 | xargs command2), and most often the output-generating command is find (xargs is [...]
My dad has been pestering me for some time to find him an open source tool that he could use to follow the market trends. He’s been thinking about investing a little something in the market, but not without due diligence. Grism, written in Ruby, is the tool my dad now uses to easily follow [...]
Usually people manages Linux boxes using Windows clients but sometimes, someone (like me, for example) needs to manage a Windows server from a Linux host (it could be a normal client or another server which wants to talk to Windows).
IMO, Active Directory is one of the best product from Microsoft, since it’s based on a [...]
Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. Tomboy is written in C# and utilizes the Mono runtime and Gtk#. Automatic spell-checking is provided by GtkSpell.
Read more at www.susegeek.com
Have you ever been chatting on a website forum and been totally unable to describe an action you’ve performed on Ubuntu? “Click the top bar—the grey thing at the top, you know. And then drag the icon. The blue icon. Drag it to the desktop…”
The fact is that it can be hard describing in words [...]
Nowadays, many servers are running with 2-4 gigabytes of RAM, and their owners are discovering a problem: When they run 32-bit debian Linux distribution, their extra RAM is not being used. Fortunately, correcting the problem is only a matter of installing or building a kernel with a few specific parameters enabled or disabled.
In Debian, use [...]
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client that allows you to connect to several IM networks at one time. Most Linux users will be familiar with Pidgin, as it is the default IM client in most distribution.
Other than its basic functionality, Pidgin also has a plugin system that allows its users to activate plugins to [...]
In this article I will show how to install and configure fail2ban
on a Mandriva 2008.1 system. Fail2ban is a tool that observes login
attempts to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, SMTP, Apache, etc., and if
it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address
or host, fail2ban stops further login attempts from that IP
address/host [...]
SimplePie is a
PHP library that can fetch, cache, parse, and normalize RSS and Atom
feeds. It allows you to display the newest articles from websites with
RSS or Atom feeds on your own site. This is a great way to add new,
fresh, and relevant information to your site. This guide shows how you
can set it up for [...]
‘uvhd’ is a binary file investigation utility. It displays the contents of any
file in vertical hexadecimal format, and prompts for commands to browse,
search, select, update, scan/replace, print, translate, etc. uvhd is an
interactive utility with a command line interface and 18 help screens.
Read more at HowtoForge
Earlier this month Adobe released a Flash Player 10 release candidate (10.0.0.569) for Linux. Over the previous betas, this release has improvement performance, fixes bugs, better V4L2 camera input, and fixes fullscreen video playback.
It’s not likely that Flash Player 10 RC will make it into Ubuntu 8.10 because of the feature freeze.
Read more at Tombuntu
UNetbootin allows you to easily adapt a Linux CD image to boot off of a USB flash drive or memory card. Have a system without a CD drive? Create a bootable USB drive to run your Linux installer.
I used this method to create an Ubuntu 8.04.1 live SD card. The process required just over 700 [...]
OpenVAS, Open Vulnerability Assessment Server is a free opensource vulnerability assessment software released under GNU GPL lincese. OpenVAS is a fork of Nessus Vulnerability assessment software. Similar to the Plugin sets in Nessus, OpenVAS provides free Network Vulnerability Tests plugins that can be updated regularly.
OpenVAS needs for components installed on the server end namely
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