Archive for December, 2006
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Saddam's been executed. It's odd to realize that he's dead, though I certainly won't shed any tears. He's been such a focus of the news in the US for so many years that it was hard to imagine the execution would ever actually take place.
I think this finishes the real ...
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Friday, December 29th, 2006
20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration » Here are 20 things you can do to make your apache configuration more secure. Disclaimer: The thing about security is that there are no guarantees or absolutes. These suggestions should make your server a bit tighter, but don't think your server is ...
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Thursday, December 28th, 2006
CipherDyne » psad is a collection of three lightweight system daemons (two main daemons and one helper daemon) that run on Linux machines and analyze Netfilter log messages to detect port scans and other suspicious traffic.
Linux: 'Expires' website speed boost » While admins and webmasters use HTTP headers such as ...
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
After months of empty promises, The Roadhouse will finally go live on January 2. It will stream from The Little Blue House on the Wetlands at 10:00 pm CT, Tuesday nights, on TPXRadio.com. I did some testing last night. In fact, I couldn't stop - I did two full test ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Linux keyboard shortcuts you should know about » Pio’s Blog » Linux has many keyboard shortcuts. Knowing them makes using Linux much easier.
Netcat - a couple of useful examples » One of the Linux command line tools I had initially under-estimated is netcat or just nc. By default, netcat creates ...
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
A Christmas Toy for your Desktop | Linux App Finder » With the Christmas holiday season coming up, I decided to do a little computer decorating and went looking for the right software. What I found is a program called Xsnow. Xsnow is a simple app that turns your desktop ...
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Deadman.org: SSH-Agent Forwarding and GNU Screen » GNU Screen and OpenSSH are two incredibly useful tools. In this tutorial, I hope to help users to work around a small, but annoying, problem that can arise when using SSH-Agent forwarding and Screen. This tutorial assumes you have knowledge of SSH, SSH-Ag
Catch ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Linux Firewall - the Traffic Shaper » The time that an 'always-on' Internet link was only for the very rich or the very nerdy is finally behind us. Nowadays, for less then $100 per month, home computers and small business computers can be connected to the Net without having to ...
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
The Rootkit Hunter project - main page » Rootkit Hunter (RKH) is an easy-to-use tool which checks computers running UNIX clones) for the presence of rootkits and other unwanted tools.
Pulling The Covers Off Linux PAM » A hidden jewel -- or pain in the rear, depending on your perspective -- ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
All about Linux: Humor - Get your ABC's of Linux right » Recently, one of my friends shared with me this rather funny ode to Linux which was passed on to him by a friend of his, which I am in turn sharing with you. So without much ado, here ...
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