March, 2008

Ok this is something that I have been throwing around in the #linuxbasement and #linuxoutlaws on the irc.freenode.net server.
 
What is Tuxcaster?
Tuxcaster is a website to aggregate all the linux podcasts into one site discuss linux podcasts. It will also have master ogg and mp3 feeds that will allow someone to suscribe all the linux podcasts in one feed.

I posted this here http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/perl-script-to-rename-web-files-an... a while back but I thought I'd copy it here.

This is a little Perl script I had to write for a piece of coursework I've posted the code below and attached the file with an extra .txt extension(http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/files/script.pl.txt), its far from the best coding but it should:

Using VPN to network Virtual Machines to each other and to the Guest OS

I find this to be one of the easiest and securest ways of networking virtual machines (VM) to each other, and to the host OS (operating system).  It uses Virtual Private Network software (VPN) called hamachi, which is free to download, however it is freeware not free software (for more information about free software visit this web site http://www.fsf.org)

A Twitter Command for Your Terminal

Well Twitter seems to be getting popular now, and it's pretty we documented that it can be used via the command line terminal if CURL is installed.  The below is how to make a twitter command for your terminal.  You will obviously need to have a Twitter account registered, and you can do that by going to this web address https://twitter.com/signup

The first thing to do is to install curl if it isn't already installed

sudo aptitude install curl

Well guys i thought that i would post this for any of you that maybe developing web sites or heaven forbid your thinking firefox is too slow for you.

This is somewhat borrowed from this web site http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/03/howto-install-safari-on-ubuntu-w...

Who am i kidding it's all borrowed from this how to guide.

From what i can gather is basically your not making a Mac program work on Linux your making a Windows Program work under Linux, which in fairness is nothing new and exciting. 

Hi Chad.  Nice show - good topics.
 
I have a few pedantic notes about the find command.  It is not functionally equivalent to the rm command which it was supposed to replace.  That is to say, in some cases it will do the same thing, but in other cases not.  The most important difference is that find will descend into sub-directories.  I feel that it's important to tell people this, else they might end up removing a lot more files than they expect.
 

Linux Basement News:

The real story on my hacked site. And some related security talk.

Great new articles are up from Chrisindallas, and how to check your twitters with this Twitter one liner and a great Tutorial on how to Spice up your Bash prompt by Boondox.

We now have a wiki, with nothing on it.

Linux Basement News:

The real story on my hacked site. And some related security talk.

Great new articles are up from Chrisindallas, and how to check your twitters with this Twitter one liner and a great Tutorial on how to Spice up your Bash prompt by Boondox.

We now have a wiki, with nothing on it.

Well i have been working for the past couple of days with Zim Desktop Wiki.  I have been needing to work on a number of documents for a number of projects, ranging from coursework, to Linux society promotional material.  It dawned on me that i maybe better suited to using a Wiki to work on a majority of the stuff.

So i thought, right open source geezer shouldn't be a problem.  I certainly had heard about Zim but i hadn't given it much thought.  I loaded up synaptic package manager for a quick search about and came across Zim.

Hey everyone,

     That would be an area where listeners can tell their stories about converting others to the wonderful world ofLinux.

   Hi Chad,  I just started listening to your podcast last weekend.  I downloaded all of the episodes a listened to all of them while at work this past week.

Special thanks to Boondox for this article!
I like my console. I like my console so much I got tired at looking at the default bash prompt that is supplied with most distros out of the box. Its a boring grey prompt that gives you the basics. Thats fine and it works. If you use the console enough then you might want to spruce it up a bit. Here is how.

1) Backup your current prompt.

Greetings all.

I've been enjoying the podcast for some time now. Keep up the great work Chad.

I've been using Linux exclusively for a number of years. I started with Mandrake 9.2. Before that Win98.
The more I learn the more I understand how little I really know about linux. I'm sure learning heaps listening to this podcast. Loving the 2nd season security theme.
The thing I love most about linux is the freedom to experiment / try things out. That and the limitless flexibility.

Metasploit

I'm not actually going to go into detail on how to run Metasploint. A simple google search will give you an explosion of results on the many things you can do. I will however point you to the resources directly on the Metasploit site.

Documentation and Installation Instructions

To get Metasploit running on Ubuntu, I had to do the following.

apt-get install ruby libruby rdoc libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby libopenssl-ruby libdl-ruby libreadline-ruby libiconv-ruby rubygems

I'm going to try to post my songs up on a seperate feed if anyone is interested. The page can be found here, and the latest song from episode 15 is up.
http://www.linuxbasement.com/songs

Screw you Hacker Song, from Episode 15

With all this talk of Twitter from the command line, I thought I'd throw out a one liner to see the last 20 Tweets that my friends have posted.
curl --basic --silent --user user:password --get http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml | sed --quiet --expression='s/<name>\(.*\)<\/name>/\1/p' --expression='s/<text>\(.*\)<\/text>/\1/p'
Notice, that's all on one line, but was broken in two to fit on the screen.

Linux Basement News:

Added files, information and links page rather then a contact page. Here you can find a great wallpaper for the show, designed by Richard Querin of http://screencasters.heathenx.org, it is totally awesome!

Thanks to Finux For finding this nice way to twitter from the command line

Linux Basement News:

Added files, information and links page rather then a contact page. Here you can find a great wallpaper for the show, designed by Richard Querin of http://screencasters.heathenx.org, it is totally awesome!

Thanks to Finux For finding this nice way to twitter from the command line

Special thanks to Luke Scharf for this Tutorial/lesson in Linux.

Contact Info:

Chad Wollenberg - chad@linuxbasement.com

Peter Haliburton - pete@linuxbasement.com

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irc.freenode.net #linuxbasement

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This was posted on the forums by IamVarr and I wanted to make sure its archived as a tutorial. Thanks again Iamvarr!

The following perl script can be run on a server to monitor error logs via rss feeds on twitter.
 

Anyone know anything about this new Unisom Project?  http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143198-pg,1/article.html
I would love to see a truly full featured Exchange/Outlook killer.