April, 2008

Being a bad speller but wanting  to use irssi was a conundrum I had to deal with.
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Okay, I don't like writing guides and I'm sure there are better ways to accomplish this and I'm sure the content could be better but as they say patches are welcome.

First Impression of the Heron 8.04

Well i took the dive yesterday and installed Hardy Heron.  As usual come Ubuntu release day the servers where tanked and it was going to take for ever to download so i read that a beta with a quick dist-upgrade will do the job, and off i went.

Has anybody else checked out Sidux?  I've been using it on my work PC for a little over two weeks now, and I'm not sure if it's cool or not.
Cool:  Latest and greatest Debian (even though it's Sid, I haven't had one crash yet), custom scripts to install proprietary drivers, live cd, 32 and 64 bit editions, better hardware detection than 'plain-old' Debian, 'Lite' edition is very quick even though it's KDE (225 MB of used RAM on initial boot!), VirtualBox support right out of the box (XP works great in a VM)

Linux Basement News:

New podcasts out at www.armoredpenguin.net and Verbal has a linux trivia podcast out at http://setbit.org/lt.html

Facebook, Twitter, and the www.linuxbasement community.

What do we do next season? Would you like to be on the listener show?

In the News:

Pete's Picks of the week:

Linux Basement News:

New podcasts out at www.armoredpenguin.net and Verbal has a linux trivia podcast out at http://setbit.org/lt.html

Facebook, Twitter, and the www.linuxbasement community.

What do we do next season? Would you like to be on the listener show?

In the News:

Pete's Picks of the week:

Hi Linux Basement listeners, and welcome to finux's student hackers guide to Linux, and today's topic rootkit's.

My name is Arron, but you guys can all me finux

Well in today's segment I'm going talk about rootkit's in some detail, now there isn't going to be a practical aspect like last week but more of a discussion. The idea of this guide is to make you aware of rootkit's, what they can do, their history, the varying different type of rootkit's.

Here is the file in wav format, compressed down to save space for download. I did not do anything to the file other then take out some background noice. no time editing was done.
Chad

 
== Episode 18 ==

Greeting from Idaho Falls, ID aka Land of the Spud-chuckers. Been using Linux since late 2006 when SuSE 10.2 was released. I remember that because I downloaded 10.1, installed it, then 10.2 was released the next week. Kinda ticked me off. But since then, I've spent much of my bandwidth on downloading a ton of Linux distros trying to find that special distro that would make me all warm and fuzzy. Turned out that it is .....

Linux Mint.

Linux Basement News:
Thanks to Richard Querin for the new batch of wallpapers!
Thanks to Script Munkee for sending me the correction on the ~ function in Linux. 
In the News:
Youtube videos in Totem, with a plugin. Thanks to Pete Brown on twitter.
Tips and Tricks:

Linux Basement News:

Thanks to Richard Querin for the new batch of wallpapers!

Thanks to Script Munkee for sending me the correction on the ~ function in Linux. 

In the News:

Youtube videos in Totem, with a plugin. Thanks to Pete Brown on twitter.

Tips and Tricks:

====== Kismet GPSDrive Google Earth Howto Guide ======

Technical Ability = Medium - Configuration of .conf files using a text editor, ability to run commands as a root user. Use of either package manager or compiling software from source code.

Packages To Be Installed;

Kismet, gpsd, GPSDrive, MySQL server and client, MySQL python Interface

Great show Chad and Pete (I totally agree with Chad, it must have been hard on you this week with April 1st Pete, so many bogus stories!)
 
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Linux Basement News:
Awesome new User articles up. Special thanks to the boyz over in Scotland, Finux and Kirok. Finux Specifically wrote about another way to isolate virtual machines using VPN. Check out all the user articles here.
There is a new Ubuntu Podcast out, from some fine gents across the pond http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

Linux Basement News:

Awesome new User articles up. Special thanks to the boyz over in Scotland, Finux and Kirok. Finux Specifically wrote about another way to isolate virtual machines using VPN. Check out all the user articles here.

There is a new Ubuntu Podcast out, from some fine gents across the pond http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

If you've ever had to do any intrusion detection on a large scale network, then you've probably heard of snort. Snort is one of those great success stories of open source. It has been around a long time, and you can read all about it, on their site, at www.snort.org.