LB - Episode 15 - Back For Blood by Linux Basement

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

curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status="Your Message Here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

and also for his great last installment of his open source article. Also thank you to Iamvarr for a cool twitter perl script that I added to the User article section. And thanks to Kirok for his editorial Linux and I: My first experiences

I talk about my week at SANS. More to come on this in future episodes.

In the News:

Pete's Picks of the Week:

• Path Traversal vulnerability in VMware's shared folders implementation <http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2129> (Arron)
• Chess Griffin retires Linux Reality <http://www.linuxreality.com/podcast/episode-96-two-years-later/>
• Wal-Mart drop Linux in stores <http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h1PiJV6tzE7u6fC7J5MQLVJxp5HA>
  <http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62074.html?welcome=1205331> (Iamvarr)
• 9" Asus Eee PC <http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/asus-9-inch-eee-pc-now-with-living-pixels/ >
• Quote of the week <http://junauza.blogspot.com/2008/01/top-50-linux-quotes-of-all-time.html>
• This week's featured Linux Distributon <http://vectorlinux.com/> <http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=vector>
• The latest Linux distributions <http://www.distrowatch.com>
• Top 5 of the past 7 <http://www.distrowatch.com>
• Pete's Picks opening music written, recorded, performed, and produced by J. Peter Haliburton.
• Some sound effects obtained from <http://www.wavsource.com/sfx/sfx.htm> and <http://www.therecordist.com/pages/downloads.html>

A Special Interview: Luke Scharf

Guest Tutorial:

The Mother of All Commands - By Luke Scharf