Archive for April, 2009
Posted in April 30th, 2009
This guide explains how you can do a live migration of an LVM-based virtual machine (domU) from one Xen host to the other. I will use iSCSI to provide shared storage for the virtual machines in this tutorial. Both Xen hosts and the iSCSI target are running on Debian Lenny in this article.
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Does Oracle+Sun spell dream come true or disaster for the open source movement? The blogosphere has been ringing with opinions left, right and center on the topic, and perhaps just one thing is certain: The times they are a-changing.
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Rep. Virginia Foxx said Matthew Sheppard was murdered in an attempted "robbery."
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Rep. Virginia Foxx said Matthew Sheppard was murdered in an attempted "robbery."
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Rep. Virginia Foxx said Matthew Sheppard was murdered in an attempted "robbery."
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Rep. Virginia Foxx said Matthew Sheppard was murdered in an attempted "robbery."
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
If you like me upgraded to ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope changes are that you are confronted with a login screen at startup. Here’s an easy way to get back your settings to login immediately. If you think this is a security risk, just read the article 10 ways of resetting a lost linux root password and think if you really need to protect against 4 year olds. If you really need security take appropriate measures. To me the login screen is only an annoyance. Here’s how to remove it:
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There’s a new show coming to the Discovery Chanel called Weaponizers. Brought to you by the same people who brought you Mythbusters, this show centers around weaponizing and remote controlling cars. They’ll be building them with several different types of competition in mind, including defense of an object and all out warfare. You’ll note in [...]
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It’s not the first time Microsoft has tried to wrestle away market share from free software using shady tactics. Suddenly, Microsoft seems to have discovered that education is strategic for their enterprise and they are pouring resources into cornering the market… at least in areas where Linux has the lead.
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
With the release this week of Fedora 11 Preview, which incorporates install-time support for the Btrfs file-system into Red Hat’s Anaconda installer, we have now delivered our first set of benchmark results for this next-generation Linux file-system. Through a horde of disk tests we have looked at the Btrfs file-system performance and compared it to that of EXT3, EXT4, and XFS. While Btrfs does perform well in some areas, it is not yet the performance king for Linux file-systems. As our results show, in some tests it even has a hard time competing with the incremental EXT4 file-system.
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Apache is currently the world’s most popular webserver. There are many alternative webservers, but Apache was one of the first which offered real control, flexibility, and numerous available extensions. With the introduction of mod_perl you can directly control almost every aspect of your webserver with pure Perl. Read on for a brief introduction to using mod_perl.
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Apache is currently the world’s most popular webserver. There are many alternative webservers, but Apache was one of the first which offered real control, flexibility, and numerous available extensions. With the introduction of mod_perl you can directly control almost every aspect of your webserver with pure Perl. Read on for a brief introduction to using mod_perl.
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
How to extract and manipulate CSV data from the command line.
Download in .ogv format
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Barack Obama says torture "corrodes the character of a country."
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Barack Obama says torture "corrodes the character of a country."
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Inspired by this year’s april fools day joke from Opera, [Jason] has made facial gesture recognition actually work. While this may seem like a silly project, it could seriously help some people out. This could be a great accessibility tool for people with motor control limitations.He states that it has some problems right now, most [...]
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Creating A Fully Encrypted Para-Virtualised Xen Guest System Using Debian Lenny
This document explains how to set up a fully encrypted
para-virtualized XEN instance. In this howto, the host system is
running Debian Etch, while the guest system to be installed will be
using Debian Lenny. If you are concerned about your privacy, you might want to
consider using hard disk encryption to protect your valuable
private data from spying eyes. Usually, the easiest way would be to
use your distribution’s installer to set up a fully encrypted
system; I think most recent Linux distributions support this.
However, when you are using XEN to provide virtualization, there
are situations where you might not want to encrypt your whole
computer with all guest instances, but instead only encrypt one OS
instance. This howto will deal with exactly this situation. It
assumes that the XEN host system is already up and running.
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
How about a cool new Linux desktop? Yeah? But this one really works.
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Facebook has excellent granular privacy controls.

But here’s the thing…
What’s the deal with Facebook’s Security Questions???

Mother’s birthday? — Father’s middle name? — Third grade teacher?
Security challenge questions based on social information is probably not the best of ideas on a social networking site. Particularly now that Facebook’s user base is as expansive as it is.
After all, who’s going to know personal details about yourself?
That’s right — your friends.
Facebook should revise this sooner than later.
On 30/04/09 At 02:59 PM
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Re: ZDI-09-018: Symantec Client Security Alert Originator Service Stack Overflow Vulnerability
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Re: ZDI-09-018: Symantec Client Security Alert Originator Service Stack Overflow Vulnerability
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Re: Symantec Fax Viewer Control v10 (DCCFAXVW.DLL) remote buffer overflow exploit
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Re: Symantec Fax Viewer Control v10 (DCCFAXVW.DLL) remote buffer overflow exploit
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Security tools list: First Version
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
MULTIPLE REMOTE VULNERABILITIES–Leap CMS 0.1.4–>
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Probably not all that much fun for an experienced admin, but a good introduction for the green.
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
Have you ever felt like you were being ignored? Have you ever felt like you were talking but no one was listening? Well, that’s how it feels when your e-mail system is broken and you don’t know it.
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Posted in April 30th, 2009
One of our readers, Mike, pointed out a certitifed letter that his organization received from ARIN. …(more)…
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