SetUID bit, the executable which has the SUID set runs with the ownership of the program owner. That is, if you own an executable, and another person issues the executable, then it runs with your permission and not his. The default is that a program runs with the ownership of the person executing the binary.The SGID bit is the same as of SUID, only the case is that it runs with the permission of
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Linux Market Share Passes 2%
Posted on 1:47 AM by Unknown
W3Counter.com just releasted their April market share stats and linux passed 2.16% for the first time ever.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Operating Systems that power your mobile phones
Posted on 2:16 AM by Unknown
These days mobile phone markets are flooded with smart phones and they are not only about style statements anymore but also about practicality and more so. Speaking of practicality, we thought of compiling a list of some of the present day Mobile phones Operating system that are actually responsible for making these so called smart phones, smart.
All these OSes have their own pros and cons and
All these OSes have their own pros and cons and
How to list Open Files and Network Connections
Posted on 1:46 AM by Unknown
Lsof is a Unix-specific diagnostic tool. Its name stands for LiSt Open Files, and it does just that. It lists information about any files that are open by processes currently running on the system. It can also list communications open by each process.One evident advantage this capability is security. For example, if a spyware or other malware program was sending information from your computer to
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Squid Error : Name error: the domain name does not exist
Posted on 1:46 AM by Unknown
Problem (example):The requested URL could not be retrievedWhile trying to retrieve the URL: http://intranet/The following error was encountered: Unable to determine IP address from host name for http://intranetThe dnsserver returned: Name Error: The domain name does not exist.This means that:The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.Check if the address is
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Backup & Restore MySQL Databases - MySQLDumper
Posted on 6:44 AM by Unknown
MySQLDumper is a backup & restore management script for MySQL Databases, written in PHP and Perl, which fills this gap and offers a complete control over the databases.
MySQLDumper uses a proprietary technique to avoid execution interruption. It only reads and saves a certain amount of commands and then calls itself via JavaScript and memorizes how far in the process it was and resumes its
MySQLDumper uses a proprietary technique to avoid execution interruption. It only reads and saves a certain amount of commands and then calls itself via JavaScript and memorizes how far in the process it was and resumes its
Installing Wallpaper Clock in Ubuntu
Posted on 6:19 AM by Unknown
Wallpaper clocks are inherently wallpapers itself which can show live time and date with nice integration. You won't get an idea what it really is until you see it for yourself. Let's see how could you install wallpaper clocks in Ubuntu. I have included some screenshots as well. Check it out.
Screenshots
A quick look on what really is a wallpaper clock.
Stunning isn't it. Here's one more.
Now
Screenshots
A quick look on what really is a wallpaper clock.
Stunning isn't it. Here's one more.
Now
Increasing Bugzilla attachment size & saving large attachment on filesystem
Posted on 1:45 AM by Unknown
By default Bugzilla sets the maximum size of attachments and patches to 1 MB.In order to increase this you need to make a change to both Bugzilla and MySQLChange the maxattachmentsize parameters in BugzillaIn Admin login, go to "Parameters" >> Attachments >> maxattachmentsize, here you can change the Attachment Size as your wish as shown in the screenshot belowChange the size of allowed allowed
Friday, September 25, 2009
Enable Flash Support for Chromium in Ubuntu Linux
Posted on 6:19 AM by Unknown
Chromium Web Browser( Google Chrome for Linux ie ) has already won a lot of accolades among Ubuntu/Linux users. I am so impressed with this new chromium web browser, that i may even use it as my regular browser. Flash support is not available by default, but by a little bit of tweaking, you can enable it too. Here is how.
Make sure you have installed package flashplugin-nonfree. Best way to know
Make sure you have installed package flashplugin-nonfree. Best way to know
Ubuntu Karmic Koala : Features
Posted on 6:17 AM by Unknown
Yet another major Ubuntu release is on the anvil. It is called Ubuntu 9.10 codenamed Karmic Koala. There is nothing really to get excited about this new release to be frank. And probably no major changes to the user interface. Canonical had promised major changes to the UI for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, but even after two more major releases now, no upgrades have shown up yet. Lets take a look at
Linux Alternatives to Popular Apps
Posted on 6:13 AM by Unknown
Linux is quickly gaining popularity, but there are still many users afraid to convert as they are not familiar with the applications.
ANIMATION SOFTWARE Blender 3D: Blender 3D is a high-quality, robust animation program with a steep learning curve and the ability to create commercial-quality 3D animations. The software is completely free, with extensive documentation available online for free.
ANIMATION SOFTWARE Blender 3D: Blender 3D is a high-quality, robust animation program with a steep learning curve and the ability to create commercial-quality 3D animations. The software is completely free, with extensive documentation available online for free.
Install MS True Type Fonts in Fedora
Posted on 1:44 AM by Unknown
Microsoft's True Type fonts can also be used on Linux. Not only can they improve visibility, they are essential for proper look and layout. The installation is very simple…1) Make sure you have the following rpm-packages installed in your distribution. Any version should do.rpm-buildwgetttmkfdir utilitycabextract utility2) # sudo yum install rpm-build cabextract3) # wget http://
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Create Ubuntu packages (deb)
Posted on 1:43 AM by Unknown
GiftWrap is made for the artist who wants to share their theme, the developer who wants to share their software, or the common user who wants to install from packages and not source code.It helps you in creating Ubuntu .deb packages by guiding through the process with minimal fuss and maximum automation. GiftWrap also aims to help you in creating high-quality packages by helping you fill in as
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Multimedia Support in Fedora 11
Posted on 1:43 AM by Unknown
Why doesn’t Fedora support MP3 ‘out of the box’?Fedora cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary licenses. Fedora also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer.That doesn’t mean you can’t play
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
How to Cut/Split Video using Avidemux
Posted on 1:42 AM by Unknown
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit videos. It can open AVI, openDML, MPEG, Nuppelvideo, and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec and libmpeg2. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (MPEG4/MJPEG) or MPEG 1/2. The Spidermonkey Javascript engine is used to give powerful
Monday, September 21, 2009
How to Edit PDF Files in Linux - PDFEdit
Posted on 1:41 AM by Unknown
PDF files are often believed to be locked, requiring a tool from Adobe to edit or modify. That said, on Linux you can do almost anything with them using a simple software tool: PDFEdit. A combination of a good graphical interface and the power to edit the raw PDF file, PDFEdit is an open source project that gives you the ability to work with any PDF document you wish.PDFedit is primary created
Sunday, September 20, 2009
My Favorite photo of Richard Stallman
Posted on 9:04 AM by Unknown
Increase the booting speed of Fedora
Posted on 1:41 AM by Unknown
Initng is a full replacement of the old and in many ways deprecated sysvinit tool. It is designed with speed in mind, doing as much as possible asynchronously. In other words: It will boot your unix-system much faster, and give you more control and statistics over your system.The basic premise is that startup commands can be launched as soon as their dependencies are met. This limits the effect
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Configure YUM to exclude package upgrades
Posted on 12:46 PM by Unknown
Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages.
And many times its required that when you run the system/package updates you don't want to upgrade certain package and for this just add an exclude line to the end of your [main] section in /etc/yum.conf, and you are done.
And many times its required that when you run the system/package updates you don't want to upgrade certain package and for this just add an exclude line to the end of your [main] section in /etc/yum.conf, and you are done.
How To do "Man in Middle" Attack using Ettercap
Posted on 12:33 PM by Unknown
"Man in Middle" Attack is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker. The attacker must be able to intercept all messages going between the two
WineXS - GUI (Graphical User Interface) for Wine
Posted on 12:29 PM by Unknown
Wine makes it possible to run Windows programs alongside any Unix-like operating system, particularly Linux. At its heart, Wine is an implementation of the Windows Application Programing Interface (API) library, acting as a bridge between the windows programs and Linux.
Think of Wine as a compatibility layer, when a Windows program tries to perform a function that Linux doesn't normally
Think of Wine as a compatibility layer, when a Windows program tries to perform a function that Linux doesn't normally
How to disable loading of unnecessary kernel modules
Posted on 1:40 AM by Unknown
What exactly is a kernel module? A Kernel Module is a program that is not actually compiled into the Linux kernel but is loaded separately. Kernel modules enable you to extend the capabilities of the kernel without the need to build extra functionality directly into the kernel image. A good example is the device driver.There are certain advantages with using kernel modules as opposed to having
Friday, September 18, 2009
Front-end for the ClamAV antivirus toolkit - klamav/Clamtk
Posted on 1:39 AM by Unknown
One of the more popular Linux anti-virus tools is ClamAV. But to most users (especially new users) ClamAV is a bit challenging to use. That is where KlamAV comes in. KlamAV does an outstanding job of making ClamAV a user-friendly tool.Before using klamav you need to have Clamav antivirus installed:To install ClamAV on your ubuntu, open the terminal and type: sudo apt-get install clamav OpenSuse
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Microblogging client for Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and RSS - Gwibber
Posted on 1:38 AM by Unknown
Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, Identi.ca, Digg, Flickr, and RSS.Gwibber can post and receive messages from multiple social networking services, including Twitter, the open source Twitter variant, Identi.ca, Laconi.ca, Digg, Pidgin, Facebook, Flickr, Ping.fm, Jaiku and RSS/Atom feeds.It comes packaged
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Twitter client for KDE 4.2 - KDEtwitter
Posted on 1:38 AM by Unknown
KDEtwitter is a Twitter widget in KDE 4.2 which allows you to quickly: * Post messages directly from your desktop, without accessing your Twitter home page * Get notified when you receive updatesYou don’t have to configure anything other than your account and the password associated with it and you’re ready to tweet.When you click Add Widgets (on top right corner of your desktop), a window
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
KDE desktop Blogging Client - KBlogger
Posted on 1:37 AM by Unknown
KBlogger is a simple to use blogging application for the K Destkop Environment. KBlogger integrates in KDE Kicker for easy and fast blogging or is available as a standalone application for KDE 4. The Interface is slick and tries to provide all features support on the server side for your convenience. Just configure your blog, load the editor and start writing.Installation:OpenSuse user can use "
Monday, September 14, 2009
Kool Ubuntu GDM Themes
Posted on 1:35 AM by Unknown
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Searching files using catfish
Posted on 1:33 AM by Unknown
Catfish is a handy file searching tool for linux and unix.Basically Catfish is a frontend for different search engines (daemons) which provides a unified interface. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+ 2. You can configure it to your needs by using several command line options.At present Catfish supported backends are find, (s)locate, doodle, tracker, beagle,
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Block ssh brute force attack on OpenSuSe
Posted on 1:32 AM by Unknown
A brute force attack consists of trying every possible code, combination, or password until you find the right one.As an example, imagine a system which only allows 4 digit PIN codes. This means that there are a maximum of 10,000 possible PIN combinations.From the example above, PIN security could be increased by: * Increasing the length of the PIN * Allowing the PIN to contain characters
Friday, September 11, 2009
How to calculates CRC checksum and the byte count for file(s)
Posted on 1:31 AM by Unknown
cksum prints the CRC checksum for each file along with the number of bytes in the file, and the file name unless no arguments were given.cksum is typically used to ensure that files transferred by unreliable means have not been corrupted, by comparing the cksum output for the received files with the cksum output for the original files (typically given in the distribution).The CRC algorithm is
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Archiving, Encryption and File split tool - PeaZip
Posted on 1:28 AM by Unknown
PeaZip is a cross-platform portable file archiver, released under LGPL.PeaZip supports many different archive and compression formats including: 7z, 7z-sfx, ARC/WRC, BZ2, GZ, LPAQ, PAQ, PEA, QUAD, split, TAR, UPX, ZIP; Read: 7Z, ARC/WRC, ACE, ARJ, BZ2/TBZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ/TGZ, ISO, JAR/EAR/WAR, LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAK/PK3/PK4, PAQ, PEA, PET/PUP, QUAD, RAR, RPM, SLP, split, TAR, U3P, WIM,
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
DenyHosts Installation and Configuration on OpenSuSe
Posted on 1:30 AM by Unknown
DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by Linux system administrators to help thwart SSH server attacks (also known as dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks).If you've ever looked at your ssh log (/var/log/secure on Redhat, /var/log/messages on OpenSuSe, etc...) you may be alarmed to see how many hackers attempted to gain access to your server. Hopefully, none of them were
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Hiding secret data into image and audio files (OpenSuSe)
Posted on 1:27 AM by Unknown
Steghide is a steganography program that is able to hide data in various kinds of image and audio files. The color-frequencies (for image files) or sample-frequencies (for audio files) are not changed, thus making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests.Features include: * Compression of embedded data * Encryption of embedded data * Embedding of a checksum to
Monday, September 7, 2009
Complete and Reliable Password Manager - KeepassX
Posted on 1:26 AM by Unknown
KeePassX is a password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk.
This means that you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The complete database is always encrypted either with AES (alias Rijndael) or
This means that you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The complete database is always encrypted either with AES (alias Rijndael) or
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Mac4lin - Give that Mac OS X look to Linux
Posted on 1:24 AM by Unknown
Mac4Lin is best Mac like User Interface for Gnome and Xfce desktops like Ubuntu/Xubuntu, Fedora, Debian and others, that will take care of absolutely everything (from icons, themes to usplash – loading window at start) to look just like Mac. With this package comes: dock, the GTK theme, Emerald theme (3d window borders), new icons, new wallpapers, taskbar image, GDM themes, cursors, themes for
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Port Forwaring in a network containg 2 routers [or modem and a router]
Posted on 9:26 PM by Unknown
Here in this case Forwarding should be done from Modem to 192.168.100 and from Router to 192.168.2.200 [Click on the image to get an enlarged view ]
Query Apache logfiles via SQL
Posted on 1:24 AM by Unknown
The Apache SQL Analyser (ASQL) is designed to read Apache log files and dynamically convert them to SQLite format so you can analyse them in a more meaningful way. Using the cut, uniq and wc commands, you can parse a log file by hand to figure out how many unique visitors came to your site, but using Apache SQL Analyser is much faster and means that the whole log gets parsed only once. Finding
Friday, September 4, 2009
Multi-protocol, Multi-source, Fast and Reliable Download Utility - aria2
Posted on 1:23 AM by Unknown
aria2 is a multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE), and Metalink.aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP
Thursday, September 3, 2009
How do Flush DNS Cache in Linux
Posted on 1:22 AM by Unknown
Most DNS cache the results of name resolution requests. This speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address, such as is common when browsing the web.Sometimes a bad DNS entry will be cached and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or wait up to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically.In Linux, the nscd daemon manages the DNS
Auto reboot after kernel panic
Posted on 1:21 AM by Unknown
When a kernel encounters certain errors it calls the "panic" function which results from a unrecoverable error. This panic results in LKCD (Linux Kernel Crash Dump) initiating a kernel dump where kernel memory is copied out to the pre-designated dump area. The dump device is configured as primary swap by default. The kernel is not completely functional at this point, but there is enough
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Improving filesystem read performance using "noatime"
Posted on 1:20 AM by Unknown
Linux records information about when files was last accessed. There is a cost associated with recording the last access time. The ext3 file system of Linux has an attribute that allows the super-user to mark individual filesystem to ignore recording of last access time. This may lead to significant performance improvements on often accessed frequently changing files such as the contents of the
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Windows "Screen Of Death" now on Linux (GDM Theme)
Posted on 1:19 AM by Unknown
Here is fantastic GDM Theme based on the famous M$ Screen Of Death.Download "Screen Of Death" GDM
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