Happy Birthday To GNU
Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday. Happy birthday GNU!
Read more of this story →What To Do: Users Still Wants Telnet
TELNET (TELecommunication NETwork) is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area network (LAN) connections. It was developed in late 60s with RFC 15. Telnet is pretty old for login into remote system and it has serious security problem. Most admins will recommend using Open SSH (secure shell) for all remote activities. But you may find users who are still demanding telnet over ssh as they are comfortable with Telnet. Some users got scripts written in 90s and they don’t want to change it. So what do you do when users demands telnet?
Read more of this story →Critical Red hat / Fedora Linux Openssh Security Update
Last week one or more of Red Hat’s servers got cracked. Now, it has been revealed that both Fedora and Red Hat servers have been compromised. As a result Fedora is changing their package signing key. The intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64 architecture only). This update has been rated as having critical security impact.
Read more of this story →CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Poor NFS Performance and Solution
A few days ago I noticed that NFS performance between a web server node and NFS server went down by 50%. NFS was optimized and the only thing was updated Red Hat kernel v5.2. I also noticed same trend on CentOS 5.2 64 bit edition.
Read more of this story →Gnome Desktop Tip: Quickly Open Any File / URL / Write Email
There are three ways to open any file under Gnome Linux / UNIX Desktop. gnome-open is the quickest and easiest way to open any file or url.
Read more of this story →How To Configuring Urchin 6 Tracking To Analyze Website Logs
This is 3rd and the final installment for Urchin 6 web analytics software series. Once Urchin is installed, you need to configure tracking on your website. You need to install Urchin sensors - a small piece of javascript tracking code on each of your website’s pages.
Read more of this story →Apple Iphone In India: Price Announced - Rs 31,000 For 8GB Model
Finally, Vodafone announces price of iPhone 3G Phone in India. There is an abyssal price gap between the US and India version.
Read more of this story →Exploring Urchin Web Analytics Software
Urchin software comes with a number of utility programs that are used for diagnostic and configuration purposes. Let us see how to Linux tools to configure basic options.
Read more of this story →Linux: Install Urchin 6 Web Analytics Software
Web analytics is the study of online behaviour in order to improve it. There are two categories; off-site and on-site web analytics. Google’s Urchin 6 can be installed under Linux kernel 2.6 or 2.4 for Apache web log analysis. Urchin 6 is just like Google Analytics the most widely used hosted web analytics system. It is targeted at ecommerce web sites or enterprise users behind firewalls. In this mini series you will learn about installing and using web log analysis software called Google Urchin 6 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x.
Read more of this story →Postfix Mail Server Security Update [moderate security impact]
Postfix MTA updated to fix security vulnerabilities such as incorrectly checks the ownership of a mailbox. In some configurations, this allows for appending data to arbitrary files as root. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact.
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