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Linux / UNIX Desktop Fun: Let it Snow On Your Desktop

Vivek Gite — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:22:19 +0000

Feeling lonely this holiday season? Try Xsnow. This little app will let is snow on the desktop. Santa and his reindeer will complete your festive season feeling with moving snowflakes on your desktop, with Santa Claus running all over the screen.

Debian / Ubuntu Linux: Configure Network Bonding [ Teaming / Aggregating NIC ]

Vivek Gite — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:49:46 +0000

NIC teaming is nothing but combining or aggregating multiple network connections in parallel. This is done to increase throughput, and to provide redundancy in case one of the links fails or Ethernet card fails. The Linux kernel comes with the bounding driver for aggregating multiple network interfaces into a single logical interface called bond0. In this tutorial, I will explain how to setup bonding under Debian Linux server to aggregate multiple Ethernet devices into a single link, to get higher data rates and link failover.

How To Tail (View) Multiple Files on UNIX / Linux Console

Vivek Gite — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:28:32 +0000

tail is one of the best tool to view log files in a real time (tail -f /path/to/log.file). The program MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). This is one of those dream come true program for UNIX sys admin job. You can browse through several log files at once and do various operations like search for errors and much more.

How To Convert From a VMware Image To Virtualbox Image

Vivek Gite — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:24:43 +0000

VirtualBox is a virtual emulator like VMWare workstation. It has many of the features VMWare has, as well as some of its own.

I really like new Opensource VirtualBox from Sun. It is light on resources. Here is a quick tip - you can convert a VMware virtual machine (image) to a VirtualBox machine (image) using qemu-img utility, without reinstalling the GUEST operating system

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Update 6 Released

Vivek Gite — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:07:25 +0000

Didn't take long to release new updated version.
The Debian project is pleased to announce the sixth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename "etch"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems. This update has been rated as having important security impact. You are advised to upgrade system ASAP.

Security Alert: Streamripper buffer overflow bug

Vivek Gite — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:09:39 +0000

Multiple buffer overflows involving HTTP header and playlist parsing have been discovered in streamripper (CVE-2007-4337, CVE-2008-4829).

Security Alert: Debian OpenSSH packages Fix Denial of Service

Vivek Gite — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:09:28 +0000

Debian Linux project released the Openssh security updates for computers powered by its Debian Linux operating systems. It has been discovered that the signal handler implementing the login timeout in Debian's version of the OpenSSH server uses functions which are not async-signal-safe, leading to a denial of service vulnerability.

shoes – A cross-platform Windowing Applikit

Vivek Gite — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:36:03 +0000

Shoes is a very informal graphics and windowing toolkit. It's for making regular old apps that run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's a blend of my favorite things from the Web, some Ruby style, and a sprinkling of cross-platform widgets. Shoes uses Ruby as its interface language.

dnsmasq Dns Cache Software Security Update To Fix DNS Spoofing Attacks

Vivek Gite — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:55:27 +0000

Red Hat has shipped a new version of its dnsmasq caching software to plug source UDP port bug. This could have made DNS spoofing attacks (CVE-2008-1447) easier. Dnsmasq is lightweight ultra fast dns cache server forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network.

Security Alert: BIND9 DNS Cache Poisoning Bug

Vivek Gite — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:40:13 +0000

Dan Kaminsky discovered that properties inherent to the DNS protocol lead to practical DNS cache poisoning attacks. Among other things, successful attacks can lead to misdirected web traffic and email rerouting.

Security Alert: Ubuntu Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Vivek Gite — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:34:12 +0000

Multiple buffer overflows were discovered in the Ubuntu Linux kernel and can be corrected by upgrading your system to latest kernel version.

Ubuntu Software Update How To

Vivek Gite — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:13:54 +0000

A step-by-step guide for updating Ubuntu Linux software / system and patching system for security updates.

Debian / Ubuntu Package Troubleshooting: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status xx

Vivek Gite — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:47:29 +0000

A quick way to fix shell post / pre execution scripts package problem under Debian / Ubuntu Linux.

apturl – Install package with the apt protocol

Vivek Gite — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:53:20 +0000

apturl lets you install packages using a apt:pkgname like synatx. For example, install php5 package by visiting url. You should see prompt as follows: You can install apturl under Ubuntu Linux by entering following command: $ sudo apt-get install apturl => apturl package project home page. (found via Linux Hack3r)

How to: Linux Play DivX .avi video codec file

Vivek Gite — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:21:30 +0000

From my mail bag: I've downloaded .avi files which is compressed into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality using DivX format. How do I play DivX compressed files under Debian / Ubuntu Linux? The current version of the DivX Community Codec for the Windows platform is version 6.6, and for Mac OS X [...]

Convert pixmaps file into a Windows .ico file to create a favicon.ico file with GIMP

Vivek Gite — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:26:08 +0000

Favorites icon (favicon) file is placed in a web server root directory. It is a page icon or associated with a particular website. For example when you visit our site you see favicon in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name. Also it appears next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks, [...]

How to upgrade lighttpd tar ball (source code) installation

Vivek Gite — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:43:36 +0000

Upgrading lighttpd is a piece of cake. There are two methods: a) Use yum or apt-get or FreeBSD ports / command to update binary lighttpd package b) Just download latest lighttpd tar ball from official web site and install the same. Let us see how to upgrade lighttpd using source code (tar ball). # 1 [...]

Download of the day: Debian 4.0r1 Released (updated version)

Vivek Gite — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:16:24 +0000

Finally Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated. The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename Etch). This update adds security updates to the stable release, together with a few corrections to serious problems. As always, the first point release also corrects a few issues that have been noticed too late in the release [...]

Ubuntu Linux install development / system library functions man pages (manual)

Vivek Gite — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:59:17 +0000

I’m little surprised to find that Ubuntu Linux skips development man pages by default. A quick search using apt-cache pointed out to manpages-dev package. It includes manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development. Install development man pages Use apt-get command: $ sudo apt-get install manpages-dev To view library calls (functions within program libraries), enter: $ [...]

How to use rsync for transferring files under Linux or UNIX

Vivek Gite — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:13:10 +0000

How do you install and use rsync to synchronize files and directories from one location (or one server) to another location? - A common question asked by new sys admin. rsync is a free software computer program for Unix and Linux like systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing [...]