SystemRescueCd is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution that specializes in repairing unbootable computer systems and recovering data after a system crash. Since it is loaded with system utilities, its main aim is to provide a handy tool to anyone that needs to perform computer admin tasks.
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Webalizer - Apache web server log file analysis Tool
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The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser.
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How To Repair MySQL Replication
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If you have set up MySQL replication, you probably know this problem: sometimes there are invalid MySQL queries which cause the replication to not work anymore. In this short guide I explain how you can repair the replication on the MySQL slave without the need to set it up from scratch again.
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Debian Installer lenny beta 2 released
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"The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the second beta release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny..."
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AMD Talks About Stream SDK On Linux
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Late last month AMD had announced the release of the Stream SDK for Linux. This Stream SDK brings support for the CAL and Brook+ libraries on Linux. The version released was Stream SDK 1.1 Beta, which arrived at the same time as the SDK for Windows XP. With this new Linux support, we ran a small Q&A session with Michael Chu, who serves as the product manager for AMD Stream software.
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Distributed revision control with Mercurial
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"Welcome to the home of the book 'Distributed revision control with Mercurial', by Bryan O'Sullivan. This is a freely licensed book about the Mercurial revision control system..."
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USB thumb drive RAID
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It is well known that the so-called "solid-state disks" (SSD) have very low access times. I could have tried to buy an SSD, but being a tinkerer, I decided for another option. Thumb drives / flash drives / pen drives are also a kind of SSDs, one could say - but they have lousy transfer rates. In the end, I decided to create a software RAID using four 2GB USB drives.
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The art of Linux
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The existence of Linux is inevitable in the realm of LAMP based web development. It is more than incomplete to talk about LAMP without the operating system - Linux. Although Apache, mySQL and PHP/Python/Perl are equally capable of running over non-*nix machines too, Linux predominantly holds a larger share in terms of developers’ choice. Hence the acronym - LAMP. So, where lies the difference?
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One-Time Contributers
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Tony Luck offered some statistics focused on the frequency of developers that only contribute to the Linux kernel one time
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Untangle: Aptly Named
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Scarcely a week goes by when I don't hear about yet another new (or relatively new) open source project that stands in for a proprietary solution. Consider Untangle, a network gateway appliance than runs on any commodity hardware and handles spam, firewalling, Web filtering and protocol controls, VPN, and tons more. They'll even send you a preloaded demo server.
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Run-levels: Create, use, modify, and master
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In this article, we cover how to create, use, modify, and ultimately master run-levels. Bookmark this page with your favorite bookmarking service, and rest easy about ever missing that interview question again.
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Enable the Advanced File Permissions Dialog in Nautilus — The GUI Way
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Recently on Tombuntu there's a post which tells you how to Enable the Advanced File Permissions Dialog in Nautilus by issuing the command in a terminal. If you feel more comfortable to achieve the goal through a GUI way. Here you go:
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Git, Mercurial, Bazaar Repository Size Benchmark
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"I have finished all conversions of the repositories that I’m going to test. [...] Tests were done using Git v1.5.5.3, Bzr v1.5, Hg v1.0 ..."
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Defeat Nmap OS Fingerprinting with ippersonality & iplog
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Remote OS Fingerprinting is becoming more and more important, not only for security pen-testers,but for the black-hat. Just because Nmap is getting popularity as the tool for guessing which OS is running in a remote system, some security tools have been developed to fake Nmap in its OS Fingerprinting purpose.
Read more »Avoid Detection with nmap Port Scan Decoys
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nmap has -D option. It is called decoy scan. With -D option it appear to the remote host that the host(s) you specify as decoys are scanning the target network too. Thus their IDS might report 5-10 port scans from unique IP addresses, but they won’t know which IP was scanning them and which were innocent decoys.
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