Getting access to your remote Ubuntu desktops through an ISA HTTP proxy can be a pain. This article shows you how to create a HTTP tunnel that will allow you to bypass even the most restrictive proxies and firewalls.
Read more »Creating a HTTP Tunnel to a remote NX Ubuntu 10.04 desktop through an ISA proxy
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OpenSuse Build Service 1.8 and 2.0 completed
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While the new major release, 2.0, offers a new user interface, version 1.8 was extended to include a rights management feature
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Next3: Ext3 with snapshots
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The Next3 filesystem offers lightweight snapshots and is compatible with Ext3
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Medusa: Open Source Software 'Login Brute-Forcer' for Password Auditing
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You can use an on online attack as an opportunity to check that your security systems detect when a server is being bombarded with unsuccessful login attempts, and that individual accounts lock after a small number of unsuccessful login attempts.
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The State Of Intel's GLSL2 Compiler
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Intel's Eric Anholt has been working on writing a GLSL2 compiler for their open-source Mesa graphics stack. Mesa's GL Shading Language compiler has been limited to version 1.4 support, but Eric is making headway in supporting version 2.0. In response to the recent ATI R300 GLSL discussion, Eric has provided an update on the Intel efforts.
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Giggle: A Git GUI
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In the roughly five years that the Git distributed version control system has been around, it has gained quite a following. But at its core, Git is command-line oriented, which doesn't necessarily suit all of its users. Along the way, various GUI interfaces to Git have been created, including two Tcl/Tk-based tools that come with Git.
Read more »Trac 0.12 released
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Trac is an enhanced free software wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. It's mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team's established development process and policies.
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Learn Linux, 101: Find and place system files
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Learn the correct location for files under the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) on a Linux® system and learn how to find important files and commands. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to explore file organization and management.
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Aptitude Removed From Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
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While many believed "aptitude" will soon replace "apt-get" given the fact that it's a lot "smarter", it seems that's not the case in Ubuntu - in fact it's quite the opposite: aptitude has been removed from Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat though it is still available in the repositories.
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Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Fedora 12
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This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Fedora 12 server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails.
Read more »Facebook Open Sources Insights Script For Developers
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If you are a developer that read about yesterday's Facebook Insights announcement but want examples of tools that can be implemented, look no further than Facebook's open source Insights API sample that was released yesterday.
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CTERA Adds Data Protection to Linux File Systems
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CTERA Networks is giving the Linux Ext3 file system additional data protection in the form of new snapshot capabilities. The file system is also the basis of the company's Cloud-Attached Storage appliances, the C200 and CloudPlug.
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Make your fridge run Linux!
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OMG, what? My refrigerator, that thingie that keeps all them foods and whatnot cool and edible can run Linux? Well, definitely. And in this article, I will show you how.
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A Good Old Dog
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The Mutt MUA started in 1995 when Michael Elkins wrote the first version. It's powerful, light-weight, made for CLI, and tends to suck less than do other email clients. It's my MUA of choice, and if you've never used it (or haven't in a while), you may want to give it a try. For the purposes of this little tutorial, I am going to assume that you use Gmail (who doesn't these days?).
Read more »Open-Source Virtualization Comes of Age in Ubuntu 10.04
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One of the areas in which open-source software has truly come into its own during the last few years is virtualization. The latest LTS release of Ubuntu, which offers a variety of Free virtualization solutions, makes this abundantly clear. Below, we take a look at some of those options, with a focus on KVM, and consider their meaning for Ubuntu users.
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