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I have been a member of the AntiOnline forums for over a year and a half now, and over this time I have learnt a lot about security - from the threads, tutorials, and other members. So, I thought I would share the wonderful world of AO with you! I have chosen the general security tutorials, and also the Linux-related ones. First of all, there are the undeniably amazing video tutorials by Irongeek. You can find them all on his website - they range from a simple penetration test on a web server to using nmap. Then there are the in-depth tutorials by thehorse13. You can find them all here. I highly recommend his nmap and hping tutorials, but they are all very informative and good reads. Tony Bradley - editor of the Internet/Network Security section on About.com - also has a good set of introductions to the background info on vulnerability scanning, firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, sniffers and the like. The rest of his tutorials are aimed at Windows XP users, but the mentioned ones are universal. Click here to see them. Finally, the King of Operating Systems, gore himself. You’ll find tons of tutorials on installing different flavours of Linux, and also some security tutorials for SUSE. If you are ever having trouble, you might want to check out his tutorial list - chances are that the solution is in one of them. There is a plethora of other great information in the Security Tutorials and Other Tutorials forums, and I cannot name all the members, but some more are: Tiger Shark, Ennis, catch, and Soda Popinsky. Why not become a member yourself to learn more? Many of you will already have heard rumours of Google’s upcoming Operating System, “Goobuntu”. As its name suggests, it is going to be based on Ubuntu, but obviously with Google’s magic touch (whatever that is). Continue reading ‘Google’s Desktop Linux’ This cool ‘tweak’ (if it can be called that) is very useful, and I only came across it a few days ago (possibly in a mailing list, butI can’t remember). In a shell (eg. bash), once you have typed in a series of commands, you can recall them because they are stored in your history - this is standard. But, wouldn’t it be even slicker if you could view the last parameters you issued to a command without having to wade through all you history? Well, here’s the solution. Continue reading ‘Shell Hack - Simplify Your CLI’ As you will all know (it’s quite hard not to with all the propaganda), it is Valentine’s Day. The day you go out and spoil your partner rotten with presents, kisses, roses and all sorts. But this isn’t a love blog, so I’ll wish you all a Happy Valentine’s Day and then we can continue. Happy Valentine’s Day! Good, now we can move on. As I have nothing better to do today, I will be giving this blog a complete makeover - yup, I’m going to slave away at the keyboard (and mouse) until I can get this to look as unique as… as Jordan’s breasts. That’s the phrase I was looking for. Q. So, what will be changing? Continue reading ‘Valentine’s Makeover’ I am sorry to reblog this, but I think it’s worth a mention. I don’t know why anyone would ever want to make Linux look like OS X, but this article on Linux Gangsters explains how to do it quite well! But, the final result is missing one important feature - OS X wallpapers. Two things, in fact. Anyway, I began digging deep down into my LaCie external hard drive and what do I find? That’s right, and they’re yours to download (if you really want them, that is). See below to get those beauties - you know, the ladybirds, slugs and whatnot…. The other thing that’s missing are OS X cursors, and I know I’ve got them somewhere, but I can’t remember for the life of me where the heck I put them. There are some OS X cursors ported to Windows XP available here, but I’m not sure if they’ll work on Linux…. If I do find the originals though (or I can find a way to get them off my Mac), then I’ll post them up here for you. #Update: Here they all are (I’ve had to split them up):
Standard
Abstract
Black & White
Nature
Plants I have always been interested in Ark and Arch Linux - the former slightly more though, as it looked quite decent in screenshots. I thought that Arch was a few paces behind and not as in touch with its updating side. Having tested them both, I can now say that I had made a pretty good judgement (even if it was originally by their covers!) Continue reading ‘Ark Linux 2005.2 & Arch Linux 0.7′ I am finally able to post here! Anyway, it is with great pleasure that I (re-)announce the release of nmap 4.00! I have tested it and it is not only faster than its predecessor, but also has more accurate OS detection. Here is part of Fyodor’s interview on this new release: You just released Nmap 4.00 after two years of work since 3.50. What are the most exciting changes? Fyodor: Well, the Changelog shows more than 230 improvements since that release, so it is hard to choose just a few favorites. But some really do stand out. The port scanning engine has been rewritten to be much faster and (after the “diet Nmap” project) more memory efficient. The low-level packet sending subsystem has changed dramatically as well. Nmap can now send and route raw Ethernet frames rather than rely on the host’s raw sockets implementation. This is critical for Windows, since Microsoft disabled raw sockets as of Windows XP SP2. And all platforms benefit from the new ARP scanning and MAC address spoofing functionality that this change allows. Nmap 4.0 has new, better organized and more comprehensive documentation, including a rewritten man page available in seven languages. Huge improvements have also been made in version detection, which offers many new features and saw its signature database triple in size. Many Nmap users pick runtime interaction as their favorite new feature. If you find yourself staring at the screen wondering when Nmap will finish, just press [enter] for an estimate. If you forgot to enable verbose mode, press ‘v’ to enable it. Or press ‘V’ to turn it off. Packet tracing and debugging can be enabled or disabled on a whim as well. Read more at SecurityFocus As much I would like to format my Windows laptop and put Linux on it, there are a few reasons I cannot do this. First of all, there are the games. I am a regular CS:Source player, and to install it on Linux I had to try to get it working by using Wine and the help of this article. Now, sure - I have CS:Source running on Kanotix at home, and it runs substantially faster than on an equal Windows system; but, would I have to do this with all my games? Continue reading ‘Why I Can’t Get Rid Of Windows’ There are quite a few good Linux screenshot sites, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to share them with you! First and foremost is O’Reilly’s LinShots - this has an absolutely huge collection of screenshots! As of writing, they have screens from over 188 Linux/BSD distros, and also from a variety of different Open Source apps and ‘other OSes’. Another is focused on short videos rather than screenshots, which can turn out to be even more useful. LinClips compiles short ’screencasts’ which show each distribution’s standard desktop and menus. It does not have as many clips as LinShots has pics, but it is still a cool site to browse when choosing a new distro. Finally, Lynucs hosts many customised screenshots which are submitted by Linux users around the world. You can think of this site as a fashion show instead of a catalogue - the images are more to do with what people can make Linux look like instead of what Linux distros look like out of the box. If you’re looking for formal screenshots of the distros as they look out of the box, go to the first link. The second has some short clips which can prove to be very helpful for a presentation, and the third is the best place to go if you want to see how flexible Linux is. Linus made the following statement on the LKML about the Linux kernel and whether or not it would be switching to the soon-to-be-released GPL v3: The Linux kernel has _always_ been under the GPL v2. Nothing else has ever been valid.
The “version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version” language in the GPL copying file is not - and has never been - part of the actual License itself. It’s part of the _explanatory_ text that talks about how to apply the license to your program, and it says that _if_ you want to accept any later versions of the GPL, you can state so in your source code. The Linux kernel has never stated that in general. Some authors have chosen to use the suggested FSF boilerplate (including the “any later version” language), but the kernel in general never has. In other words: the _default_ license strategy is always just the particular version of the GPL that accompanies a project. If you want to license a program under _any_ later version of the GPL, you have to state so explicitly. Linux never did. Read the article here, and Linus’ original message here.
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