livibetter Shared item: 99 items
View Google Reader Shared items
6 shares
Google Anti-Malware Diagnostic Pages
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 22, 2008
ZDNet's security blog points to an update to Google's malware warnings. Like McAfee SiteAdvisor, now each web site has a special diagnostic page that lists answers to four questions:1. What is the current listing status?2. What happened when Google visited this site?3. Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?4. Has this site hosted...
Shared by: livibetter, Llwllyn, safaricity, HejGustav, kamthorn, Leko,
[ Back to top]
2 shares
Converting RPM to Debian Package and Vice Versa, Using Alien
via LinuxHaxor.net by Pavs on May 23, 2008
Converting these two major packages has never been easier. In this example we will use RPM package of virtualbox 1.60 (renamed it to test.rpm to make life easier), convert it to debian package and than convert that debian package back to RPM.Converting rpm to deb: sudo alien test.rpmConverting deb to rpm: sudo alien -r test debSo simple, yet effective. You can download it from here.Related...
Shared by: livibetter, safaricity,
[ Back to top]
2 shares
What happens when you ask a software pirate for Ubuntu?
via fsckin w| linux by Wayne on May 23, 2008
We’ve all seen the email scams, where software pirates offer amazing deals on software through email. In fact I got one such message today:From: michaell260@hotmail.comTo: wayne@fsckin.comDate: Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:22 PMSubject: SoftwareSoftware up to 75% off retail.Most of the major programs are to expensive for most of us to justify buying. Now you can. Your opportunity is here.Operating...
Shared by: livibetter, TiTi,
[ Back to top]
1 shares
I have Internet!
via Andreas Gohr: Weblog [splitbrain.org] by andi on May 22, 2008
I know, that's nothing special but after today it is for me.Here's how it went:Waking up, booting my desktop PC, checking mails… oops can't connect. Hmm… pppd is complaining about getting no PADO packets. Resetting the DSL modem does not help either.Wait, I had ordered an upgrade of my line from 2 to 16MBit a while ago. They sent me a target date recently, could it be today?...
Shared by: livibetter,
[ Back to top]
1 shares
Lifelock CEO Gets Identity Stolen
via ha.ckers.org web application security lab by RSnake on May 22, 2008
I got sent this link today and I actually laughed out loud when I saw it - Todd Davis (CEO of LifeLock) had his identity stolen. I completely understand and can feel for the poor CEO who probably genuinely thought that his company could protect from all forms of identity theft, but the harsh reality is it didn’t. My favorite quote from the article:“There’s nothing to indicate my identity...
Shared by: livibetter,
[ Back to top]
1 shares
openssl-vulnkey *.key
via MDLog:|sysadmin by - Marius - on May 22, 2008
Hopefully by now most debian sysadmins have updated their systems and regenerated any weak openssl keys found. After the disclosure from last week, the debian team has done a great job to identify any possible affected program and any type of key, and for sure there are many .Specialpages were created to help peoples migrate their keys and also to identify if their keys are weak or not. In my...
Shared by: livibetter,
[ Back to top]
1 shares
WOW: Microsoft Adding Support for ODF and PDF in Office
via Linux and Open Source Blog by E@zyVG on May 20, 2008
... ODF, promoting support through software that translates documents between Office file formats and ODF rather than native support. However, the company has been hammered by the industry — particularly through repeated fines by the European Commission — for its lack of support for interoperability with other companies’ products, and Microsoft has made several recent moves to remedy that s...
Shared by: livibetter,
[ Back to top]
2 shares
Linux Proprietary Driver - Catalyst 8.5 Release: x86 and x86_64 variants
via ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Releases by (author unknown) on May 20, 2008
Driver version: 8.493 NEW FEATURES: (1) Catalyst(amcccle) introduces Mipmap Detail, Catalyst A.I., and AA Filters in 3D page. ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode. (2) Change VT no longer fails when kernel module is not loaded. (3) Fixed display corruption in X when switching VT multiple times. (4) The Preference page in Catalyst(amcccle) is...
Shared by: kamthorn, livibetter,
[ Back to top]
1 shares
How to apply patches
via Ned Batchelder's blog by (author unknown) on May 20, 2008
Occasionally I write things here simply so that I won't forget them, here'sone of them. Applying patches is something I do infrequently enough that Ihave to re-figure it out each time.If you have a patch file called my.patch that looks like this (in...
Shared by: livibetter,
[ Back to top]
1 shares
Tip #249: Sum up your HDD space
via shell-fu by (author unknown) on May 19, 2008
... (I actually wrote it in one line first) for giving you somewhat (mount list is never good enough) accurate sum of your file systems' totals.df | egrep -v "(Filesystem|/dev$|shm$|dvd|cdrom)" | awk '{totalu += $2 ; totalf += $4} END {print "Total space in devices: " (totalu/1024/1024) " GBnFree space total: " (totalf/1024/1024) " GB"}'Master the command line with Unix Power Tools
Shared by: livibetter,
[ Back to top]