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Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.60 Just Released for Ubuntu Hardy Heron and other Os's!
via Ubuntu Unleashed by defcon on May 02, 2008
Sun xVM VirtualBox is an X86 virtualization software package originally developed by German software company innotek GmbH. As such it is an application installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional operating systems, each known as a "Guest OS", can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment. For example, several Linux distributions can be...
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Howto: Enable DVD Playback, Adobe Flash Plugin and MP3 Playback in Ubuntu Hardy Heron with 1 simple copy/paste!
via Ubuntu Unleashed by defcon on May 06, 2008
Ubuntu is crippled on the multimedia front. This is because of copyright and patent restrictions that complicate distribution of proprietary codecs with Ubuntu, which prides itself as a totally free operating system.Even though Ubuntu developers haven’t included proprietary codecs, they have made it extremely easy for you to install them later through the Medibuntu repository. You can get...
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Ubuntu Reference/Cheat Sheet
via Ubuntu Unleashed by defcon on May 12, 2008
Here is a nice Cheat Sheet for newer Ubuntu Linux Users, which was originally found hereUbuntu Cheat Sheet - Upload a doc Read this doc on Scribd: Ubuntu Cheat Sheet
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Howto: Use, setup, and Take advantage of the New Ubuntu Uncomplicated Firewall UFW
via Ubuntu Unleashed by defcon on May 12, 2008
... connection on a specified port to any host would be:sudo ufw allow 53To specify a protocol, append ’/protocol’ to the port. For example lets enable tcp connections on port 53 incoming/outgoing:sudo ufw allow 53/tcpor for udpsudo ufw allow 53/udpYou can also allow by service name since ufw reads from /etc/servicesLets see what services are in /etc/services:cat /etc/services | lessAs an e...
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The Top Security Tools in the Ubuntu Repositories you may not know about with 1 click Installation!
via Ubuntu Unleashed by defcon on June 01, 2008
... it in mbox format.* msgsnarf - record selected messages from different Instant Messengers.* sshmitm - SSH monkey-in-the-middle. proxies and sniffs SSH traffic.* sshow - SSH traffic analyser.* tcpkill - kills specified in-progress TCP connections.* tcpnice - slow down specified TCP connections via "active" traffic shaping.* urlsnarf - output selected URLs sniffed from HTTP ...
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Introducing the Official Google Gadgets for Ubuntu Linux
via Ubuntu Unleashed by defcon on June 06, 2008
Google Desktop has been available for some time now on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. However, Google Gadgets — mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on the desktop — have, until now, only been available on Windows and Mac. Jim Zhuang, of Google's software engineering team, announced the first Linux version on Tuesday."Since releasing Google Desktop for Linux, we've added...
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Truecrypt v5.0 Gui Released!
via Ubuntu Unleashed by Kyle on February 09, 2008
Ok this is some awesome news from the developers of the famous open source encryption software Truecrypt. If you dont know what it is here is an exerpt from the website:"TrueCrypt can on-the-fly encrypt a system partition or entire system drive, i.e. a partition or drive where Windows is installed and from which it boots (a TrueCrypt-encrypted system drive may also contain non-system partitions,...
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Howto: Access Web Based email through Thunderbird
via Ubuntu Unleashed by Kyle on January 21, 2008
Here is a solution for the web-based email services that do not have pop3/smtp, and the ones that charge for it, this extention acts like a browser and converts the mail to pop3/smtp/imap for thunderbird. Below is a list of supported web-based email services that this extension supports, following that is an easy install guide to get started, I used yahoo as an example.Here is the supported web...
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Howto: Crack Rar, 7z, and zip files with RarCrack in Ubuntu Linux
via Ubuntu Unleashed by Kyle on April 12, 2008
Ever run into the problem where you created a password protected zip/rar file and you forgot the password or accidentally deleted it? Or just dont know the password at all? Well I have come across a nice solution for cracking zip/rar files. Its called rarcrack, If you forget your password for compressed archive (rar, 7z, zip), this program is the solution.This program uses bruteforce algorithm...
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Howto: Mount .ISO's in Ubuntu Linux The Easy way
via Ubuntu Unleashed by Kyle on April 12, 2008
I download .iso's all the time, and wanted to be able to mount iso's for winblows games on wine. What this does is map your iso to a filesystem directory. Here is what I did, and here is what you can do as well.First grab fuseiso sudo apt-get install fuseisoIf you are in firefox and have apt-url installed click here to install with one click!Then lets add ourselves to the fuse...
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