Gig Felda Punks Arise Masuk Harian Metro

Giler! Gig oleh Jimbo and the gang masuk Harian Metro 19 Januari 2007, muka depan lagi. Banyak cerita-cerita bohong dipaparkan pada berita tersebut. More info http://ricecooker.kerbau.com/2007/01/18/saturday-20th-january-2007-pack-in-jb/#comment-19238
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Hardening Your Slackware Box

Here a good resource on how to harden your Slackware box http://www.cochiselinux.org/files/system-hardening-10.2.txt There are very detail howto for hardening your system, security versus usability, choose wahatever you want.

Open source and free applications and tools for linux

A good resources for open source applications ans tools for linux http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/tools.htm

Uptime

Just to show you how the power Linux is, all the uptime from the different Linux box and different distros :

matt@www:~$ uptime
02:25:15 up 79 days, 17:19, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.11, 0.09

matt@matt:~$ uptime
02:17:24 up 74 days, 10:07, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[matt@backup ~]$ uptime
02:17:49 up 81 days, 17:44, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[matt@database matt]$ uptime
02:31:38 up 89 days, 10:57, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Installation Nessus on Fedora (part II)

Got a few days to continue from the part I, here we go :

install all the package dependencies using yum
yum install flex
yum install yacc bison
yum install gtk+-devel
install Nessus by their installer, you cam also compile from source. During the installation, answer all the questions, use can use their default values and don't forget your admin password :)
sh nessus-installer-2.2.9.sh
make cert, just enter
/usr/local/sbin/nessus-mkcert
create user
/usr/local/sbin/nessus-adduser
get Nessus plugins, when finish you can see "All plugins loaded"
/usr/local/sbin/nessusd -D
and start using Nessus, happy scanning !
/usr/local/bin/nessus

Installation Nessus on Fedora (part I)

At Insecure.org , they call Nessus as the best free network vulnerability scanner available and they still number one as a network security tools for many years, I remember the last time I install Nessus 2.2.9 on CentOS without no problem, the installation using their installer run smoothly. But if you want to install Nessus in Fedora (mine version 5), you need to do some tweak on your Fedora box. I'm suggest you to install Nessus version 2.2.9 because starting version 3 Nessus no more open source, pity :(- . There are some libraries and package you need to install like flex, yacc, bison, gcc, gtk+-devel etc. You just using yum bla bla bla, to be continue...sorry

Slackware 11. 0 Changelog

Version 11.0 still rock-solid, here a few minor update

Slackware Resources

A good resources for Slackware users, no matter you are newbie or expert. They compile all the good old and new sites related to Slackware and the relative, here the link...

Slackware Package Management Tools

There are no special tools for package management system in Slackware. If i'm not misktaken, Swaret and Slackpkg was introduced in /extra since version 9.1 but did not install by default. Swaret then was removed from the distribution since Slackware 10.0 but is still available as a 3rd party package. Slapt-get and SlackUpdate become an alternative as a third party tools. Besides all the tools above, I found some other tools that really worth to check out, there are Slackmatic, EMERDE a port of Gentoo's package system, PortPKG similar to BSD's port, Slack-get and a new improvement for pkgtool like Spkg and Tukaani Pkgtools. I'm not try yet some of the tools above but as a Slackware lover, why not give them a try especially EMERDE and PortPKG. Here a good link for Slackware package management tools.

More Slackware Reviews

I found this "Like fine wine, this distro gets better with age" and this Review of Slackware 11.0, but the second more detail and complete, the author show his /proc/cpuinfo and lspci output. His got a good memories with Slack " Slackware holds a special place in my heart being my first distro and I'll always support them". I think the author using OpenBSD, that's why he love Slack. :}

Slackware 11.0 Review

If you notice, Slackware one of the linux distribution which not so popular among new linux users. And Slackware also always not get a good review from linux site, but here two sites which write something about Slackware, bad or good? read this... A brief look at Slackware 11.0 and Slackware goes to 11

Can we put -current in slapt-getrc (slapt-get)?

I'm always asking slack people can we put -current branch in slapt-getrc (slapt-get configuration file) because I'm not sure about this, see here . After do some googling I found this. So, read those tutorial and you'll find the answer. The most important things, always read ChangeLogs :)-

Slackware 11. 0 ChangeLogs

Version 11.0 still rock-solid, for those who did not familiar with Slackware, there two type of ChangeLogs, stable and current, stable means a necessary update for any packages before next release. Current means development tree for upcoming versions of Slackware, more bleeding edge packages. Here a few minor update for current and stable.

Swaret --> VERSION = current (do not put on your production server)

The last post I'm talking about on how to configure Swaret, my advise here don't put VERSION = current if you use it for production, put VERSION = stable in your swaret.conf

How to import old data to new Blogger account?

I did it manually, so far i didn't find any solution on how to import data/post from your old Blogger accout to new accout.

New blog again

I dunno why last time when i registered at Blogger using address "mattslacker" they said this address unavailable, this means someone was using this name or address, so I'm using mattslackin.blogspot.com. I'm using that name for almost 4 months. But tonight when I'm try again to register using mattslacker, hey it's still available. So this is my new blog, actually I'm also wanna try the other blog like Wordpress or Blogsome, yes they also very interesting blog but Blogger more powerful (except not many themes choice) and also because it's GOOGLE :)-