Make Linux Hard

Hardening Linux Systems

Jolli-worms?

Are we eating cultured worms? Check out this website:

http://www.jollibee.com.ph/jollibee-food-corporation.html

Open the HTML page:

Mozilla: CTRL+U
Opera: CTRL+F3
Internet Explorer: Edit->View source(???)

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This is not an official indication that they do use cultured earthworms. If you also check out the end of the HTML page, they have lots of keywords put in for search engines. I wonder if this is allowed by Google?

Mac Mini Project

I'm planning to build a media center PC using Mac Mini. Here are the things to digest:

The howto by Chris
The hardware that connects the mini to a TV
The software that rips the DVDs and save them to a file

Convert FLV files to MPEG

to convert to "keys me" videos and the like

ffmpeg -i video.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 test.mpg

Bookmark: VMware Player

VMware Player multi-OS howto

WAMP?

Windows Apache MySql Php

Been getting flack about me moderating a guy's sub-forum at an all-female dominated community board. It's hard to act "professional" when some people act like children.

I secretly want to be a DJ

k700i & VGA Mode lines

Just got a new phone! It's Sony Ericsson k700i. It's an old phone but it's the phone I really want.

Just saw this on /.

I know I'll get moderated as a troll again because I suggest using Linux over Windows, but

Modeline "800x480" 40 800 864 928 1088 480 481 484 509 +hsync

Will do the trick for X. No drivers necessary.

It might come in handy someday.

Ultra Electro Magnetic Top!

I was checking out the Eraserheads entry at Wikipedia to see the albums they've made. I have their first album, titled "UltraElectroMagneticPop!". The Wiki entry didn't say where the name of the album came from so I tried editing it.

The Wiki hanged for a while till I decided to save it again.

Check it out! Hopefully, my update was accurate enough:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eraserheads#Discography

Bookmarks: Windowx XP Remote Booting

Might be handy someday.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/xp/deploy/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xehowhowtoconfigureeltorito.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xetbshowtocreaterun-timeimageformassdeployment.asp

Bookmark: eBooks

http://giuciao.blogspot.com/

MS Exchange Alternatives

The Roundup from Slashdot.

Unix: Old dog, new tricks

Renaming files in linux:

To rename all files ending in ".old" to ".new", use the following:
for i in *.old; do echo mv $i `basename $i .old`.new; done

To remove the first few characters from a file, you can try the following:
for i in *; do echo mv $i `echo $i | tr -d "wqy"`; done

To rename/change uppercase to lowercase in current directory:
for i in `ls`; do mv $i `echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done

To rename/change uppercase to lowercase excluding directories:
for i in `find . -type f -print`; do
base=`basename $i`;
echo mv $i `dirname $i`/`echo $base | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`;
done

To rename/change uppercase to lowercase directories:
for i in `find . -print -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep [a-z]`; do
echo mv $i `echo $i | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`;
done

Remove markup tags in files:
cat filename.xml |sed -e "s/<\/*tagname>//gi"
cat filename.xml |sed -e "s/<\/*tagName>//g"

Bookmark: Brian & Anna's Diecast Store

http://www.brian-anna.com/index.html

Bookmark: ISPConfig

http://www.ispconfig.org/

"Open source hosting control panel for Linux."

iptables brute force rule

Saw this on /. today:

iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j SSH_Brute_Force
iptables -A SSH_Brute_Force -m recent --name SSH --set --rsource
iptables -A SSH_Brute_Force -m recent ! --rcheck --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 --name SSH --rsource -j RETURN
iptables -A SSH_Brute_Force -m limit --limit 3/min -j LOG --log-prefix "SSH Brute Force Attempt: "
iptables -A SSH_Brute_Force -p tcp -j REJECT

4 ssh connections within a second causes a 3 minute ban. I wonder if there's a FreeBSD equivalent.

Homemade AirConditioning

I wanna do this someday...

http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~gmilburn/ac/

More FreeBSD notes

Why oh why isn't there a UbuntuGuide.org equivalent for FreeBSD? The Handbook and FAQ just doesn't cut it. Anyway, here's some stuff I just learned:

1. Install sudo (pkg_add -r sudo) so you don't have to switch to root. This is sort of a remant of Ubuntu in me. Never was a fan of sudo before.

2. pkg_add -r freebsd-update. Then copy the sample configuration file & create a folder called /usr/local/freebsd-update. Then do a sudo freebsd-update fatch. If all looks good, do a sudo freebsd-update install

3. Have sex.

FreeBSD as a Desktop

Just ditched my office workstation running Ubuntu 5.04 (based off Debian) to FreeBSD 5.4. I used FreeBSD before but as a server. What am I thinking? Though GNOME (my choice of WM) is supported, it's not *fully* supported per-se. For one, whenever I access the Users & Groups in the Admin section while running as a regular user, the bloody program just waits there. For nothing. It should at least ask me for the root password but it didn't.

But I still like it, it's small and stable considering what I mentioned above. What I did:

1. Install FreeBSD minimal - at this point I have a "usable" FreeBSD machine. Then used pkg_add to install the Xorg X server. Since FireFox isn't on the CD, I used pkg_add -r firefox to do a web install. So pkg_add proceeds to download firefox *and* it's dependencies... including perl. WTF? Why?

2. OK, I need to install GNOME. A lot of people are whining about some WMs are too bloated. Luckily, FreeBSD's ports include gnome2-lite which is a minimal install of GNOME. So off I go via pkg_add -r gnome2-lite.

3. Also pkg_add -r gdm for good measure.

4. Edited /etc/ttys and enabled GDM.

5. I'm still sexy.

I also tried adding the flash plugin for FireFox. Interestingly, firefox crashes from time to time so I removed it via pkg_delete. Good ridence I say. No flash? It's all good. I don't need it anyway since I'm at work. :D

Do you PHP?

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/php_experts/rasmus_php.html