The new Apple SSL vulnerability is a concerning bug in the Apple Macintosh iOS and desktop operating systems. This allows SSL spoofing as it will allow a faked SSL vulnerability to pass as a real one. Apparently it uses ports 1266 & 1267, if you block these with your firewall, this should alleviate this threat … Read more
I recently updated to the 3.13 kernel on Fedora Core 20 and the 12.1 ATI drivers stopped working. I fixed this by downloading the 14.1 beta drivers which support that kernel. Download this here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Latest-LINUX-Beta-Driver.aspx. This works perfectly for those Fedora 20 users like me who are also affected by this update. Just uninstall the … Read more
The new Ubuntu 14.04 Unity desktop has some cool features. The icons on the sidebar launcher may be re-sized to 16 pixels in size. This allows the launcher bar to take up even less space. And the new 3.13 kernel includes many enhancements over the old 3.12 release. Firefox 25.0 is the standard browser for … Read more
How to use ipgrab to capture TCP packets. The ipgrab command when run as root is very useful for capturing information about network packets that are traveling through your network interfaces. In this example I am capturing packets from my wlan0 interface. ubuntu ~ $ sudo ipgrab -i eth0 > capture.log ipgrab 0.9.10 Listening on … Read more
This is how to use Timidity to convert a MIDI file into an Ogg Vorbis audio file. This is very useful for playing them with Banshee or Audacious. [homer@localhost Documents]$ timidity sound009.mid -Ov -o blood009.ogg Playing sound009.mid MIDI file: sound009.mid Format: 1 Tracks: 10 Divisions: 480 Sequence: Seq-1 Track name: Track-5 Track name: Track-7 Track … Read more
The many vulnerabilities uncovered that allow malicious read-write access to hard drives connected to ASUS routers continues to be a dangerous thing that needs to be addressed. There is a patch for ASUS routers that patches this vulnerability; but it is up to the users to install this patch. This is far too easy to … Read more
More than 1.5 million copies of the Ubuntu Kylin distribution have been downloaded in 2013. That shows the growing popularity of open-source software in China. The greater security of Linux compared to Windows allows a computer user to make good use of their computer without worrying about online malware and viruses. You may download a … Read more
The tar command on Linux is very useful for uncompressing files on your Linux machine. The most used command on a Linux system is uncompressing files that you have downloaded from an Internet source. The tar -xvf command will uncompress a tar.gz file. ~$ tar -xvf myfile.tar.gz~$ tar -xvf myfile.tar.gz To uncompress a tar.bz2 file … Read more
In years past, devising a marketing strategy was much simpler than it is now. With strategically placed billboards, public press, television, radio and newspaper advertisements, one could easily create a vast sphere of influence. While these methods still work, the internet and mobile technology have made dramatic changes in the way marketers do business. Luckily, … Read more
A very good CPU-Z alternative for a Linux machine. This awesome utility for Linux is an alternative to the CPU-Z program for Windows machines. This allows the user to gather information about their computer with a nice tabbed interface. There is a tab to gather system/OS information as well as CPU statistics. This is very … Read more
How to find out what rpm package provides a file that you need. The yum provides command is useful for finding out this information. You may use wildcards to search for a file, this can make finding it easier. [homer@localhost jackhammer]$ yum provides */redhat**.jpg Loaded plugins: langpacks nagios-3.5.1-4.fc20.x86_64 : Nagios monitors hosts and services and … Read more
This simple one liner will print out your IP address and then IPv6 equivalent if you have it set. [homer@localhost ~]$ ifconfig enp6s1 | awk ‘/inet/ { print $2 } ‘ | sed -e s/addr:// 192.168.1.2 fe80::213:46ff:fe3a:283[homer@localhost ~]$ ifconfig enp6s1 | awk ‘/inet/ { print $2 } ‘ | sed -e s/addr:// 192.168.1.2 fe80::213:46ff:fe3a:283 Here … Read more