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Mohammad Hafiz bin Ismail: Linux Command by Examples

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 2:14am BST by mypapit

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Today I want to introduce you to another excellent website from a bunch of nice people that I know, Linux by Examples. Unlike other GNU/Linux related site, this blog teaches you on how to use common Linux command by giving simple, practical example that are easy to follow.

The GNU/Linux commands are also grouped by categories according its functionalities such as :
- Administration
- Archive
- Developer
- Network
- Text Manipulation
and other common commands.

The examples presented in the blog itself are easy and simple to follow, and is accompanied by step-by-step explanations from writer.

I suggest that you have a look at Linux By Examples website and bookmark it for future reference, because it can be a handy in the future

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Open Malaysia: Mixed week - ODF updates in Massachusetts and France

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 2:02am BST by Hasan

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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=417,height=328,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://hasansaidin.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/massachusetts.jpg"></a><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=417,height=328,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://hasansaidin.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/massachusetts_2.jpg"></a> <img title="Massachusetts_3" height="157" alt="Massachusetts_3" src="http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/images/massachusetts_3.jpg" width="200" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" />Image: Map of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA In August, I blogged about <a href="http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/08/massachusetts_p.html">Massachusetts proceeding with ODF by January 2007</a>, citing Louis Gutierrez, CIO of their ITD (Information Technology Division) releasing the Massachuestts <a href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=itdmodulechunk&amp;&amp;L=1&amp;L0=Home&amp;sid=Aitd&amp;b=terminalcontent&amp;f=accessibility_odf_accessibility_midyear_ltr&amp;csid=Aitd">Mid-Year Statement Regarding ODF Implementation</a>. This week we learnt of CIO Gutierez sending in his resignation letter. How unfortunate. His reason for resignation has to do with issues of Massachusetts budgetting for the ITD initiatives. I await further developments in Massachusetts, but I am at least comforted by the <a href="http://news.com.com/Massachusetts+CIO+quits/2100-1022_3-6122613.html?tag=nefd.top">quote</a> from a Massachusetts spokesman, Felix Browne saying that Gutierez's departure will not derail the state's policy of adopting <a href="http://odfalliance.org/resources/AboutODF.pdf">ODF</a> as the state's default document format. Selected links on Gutierez's resignation: <ul><li>Computerworld: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9003866">Mass. CIO Louis Gutierrez resigns - He's upset about the state legislature's lack of funding for IT projects</a></li> <li>Bob Sutor's Open Blog: <a href="http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1116">HR news from Massachusetts</a></li> <li>Andy Updergrove's Standards Blog: <a href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061004161417881">Louis Gutierrez Resigns: Deja Vu on Beacon Hill</a></li></ul> But this week also brings cheer! <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=113,height=122,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://hasansaidin.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/franceflag_1.jpg"></a> <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=113,height=122,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://hasansaidin.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/franceflag_2.jpg"><img title="Franceflag_2" height="161" alt="Franceflag_2" src="http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/images/franceflag_2.jpg" width="150" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a>Vive le France! OK, so this year they disappointed me by losing in the final of the World Cup. But now I'm happy to learn that a report commissioned by the French Prime Minister has recommended that all government documents should be made available in ODF. France is also to ask other European nations to do the same. And the report further recommends &quot;the government fund a research center dedicated to open-source software security, and set up a system to help national and local government agencies exchange information about best practice in the use of open-source software.&quot; Selected links: <ul><li>News.com: <a href="http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6122939.html">French government report lauds ODF</a></li> <li>Jeff Kaplan's Open ePolicy blog:&nbsp; <a href="http://jakaplan.blogspot.com/2006/10/france-says-vive-le-odf-vive-open.html">France Says: Vive le ODF! Vive Open Source!</a></li></ul></div> <div class="feedflare"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?a=AA1rtfZc"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?i=AA1rtfZc" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?a=jWFYNqq3"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?i=jWFYNqq3" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?a=les4JMnm"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?i=les4JMnm" border="0"></img></a></div></content>
Praburaajan: HITB Training - Zone-H Hands On Hacking 2.0

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 7:19pm BST by prabu

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Hack in the box (M) Sdn. Bhd. will be running Zone-H Hands on Hacking 2.0 from 28th - 29th November 2006

Date: 28th & 29th November 2006
Time: 0900 - 1800
Venue: The Westin Kuala Lumpur
Trainers: Roberto Preatoni & Lauri Korts Parn
Cost:
USD1299 // MYR4799 (before November 1st)
USD1499 // MYR5599 (after November 1st)

Note: This course is HRDF claimable! All lunch and coffee breaks will be provided. Certificate of attendance will be provided. Students are expected to bring their own laptops.

Overview:

Hands-on Hacking 2 is targeted at IT professionals who wish to delve deep into the latest security threats and most advanced techniques used by malicious hackers today. The course is the ideal continuation of the Hands-on Hacking Unlimited course. Each topic will be examined in detail while a variety of hands-on exercises is provided throughout the course. This course builds on the concepts and techniques introduced in the Hands-on Hacking Unlimited course, providing the latest knowledge and hands-on experience needed to proactively secure systems and develop countermeasures for possible future attacks.

For more information on the training please visit [training.hitb.org]
Praburaajan: HITB Training - Advanced Banking Application Security

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 7:17pm BST by prabu

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Hack In The Box (M) Sdn. Bhd. will be running an Advanced Banking Application Security training from 27th - 29th of November 2006

Date: 27th, 28th & 29th November 2006 (3-days)
Time: 0900 - 1800
Venue: The Westin Kuala Lumpur
Trainers: Fabrice Marie
Cost: USD1699 // MYR6199 (introductory rate)

Note: This course is HRDF CLAIMABLE! This course is a hands-on lab and all computers will be provided. All lunch and coffee breaks will be provided. Certificate of attendance provided.

Course Benefits :
- Examine threats and vulnerabilities exposed through web services.
- Examine trivial and advanced techniques to uncover web application vulnerabilities.
- Each Concept has a corresponding hands-on session on a real-life application with the assistance of the trainer.
- Detail the proper way to fix or avoid each vulnerability.
- Provide general management guidelines as well as deep technical explanations.
For more information on the training please visit [training.hitb.org]
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Ong Hean Kuan: shutdown script using xmessage or zenity

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 5:13pm BST

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Uses xmessage

#!/bin/sh
# Say bye to shutdown your pc

#uses xmessage to ask first.
answer=$(xmessage  "Are you sure you want to shutdown? " -buttons yes,no -print)
if [ $answer = "yes" ]
then
        # Do shutdown at here.
        #Ubuntu probably needs gksudo instead of sudo
        sudo init 0;
fi

Uses zenity

#!/bin/sh
# Say bye to shutdown your pc

#uses zenity to ask first.
zenity --question --title "Shutdown Confirmation" 
--text "Are you sure you want to shutdown?"

if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]
then
        # Do shutdown at here.
        #Ubuntu probably needs gksudo instead of sudo
        sudo init 0;
fi

Mohammad Hafiz bin Ismail: Read and Write NTFS filesystem with Ubuntu Linux

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 4:54pm BST by mypapit

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This is one of the most popular questions that, previously i would suggest using the native NTFS linux kernel driver, but the driver itself only has a limited write support.

The best way to enable writing to NTFS partition is with the ntfs-3g userland driver. It uses the fuse driver and although still in BETA, tests proven that the driver really works for writing into ntfs partition.

For Ubuntu users, all you need to do is follow the instruction given in this website : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ntfs-3g

I’ve tried it, and it worked perfectly with my machine, no need to depend to intermediate FAT32 partitions to transfer files from Linux. But one word of advice, although it seems to work, you still need to keep in my that the developers of ntfs-3g driver still consider it in BETA release, so be advice and don’t rough it up too much :p

Tags: linux, ubuntu, debian, ntfs, fuse, kernel, linux kernel, filesystem, filesystems
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Open Malaysia: Water in the cracks

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 4:47pm BST by Dinesh Nair

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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">When engineers build roads, they're usually faced with what seem to be insurmountable barriers in the form of ridges, hills and mountains blocking the proposed path of the highway. There are two ways around this, to either reroute the highway around the barrier or the more brute force method of going straight through it. If they choose the latter option, splitting a mountain is by no means an easy task. Thousands of years of geological growth is not going to allow itself to be broken apart easily. Engineers however sometimes use the strength of Mother Nature against herself. A common way of splitting mountains is to make cracks in the mountain, and then pour gallons of water into the cracks. They then freeze the water and take advantage of the fact that the volume of water will expand when it becomes ice. The expansion of the freezing water pushes the cracks apart and the mountain is then slowly broken into two by the forces of nature and physics. Just like freezing water splitting a mountain, the opening up of the telecommunications mountain by IP telephony is breaking down barriers artificially put in place by legacy providers. The continuing growth of the Sessions Initiation Protocol (SIP) commonly used for IP telephone calls and its near ubiqutous availability is allowing individuals and enterprises to wean themselves away from their providers and at the same time take a firm grip on their communications needs. <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=292,height=638,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://hasansaidin.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/dlinkvclick_1.jpg"><img width="100" height="218" border="0" src="http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/images/dlinkvclick_1.jpg" title="Dlinkvclick_1" alt="Dlinkvclick_1" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" /></a> Because SIP is an IETF open standard, anyone can implement a SIP stack into their software. We are increasingly seeing the IP telephony enablement of traditional enterprise applications like ERP, HR, financial and operational systems and this is a good harbinger of the converged network. Some legacy handset manufacturers have read the writing on the wall and have either released or have plans to release SIP enabled GSM mobiles. I <a href="http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/08/open_your_netwo.html">wrote about one such device</a> by Nokia, the E61 which I use on a daily basis. D-Link will soon <a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=6731">release a WiFi/GSM handset</a> which is based on Linux and contains a SIP client as well.&nbsp; These two will not be the last SIP enabled devices either. As more of these devices proliferate in the marketplace, enterprises are going to realise that there is a whole lot more their communications systems can do for them through open standards and interoperability. True interoperability which is based on open standards would make it trivial to connect your enterprise's IP PBX with your Web 2.0 AJAX driven application. Our developers at QubeConnect, led by <a href="http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/z_posts_by_ditesh/index.html">Ditesh</a>, are exploring this right now and are producing some really cool applications based on Javascript, AJAX and Firefox plugins. For this growth to sustain however, the adherence to the SIP standard has to be complete and clear. Too often, vendors are known to bastardize a standard in order to create an intentionally non interoperable product in order to lock in customers. Nowhere is this practice more pervalent than in the telecommunications industry, <a href="http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/06/valkommen_till_.html">as even we've experienced</a> before when attempting interoperability with a very large legacy equipment vendor. Additionally, regulators should also be wary of telecomms operators who accidentally on purpose block SIP calls over their ISP networks. Wary of the next generation network eating into the revenues of their incumbent parent, these ISPs usually try to stall these moves until they have a competing service in the market and then use less than ethical practices in QoS to show why their service is better than rival players. But like water eating into cracks and breaking up the mountain, the&nbsp; flow of openness in the telecommunication sector will erode the barriers which are put in place. As more enterprises and individuals go towards IP telephony, the relevance of monopolies of old will become less of a factor. This includes companies like Skype, popular though they may be, who are still based on closed and unpublished standards to create a walled garden for their subscribers. Communications is all about being open and connected, and we are not going to be able to get this done well if we practice a closed approach to the matter.</div> <div class="feedflare"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?a=mKAe2mla"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?i=mKAe2mla" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?a=DIcbAE86"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?i=DIcbAE86" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?a=M6VEgvtX"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?i=M6VEgvtX" border="0"></img></a></div></content>
Meling Mudin: fear the command line

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 11:21am BST by spoonfork

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trainings sucks, especially if you’re giving one, and your students come from windows background (or what i call “double-click” environment). it’s sad, and it’s very frustrating teaching them, or rather, telling them what to type.

and i have the bad luck of giving back to back trainings in which using the command-line is a must. what i observe is this:

* when it comes to typing commands on the command-line (in bash for example), they’re just freaking s.l.o.w. it is as if they’ve never typed before. how hard is it to type: cd /etc/init.d?

* the command: many just don’t seem to grasp the concept of command. commands are very simple (for example: cd, ls, ps, make, make) and after each command, there must be a space. so when i say “okay now you type cd dot dot”, they type “cd..” resulting in command not found. this happens so many times, even after two or three days doing the same thing.**

so what is wrong? are most people coming from the windows environment are so freaking alien to the command line? is opening up a shell and typing commands so difficult that it become mental shock to them?

i don’t know. i don’t have the answer. even with clear slides with all the commands highlighted, they always get it wrong.

inability to grasp the simple concept of commands is one, another is the navigating directories: cd .., cd /usr cd /var/log, cd /etc/, cd .. they’re just lost. and yes, all the necessary introductions have been given, but yet…

i need a solution because if all of my trainings are gonna be like this, i’ll end up hanging myself on a taugeh tree…

** no point saying “cd space dot dot” because there will be some that will type “cdspace..”. i’m not kidding.
Lee Chin Sheng: Argus - Read This!!!!!

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 10:13am BST by geek00L

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For people who plan to use argus and don't know what it actually is -

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2724.txt

Lets RTFM

For people who want to know how argus can do in Network Security Context -

[www.qosient.com]

For people who want to try out latest argus -

[ftp:]

Enjoy :)
Khairil Yusof: Life Out of A Suitcase

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 9:43am BST

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So I bought one of those laptop traveller's business cases, to put all my work in and all the peripherals I need such as my trusty X40, camera, chargers etc. Between that and my suitcase, I think I have enough to get me going for the next 2 weeks in Manila for another training.
IOSN South Asia and ChennaiI just got back incidently from Chennai, India to visit the IOSN team there. They made sure I tried out the variety of Indian cuisine there. I still think Kerala food was best though. If you're working or wanting to find out more about FOSS in South Asia, feel free to drop them an email at southasia@iosn.net You can find out what's up in the region by visiting the South Asia section on IOSN.

Dhanesh and Tushar from IOSN South Asia
Reading MaterialOne thing good about India is the the books there are much cheaper than those in Malaysia, and there seems to be a wider variety of non-fiction books. I tend to find that Malaysian book stores are filled with a lot of silly books on how to be successful and the like.

At a book store called Landmark, I picked up Amartya Sen's book Development as Freedom. His approach is really interesting, because it provides a basis for me to look further into the economic costs of the removal of freedoms due to stricter IPR, closed standards and proprietary software for the IT industry. I am where I am now, because I had the freedom to learn, freedom to choose how to apply my knowledge that I've gained and the freedom to share it with others. I also picked up Python Cookbook. I like these books vs the "how to program" because it provides a lot useful applications (eg. removal of duplicate emails) and then explains it and how it could be improved. I look forward to writing scripts, so I can squeeze some more time out by automating some tasks.

LPI Level 1 Training MaterialsOne of the reasons I'm doing a lot of travelling is to train and work on the free training course we are developing (based on the work of others also). LPI Level 1 objectives are really worth going through for anybody getting a start in FOSS either as a developer or as a system administrator. Knowing and understanding the basics, lowers the learning curve as you move on to specialise on other tasks. Skills like regex and text processing will server you well, whether you're a developer doing databases or a sysadmin writing rewrites for Apache. Better yet the materials are free, and if you want to do the certification, we are helping with the help of the LPI proctor system to lower the costs. I hope to setup a one stop page for the sysadmin training section to provide more info on the proctor system and where to get training from the trainers we have trained for each of the events. We hope to keep it going.

One of the most active community efforts is Malaysia, and we're (the Malaysian FOSS Community) holding the next community certification event in November.

Gnome 2.16 on FreeBSDSomewhere in all of this, I found the time to upgrade to 2.16 on FreeBSD. We now have hald on FreeBSD, and I can start porting some ports now such as thoggen.

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Lee Chin Sheng: Argus-3.0(dev) - Ragraph

Posted: October 5th, 2006, 9:25am BST by geek00L

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Argus 3.0 is in active development, I guess most of argus users should give the development version a try since there are a lot of changes from 2.0 to 3.0, by the way tools like ratop, racluster, ragraph and etc are added. I have no problem to get it compiled however I have problem when I run ragraph, anyway I just solve it with pkg_add since it requires certain perl module to work.

shell>pkg_add -r p5-RRDTool-OO

This is just note to myself in case I have forgotten next time, by the way I think argus 3.0 will be in FreeBSD port when it is released.

Cheers to all arguser :]

P/S: Feel free to contribute to argus wiki page -
[www.vorant.com]

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Posted: October 5th, 2006, 2:14am BST by mypapit

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Posted: October 5th, 2006, 2:02am BST by Hasan

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Posted: October 5th, 2006, 7:19pm BST by prabu

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Posted: October 5th, 2006, 4:54pm BST by mypapit

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Posted: October 5th, 2006, 4:47pm BST by Dinesh Nair

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Posted: October 5th, 2006, 11:21am BST by spoonfork

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Posted: October 5th, 2006, 10:13am BST by geek00L

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Posted: October 5th, 2006, 9:25am BST by geek00L

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