Archive for August, 2005

HERE COMES BREEZY BADGER….Beta review number 2

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 Posted in Books | No Comments »

Continuing with our Beta versions, UBUNTU, the Debian based distribution that swept to the top of the list on Distrowatch is due out with their latest release in October. ... Read more..

SimplyMepis Beta…The first of several

Sunday, August 28th, 2005 Posted in Books, Desktop, Installation, Simply Mepis | No Comments »

The end of August and the start of September with Linux Betas flying from all directions. MANDRIVA, SimplyMEPIS, UBUNTU and OPEN SUSE are all on servers waiting for testers to test ... Read more..

Making Sun’s java plugin available in Firefox

Friday, August 26th, 2005 Posted in Mandrake | No Comments »

A question was asked on a mailing list I subscribe to: How to get Sun's java plug in to work with Firefox under Mandriva Linux. I put this response together, ... Read more..

NETSTAT

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005 Posted in Command Line, Desktop, Terminal Tweaks | No Comments »

netstat - Linux Command to Display Networking Information By Ken Dennis Platinum Quality Author In linux, one of great commands for finding out information about your network connections is "netstat". It provides ... Read more..

Setting up a modem for your Linux system.

Monday, August 8th, 2005 Posted in Books | No Comments »

All of us would like to believe that all computers are connected to the internet via broadband. The truth is that many are connected via modem. I find ... Read more..

nmap as a Security Sanner

Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in Networking | No Comments »

nmap is used to find the open ports in any system. It has many features which one can use for security analysis. It could also be used to determine the ... Read more..