There is some situation when you need to know what packages are installed on your Linux system. Example, if you want to maintain a minimal Linux (eg. a VPS), and you want to remove all unnecessary packages. But also if you want to know whether an individual package is installed on your system, or is [...]
Live CDs
GParted LiveCD
GParted LiveCD is a business card-size live CD distribution with a single purpose – to provide tools for partitioning hard disks in an intuitive, graphical environment. The distribution uses X.Org, the light-weight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 2.6 Linux kernel. GParted LiveCD runs on most x86 machines with a Pentium II or [...]
Free CDs
BartPE
BartPE (Bart’s Preinstalled Environment) is a lightweight variant of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 32bit operating systems, similar to a Windows Preinstallation Environment, which can be run from a Live CD or Live USB drive.
A BartPE system image is created using PE Builder, a freeware program created by Bart Lagerweij. It requires [...]
A live CD, live DVD, or live disc is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive. Live USB flash drives are similar [...]
There is no accepted definition of what a mini distribution is. Typically, mini Linux distros are able to run on less powerful computers than standard Linux distributions. This makes them ideal for older computers. I compiled a list of 5 popular mini Linux distros.
1, Damn Small Linux
Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) [...]
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Cross-platform
1, Kismet
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.
Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and infering [...]
There are times when you want to connect to the Internet through unknown and/or insecure networks such as a wifihotspot. If you aren’t careful, you might make it all too easy for someone to sniff your connection.
There are times when you want to connect to the Internet using your remote machine’s (US) IP address. Because [...]
After my VPS provider had been hacked, and I got a new VPS from them, I also got a new problem.
Since my new VPS has not HyperVM control panel (why?), I stay without an easy managed backup solution. / HyperVM has a built-in backup feature. /
So I had to find a new solution for my [...]
Digest authentication is more secure than Basic authentication, because using digest authentication, your password is never sent across the network in the clear, but is always transmitted as an MD5 digest of the user’s password. In this way, the password cannot be determined by sniffing network traffic.
Resources:
Debian 5 Lenny
Apache 2.2.9
Enable mod_auth_digest and disable mod_auth_basic
Apache module [...]
Previously I used a dual-boot system with Windows XP and Debian, but in that box the operating systems was separated on two different hard drives. But now I need a dual boot system on a single hard drive. Setting up a dual boot system takes a little effort, but it is not a magic.
Tools/Resources:
Operating systems: Windows XP [...]
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