By: Joshua Wood
My work involves administering Unix Web servers and a mix of office desktops, along with developing the applications we run on them. I use Mac OS X to do it because it is something like a superset of those other popular OS choices. While much of the software I deploy is free, both as beer, I’m willing to open my wallet for OS X.
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Interesting article from SecurityFocus on IPsec VPN’s
Here is an article on Filesystem integrety checkers. There are several filesystem integrity checker applications, both commercial and open source. I chose to deploy afick, because it is written in Perl, which makes it lightweight and easily portable between different operating systems. Though by nature designed for the command line, afick also has an optional Webmin module and a graphical interface written in perl-Tk.
Here is an article on Filesystem integrety checkers. There are several filesystem integrity checker applications, both commercial and open source. I chose to deploy afick, because it is written in Perl, which makes it lightweight and easily portable between different operating systems. Though by nature designed for the command line, afick also has an optional Webmin module and a graphical interface written in perl-Tk.
Here is an ONLamp article that is interesting. “By recording performance metrics, web server administrators can have a historical record of how the server handled incoming HTTP requests. This article expands on that concept by adding a couple of logging directives and recording the logging data directly in a MySQL database.”
RTG: Real Traffic Grabber
RTG is a flexible, scalable, high-performance SNMP statistics monitoring system. It is designed for enterprises and service providers who need to collect time-series SNMP data from a large number of targets quickly. All collected data is inserted into a relational database that provides a common interface for applications to generate complex queries and reports. RTG includes utilities that generate configuration and target files, traffic reports, 95th percentile reports and graphical data plots. These utilities may be used to produce a web-based interface to the data.
Just testing the Blogtimes plugin.
QueryCommander is a Open Source Query Analyzer that you can use to work with the following Databases.
This has been posted all over the internet but here I go anyway. Google has a new mapping service that is just sweet. It really shows you all the smart people they have working over there and that they are focused on working on technologies we can all use in our lives. Good job google and keep up the good work.
Testing the Gnome-Blog app. It this works it will be great. Now if Ubuntu will just upgrade the package in Universe.
Considering the capabilities of Samba 3 and what they could mean for your workplace network.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8069
First off I always recommend a complete format for any machine that has been infected with any virus, worm or trojan. Basically if your computer has been compromised then treat it as so and start over to be safe. That being said you probably want your data off your computer prior to formating it. Now don’t just go copying data off the infected windows computer to another windows computer. You are likely to just spread the infection. So here is an excellent article on how to clean the data using Knoppix prior to moving it to another computer.
Here is an excellent article on customizing OpenOfficeOrg