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ceroboot/LinuxBIOS

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today’s computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload.
With this separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot is capable of scaling from [...]

Sunday February 28th, 2010 in GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

The process tree with ps command

How to see the process tree with ps command?
There’s some options:
ps -ejH
ps axjf
Or also we can use other command:
pstree
More info:
http://www.linfo.org/pstree.html
http://linux.die.net/man/1/ps

Thursday February 11th, 2010 in GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

Check RAM speed and type

If you want to know the speed and type of your computer RAM module, it’s a method who helps you.
So lets begin, we need to use biosdecode command, and this is the correct option:
dmidecode –type 17
More info about this:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/check-ram-speed-linux
http://linux.die.net/man/8/biosdecode

Wednesday February 10th, 2010 in GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

trapper sniffer

trapper is a sniffer & ARP poisoning tool made in perl. The current version supports sniffing protocols like HTTP, FTP, telnet POP3, IMAP, SMTP, MSN, IRC, SMB, SIP, TeamSpeak and VCN. Also this tool include the attack known as APR ( ARP Poison Routing ). More protocols and types of attacks will be added in [...]

Thursday January 14th, 2010 in GNU/Linux, Networking, Unix | No Comments »

LXDE – Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment

LXDE is an energy saving and extremely fast and performing desktop solution. It works well with computers on the low end of the performance spectrum such as new generation netbooks and other small mobile computers.
Source:
http://lxde.org

Friday January 8th, 2010 in GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

Howto see IP firewall rules via terminal

If you want to see all rules of you firewall with PF using terminal you can do it with:
pfctl -s rules
We need to do it because the web manager of pfSense only shows the rules that you add by yourself, but there’s more roles created by default.
More info

Friday January 8th, 2010 in Unix, pfSense | No Comments »

HOWTO ping a bluetooth device

If you want to know how’s the signal with your bluetooth device maybe you want to make a ping to it, like common ping used in IP networks.
So, for make it in bluetooth networks we have to use l2ping, for example:
# l2ping 00:11:C0:19:C9:C1
Ping: 00:11:C0:19:C9:C1 from 00:1A:6B:DC:F1:A1 (data size 44) …
44 bytes from 00:11:C0:19:C9:C1 id 0 [...]

Thursday December 17th, 2009 in Bluetooth, GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

Motion, a software motion detector.

Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion.
The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system.
Motion is a command line based tool. [...]

Thursday December 10th, 2009 in GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

n2n: a Layer Two Peer-to-Peer VPN

n2n is a layer-two peer-to-peer virtual private network (VPN) which allows users to exploit features typical of P2P applications at network instead of application level. This means that users can gain native IP visibility (e.g. two PCs belonging to the same n2n network can ping each other) and be reachable with the same network IP [...]

Tuesday December 8th, 2009 in FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Networking, Unix | No Comments »

PacketFence

PacketFence is a fully supported, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system. PacketFence is actively maintained and has been deployed in numerous large-scale institutions over the past years. It can be used to effectively secure networks – from small to very large heterogeneous networks. PacketFence has been deployed in production environments where thousands [...]

Tuesday December 8th, 2009 in GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

Wicd: Alternative for NetworkManager

It is an alternative for a NetworkManager who some time makes me crazy when it doesn’t work as I like. And I have to kill it for work.
Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of [...]

Tuesday December 8th, 2009 in GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

Open1X – IEEE 802.1X open source implementation

Open1X is an open source implementation of the IEEE 802.1X protocol. This project includes support for the supplicant, while other projects (e.g., FreeRADIUS) provide support for the authentication server.
Source:
http://open1x.sourceforge.net

Monday November 23rd, 2009 in GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

LiVES – Because the media should be open

LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.
And the most important thing is … LiVES is a Free, Open Source video editor *and* a VJ tool.
Source:
http://lives.sourceforge.net/

Wednesday November 18th, 2009 in GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »

Scribus – Open Source Desktop Publishing

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC [...]

Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 in FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Software, Unix | No Comments »

What’s shebang?

shebang/hashbang/haspling is…
#!

Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 in FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Unix | No Comments »